Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "explorer"

51. Being Human (1994)

PG-13 | 122 min | Comedy, Drama

One man must learn the meaning of courage across four lifetimes centuries apart.

Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Robin Williams, John Turturro, Kelly Hunter, Maudie Johnson

Votes: 4,273 | Gross: $1.52M

52. Shackleton (2002)

103 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Eve Best, Mark Tandy, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 3,099

53. Animal Crackers (1930)

G | 97 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

Mayhem and zaniness ensue when a valuable painting goes missing during a party in honor of famed African explorer Captain Spaulding.

Director: Victor Heerman | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, The Marx Brothers

Votes: 15,302 | Gross: $0.91M

54. Tad, the Lost Explorer, and the Secret of King Midas (2017)

PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Tad Jones, the most awkward explorer, must rescue his beloved Sara from a millionaire who is looking for King Midas' necklace.

Directors: David Alonso, Enrique Gato | Stars: Michelle Jenner, Adriana Ugarte, Óscar Barberán, Luis Posada

Votes: 4,099

55. The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

G | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A cowboy named Tuck Kirby seeks fame and fortune by capturing an Allosaurus living in a Mexican valley and putting it in a wild west show. His star attraction, called the Gwangi, turns out to have an aversion to being shown in public.

Director: Jim O'Connolly | Stars: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith

Votes: 4,973

56. Marco Polo (1982–1983)

504 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The life and experiences of the thirteenth century explorer, who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

Stars: Ken Marshall, Denholm Elliott, Tony Vogel, David Warner

Votes: 1,313

57. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

G | 99 min | Documentary

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Scott Rowland, Stefan Pashov, Doug MacAyeal

Votes: 19,294 | Gross: $0.94M

58. Camp Camp (2016– )

16+ | 11 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Three kids, Max, Neil and Nikki, spent the summer vacation at a dysfunctional campsite called 'Camp Campbell' which is currently in the hands the camp counselors, the overly cheerful David and the less optimistic Gwen.

Stars: Elizabeth Maxwell, Yuri Lowenthal, Miles Luna, Michael Jones

Votes: 1,736

59. Queen of Outer Space (1958)

Unrated | 80 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

American astronauts are drawn by a mysterious force to the planet Venus, which they find to be inhabited only by beautiful women and their despotic queen.

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, Dave Willock, Laurie Mitchell

Votes: 2,577

60. Scavengers (I) (2016)

8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

The spaceship of couple of scientists going to set a station on the planet Vesta Minor gets lost and they fall on a wondrous world full of amazing creatures.

Directors: Joe Bennett, Charles Huettner

Votes: 556

61. Barbie as the Island Princess (2007 Video)

TV-Y | 86 min | Animation, Family

Marooned on an idyllic islet, the beautiful young woman, Ro, sees her world turn upside down, when an adventurous prince takes her and her furry friends to explore civilisation. Could Ro be Rosella, the missing Island Princess?

Director: Greg Richardson | Stars: Kelly Sheridan, Melissa Lyons, Alessandro Juliani, Christopher Gaze

Votes: 4,832

62. The Wildest Dream (2010)

PG | 94 min | Documentary, Biography

Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.

Director: Anthony Geffen | Stars: Conrad Anker, Susan Robertson, Robert Macfarlane, Peter Gillman

Votes: 2,733 | Gross: $0.87M

63. Scott of the Antarctic (1948)

PG | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.

Director: Charles Frend | Stars: John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender

Votes: 2,442

64. She (1935)

Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

A group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.

Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce

Votes: 1,920

65. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

G | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.

Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Leonard Whiting

Votes: 803

66. Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (1996–2000)

TV-G | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Tarzan returns to Africa to defend his jungle from both human and supernatural foes alike with a little help from his friends, including in one episode Carson Napier of Venus, who's also authored by Tarzan's creator Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Stars: Joe Lara, Aaron Seville, Don McLeod, Nkhensani Manganyi

Votes: 298

67. White Cannibal Queen (1980)

Not Rated | 90 min | Horror

A man who lost an arm and his family to a tribe of cannibals returns ten years later to bring back his teenager daughter, only to find that she grew up into a beautiful blonde woman who became the cannibals' queen.

Directors: Jesús Franco, Francesco Prosperi | Stars: Al Cliver, Sabrina Siani, Jérôme Foulon, Lina Romay

Votes: 1,097

68. The Hilarious House of Frightenstein (1971– )

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

"The Hilarious House of Frightenstein" was as hosted spooky show aimed at a children's audience.

Stars: Billy Van, Guy Big, Mitch Markowitz, Joe Torbay

Votes: 842

69. Skullduggery (1970)

PG | 105 min | Adventure

The missing-link is found on a safari in New Guinea. Is it human or animal?

Directors: Gordon Douglas, Richard Wilson | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Susan Clark, Roger C. Carmel, Paul Hubschmid

Votes: 508

70. Secrets of the Dead (2000– )

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary, History, War

Mysteries involving notable historical events, people and locations are scientifically examined.

Stars: Liev Schreiber, Jay O. Sanders, Salima Ikram, Andrew Lambert

Votes: 653

71. 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: 358

72. The Virgin Queen (1955)

Approved | 92 min | Biography, Drama, History

Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I (Bette Davis) in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson

Votes: 3,073

73. Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures (2001–2018)

22 min | Adventure, Comedy

Slapstick mockumentary about an enthusiastic Aussie wildlife expert, Russell Coight, whose haphazard and inept adventuring style ensures that he is a danger to anything and anyone he meets, not to mention himself.

Stars: Glenn Robbins, Hermann Iberg, Tom Martin, Birgit Mildenberger

Votes: 1,455

74. 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: 459

75. Call Me Bwana (1963)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy

A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off-course and lands in Africa, where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders African expert, Matthew Merriwether - ... See full summary »

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries

Votes: 882

76. Les amazones du temple d'or (1986)

Not Rated | 86 min | Adventure

A woman, raised by an Amazon tribe after they killed her parents, seeks revenge on the tribe for their deaths by joining an expedition looking for the tribe's secret golden temple.

Directors: Alain Payet, Jesús Franco | Stars: Analía Ivars, William Berger, Antonio Mayans, Stanley Kapoul

Votes: 606

77. Captain James Cook (1987–2000)

480 min | Biography, Drama, History

During Captain James Cook's first voyage, in 1770, he discovered the east coast of Australia. He later recommended Australia as a future British colony.

Stars: Keith Michell, John Gregg, Erich Hallhuber, Jacques Penot

Votes: 324

78. Shackleton

Drama | Announced

British explorer Ernest Shackleton leads multiple expeditions to the Antarctic.

Star: Tom Hardy

79. The Strangeness (1985)

93 min | Horror

A group of explorers surveying an abandoned goldmine are trapped in a cave in, and find themselves at the mercy of a slimy, mysterious creature.

Director: Melanie Anne Phillips | Stars: Dan Lunham, Terri Berland, Rolf Theison, Keith Hurt

Votes: 841

80. Go Jetters (2015– )

TV-Y | Animation

Four explorers on a Global adventure. Xuli, Kyan, Lars, Foz. They are the Go Jetters...!

Stars: Akie Kotabe, Tommie Earl Jenkins, Syrus Lowe, John Hasler

Votes: 188

81. Call of the Dead (2011 Video Game)

M | Action, Horror, Thriller

The "Escalation" map expansion pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010) features a zombie level known as 'Call of the Dead'. Set in a mysterious Siberian island, a group of four fearless explorers fight for their lives amidst an army of zombies.

Stars: Danny Trejo, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Robert Englund, Michael Rooker

Votes: 811

82. The Girl Who Shagged Me (2005 Video)

R | 70 min | Comedy

A British secret service agent tracks down a lunatic doctor whom has stolen the frozen body of a dormant cave woman from a determined archaeologist.

Director: Thomas J. Moose | Stars: Anoushka, Frank Bowdler, Erin Brown, Rob Taylor

Votes: 303

83. Booloo (1938)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

A young stiff-upper-lipped British officer, Robert Rogers, writes a book about a white tiger and sacrifices of native girls by the Sakai tribe in Malaya. But the critics ridicule the book. ... See full summary »

Director: Clyde E. Elliott | Stars: Colin Tapley, Jayne Regan, Mamo Clark, Herbert DeSouza

Votes: 43

84. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.

Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke

Votes: 1,397

85. 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: 2,600

86. Cabeza de Vaca (1991)

R | 111 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A handful of survivors from a disastrous 1528 Spanish expedition to Florida journey across the coast until they reach Mexico.

Director: Nicolás Echevarría | Stars: Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa, Carlos Castañón

Votes: 1,202 | Gross: $0.79M

87. The Far Horizons (1955)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, History, Romance

After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale

Votes: 1,304

88. The Mafu Cage (1978)

R | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Ellen, a successful astronomer, cares for her mentally-ill sister, Cissy, who keeps a variety of primates in the home they inherited from their anthropologist father. When Ellen begins a romance, Cissy's jealousy proves deadly.

Director: Karen Arthur | Stars: Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer, James Olson

Votes: 716

89. Gungala, the Virgin of the Jungle (1967)

87 min | Adventure

Two unscrupulous explorers rob a sacred diamond from the Basoko tribe of leopard-men. Their white queen, Gungala, and her pet, a black panther, lead the revenge to impose the justice of the jungle.

Director: Romano Ferrara | Stars: Kitty Swan, Linda Veras, Poldo Bendandi, Conrad Loth

Votes: 116

90. The Flight of the Eagle (1982)

140 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1897 Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée with 2 colleagues prepares to fly over the North Pole in his balloon "Eagle".

Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz, Eva von Hanno

Votes: 1,224

91. The Lost World (1998)

R | 97 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A scientist discovers dinosaurs on a remote plateau in Mongolia.

Director: Bob Keen | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Julian Casey, David Nerman

Votes: 947

92. Mr. Fox and Miss Rose (2020)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Drama

A career woman who doesn't understand love meets a jewel explorer who doesn't believe in love.

Stars: Letian Sun, Yaqin Zhang, Zhu Dong Ning, Youlun Ren

Votes: 54

93. Gungala, the Black Panther Girl (1968)

88 min | Adventure

An insurance company, led by a wealthy English family, organized an expedition to Africa to find a lost heiress who has been raised in the wild as Gungala and one of the explorers falls in love with her.

Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Kitty Swan, Micaela Pignatelli, Angelo Infanti, Jeff Tangen

Votes: 87

94. Uga Uga (2000–2001)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

An orphaned young man raised in the wild by an indigenous shaman is found by his grandfather and returned to his estranged family, where he finds himself as heir to their wealth.

Stars: Lima Duarte, Humberto Martins, Vivianne Pasmanter, Marcello Novaes

Votes: 288

95. The Secret of the Ice Cave (1989)

PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Adventure

A group of treasure-seekers embark on a expedition into high adventure as they race to discover what's really located in the mysterious ice cave.

Director: Radu Gabrea | Stars: Sally Kellerman, Michael Moriarty, David Mendenhall, Marcia Christie

Votes: 123

96. We of the Never Never (1982)

G | 134 min | Biography, Drama

Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard, hostile, prejudiced world and managed to find love.

Director: Igor Auzins | Stars: Angela Punch McGregor, Arthur Dignam, Martin Vaughan, Lewis Fitz-Gerald

Votes: 471

97. The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1966–1987)

60 min | Documentary, Adventure

The aquatic explorations of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso.

Stars: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Rod Serling, Georges Wilson, Joseph Campanella

Votes: 483

98. Christopher Columbus (1985)

360 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.

Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Rossano Brazzi, Virna Lisi, Oliver Reed

Votes: 710

99. Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon (2010 TV Short)

TV-PG | 17 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Hiccup and the gang join Gobber on a quest to find a legendary boneclad Dragon.

Director: John Puglisi | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera

Votes: 4,024

100. Shackleton's Captain (2012 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to navigate Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. When the expedition ship is crushed; Worsley's seamanship and navigational skills saves them all.

Director: Leanne Pooley | Stars: Craig Parker, Charles Pierard, Hugh Barnard, Blake Henshaw

Votes: 735