Films with theme "La préhistoire", sorted by name

, 4h10
Directed by Albert Band, David DeCoteau, Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Brett Cullen, Owen Bush, Austin O'Brien, Whitney Anderson, Tony Longo, Stuart Fratkin

Prehysteria! tells the story of Rico Sarno, a museum curator, who enters a forbidden temple in South America, and discovers a nest of five eggs. He steals them and brings them back to his museum. Frank Taylor (Brett Cullen), a farmer, sells fossils to Rico and in a mix up, the Taylor's dog takes a cooler, which has the eggs. The kids, Monica (Samantha Mills) and Jerry (Austin O'Brien) discover the dinosaurs when they hatch and try to keep it a secret, until their father finds out. Vicki (Colleen Morris), a woman who works for Rico, sees the dinosaurs, she tells the Taylors not to give them back to Rico because he will expose them. Rico finds out the Taylors have them and hires two robbers to help him get the dinosaurs back.

, 1h35
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Time travel films
Actors Livingston

Professor Neelakantan (J. Livingston) is an maverick Indian scientist and inventor who develops and constructs a time machine, and begins experimenting with it. He realises that his machine requires a recognised "object" to work, and he therefore seeks to locate such an object that can be transported in time through his machine. He jokingly tells his pet dog that he would use it as the "object".

, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Tommy Kirk, Shirley Bonne

Norman and Leela Sterns are newlyweds who are driving from their home in New York to Los Angeles. They become lost and are stranded in rural Ozark countryside because they are running out of gasoline. They meet a friendly paleontologist named Wayne Thomas (Tommy Kirk). Wayne suggests that they visit the nearest farm that could give them some gasoline. They find that the farm is run by a strange farmer named Greely, who tells them that the gasoline truck was supposed to arrive the previous day, but since it didn't, he expects it there any minute. Greely suggests that they go inside to the parlor, where it's cooler. On the way up to the house, he asks if they know anybody out here, in case they may be waiting for them. They say no, and when they get inside, Greely goes off to tell his "housekeeper", Bella to make some iced tea. She argues with him on what he will "do with them", but Greely smacks her, and threatens that she will "take their place" if she doesn't serve them some tea.

, 1h49
Directed by Roland Emmerich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, War, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Peplum
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Films set in Atlantis
Actors Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Omar Sharif, Marco Khan,arm.Մարկո Խան (Մարկո Խանլյան), Affif Ben Badra

In the timeframe of 10,000 BC, a tribe of hunter-gatherers called the Yagahl live in a remote mountain range in the Urals and survive by killing woolly mammoths, which they call "mannaks". The camp is led by a hunter who has proven his bravery by killing a Mammoth, and taking the White Spear. The people also strongly venerate an elderly woman, called Old Mother. Because of her different appearance to other humans in the village, it is assumed she is a Neanderthal, the "last of her kind", living with the Homo sapiens of the camp.

, 2h36
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Social science fiction, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about computing, Films about music and musicians, Philosophie, La préhistoire, Dans l'espace, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about classical music and musicians, Dystopian films, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Robot films
Actors Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Douglas Rain, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack

In an African desert millions of years ago, a tribe of man-apes is driven from their water hole by a rival tribe. They wake to find a featureless black monolith has appeared before them. One man-ape realizes how to use a bone as a tool and weapon; the tribe kills the leader of their rivals and reclaims the water hole.

, 1h56
Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films about computing, La préhistoire, Dans l'espace, Sur la Lune, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Space opera, Sur la Lune
Actors Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain

After the mysterious failure of the Discovery One mission to Jupiter in 2001, which resulted in the deaths of four astronauts and the disappearance of David Bowman, the fiasco was blamed on Dr. Heywood Floyd, who resigned his position as head of the National Council for Astronautics. While an international dispute causes tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, both nations prepare space missions to determine what happened to the Discovery. Although the Soviet ship, the Leonov, will be ready before the American spacecraft Discovery Two, the Soviets need American astronauts to help board the Discovery and investigate the malfunction of the ship's sentient computer, HAL 9000, which caused the disaster. The US government agrees to a joint mission when it is determined that Discovery will crash into Jupiter's moon Io before Discovery Two is ready. Floyd, along with Discovery designer Walter Curnow and HAL 9000's creator Dr. Chandra, joins the Soviet mission.

, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Treat Williams, Ronny Cox, Jillian Rose Reed, Jose Rosete, Andray Johnson

Des scientifiques parviennent à recréer des dinosaures et des ptérosaures. Mais lorsqu'ils présentent leurs résultats au public lors d'une conférence, les animaux s'échappent et sèment la panique dans les rues de Los Angeles, poursuivant particulièrement un pompier (Treat Williams) et sa fille (Jillian Rose Reed). Après avoir mangé beaucoup de monde, ils sont finalement tous tués.

, 1h36
Directed by Albert et Allen Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Wolves in film, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Morgan Freeman, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jens Hultén, Leonor Varela, Natassia Malthe

En Europe, durant la période du Paléolithique supérieur, le jeune Keda tente de retrouver sa tribu qui le croit mort après une chute lors de la chasse au bison des steppes. Durant son voyage, il va se lier avec un loup blessé, qu'il nommera plus tard Alpha.

, 1h30
Directed by Julian Jarrold
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Sam Trammell, Daniel Baldwin, Stephanie Lemelin, Alan Van Sprang, Tamara Gorski, Faye Dunaway

Vincent Rubio is a Velociraptor private investigator along with his partner, Ernie Watson, a Triceratops.

, 1h24
Directed by Jacques Malaterre
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques
Actors Helmi Dridi, Vesela Kazakova, Aruna Shields

Pendant trois cent mille ans, les Néandertaliens ont occupé l'Europe, mais leur espèce tend à disparaître : elle ne compte qu’un seul représentant, Ao. Son clan ayant été anéanti par des Homo sapiens, Ao commence à errer, sans cesse poursuivi par la vision de son frère Oa et décidé à revenir dans son vieux clan paternel. Il est capturé par une tribu d’Homo sapiens hostiles et fait la connaissance d’Aki, une femme Homo sapiens prisonnière. Tous les deux réussissent à s'échapper et avec le temps, après la méfiance et la suspicion que la femme avait initialement éprouvé envers cet homme différent, Ao et Aki commencent à se connaître et à se comprendre. À la fin Ao découvre qu'il est le dernier des Néandertaliens, mais il lui reste sa compagne, Aki, et les fruits de leur amour : sa petite fille et un nouvel enfant qui s’annonce.

, 2h52
Directed by Zacharias Kunuk
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Documentary, Fantasy, Action
Themes Films based on mythology, La préhistoire
Actors Natar Ungalaaq

The film is set in Igloolik ("place of houses") in the Eastern Arctic wilderness at the dawn of the first millennium.

Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Ian Ziering, Dichen Lachman, Jack McGee, Shawn Lathrop, Marco Sanchez, Will Snow

Taking place in 1521 on the coast of Mexico, a group of Aztecs worships and makes sacrifices to a pair of living Tyrannosaurus rex. A group of conquistadores led by Hernán Cortés later arrive on the location and venture into the forest to make camp. One of the Tyrannosaurs crosses the path of one of the conquistadores and devours his horse. His fellow conquistadores do not believe his story and continue to venture through the dense forest. An Aztec who is not aware of the Tyrannosaur is eaten, while another witnesses the event with an expression of deep horror and surprise. Later, the conquistadores try to kill the tribe of Aztecs, but are put to sleep by a hidden Aztec with a tube of tranquilizer darts. Hernán Cortés surrenders and demands a truce, but realizes they cannot understand him. He murmurs to himself that they are savages, not realizing the chief can understand English, and is knocked out. Once he regains consciousness, he meets an English-speaking female Aztec. She tells him the Aztecs call the Tyrannosaurs "Thunder Lizards". Later, Hernán Cortés is offered up as a sacrifice, but is freed by his new friend, Gria. It is revealed that of Hernán's fault, the female, who was the chief's daughter, was consumed by one of the Tyrannosaurs. The chief becomes enraged, but he does not know that his daughter Ayacoatl is actually alive. The chief orders a sacrifice of all the conquistadores, but his mind changes when his daughter returns. The daughter's marriage is postponed when a Tyrannosaur kills an Aztec girl. The conquistadores set out on a mission to kill the Tyrannosaurs with cannons and muskets. They succeed in killing the male at the loss of one of their companions. At night Cortez and his soldiers rob the temple of gold and try to escape to the coast. They leave lieutenant Rios and sergeant Mendoza to the mercy of the Aztecs as they had become to friendly with them. In their escape to the coast all but Cortes are devoured by the female Tyrannosaurus. Sergeant Menoza is mortally wounded by the Tyrannosaurus. Rios and shaman Xocozin set out to try to kill the animal but Rios has been secretly drugged by Xocozin who tries to kill him. Xocozin leaves Rios to his fate and heads to the village where he is confronted by the Chief who found out his betrayal. Xocozin and the Chief fight with the latter being mortally wounded. Eventually Rios is found by Ayacoatl and Fra Gria, who marries them. At the altar Xocozin is mortally wounded by Rios. Ayacoatl then cuts out Xovozin's heart to use as bait for the female Tyrannosaurus who then is killed in a gunpowder explosion. Fra Gia and Cortes are picked up by a Spanish ship but are warned by Rios not to return to the valley, which Cortes never did when he conquered the Aztec empire. Fra Gia returned to Spain, became a saint and the inventor of Sangria. Ayacoatl and Rios become rulers of the tibe.

, 1h35
Directed by Bill L. Norton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes, Hugh Quarshie, Julian Curry

George Loomis (William Katt) and and his wife Dr. Susan Matthews-Loomis (Sean Young) find a family of Mokele-mbembe (referred to as Brontosaurs) in Central Africa and they struggle to protect them from a greedy scientist named Dr. Eric Kiviat (Patrick McGoohan) and the military.

Genres Comedy, Horror, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Kaiju films, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Giant monster films, Godzilla films, Disaster films

The opening credits scroll over an animated image of the character Bambi serenely grazing while the Call to the Dairy Cows from Rossini's opera William Tell (1829) plays in the background. After the credits, Bambi looks up to see Godzilla's giant foot coming down, squashing him flat (set to the final chord of The Beatles' "A Day in the Life" played at half-speed). After a moment, the closing credits scroll over the image of Godzilla's foot on top of a squished Bambi. At the very end, Godzilla's claws twitch once.

, 1h20
Directed by Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Films about magic and magicians, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Natural horror films, Giant monster films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films
Actors Gene Evans, André Morell, Jack MacGowran, John Turner, Derren Nesbitt, Maurice Kaufmann

American scientist Steve Karnes (Gene Evans) delivers a speech to a British scientific society, headed by Professor James Bickford (André Morell), about the dangers to marine life posed by nuclear testing. Before Karnes can return to the U.S., a real-life example of his concern materializes when Tom Trevethan (Henri Vidon), an old fisherman, receives a lethal doze of radiation; his dying word is "behemoth". Later thousands of dead fish are washed ashore.