20 best movies like Around the World in 80 Days (1989)


List of the best movies like Around the World in 80 Days (1989): $50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story, Minesweeper, Bronco Billy, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Legion of Lost Flyers, The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice, The Brothers Bloom, The Lost Empire, Sundown, King of the Rodeo.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

When Ross is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live, his newly engaged older brother Seth offers to spend his $50,000 wedding fund on a final trip of a lifetime. Their plans are complicated when Ross invites a call girl to join the group and Seth’s uptight fiancée insists on tagging along. This raucous road trip comedy features hip-hop star Asher Roth.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:07

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

Wes Anderson’s incisive quirky comedy build up stars complex characters like in ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ with Bill Murray on in the leading role. An ocean adventure documentary film maker Zissou is put in all imaginable life situations and a tough life crisis as he attempts to make a new film about capturing the creature that caused him pain.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:03

A group of pilots, because of unsavory or unearned reputations, establish an outpost squadron of their own, led by "Loop" Gillian, running charter-flights and hauling supplies in the frozen wastelands of Alaska. The operation does not go without misadventures, foul-ups, and a bit of treachery tossed in.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:30

While on a dangerous mission to recover the historic Judas Chalice, Flynn is saved by Simone. But when double-crossed by a respected professor and ambushed by a ruthless gang, Flynn realizes Simone's secret, his true mission and a shocking discovery are all lying within a decaying New Orleans crypt.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

A police officer and her two companions battle an evil genius with diabolical plans to destroy the world. Whoever can find the three sacred jewels can anticipate total power.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryMexico, USA
Duration01:07

High school seniors Logan and Blake prepare for an epic Spring Break as they travel to the beautiful and exotic Mexican beach resort of Puerto Vallarta hoping to hook up with their high school crushes. Surrounded by hot girls in teeny bikinis, the guys are truly in heaven. After meeting at a club, Logan falls for a mysterious local beauty named Gaby but then realizes the next morning, when his grandfather’s Rolex watch is missing, that she was after more than just his heart.

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Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, western
CountryUSA

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:07

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryIndia
Duration02:51

Roopa, a beautiful young village belle is much loved by the villagers of Chandanpur. Chandanpur celebrates a huge Mela every year and this year, they invite a Minister to inaugurate it. In an assassination attempt that follows, a massacre takes place. Chandanpur is devastated and Roopa's family gets wiped out. She vows revenge. Into her life enter two men, the gregarious Kishan and the volatile Shankar, causing much upheaval in their relationship.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryItaly, France, Yugoslavia

Maciste travels to Egypt, where he leads a revolt against an evil queen. In Son of Samson, Maciste (Mark Forrest) -- scion of the famed muscleman -- travels to the Egyptian city of Tanis to checkmate villainous Queen Smedes (Chelo Alonso), who's persecuting the citizenry.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Republic of Ireland, Germany

A group of Irish noblemen kidnap girls in order to marry into their fortune and avoid becoming priests or soldiers.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, military
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:30

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration00:30

A down-on-her-luck young woman who falls into a job as a personal assistant to a star quarterback sidelined with an injury. He's never had a female assistant before and she knows nothing about football.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Mary and Ben are the star-crossed black sheep of two powerful families engaged in a centuries-long feud. When the pair reignite a romance after many years apart, their forbidden love draws a motley assortment of schemers and killers into their orbit, and as fists and bullets fly, it becomes clear that violent delights will have violent ends.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA

Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry. Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark, the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant Hank Darby who himself is in love with Dorothy. They have a fist-fight in which Eddie comes out second best. When Darby is reprimanded for fighting with an enlisted man, the troopers incorrectly think that Eddie squealed on him, and they punish him with a conspiracy of silence. Dorothy also rejects him. Eddie has a problem. Maybe a fire will break out in the stables and he can rescue Sergeant Darby.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:54

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama, adventure, sport
CountryUSA

An extreme sportsman's life forever changes upon departing his simple Texas roots to compete in the world's most prestigious Kiteboarding Championship. Along the way, an edgy street-smart girl challenges him well beyond just kiting.




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