Prehistoric movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant prehistoric movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out prehistoric, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychotronic and cult classic films and TV shows about / with danger, caveman, escapades, prehistoric man, cave, prehistoric animal, survival, dinosaur, heroes and monster plots mostly in Adventure, Fantasy and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as prehistoric: Primal (2019), Alpha (2018), The Land That Time Forgot (1974), Quest for Fire (1981), Caveman (1981), Iceman (1984), Encino Man (1992), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), One Million Years B.C. (1966), The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986).

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 8.7
 20K
Primal (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, France
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A caveman forms a bond with a dinosaur as they struggle to survive in a hostile world.
Style: sincere, disturbing, prehistoric, captivating, tense ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: dinosaur, caveman, violence, danger, survival, barbarian, hunter, eaten alive, unlikely friendships, life is a bitch, revenge, sword and sorcery ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
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 6.6
 66K
Alpha (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
Style: sincere, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: wilderness, survival, wolf, human animal relationship, caveman, dog, animal attack, hunter, near death experience, boar, wolf pack, bison ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, future, ancient times
Place: europe
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The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dinosaur, world war one, adventurer, ancient mystery, island, time travel, lost world, submarine, pterodactyl, danger, heroic mission, rescue ...
Time: prehistoric times, 1940s, prehistory, year 1916
Place: antarctica, fictional island
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 7.3
 24K
Quest for Fire (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged ...
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, prehistoric, serious ...
Plot: caveman, survival, neanderthal, cannibalism, prehistoric man, discovery, fire, tribe, ancient history, sword and sorcery, ancient, love story ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, ancient times, year 1981 ...
Place: france
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 5.8
 9K
Caveman (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In this comedy, Atouk becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside ...
Style: spoof, cult classic, funny, prehistoric, parody ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: caveman, dinosaur, stop motion, kaiju, the beatles, prehistoric man, friendship, consumerism, prehistoric creature, archaeology, giant creature, prehistoric animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, year 1981
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 6.1
 6K
Iceman (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An anthropologist is brought to an arctic base when explorers discover the body of a prehistoric man who has been frozen in a block of ice for 40,000 years. After thawing the body to perform an autopsy, scientists discover to their amazement a real ...
Style: prehistoric, psychological, retro, philosophical, anamorphic ...
Plot: neanderthal, survival, frozen alive, winter, frozen, snow, prehistoric animal, landscape, creature, prehistoric man, cryogenics, anthropology ...
Time: prehistoric times, stone age, prehistory
Place: antarctica
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 5.8
 45K
Encino Man (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man from the past in their back yard. But the thawed-out Link, as the boys have named him, quickly becomes a wild card in the teens' already zany Southern California lives. ...
Style: slapstick comedy, funny, laugh out loud, prehistoric, parody ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night
Plot: high school, caveman, prom, party, slacker, teenager, swimming pool, bully, high school student, best friend, teenage girl, roller coaster ...
Time: prehistory, year 1992, future, prehistoric times, stone age
Place: california, seattle, los angeles, usa
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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hammer Film’s follow-up to the successful One Million Years B.C. is set in an ancient past when humans and dinosaurs co-exist. Athletic cavewomen and hairy men wander around, grunting, sweating and occasionally sacrificing evil blonde babes to ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, tense, prehistoric ...
Plot: cave woman, survival, stop motion, prehistoric man, danger, female nudity, chaos, rivalry, heroes, love affair, dinosaur, cave ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, ancient times
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One Million Years B.C. (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from ...
Style: cult classic, exciting, prehistoric, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: caveman, dinosaur, stop motion, survival, monster, giant monster, kaiju, desert, giant spider, prehistoric man, barbarian, lost world ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, prehistory, ancient times, 20th century ...
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When ...
Style: harsh, stylized, suspense, serious, prehistoric ...
Plot: caveman, prehistoric man, neanderthal, ancient history, bear, tribe, orphan, rescue, danger, human nature, uninhibited rivalry, self discovery ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, future, ancient times
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 5.1
 135K
10,000 BC (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Style: epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, daring rescue, caveman, animal attack, cave, giant bird, mammoth, dinosaur, danger, monster, natural disaster, mythology ...
Time: stone age, prehistory, prehistoric times, year 2008
Place: north africa
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Prehistoric Park (2006)
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A BBC miniseries about Nigel Marvin's quest to bring the extinct dinosaurs through time to Prehistoric Park.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, educational, nature documentary ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dinosaur, dangerous animal, time travel, experiment gone awry, imaginary, escapades, danger, extinction, natural history, prehistoric animal, nature, tyrannosaurus rex ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory
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 2.2
 6K
Eegah (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Teenagers stumble across a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.
Style: independent film, grindhouse, sexy, psychotronic, prehistoric ...
Plot: caveman, prehistoric man, guitarist, singing, coyote, cave painting, neanderthal, cave, desert, meme, feral man, 666 ...
Time: stone age, 60s, prehistory
Place: mojave desert, california, usa, palm springs california
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The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same time as the evil gargantua, the two ...
Style: daikaiju, natural horror, prehistoric, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Plot: godzilla, frankenstein, kaiju, giant monster, airport, giant creature, creature feature, underground, occult, post apocalyptic, 666, prehistoric man ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
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The Mighty Peking Man (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Word of a monster ape ten stories tall living in the Himalayas reaches fortune hunters in Hong Kong. They travel to India to capture it, but wild animals and quicksand dissuade all but Johnny, an adventurer with a broken heart. He finds the monster ...
Style: daikaiju, prehistoric, horror comedy, serious, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, teens, boys' night
Plot: jungle, tragedy, giant ape, monster, king kong, interracial romance, blonde, crooked businessman, expedition, evil man, heroine, woman in jeopardy ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: hong kong, india, himalaya
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The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world ...
Style: classic horror, natural horror, grindhouse, prehistoric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, monster, island, kaiju, cave woman, submarine, sword and sorcery, reptiles, sorcery, giant monster, desert, cave ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, 1910s, 20th century, prehistory
Place: antarctica, fictional island
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Circle of Iron (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young martial artist, Cord the Seeker, competes for and loses the right to go on a quest for the Book of All Knowlege held by a wizard named Zetan
Style: psychotronic, prehistoric, cult classic, serious
Plot: martial arts, sword and sorcery, medieval, sorcery, sword, karate, desert, kung fu, cave, mixed martial arts, prehistoric man, trap ...
Time: year 1978
Place: east asia, israel, middle east
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 6.9
 38K
Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
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Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This Italian-Turkish co-production helmed by genre veteran Antonio Margheriti (using the pseudonym "Anthony M. Dawson") was cobbled together from a four-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television. In prehistoric times, the ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, fantasy adventure, retro, prehistoric ...
Plot: barbarian, sorcery, post apocalypse, female warrior, beast, sword and sorcery, sword, dinosaur, distopia, monster, desert, planet ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, year 1983, future
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Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three people are transported into a parallel universe. There they find that they must use modern technology, but medieval weapons, in order to save the citizenry from a murderous warlord.
Style: futuristic, fantasy adventure, prehistoric, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: parallel universe, time travel, prehistoric man, apocalypse, sorcery, parallel world, creature, cave, sword, erotica, woman with a gun, exploitation ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: los angeles
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 6.1
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Missing Link (1988)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A million years ago in Africa: the last of the ape-humans is on flight from the humans, who killed the rest of his clan. Alone, seeking others of his kind, he traverses steps, deserts and mountains until he reaches the coast. But there are already ...
Style: prehistoric, one man show
Plot: caveman, snake, ancient, kaiju, prehistoric animal, monkey, ancient history, bigfoot, prehistoric man, ostrich, toad, chameleon ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
Place: africa
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The Flintstones (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Modern Stone Age family the Flintstones hit the big screen in this live-action version of the classic cartoon. Fred helps Barney adopt a child. Barney sees an opportunity to repay him when Slate Mining tests its employees to find a new executive. ...
Style: feel good, humorous, offbeat, sentimental, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: dinosaur, childhood, caveman, friendship, best friend, eccentric family, workplace, cave woman, rich snob, family life, kids and family, storytelling ...
Time: stone age, prehistory, 90s, year 1994, prehistoric times
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 7.2
 245K
The Descent (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, cave, survival horror, creature, trapped, survival, expedition, claustrophobia, fear, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, appalachia
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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Diego, Manny and Sid return in this sequel to the hit animated movie Ice Age. This time around, the deep freeze is over, and the ice-covered earth is starting to melt, which will destroy the trio's cherished valley. The impending disaster ...
Style: computer animated, humorous, entertaining, funny, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: global warming, creature, dinosaur, iceberg, friendship, talking animal, ice age, animal, mammoth, survival, teamwork, snow ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s
Place: antarctic
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Night at the Museum (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits. Larry tries desperately to keep the museum ...
Style: entertaining, funny, hilarious, predictable, slapstick ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, chick flick ...
Plot: magical, dinosaur, tour guide, museum, escapades, ancient, new job, security guard, transformation, objects come to life, statue comes to life, pharaoh ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, stone age, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, rome italy
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Ao: The Last Hunter (2010)
Genre: Adventure, History
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot: neanderthal, caveman, pregnancy, survival, bear attack, forbidden love, fall in love, polar bear, wilderness, couples, danger, society ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age
Place: france, europe, siberia
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Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
Style: humorous, computer animated, witty, 3d animation, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: animal life, iceberg, unlikely partners, danger, parents and children, pirate, natural disaster, talking animal, fantasy world, friendship, children, friends ...
Time: prehistoric times, year 2012, 20th century, 2010s, prehistory
Place: north america
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The Good Dinosaur (2015)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend.
Style: scenic, computer animated, touching, intense, 3d animation ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dinosaur, tyrannosaurus rex, pterodactyl, friendship, waterfall, interspecies friendship, alternate history, coming of age, loneliness, humanity, storytelling, unlikely friendships ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, 2010s
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Times are changing for Manny the moody mammoth, Sid the motor mouthed sloth and Diego the crafty saber-toothed tiger. Life heats up for our heroes when they meet some new and none-too-friendly neighbors – the mighty dinosaurs.
Style: humorous, computer animated, funny, exciting, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dinosaur, jungle, ice age, talking animal, fantasy world, friendship, parenthood, birth, rescue, animal life, iceberg, life philosophy ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, 20th century, year 2009, 2000s
Place: antarctic
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Prehistoric Women (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Leader of a tribe of amazon women, Queen Kari, has vanquished a rival tribe and rules them with savage ruthlessness and cruel arrogance. A hunter stumbles onto the enclave and falls for one of the slaves, so unleashing the anger and envy of the ...
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, prehistoric, serious, exciting ...
Plot: jungle, matriarchy, rhinoceros, slavery, lost world, caveman, sword and sorcery, explorer, cave, sorcery, ancient history, supernatural ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, year 1967, prehistoric times
Place: england, russia, africa
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