Movies about Treasure hunter
Who doesn’t love a good treasure hunt? From swash-buckling pirate adventures to gritty war dramas, these films are all about the long and risky journeys people take to find riches. If you’re in the mood for fun and grandeur, few movies can beat the epic scale and action of a proper treasure hunt movie. Here is a list of the best treasure hunting adventure movies worth watching, perfect for when you’re looking for a little cinematic escapism, whether by sea, jungle, or desert!
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11. Zlato
Directed by Stephen Gaghan, Gold follows McConaughey through the jungle on a quest to find, you guessed it, gold. The crime-drama is loosely based on the Bre-X mining scandal in 1993, where the gold samples discovered by Bre-X Minerals Ltd. in Indonesia turned out to be a fraud. When Kenny (McConaughey) loses the family business, he treks out to the Asian jungle in search of a way out.
10. Ostrov pokladů
Based on a novel of the same name by R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island is considered one of the most impressive movies about treasure hunt, corruption, greed, action, and adventure. One day, a former-pirate named Captain William Bones, a sickly tempered drunkard comes to the inn. He gives Jim a treasure map after being visited by two fellow pirates, a note marked with black spot. The same night, the Captain is found dead, and an attack takes place at the inn.
9. Armour of God
Jackie Chan and Eric Tsang’s Armour of God is deemed a cult classic nowadays, featuring some of Chan’s early stunts and battle heroics. Chan stars as «Asian Hawk,» a former musician-turned-treasure-hunter. The highest-grossing film in Hong Kong at the time, Armour of God tracks Asian Hawk and his buddy Alan (Alan Tam) as they set out to save a kidnapped woman.
8. Romansing The Stone
Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) spends her whole life writing whimsical fantasy novels, lost in a world of adventure and romance. Although successful, being an author leaves her pretty lonely, that is, until she’s hurled into her own wild exploits. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Romancing the Stone was followed by an equally successful sequel called The Jewel of the Nile in 1985.
7. Mumie
A three-part franchise that began in 1999, The Mummy features your typical tanned American adventurer riding through the sands in search of treasure. Brendan Fraser stars as said-hero Rick O’Connell, who served as captain in the French Foreign Legion. Set in 1925, Rick guides aspiring Egyptologist Evelyn (Rachel Weisz) and her brother across the Sahara desert to the ancient lost city Hamunaptra. En route, however, the gang accidently sets free the reincarnation of a 3,000-year-old vengeful Egyptian priest.
6. Národní poklad
Jon Turteltaub’s two-part Disney adventure is a bit of a guilty pleasure. While the kids will enjoy the action-packed trail of clues and boobytraps, adults can tune into the dry sarcastic humor and, well, Nicolas Cage. Cage stars as Benjamin Franklin Gates: cryptographer, historian, and modern-day treasure hunter. His tech-savvy sidekick Riley (Justin Bartha) helps him to decipher the secret that «lies with Charlotte.»
5. Goonies
Mikey (Sean Astin), Chunk (Jeff Cohen), Mouth (Corey Feldman), and Data (Jonathan Ke Quan) have all grown up together, but are forced to say goodbye when their town undergoes foreclosure. The gang decides to spend their last weekend treasure-hunting, following the discovery of a treasure map in Mikey’s attic. This fun-but-dangerous mission gets them into a whole bunch of trouble, not just from deadly booby-traps but also the involvement of the Fratelli crime family.
4. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
When you see The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, you immediately think of it as a spaghetti Western, which, of course, is true. But it’s also a treasure-hunting adventure! The Italian epic was directed by Sergio Leone, starring Clint Eastwood in his prime cowboy days. Blondie (Eastwood) is a mysterious and talented bounty hunter, who teams up with a Mexican outlaw to uncover $20,000 that a soldier buried in the desert. It might not be a pirate’s chest of jewels, but it still counts as treasure nonetheless.
3. Piráti z Karibiku
We can all agree that Pirates of the Caribbean should stop with the sequels now, which haven’t been particularly great since Jack sailed to the edge of the world. But the first three movies (directed by Gore Verbinski) are swash-buckling classics that deserve a place on this list. Johnny Depp stars as the iconic drunken English pirate, Jack Sparrow. He cares about nothing but himself, his treasure, and his rum, which lands Jack in many dodgy situations.
2. Krvavý diamant
Blood Diamond is a treasure-hunting tale from a different angle, taking place in a war-ravaged Sierra Leone of 1999. The not-so-family-friendly film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer, a Rhodesian smuggler and mercenary who sets out to find a rare pink diamond. Directed by Edward Zwick, Blood Diamond is a gritty political thriller that doesn’t shy away from the guts and gore of war. Though DiCaprio’s South African accent has its holes, his performance is spot on alongside Djimon Hounsou and Jennifer Connelly.
1. Indiana Jones a Dobyvatelé ztracené archy
The 80s dream team of Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg brought us Raiders of the Lost Ark, where archaeologist Indiana Jones seeks out the Ark of the Covenant to defeat the Nazis in 1936. This film was followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984. The Indiana Jones series is perfect for all audiences: families, nerds, film scholars. anyone with a TV screen and sense of adventure.
Movies about Treasure hunter
From family classics like Národní poklad to more recent releases like Ztracené město… before you embark on a treasure hunting quest with your children, watch our curated list of family-friendly films rated U all the way to 12.
Ostrov pokladů Muppet
Contains mild comic violence and sex references
Ostrov pokladů Muppet is a Muppet adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s adventure novel, Treasure Island.
Aladdin
Contains mild threat
Aladdin is an animated adventure film about a young thief who falls in love with a princess and receives help in the form of a magic lamp containing a magical genie.
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Ohrožení
Mild threat occurs in occasional scenes including a man entering a giant tiger-headed cave that roars and snaps its mouth shut, characters escaping from a sea of lava in the cave, and a sequence in which a man is knocked unconscious and thrown into the sea before being saved. During the climax, a character turns into a large cobra during a fight, and a woman is trapped inside an hour glass and partially buried in sand.
There is also one use of ‘moron’ by one of the villainous characters.
Cesta do El Dorada
mild bad language, threat, scary scenes
Cesta do El Dorada is an animated comedy adventure from 2000 in which two young rogues find themselves in the fabled city of gold.
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Jazyk
There is mild bad language (‘crappy’) and very mild bad language including uses of ‘hell’, ‘damn’ and God’. There is also some comic wordplay when a character in a small boat sees a much larger vessel bearing down on him and exclaims, ‘Holy ship’!
Hrozba a hrůza
Characters are placed in danger at sea, or are swept along on a torrent of water raging through tunnels under a city and are buffeted against the tunnel walls. In other scenes, a carving of a gigantic jaguar is brought to life and rampages through a city, stomping on people and picking them up in its mouth, and a man is threatened with being thrown off a ledge into a whirlpool. There are also mildly scary moments, such as the discovery of skeletons on a beach and when an evil character transforms himself into snakes, rats and spiders.
There is very mild comic suggestiveness as a female character performs a swaying dance and makes eyes at her love interest, with the pair then engaging in some kissing and shoulder-rubbing.
Národní poklad
Contains mild action violence and peril
Národní poklad is an action film in which a historian races to find the legendary Templar Treasure before a team of mercenaries.
Dora a ztracené město zlata
mírné vyhrožování, hrubý humor
Dora a ztracené město zlata is a US adventure film in which an intrepid teenager and her classmates set off on a mission to rescue her parents.
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Hrozba a hrůza
Scenes of mild threat include ones in which teenagers are shot at with arrows, become stuck in quicksand, and are caught in booby traps in an ancient temple. No one is injured and the scenes focus on the heroes’ resourcefulness and teamwork.
Rude humour
Sequences of toilet humour include jokes about ‘poo’ and fart noises. There are also infrequent comic references to animals mating.
A scene shows people hallucinating after accidentally inhaling fantastical plant spores. Other issues include very mild scenes of bullying, slapstick violence and very mild bad language (eg ‘freaking’, ‘butt’, ‘what the flip’).
Hledání ‘Ohana
injury detail, crude humour, language, threat, emotionally intense scenes
On Oʻahu for the summer, two siblings from Brooklyn connect with their Hawaiian heritage – and their family – on a daring quest for long-lost treasure.
20 Great Treasure Hunting Movies Worth Watching
Who among us has not tried – at least once in his life – to find a treasure? To become rich overnight and not have to worry about anything anymore. When we are little, the chase is better than the catch because what matters the most is the journey, even though it leads to no treasure. When we are grown-ups, we try to eliminate the journey or get through it as quick as we can in order to reach the treasure.
The pure fascination for a treasure and for the very thought of riches has been around for ages and it will probably never go away; just think of children’s’ classic books like “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “Treasure Island” and many more. All these books plus many, many movies have stimulated the imagination of children and adults alike.
In the film world, treasure hunting is a big deal; it is not something that belongs to the youth’s fantasy, it is something that should be treated with seriousness and respect. When you come to think about it, some of the most beloved heroes of the cinematic world have something to do with treasures and treasure hunting; just think of Indiana Jones or Jack Sparrow.
Every year, Hollywood try to present to the audience a new hero on the trail of riches and spoils, but not every such hero sticks to the audience’s collective memory. Here is a list of 20 memorable treasure-hunting movies that are guaranteed to stir and fire up one’s imagination. The list is chronological.
1. The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948)
“The Treasure of Sierra Madre” is probably the ultimate existing treasure-hunting movie. It is one of John Huston’s most masterful works and it inspired directors like Stanley Kubrick, Sam Raimi or Paul Thomas Anderson. The film marks the third collaboration between director John Huston and lead actor Humphrey Bogart. “The Treasure of Sierra Madre” is not only a stunningly visual treat, but also a story and script of depth and magnitude, set in old time Mexico.
The plot involves two drifters, Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Curtin (Tim Holt), who one day encounter a veteran prospector named Howard (Walter Huston). Howard tells them that in the Sierra Madre Mountain of Mexico, there is more gold than they can imagine. Convinced by the old man, the two join him and head to Mexico to claim the treasure.
As expected, they are not the only ones after the gold. A band of ruthless Mexican bandits is also on the gold’s trail. Another thing that the men have to worry about is their own greed.
The film feels fresh and could stand up well against anything put out today in the action-adventure genre. It also contains one of the famous quotes in movie history that is actually a misquote. The famous line “we don’t need no stinkin’ badges” is actually incorrectly quoted (like James Cagney’s “you dirty rat”, also a misquote). The actual line of the film is “Badges? We ain’t got no badges. We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!”.
2. Treasure Island (Byron Haskin, 1950)
“Treasure Island” is a forgotten gem of the Old Hollywood. It is fairly faithful to its famous source novel as it retains the fantasy and the adventurous spirit of Robert Louis Stevenson’s writing.
The film doesn’t stray very much from the original book and it accurately presents the adventures of young Jim Hawkins who gets caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint. It is a wonderful family movie that is full of fun, mysteries and treasures.
3. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963)
When thinking of genre associations, one would hardly think of putting epic and comedy next to each other. Still, the best way to describe “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” is by calling it an epic comedy.
The film begins with an accident on a lonely freeway in the Southern California desert. With his last breath, Smiler Grogan (Jimmy Durante) reveals to the four drivers that have stopped to offer assistance that he has hidden 350.000 dollars under a certain “W” sign in Santa Rosita.
Unable to find common grounds on how to split this fortune, each of the drivers engages in a crazy rat race towards the “W” sign. Whoever gets there first gets to keep the money. However, at no point was there mentioned that they are the only ones who know about this treasure.
All these characters met on the side of the road. They were just ordinary hard working people who had nothing in common, except for one dream. That unreachable fantasy. They all wanted the treasure so bad that they would do anything to beat each other. They are just common people overcome by greed, which becomes their overlying problem. The film is probably one of the first Hollywood blockbusters bringing together so many comedy actors and guaranteeing a good laugh.
4. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966)
If John Wayne movies do not turn on your appetite for western movies, then Clint Eastwood movies will surely do. Drawing inspiration from Kurosawa’s samurai pictures, Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood made history with their “spaghetti westerns” by challenging and changing the genre forever. “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” is the last film of Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” that gave us the man with no name.
The film is set during the American Civil War when talks of lost treasures were all around. In this setting, the man with no name (nicknamed Blondie), a professional gunslinger trying to earn a few more dollars, Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless hitman and Tuco (Eli Wallach), a petty criminal, find themselves racing for the proverbial gold of the Civil War. The film is a staple of the western genre and it is already in the collective conscience of the moviegoer.
The movie is long, but there’s not a wasted scene in the film. The pacing is incredible, as is the direction – Sergio Leone manages to build a lot of uncomfortable tension in the film, keeping the film from ever getting predictable. If by some strange reason, you have not seen this film, see it RIGHT AWAY!
5. The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks, 1970)
“The Twelve Chairs” is an honest comedy that strays just a little from the typical Mel Brooks humor, making way for the well-recognizable Russian humor of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeni Petrov. Mel Brooks takes on a supporting part and leaves the leading roles to Ron Moody, Frank Langella and Dom DeLuise.
The story takes place in the late 1920’s Soviet Union. Ippolit Matveevich Vorobyaninov (Ron Moody) used to be an aristocrat but the Russian revolution reduced him to a government bureaucrat. But luck comes his way as he learns from his dying mother-in-law of a treasure she hid from the Bolsheviks in one of the twelve dining room chairs. Ippolit teams up with hustler Ostpap Bender and embarks on a treasure hunt for the proverbial chairs. But they are not the only ones who know the whereabouts of this treasure.
Father Fyodor also knows the whereabouts of this treasure from the last confession that he gave to Ippolit’s mother-in-law. The movie (which is faithful to the novel apart from the ending, which Mel Brooks couldn’t resist to give it a Hollywood ending) then takes the viewer on an amazing and very funny ride across the Soviet Union.
6. Indiana Jones 1-3 (Steven Spielberg, 1981, 1984 & 1989)
When it comes to Harrison Ford, it’s very hard to pinpoint his most iconic role. Unlike most actors, Harrison Ford has had quite a couple of roles that stayed in the hearts of movie fans – Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Dr. Richard Kimble, The President of the United States and Rick Deckard.
Like Harrison Ford, Steven Spielberg is also hard to define with just one film, as he is behind some of the most popular films of all time. But there is something about the Indiana Jones films that will always have a special place for both the actor and the director, movie audiences just can’t get enough of the famed archaeologist and his extraordinary adventures.
The public was first introduced to Indiana Jones in 1981 when “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (later renamed “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark”) came out. Since his first appearance, Indiana Jones has become a worldwide star and remains one of cinema’s most revered film characters.
Particular trademarks of the character include his iconic look (bullwhip, fedora, satchel and leather jacket), sense of humor, knowledge of many ancient civilizations and languages, and fear of snakes. But no matter how Indiana Jones, or Indy, chooses to appear in front of his audiences, one thing will always stay the same: his love for adventure and treasures. In each of the Indiana Jones installment, the fictional archaeologist is always on the lookout for a treasure that could change the fate of mankind.
Indiana Jones will surely be back. The only question is what treasures he will go after next.
7. Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, 1981)
It’s hard enough to chase after treasures in your own country on present day. But what if you had to chase these treasures in different countries and in different eras of world history? Challenging, right? For the common man, yes, but not for a particular band of dwarves who do this on a regular basis. “Time Bandits” is the first film of Terry Gilliam’s unofficial “imagination trilogy” that also contains “Brazil” and “The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen”.
One must remember that this is a fantasy film and mustn’t be surprised when a black hole is discovered in a young boy’s wardrobe. Through this black hole, a band of dwarves jump from era to era, looking for treasures to steal. The boy accidentally joins them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, then to the time of legends and ultimate darkness.
“Time Bandits” may not be a masterpiece, but it is definitely a triumph of the imagination and it’s the kind of film that is to be discovered like a hidden treasure.
8. Romancing the Stone (Robert Zemeckis, 1984)
“Romancing the Stone” is pure entertainment and should be viewed with this in mind. It can be best defined as an action-adventure romantic comedy.
The movie stars Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder, a lonely romance novelist that receives a treasure map in the mail. The map is from her brother-in-law who was recently murdered. To make matters worse, her sister Elaine is kidnapped in Colombia and a deal is proposed: the map for her sister.
Forced by the situation, Joan decides to act like Angelina (the heroine of her adventure novels) and travels to South America to retrieve her sister. In the mists of South America, she meets a mercenary named Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) who agrees to help her. The two set off on an adventure of a lifetime; just like in Joan’s novels.
Douglas and Turner act very well together, and Danny DeVito shows his comedy skills in all its glory. When you toss in several great chases scenes, a nasty corrupt cop-villain, and some comedy elements, the end-result is fascinating.
9. The Jewel of the Nile (Lewis Teague, 1985)
Like any successful Hollywood movie, 1984’s “Romancing the Stone” had a sequel. This time Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner), Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) and Ralph (Danny DeVito) take their treasure-hunting adventure to Africa. “The Jewel of the Nile” finds Joan and Jack as a couple living the easy life but longing for the adventures of their pasts. This creates tension within the couple who seems to be on the verge of dissolution.
Unbearable of this boredom, Joan accepts an invitation from a sheik to go to the Middle East. There she is abducted and finds herself involved with a mysterious treasure simply known as The Jewel of the Nile. Pretty soon, Jack comes to the rescue. They both go from one adventure to another and do what they do best: hunt treasures.
10. The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985)
Somehow, children and treasure hunting always seem to go hand in hand. The idea comes from a story of Steven Spielberg. Its premise features a band of children on their way to become teenagers.
While trying to find a way to save their homes from demolition, the Goonies discover an old pirate map of the legendary One-Eyed Willy. According to the map, the treasure is right underneath an abandoned restaurant. The Goonies are joined in their quest by a gentle giant named Sloth. The adventure of finding the treasure and saving their homes can now begin.
“The Goonies” is absolutely a pure, fun-filled movie to enjoy with your kids, grandkids, nieces and nephews, or simply by yourself. Hang on and enjoy the ride!
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