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Top 10 Jungle Movies


I’ll have you know I have the reflexes
of a cat and the speed of a mongoose
throw it in the jungle the mighty jungle
some of cinema’s greatest adventures are
set welcome to watchmojo.com and today
we’re counting down our picks for the
top 10 jungle movies for this list we’re
taking a look at some of the best movies
in which a jungle or rain forest plays a
vital role in the film’s story or
setting we make a device of the top you
don’t make it up there where hey will
impress
whole set shit number 10 Rambo John
Stallone fans were thrilled when they
learned that the legendary action star
would return in his classic role as John
Rambo in this fourth installment of the
series I’m not liking it you’re in
Jungle Plus notes there’s nothing to
like the movie ended up delivering
exactly what fans were hoping for a
violent tale of how the eponymous X
Special Forces soldier is recruited to
rescue a group of kidnapped missionaries
in the jungles of mine mark
facing off against a ruthless military
regime while channeling some Clint
Eastwood and Humphrey Bogart between the
tropical battles there is no doubt that
Rambo always gets the job done number
nine the emerald forest allegedly based
on a true story and set in the
rainforests of Brazil this adventure
drama sees powers Boothe playing an
engineer and businessman who moves to
the region with his family in order to
work on the construction of a massive
dam twenty days you get a little bigger
I’ll show you how to drive one of those
however his son Tommy is soon captured
by kind-hearted natives known as the
invisible people
the arrow belongs to the invisible
people who are good meet the lady you
and I in Sweden the story then divides
into two storylines following Tommy’s
transformation into a man with the tribe
and his father’s search to find him in a
film that captures the anger beauty and
mystery of the nature that surrounds
them
number eight Romancing the Stone my god
what kind of trouble you mean this
golden globe-winning blend of adventure
romance and comedy launched Michael
Douglas Kathleen Turner and director
Robert Zemeckis to international fate
they have jungles death Tony
insects the size of Sanitation trucks
revolutionaries chronicling the
adventures of a spirited New York author
who travels to the jungles of Colombia
to save her sister’s life she encounters
the rugged Douglass who the hell are you
I’m a romance no you’re why
along with shootouts emeralds waterfalls
vicious crocodiles and a humorously
villainous Danny DeVito look you want to
kill me take me back to Queens in Joey
don’t let me die in a jungle like a
goddamn slave capturing the appeal of
Raiders of the Lost Ark this fun romp is
great for the whole family and was
followed by the commercially successful
sequel The Jewel of the Nile you are a
gifted storyteller you create heroes in
a world of cynics journey down the Nile
with me and I’ll give you a chance to
record history Gump number seven
it’s called Oh Cisco don’t be scared oh
the story behind the making of this
brilliant movie is almost as fascinating
as the story within the movie itself
it’ll be the greatest opera that John
Adair seen please Gladys in there
starring Klaus Kinski the film follows
madman Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald as he
determines to build an opera house in
the jungle even though this means he’ll
need to drag a boat overland from one
river to another I’m doing it all this
because I have one dream the Opera the
great opera in the jungle a craving
realism director Werner Herzog’s swore
off special effects and instead actually
had a 360 ton boat hauled up a muddy 40
degree slope in the jungle to create
this spectacular powerhouse of a film I
shall move a mountain
number six King Kong listen I’m Carl
Denham
ever hear of me yeah yeah you make
moving pictures in jungles in place even
though we also
loved the 2005 remake by Peter Jackson
it’s this 1933 version that forever
changed the world of cinema and inspired
its love of special effects fantasy and
destruction sound something like the
language than these Islanders speak when
a giant gorilla is discovered on an
exotic jungle island by a film crew it
sets in motion a series of events that
includes the primates falling in love
with a human woman played by fate ray
and it’s battles with dinosaurs and
humans for any lover of cinema it is a
must see number 5 Tarzan
although the story of Tarzan of the Apes
is more than a hundred years old it’s
this animated flick that stole our
hearts and introduced the character to a
whole new generation I’ll try to
remember that when the shipwrecked
parents of a young infant are killed by
a leopard the young child is raised as a
primate by the motherly gorilla kala if
the jungle wants him there
I want you however drama romance and
adventure await the apeman with the
arrival of curious explorers your date
guy I thought I saw something
with a vibrant emotional storyline this
flick is our favorite Tarzan adaptation
and we particularly enjoy its
oscar-winning song you’ll be in my heart
yes you
number four
platoon diet lock and load
this classic anti-war film directed by
Oliver Stone and set in the jungles of
Vietnam is considered by many to be one
of the greatest war films of all time
shut up take the pain tirstrup I’m
chronicling our protagonists memories of
the war complete with long marches
little sleep
bloody violence and constant dread the
film is harrowing and difficult to watch
a lot of little firefights ambushes we
drop a lot of bombs then we walk through
the jungle like ghosts in a landscape
for it’s brilliant direction acting and
screenplay it was awarded several Oscars
including a Best Picture win and did for
the Vietnam War what jaws did for the
ocean
number three the Jungle Book many
strange legends are told of these
jungles of India arguably one of
Disney’s liveliest and funniest animated
films of all time this family movie and
its characters inspired dozens of films
shows and video games to come after it I
want to stay in the jungle huh
centering on Mowgli a young human orphan
who is raised by a wolf in the Indian
jungle but the boy cannot survive alone
in the jungle akela perhaps I can be of
help the film showcases his journey back
to human civilization by his friends
Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther
as they protect him from the murderous
tiger Shere Khan right from your toes
how’s that if you haven’t seen this
classic yet make it one of your bare
necessities yeah but just the bare
necessities beautiful that’s real jungle
harmony
number two predator she says the jungle
it just came alive and took him filmed
in the steamy and lush rainforest of
Mexico the film opens with the
inimitable Arnold Schwarzenegger and his
team venturing into a Central American
jungle in search of officials who have
been abducted by gorillas this is the
same contained the jungle that came
alive and took him when they come to a
series of bodies in the jungle they
realize that they are dealing with
something a lot worse than what they
expected it’s change colors like the
chameleon it uses the jungle and they
soon find themselves being tracked and
hunted by an extraterrestrial creature
come on do it now
since its release predators gripping
atmosphere pacing and locale have made
it one of the most popular action films
ever the month before we unveil our top
pick here are some honorable mentions
this is a place for prayers to be heard
suddenly I get the chance to find out
there’s an old jungle saying ever point
a gun at sand as it just might go off
Dale oh yeah enough to ask Tabasco
you see the wachootoo dart is made of
wood from the mimosa tree while the
other dart is carved from a red fungus
bearing a kala and there’s only one area
the jungle with red fungus Berry Nogales
number one Apocalypse Now
it is revered today as one of the
greatest films of all time every time I
think I’m gonna wake up back in the
jungle though ultimately it’s the story
of Captain Benjamin L Willard and his
mission to track down and kill the
deserter Colonel Walter a Kurtz by
trailing the Nunn River into the jungle
the film is so much more than that man
he’s gone away he’s gone away he
disappeared out in the jungle with his
people away for it’s comfortable a dark
brooding psychological drama on the
complexities of war humanity nature and
madness the film stars acting Titans
Marlon Brando Robert Duvall and Martin
Sheen to great effect even the jungle
wanted him dead
Matsui really took his orders from
anyway with a powerful score compelling
story inspired acting and layered
screenplay
director Francis Ford Coppola epic is a
masterpiece in every sense of the word
do you agree with our list which jungle
movies do you think deserve a place on
our list place is completely surrounded
the entire place crawls living things
it’s why they call it the jungle
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