Movies about prehistoric times

Movies about prehistoric times
List of the best movies about prehistoric times, selected by visitors to our site: Alpha, Ao: The Last Hunter, 10,000 BC, Risen, Iceman, RRRrrrr!!!, The Wrong Missy, When Angels Sleep, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Encino Man.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada, China
Duration02:34

In the prehistoric past, Keda, a young and inexperienced hunter, struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe when bison hunting goes awry. On his way back he will find an unexpected ally.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreadventure, history
CountryFrance
Duration01:24

When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born. His aim is to join his twin brother, from whom he was separated when he was nine. On his long and adventurous way home, he meets Aki, a Homo Sapiens woman...

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, fantasy, drama, adventure, history
CountryUSA, South Africa
Duration01:50

A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, drama, adventure, detective, history
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

Follows the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection, as told through the eyes of a non-believer. Clavius, a powerful Roman Military Tribune, and his aide Lucius, are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, adventure
CountryGermany, Italy, Austria
Duration01:56

The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan leader must avenge the massacre of his people and theft of his holy shrine.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryFrance
Duration01:38

37 000 years ago, two neighboring tribes lived in peace ... not fully in peace. While the tribe clean hair flowed peaceful days by keeping to herself the secret formula shampoo, Tribe Hair Sales lamented. Its leader decided to send a spy to steal the recipe ...

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

A guy meets the woman of his dreams and invites her to his company's corporate retreat, but realizes he sent the invite to the wrong person.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySpain

Germán, an honest family man, sees how his whole world wobbles the night when, driving home, accidentally runs over two teenage girls. From that moment, Germán will have to do everything in his power to prevent his life from being destroyed forever.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:16

Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for revenge against the Jedi.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

High school misfits Stoney and Dave discover a long-frozen primeval man buried in their back yard. But the thawed-out Link—as the boys have named him—quickly becomes a wild card in the teens' already zany southern California lives. After a shave and some new clothes, Link's presence at school makes the daily drudgery a lot more interesting.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:19

    The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Italy, Malta, France, United Kingdom
    Duration02:29

    When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    An American professional gambler named Jack Weil (Redford) decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran (Olin), the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo (Julia). Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away by the secret police, and Roberta is captured and tortured. Jack frees her, but she continues to support the revolution.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil, United Kingdom, Germany, France
    Duration02:06

    "The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early 1950s.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:38

    Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When the little one finds a most needed new cave, she's allowed to stay - and thrive.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, history
    CountryUSA, Malta, United Kingdom
    Duration02:43

    In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand
    Duration02:55

      Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genredrama, history
      CountryRussia
      Duration02:20

      The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefamily
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA
      Duration01:27

      Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is a film depicting life-like 3D dinosaur characters set in photo-real landscapes that transports audiences to the prehistoric world as it existed 70 million years ago. The film is based on the 1999 documentary television miniseries Walking with Dinosaurs, produced by the BBC. Walking with Dinosaurs 3D is being produced by Evergreen Studios, the company that produced Happy Feet, and it is was released on October 11, 2013.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon, short
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:12

      A harried prehistoric bird mom Ethel entrusts her precious, soon-to-hatch egg to Sid. When she recommends him to her neighbors – a condor mom, Cholly Bear and Gladys Glypto – business booms at his new egg-sitting service. However, dastardly pirate bunny Squint, who is seeking revenge on the herd, steals, camouflages and hides all the eggs. Once again, with Squint’s twin brother, Clint, assisting, Manny, Diego and the rest of the gang come to the rescue and take off on a daring mission that turns into the world’s first Easter egg hunt.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrecomedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrefantastic, adventure
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:37

      Arthur Conan Doyle's "Lost World" performed live as a filmed audio drama.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genreadventure, family, cartoon
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:28

      One of the most classic and revered stories of all time, Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan returns to the big screen for a new generation. Tarzan and Jane face a mercenary army dispatched by the evil CEO of Greystoke Energies, a man who took over the company from Tarzan's parents, after they died in a plane crash in the African jungle.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA, Mexico
      Duration01:31

      In this comedy, Atouk becomes leader of the misfit cavemen. Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar, and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:43

      The amazing footage you will see in this documentary was recorded during an expedition to the Amazon in South America. It has been assembled as per the camera time codes. It has not been altered or tampered with in any way and after extensive testing has been considered absolutely genuine. What you will see will change the way you view the natural world. Are you ready for that? For in the heart of the rainforest, a team of researchers led by the respected Professor John Howson strived to protect endangered and vulnerable species from extinction. But their guides abandoned them after a series of strange and unexplainable events and the team soon got hopelessly lost in the jungle. When events took a horrifying turn, the team realized that they were in the hunting grounds of an apex predator. And now they were the ones on the endangered species list.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Ishbo is a caveman living in the prehistoric age who thinks there's more to life than hunting and gathering. He tries to better the lives of those in his tribe by inventing things like spoons and the toothbrush, which leave everyone, including his parents, unimpressed. He also has a thing for cavewoman Fardart, but she only has eyes for his brother Thudnik. Can Ishbo prove his worth when a rival clan attacks?

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      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.

      Markimdb: 3.7
      Genrefantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:25

      On a class excursion to a cave with stone age paintings the clumsy Rex gets lost. A mysterious crystal opens a gateway in time and sets him back to the stone ages, where he meets a group of prehistoric fellows and the gorgeous Eba. While teaching her English and doing some pseudo-research on her fellows, his main goal is to get her sleeping with him. However the curiosity of the clan chief disturbs his attempts.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:12

      Captain New Eyes travels back in time and feeds dinosaurs his Brain Grain cereal, which makes them intelligent and non-violent. They agree to go to the Middle Future in order to grant the wishes of children in New York city. They are to meet Dr. Bleeb of the Museum of Natural History, but get sidetracked with their new children friends and run into the Captain's evil brother, Professor Screweyes.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredocumentary, short
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration00:41

      Through the power of IMAX 3D, experience a wondrous adventure from the dinosaur age. Join Julie, an imaginative young woman, in a unique voyage through time and space. Explore an amazing underwater universe inhabited by larger-than-life creatures which were ruling the seas before dinosaurs conquered the earth. See science come alive in an entertaining manner and get ready for a face-to-face encounter with the T-Rex of the seas!

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredocumentary
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:11

      220 million years ago dinosaurs were beginning their domination of Earth. But another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap: pterosaurs were taking control of the skies. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction. In Flying Monsters 3D, Sir David Attenborough the world’s leading naturalist, sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs, whose wingspans of up to 40 feet were equal to that of a modern day jet plane.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, detective
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:20

      Ever since the world was born, two forces have been locked in perpetual battle. Their struggle is so Manichean, so ferocious, so Herculean that it makes the clash between good and evil look like a game of checkers! This ancestral duel is so ancient and so merciless that it can only be, Oggy against the Cockroaches!

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon, sport
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration02:33

      Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the menace of a mysterious and mighty enemy, on the turf of an ancient and sacred sport.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantasy, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:31

      As the Earth wrestles with its agonising birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilisation.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:36

      An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland' – which is tattooed on Enola's back.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:39

      A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, adventure
      CountryTurkey

      Commander Logar fools Arif and sends him 1.000.000 years back in the time. He must civilize people from past to reach today.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography, history
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:15

      A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genreaction, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

      When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:09

      A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:37

      Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.




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