Best "quicksand" Movies of All Time

31 movies found (page 1/2):

65(2023)

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| 1h 33min | Science Fiction, Action, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 906 votes)

65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.

Directed by Scott Beck, Bryan Woods - With Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Chloe Coleman, Nika King

Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

| 3h 47min | Adventure, Drama, History, War

4.0/5 (with 1,261 votes)

The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

Directed by David Lean - With Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer, ...

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Dora and the Lost City of Gold(2019)

1h 42min | Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family, Fantasy

3.4/5 (with 758 votes)

Dora, a girl who has spent most of her life exploring the jungle with her parents, now must navigate her most dangerous adventure yet: high school. Always the explorer, Dora quickly finds herself leading Boots (her best friend, a monkey), Diego, and a rag tag group of teens on an adventure to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.

Directed by James Bobin - With Isabela Merced, Eugenio Derbez, Temuera Morrison, Eva Longoria, Q'orianka Kilcher, Michael Peña, ...

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King Solomon's Mines(1985)

1h 40min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

2.8/5 (with 168 votes)

Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.

Directed by J. Lee Thompson - With Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu, Shaike Ophir, ...

Gamera vs. Barugon(1966)

1h 46min | Fantasy, Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Directed by Shigeo Tanaka - With Ichirō Sugai, Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, Kyōko Enami, Kōjirō Hongō, Shō Natsuki

The Treasure of the Silver Lake(1962)

1h 51min | Adventure, Western

3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.

Directed by Harald Reinl - With Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Götz George, Herbert Lom, Karin Dor, Eddi Arent, ...

The Last Sunset(1961)

1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love, Western

3.5/5 (with 31 votes)

Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle, and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotten, Carol Lynley, Neville Brand, Jack Elam, ...

The Hallelujah Trail(1965)

2h 45min | Western, Comedy, Adventure

3.0/5 (with 33 votes)

A wagon train heads for Denver with a cargo of whisky for the miners. Chaos ensues as the Temperance League, the US cavalry, the miners and the local Indians all try to take control of the valuable cargo.

Directed by John Sturges - With Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Jim Hutton, Pamela Tiffin, Donald Pleasence, Brian Keith, ...

Knights of the Round Table(1953)

1h 55min | Romance / Love, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Drama

3.1/5 (with 33 votes)

In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.

Directed by Richard Thorpe - With Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Stanley Baker, Laurence Harvey, Patricia Owens, ...

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth(1970)

1h 40min | Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.

Directed by Val Guest - With Victoria Vetri, Patrick Allen, Magda Konopka, Imogen Hassall, Patrick Holt, Robin Hawdon, ...

At the Earth's Core(1976)

1h 30min | Adventure, Fantasy, Science Fiction

2.5/5 (with 68 votes)

A huge burrowing machine tunnels out of control at ferocious speed, cutting clean through to the center of the earth, to the twilight world of pellucidar. Once there, Dr. Perry and David Innes are threatened by half human creatures, lizard-like birds, and man-eating plants.

Directed by Kevin Connor - With Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Sean Lynch, ...

Tarzan's Greatest Adventure(1959)

1h 28min | Adventure

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

The greatest adventure of jungle king Tarzan. Four British villains raid a settlement to obtain explosives for use in a diamond mine. In doing so they nearly destroy the settlement, so Tarzan pursues them to their mine.

Directed by John Guillermin - With Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane, Sean Connery, Al Mulock, Scilla Gabel, ...

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Ferocious Planet(2011)

1h 29min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction

2.3/5 (with 20 votes)

A groundbreaking device is designed to glimpse alternate universes. But when the machine malfunctions and transports a group of observers into a nightmarish dimension of alien terrors, the travelers must use ingenuity to survive.

Directed by Billy O'Brien - With Joe Flanigan, John Rhys-Davies, Catherine Walker, Chris Newman

The Devil at 4 O'Clock(1961)

2h 6min | Adventure, Action, Drama

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.

Directed by Mervyn LeRoy - With Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Bernie Hamilton, Grégoire Aslan, Kerwin Mathews, ...

Seminole(1953)

1h 27min | Adventure, Western

2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade, Caldwell opposes Dade's plans to wipe out the Seminole Indians. The fact that Caldwell was the boyhood chum of Seminole chief Osceola is all the more reason to resist Dade's genocidal policies. After a deadly confrontation which costs dozens of lives on both sides, Osceola rescues Caldwell, whereupon the latter is court-martialed. Later on, Osceola comes to Fort King to talk peace, and is promptly killed by persons unknown. An attempt is made to frame Caldwell for the killing, but the truth eventually prevails.

Directed by Budd Boetticher - With Rock Hudson, Anthony Quinn, Barbara Hale, Richard Carlson, Hugh O'Brian, Lee Marvin, ...

The Return of Count Yorga(1971)

1h 37min | Horror

2.8/5 (with 16 votes)

Count Yorga continues to prey on the local community while living by a nearby orphanage. He also intends to take a new wife, while feeding his bevy of female vampires.

Directed by Bob Kelljan - With Robert Quarry, Mariette Hartley, Roger Perry, George Macready, Rudy De Luca, Craig T. Nelson, ...

The Leech Woman(1960)

1h 17min | Horror, Science Fiction

2.2/5 (with 15 votes)

An endocrinologist in a dysfunctional marriage with an aging, alcoholic wife journeys to Africa seeking a drug that will restore youth.

Directed by Edward Dein - With Grant Williams, Coleen Gray, Gloria Talbott, John van Dreelen, Kim Hamilton, Arthur Batanides, ...

Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead(1971)

1h 30min | Action, Western

2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Dan Hogan and his gang have held up a bank for $100,000 in gold bars. They meet up at Jackal's Ranch, a weigh station for stage coaches. While waiting for the gold to arrive they encounter a stranger, John Webb, who wants half the gold in exchange for guiding them safely to Mexico. Reluctantly, Dan agrees and they set across the brutal desert for a race to the border with the Rangers hot on their tail. Is John who he says he is? Is he really after the gold or does he have an ulterior motive?

Directed by Giuseppe Vari - With Klaus Kinski, Dante Maggio, Adriana Giuffrè, Aldo Barberito, Victoria Zinny, Goffredo Unger, ...

From Hell It Came(1957)

1h 13min | Horror

1.9/5 (with 14 votes)

A wrongfully accused South Seas prince is executed, and returns as a walking tree stump.

Directed by Dan Milner - With Tod Andrews

Border Incident(1949)

1h 34min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border to California. The two agents go undercover, one as a poor migrant.

Directed by Anthony Mann - With Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, James Mitchell, Howard da Silva, Arnold Moss, Alfonso Bedoya, ...

Tarzan's Hidden Jungle(1955)

1h 12min | Romance / Love, Adventure, Drama

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Hunters trespass into Sukulu country, where animals are sacred, posing as photographers.

Directed by Harold D. Schuster - With Gordon Scott, Vera Miles, Jack Elam, Peter van Eyck

Woman Obsessed(1959)

1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

After her husband dies in a fire, a woman (Susan Hayward) is left to tend for her young son and the family farm on her own. Soon, she takes in a drifting handyman, they fall in love, and a resentment begins to build between the son and his new "step-father" who treats the boy harshly on purpose to prepare him for life on the frontier.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Susan Hayward, Stephen Boyd, Barbara Nichols, Dennis Holmes, Theodore Bikel, Ken Scott, ...

Swamp Water(1941)

1h 28min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

A hunter happens upon a fugitive and his daughter living in a Georgia swamp. He falls in love with the girl and persuades the fugitive to return to town.

Directed by Jean Renoir, Irving Pichel - With Walter Brennan, Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Russell Simpson, Eugene Pallette, ...

The Deadly Trackers(1973)

1h 50min | Western

2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.

Directed by Barry Shear - With Richard Harris, Rod Taylor, Al Lettieri, Neville Brand, William Smith, Paul Benjamin, ...

The Blonde Witch(1956)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

Directed by André Michel - With Marina Vlady, Maurice Ronet, Michel Etcheverry, Nicole Courcel, Ulf Palme, Erik Hell, ...

Yellowneck(1955)

1h 23min | Drama, Western, War

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A disgraced Confederate Colonel who has deserted his command flees to the Everglades where he encounters a disparate group of four other Southern deserters. Together they struggle to find their way out of the swamp and resolve their own personal demons under the eyes of hostile Seminoles as they battle to survive the elements and each other.

Directed by R. John Hugh - With Berry Kroeger, Bill Mason

Chorabali(2012)

2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.

Directed by Redoan Rony - With Indraneil Sengupta

Trader Horn(1973)

1h 41min | Adventure

1.3/5 (with 1 vote)

During the First World War a Hunter and trader in Africa joins forces with a couple looking for a source of platinum try to survive while fleeing British soldiers, dealing with German slavers and troops, natives and cannibals.

Directed by Reza Badiyi - With Rod Taylor

Ti aspetterò all'inferno(1960)

1h 30min | Thriller

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

When a diamond heist goes wrong, the three would-be robbers go on the run from the law. They soon find themselves involved with a beautiful woman who may wind up being even more trouble for them than the botched robbery.

Directed by Piero Regnoli - With John Drew Barrymore, Eva Bartok, Massimo Serato, Moira Orfei, Renato Chiantoni, Renato Terra, ...

Ape Man of the Jungle(1964)

1h 20min | Adventure

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