Highest-Rated Movies about 'Archeologist'

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Man from Earth (2007), The Fifth Element (1997), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), The Mummy (1932), That Man From Rio (1964) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Archeologist movies.

#16. Around the Bend (2004)

Storyline: In Los Angeles, Jason Lair is recently separated, living with his grandfather and his son. He's a banker, tense, with a limp. Grandfather Henry, an archaeologist, wants to take the family van on a trip to Albuquerque. His plans are interrupted when Turner, Jason's father and Henry's son, appears after years of absence. Henry wants to celebrate family, as does Zach, Jason's son; Jason is angry and distant, Turner seems detached and says he's got a bus to catch in the morning. This prompts Henry to put in place an elaborate plan that will send his "tribe" on that Volkswagen bus trip to New Mexico sorting out relationships and digging up a crippled family history.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: stealing, criminal, drink, drinking, drunkenness, illness, bar ...

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#17. Damien: Omen II (1978)

Storyline: Seven years later, Damien Thorn is about to turn 13 and is just discovering who he really is, and what he is destined to do. Now living with his Aunt, Uncle, and cousin in a wealthy suburb of Chicago, Damien is in line to inherit everything from his family. Can Richard Thorn finish the job that Damien's father (Ambassador Robert Thorn) started?

Plot Keywords: antichrist, boy, female stockinged feet, female stockinged legs, suntan pantyhose, teenager, death ...

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#18. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

Storyline: Carmen Lowell is working on the backstage of a play at Yale. When the lead actress, her friend Julia, invites her to Vermont with her to work on a play with a professional cast, she decides to stay with her friends and her pregnant mother. However, she changes her mind after she finds that her friends will all leave for the summer: Lena Kaligaris will travel to a drawing course, Bridget Vreeland, who is in an existential crisis, missing her mother, will travel to an archaeological dig in Turkey, and Tibby Tomko-Rollins is working in a rental and still editing her documentary. Carmen grows a crush on the lead actor Ian, who convinces her to participate in an audition, and she is then invited by the director Bill Kerr to perform the lead female role. Later she finds the truth about the friendship of Julia. The broken-hearted Lena finds that Kostas has just married, and she dates the model of her drawing class. Bridget finds letters addressed to her from her grandmother that her father ...

Plot Keywords: video message, painting, sketching, single father, shakespeare play, full moon, sister sister relationship ...

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#19. As Above, So Below (2014)

Storyline: Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all.

Plot Keywords: catacomb, found footage, paris france, archeologist, treasure, archeology, ghost ...

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#20. Golden Salamander (1950)

Storyline: British archaeologist David Redfern comes to Tunisia to catalog a collection of art relics and stumbles into evidence of a gun-smuggling racket. Hesitant at first to get involved or even to report the information, he becomes convinced he must do the right thing after a young man is murdered. By then, though, the smugglers know Redfern knows too much and they target him for death.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>

Plot Keywords: fictional town, expatriate, escape, hunting, corrupt cop, chase, weapon ...

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#21. Hidden Valley (1932)

Storyline: Bob Harding and Professor Woolridge have a map that will lead them to the riches of Hidden Valley. When the Professor is murdered, Bob is convicted. The real killer Gavin gives the map to Jimmy Landers who heads for the valley. Everyone follows him. Gavin and his men, Bob who has escaped, and Jimmy's sister in a blimp. They find the valley but also find a fierce band of Indians.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: actor shares first name with character, brother sister relationship, grindhouse film, hostage, hostility, deception, wrongly accused ...

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#22. San wa (2005)

Storyline: Martial arts legend Jackie Chan stars as Jack, a world-renowned archaeologist who has begun having mysterious dreams of a past life as a warrior in ancient China. When a fellow scientist enlists his help locating the mausoleum of China's first emperor, the past collides violently with the present as Jack discovers his amazing visions are based in fact. Assisted by the spirit of a noble princess...

Plot Keywords: warrior, reincarnation, attack, soldier, bow and arrow, convoy, army ...

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#23. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Storyline: During the Cold War, Soviet Agents watch Professor Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Harrison Ford), when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Professor Harold Oxley (Sir John Hurt). Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett), the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt Williams (Shia LeBeouf), to Peru. With Oxley's code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well. But if Irina takes it to its origin, she'll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones' past, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural.

Plot Keywords: sequel, jungle, desert, female antagonist, fourth part, wilhelm scream, femme fatale ...

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#24. The Mummy's Hand (1940)

Storyline: A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician (Cecil Kellaway) and his beautiful daughter (Peggy Moran), they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest (George Zucco) and the living mummy Kharis (Tom Tyler) who are the guardians of Ananka^Òs tomb.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>

Plot Keywords: archeologist, expedition, curse, strangulation, mummy, magician, resurrection ...

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#25. Suicide Squad (2016)

Storyline: It feels good to be bad...Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government's disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren't picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it's every man for himself?

Plot Keywords: reference to superman, father daughter relationship, super villain, villain turns good, based on comic book, prisoner, dc comics ...

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#26. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Storyline: The orphaned heiress and intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, embarks on a dangerous quest to retrieve the two halves of an ancient artefact which controls time before it falls into the wrong hands. As an extremely rare planetary alignment is about to occur for the first time in 5,000 years, the fearless tomb raider will have to team up with rival adventurers and sworn enemies to collect the pieces, while time is running out. But, in the end, who can harness the archaic talisman's unlimited power?

Plot Keywords: solar eclipse, treasure, time, tomb, female protagonist, heroine, tough girl ...

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#27. Summer Lovers (1982)

Storyline: A young American couple, Michael and Cathy who have just graduated from college, have known each other about 10 years and have been together about half that time go to of Santorini, a Greek island for the summer and are dazzled by the beauty and the uninhibited people surrounding them. Michael meets and begins an affair with Lina, a French archaeologist working on a dig. Cathy discovers this and goes to confront the other woman. Lina is quite taken with Cathy's photographic work, and the three become very close.

Plot Keywords: female pubic hair, pubic hair, male pubic hair, nude swimming, wet t shirt, male rear nudity, female rear nudity ...

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#29. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

Storyline: Off the coast of the volcanic island of Santorini, the intrepid archaeologist, Lara Croft, makes the unexpected discovery of a throbbing golden orb able to guide its holder to the mythical Pandora's Box. As the legendary artefact contains ancient mysteries of unfathomable power, Lara needs to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands, especially the unscrupulous former Nobel Prize winner and now a bio-weapons dealer, Jonathan Reiss. With the aid of the former agent, Terry Sheridan, the fearless adventurer travels the world in pursuit of the precious item; however, can she retrieve it in time to save the day?

Plot Keywords: actress reprises previous role, greek mythology, greek island, mediterranean sea, horseback riding, tough guy, orb ...

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#30. The Mummy (2017)

Storyline: Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in our current day bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Plot Keywords: archaeologist, princess, tomb, egypt, mummy, curse, excavation ...

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