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1. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 465,931 | Gross: $13.78M
2. Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
G | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno
Votes: 34,333 | Gross: $1.30M
3. Kon-Tiki (2012)
PG-13 | 118 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Directors: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd-Magnus Williamson
Votes: 51,928 | Gross: $1.52M
4. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
PG | 143 min | Adventure, Drama
A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm
Votes: 21,240 | Gross: $45.90M
5. Horror Express (1972)
R | 88 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.
Director: Eugenio Martín | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza, Telly Savalas
Votes: 12,732
6. Mothra (1961)
Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An expedition to Infant Island discovers a native population and tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity. Named Mothra, she sets out to rescue her fairies after they are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Furankî Sakai, Hiroshi Koizumi, Kyôko Kagawa, Yumi Itô
Votes: 5,276
7. The Lost World (2001)
TV-14 | 150 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
An expedition leaves for the Amazon to prove the existence of dinosaurs.
Stars: Bob Hoskins, James Fox, Tom Ward, Matthew Rhys
Votes: 3,375
8. The Lost World (1925)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone
Votes: 5,808 | Gross: $1.19M
9. The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.
Director: Christopher Monger | Stars: Hugh Grant, Tara Fitzgerald, Colm Meaney, Ian McNeice
Votes: 18,693 | Gross: $10.90M
10. Werewolf of London (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews
Votes: 6,493
11. Aliens of the Deep (2005)
G | 100 min | Documentary, Family
James Cameron teams up with NASA scientists to explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet's most unique life forms.
Directors: James Cameron, Steven Quale | Stars: James Cameron, Anatoly M. Sagalevitch, Genya Chernaiev, Victor Nischeta
Votes: 3,420 | Gross: $8.97M
12. Scamper the Penguin (1986)
29 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The adventures of a little penguin living in Antarctica.
Directors: Gennadiy Sokolskiy, Kenji Yoshida | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Evgeniy Leonov, Yuriy Volyntsev
Votes: 1,409
13. Lost Continent (1951)
Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler, John Hoyt
Votes: 1,770
14. Liane, Jungle Goddess (1956)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure
When Liane, a lost girl worshiped by an African tribe, is returned to her native Hamburg, she becomes the center of a love quadrangle and a deadly tug-of-war over her grandfather's inheritance.
Director: Eduard von Borsody | Stars: Marion Michael, Hardy Krüger, Irene Galter, Peter Mosbacher
Votes: 460
15. Sasquatch: The Legend of Bigfoot (1976)
G | 95 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Scientists mount an expedition to find a Bigfoot-type creature.
Director: Ed Ragozzino | Stars: George Lauris, Steve Boergadine, Jim Bradford, Ken Kenzle
Votes: 795
16. Kon-Tiki (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Documentary
A documentary about the Kon-Tiki expedition of the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl.
Director: Thor Heyerdahl | Stars: Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg, Knut Haugland
Votes: 2,804
17. Letter Never Sent (1960)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama
Four geologists search for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Tatyana Samoylova, Vasiliy Livanov, Evgeniy Urbanskiy
Votes: 4,215
18. The Invisible Ray (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Frances Drake, Frank Lawton
Votes: 3,026
19. 12 to the Moon (1960)
74 min | Sci-Fi
An international team embarks on an expedition to the moon in an uncommonly spacious rocketship. There they encounter a faceless alien intelligence who conclude that the human race is too immature and dangerous and must be destroyed.
Director: David Bradley | Stars: Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway, Anthony Dexter
Votes: 1,384
20. Unknown World (1951)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
Scientists use a gigantic drilling machine for an expedition to the center of the earth.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Bruce Kellogg, Otto Waldis, Jim Bannon, Tom Handley
Votes: 1,293
21. The Deep (2010)
60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A research submarine beneath the Arctic stumbles upon a terrifying secret with earth-shattering consequences.
Stars: James Nesbitt, Orla Brady, Goran Visnjic, Minnie Driver
Votes: 1,470
22. The Thing Returns (2021)
101 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
After what happened in outpost 31, a team at McMurdo station, his sent to investigate, when they get there, the base is destroyed and they find two dead bodies in the ice.
Director: Rui Constantino | Stars: Caleb Angel, Robinson Cohen, Paulo Constantino, Rui Constantino
Votes: 354
23. À la conquête du pôle (1912)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Adventure, Horror
Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adventurers?
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Votes: 1,193
24. Half Human (1958)
63 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Japanese villagers worship a monster and its son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster, and wind up shooting its son. Then the trouble starts.
Directors: Kenneth G. Crane, Ishirô Honda | Stars: John Carradine, Russell Thorson, Robert Karnes, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 461
25. Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Reginald Owen
Votes: 3,171
26. Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure
A group of archaeologists asks Tarzan to help them find an ancient city in a hidden valley of women. He refuses, but Boy is tricked into doing the job. The queen of the women asks Tarzan to help them.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Brenda Joyce, Johnny Sheffield, Henry Stephenson
Votes: 2,593
27. The Snow Queen (2013)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A mysterious presence has threatened humanity for hundreds of years as it lurks in the frozen wastes people avoid. It takes two groups of adventurers, separated in time, to defeat her and the army of demons and monsters she can summon.
Director: Rene Perez | Stars: Nadia Lanfranconi, Iren Levy, Aurelia Scheppers, David Reinprecht
Votes: 248
28. 7 Women from Hell (1961)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
Seven women from different backgrounds, nationality, age, class, and marital status find themselves in New Guinea, February 1942 - when the Japanese army takes over unexpectedly, and sends them into a war camp in the jungle.
Director: Robert D. Webb | Stars: Patricia Owens, Denise Darcel, Cesar Romero, Margia Dean
Votes: 131
29. I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, ... See full summary »
Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Jirí Sovák, Jana Brejchová, Lubomír Lipský, Iva Janzurová
Votes: 572
30. An Enemy to Die For (2012)
106 min | History, Thriller, War
A German expedition with a international crew is in the remote Arctic ice when the 2nd world war starts, and they are commanded to take active part in the war. Soon they find themselves in a fight of life and death.
Director: Peter Dalle | Stars: Tom Burke, Allan Corduner, Jeanette Hain, Sven Nordin
Votes: 953
31. Hurricane Smith (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
South Sea freebooters fight for hidden treasure and the love of the beautiful Luana.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, James Craig, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 212
32. Cruise of the Zaca (1952)
17 min | Documentary, Short
Actor Errol Flynn takes a group of scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on an expedition to the South Seas aboard his schooner, The Zaca.
Director: Errol Flynn | Stars: Errol Flynn, Carl L. Hubbs, Laura Hubbs, Theodore Flynn
Votes: 311
33. The Legend of Grassman
Action, Horror | Post-production
A group of bigfoot hunters find the tables turned when they pursue Ohio's legendary Grassman.
Director: Tyler Meyer | Stars: Lynn Lowry, Jessica Cameron, Bob Gimlin, Jeffrey Meldrum
34. Below the Sea (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A wealthy woman funds an underwater expedition to explore for marine life, but what she doesn't know is that her "colleagues" have other intentions.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Frederik Vogeding, Esther Howard
Votes: 330
35. Bill of Hare (1962)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
The Tasmanian Devil finds Bugs cooking dinner underneath a beach boardwalk.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 511
36. Mission Terra (1988–1990)
Family, Sci-Fi
Dr Kyra and Commander Ro land on Earth in their spaceship "Metamor 5" on 14 November. As the crew cannot breathe air, robot Mikrolino collects samples of the liquid matter surrounding them. Then a strange creature appears. Friend or foe?
Stars: Nina Danziesen, Dieter Eppler, Ernst H. Hilbich
37. Galapagos (2017)
TV-PG | 180 min | Documentary
Liz Bonnin joins the crew of the research vessel Alucia as they embark upon a scientific expedition to the Galapagos Islands to help protect the biological wonderland from the effects of climate change.
Stars: Liz Bonnin, Maud Coppes, Karen Harpp, Steve Hudson
Votes: 103
38. Masters of the Congo Jungle (1958)
Approved | 88 min | Documentary
Documentary showing the struggles of the inhabitants--both human and animal--of what was then called the Belgian Congo.
Directors: Henry Brandt, Heinz Sielmann | Stars: Jean Desailly, Georges Aminel, Kazuo Aoki, Bert Brauns
Votes: 65
39. Aire libre (1996)
96 min | Adventure, Drama
In the early 1800s, Prussian geographer Alexander Von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland launch an expedition to explore the Amazon region, including the Orinoco River, from Venezuela to the border of Portuguese Brazil.
Director: Luis Armando Roche | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Christian Vadim, Carlos Cruz, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 49
40. Dangerous Earth (2016– )
30 min | Documentary
Dr Helen Czerski presents a new series which shows how new camera technology is revealing the inner workings of some of the Earth's most spectacular natural wonders.
Star: Helen Czerski
Votes: 54
41. Antarctica 1948 (1949)
24 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
This black-and-white film was made as a record of operations of the Australian National Research Expedition to Antarctica, from November 1947 to April 1948. It follows the journeys of two ... See full summary »
Stars: Phillip Garth Law, Fritz Loewe, Stuart Campbell, Alan Campbell-Drury
42. Zac & Penny (2012 TV Movie)
Animation
No one is more surprised than 2 scientists, Thelonious and Waldorf Smudge, when a small lab project they've been working on sparks and sputters to life! Scientifically speaking, and they ... See full summary »
Directors: Aiham Ajib, Tanya Nesi | Stars: Stevie Vallance, Kerry Duff, Richard Waugh, Ted Atherton
43. Terre des glaces (1949)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
In 1949, explorer Paul-Emile Victor led the first Arctic campaign of French polar expeditions. The documentary, commented by the leader of the expedition, retraces this perilous journey in ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Jacques Languepin | Stars: Paul-Émile Victor, Michel Perez, Raymond Latarjet, Albert Bauer
45. Jungle Yachts in the Belgian Congo (1940)
27 min | Documentary, Short
The Jungle Yachts referred to in the title are International Caravan Camper Trucks. This film shows how well these trucks handle the Belgian Congo while out on Safari visiting the native ... See full summary »
Star: Chester Santon
47. A $90,000 Fish (1935)
Approved | Documentary, Short
The "$90,000" referred to is the cost of a scientific expedition to the Nassau area of the Bahamas to collect ocean specimens. After a diver goes to the bottom, a dredge brings up specimens... See full summary »
49. Prins Wilhelms Expedition till Central Amerika: Del 1 och 2 (1921)
41 min | Documentary, Short
A compilation of recordings from Prins Wilhelm's expedition to Central America, including the journey across the North Sea and the Atlantic, a visit to the former Swedish Colony of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Olsson | Star: Prince Vilhelm of Sweden
50. 2 Degrés Sud (2018)
1 min | Animation, Short
In the heart of the Amazonian rain forest, a team of scientists are studying the biodiversity of one of earth's last unexplored areas.
Directors: Sophie Barocas, Jawed Boudaoud, Juliette Brocal, Margaux Cazal, Matthieu Daures, Valerie Kao, Edward Kurchevsky
Votes: 5