The famous director Steven Spielberg to the delight of the audience in 1981 staged the film "Indiana Jones: In Search of the Lost Ark." The film about the adventures of a charming and resourceful archaeologist, busy searching for the mysterious Ark of the Covenant, in the world box "earned" 384 million dollars. The stunning success of this tape contributed to the emergence of similar projects, which largely repeated its triumphal procession on large screens. Next, talk about the paintings that are on the list of films like "Indiana Jones."
1980s movies
The heroes of the film "Novel with a Stone" (1984), writer Joan Wilder and adventurer Jack Colton, are forced to go to Colombia to try to save the sister of the author of female novels.
In The Pearl of the Nile (1985), the sequel to the aforementioned tape, the wealthy Jack is already looking for Joan herself. She was kidnapped by a certain sheikh, demanding for her release a pearl, about which legends go.
In the film “Mines of King Solomon” (1985), Jesse asks the experienced ranger Quatermain to help her find her father, who has not been known since he went in search of the mines of King Solomon.
1990s movies
Fifth Element (1997) is another Indiana Jones movie. In this project, the main character, an ordinary taxi driver named Korben, needs to solve the global task: to save the Earth, which is not abandoned by attempts to destroy the hostile aliens. To do this, he needs to find five elements. Four of them are known to Korben, but he still has to figure out what constitutes element number 5.
The heroes of the film "The Mummy" (1999) could not even imagine that having found the wealth of the pharaoh who had died thousands of years ago, they would endanger mortally not only their own lives, but also the entire civilization.
Films of the 2000s
Another Indiana Jones movie is Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. The charming girl Lara Croft rules the ball in it. This graceful and beautiful adventurer, in no way inferior to the famous Indiana Jones, is unlikely to be stopped by her intention to get some ancient artifact.
The title of the movie Librarian: In Search of the Spear of Fate speaks for itself. The protagonist of this story is the librarian Flynn Carsen, who, as you might have guessed, is looking for the Spear of Fate. This artifact has magical powers.
Ben Franklin, the hero of the film “The Treasure of the Nation,” believes that there is an inscription on the Declaration of Independence that helps him find the treasure. The document is carefully guarded, but Ben is a true adventurer, so he will find a way to steal it, you can be sure.
New films
Next, we present a list of films like "Indiana Jones" filmed between 2010 and the present:
- "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time."
- "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn."
- "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."
- "Lara Croft" (2018).
Of course, the list of films like Indiana Jones is not limited to the projects presented in this review.