Movies like Jungle Queen (1945)

Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit (2010)

Jack Hunter, an adventurous treasure seeker, goes to Syria after his mentor and father figure Professor Fredrick Shaffer is killed. Professor Frederick Shaffer believed that the people of Ugarit, a town in Syria that existed during the Pharoah’s reign, had buried a treasure before they were wiped out by the Pharoahs. Jack Hunter is one of the few archaeologists in the world who can interpret Ugarit writings

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)

After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

Iron Will (1994)

When Will Stoneman's father dies, he is left alone to take care of his mother and their land. Needing money to maintain it, he decides to join a cross country dogsled race. This race will require days of racing for long hours, through harsh weather and terrain. This young man will need a lot of courage and a strong will to complete this race.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

Double Threat (2022)

With ruthless mobsters on her tail, a young woman with a split personality becomes entangled with a man on a pilgrimage across the country to scatter his brother's ashes.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure

Airborne (1993)

Good-natured teen surfer Mitchell Goosen finds himself staying with his aunt and uncle in Cincinnati, Ohio when his parents head to Australia for work. There he meets his cousin, Wiley, and together they try to navigate the perils of high school—avoid the bullies, get the girl, and win a little respect.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure

Sahara (1983)

Intent on winning a competition in place of her distinguished late father, beautiful young heiress Dale takes on the guise of a man and competes in his spot, embarking on a car race that crosses the unforgiving Sahara desert.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & adventure

Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie (2014)

If one man changes his path, will he be able to change his destiny...or will he only delay the inevitable? Ryu and Ken are two traditional warriors who find themselves isolated in some corner of Japan to carry out their training as fighters, trying to master an ancient style of fighting, known as "Ansatsuken" (The Killing Fist). There they will begin to learn about the mysterious past of their trainer, Goken, and the tragic and dark legacy that the Ansatsuken style hides. Will they be able to choose their destiny or will history repeat itself once again?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)

Sean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

Mythica: The Godslayer (2016)

As the Lich King's zombie legions ravage the world, a cursed young sorceress embarks on a quest to obtain a weapon from the gods. But when she joins her sworn enemy in a desperate attempt to save the world, she must recover the good in herself before her friends are all dead, and defeat the Lich King before the gods are destroyed and the world forever enslaved.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action

Momo (2025)

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

The Water Man (2020)

Hoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's father Amos must immerse himself in his son's world to find them.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle (2015)

When Curious George is offered a special space mission, Ted (The Man in the Yellow Hat) can't deny his little friend this exciting journey, especially after Curious George completes the training. But when he crash-lands in Africa, a worried Ted goes searching, expecting the worst, only to have it turn out to be the best.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers (2006)

As the Great Day of the Flyers nears, the Great Valley's flying youngsters are eager to participate in the annual exhibition to show off their skills. Everyone, that is, except free-spirited pterodactyl Petrie, whose individualism causes problems when it comes to staying in formation. Enter his dinosaur pals Littlefoot, Cera, Spike and Ducky, who encourage Petrie to embrace his uniqueness.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

Slumberland (2022)

A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild (2013)

Ashens goes on a quest to find the legendary and elusive piece of electronic tech known only as the GameChild.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

The Pagemaster (1994)

Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he has to try and get home again.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)

Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

To Grandmother's House We Go (1992)

When precocious twins Sarah and Julie feel like Mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting adventure to their grandmother's house and encounter a pair of villains along the way.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

Bookworm (2024)

Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to look after her. Hoping to entertain the bookish tween, Strawn takes Mildred camping in the notoriously rugged New Zealand wilderness, and the pair embark on the ultimate test of family bonding – a quest to find the mythological beast known as the Canterbury Panther.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

Scaramouche (1952)

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure

Flash Gordon (1936)

Disaster seems imminent when scientists discover that the planet Mongo is about to crash into Earth. Luckily, heroic young Flash Gordon is on hand to lead an investigative mission into outer space and onto the speedily approaching planet. There, he and his best girl, Dale, who is along for the ride, learn that Ming, the devious ruler of Mongo, has purposely put the planet on a collision course with Earth, and only Flash can stop him.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935)

A serial in 12 chapters. Tarzan goes to Guatemala to find his lost friend, D'Arnot. On the way he helps Major Matling search Mayan ruins for hidden jewels and an idol containing the formula for a powerful explosive. D'Arnot and the idol are rescued, but the idol falls into the clutches of the explorer Raglan.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

Pirate Gold (1920)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

The Lost Special (1932)

A lady reporter and two college students search for the "Gold Special," a train that disappeared without a trace.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

Wild West Days (1937)

Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy , in their fight to retain control of Larry's rich ore mine. "Doc" Hardy , as an old friend of Wade's, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler , the scheming owner of "The Brimstone News", from his efforts to wrest control of Munro's property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen, and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe so they can also get in on the fray against the Munro's and Kentucky and friends.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

The Great Secret (1917)

A wealthy young athlete comes to the aid of a beautiful heiress, whose fortune is being threatened by two arch villains, The Great Master and Doctor Zulph.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

Jungle Drums of Africa (1953)

In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work. Before long, she finds herself in danger from crooks and a local witch doctor.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

Mysterious Island (1951)

It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure & action

The Brass Bullet (1918)

Rosalind Joy is a constantly imperiled heiress to a fortune in gold. An 18 part adventure serial

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure

King of the Rocket Men (1949)

Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both action & adventure