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Hayabusa: The Long Voyage Home (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story: In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an asteroid. Seven long years later, Hayabusa achieved its goal and was the first of any kind of craft ...
Style: thrilling, captivating
Plot: space, spacecraft, space probe, asteroid, spaceship, science, space exploration, explorer, scientific research, research, japanese history, landing
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The Osbournes Want to Believe (2020)
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story: During each hour-long episode, Jack will reveal a series of mind-blowing paranormal clips from the great beyond for his parents, Ozzy and Sharon, to witness. From Bigfoot to UFOs, poltergeists, creepy dolls and unexplained apparitions, the couple ...
Style: creepy, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining
Plot: ghost, celebrity, alien, haunting, explorer, haunted, apparition, paranormal investigator, research, rock star
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 7.0
 84
Voice (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A group of five medical students take on the task of conveying the "voices of the dead." Kaji Daiki fails to get into a popular heart surgery seminar but is somehow accepted into a seminar on forensic pathology. When he approaches ...
Style: thought provoking, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: investigation, research, workplace, medicine, medical research, medical, scientific research, coworker, doctors and patients, job, ambition, doctor ...
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Love Impossible (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An archaeological site in China was selected to send two teams, North and South Koreans, and students to collaborate and continue reconciliation of the two countries. But the team leader of the South decided to dredge the leader of the North group.
Style: captivating, rough, psychological, sincere, romantic ...
Plot: inter-korean relations, love story, relationships, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, love interest, research, teamwork, love affair, tomb, couples, male female relationship ...
Place: north korea
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Egypt's Unexplained Files (2019)
Genre: History
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Experts dive deep into the secrets of Ancient Egypt, and use cutting-edge archaeological technology to reveal the hidden truths that could potentially answer questions that have befuddled Egyptologists for generations.
Style: captivating, enigmatic
Plot: pharaoh, pyramid, archeological dig, science, research, secret, discovery, clue, archaeologist, archaeology, puzzle, scientific research ...
Place: egypt
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Secrets in the Ice (2020)
Genre: History, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Mysterious frozen lakes filled with bones, mummified bodies hanging from inside a glacier, and a 30,000-year-old virus frozen in ice brought back to life in a laboratory. In an all new Science Channel series, SECRETS IN THE ICE, experts and ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: ice, mummy, research, archaeology, hi-tech, riddles and clues, scientific discovery, science, relic, glacier, expert, explorer ...
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 5.9
 167
Lunar Jim (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Lunar Jim is an animated preschool-oriented stop-motion television show produced in Canada by Halifax Film and Alliance Atlantis, and aired in the USA as well on Discovery Channel and V-Me from 2005-2012. The show is based on an original concept ...
Style: funny, entertaining, feel good, captivating, educational
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: moon, teamwork, space exploration, outer space, home schooling, space mission, explorer, robot
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 7.7
 140
Earth to Luna! (2014)
Genre: Animation, Family, Musical
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story: What adults often take for granted in life's minutiae frequently delights children. One of those kids is Luna, 6, for whom the world is a giant laboratory, filled with opportunities to learn more about what things are, and why and how ...
Style: educational, feel good, captivating, entertaining, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: educational program, female protagonist, brother sister relationship, knowledge, scientific research, children, education, escapades, science, child, training, explorer ...
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 6.8
 14K
Mad God (2021)
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.
Style: adult animation, disturbing, surreal, dark fantasy, spooky ...
Audience: adult, horror for children
Plot: stop motion, surrealism, post apocalypse, monster, violence, creature, motorcycle, body horror, fantasy world, demolished city, exploitation, assassin ...
Time: 2020s
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 6.8
 2K
Boundless (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: The First Circumvalation Around the World, tracking the 1519–22 voyage initiated by Ferdinand Magellan and culminated by Juan Sebastián Elcano.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, historical drama, epic
Plot: spanish history, sea voyage, sailor, sea adventure, ship, travel, historical figure, sea disaster, explorer, traveler
Time: 16th century
Place: portugal
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 6.0
 48
Ranger Rob (2016)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Adventurous Ranger Rob's favorite thing to do is go outside to play, explore and discover. That's easy for him to do at Big Sky Park, the coolest outdoor adventure park around. Along with his best friends, swinging sidekick Dakota and ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: ranger, travel, teamwork, explorer, friendship, research, wildlife, nature, friends
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Expedition Bigfoot (2019)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story: An elite team of Sasquatch specialists journey into the unforgiving Oregon wilderness in search of Bigfoot. The three-week expedition, based on science and expertise, may finally pull the elusive beast out of the pages of legend and lore and into ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: cryptozoology, paranormal investigator, undercover, obsessive quest, private investigation, secret, puzzle, sasquatch, science, scientific research, explorer, uncover truth ...
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Impossible Monsters (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A psychology professor begins a case study with three subjects who are suffering from sleep paralysis. As the study goes on, what is real and what is dream become mingled with violent consequences.
Style: tense, enigmatic, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: science runs amok, murder, sleeping, murder investigation, suspicion of murder, murder mystery, murder suspect, explorer, escape from reality, fantasy becomes reality, professor, problem ...
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Atom: The Beginning (2017)
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Japan in the near future suffers an unexplained major disaster. Five years later, reconstruction is well underway. Two young researchers at a university are pinning all their hopes on robot development. Now their new interpretation of the eternal ...
Style: anime, disturbing, captivating, psychological, experimental ...
Plot: robot, sentient robot, science and technology, choice, friendship, artificial intelligence, robotics, explorer, robot human relationship, scientific experiment, friends
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 6.1
 927
Beyond Sleep (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young man's mythical quest for a stone that fell from the sky. He searches, stumbles and suffers as he traverses the sadistic universe of Northern Europe. He only finds redemption on the very edge of madness. Based on the iconic Dutch novel ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, weird
Plot: dream, swamp, skinny dipping, survival, travel, scientist, meteorite, explorer, nature, introspection, insanity, self discovery ...
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 7.2
 332
Pirate Islands (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A rip-roaring fantasy adventure, Pirate Islands sees 15-year old Kate and her younger brother and sister trapped inside a computer game set on an island controlled by swashbuckling pirates. They soon discover that the only way home is to finish the ...
Style: stylized, sweet, captivating, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: pirate, children, teenager, fantasy world, siblings relations, mission, explorer, quest, team, game, good versus evil, young heroes ...
Place: fictional island
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Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1979, a young soldier is working in China's snowcapped mountains when an explosion reveals bizarre fossils hidden deep in the mountain caverns. What they discover next will change his life and human history forever.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, romantic, scenic
Plot: creature, giant monster, monster, soldier, expedition, medieval, abandoned city, lost city, underground city, kaiju, burned alive, self sacrifice ...
Place: china
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a ...
Style: stylized, humorous, surreal, visual, dark comedy ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: ocean, submarine, revenge, expedition, dysfunctional family, eccentricity, shark, filmmaking, vengeance, rivalry, magic realism, marijuana ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: italy, fictional island
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Fate/Grand Order Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Following the success in the Camelot Singularity, Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight are assigned to the last Singularity in the Grand Order initiative. In Ancient Babylonia, 2500 BCE, they embark on a mission to secure humanity's survival. ...
Style: anime, unusual plot structure, captivating, light, suspense
Plot: travel, time paradox, fate of humanity, sent to the past, time jump, apocalypse, time portal, battles, survival, humanity, changing the past or future, explorer ...
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Biohazard: Patient Zero (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Two young scientists are swept up in a government plot to suppress the truth about a biological disaster at a genetic research facility.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, exciting, serious ...
Plot: survival, danger, gory, chaos, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, escapades, hidden truth, conspiracy, experiment gone awry, scientist, explorer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Cat in the Hat: Told From the Cold (2010)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Come join in the fun, on new adventures we go, With The Cat in the Hat and his friends all in tow! Discover how water can turn into snow, That penguins don't fly but, boy can they go! Black bears get ready for a very long sleep, Before the ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, educational, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: best friend, escapades, goofy hero, studying, training, friendship, riddles and clues, explorer, cat, quest, rivalry, ethnicity ...
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Interspecies Reviewers (2020)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: In a world bursting at the seams with moe monsters and humanoids of the horned sort, which brave heroes will take it upon themselves to review the beastly babes of the red-light district? Can only one be crowned the ultimate title of best girl? ...
Style: anime, ecchi, sex comedy, adult animation, erotic ...
Plot: harem, hermaphrodite, prostitution, dispute, brothel, angel, erotica, elf, sex worker, cyclops, fantasy world, explorer ...
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Measuring the World (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, factual, semi serious ...
Plot: scientist, mathematics, science, inventions and discoveries, biopic, explorer, exploration, society, rivalry, friendship, naturalist, monkey ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany
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Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel ...
Style: meditative, depressing, melancholic, black and white, spiritual ...
Plot: shaman, amazon tribe, amazon river, jungle, amazon rainforest, nature, wilderness, friendship, existentialism, self discovery, genocide, indigenous people ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: colombia
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Conquistadores: Adventum (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Narrates faithfully the first 30 years of America's discovery and conquer, from Colon's departure from Spain in 1492 until Juan Sebastián Elcano completed the first travel around the world in 1522.
Style: factual, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Plot: conquistador, medieval, adventurer, political intrigue, journey, ambition, discovery, tragic hero, new world, inventions and discoveries, obsessive quest, ancient ...
Time: 16th century, 15th century, year 1900
Place: spain
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 7.2
 248K
The Fountain (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style: surreal, melancholic, artsy, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: metaphysics, spirituality, afterlife, cancer, buddhism, immortality, surrealism, multiple storylines, obsession, loneliness, love, death ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2006, 16th century, 21st century
Place: spain, tibet, latin america, europe, central america ...
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The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The Spanish explorer Pizarro captures the Inca god-chief Atahualpa and promises to free him upon the delivery of a hoard of gold. But Pizarro finds himself torn between his desire for conquest and his sense of honor after friendship and respect ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, tense, historical drama ...
Plot: conquistador, colonial america, spanish conquest, jungle, explorer, myth, civilization, spanish colonization, ancient, tomb raider, colonialism, time machine ...
Time: 16th century, year 1969
Place: peru, south america, latin america, spain, europe ...
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot: tarzan, jungle, culture clash, adventurer, stranded, monkey, orphan, feral man, adoption, justice, ape, rescue ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1880s, 1910s
Place: africa, england, scotland, london, united kingdom ...
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 7.8
 329K
Apocalypto (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate ...
Style: exciting, suspense, brutal, harsh, visually stunning ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, ancient history, slavery, manhunt, tribe, jungle, chase, native, solar eclipse, warrior, ancient civilization, violent ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, year 2006, 2000s, medieval times
Place: persia, mexico, central america
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1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, France, Spain
Duration: 154 min.
Story: 1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
Style: realistic, serious, factual, period piece, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: medieval, conquistador, renaissance, adventurer, native american, jungle, ocean, state affairs, military, against the odds, rebelliousness, danger ...
Time: 15th century, medieval times, ancient times, year 1992, future ...
Place: spain, italy, haiti, caribbean, europe ...
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