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- Quest for Fire. Everett McGill, Rae Dawn Chong, Ron Perlman. 76 votes. This profoundly engaging 1981 cinematic masterpiece delves deep into the existential turmoil and hardships faced by a trio of early Neanderthals, played by Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, and Nicholas Kadi.
- The Clan of the Cave Bear. Daryl Hannah, Thomas G. Waites, Pamela Reed. 43 votes. Daryl Hannah's breathtaking portrayal of Ayla, a young Cro-Magnon girl who is adopted by Neanderthals, is truly the heart and soul of this gripping 1986 prehistoric adaptation.
- Encino Man. Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore. 24 votes. Brendan Fraser exhibits an extraordinary range as the thawed prehistoric iceman who finds himself thrust into the heart of 1990s Los Angeles in this uproarious 1992 comedy.
- Iceman. Timothy Hutton, Lindsay Crouse, John Lone. 24 votes. This thought-provoking 1984 drama reveals the startling ordeal faced by researchers at an Arctic research facility when they discover the perfectly preserved body of a prehistoric man, played by John Lone.
55 Metascore. After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy. Directors: Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener. Votes: 231,636 | Gross: $187.17M.
Apr 17, 1981 · Caveman: Directed by Carl Gottlieb. With Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Jack Gilford. A caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman.
- (8.4K)
- Comedy, Romance
- Carl Gottlieb
- 1981-04-17
Aug 28, 2021 · 1. Alpha (II) (2018) PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama. 6.6. Rate. 63 Metascore. In the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buffalo hunt. He finds a similarly lost wolf companion and starts a friendship that would change humanity.
- 694 votes. The Descent. Five female friends take out their sixth friend, who lost her husband and child the year before, on a spelunking adventure.
- 301 votes. Sanctum. In what seems to be an increasingly bad idea, a mixed team of veteran and inexperienced divers/cave explorers, venture into an unexplored cave system in Papua New Guinea.
- 380 votes. As Above, So Below. In this found footage horror film, caves in Iran lead a professor of archaeology, Scarlett Marlowe, to the Catacombs of Paris to find the philosopher's stone.
- 238 votes. The Cave. A team of American spelunkers is hired explore a cave system under a buried Eastern Orthodox abbey. Despite being outfitted with the latest equipment that allows divers to be submerged for up to 24 hours, the spelunkers run into cave-ins, rapids, and unknown creatures.
Films about cavemen, stock characters representative of primitive man in the Paleolithic. The popularization of the type dates to the early 20th century, when Neanderthal Man was influentially described as " simian " or ape -like by Marcellin Boule [1] and Arthur Keith .
Jan 18, 2018 · Cavemen had cave paintings. We've got movies. Here are some of our favourites about our prehistoric past. 18 January 2018. By Trevor Johnston. Early Man was backed with National Lottery funding via the BFI Film Fund.