Highest-Rated Movies about 'Safari'

Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), The Bucket List (2007), Tarzan (1999), The Night Walker (1964), Out of Africa (1985), Hatari! (1962), To Walk With Lions (1999), Road to Zanzibar (1941) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Safari movies.

#16. Africa Screams (1949)

Storyline: When bookseller Buzz cons Diana into thinking fellow bookseller Stanley knows a great deal about Africa they are abducted and ordered to lead Diana and her henchmen to an African tribe. After encounters with lion tamers, giant apes and a wild river, Buzz returns to America. Stanley finds diamonds and buys the store they once worked for, hiring Buzz as its elevator operator.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

Plot Keywords: safari, slang, pith helmet, demotion, cigarette smoking, stock footage, low budget film ...

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#18. The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002)

Storyline: On an African safari, 12-year-old Eliza Thornberry discovers that thanks to a shaman, she can now talk to animals. When Eliza discovers that poachers in the Serengeti plan to kill an elephant herd with an electrified fence, she and her chimpanzee friend Darwin must somehow find a way to stop them.

Plot Keywords: based on tv series, subway, british, waterfall, gorilla, runaway, secret ...

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#20. Congo (1995)

Storyline: A megalomaniac C.E.O. sends his son into the dangerous African Congo on a quest for a source of diamonds large enough and pure enough to function as powerful laser communications transmitters (or is it laser weapons?). When contact is lost with his son and the team, his sometime daughter- in-law is sent after them. She is a former CIA operative and, accompanied by gee-whiz gadgetry and a few eccentric characters (including a mercenary, a researcher with a talking gorilla, and a a nutty Indiana-Jones-type looking for King Solomon's Mines), sets out to rescue her former fiancé. What they all discover is that often what we most want turns out to be the source of our downfall.

Plot Keywords: gorilla, diamond, ape, simian fiction, studio logo segues into film, sign language, country name in title ...

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#21. Tarzan the Fearless (1933)

Storyline: In the African Jungle, a group of Europeans come across the fabled white man who was raised by apes. Tarzan takes an immediate liking to the blond Mary Brooks and rescues her during a nasty storm. Not everyone in the party sees Tarzan as a friend and one of the safari guides, Jeff Herbert, has a written offer of £10,000 for anyone who can confirm that the ape man is dead. Mary's father disappears however, taken prisoner by those who guard the treasure of Zar. It's left to Tarzan to rescue him and the others who have been taken prisoner.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: character name in title, thief, blonde, pit, animal attack, bare chested male, photograph ...

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#22. Heatstroke (2013)

Storyline: On a family trip in the African desert, a research scientist unintentionally travels off course and is brutally murdered by an arms dealer. His girlfriend is put to the ultimate survival test as she attempts to evade the killers and protect his teenage daughter.—crew

Plot Keywords: survival, desert, hyena, submachine gun, pickup truck, car crash, pursuit ...

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#23. Prey (2007)

Storyline: While working in a dam in Africa, the American hydraulic engineer Tom Newman brings his family to spend a couple of days in the Leopard's Rest Lodge. His fourteen year-old daughter Jessica is having friction with her stepmother Amy since she does not accept the divorce of her parents. On the next morning, Amy, Jessica and her brother David go in a game drive with a ranger while Tom goes to the dam. While driving off-road, David asks the ranger to stop the jeep to go to the "toilet", and unexpectedly they are attacked by a group of starving lions that kill and eat the ranger. Amy, Jessica and David are trapped in the jeep and stalked by the wild lions. When Tom returns to the hotel and finds that his family has not returned from the game, he asks for help to the experienced hunter and guide Crawford and together they seek Tom's family.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: natural horror, national park, rifle, car accident, safari, survival, wilderness ...

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#24. A Sound of Thunder (2005)

Storyline: 2055, Charles Hatton has made a fortune by founding 'Time safari', which offers rich 'big game hunters' short time travels to kill off dinosaurs just before their natural death. When Travis notices the weather and wildlife are not behaving as usual, he consults Dr. Rand, the contractually invisible inventor of the supercomputer which controls the time travel. They soon face 'time waves', each worsening the effects in 2055 of evolutionary distortions, lower lifeforms first. They attempt to identify and rectify the past alteration, but each attempt gets harder in their distorted present.

Plot Keywords: time travel, butterfly, evolution, based on short story, time machine, portal, metropolis ...

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#25. Nabonga (1944)

Storyline: In an effort to clear the name of his deceased father, young Ray Gorman travels to darkest Africa to try to track down the money embezzled from his father's bank years earlier. After a long trek through the jungle Gorman finds the money in the care of beautiful 'white witch' Doreen, daughter of the now long-dead embezzler. Gorman finds his goal difficult to accomplish as not only does Doreen, guarded by a huge, ferocious gorilla, not want to give up the money, but greedy guide Carl Hurst has followed Gorman's trail, intent on getting the money himself by any means necessary.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: gorilla, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, grindhouse film, greed, threat, potboiler ...

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