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1. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar
Votes: 317,445 | Gross: $18.10M
2. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen
Votes: 199,875 | Gross: $174.48M
3. Mortal Engines (2018)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.
Director: Christian Rivers | Stars: Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae
Votes: 141,223 | Gross: $15.95M
4. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Diana must contend with a colleague, and with a businessman whose desire for extreme wealth sends the world down a path of destruction, after an ancient artifact that grants wishes goes missing.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal
Votes: 292,217 | Gross: $46.37M
5. Ace in the Hole (1951)
Approved | 111 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur, Porter Hall
Votes: 39,253 | Gross: $3.97M
6. The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Amanda Donohoe, Hugh Grant, Catherine Oxenberg, Peter Capaldi
Votes: 15,174 | Gross: $1.19M
7. The Man from Earth (2007)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.
Director: Richard Schenkman | Stars: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford
Votes: 200,554
8. The Lost City of Z (2016)
PG-13 | 141 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
Director: James Gray | Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland
Votes: 99,632 | Gross: $8.58M
9. Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
PG-13 | 91 min | Horror
The Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.
Director: Brian Gibson | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Heather O'Rourke, Oliver Robins
Votes: 29,960 | Gross: $41.00M
10. The Lost King (2022)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An amateur historian defies the stodgy academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod
Votes: 8,326
11. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
To stall a witch plotting to eat him, a boy reads her horror tales dealing with a collegian's resurrection of a mummy, a murderous cat, and an artist's pact with a gargoyle.
Director: John Harrison | Stars: Debbie Harry, Matthew Lawrence, Christian Slater, David Forrester
Votes: 19,403 | Gross: $16.32M
12. The Mummy (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron
Votes: 30,202
13. Don Verdean (2015)
PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
A self-professed biblical archaeologist who has fallen on hard times starts to bend the truth in order to continue inspiring the faithful.
Director: Jared Hess | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Amy Ryan, Jemaine Clement, Danny McBride
Votes: 5,656
14. The Mummy (1959)
Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Horror
In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 11,030
15. Ishtar (1987)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
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 C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Director: Elaine May | Stars: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin
Votes: 12,071 | Gross: $14.38M
16. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,235 | Gross: $0.27M
17. Queen of the Desert (2015)
PG-13 | 128 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis
Votes: 12,600
18. The Red Violin (1998)
R | 130 min | Drama, Music, Mystery
A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.
Director: François Girard | Stars: Carlo Cecchi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Christoph Koncz, Jason Flemyng
Votes: 34,519 | Gross: $9.47M
19. Secret of the Incas (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Action, Adventure
An adventurer searchers for hidden treasure in the Peruvian jungles.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Charlton Heston, Robert Young, Nicole Maurey, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,975 | Gross: $1.40M
20. Black Mountain Side (2014)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
At a cold, desolate, northmost outpost in Canada, an archaeological discovery is made. A specialist arrives Nov. 1. Strange things happen. All contact with the outside world is down.
Director: Nick Szostakiwskyj | Stars: Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt, Marc Anthony Williams
Votes: 6,223
21. Abandon (2002)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
An investigation of a college student's missing boyfriend becomes quite strange when she begins to see him periodically.
Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 10,179 | Gross: $10.73M
22. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
G | 90 min | Documentary, History
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Jean Clottes, Julien Monney, Jean-Michel Geneste
Votes: 17,816 | Gross: $5.23M
23. Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019 TV Movie)
95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
On an archaeological dig in Iraq, author Agatha Christie uncovers a series of murders.
Director: Sam Yates | Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Lyndsey Marshal, Colin Farrell, Bronagh Waugh
Votes: 2,631
24. Tutankhamun (2016)
TV-14 | 180 min | Drama, History, Romance
The remarkable story of the chance meeting that transformed penniless, ostracised archaeologist Howard Carter into a household name following his discovery of the tomb of the boy-king, Tutankhamun.
Stars: Max Irons, Jonathan Aris, Sam Neill, Amy Wren
Votes: 2,470
25. Unknown: The Lost Pyramid (2023)
TV-PG | 83 min | Documentary, History
In the sands of Saqqara, two of the world's most famous Egyptologists, Dr. Zahi Hawass and his protege and rival, Dr. Mostafa Waziri race with their teams against the clock to see who will make the biggest discovery.
Director: Max Salomon | Stars: Zahi Hawass, Mostafa Waziri, Essam Shehab, Hamada Shehata Ahmed Mansour
Votes: 3,572
26. House of Cards (1993)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama
A widow tries to find out why her daughter's strange behavior, a reaction to her father's death, is progressively worsening.
Director: Michael Lessac | Stars: Kathleen Turner, Tommy Lee Jones, Asha Menina, Shiloh Strong
Votes: 2,953 | Gross: $0.32M
27. Prisoners of the Sun (2013)
TV-14 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the Apocalypse.
Director: Roger Christian | Stars: John Rhys-Davies, David Charvet, Carmen Chaplin, Emily Holmes
Votes: 1,618
28. The Lost Medallion: The Adventures of Billy Stone (2013)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A man who stops into a foster home to drop off some donations tells the kids a story about two teenage friends who uncover a long-lost medallion that transports them back in time.
Director: Bill Muir | Stars: William Brent, John Marengo, Samantha Hanratty, James Hong
Votes: 1,901 | Gross: $0.55M
29. Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)
Passed | 216 min | Action, Adventure, Family
To protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, a teenage boy named Billy Batson is given the power to become an adult superhero, Captain Marvel, with a single magic word: "Shazam!"
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Tom Tyler, Frank Coghlan Jr., William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie
Votes: 1,524
30. A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 107 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Lawrence and Feisal go to argue for Arab independence at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Alexander Siddig, Denis Quilley, Nicholas Jones
Votes: 734
31. Time Walker (1982)
PG | 83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An alien, buried in King Tut's tomb, terrorizes a college campus.
Director: Tom Kennedy | Stars: Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy, Robert Random
Votes: 2,203 | Gross: $0.43M
32. Crucible of the Vampire (2019)
104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Young museum curator, Isabelle, is sent to inspect a part of what seems to be a strange crucible buried near an eerie old manor.
Director: Iain Ross-McNamee | Stars: Katie Goldfinch, Neil Morrissey, Larry Rew, Brian Croucher
Votes: 311
33. Sunshine State (2002)
PG-13 | 141 min | Drama, Romance
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Angela Bassett, Edie Falco, Alex Lewis, Alan King
Votes: 4,245 | Gross: $3.06M
34. Dinosaur King (2007–2009)
TV-Y7-FV | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Max Taylor is the son of paleontologist Dr Spike Taylor and is a fan of dinosaurs.
Stars: Rebecca Soler, David Zen Mansley, Matt Hoverman, Megumi Matsumoto
Votes: 958
35. Unearthed (2007)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An unknown creature terrorizes an archeological dig in the middle of a desolate New Mexico town.
Director: Matthew Leutwyler | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Luke Goss, Beau Garrett, Deborah Offner
Votes: 3,878
36. Crystal Skulls (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
It is 2020 and the apocalypse is inevitable. 12 of 13 Crystal skulls are united causing catastrophic events. Only the 13th Skull can theoretically restore order before the Earth is destroyed from within by their power.
Director: Todor Chapkanov | Stars: Richard Burgi, Wendy Glenn, Sam Redford, David Rintoul
Votes: 691
37. On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter (1980)
PG | 100 min | Comedy
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe de Broca | Stars: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Catherine Alric
Votes: 1,004
38. Cities of the Underworld (2007– )
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, History
As we descend beneath our modern day cities, we are met with ancient and hidden secrets. Journey with us back through history and rediscover cities of the underworld.
Stars: Don Wildman, Eric Geller, Sirin Akinci, Ashraf El-Maghrabi
Votes: 895
39. Saving Christmas Spirit (2022)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An archaeologist discovers the importance of letting a little festive wonder back into her life and finds both history and love.
Director: Wendy Faraone | Stars: Ashley Newbrough, James Robinson, Jake Satow, Joanne Randle
Votes: 571
40. Bonekickers (2008)
342 min | Adventure, Drama, History
English archaeology professor 'Dolly' Parton's team handles high-profile finds. Often those prove relevant in the present, as such as symbol for a cause. The team runs personal danger, on top of their messy love - and other personal lives.
Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Julie Graham, Adrian Lester, Michael Maloney
Votes: 963
41. Isis Rising: Curse of the Lady Mummy (2013)
81 min | Horror
In ancient Egypt, Isis and Osiris ruled the land. All were happy for the couple except one, Set, a jealous man who killed Osiris in order to take over his kingdom. Isis snuck into Osiris' ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Palenica | Stars: Priya Rai, Shellie Ulrich, Seth Gandrud, Robin Daniel Egan
Votes: 437
42. Shadowman (1974)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery
A criminal organization led by "The Man Without a Face" scours Paris for a treasure hidden by the Knights Templar.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin, Ugo Pagliai
Votes: 531
43. Patterns of Evidence: Exodus (2014)
Unrated | 115 min | Documentary, History
An investigation into the validity of the Exodus.
Director: Timothy P. Mahoney | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Benjamin Netanyahu, David Rohl, Shimon Peres
Votes: 1,200
44. A Thief of Time (2003 TV Movie)
94 min | Crime, Mystery
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
Director: Chris Eyre | Stars: Gary Farmer, Adam Beach, Ernest Tsosie III, Wes Studi
Votes: 710
45. Richard III: The King in the Car Park (2013 TV Movie)
74 min | Documentary
This documentary looks at the search for the remains of King Richard III of England (1452-1485). After being killed in the Battle of Bosworth Field (August 22, 1485), his remains were taken... See full summary »
Directors: Louise Osmond, Pete Woods | Stars: Simon Farnaby, Leon Hunt, John Ashdown-Hill, Richard Buckley
Votes: 267
46. A Warning to the Curious (1972 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herington, John Kearney
Votes: 1,647
47. Rise of the Mummy (2021)
TV-MA | 90 min | Horror
A group of archaeology students awaken an ancient mummy. After being trapped in a time loop, the only way they can escape, is to defeat the mummy. As the body count rises, it seems the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonia Johnstone | Stars: Abi Casson Thompson, Arthur Boan, Amanda-Jade Tyler, Stephanie Lodge
Votes: 185
48. Neanderthal Apocalypse (2015– )
88 min | Documentary
40,000 years ago, the steppes of Eurasia were home to our closest relative, the Neanderthals. Recent genetic and archaeological discoveries have proven that they were not the dim-witted ... See full summary »
Stars: Jamie McGuire, Demetri Goritsas, Jackson Anderson, Eric Supensky
Votes: 144
49. Curse of Bigfoot (1975 TV Movie)
Unrated | 88 min | Horror
"Curse of Bigfoot" tells the tale of a group of high school students on an archaeological dig who discover a centuries old mummified body in a sealed cave.
Director: Dave Flocker | Stars: Bob Clymire, Jan Swihart, Bill Simonsen, Dennis Kottmeier
Votes: 779
50. Letters from Baghdad (2016)
TV-PG | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Gertrude Bell, the most powerful woman in the British Empire in her day, shaped the destiny of Iraq after WWI in ways that still reverberate today.
Directors: Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Michael Higgs, Eric Loscheider, Rachael Stirling
Votes: 484 | Gross: $0.36M