Movies Like Forbidden Jungle
If you liked Forbidden Jungle (1950), a adventure and action movie directed by Robert Emmett Tansey, 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.
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Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
★ 6.5/10Also action and adventureHarry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
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Jack Hunter and the Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and actionAdventurer Jack Hunter sets off in pursuit of a legendary tomb, meeting dangerous old adversaries, and even more dangerous old flames, along the way.
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The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also action and adventureTarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
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Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit (2010)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and actionJack 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…
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Jungle Run (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and actionA brother and sister's journey into the jungle to find their missing father.
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Primeval (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and actionA news team is sent to Burundi to capture and bring home a legendary 25-foot crocodile. Their difficult task turns potentially deadly when a warlord targets them for death.
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Hatari! (1962)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure and actionA female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and actionSean Anderson partners with his mom's boyfriend on a mission to find his grandfather, who is thought to be missing on a mythical island.
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Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and actionIf one man changes his path, will he be able to change his destiny...or will he only delay the inevitable? Ryu and Ken are two traditional warriors who find themselves isolated in some corner of Japan to carry out…
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The Rundown (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and actionWhen 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…
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Rio 2 (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also adventureIt's a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids after they're hurtled from Rio de Janeiro to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most…
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Tarzan & Jane (2002)
★ 6/10Also adventureWith the first anniversary of her wedding to Tarzan beckoning, Jane ponders how to make it the perfect English celebration.
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The Water Man (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also adventureHoping to save his sick mother, a boy named Gunner and his friend Jo venture into the remote Wild Horse forest to search for a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality. When they go missing, Gunner's…
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Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
★ 6.6/10Also adventureJames 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…
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Tarzan and the Amazons (1945)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and actionA 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.
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King Solomon's Mines (1950)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and actionFortune 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.
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The Lost City of Z (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also adventureA true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943)
★ 6.1/10Also action and adventureA letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they…
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Cave Rescue (2019)
★ 6/10Also adventure and actionWhen a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time…
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Dragonheart: Vengeance (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also action and adventureLukas, 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…