The Emerald Forest (1985), Road to Bali (1952), Blended (2014), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Squaw Man (1931), The Black Rose (1950), Dream Wife (1953), Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Exotic Culture movies.
Storyline: Based on a true story, Powers Boothe plays an American dam engineer in Brazil. Boothe's son (played by Charlie Boorman - son of director John Boorman) is kidnapped by a rain forest tribe, and raised as one of their own. Boothe continues to look for him and after many trials and adventures, stumbles upon him.—A. Felhofer <valmytrailslodge@itol.com>
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, amazon, father-son relationship, disappearance, coming of age, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, musical, adventure, romance, road movie, song and dance, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a blind date gone horribly wrong, Jim and Lauren agree they never, ever want to see each other again. Well, that's all about to change when the two find themselves and their respective families (including children) all stuck together in one suite at an African Safari vacation spot.
Plot Keywords: romantic comedy, family, romance, vacation, africa, single parent, dating ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1985, after a successful research in Amazonas, Dr. Dennis Alan from Harvard is invited by the president of a Boston pharmaceutics industry, Andrew Cassedy, to travel to Haiti to investigate the case of a man named Christophe that died in 1978 and has apparently returned to life. Andrew wants samples of the voodoo drug that was used in Christophe to be tested with the intention of producing a powerful anesthetic. Dr. Alan travels to meet Dr. Marielle Duchamp that is treating Christophe and arrives in Haiti in a period of revolution. Soon Alan is threatened by the chief of the feared Tonton Macuse Dargent Peytraud, who is a torturer and powerful witch. Alan learns that death is not the end in the beginning of his journey to hell.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, zombie, black magic, curse, experiment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of cattle rustler Cash Hawkins by rescuing the Indian girl Naturich from Hawkins. Wyngate marries Naturich, but then learns that his cousin Lord Henry has been killed and has cleared his name before dying. As Wyngate has long loved Lady Diana, Lord Henry's wife, he is perplexed at his situation. But fate takes a hand and resolves matters as Wyngate could not have predicted.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: western, drama, romance, historical, adventure, american film, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, the master archer Tris, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, historical, drama, fantasy, romance, medieval ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Clemson Reade, a business tycoon with marriage on his mind, and Effie, a U.S. diplomat, are a modern couple. Unfortunately there seems to be too much business and not enough pleasure on the part of Effie. When Clemson meets Tarji, a princess trained in all the arts of pleasing men, he decides he wants an old fashioned girl. Princess Tarji's father is king of oil-rich Bukistan. Because of the oil situation and to maintain good political relations during the courtship between Clemson & Tarji, the State Department assigns a diplomat to maintain protocol until the wedding. Effie!—Debbie Dunlap <dwdunlap@erols.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, marriage, gender roles, 1950s, hollywood, love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Paul Gauguin feels smothered by the atmosphere prevailing in Paris in the year 1891. Around him, everything is so artificial and conventional: he needs authenticity to renew his art. Failing to convince his wife Mette and his five children to follow him to Paradise Lost, he sets out for Tahiti alone. Once there, he chooses to settle down in Mataiera, a village far away from Papeete, installing himself in a native-made hut. He soon starts working passionately, painting and carving in a style close to the primitive art specific to the island. During his two-year stay the artist will experience poverty, cardiac problems and other displeasures but also happiness in the arms of Tehura, a beautiful young native girl.—Guy Bellinger
Plot Keywords: biography, history, art, painter, france, 19th century, creation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire P.J. Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But P.J. quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent, and iron-willed Ruth.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, adventure, romance, psychological, family, religious ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, adventure, biography, 19th century, france ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: James Mason and Sir John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough Colonel and a refined Captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peacetime Tahiti.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, romance, british film, 1960s, class conflict, humour ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a popular party girl, travel to Cuba to scatter their late father's ashes. In losing and trying to reclaim their father's ashes, the bickering sisters set off on a journey that them takes them through romance, danger, and the discovery of old family secrets.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, music, dance, family, cultural clash ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), a has-been rock manager takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan. When Richie finds himself in Kabul, abandoned, penniless and without his U.S. passport, he discovers a young Afghan girl named Salima with an extraordinary voice and manages her through Afghanistan's version of American Idol..
Plot Keywords: comedy, music, adventure, drama, war, musician, usa ...
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