Movies Like Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life

If you liked Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), a adventure and action movie directed by Jan de Bont, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also action and adventure
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book…
2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and action
Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost sailors led by his old nemesis, the evil Capt. Salazar, escape from…
3
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
★ 6/10Also adventure and action
Set during the Cold War, the Soviets—led by sword-wielding Irina Spalko—are in search of a crystal skull which has supernatural powers related to a mystical Lost City of Gold. Indy is coerced to head to Peru at the…
4
The Secret Kingdom (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure
Verity and Peter’s trip to the old family mansion takes a turn when the floor of their room suddenly gives way and they fall into an underground chamber where they are met by a civilization of creatures. The leader…
5
National Treasure (2004)
★ 6.7/10Also adventure and action
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The…
6
Fountain of Youth (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and action
A treasure-hunting mastermind assembles a team for a life-changing adventure. But to outwit and outrun threats at every turn, he'll need someone even smarter than he is: his estranged sister.
7
Uncharted (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also action and adventure
A young street-smart, Nathan Drake and his wisecracking partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan embark on a dangerous pursuit of “the greatest treasure never found” while also tracking clues that may lead to Nathan’s long-lost…
8
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and action
Orphaned heiress, English aristocrat and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artifact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As…
9
Tomb Raider (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also action and adventure
Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
10
Underwater (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also action and adventure
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
11
China Seas (1935)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and action
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee…
12
The Great Wall (2016)
★ 6/10Also action and adventure
European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
13
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and action
A rogue prince reluctantly joins forces with a mysterious princess and together, they race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time – gift from the gods that can reverse…
14
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
★ 7.4/10Also adventure and action
Captain Jack Sparrow’s got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. To escape eternal servitude aboard the Flying Dutchman, ever-crafty Jack must track down…
15
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also action and adventure
A story of lost love, young love, a legendary sword and one last opportunity at redemption.
16
Romancing the Stone (1984)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure
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…
17
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also action and adventure
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul…
18
The Rundown (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and action
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…
19
Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit (2010)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and action
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…
20
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and action
Finding himself in a new era, and approaching retirement, Indy wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival…