Tomb raider movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant tomb raider movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful and fast films and TV shows about / with tomb raider, treasure hunt, escapades, murder, adventurer, heroes, death, rivalry, chase and danger plots mostly in Adventure, Action and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as tomb raider: Tomb Raider (2018), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Tomb Raider Ascension (2007), Revisioned: Tomb Raider (2007), Mackenna's Gold (1969), The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969), The Call of the Wild (1972), Marathon Man (1976), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), The Emerald Forest (1985).

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 6.3
 226K
Tomb Raider (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
Style: exciting, captivating, action adventure, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: female protagonist, jungle, strong female character, treasure hunt, rescue, peril, tough girl, female fighter, tomb raider, tomb, chase, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
Place: hong kong, fictional island, united kingdom, england, asia ...
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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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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Japan, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Lara Croft ventures to an underwater temple in search of the mythological Pandora's Box but, after securing it, it is promptly stolen by the villainous leader of a Chinese crime syndicate. Lara must recover the box before the syndicate's ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, action packed, stylized, action adventure ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeology, archaeologist, kick-butt women, monster, female protagonist, fantasy world, female martial artist, archeological dig, treasure hunter, good versus evil, treasure ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s
Place: greece, africa, shanghai, kazakhstan, europe ...
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Tomb Raider Ascension (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: West Midlands based filmmaker Stephen Reynolds’ latest 60 minute feature, Tomb Raider Ascension. Shot in 7 days with a budget of £10,000, Stephen directs Anna Tyrie in his own spin on the Tomb Raider franchise, taking the story back to the ...
Style: splatter
Plot: artifact, tomb raider, tomb, airplane crash, female hero, killing, father daughter relationship, map, book, chase, airplane, wound ...
Place: himalaya
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Revisioned: Tomb Raider (2007)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 6 min.
TV show
Story: Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series is a ten-part animated series based on the Tomb Raider series. It was distributed through the online video game service GameTap from July 10, 2007 to November 13, 2007. The series consists of various animation ...
Style: anime
Plot: tomb, tomb raider, video game, aztec, egyptian mythology, looney tunes, wealth, murder, conspiracy, professor, female protagonist, priest ...
Place: antarctic
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Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're after the gold; soon they ...
Style: exciting, spaghetti western, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: treasure hunt, gang, treasure, greed, chase, gold, desert, murder, map, rivalry, danger, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, year 1969, 60s, 1870s, 19th century
Place: usa, persia, arizona, colorado, sonora ...
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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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The Call of the Wild (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: UK, France, Norway, West Germany, Italy, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Academy Award winner Charlton Heston plays John Thornton, a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel ...
Style: spaghetti western, realistic, semi serious, bleak, touching ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, nature, animal, german shepherd, wolf, snow, wildlife, forest, tomb raider, canine, friends, animal life ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: alaska, canada, yukon
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The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished whilst searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, stylized, epic fantasy, suspense
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: steampunk, viking, island, winter, treasure hunt, missing child, archaeologist, snow, flying, treasure hunter, landscape, aviation ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century
Place: fictional island, london, england, france, iceland
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 7.4
 70K
Marathon Man (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, dentist, revenge, nazi, paranoia, espionage, kidnapping, violence, chase, brother brother relationship, murder, torture ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, persia, uruguay, paris france ...
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Style: exciting, breathtaking, epic, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, manly, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, indiana jones, treasure, adventurer, archaeology, nazi, artifact, chase, villain, desert, escapades ...
Time: 1930s, year 1936, 20th century, 90s, year 1981
Place: egypt, south america, nepal, africa, himalaya ...
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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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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Style: entertaining, exciting, humorous, intense, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, manly, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, archaeology, treasure, adventurer, artifact, tombs and skeletons, good versus evil, indiana jones, crocodile, human sacrifice, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1984, year 1935
Place: india, china, shanghai
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The Emerald Forest (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
Style: anthropological, retro, disturbing, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot: jungle, tribe, adoption, environmental, coming of age, amazon rainforest, sex trafficking, pagan, survival, kidnapping, culture clash, treasure hunt ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: brazil, south america, latin america
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana must team up with Marcus Brody, Sallah and Elsa Schneider to follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis from recovering the ...
Style: breathtaking, entertaining, exciting, epic, action packed ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, girls' night, manly ...
Plot: treasure hunt, holy grail, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, map, artifact, treasure, knight, father son relationship, mythology, indiana jones ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1989, 90s, year 1912 ...
Place: germany, israel, utah, san francisco, venice ...
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A Far Off Place (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Thrown together under incredible circumstances, two strangers must discover courage and strength when they begin a journey across the treacherous African desert! Equipped only with their wits and the expertise of a native bushman who befriends them, ...
Style: scenic, touching, exciting, inspirational, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, teens, adult
Plot: desert, survival, friendship, poacher, youth, rescue, adventurer, jungle, on the run, gang, teenage life, love story ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: africa
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 6.6
 9K
Iron Will (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, uplifting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog sled, dog, survival, treasure hunt, animal, racing, underdog, winter, world war one, human animal relationship, canine, nature ...
Time: year 1994, 1910s, 20th century
Place: alaska, minnesota, canada, usa
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Corto Maltese: Secret Court of the Arcanes (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France, Italy, Luxembourg
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the East, between the Oural mountains and Shanghai. Stuck between a desire to save what's left of the great Imperial Russia, and starting from a clean ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, anime ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: treasure hunt, danger, adventurer, heroes, escapades, chase, state affairs, political unrest, russian revolution, civil war, secret society, secret organization ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918
Place: china, siberia, shanghai, russia, hong kong ...
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 85K
Hidalgo (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Sport, Western
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Set in 1890, this is the story of a Pony Express courier who travels to Arabia to compete with his horse, Hidalgo, in a dangerous race for a massive contest prize, in an adventure that sends the pair around the world...
Style: inspirational, exciting, epic, factual, scenic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: horse, cowboy, desert, adventurer, horse race, underdog, lone hero, racehorse, rivalry, human spirit, contests and competitions, sioux tribe ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 2004, 1890s, victorian era
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, morocco, boston, new york ...
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 6.0
 103K
Sahara (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, adventurer, treasure hunter, desert, obsessive quest, archaeology, escapades, civil war, good versus evil, danger, buddy ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria
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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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End of the Spear (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: "End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to ...
Style: inspirational, christian film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: christian, christianity, culture clash, murder, life philosophy, battles, family relations, coming of age, courage, self discovery, introspection, dealing with death ...
Time: 1940s, 1950s
Place: ecuador
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Corto Maltese: La maison dorée de Samarkand (2004)
Genre: Animation
Country: France
Duration: 79 min.
TV show
Story: Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of Persia. To assist him in his quest, he enlists his old friend/nemesis the unbelievable ...
Style: anime
Plot: superhero, tomb raider, comic book, turkish history, armenian genocide, historical figure, red army, army, suicide, prison, lost treasure, novel
Time: 1920s
Place: turkey
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 2K
Jack Hunter (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 282 min.
TV show
Story: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit is a 2008 American miniseries. It consists of three parts: Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit, Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb and Jack Hunter and the Star of Heaven.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, adventurer, treasure map, ancient mystery, relic, ancient egypt, danger, riddles and clues, pursuit, mythology, lost treasure ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east, turkey, russia, france ...
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Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea (2003)
Genre: Animation
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story: In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
Plot: superhero, comic book, tomb raider, wilhelm scream, hostage, teenager, murder, piracy, court martial, captain, submarine, execution ...
Time: 1910s
Place: pacific ocean
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Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn (2003)
Genre: Animation
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
Plot: superhero, tomb raider, hired killer, cannon, thug, steamship, a vision, medium, map, military, professor, murder ...
Time: 1910s, year 1916
Place: south america
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 7.2
 11K
Theeb (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jordan, UK, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: desert, world war one, coming of age, survival, bedouin, boy, arab, journey, sheik, escapades, danger, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, 1920s, year 1916
Place: middle east, jordan, saudi arabia, africa, maghreb ...
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 6.9
 5K
Tanna (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, Vanuatu
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, realistic, psychological, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: pacific island, tradition, native tribe, tribe, volcano, forced marriage, conflict, warrior, love, tragic love, forbidden love, lovers ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: africa, oceania, pacific ocean
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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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 4.9
 887
Time Raiders (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Time Raiders is based on the online novel series Daomu Biji written by Xu Lei. It tells the story of explorers searching for the secrets of immortality in ancient tombs
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, romantic ...
Plot: tomb, grave robber, martial arts, temple, treasure hunter, treasure hunt, secret society, good versus evil, hidden treasure, archeological dig, treasure, tombs and skeletons ...
Place: china
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