| Holes (2003) | 7.0 | |
| The Goonies (1985) | 7.7 | |
| Three Kings (1999) | 7.1 | |
| Operation Condor (1991) | 7.2 | |
| Twelve Chairs (1971) | 8.2 |
Buried treasure movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant buried treasure movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining, tense and humorous films and TV shows about / with buried treasure, treasure hunt, treasure, escapades, treasure map, treasure hunter, betrayal, friendship, coming of age and greed 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 buried treasure: Treasure Quest: Snake Island (2015), Bullitt County (2018), Treasure of Matecumbe (1976), Tomb Invader (2018), Holes (2003), The Grave (1996), Numb (2015), 13 Graves (2006), Adventure Inc. (2002), Treasure Island (1973).
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List of buried treasure movies
Genre: Documentary, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Hidden somewhere off the southeastern coast of Brazil could lie hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of lost Incan gold. One team of treasure hunters has a new theory on where the treasure lies - a remote spot home to 1,000s of deadly vipers.
Style:
realistic, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
treasure hunt, remote island, golddigger, lost treasure, buried treasure, island, snake, treasure hunter, treasure, expedition, hidden treasure, escapades ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.
Style:
suspense, tense, enigmatic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
buried treasure, bachelor party, wilderness, autumn, party, drunkenness, haunted by the past, friends, buddies, friendship, drinking alcohol, gang ...
Time:
70s
Place:
kentucky
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In post-Civil War Kentucky, young David Burnic becomes the unexpected heir to the family secret, a map leading to buried treasure on the Florida isle of Matecumbe.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
treasure hunt, lost treasure, buried treasure, treasure hunter, coming of age, youth, archaeologist, cons and scams, gang, rivalry, obsessive quest, criminal heroes ...
Time:
19th century, year 1976, 1860s
Place:
florida
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
With promises of untold treasure, two modern-day adventurers team up to enter the ancient tomb of Quin Shi Haung, and stop a madman from releasing the mercury trapped within.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
tomb, girl fight, treasure hunter, buried treasure, expedition, jungle, female protagonist, peril, chase, danger, rescue, secret ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Style:
road movie, humorous, funny, hilarious, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
treasure hunt, on the road, race, car chase, treasure, road trip, competition, chase, greed, money, twists and turns, disorder ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century, year 1916, 70s
Place:
california, usa
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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, curse, desert, friendship, treasure, camp, destiny, youth, coming of age, interracial romance, children, boy ...
Time:
year 2003, 1890s, 1900s, 19th century, 1850s ...
Place:
texas, usa, north america, latvia
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two prisoners escape with the help of their jailer to search for a treasure that is supposedly buried with a dead millionaire.
Style:
independent film, noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
characters murdered one by one, buried alive, ghost, fugitive, thief, bribe, buried treasure, escape, dark humor, treasure hunt, on the run, confined ...
Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina
Is relevant?
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Husband and wife, Will and Dawn, are in financial crisis after learning the job Will was counting on to salvage their financial future has disappeared in the midst of a market collapse. They set out to drive home on the winter highway back to their ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, cliffhanger ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, stolen gold, treasure, treasure hunt, buried treasure, bank robber, ex convict, hitchhiking, winter, snow, gold ...
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
192
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story:
An ex-treasure hunter's search for his missing brother coincides with a quest for buried Incan gold.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, thrilling, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
treasure hunt, buried treasure, lost treasure, hidden treasure, treasure hunter, investigation, escapades, treasure, brother, brother brother relationship, mysterious disappearance, greed ...
Place:
south america, peru
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Adventure Inc. is a dramatised adventure television series produced primarily in Canada which aired from 30 September 2002 to 12 May 2003. It was a co-production of Fireworks Entertainment, Tribune Entertainment, M6, Amy International, and Tele ...
Style:
suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, fast, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, boys' night, teens
Plot:
heroes, partner, adventurer, daring rescue, secret place, danger, map, curses spells and rituals, heroic mission, archaeologist, treasure hunter, wild ride ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When three friends who live together realize that they don't like their life trajectory, they set off to find a gold treasure that is rumored to be buried in the nearby mountain.
Style:
buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
buried treasure, friend, friends, escapades, group of friends, adventurer, friendship, adventure hero, buddy, buddies, male nudity, treasure ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
london
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Pororo and his friends at the pirate restaurant accidentally take a treasure map of the legendary treasure and head to the treasure island. While searching for friends scattered on the mysterious treasure island where the secrets of ancient ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
treasure hunt, penguins, polar bear, bird, buried treasure, duck, ambush, good versus evil, treasure, friendship, adventurer, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins, a pirate mouse named Hiccup, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney hire a ship to find the legendary treasure of notorious late pirate Captain Flint. However, Flint's former crewmates plan to take over the ship.
Style:
nautical, tension, suspense, anime
Plot:
pirate, island, treasure hunt, buried treasure, sea voyage, deception, betrayal, mutiny, sailboat, map, captain, coming of age ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles.
A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasure map.
A baroness flamboyant, unscrupulous, praying mantis, penniless, but with a boat.
A young ...
Style:
period piece
Plot:
pirate, treasure map, treasure island, treasure hunt, tropical island, buried treasure, sea voyage, seafaring, quest, map, treachery, mutiny ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
fictional island
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure
Country: China
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Young archaeolog Wu Tian, a passionate and righteous man, discovered a Loulan bronze mirror in the desert. In order to protect the treasure of Loulan civilization and prevent it from falling into the hands of foreign tomb robbers he traveled to the ...
Style:
intense, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
treasure hunt, archaeology, archaeologist, danger, buried treasure, car chase, treasure, adventurer, treasure hunter, epic battle, kung fu, artifact ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Treasure Island is a 1977 television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel. It was filmed in 1977 on location in Plymouth and Dartford, and in Corsica, and also at BBC Television Centre at Wood Lane, London.
Jim Hawkins ...
Style:
suspense, dramatic, nautical, tension, period drama
Plot:
pirate, treasure map, mutiny, treasure hunt, buried treasure, seafaring, coming of age, betrayal, map, island, moral ambiguity, loyalty ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
corsica
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
As rumors spread about a hidden treasure worth 300 billion yen buried somewhere underneath a mountain hot spring resort large numbers of people flock to the local inn hotel managed by a madam with 2 things on their mind.....treasure hunting in the ...
Style:
erotic, sensual, sex comedy, black comedy
Plot:
pink film, greed, geisha, sexploitation, nudity, voyeurism, treasure hunt, inn, buried treasure, lust, scam, unhappiness ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This is a tale about two children who are put in a foster home, and then on Halloween they breakout and are rescued by their eccentric grandfather who is in a Halloween costume of an eyeball. They then go to George's island to try and find the ...
Style:
lighthearted, suspense, epic, period piece, independent film
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
halloween, island, ghost, foster home, treasure hunt, buried treasure, children, friendship, imagination, supernatural, family drama, escape ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Casper and Emma spends their summer holiday at Emma's family cabin. They find a chest that Emma's grandfather buried on the beach when he was young. It contains a treasure map that will lead them to a hidden treasure.
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, funny, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
summer vacation, treasure hunt, friendship, children, teamwork, hidden treasure, treasure map, escapades, adventurer, treasure chest, treasure hunter, friends ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Style:
lighthearted, period piece
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
pirate, treasure hunt, buried treasure, children, mutiny, map, sea voyage, sailboat, island, treasure map, parrot, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
fictional island, caribbean
Is relevant?
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, perverse, epic, saga ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, date night, family friendly, manly ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, indiana jones, archaeologist, treasure, adventurer, archaeology, artifact, nazi, desert, chase, escapades, jungle ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1936, 90s, year 1981
Place:
egypt, africa, nepal, south america, himalaya ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure ...
Style:
cult classic, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
treasure, treasure hunt, pirate, treasure map, ship, swashbuckler, blind character, courage, siege, sailing, betrayal, chase ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
fictional island, caribbean, israel, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany, USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Style:
spaghetti western, epic, breathtaking, cult classic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, manly, date night, kids ...
Plot:
old west, civil war, treasure hunt, gunfight, greed, american civil war, moral ambiguity, desert, anti hero, shootout, hitman, cowboy ...
Time:
19th century, year 1966, 20th century, 1860s, victorian era
Place:
texas, arizona, austin texas, usa, north america ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jake Reid's father died in a bloody massacre 15 years ago in Covelo, California, after participating in a botched robbery-the loot from which was never found. Jake comes to this small western town to dig up the past and to dig up the money-he ...
Style:
tension, suspense, dark, noir, period piece
Plot:
small town, escaped prisoner, sheriff, violence, revenge, bloodbath, family tragedy, betrayal, father son relationship, moral ambiguity, confrontation, showdown ...
Place:
california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
An heir goes for the property of his family in his predecessor and search of the gold
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, twisted, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heir, inheritance, family drama, legacy, treasure hunt, family secret, greed, betrayal, estate, buried treasure, obsession, investigation ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three morticians get caught in a web of greed and deceit, involving buried treasure and a tangled love affair, in this modern day crime mystery that is based on a true story.
Style:
tense, suspense, mystical, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot:
mortician, greed, assassination plot, evil plot, society, social relations, criminal, plan, treasure, murder, conspiracy, mysticism ...
Place:
new mexico
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A parolee teams up with his old crew determined to find a buried bag of cash stolen a decade ago from a DEA bust gone bad, while being tracked by a retired Sheriff.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
heist, organized crime, criminal gang, criminal, sheriff, gang, parole, crooked sheriff, bandit, money, crime boss, escapades ...
Place:
texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The first of Nacer Khemir's highly-regarded Desert Trilogy that includes The Dove's Lost Necklace and Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul. Khemir creates an exotic world with Wanderers of the Desert when a young teacher ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, ambiguous ending, poetic, allegory ...
Plot:
desert, legend, disappearance, teacher, children, magic realism, haunting, folklore, isolation, supernatural, remote village, cursed ...
Place:
sahara, africa, north africa, tunisia, middle east
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of 12-year-old Jim. Fraught by the death of his father and forced to endure schoolyard bullying each ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, adult animation
Plot:
pirate, small town, port, pirate ship, seaside town, escapades, sea adventure, sailor, showdown, sea voyage, pirate captain, sea battle ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
nova scotia, nova scotia, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 225 min.
Story:
The screen version of the most famous novel by American writer Mark Twain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". Without a book about the adventures of Tom and his friends Huckleberry Finn and Becky Thatcher, one can not imagine the childhood of ...
Style:
feel good, serious, realistic, sentimental
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
skinny dipping, friendship, youth, mischievous children, buddies, friends, funeral, boy, buried treasure, fishing, murder trial, on the lam ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
missouri, usa, mississippi
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