Ancient mystery movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant ancient mystery movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, captivating and tense films and TV shows about / with ancient mystery, danger, escapades, supernatural, legends and myths, heroes, archaeologist, treasure hunt, murder and imaginary plots mostly in Adventure, Thriller and Fantasy genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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ancient mystery movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as ancient mystery: Zero Hour (2013), As Above, So Below (2014), The Last Templar (2009), Jack Hunter (2008), Inferno (2016), Revelation (2001), The Da Vinci Code (2006), The Call of Cthulhu (2005), Ragnarok (2013), The Ruins (2008).

List of ancient mystery movies

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 6.3
 5K
Zero Hour (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: As the publisher of Modern Skeptic Magazine, Hank Galliston has spent his career following clues, debunking myths and cracking conspiracies. But when his beautiful wife, Laila, is abducted from her antique clock shop, Hank gets pulled into one of ...
Style: exciting, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: ancient mystery, relic, danger, treasure, riddles and clues, conspiracy, legends and myths, journal, artifact, good versus evil, map, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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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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The Last Templar (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 160 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of Raymond Khoury's novel about a New York archaeologist researching the lost secrets of the medieval Knights Templar.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, captivating, stylized, serious
Plot: archaeologist, ancient mystery, treasure hunt, knights templar, adventurer, obsessive quest, danger, conspiracy, special agent, intrigue, good versus evil, rescue ...
Time: middle ages, 2000s
Place: usa, new york, turkey
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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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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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 6.2
 189K
Inferno (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 121 min.
Story: After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, crime thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: conspiracy, twists and turns, ancient mystery, treasure hunt, danger, memory loss, religions or cults, riddles and clues, church, conspiracy theory, biohazard, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: italy, florence, europe, istanbul turkey, venice ...
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 4.7
 2K
Revelation (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Since A.D. 50, a mysterious sacred artifact known as the Loculus has been at the center of a bloody clandestine war. Missing for a few hundred years, the puzzling relic has suddenly reappeared in the present day, bringing with it a terrible secret ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reincarnation, ancient history, miraculous event, supernatural, obsessive quest, good versus evil, danger, curses spells and rituals, destiny, chaos, race against time, adventurer ...
Time: 18th century, 13th century, 1st century, 50s
Place: malta
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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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The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of ...
Style: scary, suspense, lovecraft, black and white, stylized ...
Plot: cthulhu, ancient mystery, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, cosmic horror, monster, kaiju, giant monster, obsession, secrets, existentialism ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 19th century, 20th century
Place: rhode island, louisiana
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 5.9
 9K
Ragnarok (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Archaeologist Sigurd Svendsen discovers that the Oseberg ship hides a secret from the Viking Age. Along with his two children put Sigurd out on a quest to find the truth. The mystery leads them into "No Man's Land" between Norway and ...
Style: serious, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: norse mythology, ancient mystery, legends and myths, archaeology, adventurer, danger, coming of age, monster, escapades, riddles and clues, obsessive quest, viking ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.9
 83K
The Ruins (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, jungle, gory, ruins, vacation, death, self sacrifice, chase, ancient mystery, danger, murder, parasite ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: mexico, oceania, latin america
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 5.7
 66
Aztech (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Fragments of a meteor crash in Mexico and United States. Thirteen stories in different spaces and times happen in places of collisions .
Style: suspenseful, anthology, rough, suspense, art film
Plot: ancient mystery, ancient, crash, legends and myths, danger, twists and turns, survival, evidence, curses spells and rituals, unfulfillment, meteorite, mermaid
Place: mexico
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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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 6.8
 6K
Dig (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When FBI Agent Peter Connelly, recently stationed in Jerusalem, begins investigating the murder of a young American, he realizes that he’s uncovered an ancient international conspiracy that threatens to change the course of human history. Certain ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, enigmatic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ancient mystery, archeological dig, investigation, conspiracy, danger, uncover truth, murder, special agent, escapades, mossad, exodus, thrill ride ...
Time: 21st century
Place: jerusalem, middle east, israel
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Stargate Atlantis (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, action adventure, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, outer space, fate of humanity, space opera, spacecraft, danger, alien planet, space adventure, ancient mystery, good versus evil, parallel world, space wars ...
Time: 2000s, future
Place: space western
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 5.7
 27K
Devil's Pass (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, found footage, supernatural, snow, mountain, danger, secrets, uncover truth, winter, mountain climbing, murder, missing person ...
Time: year 1980, 21st century
Place: russia
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 7.6
 57K
Warehouse 13 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: After saving the life of the President, two secret service agents - Myka Bering and Pete Lattimer - find themselves assigned to the top secret Warehouse 13. The Warehouse is a massive, top secret facility that houses dangerous and fantastical ...
Style: exciting, serious, humorous, funny, thrilling ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: supernatural, artifact, secret place, ancient mystery, riddles and clues, top secret, investigation, legends and myths, undercover, agent, paranormal activity, secret service ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, south dakota
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Prisoners of the Sun (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: archeological dig, pharaoh, vampire, evil alien, tomb, imaginary, supernatural, adventurer, save the world, apocalypse, desert, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt
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The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and neanderthals.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dinosaur, world war one, adventurer, ancient mystery, island, time travel, lost world, submarine, pterodactyl, danger, heroic mission, rescue ...
Time: prehistoric times, 1940s, prehistory, year 1916
Place: antarctica, fictional island
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Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of archaeologists dig up a human skeleton near the historical monument of STONEHENGE, an ancient piece of machinery hidden beneath the bedrock is discovered. Not knowing what it could be the workers accidentally trigger the mechanism ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, ancient mystery, apocalypse, stonehenge, danger, obsessive quest, chaos, escapades, race against time, save the world, natural disaster, doom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Finland, Norway, France, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story: It's the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an "archeological" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn't the one you want coming to town. When all the local children begin mysteriously ...
Style: christmas horror, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, ancient mystery, snow, winter, beast, hidden truth, young heroes, legends and myths, expedition, holiday horror, xmas ...
Time: year 2010, future, 21st century
Place: finland, europe
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 6.4
 69K
City of Ember (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, ...
Style: exciting, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, visually stunning, visual ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot: steampunk, post apocalypse, save the day, danger, survival, puzzle, underground, underground city, ancient mystery, girl, uncover truth, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2008, 20th century, distant future
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Bunuel and King Solomon's Table (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Spain, Mexico, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalí are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon, which is known to have the power to see in the past, the ...
Style: contemplative, surreal, stylized, clever, manga ...
Plot: filmmaking, surrealism, ancient mystery, political unrest, art, famous, art history, artist, painter, architecture, riddles and clues, performer's life ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: spain
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 5.4
 269
The Lost Tomb (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Wu Xie is an antique shop owner who comes from a family of tomb raiders. As he continues the family trade with his team of tomb raiders, he finds lost treasures of the Warring States as well as the answers to the tragedies of his family’s past. ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense
Plot: relic, tomb, adventurer, artifact, escapades, treasure, treasure hunt, ancient mystery, legends and myths, heroes, chase, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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The Final Wish (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Following the passing of his father, Aaron Hammond returns to his hometown to help his devastated mother and to confront his past demons. Sifting through his father’s belongings, Aaron comes upon a mysterious item that is far more than it seems.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, suspense, tense, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: death of father, mother, ancient mystery, curse, death, demon, danger, family relations, evil, violence, family secret, good versus evil ...
Place: usa
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 3.3
 1K
Monster Ark (2008)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: This is film-making of the shoddiest and laziest sort. Every scene is a showcase for the writer/director's ignorance. O'Brien is completely unfamiliar with science. He knows nothing of how scientists talk, how they analyze, how they ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, tomb, monster, survival, ancient mystery, danger, desert, creature, reptiles, creature feature, shipwreck, noah's ark ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, middle east, israel
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 3.3
 2K
Zodiac (2014)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A 2,000-year-old astrology board possesses deadly powers that threaten the fate of humanity.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot: disaster, ancient mystery, save the world, survival, chaos, danger, riddles and clues, small town, forces of nature, parents and children, escapades, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016)
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, History
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act of creation and other big questions that mankind has continuously asked.
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, captivating, mind bending, talky ...
Plot: belief in god, religion, hinduism, culture, judaism, belief in the afterlife, travel, religions or cults, customs, god or devil, creator, research ...
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 4.8
 892
Imago mortis (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, wild
Plot: supernatural, haunted by the past, investigation, uncover truth, ghost, serial killer, murder, amateur detective, strong violent content, teachers and students, ancient mystery, gory ...
Time: 16th century, 21st century
Place: spain
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The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a Warrior (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The heroic tale of young Mathayus and his relentless quest for justice against an evil and powerful villain, King Sargon. Mathayus faces heart-stopping tribulations during his adventurous, odds-defying trajectory toward his ultimate destiny: ...
Style: serious, grindhouse, saga, cult classic, epic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mummy, monster, sword and sorcery, desert, revenge, greek, barbarian, heroic mission, ancient mystery, escapades, master warrior, magic ...
Place: egypt, middle east, africa
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