Archaeologist movies and TV shows – page 2

List of archaeologist movies

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 8.6
 21K
Detectorists (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.
Style: sitcom, funny, humorous, not serious, entertaining ...
Plot: treasure hunt, friendship, archaeologist, obsessive quest, buddies, english countryside, treasure, partner, escapades, odd couple, fortune, hidden treasure ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination ...
Style: entertaining, serious, suspenseful, action adventure, action packed ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, ancient mystery, riddles and clues, treasure hunter, artifact, president, escapades, secret ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 1865, 1860s, 19th century ...
Place: south dakota, washington d.c., virginia, paris france, buckingham palace ...
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: English aristocrat Lara Croft is skilled in hand-to-hand combat and in the middle of a battle with a secret society. The shapely archaeologist moonlights as a tomb raider to recover lost antiquities and meets her match in the evil Powell, who's ...
Style: exciting, action packed, stylized, action adventure, saga ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, female protagonist, treasure, archaeology, strong female lead, tomb, archaeologist, solar eclipse, artifact, kick-butt women, woman with a gun, good versus evil ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: cambodia, iceland, italy, venice, siberia
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 7.1
 2K
Tutankhamun (2016)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the true story of Howard Carter’s epic quest to discover the lost tomb of the Boy-King Tutankhamun. Down on his heels archaeologist Howard Carter stumbles upon evidence of an undiscovered tomb of one of Egypt’s forgotten Pharaohs, ...
Style: tense, captivating, factual, exciting, atmospheric ...
Plot: archaeology, curse, egyptology, journalist, love interest, determination, archaeologist, englishman abroad, love and romance, rivalry, society, couples ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 1900s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place: egypt
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 5.1
 2K
Sphinx (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Egyptologist Erica Baron finds more than she bargained for during her long-planned trip to The Land of the Pharoahs - murder, theft, betrayal, love, and a mummy's curse!
Style: stylized, independent film, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: curse, mummy, murder, pyramid, treasure hunt, treasure hunter, relic hunter, museum, archaeologist, violent content, fish out of water, woman in danger ...
Time: year 1981, 80s, 20th century, 12th century
Place: cairo egypt, middle east, boston, egypt
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
Style: gothic horror, epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: pre-teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teens
Plot: dinosaur, archaeologist, imaginary kingdom, reptiles, prehistoric creature, lost world, steampunk, underground, kaiju, explorer, monster, prehistoric animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, 19th century, 1870s
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Germany, China, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Archaeologist Rick O'Connell travels to China, pitting him against an emperor from the 2,000-year-old Han dynasty who's returned from the dead to pursue a quest for world domination. This time, O'Connell enlists the help of his wife ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, stylized, mystical ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: mummy, tomb, treasure hunt, mythology, archaeology, archaeologist, tombs and skeletons, dragon, archeological dig, monster, adventurer, supernatural ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, jurassic, 20th century, year 1946
Place: china, asia, himalaya, england, peru ...
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Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, psychotronic ...
Plot: mummy, supernatural, sarcophagus, ancient egypt, monster, fortune teller, murder, insanity, resurrection, treasure hunt, paranormal, 666 ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: london, egypt, england, europe, middle east ...
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Set during the Cold War, the Soviets – led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko – are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. After being captured and then escaping from them, Indy is coerced ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, action adventure, action packed, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, manly, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, adventurer, archaeology, indiana jones, jungle, chase, desert, artifact, alien, fight scenes ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: peru, ussr, south america, latin america, mexico city ...
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Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost ...
Style: fantasy adventure, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, adventurer, treasure hunter, archaeologist, beautiful scenery, disaster, hunter, cannon, missing person, woman with a gun, camp ...
Time: victorian era, 1910s
Place: africa, south africa
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 6.3
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Adventure Inc. (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Adventure Inc. is a dramatised adventure television series produced primarily in Canada which aired from 30 September 2002 to 12 May 2003. It was a co-production of Fireworks Entertainment, Tribune Entertainment, M6, Amy International, and Tele ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, fast, humorous ...
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: heroes, partner, daring rescue, adventurer, secret place, danger, map, curses spells and rituals, heroic mission, archaeologist, treasure hunter, wild ride ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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 6.2
 43K
Time Trap (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of students become trapped inside a mysterious cave where they discover time passes differently underground than on the surface.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, mindfuck, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time dilation, cave, time loop, time portal, climbing, friendship, twists and turns, time traveler, college professor, missing person, youth ...
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MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hunting artifacts attributed to Zenon (an ancient scientist from Atlantis), MacGyver and his old professor end up searching for the lost city.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: hidden treasure, treasure hunt, treasure hunter, treasure, hunter, spy, righting the wronged, heroic mission, heroes, danger, rivalry, chase ...
Time: 90s
Place: balkan
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Blood, Sand and Gold (2018)
Genre: Action
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Mexico, Morocco, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an archaeologist discovers Sir Francis Drake's lost treasure in the Sahara Desert, it is promptly stolen and she sets off on a global quest to steal it back.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, treasure, treasure hunter, black market, hidden treasure, stolen gold, lost treasure, criminal, theft, gold, hunter ...
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 4.0
 4K
Unearthed (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, desert, mythical creature, survival, alien life-form, race against time, deadly creature, creature, chaos, supernatural, riddles and clues, isolation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new mexico, usa
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Curse of the Mayans (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Danielle Noble (played by Carla Ortiz) and her team of expert cave divers led by an ambitious american archaeologist (Steve Wilcox), undertake an expedition in search of the lost Mayan Library, without imagining they will instead find the hidden ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, scary, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: monster, archaeologist, diving, alien, characters killed one by one, expedition, alien technology, violence, ancient civilization, underworld, chase, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
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Warlords of the Deep (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Searching for the lost world of Atlantis, Prof. Aitken, his son Charles and Greg Collinson are betrayed by the crew of their expedition's ship, attracted by the fabulous treasures of Atlantis. The diving bell disabled, a deep sea monster ...
Style: retro, psychotronic
Plot: octopus, atlantis, sword and sorcery, underwater, monster, giant monster, dinosaur, sorcery, sea, alien, archaeologist, castaway ...
Time: year 1978, 1890s
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, Canada, Mexico, India, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.
Style: breathtaking, biting, exciting, funny, psychotronic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: jungle, adventurer, zoologist, game, friendship, video game, magic, high school, mission, archaeologist, teenage boy, team ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, jurassic, year 1996, year 2016 ...
Place: new hampshire, hawaii
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The Sickhouse (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Terror lurks in the old orphanage, beneath a disused London hospital - a Seventeeth Century malevolence, the Plague Doctor, has returned to complete his evil masterpiece
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, hospital, plague, mad scientist, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, supernatural, reincarnation, archaeologist, trapped, survival ...
Time: middle ages, 17th century, medieval times
Place: england, europe, london
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 5.4
 205K
The Mummy (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human ...
Style: scary, exciting, suspense, intense, entertaining ...
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, egyptian mythology, ancient egypt, tomb, monster, pharaoh, archeological dig, archaeologist, supernatural, immortal ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: egypt, iraq, london, middle east, england ...
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The theatrical movie spin-off of the ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries will follow Essie Davis’ private detective as she embarks on a global adventure to find missing treasure, solve murders and break aviation records... After freeing a ...
Style: captivating, intellectual, detective, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: riddles and clues, treasure hunt, female detective, imprisonment, talented, private detective, mind game, artifact, young girl, tomb, twists and turns, escapades ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929, year 1918
Place: london, jerusalem, australia, palestine, scotland yard ...
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The Mummy Returns (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Rick and Evelyn O'Connell, along with their 8 year old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King's might, the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, scary, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, treasure, ancient egypt, supernatural, good versus evil, mythology, monster, chase, tomb, heroic mission ...
Time: year 2001, 1930s, jurassic, future, 20th century ...
Place: egypt, london, africa, england, europe ...
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Bikini Jones and the Temple of Eros (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Bikini Jones is on the hunt for the lost Temple of Eros. Using a golden idol as her guide, she searches the wild land of Moronica, along the way battling man-eating dinosaurs and fending off the sensuously wicked Evilla. Bikini will do anything ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: archaeologist, lesbian sex, sex, treasure, female protagonist, temple, treasure hunter, hidden treasure, treasure hunt, escapades, satire, archaeology ...
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National Treasure: Edge of History (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: While searching for history's greatest treasure, Jess Valenzuela unburies her family's secret past.
Style: tense, captivating, thrilling
Audience: family friendly
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, treasure hunter, friend, tomb, treasure, medieval, lost treasure, female protagonist, secret, hidden treasure, adventurer ...
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 5.9
 9K
Mummies (2023)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Through a series of unfortunate events, three mummies end up in present-day London and embark on a wacky and hilarious journey in search of an old ring belonging to the Royal Family, that was stolen by the ambitious archaeologist Lord Carnaby.
Style: captivating, satirical, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: mummy, archaeologist, pharaoh, museum, adventure hero, satire, creature, egyptology, adventurer, magical object, wedding ring, underground city ...
Place: london, egypt
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: May 1917. Sixteen year old Indiana Jones joins an international trio of spies plotting against their German counterparts in the neutral city of Barcelona. After his old acquaintance Pablo Picasso helps him get a job at Sergei Diaghilev's ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, exciting
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure hunter, archaeologist, indiana jones, treasure, hidden treasure, adventurer, parents and children, lost treasure, eccentric family, escapades, adventure hero ...
Place: prague
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Tad the Lost Explorer and the Emerald Tablet (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tad accidentally unleashes an ancient spell, endangering the lives of his friends Mummy, Jeff, and Belzoni. With everyone against him and only helped by Sara, he sets off on an adventure to end the Curse of the Mummy.
Style: captivating, funny, entertaining, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: archaeologist, mummy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, archeological dig, save the day, friendship, best friend, magical creature, group of friends, teamwork, satire, rescue mission ...
Place: chicago, paris france
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, unlikely couple, opposites attract, escapades, adventurer, travel, chase, stranded, map, treasure, gem ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south america, colombia, new york, latin america
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The Lost King (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Style: captivating, thought provoking
Plot: female protagonist, archaeologist, historical figure, archeological dig, lost treasure, direction and purpose, hidden treasure, coping, treasure hunter, ambitious woman, train, actor ...
Time: 2010s
Place: britain
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 6.3
 382K
Eternals (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The story of a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
Style: exciting, captivating, contemplative, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, adult
Plot: superhero, alien race, alien attack, evil alien, space and aliens, suicide, alien encounter, sex scene, artifact, supernatural, gay, superpower ...
Time: 1940s, 16th century, 2020s, year 1945, 21st century
Place: hiroshima japan, usa, london, south dakota, india ...
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