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The Serpent and the Rainbow(1988)

R
| 1h 38min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 196 votes)

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 walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.

Directed by Wes Craven - With Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae, Paul Winfield, Bill Pullman, Michael Gough, Paul Guilfoyle, ...
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Ghost Town(2008)

PG-13
| 1h 42min | Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 414 votes)

Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!

Directed by David Koepp - With Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, Téa Leoni, Billy Campbell, Kristen Wiig, Dana Ivey, ...
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The Relic(1997)

R
| 1h 50min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 217 votes)

A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.

Directed by Peter Hyams - With Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore, John Kapelos, Audra Lindley, ...
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Gorillas in the Mist(1988)

PG-13
| 2h 9min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 244 votes)

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.

Directed by Michael Apted - With Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, Iain Glen, Constantin Alexandrov, Iain Cuthbertson, ...
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Cannibal Ferox(1981)

NR
| 1h 33min | Adventure, Horror
2.7/5 (with 108 votes)

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.

Directed by Umberto Lenzi - With Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Robert Kerman, Zora Kerova, Lorraine De Selle, Perry Pirkanen, John Bartha, ...

Iceman(1984)

PG
| 1h 40min | Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 52 votes)

A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.

Directed by Fred Schepisi - With Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone, Josef Sommer, David Strathairn
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Horror Express(1972)

R
| 1h 30min | Horror
3.2/5 (with 126 votes)

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.

Directed by Eugenio Martín - With Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Helga Liné, George Rigaud, Telly Savalas, ...
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Gargoyles(1972)

1h 14min | Fantasy, Horror, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

After receiving word about a mysterious carcass/skeleton unearthed in the Arizona desert, a father and his daughter decide to remove it from the burial grounds for further study. Once they do so, they, as well as the town, are besieged by a colony of gargoyles living in some nearby caverns.

Directed by Bill L. Norton - With Cornel Wilde

Nomads(1986)

R
| 1h 33min | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 44 votes)

One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.

Directed by John McTiernan - With Pierce Brosnan, Lesley-Anne Down, Anna Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant, Nina Foch, Adam and the Ants, ...
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On the Town(1949)

NR
| 1h 38min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Music
3.5/5 (with 111 votes)

Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.

Directed by Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen - With Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ann Miller, Betty Garrett, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen, ...
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Last of the Dogmen(1995)

PG
| 1h 58min | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller, Western
3.5/5 (with 41 votes)

A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.

Directed by Tab Murphy - With Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith, Andrew Miller, Gregory Scott Cummins

Rites of Passage(2012)

1h 35min | Thriller
2.6/5 (with 22 votes)

Anthropology students and their professor experience terror when they visit a sacred burial ground.

Directed by W. Peter Iliff - With Wes Bentley, Kate Maberly, Ryan Donowho, Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, Ashley Hinshaw, ...
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Beach Party(1963)

NR
| 1h 41min | Comedy, Music
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.

Directed by William Asher - With Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Morey Amsterdam, Dick Miller, ...

Bimboland(1998)

1h 30min | Comedy, Romance / Love
2.2/5 (with 27 votes)

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.

Directed by Ariel Zeitoun - With Amanda Lear, Armelle, Aure Atika, Christian Charmetant, Dany Boon, Élizabeth Macocco, ...

The Raft(2019)

1h 37min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

In 1973, five men and six women drifted across the Atlantic on a raft as part of a scientific experiment exploring the origins of violence and sexual attraction. Nobody expected what ultimately took place on that 3-month journey. Through archive material and a reunion of the surviving members of the expedition, this film tells the hidden story of the project.

Directed by Marcus Lindeen

Dance of the Dwarfs(1983)

1h 33min | Adventure, Horror
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

An anthropologist and an alcoholic helicopter pilot discover a race of predatory reptile men in the jungles of South America.

Directed by Gus Trikonis - With Peter Fonda, Deborah Raffin, John Amos, Carlos Palomino

El Signo de la Muerte(1939)

1h 33min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Two journalists, Carlos and Lola, investigate the murder of a young woman whose body appeared with her heart torn out, in what seems to be a human sacrifice. The investigation leads the reporters to a museum, whose director is the famous Doctor Gallardo.

Directed by Chano Urueta - With Carlos Orellana, Cantinflas, Manuel Medel, Elena D'Orgaz, Tomás Perrín

Tarahumara (Further and farther)(1965)

1h 45min | Drama
2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

An anthropologist goes to the mountains to study the problems of the indigenous people and finds out that they are being dispossessed of their lands.

Directed by Luis Alcoriza - With Ignacio López Tarso, Jaime Fernández, Aurora Clavel, Eric del Castillo, Pancho Córdova

Man Beast(1956)

1h 7min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Connie Hayward mounts an expedition into the Himalayan Mountains looking for her brother, who has not returned from a previous trek trying to locate the Yeti, or "Abominable Snowman". Arriving at her brother's last-known camp Connie and her companions find only a strange old guide, Varga. They are soon attacked by gigantic Snowmen but are not half as surprised as when Vargas reveals his secret origin and the plans he has for Connie.

Directed by Jerry Warren

Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey(2008)

1h 40min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the psychedelic sixties. Now in this two hour History Channel TV Special, his former student Wade Davis, follows in his footsteps to experience the discoveries that Schultes brought to the western world. Shot around the planet, from Canada to the Amazon, we experience rarely seen native hallucinogenic ceremonies and find out the true events leading up to the Psychedelic Sixties. Featuring author/adventurer Wade Davis ("Serpent and the Rainbow"), Dr. Andrew Weil, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir and many others, this program tells the story of the discovery of peyote, magic mushrooms and beyond: one man's little known quest to classify the Plants of the Gods. Richard Evans Schultes revolutionized science and spawned another revolution he never imagined.

Oka!(2011)

1h 45min | Drama
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The story of Louis Sarno, an American ethno-musicologist who lived among the Bayaka Pygmies in Central Africa for 25 years.

The Marriage-Go-Round(1961)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!

Directed by Walter Lang - With Susan Hayward, James Mason, Julie Newmar, Robert Paige, June Clayworth, Everett Glass, ...

30 Years of National Geographic Specials(1995)

46min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Celebrates 30 years of televised specials by The National Geographic Society.

Visit to a Chief's Son(1974)

1h 25min | Adventure
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An American anthropologist and his son benefit from their experiences with an East African tribe.

Directed by Lamont Johnson - With Richard Mulligan

Carlos Castaneda: Tales from the Jungle(2007)

58min | Documentary, Drama

What happens when anthropology goes bad? The last in this series of great yarns from the world of anthropology is a story of sex, drugs and a long lost body in the desert. At its heart is the mysterious figure of Carlos Castaneda, to some a guru, to others a phony.

5x7(2018)

37min | Documentary

A beautiful collection of pictures ties Frank Cancian, an elderly photographer and retired professor of anthropology, American with origin from Veneto, to the people of Lacedonia, a small town in southern Italy. Thanks to the rediscovery of the photos taken in 1957 by the young Cancian in that rural village where he had arrived almost by chance, the story resumes there where it was interrupted 60 years earlier. And the thread of memories ties back to people and places, bringing with itself some essential reflections on how photography can become an ethnographic look at small communities.