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Octopussy(1983)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 11min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 818 votes)

James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.

Around the World in 80 Days(2004)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h | Action, Adventure, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 1,097 votes)

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.

Tad, the Lost Explorer(2012)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 30min | Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 249 votes)

Tad is a celebrity archaeologist and adventurer just like his hero Max Mordon... in his dreams! In reality, Tad is a Chicago construction worker. One day, however, he is mistaken for a real professor and takes his place on a flight to Peru in search of the lost city of Paititi.

Directed by Enrique Gato

The Aeronauts(2019)

3.4/5 (with 464 votes)

In 1862, daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Wren teams up with pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While breaking records and advancing scientific discovery, their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world they have left far below them. But they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.

Around the World in Eighty Days(1956)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 55min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 202 votes)

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.

The Concorde... Airport '79(1979)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 3min | Action, Drama, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 81 votes)

Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.

Mysterious Island(1961)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy
3.3/5 (with 70 votes)

During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .

Doraemon: Nobita's Chronicle of the Moon Exploration(2019)

1h 51min | Animation, Adventure
3.9/5 (with 22 votes)

During a Japanese robotic exploration to find life on the other side of the moon, Nobita is watching from Earth and sees the moon turn yellow. With the help of Doraemon, the pair travel to the moon and create bunnies that will build their own colony. After he returns, Nobita tells his class about their adventure but no one will believe him. That is until a new student and his sister arrive who appear to come from a very far away place...

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen(1988)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 6min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 374 votes)

An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Before Night Falls(2000)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 14min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 117 votes)

Spanning several decades, this powerful biopic offers a glimpse into the life of famed Cuban poet and novelist Reinaldo Arenas, an artist who was vilified for his homosexuality in Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Balloon(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 5min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 181 votes)

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it crashes just before the border. The Stasi finds traces of this attempt to escape and immediately starts investigations, while the two families are forced to build a new escape balloon. With each passing day the Stasi is closer on their heels – a nerve-wracking race against time begins.

Mannequin Two: On the Move(1991)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 35min | Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 63 votes)

Although Jason works as a department store clerk, he is also a reincarnated prince. Long ago, his beloved Jessie was snatched away from him by an evil wizard who used his powers to transform her into wooden statue. Now Jessie is in Jason's department store as a mannequin. When he encounters her, she awakens from her thousand-year sleep. They quickly revive their romance, but the evil wizard has been reincarnated as well, and he's up to no good.

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Ghosts of Mars(2001)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 38min | Action, Horror, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 464 votes)

In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find the post deserted and something far more dangerous than any criminal — the original inhabitants of Mars, hellbent on getting their planet back.

Kind Hearts and Coronets(1949)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 215 votes)

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

Enduring Love(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
2.9/5 (with 50 votes)

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...

Invention for Destruction(1958)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 23min | Adventure, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

As the world progresses into the industrial age, a professor studying the "nature of pure matter" is spirited away by a would-be dictator and connived into building a super-bomb, as a young reporter and a girl rescued from the sea attempt to warn him of their mutual kidnapper's intentions to dominate the world with a new and more-deadly-yet weapon.

The White Diamond(2004)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to design and test a unique airship during its maiden flight above the jungle canopy.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Werner Herzog

Sinkhole(2013)

1h 30min | Action, Drama
3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

After a massive sinkhole swallows a nearby town, a school bus filled with students is dropped deep underground. After the crash, the students realize the bus is hanging precariously against the side of the sinkhole, held in place by a broken pipe. Any sudden move could send the bus plummeting into the darkness below. Alone and with all the adults injured, the teens struggle for survival with the story taking on shades of Lord of the Flies. Their only hope is a small-town paramedic, who must overcome a tragic past to rescue the students.

Five Weeks in a Balloon(1962)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa as proof of his inventions worth.

The Flight of the Eagle(1982)

3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

The Swedish 19th century engineer Salomon August Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from Svalbard in 1897, but the three men are not heard of again.

SpaceBoy(2021)

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A gifted 11-year-old boy secretly builds an air balloon with his friend Emma, to prove to his father that everything in life is possible.

Directed by Olivier Pairoux

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca(1989)

1h 41min | Comedy, Crime
2.8/5 (with 20 votes)

Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.

Directed by Mikael Ekman - With Gösta Ekman, Ulf Brunnberg, Björn Gustafson, Birgitta Andersson, Per Grundén, Kent Andersson, ...

Mysterious Island(1941)

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on Verne's book The Mysterious Island, five POWs escape from a camp in a balloon during the Civil War and crash-land on an uninhabited island in the Pacific. Trying to settle with their lives they find someone is helping them.

Directed by Eduard Pentslin - With Aleksey Krasnopolsky

Flight of the Lost Balloon(1961)

1h 31min | Adventure
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Period adventure tale about an expedition using a hot-air balloon to rescue an explorer lost in Africa.

What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue!(2009)

1.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Dr. Crumb, a scientist who never liked to leave home, invented a way to see the world without leaving your lab. Using a stone extraterrestrial Crumb, his assistant and his two nephews Zoox: the beautiful Amanda and irreverent Guto, will make his house float through the world in search of adventures. The problem is that this stone has other special powers, can hypnotize people and open portals to other dimensions. To fall into the hands of a greedy French archaeologist, the stone eventually releasing four monsters creatures and muddled fleeing to different corners of the world. Now these monsters need to be captured before they destroy the main monuments of the world and the stone must be recovered before the archaeologist hypnotize them all.

Grandma's Encyclopaedia(1963)

7min | Animation
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

A short film by Walerian Borowczyk. This first volume looks at the first three letters in Grandma's encyclopaedia: A for 'Automobile', B for 'Ballon', and C for 'Chemin de fer'.

Olly, Olly, Oxen Free(1978)

1h 23min | Adventure
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Elderly, eccentric Miss Pudd (Hepburn) is the owner of a store she considers an antique shop but most would call a junkyard. She frequently refuses to part with her merchandise because of its sentimental value, but she does agree to sell some items to two small boys, Alby and Chris , who are repairing a hot air balloon that belonged to the older boy's grandfather, a stunt man named The Great Sandusky. They plan to take the balloon aloft to celebrate the man's birthday. (wikipedia)

Their Frozen Dream(1997)

1h 1min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).

Directed by Jan Troell - With Max von Sydow

Charlie and the Great Balloon Chase(1981)

Charlie Bartlett is a retired railroad worker whose dream of crossing the country in a hot air balloon is encouraged by his grandson Morris O'Neill, who decides to go along for the ride despite the misgivings of his widowed mother whose plans to remarry have left him disenchanted.

All's Fair at the Fair(1947)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger.

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