Anthropologist movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant anthropologist movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, psychological, serious, scary and weird films and TV shows about / with anthropologist, murder, death, danger, violence, scientist, survival, monster, bare chested male and nude plots mostly in Horror, Drama and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as anthropologist: Unnatural History (2010), The Haunting (1963), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Make Them Die Slowly (1981), Nomads (1986), The Man from Earth (2007), Dance of the Dwarfs (1983), White Courage (2024), Instinct (1999), The X Species (2018).
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List of anthropologist movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Teenager Henry Griffin acquired many skills through years of travelling the world with his anthropologist parents. Sent to live with his uncle and cousin in Washington DC, and with the help of his cousin Jasper and friend Maggie, he must now use ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, exciting, feel good, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
high school, friendship, teenage life, danger, social relations, escapades, supernatural, anthropologist, amateur detective, museum, magic, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, creepy ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, disappearance, supernatural horror, insanity, haunted, research, hearing voices, lesbian, poltergeist, obsession, mansion ...
Time:
19th century, 1940s, 1870s, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place:
boston, new england, usa, massachusetts
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of ...
Style:
sexy, creepy, surreal, suspense, mysterious ...
Plot:
voodoo, superstition, black magic, zombie, anthropologist, hallucination, nightmare, surrealism, buried alive, torture, supernatural, religion ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1978, year 1985
Place:
haiti, boston, caribbean
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
Style:
brutal, bloody, slasher, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, brutality, eating human flesh, torture, rape, tribe, violent, native, gory, jungle adventure ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
south america, colombia, new york, usa, latin america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
French anthropologist Jean-Charles Pommier and his wife have come to LA so he can take up a position as lecturer. To his surprise he encounters a group of urban nomads. As he investigates things become more unsettling as he realizes the price paid ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
anthropologist, mentally unstable woman, ghost, doctor, obsession, murder, danger, ancient mystery, hospital, anthropology, home invasion, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1870's - A woman hires an anthropologist/adventurer to track down her husband, who has disappeared while searching for an elusive passage to the center of the earth
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
lost world, danger, heroic mission, adventurer, dinosaur, daring rescue, travel, prehistoric animal, missing person, anthropologist, wilderness, reptiles ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 19th century
Place:
san francisco, alaska
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
Style:
philosophical, reflective, mindfuck, psychological, cerebral ...
Plot:
philosophy, immortality, atheism, religion, storytelling, immortal, dialogue, professor, society, myth, heart attack, eternal youth ...
Time:
future, medieval times, 2000s, prehistory, 17th century ...
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An anthropologist and an alcoholic helicopter pilot discover a race of predatory reptile men in the jungles of South America.
Style:
sinister, tense, mysterious, suspense, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
jungle, jungle adventure, tribe, anthropologist, helicopter pilot, creature feature, survival, survival horror, exploration, man versus nature, cryptid, isolation ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
south america
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tension, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, brothers, family conflict, conflict, brotherhood, anthropologist, collaboration, feud, war, brother, family feud, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, psychological, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
prison, estrangement, violence, murder, redemption, jungle, greed, survival, human animal relationship, corruption, psychologist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Deep in the woods, an archaeological expedition is on the verge of a historic discovery, when they find themselves with no defense against an unrelenting predator. Taking refuge in the catacombs of a cave hidden in the hills, tensions escalate as ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
bigfoot, cave, found footage, monster, sasquatch, camping, creature, scientist, hiking, death, legend, anthropologist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An American scientist who was convicted of killing and cannibalizing two colleagues in the jungles of Flores, Indonesia in 1977. Branded "The American Cannibal" by the press during his trial, Dr. Timothy Darrow defended himself by ...
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
cannibal, cannibalism, found footage, anthropology, scientist, convict, anthropologist, legends and myths, murder mystery, supernatural being, framed for murder, murder ...
Time:
year 1977, 2000s, year 2003, 70s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
TV show
Story:
Naked Josh was a Canadian television series broadcast on Showcase. The show starred David Julian Hirsh as Josh Gould, a university professor in Montreal who, although he teaches a sexual anthropology course, struggles to understand the ever-shifting ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, captivating, ironic, entertaining ...
Plot:
graduate student, professor, anthropologist, dating, anthropology, irony, teacher, satire, cultural difference, teachers and students, counterculture, sexual exploration ...
Place:
montreal
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Anthropologist Anna Kostina is indispensable in solving crimes where only bones or decomposed remains of the victim's body remained. Anna's partner is the senior investigator of the Special Department of the Investigative Committee of the ...
Style:
tense, funny, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
mysterious death, murder investigation, anthropologist, twists and turns, victim, partner, shooting, partners against crime, killing, coworker, criminal, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When bodies begin turning up in the tranquil English countryside that he has recently made home, a forensic anthropologist helps local police in a race against time.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
forensics, murder investigation, murder, killing, english countryside, murder mystery, investigation, crime investigation, anthropology, female corpse, corpse, anthropologist ...
Place:
scotland, united kingdom, britain
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is a complex story of destinies that intersect when they assassinate a media mogul on their wedding day, at the same time that an assassin in the United States is executed in the electric chair. The tycoon's soul is reincarnated in ...
Style:
psychological, soap opera, novela, light, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, betrayal, professor, femme fatale, deception, criminal, lgbt, reincarnation, body swap, supernatural, family problems, relationship problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover ...
Style:
scary, exciting, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
monster, human versus monster, museum, violence, deadly creature, gory, creature feature, fear, creature, police detective, superstition, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, jurassic
Place:
chicago, brazil, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alma is a scientist at Berlin's famous Pergamon Museum. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, she accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot with artificial ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, existential, dorama, romantic comedy ...
Plot:
humanoid robot, robot, scientist, artificial intelligence, robot human relationship, human android relationship, scientific research, female orgasm, experiment, relationships, scientific experiment, experimental technology ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
buenos aires argentina, denmark, berlin germany, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?
Style:
scary, humorous, surprise ending, classic horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
werewolf, supernatural, australian outback, full moon, female werewolf, filmmaking, babies and infants, wolf, monster, nudity, lycanthropy, scientist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia, sydney australia, los angeles
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four cousins who have never met are invited by their Great-Grandmother Christophe to visit her mansion outside of Atlanta. When they arrive, they learn she has just died. They stay to hear the reading of her will and soon are being killed off ...
Style:
scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, voodoo, damsel in distress, skull, old dark house, black, zombie, american south, human sacrifice, anthropologist, last will and testament, exploitation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
atlanta georgia, haiti
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
While doing undercover work in a mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the supposedly ...
Style:
sexy, grindhouse, disturbing, sexual, erotic ...
Plot:
exploitation, cannibalism, lesbian sex, sexploitation, jungle, erotica, voyeurism, lesbianism, sexual pleasure, tribe, outdoor sex, sadistic horror ...
Time:
70s
Place:
latin america, south america, new york, tanzania
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Adapted from the 1951 non-fiction account by psychoanalyst Georges Devereux, “Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian,” the film follows the true story of Picard (Del Toro), a Plains Indian of the Blackfeet nation, as he returns from WWII and begins ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, friendship, headache, hospital, doctors and patients, psychologist, soldier, psychiatrist, memory, haunted by the past, anthropologist, ethnicity ...
Time:
year 1948, 20th century, 50s, year 1945
Place:
kansas, usa, france, seattle, new york ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style:
psychedelic, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, medical horror ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, cosmic horror, dna, creature, mutation, scientist, scientific experiment, biologist, expedition, research, genetics, terror ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, arkansas, maine, england, louisiana ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John ...
Style:
psychological, independent film, cynical, biting, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
counterculture, hippie, attorney, satire, lsd, juvenile delinquency, politics, concert, organist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, blonde, singer ...
Time:
60s
Place:
washington d.c., los angeles
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189K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification ...
Style:
witty, suspenseful, intellectual, detective, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
investigation, fbi, partners against crime, forensics, partner, teamwork, law enforcement, crime investigation, expert, scientist, ambitious, police investigation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
Style:
scary, grindhouse, atmospheric, harsh, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, mad scientist, cannibal, supernatural, nudity, torture, island, jungle, gory, sadism, female nudity, corpse ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, vietnam, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, night school, female nudity, suspicion, pregnancy, riddles and clues, campus, danger, woman in danger, love affair, machete ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
boston, texas
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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:
atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, scary ...
Plot:
drug, science, surrealism, obsession, experiment gone awry, male nudity, hallucination, body horror, transformation, psychology, mad scientist, insanity ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s ...
Place:
harvard university, bronx new york city, san francisco, california, boston ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.
Style:
feel good, realistic, not serious, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
wooing, love and romance, dating, couples, hopes, university, anthropologist, tribe, bimbo, woman power, flirting, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
french riviera, france
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.
Style:
independent film, uplifting, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
african tribe, skinny dipping, youth, anthropologist, solar eclipse, friendship, parent child relationship, family relations, friends, society, human nature, parents and children ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Place:
africa, east africa
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