Amazon rainforest movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant amazon rainforest movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, exciting, tense, captivating and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with amazon rainforest, jungle, female nudity, danger, amazon, tribe, river, death, amazon river and rain forest plots mostly in Adventure, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, Brazil, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as amazon rainforest: Gold (2017), Amazon Jail (1985), Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Amazon Forever (2004), Dark Amazon (2014), Jungle (2017), 100 Days in the Jungle (2002), Hans Staden (1999), The Emerald Forest (1985), The Lost City of Z (2016).

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Gold (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold.
Style: disturbing, captivating, exciting, unusual plot structure, tense
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: amazon rainforest, conquistador, tribe, contests and competitions, danger, city, soldier, youth, society, friendship, money, explorer ...
Time: 16th century
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Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Style: brutal, bloody, disturbing, controversial, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cannibalism, torture, jungle, rape, gory, cannibal, found footage, amazon rainforest, animal cruelty, sadism, violence, african tribe ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century
Place: south america, latin america, north america, usa, new york
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Amazon Jail (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Young women in the Amazon are kidnapped by a ring of devil-worshipers, who plan to sell them as sex slaves. Some of the women escape, but are pursued into the jungle by their captors. The women must band together to turn the tables on their ...
Style: erotic, tense, suspense, sensual
Plot: women in prison, sexploitation, amazon rainforest, sexual humiliation, sex slavery, devil worship, lesbian sex, erotica, lesbianism, lesbian interest, women's prison, survival ...
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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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Amazon Forever (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nicholas is a young cinematographer, shooting a documentary about the ancient tribal ritual in an Indian village near the Amazon, where he fell in love with the daughter of a chief, at the same time more and more like the side of the original ...
Plot: amazon rainforest, environmental, male pubic hair, male nudity, bare chested male, female nudity, wrestling, environmental issue, deforestation, native american, filmmaker, male objectification ...
Place: brazil
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 4.2
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Dark Amazon (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A film crew tracks a group of researchers and their breakthrough disease research. While battling through the rain-forest, things turn deadly leaving them fighting to survive.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: found footage, murder, amazon rainforest, supernatural, supernatural power, monster, fear, killings, evil, revenge, chase, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portugueses. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: cannibalism, female nudity, food, amazon rainforest, forest, cannibal, colonialism, native, male pubic hair, nudity, bare chested male, male nudity ...
Time: 16th century
Place: brazil, latin america
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 6.7
 63K
Jungle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, jungle, wilderness, nature, alone, adventurer, rescue, amazon rainforest, raft, river, hallucination, jaguar ...
Time: 20th century, year 2017, year 1981, year 1980
Place: south america, bolivia, andes mountains
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100 Days in the Jungle (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: jungle, amazon jungle, amazon rainforest, hostage, captive, kidnapped, survival, amazon, kidnapping, abduction, partisan, conflict ...
Place: colombia
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Hans Staden (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of his return to Europe after an extended involuntary stay in 16th-century Brazil, the German sailor Hans Staden is captured by a hostile cannibal Indian tribe. In order to survive he tries to convince the Indians that he is not ...
Plot: amazon rainforest, held captive, cannibalism, ancient, native, captive, colonization, gay subtext, cannibal, native american culture, male pubic hair, amazon river ...
Time: 16th century
Place: brazil
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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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The Lost City of Z (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Style: inspirational, meditative, exciting, period piece, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: explorer, jungle, expedition, travel, survival, archaeology, journey, tribe, conquistador, amazon jungle, world war one, biopic ...
Time: 1920s, future, year 2016, 1900s, year 2017 ...
Place: south america, ireland, england, america, bolivia ...
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Pure Life (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, French Guiana, Brazil
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 1949, a French explorer goes on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest. He leaves behind him a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved.
Style: captivating
Plot: explorer, travelogue, wildlife, expedition, amazon, amazon river, amazon jungle, nature, amazon rainforest, biopic, river, missing son ...
Time: year 1949
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 6.6
 211K
Jungle Cruise (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK, Hungary, Thailand, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Disney’s live-action adaptation of its iconic theme park ride.
Style: scenic, captivating, funny, light, colorful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly
Plot: jungle, treasure, amazon river, myth, snake, amazon jungle, danger, dangerous animal, artifact, expedition, amazon rainforest, explorer ...
Time: 1910s, 2020s, future, year 1916, 16th century ...
Place: brazil, london, spain, europe, south america
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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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Indio 2 - The Revolt (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries resort to murder, massacres and enslavement to rid the ...
Plot: jungle, mercenary, rain forest, environmental, indigenous people, environmental destruction, black hero, tough guy, helicopter, martial arts, ex marine, brawl ...
Place: south america
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The Rundown (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely ...
Style: stylized, exciting, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, treasure, buddy, lone hero, chase, bounty hunter, fight, gold, tough guy, tough heroes, respect ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, los angeles
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 6.8
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Birdwatchers (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the present. When a young Guarani-Kaiowá woman commits suicide, Nádio leads his community to form a protest camp on the borders of a local farm that sits on their ancestral burial ground.
Style: serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic
Plot: culture clash, rebellion, indians, teenage life, injustice, power relations, fighting the system, dishonesty, hopes, life is a bitch, social differences, jungle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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Amazon (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Finland, Brazil, France, Canada, Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Widowed and broke Finnish businessman Kari takes his two teenage daughters with him to Brazil. A bush pilot introduces him to the idea of gold mining in the jungle, but a beautiful and educated local woman warns him about the possible consequences ...
Style: semi serious, independent film
Plot: environmental, tribe, rain forest, heist, love affair, culture clash, destiny, society, adventurer, survival, danger, escapades ...
Time: 80s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, finland
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 6.3
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Silent Cargo (2022)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian ...
Style: disturbing, tense
Plot: drug, drug dealing, gang, drug dealer, smuggling, drug smuggling, bandit, criminal gang, drug smuggler, criminal, spy, boxer ...
Place: spain, portugal, brazil
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 6.4
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El Dorado (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Style: rough, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: conquistador, spanish conquest, adventurer, amazon rainforest, conquering, treasure hunt, colonial america, biopic, myth, colonialism, traveler, explorer ...
Time: 16th century
Place: peru, spain, latin america
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Primal (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A big-game hunter for zoos who has booked passage on a Greek shipping freighter with a fresh haul of exotic and deadly animals from the Amazon, including a rare white Jaguar - along with a political assassin being extradited to the U.S in secret. ...
Style: action thriller, tense, exciting, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: killer animal, dangerous animal, big game hunter, killer on the loose, escaped killer, killed by an animal, villain, serial killer, war criminal, creature feature, escape attempt, human versus animal ...
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Jericho (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At early 16th century a priest joins the spanish conquerros in order to bring christianity to the indios. The expedition is murdered by the indios, only the priest is sparred. Santiago, the priest, first tries to continue christianization, but ...
Style: road movie
Plot: spanish conquest, children, amazon rainforest, native american, colonial america, invasion, priest, male nudity, female nudity, religious conflict, conquistador, indians ...
Time: 16th century
Place: venezuela
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Medicine Man (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, anamorphic, philosophical, action adventure ...
Plot: jungle, medical, environmental, treasure hunt, amazon rainforest, doctor, survival, cancer, beautiful scenery, 007, medicine, opposites attract ...
Time: year 1992, 1900s, 90s
Place: latin america, brazil
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River of Death (1989)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the lost city in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people with reasons of their own decide to join him for the wealth of the lost city. But to their horror they find out that they have bit ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot: jungle, treasure hunt, mad scientist, adventurer, betrayal, investigation, chase, heroic mission, vengeance, daring rescue, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 1940s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s, year 1965 ...
Place: south america, usa, brazil
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 7.4
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The Mission (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to ...
Style: epic, thought provoking, christian film, harsh, spiritual ...
Plot: jungle, clergy, slavery, native american, mission, slave, jesuit, religion, conquistador, christian, slave trader, christianity ...
Time: 18th century, year 1986, ancient times
Place: south america, argentina, portugal, latin america, america ...
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, philosophical, art house, surreal ...
Plot: insanity, expedition, jungle, conquistador, amazon river, treasure hunt, obsession, river, legends and myths, amazon, megalomaniac, el dorado ...
Time: 16th century, year 1972, medieval times, ancient times
Place: south america, peru, germany, spain, andes mountains ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry (2005)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After being evicted from their old house by Tom's owner for causing major damage, cat and mouse Tom and Jerry enter a race entitled the "Fabulous Super Race" to win a mansion.
Style: parody, humorous, feel good, not serious, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: tom and jerry, anthropomorphic mouse, cartoon cat, contests and competitions, disorder, animal, animal life, friends, uninhibited rivalry, pets, unlikely partners, partner ...
Place: borneo, taj mahal, mount everest, south pole, big ben london ...
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Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Peru, Netherlands, USA, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A girl was born and grew up in the deepest jungle of the Amazon, Colonia, that rests on the back of the most powerful Mother Spirit in the Amazon, Turtle Motelo Mama. One day she discovers that her homeland is being threatened and realizes that ...
Style: exciting, feel good, visually appealing, colorful, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: human animal relationship, jungle girl, forces of nature, friendship, environmental destruction, heroic mission, environmental issue, grownups, talking animal, deforestation, unlikely friendships, indians ...
Time: 2020s
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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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