20 movies like Dark of the Sun, ordered by similarity : Everest(2015), For Those in Peril(1944), Operation Amsterdam(1960), Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue(2010), Where Eagles Dare(1969), The Martian(2015), Mia and the White Lion(2018), Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome(2013), Pursuit of the Graf Spee(1956), The Legend of Tarzan(2016), Jurassic World(2015), G.I. Joe: Retaliation(2013) ...
Adventure
UK|USA
1968
101 Minutes
Rod Taylor Yvette Mimieux Jim Brown Kenneth More Peter Carsten Olivier Despax Andre Morrell Guy Deghy Calvin Lockhart Bloke Modisane Monique Lucas
mercenary doctor nazi missionary president tense gritty train congo africa dangerous job protection race relations civil unrest adventure rescue 1950s
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Iceland
2015
121 Minutes
Jason Clarke Josh Brolin John Hawkes Robin Wright Emily Watson Michael Kelly Keira Knightley Sam Worthington Martin Henderson Elizabeth Debicki Ingvar Sigurdsson
mountain climber sherpa team leader survivor friend family member bleak emotional gripping tense intense mount everest base camp house trail helicopter hospital mountain climbing storm danger
The story of New Zealand's Robert "Rob" Edwin Hall, who on May 10, 1996, together with Scott Fischer, teamed up on a joint expedition to ascend Mount Everest.
Adventure
UK
1944
67 Minutes
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An RAF officer wishes to fly, but isn't allowed and is posted to the RAF Air Sea Rescue operating in the English Channel.
Adventure
UK
1960
105 Minutes
Peter Finch Eva Bartok Tony Britton Alexander Knox Malcolm Keen Christopher Rhodes Tim Turner John Horsley Keith Pyott Melvyn Hayes
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When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure
UK
2010
60 Minutes
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Thomas finds himself stranded on a strange island which is inhabited by even stranger locomotives. Will he ever find a way back to Sodor?
War, Adventure, Action
UK|USA
1969
158 Minutes
Richard Burton Clint Eastwood Mary Ure Patrick Wymark Michael Hordern Donald Houston Peter Barkworth Robert Beatty William Squire Derren Nesbitt Anton Diffring
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Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Hungary|Jordan
2015
142 Minutes
Matt Damon Jessica Chastain Kristen Wiig Jeff Daniels Michael Peña Kate Mara Sean Bean Sebastian Stan Aksel Hennie Donald Glover Mackenzie Davis
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An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Kids & Family, Adventure, Drama
France|Germany|South Africa|Switzerland|Monaco|USA
2018
98 Minutes
Mélanie Laurent Daniah De Villiers Langley Kirkwood Ryan Mac Lennan Brandon Auret Lillian Dube Lionel Newton Tessa Jubber
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A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.
Sci-Fi, Adventure
Canada
2013
94 Minutes
Luke Pasqualino Ben Cotton Lili Bordán Jill Teed John Pyper-Ferguson Brian Markinson Karen LeBlanc Sebastian Spence
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Prior to 1973, Satan seemed all but dead and gone, the causality of a modernist mindset. But with Linda Blair's disturbing performance in The Exorcist, Satan returned with a vengeance and ... See full summary »
War, Adventure
UK
1956
119 Minutes
John Gregson Emeric Pressburger Anthony Quayle Peter Finch Ian Hunter Bernard Lee Patrick Macnee Christopher Lee
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In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
Adventure, Drama, Action
UK|Canada|USA|Australia
2016
110 Minutes
Alexander Skarsgård Christoph Waltz Samuel L. Jackson Margot Robbie Djimon Hounsou Rory J. Saper Christian Stevens Jim Broadbent
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Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Action
USA
2015
124 Minutes
Chris Pratt Bryce Dallas Howard Irrfan Khan Vincent D'Onofrio Ty Simpkins Nick Robinson Jake Johnson Omar Sy BD Wong Judy Greer Lauren Lapkus
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A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
Action, Adventure
USA
2013
110 Minutes
Dwayne Johnson Bruce Willis Channing Tatum Adrianne Palicki D.J. Cotrona Byung-hun Lee Ray Park Jonathan Pryce RZA Ray Stevenson Elodie Yung
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The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.
Adventure
UK
1943
68 Minutes
Jack Lambert Gordon Jackson Fredrick Piper Grant Sutherland Bill Blewett Eric Micklewood
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The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they ... See full summary »
Adventure, Drama, History, Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2016
116 Minutes
Chris Pine Casey Affleck Ben Foster Holliday Grainger John Ortiz Kyle Gallner John Magaro Beau Knapp Eric Bana Graham McTavish Abraham Benrubi
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The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Adventure
UK
1954
102 Minutes
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In Rhodesia, the accidental death of a diamond broker raises suspicions with his American insurer which sends a claims investigator to clarify the matter.
Adventure, Action
USA
2018
105 Minutes
Aleksey Faddeyev Aleksandr Kuznetsov Yuriy Tsurilo Vasilisa Izmaylova Vitaliy Kravchenko Rustam Mosafir
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A hopeless romantic ambivalent about his future in medical school falls for a hard-luck young woman who doesn't believe in love.
Anime, Action, Adventure
Japan
2017
119 Minutes
young man friend hero fascinating intense playful suspenseful spectacular japan virtual world virtual reality video games animation threats danger adventure discovery underdog transformation quest
Kirito uncovers a conspiracy within Ordinal Scale, a popular AR game developed for a new system called The Augma.
Adventure
USA
1952
92 Minutes
Fred MacMurray Vera Ralston Robert Douglas Victor McLaglen John Russell Buddy Baer Claude Jarman Jr. Grant Withers Howard Petrie Paul Fix Bill Murphy
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In 1883, an American merchant ship's captain is searching for a treasure in diamonds from a sunken Dutch ship in the vicinity of a volcanic island in the Dutch East Indies.
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
USA
2013
105 Minutes
sailor dark intense raw thrilling indian ocean boat survival shipwreck sailing danger storm adventure rescue quest 2010s
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
Adventure
USA
1933
85 Minutes
Buster Crabbe Jacqueline Wells E. Alyn Warren Edward Woods Philo McCullough Matthew Betz Frank Lackteen Mischa Auer
tarzan archaeologist daughter guide tribesman campy frenetic outlandish africa jungle temple tree kidnapping tribal life rescue africa exploration rescue adventure 19th century
In the African Jungle, a group of Europeans come across the fabled white man who was raised by apes. Tarzan takes an immediate liking to the blond Mary Brooks and rescues her during a nasty... See full summary »