Exploration movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant exploration movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, exciting, entertaining, tense, suspenseful and funny films and TV shows about / with exploration, heroes, survival, space, danger, power, outer space, escapades, violence and travel plots mostly in Adventure, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as exploration: Chernobyl Diaries (2012), Measuring the World (2012), Dune (2021), Mountains of the Moon (1990), AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013), Apollo 13 (1995), PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023), Dune: Part Two (2024), Our Flag Means Death (2022), The Right Stuff (1983).

List of exploration movies

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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: virus, radiation, survival, tourist, nuclear power plant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stranded, mutant, zombie, vacation, abandoned building, death ...
Time: year 2012
Place: chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
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Measuring the World (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Germany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, factual, semi serious ...
Plot: scientist, mathematics, science, inventions and discoveries, biopic, explorer, exploration, society, rivalry, friendship, naturalist, monkey ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: germany
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 8.0
 785K
Dune (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 155 min.
Story: A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure ...
Style: epic, suspense, captivating, tense, action adventure ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: desert, space opera, alien planet, messiah, prophecy, destiny, outer space, premonition, water shortage, politics, adaptation, survival ...
Time: future, distant future, 2020s
Place: space western
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Mountains of the Moon (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton's and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the story of their meeting, their friendship ...
Style: captivating, atmospheric, serious, realistic, costume drama ...
Plot: wilderness, expedition, survival, british empire, betrayal, friendship, heroic mission, escapades, danger, gay, colonialism, exploration ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, ancient times, 1850s
Place: africa, south africa, london, cairo egypt, brazil ...
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AE: Apocalypse Earth (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of refugees from Earth land on an exotic planet, where they must fight ruthless aliens to survive.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster ...
Plot: apocalypse, space battle, alien encounter, mysterious planet, chaos, survival, danger, deadly creature, imaginary, escapades, planet, evil alien ...
Time: future
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 7.7
 314K
Apollo 13 (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style: factual, realistic, inspirational, suspense, epic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot: astronaut, survival, nasa, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, outer space, race against time, space, space exploration ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1970, year 1969 ...
Place: houston texas, usa, pacific ocean, texas, florida ...
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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, France, South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A magical meteor crash-lands in Adventure City, gives the PAW Patrol pups superpowers, and transforms them into The Mighty Pups. When the PAW Patrol's archrival Humdinger breaks out of jail and teams up with a mad scientist to steal the powers ...
Style: 3d animation, entertaining, captivating, tense, funny ...
Audience: kids
Plot: animal, exploration, city, superpower, villain, scientist, dog, heroes, meteorite, superhero, supernatural ability, supernatural power ...
Time: future
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The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.
Style: epic, captivating, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: viking, kingdom, battles, king, warrior, exploration, medieval, war, sword fight, battlefield, epic battle, mortal combat ...
Time: 10th century, medieval times
Place: england, wales
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 9.0
 110K
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul ...
Style: epic, action adventure, dramatic, psychotronic, interesting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space opera, fight, desert, creature, desert planet, fictional war, dune, exploration, alien, monster, good versus evil, power ...
Time: distant future
Place: space western
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Our Flag Means Death (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Comedy, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After trading in the seemingly charmed life of a gentleman for one of a swashbuckling buccaneer, Stede Bonnet becomes captain of the pirate ship Revenge. Struggling to earn the respect of his potentially mutinous crew, Stede’s fortunes change ...
Style: funny, feel good, laugh out loud, period piece, nautical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: lgbt, ship, gay, pirate, swashbuckler, lgbtq, captain, gay couple, villain, aristocrat, piracy, life ...
Time: 18th century
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The Right Stuff (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 193 min.
Story: A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the straight-arrow ...
Style: inspirational, exciting, epic, factual, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: cold war, astronaut, space travel, nasa, test pilot, aviation, u.s. air force, space exploration, politics, space program, space race, outer space ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 1950s, year 1983 ...
Place: florida, washington d.c., houston texas, usa, australia ...
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From the Earth to the Moon (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tom Hanks, Imagine Entertainment and HBO present From the Earth to the Moon, the dramatic story of the unforgettable Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts, from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech, through the first manned ...
Style: tense, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, educational ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: nasa, space travel, against the odds, space program, space, moon landing, moon, science, space exploration, storytelling, exploration, american history ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 1950s, year 1961
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Gagarin: First in Space (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition ...
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, exciting, dramatic ...
Plot: outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, space mission, folk hero, national hero, cosmonaut, follow your dream, rise to the top, space, space travel, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia, ukraine
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 7.2
 12K
Salyut-7 (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Salyut 7, the Soviet space station, was orbiting Earth in unmanned regime. Suddenly it stops responding to signals from the Ground Control. Fall of this station, the pride of soviet science and space industry, would not only damage the image of the ...
Style: exciting, captivating, touching, suspenseful, mind blowing
Plot: space station, cosmonaut, space exploration, space, outer space, exploration, human in outer space, danger, friendship, hopes, space mission, space adventure ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
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The Spacewalker (2017)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 137 min.
Story: March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. What both superpowers aim for in this race, is to be the first to have a man walk in outer space. To accomplish that, no price is too high and no ...
Style: breathtaking, factual, inspirational, suspense, period piece ...
Plot: spacewalk, test pilot, space race, outer space, space exploration, space program, cosmonaut, cold war, russian history, space, exploration, astronaut ...
Time: 60s
Place: soviet union, russia
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Phoenix: Eden17 (2023)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In the age of space exploration, Romi and George flee a devastated Earth in search of a new world.
Style: anime, exciting, suspenseful, tense, stylized ...
Plot: planet, exploration, civilization, galaxy, space, adventure hero, female protagonist, adventurer, woman, planet earth, earth
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Mr. Car and the Knights Templar (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A well-known art historian, treasure hunter and owner of an unusual car stumbles upon a Templar treasure, which is the key to a great power that can upset the balance of good and evil in the world. Supported by friendly scouts, Mr. Car starts a big ...
Style: entertaining, thrilling, captivating
Plot: knights templar, treasure, lost treasure, exploration, hidden treasure, treasure hunter, treasure hunt, secret, escapades, art critic, artifact, adventurer ...
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 6.4
 217
LEGO DREAMZzz (2023)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Denmark, USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: A group of kids join a secret agency where they learn to use the power of imagination to journey into the Dream World and create fantastic creations in order to help sleeping children being terrorized by the evil Nightmare King who is bent on ...
Style: 3d animation, tense, feel good, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: bow and arrow, dream, heroes, nightmare, sword, lego, pistol, good versus evil, professor, magic, staff, villain ...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Colombia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Diego and his friends spend the summer at the camp run by Pompilio Calderón, an eccentric explorer. There they find a medallion that belonged to Pola, Diego's grandmother. Following in her footsteps, they will experience incredible adventures ...
Style: exciting, tense, entertaining, captivating
Plot: camping, dinosaur, volcano, time travel, portal, parallel universe, robot, mountain, treasure, camp, exploration, cave ...
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The Animal Kingdom (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An adventure between a father and his son, in a world where some humans have started mutating into other animal species.
Style: serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, exciting
Plot: mutation, son, father and son, father, forest, exploration, transformation, animal, creature, life, adventure hero, human becomes animal ...
Time: near future
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 7.5
 45K
Nimona (2023)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence.
Style: epic, 3d animation, humorous, funny, feel good ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: knight, shapeshifting, monster, medieval, lesbian subtext, werewolf, technology, female protagonist, exploration, teenager, magic, lgbt ...
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A Tourist's Guide to Love (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After an unexpected break up, a travel executive accepts an assignment to go undercover and learn about the tourist industry in Vietnam. Along the way, she finds adventure and romance with her Vietnamese expat tour guide and they decide to hijack ...
Style: romantic, humorous, captivating, funny, entertaining
Plot: breakup, tourist, exploration, love, travel, travel and leisure, relationships, love and romance, tourism, couple relations, undercover, vacation ...
Place: vietnam, los angeles
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The Magician's Elephant (2023)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Peter is searching for his long-lost sister when he crosses paths with a fortune teller in the market square. His one one question is: is his sister still alive? The answer, that he must find a mysterious elephant and the magician who will conjure ...
Style: 3d animation, humorous, exciting, captivating, funny ...
Plot: life, exploration, sister, flying, elephant, journey, friend, magician, town, magic, animal, travel ...
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Gabby's Dollhouse (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: This colorful series leads preschoolers room to room through a fantastical dollhouse of delightful mini-worlds and irresistible kitty characters.
Style: educational, 3d animation, captivating, humorous, light ...
Audience: kids
Plot: child, boy, singing, friend, children, doll, exploration, house, cat, education, girl, friendship ...
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Big Tree City (2022)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: A team of animal heroes with special skills and speedy vehicles work together to keep Big Tree City safe and solve the town's trickiest problems.
Style: 3d animation, educational, funny, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: animal, city, rescue team, heroes, big city, team, exploration, town, machine, superhero, group
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 7.0
 144K
Extraction II (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Austria, Australia, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Tasked with extracting a family who is at the mercy of a Georgian gangster, Tyler Rake infiltrates one of the world's deadliest prisons in order to save them. But when the extraction gets hot, and the gangster dies in the heat of battle, his ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: rescue, assassin, mercenary, violent, heroes, combat, army, exploration, survival, blood, revenge, violence ...
Time: 2020s
Place: vienna, armenia, austria, georgia
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 7.1
 7K
Hot Skull (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a world shaken by an epidemic of madness that spreads through speech, Murat is the only immune person. As he searches for the secret of his mysterious immunity, his “hot skull", he has to leave the safe zone and embark on an adventure ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: epidemic, authoritarianism, city, virus, life, exploration, distopia, society, immunity, survival, pandemic, apocalypse ...
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Black Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall (2022)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: The year is 2062. Earth has been left in ruin after the failure of a labor automation project when the AI called Artemis waged war against humanity. A girl, Empress, awakens in a research lab. As one of the three surviving guardians, she must ...
Style: anime, entertaining, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, technology, survival, alternate universe, exploration, girl, fight, power, plan, futuristic society, black ...
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The Boss Baby: Back in the Crib (2022)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Framed for a corporate crime, an adult Ted Templeton turns back into the Boss Baby to live undercover with his brother, Tim, posing as one of his kids.
Style: 3d animation, semi serious, entertaining, funny, satirical ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: child, boss, baby, job, exploration, office, baby boy, workplace, corporation, adult as child, supervisor, child as adult ...
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Matilda: The Musical (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: UK, Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An adaptation of Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly's musical based on the Roald Dahl novel.
Style: exciting, funny, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: library, theater, magic, telekinesis, singing, female antagonist, genius, school principal, school, precocious child, circus, child prodigy ...
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