Movies like Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)
The best movies like Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981) are King Solomon's Mines (1985), All the Way Boys (1972) and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986). If Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure hooked you with its action and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981)7.9/10 from 14,220 votes
- NewestTreasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu (2025)Released 2025
- In ItalianAll the Way Boys (1972)Also in Italian
King Solomon's Mines (1985)
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll the Way Boys (1972)
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAllan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow in his footsteps to learn what became of him. Soon after arriving, he discovers the Lost City of Gold, controlled by the evil lord Agon, and mined by his legions of white slaves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
SnoozefestMovies like thisRomancing the Stone (1984)
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)
In 1950, in Africa. Tom organizes safaris for tourists, secretly equipping them with guns loaded with blanks. When Slim, Tom’s cousin—a sly slacker and staunch environmentalist—arrives, the two men come into conflict with Jack Ormond, a local animal trafficker. A doctor, a friend of the duo, denounces Mr. Ormond’s exploitation of animals in a newspaper, prompting Ormond to send his henchmen to destroy the clinic where the good doctor practices. But at the medical facility, Ormond’s henchmen find Tom and Slim waiting for them, and in the blink of an eye, the two cousins wipe out these thugs in a brawl. Ormond then tries to bribe the two cousins, and when that fails, has them imprisoned for a theft they never committed. After escaping from prison, the two men rush toward Ormond’s ship, beating the merchant’s men to a pulp...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Golden Child (1986)
After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course, he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBanana Joe (1982)
Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, but the mob boss discovers that Joe is operating without a license. After the mob tips off the authorities and Joe's boat is impounded, he ventures into a big city for the first time to seek help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackie the Pirate (1971)
Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blackie buys her. However, one of the pirate captains, Skull, knows also who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGo for It (1983)
After Doug picks up hitchhiking Rosco with his truck, they are mistaken for two bank robbers by the traffic police. They manage to escape only to be confused for two secret agents while trying to take a flight at the airport.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAround the World in 80 Days (2004)
A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Two Missionaries (1974)
Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAladdin (1986)
A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisRenegade (1987)
While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a friend of his, Moose, who is in jail. Moose asks Luke to take care of Matt, and to help him to take possession of a piece of land. So starts their travel, full of adventures...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuddy Goes West (1981)
Outlaw drifter Buddy is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIshtar (1987)
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
When Dr. Indiana Jones – the tweed-suited professor who just happens to be a celebrated archaeologist – is hired by the government to locate the legendary Ark of the Covenant, he finds himself up against the entire Nazi regime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Rundown (2003)
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman. With his steely disposition, Beck is a man of few words -- but it takes him all the discipline he can muster to work with Travis to nab a tyrant who's after the same treasure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTreasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu (2025)
An eccentric archaeologist goes on an unexpected journey to find King Khufu's lost treasure with his daughter and grandson.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSix Days Seven Nights (1998)
In the South Pacific, in Polynesia, on the island of Makatea, Quinn Harris, a taciturn pilot, leads a quiet life, content to earn a living by transporting goods in his De Havilland Beaver. His life is exactly as he wants it to be—until he meets Robin Monroe, a sophisticated and determined woman, the assistant editor of a New York magazine, on vacation for a week with her boyfriend, Frank Martin. An urgent work assignment in Tahiti, the neighboring island, forces Robin to reluctantly hire Quinn to fly her there. But a violent storm forces them to make an emergency landing on a deserted island. This unlikely pair avoids each other at first, until they are forced to team up to escape the island... and evade the pirates who are after them. Danger and temptation are never far away...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Called Him Bulldozer (1978)
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJungle Cruise (2021)
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & action
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCrocodile Dundee II (1988)
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both adventure & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisFor Love and Gold (1966)
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFlatfoot in Egypt (1980)
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSahara (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: Fans watch both · both action & adventure
SnoozefestMovies like thisBomber (1982)
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSwashbuckler (1976)
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinding ʻOhana (2021)
Two Brooklyn siblings' summer in a rural Oahu town takes an exciting turn when a journal pointing to long-lost treasure sets them on an adventure, leading them to reconnect with their Hawaiian heritage.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both adventure & action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure?
The closest matches to Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure are King Solomon's Mines (1985), All the Way Boys (1972) and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure?
People who watched Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure most often go on to King Solomon's Mines (1985), All the Way Boys (1972) and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986).
What is the highest-rated movie like Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure?
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), rated 7.9/10 by 14,220 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure?
Treasure Hunters: On the Tracks of Khufu (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure?
Yes: All the Way Boys (1972), I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979) and Banana Joe (1982).
How are movies similar to Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.