Movies like The Naked Jungle (1954)
The best movies like The Naked Jungle (1954) are Elephant Walk (1954), Mogambo (1953) and The African Queen (1952). If The Naked Jungle hooked you with its adventure and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe African Queen (1952)7.3/10 from 1,114 votes
- NewestDonovan's Reef (1963)Released 1963
Elephant Walk (1954)
Colonial tea planter John Wiley, visiting England at the end of World War II, weds lovely English rose Ruth and takes her home to Elephant Walk, Ceylon, where the local elephants have a grudge against the plantation. Ruth's delight with the tropical wealth and luxury of her new home is tempered by isolation as the only white woman in the district; her husband's occasional imperious arrogance; a mutual physical attraction with plantation manager Dick Carver; and the hovering, ominous menace of the hostile elephants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisMogambo (1953)
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe African Queen (1952)
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGreen Fire (1954)
In Colombia, mining engineer Rian Mitchell discovers Carrero, the lost emerald mine of the Conquistadors, but has to contend with notorious local bandit El Moro's gang and with coffee planter Catherine Knowland's love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisWind Across the Everglades (1958)
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Green Mansions (1959)
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon. There he encounters Rima, the Bird Girl, an orphan living a life of nature, who is feared by a local jungle tribe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Untamed (1955)
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Roots of Heaven (1958)
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause attracts a mix of characters, including a U.S. commentator, a government aide opposed to him, and an ivory hunter with conflicting interests.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
The Macomber Affair (1947)
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
King Solomon's Mines (1950)
Fortune hunter Allan Quatermain teams up with a resourceful woman to help her find her missing husband lost in the wilds of 1900s Africa while being pursued by hostile tribes and a rival German explorer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTarzan and the Huntress (1947)
A shortage of zoo animals after World War II brings beautiful animal trainer Tanya, her financial backer and her cruel trail boss to the jungle. After negotiating a quota with the native king, they take more animals than allowed. Tarzan intervenes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tiger of Eschnapur (1959)
In Eschnapur, a German architect saves the life of the Maharajah's favorite temple dancer and becomes Maharajah's friend but their friendship is tested when the architect and the dancer fall in-love, triggering the Maharajah's vengeful ire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTarzan and the Trappers (1960)
Tarzan goes up against a baddie by the name of Schroeder, who is trapping animals and selling them illegally to zoos. A twist is thrown into the plot when Schroeder's brother, with the help of money-hungry trader Lapin, hunts a different kind of quarry, human game. Now Tarzan must not only fight to save the animals of the jungle, but he must also save himself. Three episodes of a failed TV series edited for theater release.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Back from Eternity (1956)
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
India. The spoilt and stubborn Edwina Esketh, comes to a small town with her husband. She falls in love with an indian doctor, Dr. Safti. She also meets an old friend of hers, the alcoholic Tom Ransome. An awful earthquake is followed by days of rain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946)
A tribe devoted to the leopard cult is dedicated to preventing civilization from moving further into Africa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisBand of Angels (1957)
Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widowed father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her father had been living on borrowed money and that her mother was actually a slave and her father's mistress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe World in His Arms (1952)
A boisterous sea captain in the Pacific Coast, circa 1850, has a plan to buy Alaska from the Russians… if they don’t kill him first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStanley and Livingstone (1939)
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
The Spanish Main (1945)
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler. Alvarado has Laurent thrown in prison, but the latter escapes, and five-years later is a pirate leader. He poses as the navigator on a ship in which Contessa Francesca, daughter of a Mexican noble, is traveling on her way to marry Alvarado, whom she has never seen. Laurent's pirates capture the ship and Francesca, in order to save another ship, gives her hand-in-marriage to Laurent, who sails her to the pirate hideout. This irks his jealous pirate comrades Anne Bonney and Captain Benjamin Black. They overpower Laurent and send Francesca to Alvarado, and then Mario du Billar, a trusted right-hand man, makes a deal to deliver Laurent to Alvarado.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & drama
Lost Horizon (1937)
British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-La provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDonovan's Reef (1963)
After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the heir - the father she has never met.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHatari! (1962)
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLegend of the Lost (1957)
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeat the Devil (1953)
A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Naked Jungle?
The closest matches to The Naked Jungle are Elephant Walk (1954), Mogambo (1953) and The African Queen (1952). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Naked Jungle?
People who watched The Naked Jungle most often go on to Elephant Walk (1954), Mogambo (1953) and The African Queen (1952).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Naked Jungle?
The African Queen (1952), rated 7.3/10 by 1,114 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Naked Jungle?
Donovan's Reef (1963) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Naked Jungle?
Yes: Elephant Walk (1954), Mogambo (1953) and The African Queen (1952).
How are movies similar to The Naked Jungle chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Naked Jungle, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.