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Kong: Skull Island(2017)

PG-13
| 1h 58min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 4,751 votes)

Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

Interstellar(2014)

PG-13
| 2h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
4.2/5 (with 15,468 votes)

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Anaconda(1997)

PG-13
| 1h 29min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 1,111 votes)

A "National Geographic" film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world's largest - and deadliest - snake.

Sanctum(2011)

R
| 1h 48min | Action, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 446 votes)

Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team—including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)—are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?

Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid(2004)

1h 36min | Adventure, Action, Horror
2.7/5 (with 409 votes)

The blood orchid - a rare flower that could hold the secret of eternal life and be worth a fortune to the company that finds it. Led by a pharmaceutical research team, a scientific expedition sets out to explore deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and bring back samples of the legendary plant. Battling through rainstorms to make their way upriver, the group encounters poisonous insects and a ferocious crocodile, only to discover they're being stalked by an even greater danger: a gathering of giant anacondas! Heat-sensing, fifty-foot-long flesh-eaters that'll go after anyone that crosses their path!

The Descent(2005)

R
| 1h 39min | Adventure, Horror
3.5/5 (with 1,675 votes)

After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.

The Lost City of Z(2017)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 1,284 votes)

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Atlantis: The Lost Empire(2001)

3.5/5 (with 2,190 votes)

The world's most highly qualified crew of archaeologists and explorers is led by historian Milo Thatch as they board the incredible 1,000-foot submarine Ulysses and head deep into the mysteries of the sea. The underwater expedition takes an unexpected turn when the team's mission must switch from exploring Atlantis to protecting it.

The English Patient(1996)

R
| 2h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.6/5 (with 916 votes)

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

Journey to the Center of the Earth(1959)

NR
| 2h 12min | Adventure, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 189 votes)

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

Anaconda 3: Offspring(2012)

R
| 1h 31min | Action, Horror, Adventure
2.4/5 (with 128 votes)

Cancer-terminal tycoon Peter Murdoch's secret Wexel Hall Pharmaceuticals lab has developed a blood orchid extract cure. To examine why it works optimally in snakes, they also bread a super-anaconda strain. But the original pair escapes, leaving a bloody trail of corpses. Murdoch runs, instructing his staff to clean up. They keep failing and being eaten like unsuspecting locals, some alive, even after enlisting ruthless big game hunter Hammett. The fast-growing pregnant monster sheds its skin, thus disabling the only tracking device.

Eight Below(2006)

3.5/5 (with 777 votes)

In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.

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Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954)

3.5/5 (with 329 votes)

When scientists exploring the Amazon River stumble on a “missing link” connecting humans and fish, they plan to capture it for later study. But the Creature has plans of his own, and has set his sights on the lead scientist's beautiful fiancée, Kay.

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.

Tarzan and His Mate(1934)

NR
| 1h 44min | Action, Adventure
3.3/5 (with 58 votes)

Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.

Ghosts of the Abyss(2003)

PG
| 1h 32min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 78 votes)

With a team of the world's foremost historic and marine experts as well as friend Bill Paxton, James Cameron embarks on an unscripted adventure back to the wreck of the Titanic where nearly 1,500 souls lost their lives almost a century ago.

Tarzan the Ape Man(1932)

1h 40min | Action, Adventure
3.4/5 (with 85 votes)

James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.

Man in the Wilderness(1971)

PG
| 1h 44min | Western, Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.

Antarctica(1983)

PG
| 2h 23min | Drama, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 28 votes)

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Blood Monkey(2007)

2.8/5 (with 62 votes)

Six American grad students have arrived in Africa to study apes with a renowned professor. But after setting up camp in a jungle clearing, they soon become witness to the carnage inflicted by the strange and remote species.

Mojin: The Worm Valley(2018)

1h 50min | Action, Fantasy, Adventure
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

Legendary tomb explorer Hu Bayi is on a dangerous mission as he seeks out the Tomb of Emperor Xian, located on an island of monstrous creatures in this mystical action-adventure.

With Cai Heng, Chen Taisheng, Marc Ma, Chen Yusi

The Abominable Snowman(1957)

1h 25min | Adventure, Horror
3.1/5 (with 43 votes)

A kindly English botanist and a gruff American promoter lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.

Dead in the Water(2018)

1h 25min | Thriller, TV Movie
2.6/5 (with 18 votes)

The Nereus is a fifty-year-old Ice Breaker, salvaged by an idealistic crew on a mission to catch illegal fisherman. On chase, the crew find themselves well off-course and bearing down on a body mysteriously floating in the middle of the Devil’s Sea. Superstitious or not, the team soon discovers they’ve rescued a deadly creature feeding on the lifeless body. Their new mission—kill or be killed and preferably before they hit land.

The People That Time Forgot(1977)

2.8/5 (with 28 votes)

A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world populated by primitive warriors and terrifying prehistoric creatures, all of whom they must evade in order to get back safely.

The Mask of Fu Manchu(1932)

2.8/5 (with 31 votes)

The villainous Dr. Fu Manchu races against a team of Englishmen to find the tomb of Ghengis Khan, because he wants to use the relics to cause an uprising in the East to wipe out the white race.

Dr. Cyclops(1940)

3.2/5 (with 26 votes)

Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.

Allonsanfan(1974)

1h 51min | History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

Journey to the Seventh Planet(1962)

2.4/5 (with 19 votes)

A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.

Krippendorf's Tribe(1998)

PG-13
| 1h 34min | Comedy, Kids & Family
2.3/5 (with 36 votes)

After squandering his grant money, despondent and recently widowed anthropologist James Krippendorf must produce hard evidence of the existence of a heretofore undiscovered New Guinea tribe. Grass skirts, makeup, and staged rituals transform his three troubled children into the Shelmikedmu, a primitive culture whose habits enthrall scholars. But when a spiteful rival threatens to blow the whistle on Krippendorf's ruse, he gets into the act as well.

Mountains of the Moon(1990)

R
| 2h 16min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

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 emerging amidst hardship, and then dissolving after their journey.

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