Treasure hunt movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant treasure hunt movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out exciting, entertaining, realistic, cult classic, semi serious and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with treasure hunt, treasure hunter, adventurer, treasure, escapades, danger, archaeologist, heroes, archaeology and murder plots mostly in Adventure, Action and Thriller genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as treasure hunt: Uncharted (2022), Jack Hunter (2008), Sahara (2005), The Goonies (1985), Hooten & The Lady (2016), Fool's Gold (2008), The Da Vinci Treasure (2006), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Mummy (1999), Holes (2003).

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 6.3
 255K
Uncharted (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A descendent of explorer Sir Francis Drake uncovers the location of the legendary El Dorado. With the help of his mentor and an ambitious journalist he works to uncover its secrets while surviving on an island filled with pirates, mercenaries, and a ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, visually appealing, epic, action adventure ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeology, danger, treasure hunter, jungle, adventurer, artifact, tough guy, lost treasure, sea, deception ...
Time: 2020s, future, 2000s, year 2006
Place: new york, the philippines, boston, barcelona, spain
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 4.8
 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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The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a magical artifact is lifted from his library, a meek librarian sets out to ensure its safe return.
Style: humorous, exciting, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure hunter, archaeologist, treasure, archaeology, friendship, library, adventurer, librarian, heroic mission, obsessive quest, good versus evil ...
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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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 7.7
 296K
The Goonies (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young teenager named Mikey Walsh finds an old treasure map in his father's attic. Hoping to save their homes from demolition, Mikey and his friends Data Wang, Chunk Cohen, and Mouth Devereaux run off on a big quest to find the secret stash of ...
Style: feel good, funny, entertaining, intense, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, childhood, treasure, pirate, treasure map, children, mischievous children, pirate ship, group of friends, map, friendship, cave ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: oregon, astoria oregon, usa
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Hooten & The Lady (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: Hugely charismatic, roguish American adventurer Hooten and his fantastically feisty partner in crime, Lady Alexandra travel the world, from the Vatican to The Himalayas, the Amazon to Egypt, in their quest to save the world's lost treasures.
Style: entertaining, feel good, captivating, semi serious, funny
Audience: family outing, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: treasure hunt, lost treasure, treasure hunter, jungle, adventurer, hidden treasure, male female relationship, partner, journey, desert, archaeologist, male female partnership
Time: 21st century
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination ...
Style: entertaining, serious, suspenseful, action adventure, action packed ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeologist, archaeology, adventurer, ancient mystery, riddles and clues, treasure hunter, artifact, president, escapades, secret ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 1865, 1860s, 19th century ...
Place: south dakota, washington d.c., virginia, paris france, buckingham palace ...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Treasure of the Peacock's Eye (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Finds Indy vagabonding around the South Pacific on a treasure hunt for a fabled lost diamond. The war in Europe ends but a new adventure begins for Indy when a mysterious man's dying words, "The eye of the peacock!" send him and Remy ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, fast
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: treasure hunt, indiana jones, adventurer, writers, treasure hunter, archaeologist, pirate, heroes, battlefield, world spanning, disorder, secret place ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1918, year 1919, 1900s
Place: egypt
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 5.7
 84K
Fool's Gold (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When he finds a vital clue that may finally pinpoint the treasure's whereabouts, he ...
Style: romantic, light, feel good, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, treasure hunter, adventurer, beautiful scenery, yacht, ocean, golddigger, obsessive quest, rivalry, underwater, escapades ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: bahamas, florida, usa, key west florida, chicago ...
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The Da Vinci Treasure (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An anthropologist must unlock the code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci in order to find the greatest treasure ever, one that could change Christianity forever.
Style: suspenseful, serious, mockbuster, disturbing, enigmatic
Plot: treasure hunt, uncover truth, riddles and clues, rivalry, escapades, investigation, danger, cardinal the priest, leonardo da vinci, murder, archaeologist, treasure hunter ...
Place: afghanistan, italy
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The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Malta, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, clever, suspense, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: conspiracy, holy grail, treasure hunt, religion, twists and turns, christianity, investigation, ancient mystery, conspiracy theory, riddles and clues, secrets, secret society ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1st century, 21st century
Place: london, italy, paris france, europe, england ...
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 7.1
 458K
The Mummy (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell and his companion, Beni stumble upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle in 1923, 3,000 years after Imhotep has suffered a fate worse than death – his body will remain undead for ...
Style: scary, exciting, entertaining, funny, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, adventurer, desert, monster, supernatural, ancient egypt, tomb, treasure, archaeologist, deadly creature ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future, jurassic, 1920s ...
Place: egypt, africa, south africa, middle east, north africa ...
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 7.0
 99K
Holes (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck. Unfairly sentenced to months of detention at Camp Green Lake, he and his campmates are forced by the warden to dig holes in order to build character. What they don't know is that they are digging ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, touching, funny ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, curse, desert, camp, friendship, interracial romance, youth, coming of age, children, warden, boy ...
Time: year 2003, 1900s, 1890s, 1850s, 19th century ...
Place: texas, latvia, usa
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National Treasure (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, clever, suspense, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, archaeology, archaeologist, treasure hunter, adventurer, secret place, riddles and clues, map, journey, ancient, artifact ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 1974, 18th century, 1830s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., philadelphia, pennsylvania, new jersey ...
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 6.7
 69K
Gold (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle ...
Style: inspirational, suspense, intellectual, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, business, treasure hunt, greed, mining, gold, money, ethnic conflict, life philosophy, brutality, justice, finance ...
Time: year 2016, 90s, 80s, year 1988
Place: southeast asia, indonesia, new york, reno nevada
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King Solomon's Mines (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story: An adventurous quest for a treasure hidden in King Solomon's mines, based on H. Rider Haggard's timeless tale.
Style: captivating, epic, fast, serious
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, archaeologist, adventurer, leader, treasure, escapades, danger, rivalry, damsel in distress, jungle, male female relationship, heroes ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: cape town south africa, africa
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The Hunt for the Amber Room (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: It's the greatest myth of the German post-war era: The Amber Room. Since its disappearance in 1945 from Koenigsberg Castle, legions of treasure hunters have tried and failed to find the room. It is said that Physics genius, Albert Einstein hid ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating
Plot: treasure hunter, lost treasure, treasure hunt, archaeologist, treasure, adventurer, grave robber, secret, archaeology, technology, hidden treasure, treasure map
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Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, diamonds, topless woman, bounty hunter, gold, adventurer, ex nazi, amazon, dangerous animal, danger, cannibal ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: latin america
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 5.9
 79K
Into the Blue (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When they take some friends on an extreme sport adventure, the last thing Jared and Sam expect to see below the shark-infested waters is a legendary pirate ship rumored to contain millions of dollars in gold. But their good fortune is short-lived, ...
Style: exciting, sexy, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: diving, treasure hunt, shark, underwater, ocean, shipwreck, island, expedition, cocaine, sunken treasure, scuba diving, danger ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: bahamas
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Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Filmed on location in South Africa, a retelling of H. Rider Haggard's classic novel "King Solomon's Mines," featuring the adventurer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot: treasure hunt, rescue, adventurer, obsessive quest, secret place, danger, wild ride, heroic mission, male female relationship, violence, chase, gunfight ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
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 6.7
 143K
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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 5.4
 205K
The Mummy (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human ...
Style: scary, exciting, suspense, intense, entertaining ...
Plot: mummy, treasure hunt, archaeology, egyptian mythology, ancient egypt, tomb, monster, pharaoh, archeological dig, archaeologist, supernatural, immortal ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: egypt, iraq, london, middle east, england ...
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The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Mystery
Country: USA, New Zealand, UK, France, Australia, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Intrepid young reporter, Tintin, and his loyal dog, Snowy, are thrust into a world of high adventure when they discover a ship carrying an explosive secret. As Tintin is drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine suspects him of ...
Style: computer animated, exciting, motion capture, colorful, 3d animation ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, date night ...
Plot: treasure, treasure hunt, reporter, young heroes, adventurer, dog, captain, riddles and clues, pirate, journalist, journalism, ship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 1940s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: morocco, ethiopia, iran, europe, north africa
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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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As Above, So Below (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, survival, archaeology, treasure hunt, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, iran
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Treasure Guards (2011)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a dig in the remote Jordanian desert, maverick archaeologist Victoria Carter (Anna Friel) discovers an ancient scroll buried in the ruins of an old temple. It is encrypted with the location of the long lost Seal of Solomon, which, according to ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, captivating
Plot: archaeologist, archeological dig, adventurer, desert, heroes, treasure hunt, rivalry, escapades, danger, legends and myths, chases and races, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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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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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, unlikely couple, opposites attract, escapades, adventurer, travel, chase, stranded, map, treasure, gem ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south america, colombia, new york, latin america
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 7.3
 7K
Klondike (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 274 min.
TV show
Story: The story centers on the friendship of two adventurers, Bill Haskell and Byron Epstein, as they travel west during the Klondike Gold Rush. Along the way they "must navigate harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, historical drama, stylized ...
Plot: gold rush, treasure hunt, gold, friendship, greed, wilderness, murder, danger, businessman, escapades, adventurer, snow ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: america, canada
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The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Danish brilliant pre-teen student Nis uses his summer holiday to learn Latin so he can properly study the Knights Templar inheritance on Bjornholm island from sources. His friends Mathias, a dumb jock, and Kathrine, who only comes to spend time wear ...
Style: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens, teens
Plot: treasure hunt, ancient mystery, rescue, danger, parents and children, legends and myths, curses spells and rituals, family relations, religions or cults, father daughter relationship, strong female character, crusader ...
Time: middle ages, 21st century
Place: denmark
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