Movies like Yalan (1976)
The best movies like Yalan (1976) are The 355 (2022), Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb (2008) and Barbarella (1968). If Yalan hooked you with its adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Willoughbys (2020)7.1/10 from 1,036 votes
- NewestMomo (2025)Released 2025
The 355 (2022)
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb (2008)
Adventurer Jack Hunter sets off in pursuit of a legendary tomb, meeting dangerous old adversaries, and even more dangerous old flames, along the way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBarbarella (1968)
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSupercross (2005)
Faced with the suspicious death of their father, two brothers must motivate one another to get back on their bikes and take the Las Vegas Motocross Championships by storm.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFairy Tales (1978)
On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDragonheart: Vengeance (2021)
Lukas, a young farmer whose family is killed by savage raiders in the countryside, sets out on an epic quest for revenge, forming an unlikely trio with a majestic dragon and a swashbuckling, sword-fighting mercenary, Darius.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)
Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in search of Teela's sister, who was kidnapped by a wild ogre.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Stand of Ellen Cole (2024)
When an evil contractor goes to extreme measures to evict a testy tenant who is standing in the way of his new project, he fails to take into account that this seemingly harmless old woman is a trained killer and will do anything to protect her beloved home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisRiver Wild (2023)
Follows a pair of siblings who love but distrust each other as they embark on a white-water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than he appears.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMythica: 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisBabylon 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHalo: Nightfall (2014)
Set between the events of Halo 4 and Halo 5: Guardians… Halo: Nightfall tells the dramatic story of legendary man hunter and Naval Intelligence Officer Jameson Locke and his team as they are caught in a horrific biological attack while investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra. As they unravel a plot that draws them to an ancient, hellish artifact, they will be forced to fight for their survival, question everything and ultimately choose between their loyalty and their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInterceptor (2022)
A U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Willoughbys (2020)
When the four Willoughby children are abandoned by their selfish parents, they must learn how to adapt their Old-Fashioned values to the contemporary world in order to create something new: The Modern Family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDave Made a Maze (2017)
Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation. Ignoring his warnings, Dave’s girlfriend Annie leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. Once inside, they find themselves trapped in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShorts (2009)
A young boy's discovery of a colorful, wish-granting rock causes chaos in the suburban town of Black Falls when jealous kids and scheming adults alike set out to get their hands on it.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisHellfighters (1968)
The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHappiness for Beginners (2023)
At a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMomo (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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSeveceksen Sev Artık (1975)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Sefer Seferde (1975)
The story of a young man who is obsessed with women and constantly lost in his dreams.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Maceraya Bayılırım (1974)
The love and adventure-filled story of a flirtatious detective.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Kıvrıl Fakat Kırılma (1976)
The story of chaos that ensues when a beautiful woman who steals money from rich old men with her mother falls in love with a poor handsome man.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Dinosaur Island (1994)
Welcome to lush Dinosaur Island, where a tribe of gorgeous cavedwelling warrior women satisfy the exotic fantasies of five downed military airmen. Fearsome battles with the island's ferocious maneating dinosaurs are the only disruption of their seductive pleasures on this island paradise. Narrowly surviving with their lives, the rugged men fall under the seductive spell of their lovely captors and soon find their every dream fulfilled.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cut-Throats (1969)
Captain Kohler recruits an outfit of five American soldiers besides himself (dubbed "The Cut-Throats,") to attack a German stronghold to capture battle plans... although his real motive is to steal a cache of jewels that is Nazi plunder. After the enemy soldiers are gunned down, the beautiful women in the compound treat The Dirty Half-Dozen to a stage show and, later, themselves.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Korkunç Şüphe (1976)
The film tells the story of Orhan, who investigates the death of police officer Halil. Halil has no one left in the world. Orhan, who grew up in an orphanage, acted as a father figure to him, educating him and helping him become a successful police officer. Halil is killed while investigating the disappearance of Kenan, a businessman's bride. Orhan is determined to find Halil's killers and resolve the matter. However, the issue is larger and more complex than he had anticipated.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both adventure
Idol Sex: LA Korean Women (2020)
Typhoon and Taeyang brothers are sharing. The visitor today is Jessica from LA. Applying for an idol audition is her purpose. She is so cheerful and open to the burden. The fatal temptation of a strange woman who appeared one day and the fate of the brothers shaking in front of her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Woman Who Married a Farmer (2018)
Yuria (Kimito Ayumi) puts an end to her life in Tokyo to marry Yoshiharu, the eldest son of a farmer whom she met at a matchmaking party. Yoshiharu's family home is in the countryside, and she lives with her father-in-law (Kozo), who lost his wife three years ago. Kozo warmly welcomes Yuria, who came to meet the farmer's wife shortage, as he is short of women and wives. Yuria is confused by her first experience of farming and her husband Yoshiharu's intense sexual desire, but she does her best as a wife. However, Yoshiharu gradually begins to have a complex about Yuria, who grew up in the city. Then, Yoshiharu is seduced by Madoka, the daughter of his ex-girlfriend, the landowner...
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Eri's Nursing Diary (2014)
This erotic drama depicts the struggles of a nurse who faces various problems at her dream workplace. Hatsumi Saki, popular for her cute face and voluptuous body, makes her first starring role as an innocent new nurse who is torn between work and love. Her long-held dream comes true as Eri (Hatsumi Saki) begins working as a nurse at the hospital where she has been cared for since she was a child. While she has feelings for a fellow doctor, she is so overwhelmed by the daily work that she begins to have doubts about her job, but she is also at the mercy of disturbing movements within the hospital, which is facing financial difficulties.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Yalan?
The closest matches to Yalan are The 355 (2022), Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb (2008) and Barbarella (1968). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Yalan?
Start with The 355 (2022), the closest match to Yalan.
What is the highest-rated movie like Yalan?
The Willoughbys (2020), rated 7.1/10 by 1,036 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Yalan?
Momo (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Yalan chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Yalan, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.