Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "plateau"
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Up (2009)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson | Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 1,125,098 | Gross: $293.00M
2. The Giver (2014)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
In a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences or choices, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man, the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Taylor Swift
Votes: 125,631 | Gross: $45.09M
3. The Lost World (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains
Votes: 4,473
4. The Devil's Backbone (2001)
R | 106 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.
Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Fernando Tielve
Votes: 71,008 | Gross: $0.75M
5. Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A trader and his daughter set off in search of the fabled graveyard of the elephants in deepest Africa, only to encounter a wild man raised by apes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 8,217
6. Tarzan and His Mate (1934)
Passed | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The idyllic life of Tarzan and Jane is challenged by men on safari who come seeking ivory, and come seeking Jane as well.
Directors: Cedric Gibbons, James C. McKay, Jack Conway | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Neil Hamilton, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 5,571
7. The Hunter (IV) (2011)
R | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Director: Daniel Nettheim | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Morgan Davies, Jacek Koman
Votes: 41,161 | Gross: $0.18M
8. Life (2009)
TV-G | 43 min | Documentary
David Attenborough's legendary BBC crew explains and shows wildlife all over planet earth. From giving an overview of the challenges facing life to hunting the deep sea and various major evolutionary groups of creatures.
Stars: Oprah Winfrey, David Attenborough, Doug Allan, Roger Munns
Votes: 42,813
9. Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020 Video)
PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers.
Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Michael Gross, Jon Heder, Richard Brake, Caroline Langrishe
Votes: 5,293
10. Only the Animals (2019)
117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman disappeared. After a snowstorm, her car is discovered on a road to a small remote village. While the police don't know where to start, five people are linked to the disappearance. Each one with his or her own secret.
Director: Dominik Moll | Stars: Denis Ménochet, Laure Calamy, Damien Bonnard, Nadia Tereszkiewicz
Votes: 7,764
11. King Solomon's Mines (1950)
Passed | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Adventurer Allan Quartermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for the fabled diamond mines of King Solomon.
Directors: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Stewart Granger, Richard Carlson, Hugo Haas
Votes: 7,015
12. The Lost World (1925)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Director: Harry O. Hoyt | Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone
Votes: 5,821 | Gross: $1.19M
13. The Sunchaser (1996)
R | 122 min | Crime, Drama
A prestigious oncologist learns a valuable lesson in humility and is forced to reexamine his relationship with medicine and his life in general when Brandon, a young patient and convicted for murder, kidnaps him at gunpoint.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Woody Harrelson, Jon Seda, Anne Bancroft, Alexandra Tydings
Votes: 5,209 | Gross: $0.02M
14. Hands of Steel (1986)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A cyborg is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. He fails and hides in a diner in a desert run by a woman who likes him. The people who sent him are after him and so is the local arm wrestling champ.
Director: Sergio Martino | Stars: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, Claudio Cassinelli, George Eastman
Votes: 2,876
15. Desert Winds (1994)
97 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Jackie and Eugene are joined by a mystical wind tunnel which enables them to speak across a 500-mile desert. Believed by the Indians to be an omen of good luck, the wind inspires both ... See full summary »
Director: Michael A. Nickles | Stars: Adam Ant, Heather Graham, Jessica Hamilton, Jack Kehler
Votes: 171
16. Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939)
Passed | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Tarzan finds a boy from a crashed plane and raises him with Jane in the jungle. A search party comes looking for the plane.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Ian Hunter
Votes: 3,623 | Gross: $2.27M
17. Tarzan Triumphs (1943)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure, War
As World War II rages, a formation of German paratroopers land in the hidden city of Palandria to exploit its wealth and they start taking hostages. Can Tarzan, the king of the jungle, and his animal companions Cheeta and Buli save them?
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Frances Gifford, Johnny Sheffield, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 2,386 | Gross: $3.27M
18. Lost Continent (1951)
Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crash lands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke, Chick Chandler, John Hoyt
Votes: 1,768
19. Flight That Disappeared (1961)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A cross-country airliner, whose passengers include a nuclear physicist, a rocket expert, and a mathematical genius, is drawn beyond radar range by an unknown, unbreakable force.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Craig Hill, Paula Raymond, Dayton Lummis, Gregory Morton
Votes: 828
20. Tarzan Escapes (1936)
Passed | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Family
An expedition seeking to bring Jane back to civilization, and Tarzan into captivity, gets more than it's bargained for.
Directors: Richard Thorpe, John Farrow, James C. McKay, George B. Seitz, William A. Wellman | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler, Benita Hume
Votes: 3,606
21. Sour Apples (2016)
114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Promising a visual feast of colors, costumes, light and locations, SOUR APPLES will have you simultaneously laughing and crying with its powerful acting performances as well as Yilmaz Erdogan's witty and memorable dialogues.
Director: Yilmaz Erdogan | Stars: Yilmaz Erdogan, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Songül Öden, Sükran Ovali
Votes: 7,995
22. The Lost World (1998)
R | 97 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
A scientist discovers dinosaurs on a remote plateau in Mongolia.
Director: Bob Keen | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Julian Casey, David Nerman
Votes: 944
23. The Living Desert (1953)
G | 69 min | Family, Documentary
Although first glance reveals little more than stones and sand, the desert is alive. Witness moving rocks, spitting mud pots, gorgeous flowers and the never-ending battle for survival between creatures of every shape, size and description.
Director: James Algar | Star: Winston Hibler
Votes: 1,716
24. Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, Johnny Sheffield, Reginald Owen
Votes: 3,174
25. Cowboy Forever (2006)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Fictionalized from a true story, this docu-drama takes us on a journey through Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul and into the lives of Brazilian gauchos. Beautifully shot landscapes form the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Baptiste Erreca | Stars: Govinda Machado de Figueiredo, Jones Carlos Fialho de Araújo, Ronald Rosa, Patativa Flower
Votes: 360
26. Prophet Without Honor (1939)
Approved | 11 min | Short, Biography, Drama
This is the story of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873), an American Naval officer, who developed the first maps that charted the oceans' winds and currents.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Carey Wilson, Tom Neal
Votes: 169
27. Les chèvres de ma mère (2014)
97 min | Documentary, Drama
For over 40 years, Maguy has been manufacturing goat cheese in the respect of nature and animals, on an isolated plateau in the Gorges du Verdon. Retiring Soon, she must give her flock. She... See full summary »
Director: Sophie Audier
Votes: 11
28. La nuit nomade (2011)
90 min | Documentary, Drama
This may be the last migration for Tundup, the end of his nomadic life on the Himalayan highlands. When the merchants arrive, Tundup and his people will have to choose: sell their herd, ... See full summary »
Director: Marianne Chaud | Stars: Tundup, Kenrap, Toldan, Dholma
Votes: 16
29. Grand Canyon, Pride of Creation (1943)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
A Traveltalks entry with briefs looks at the Painted Desert and San Francisco Peaks en route to the Grand Canyon. Once there, views are majestic from the rim-hugging road and up close from muleback while descending to the Colorado River.
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 112
30. Land of Island Treasures: Kangaroo Island (1989 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Come on a magical journey to an island paradise unlike any other in Australia. Beneath the lush green eucalypt canopy of Flinders Chase National Park, discover a colourful, hidden world of ... See full summary »
Director: Ross Wurst
31. Exploring Central China (2011)
28 min | Short, History
A visit to Beijing, home to the forbidden city - the great wall of China...and other sites.
Director: Fred Heiman | Star: Peggy Heiman
32. Western Australia: Land of Contrast and Beauty (1996)
15 min | Short
The state of Western Australia consists of 30% of the area of Australia, hosting a population of only 2 million people.
Director: Fred Heiman | Stars: Fred Heiman, Peggy Heiman
33. Qalupalik (2010)
6 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Story of Qalupalik, a part-human sea creature that lives deep in the Arctic Ocean.
Director: Ame Papatsie | Star: Sam Tutanuak
Votes: 15
35. South to Antarctica (2002)
49 min | Documentary
Antarctica...the last wilderness on earth. Its seas contain the largest biomass on the planet.
Director: Fred Heiman | Stars: Louise Crossley, Peggy Heiman, Werner Stambach
36. Land of Ancient Grandeur: South Australia's Flinders Ranges (1989 Video)
30 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Director: Ross Wurst
37. Hunting (I) (2011)
15 min | Short, Adventure
With the aim of emulating her dead mother, Halohausaka dreams about becoming a buffalo hunter herself.
Director: Duilio Zaffaroni | Stars: Elizabeth Frances, Jane Lind, Velma Springfield, Ashton Old Elk
38. The Artist Within (2012)
101 min | Drama, Thriller
The artist's psyche pushes the actor to the edge so that he loses his identity.
Director: Sunil Prem Vyas | Stars: Mamta Bhatia, Sunil Prem Vyas
39.
Jonny Quest (1964–1965)
Episode:
Shadow of the Condor
(1964)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Quests make an emergency landing in the Andes where a German World War I ex-fighter pilot wants to take on and kill Race in an aerial dogfight.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Mike Road, Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Danny Bravo
Votes: 144
40.
Jonny Quest (1964–1965)
Episode:
The Devil's Tower
(1965)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In Africa, the Quest party is threatened by a psychopathic German war criminal and his obedient troop of all-male Neanderthals.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Mike Road, Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Danny Bravo
Votes: 117
41.
Jonny Quest (1964–1965)
Episode:
Turu the Terrible
(1964)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Dr. Quest heads up the Amazon to the Land of the Turu in pursuit of high grade trinoxite, a new metal essential to the space program, unaware that "Turu" is a live pteranodon guarding the deposit.
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Mike Road, Tim Matheson, Don Messick, Danny Bravo
Votes: 133
42.
Naked Science (2004– )
Episode:
Colliding Continents
(2006)
TV-G | Documentary, Adventure
The history and a projection of the future of the Earth's land masses caused by continental drift is explain by the theory of plate tectonics.
Director: Tom Stubberfield | Stars: Ronald C. Blakey, Samuel A. Bowring, Páll Einarsson, Alex F.M. Kisters
Votes: 18
43.
Cities of the Underworld (2007– )
Episode:
Scotland's Sin City
(2007)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary, History
Constrained for space by a stone defensive wall and steep terrain, the people of Edinburgh build both high rises and subterranean dwellings to provide living space. Out of sight, the underworld attracts all manor of seedy activities.
Star: Eric Geller
Votes: 32
44.
The World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys (2019–2022)
Episode:
Norway
(2019)
44 min | Documentary
The Dovre line runs from Oslo to the remote northern wonderland of Trondheim, passing through the vast Gudbrandsdal valley and across the awe-inspiring Dovrefjell mountain plateau.
Director: Andy Robbins | Stars: Bill Nighy, Caroline Allum, Eivind Amundsen, Nils-Anders Appfjell
Votes: 31
45.
The Greek Islands with Julia Bradbury (2020)
Episode:
Crete
(2020)
23 min | Documentary
Julia visits the picturesque, rustic and rugged island of Crete, exploring the Dikti mountains and its plateau of windmills, and visiting an island that used to be a leper colony.
Director: Chris Williams | Stars: Julia Bradbury, Chrissi Bradbury
Votes: 11
46.
TopTenz (2010– )
Episode:
Incredible Facts About the Sahara Desert
(2021)
11 min | Documentary
Every 20,000 years the Sahara Desert cycles between wet periods when it sports the largest lake in the world and dry periods such as today. So one should expect some geological and ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
47.
BattleField Detectives (2003– )
Episode:
Siege of Masada
(2006)
Documentary, History, War
The Roman siege of Masada in 70 A.D is recreated to separate fact from myth. The length and difficulty of the siege, which group of Jews were involved and whether they committed mass suicide are especially questioned.
Votes: 11
48.
Game of Thrones (2011–2019)
Episode:
Lord Snow
(2011)
TV-MA | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jon begins his training with the Night's Watch; Ned confronts his past and future at King's Landing; Daenerys finds herself at odds with Viserys.
Director: Brian Kirk | Stars: Sean Bean, Mark Addy, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Michelle Fairley
Votes: 39,003
49.
Prehistoric Planet (2022–2023)
Episode:
Deserts
(2022)
TV-G | 40 min | Documentary, Animation, History
Above the deserts of North Africa, aerial combat ensues as male Barbaridactylus pterosaurs fight for the attention of females below.
Star: David Attenborough
Votes: 919
50.
Greatest Tank Battles (2010– )
Episode:
The Battle of El Alamein
(2010)
TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War
In 1942, Rommel's Desert Afrika Corps faces off against Montgomery's Eighth Army.This is the story of the climax in the struggle for North Africa, which would change the course of the Second World War.
Director: Paul Kilback | Stars: Neville Gillman, Wilhelm Hagios, Jack Hodgkins, Herbert Huntemann
Votes: 30