Jules Verne Filmography

Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Actors: Rick Schroder, Victoria Pratt, Peter Fonda, Steve Grayhm

Synopsis: Not to be confused with Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D, the Brendan Fraser adventure that was released into theaters the same year, this made-for-cable take on Jules Verne's classic tale stars Golden Globe winner Rick Schroder as the leader of a treacherous mission miles below the Earth's Read More

Mysterious Island

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Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Gabrielle Anwar, Vinnie Jones, Omar Gooding, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Five prisoners of war escape captivity in a Confederate prison camp only to land in an uncharted Pacific island where time stands still and dastardly pirates don't take kindly to strangers in director Russell Mulcahy's screen adaptation of fantasy author Jules Verne's literary classic. They Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

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Actors: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent, Robert Fyfe, Cécile De France

Synopsis: Jules Verne's famous novel of a daring man of science who takes on the greatest voyage in history is once again adapted for the big screen in this adventure comedy. In 1872, eccentric British inventor Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) has come up with any number of gadgets to help people travel with Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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Synopsis: This animated adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story 20,00 Leagues Under the Sea. The story involves a girl who pretends to be a boy in order to sneak onto the Nautilus, a ship led by Captain Nemo, who forces the girl to make a momentous decision when he discovers her on the vessel. ~ Perry Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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Actors: Michael Caine, Patrick Dempsey, Mia Sara, Bryan Brown, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Synopsis: The second of two network-TV adaptations of Jules Verne's speculative 1868 novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, this two-part ABC version originally aired on May 11 and 12, 1997, some two months after CBS's shorter -- and infinitely more faithful -- version. The year is 1886, and an unknown Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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Actors: Ben Cross, Paul Gross, Julie Cox, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Michael Anderson directed this TV movie version of Jules Verne's oft-adapted science fiction classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Richard Crenna stars as Henry Aronnax, a marine biologist, who, along with his crew, must confront the maniacal genius Captain Nemo (Ben Cross), helmsman of the Read More

800 Leagues Down the Amazon

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Actors: Daphne Zuniga, Barry Bostwick, Adam Baldwin, Tom Verica

Synopsis: In this jungle adventure, based on a Jules Verne novel, Spunky Minha, was born and raised in the Amazon jungle on her father's hemp plantation. After she agrees to marry Dr. Manuel Valdez, they decide to hold the wedding in Brazil so his sickly mother can be there. Unfortunately, the girl's father Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

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Synopsis: Jules Verne's classic tale of adventure is brought to the screen once again in this animated adaptation. When wealthy Phileas Fogg claims that a man can travel around the world in eighty days, one of his rivals challenges him to do it himself, and places a large wager to make matters more Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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The Story of 15 Boys

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Synopsis: Based on a classic story by Jules Verne, this animated adventure chronicles the exploits of fifteen fellows as they fight to stay alive in an extraordinary situation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

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Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Peter Ustinov, Julia Nickson

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan stars as adventurer Phineas Fogg in this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story, in which to win a wager he must travel around the globe in 80 days or less. However, Fogg has been blamed for the theft of a large amount of money, and a detective (Peter Ustinov) is hot on his trail Read More

Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Actors: Nicola Cowper, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Paul Carafotes

Synopsis: This is another retelling of the Jules Verne tale about an adventure to the earth's core. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Custer's Last Trooper

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Around the World with Willy Fog

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Monster Island

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Actors: Terence Stamp, Peter Cushing, Ian Sera, David Hatton, Gasphar Ipua

Synopsis: After cannibalizing Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth in his 1977 film Where Time Began, Spanish director Juan Piquer Simon returned to the author with this substandard retelling of Mysterious Island. The story concerns a shipwrecked group who discover natural wonders and a gold Read More

Off on a Comet

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Synopsis: Based on a story by Jules Verne, this animated fantasy chronicles the adventures of a courageous French captain who tries to guide survivors through outer space after a comet slams into Earth and carries them away. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Viaje al Centro de la Tierra

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Actors: Kenneth More, Pepe Munne, Ivonne Sentis, Frank Brana, Jack Taylor

Synopsis: Juan Piquer Simon, best known for such horror films as Pieces and Slugs, tackled the Jules Verne story with poor results. Kenneth More leads the expedition to the earth's core, where he and his party are menaced by gorillas, dinosaurs, and other assorted creatures. The special-effects are less Read More

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Synopsis: This 1977 animated collaboration -- the first of many -- between Australian cartoonist Richard Slapczynski and screenwriter John Palmer -- condenses Jules Verne's epic fantasy novel into a breezy 46 minutes. The short remains faithful to Verne's basic story: in late-19th century Hamburg, Professor Read More

Viaje Fantastico en Globo

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Actors: Hugo Stiglitz, Jeff Cooper, Carmen Vicarte, Carlos East, Zamorita

Synopsis: In this children's action/adventure movie, a team of Royal Geographical Society scientists, led by professor Fergusson (Hugo Stiglitz) take a balloon trip across Africa in 1862. Along the way, they have adventures with natives, rescue a stranded Englishwoman, and discover a gold mine. ~ Clarke Read More

Master of the World

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Synopsis: This animated adaptation of the Jules Verne tale concerns a mad scientist's plot to become the ruler of the world. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mysterious Island

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Synopsis: Based on a Jules Verne story, this animated fantasy tells the story of two escaped Civil War-era prisoners who steal a balloon and end up on the title island where they begin fashioning new lives for themselves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

L'Île Mysterieuse

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Actors: Omar Sharif, Philippe Nicaud, Gerard Tichy, Jess Hahn

Synopsis: This French film is one of the many efforts to film Jules Verne's novel, Mysterious Island. Here Captain Nemo is Omar Sharif, a seriously misanthropic man, who hides near a tropical island in his fabulous submarine. Flying in on a balloon are a number of refugees from a military dictatorship. The Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

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Actors: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peggy Dixon, Keith Hampshire

Synopsis: This two-part cartoon adaptation of Jules Verne's fanciful adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days was a coproduction of Canada's Rankin-Bass and Japan's Mushi Productions. The familiar story of how Phileas Fogg and his manservant Passepartout undertake to circle the globe in 80 days is retold Read More

The Light at the Edge of the World

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Actors: Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Samantha Eggar, Jean-Claude Drouot, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: This action adventure is based on Jules Verne's The Light at the Edge of the World. It takes place in 1865 on the chilly tip of Argentina in a lighthouse set up to guide ships around the extremely dangerous and turbulent waters of Cape Horn. The lighthouse keeper (Fernando Rey) and his assistant Read More

Strange Holiday

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Synopsis: This adventure is loosely based on a Jules Verne novel and chronicles the lives of a group of marooned boys who are surprised when another shipwreck brings another band of survivors to their desert island in the South Pacific. Among them are British prisoners who threaten the little colony until Read More

L'Etoile Du Sud

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Actors: George Segal, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: In this comic adventure, an impoverished Yankee geologist and his cohorts band together with a group of fortune hunters to search for the priceless "Southern Star," an enormous diamond. The geologist has a double stake in the hunt as he not only hopes to earn much-needed cash, he also hopes to Read More

Na Komete

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Actors: Emil Horvath, Magda Vasaryova, Frantisek Filipovsky

Synopsis: On the Comet (variously titled Na Komete and Archa Pana Servadaca in Czechoslovakia) is based on an 1877 novel by Jules Verne, originally titled Hector Servadac but more popularly known as Off on a Comet. The principal characters all happen to be standing on a piece of Earthbound real estate when Read More

Those Fantastic Flying Fools

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Actors: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying Fools (originally titled Blast-Off, and also released as Those Fantastic Flying Fools) is based very loosely on a Jules Verne novel. A 19th century British newspaper offers a Read More

Les Tribulations D'Un Chinois En Chine

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Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Ursula Andress, Jean Rochefort, Darry Cowl, Maria Pacome, Valerie Lagrange

Synopsis: Arthur Lempereur (Jean-Paul Belmondo of Breathless) is a globe-hopping millionaire, engaged to Alice (Valérie Lagrange), a beautiful young woman. As the film opens, Arthur has cut the break line on his fine automobile and proceeds to drive it off a cliff. This, we learn, is his ninth suicide Read More

Mathias Sandorf

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Actors: Louis Jourdan, Francisco Rabal, Serena Vergano, Renaud Mary, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Based on a Jules Verne tale about a make-believe, 19th-century country in the throes of revolution, this routine costume drama by Georges Lampin has a slight storyline about Mathias (Louis Jourdan), a noble count whose innate sensibilities lead him to side with the rebelling masses and Read More

Five Weeks in a Balloon

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Actors: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke, Peter Lorre, Herbert Marshall

Synopsis: With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959). The plot is set in motion when 19th-century explorer Fergusson (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) volunteers to head a balloon expedition to Read More

In Search of the Castaways

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Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Hayley Mills, George Sanders, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Michael Anderson, Jr.

Synopsis: Based on Jules Verne's novel Captain Grant's Children, In Search of the Castaways is a roller-coaster of a Disney film, making up in excitement what it lacks in credibility or coherence. Hayley Mills and Keith Hamshere play the children of long-missing ship's captain Jack Gwillim. By chance, a Read More

The Castaways

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The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

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Actors: Louis Tock, Ernest Navara, Milo Holl, Francis Sherr

Synopsis: The Czechoslovakia-filmed Fabulous World of Jules Verne is based on the 1896 Verne novel Face the Flag. The story concerns the machinations of evil millionaire Artigas (Miloslav Holub), who plans to use a super-explosive device to conquer the world. Artigas operates from a pirate submarine Read More

Valley of the Dragons

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Actors: Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley, Danielle de Metz, Gregg Martell

Synopsis: In this sci-fi fantasy, based on a Jules Verne story, two 18th-century men are preparing for a duel when they find themselves caught in the tremendous tailwind of a passing comet. They get sucked onto the comet's head where they find a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs and cave men. The rivals Read More

Master of the World

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Actors: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, David Frankham

Synopsis: Master of the World was adapted by Richard Matheson from two Jules Verne novels, Robur le Conquerant (1896) and its sequel, Maitre du Monde (1904)--with more than a little of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea thrown in. Set in 1868, the story is galvanized by an ominous warning of impending doom Read More

Mysterious Island

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Actors: Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom

Synopsis: Filmed at least nine times over the last nine decades, Jules Verne's Mysterious Island received its most popular picturization in the hands of producer Charles Schneer, director Cy Endfield and special-effects maestro Ray Harryhausen. During the Civil War, several P.O.W.s led by Gary Merrill Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Fogg Bound

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Synopsis: In several Have Gun, Will Travel episodes, gunslinger Paladin (Richard Boone) crosses the paths of actual historical figures. This episode represents the one-and-only time that Paladin confronts a fictional character from classic literature--namely, Phileas Fogg (Patric Knowles), the unflappable Read More

Journey to the Center of the Earth

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Actors: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker, Peter Ronson, Thayer David

Synopsis: There was neither a heroine nor a villain in Jules Verne's 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, but scenarist Charles Brackett evidently knew what he was doing by adding both to the 1959 film version. The picture proved to be a significant success in an otherwise disappointing year for Read More

800 Leguas Por El Amazonas

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Actors: Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Rafael Bertrand, Elvira Qintana, Maria Duval

From the Earth to the Moon

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Actors: Joseph Cotten, George Sanders, Debra Paget, Don Dubbins, Patric Knowles

Synopsis: The resurgence of interest in Jules Verne following the release of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) led to a brief cycle of Verne-based films. Produced in Mexico by Benedict Bogeaus, From the Earth to the Moon stars Joseph Cotten as eccentric Civil War-era scientist Victor Barbicane. Claiming Read More

Vynalez Zkazy

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Actors: Lubor Tokos

Synopsis: The gloriously larger-than-life Czech fantasy Vynalez Zkaky (Weapons of Destruction) was based on a novel by Jules Verne. Set during the 19th century Industrial Revolution, the film concerns the efforts of the villainous Count Artigas (Miloslav Holub) to conquer the world with the aid of Read More

Michel Strogoff

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Actors: Curd Jürgens, Geneviève Page, Jean Parédès, Sylva Koscina, Françoise Fabian

Synopsis: The Russian Czar's special courier, Jurgens, is entrusted with an important message destined for the Czar's troops and he sets off across the Tartars' land with Page in this 19th century setting. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

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Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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Actors: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate American-filmed effort to date. Kirk Douglas plays a trouble-shooting 19th century seaman, trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Read More

Tainstvenny Ostrov

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Actors: Alexei Krasnopolsky, Pavel Kiyansky, Andrei Sova, I. Kozlov, A. Andrienko

Synopsis: This is a remake of the 1929 silent film based on the story of the continuing adventures of Captain Nemo by Jules Verne. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

The Soldier and the Lady

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Actors: Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Margot Grahame, Akim Tamiroff, Fay Bainter

Synopsis: Based on a story by Jules Verne and featuring battle footage from a French film version of the tale, this epic action-adventure follows a courageous courier of the Czar Alexander II as he struggles to deliver vital information to Russian troops fighting a losing battle against the invading Tartar Read More

Deti Kapitana Granta

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Actors: Yuri Yurev, Olga Bazanova, Yakov Segel, Mariya Strelkova, Nikolai Cherkasov

Synopsis: Visionary French novelist Jules Verne is practically a folk hero in Russia, so it stands to reason that many of the Verne movie adaptations have emanated from the USSR. Captain Grant's Children concerns the efforts by two fearless youngsters (O. Bazarova and Y. Segal) to find their long-lost Read More

Sea Devils

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Actors: Molly O'Day, Edmund Burns, Walter Long, Paul Panzer

Synopsis: A couple of silent screen "names," Edmund Burns and Molly O'Day flounder badly in this penny-ante shipboard melodrama from Poverty Row producer Larry Darmour. Second-billed Burns plays Richard Charters, a young man imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit. Escaping, Richard dons a beard and while Read More

The Mysterious Island

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Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Jane Daly, Lloyd Hughes, Montagu Love, Harry Gribbon

Synopsis: Jules Verne's fantastic 19th century novel Mysterious Island provided the title and little else for this spectacular filmization. Lionel Barrymore plays an altruistic scientist who has built an underground city, hoping to use the modernistic devices he has installed to bring about world peace. But Read More

Michel Strogoff

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Actors: Ivan Mosjoukine, Jeanne Brindau, Acho Chakatouny, Henri Debain

Synopsis: Not long before his emigration to Hollywood, director Victor Tourjansky polished off this French filmization of Jules Verne's Michael Strogoff. The screenplay follows the Verne original to the letter, with diplomatic courier Strogoff (Ivan Mosjoukine) going through hell and back to deliver a vital Read More

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

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Synopsis: The 1916 silent version of Jules Vernes' 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was "sold" on the basis of its advanced underwater photography, the handiwork of the legendary Williamson Brothers. The film's storyline combines elements from both 20,000 Leagues and another Verne novel, Mysterious Island. Read More

Fantastic Balloon Voyage

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Synopsis: In this film, a hot-air balloon is the vehicle for a wonderful adventure. As they sail across the equator, three men encounter a variety of strange and unusual sights. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More