User:Erik/List of films featuring Atlantis
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There is a body of films that feature Atlantis.
List of films
| Film | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Alien from L.A. | 1988 | The American science fiction film features a woman who tries to find her missing archaeologist father and comes across Atlantis, hidden underground.[1] |
| Aquaman | 2018 | The American superhero film depicts Atlantis as a technologically advanced underwater kingdom divided among rival polities, with the protagonist seeking to claim the Atlantean throne and prevent a war with the surface world.[citation needed] |
| Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | 2023 | A sequel to Aquaman in which Arthur Curry's role as king of Atlantis is central and the plot concerns a threat to Atlantis and the wider world.[citation needed] |
| The Atlantis Interceptors | 1983 | The Italian science fiction film features a team of scientists who, in the process of raising a submarine, causes Atlantis to re-emerge.[1][2][2] |
| Atlantis, the Lost Continent | 1961 | The American science fiction film is set in Atlantis during classical antiquity. A Greek fisherman rescues an Atlantean princess and returns her to her homeland.[3][1][2] |
| Atlantis: Milo's Return | 2003 | The American animated film, a sequel to the 2001 film Atlantis: The Lost Empire, features a young man and an Atlantean queen who investigate strange occurrences around the world that are connected to Atlantis.[3][1] |
| Atlantis: The Lost Empire | 2001 | The American animated film features a young man who has a sacred book that guides him to Atlantis.[3][1] |
| The Bermuda Triangle | 1978 | The English-language science fiction film features a family who enters the Bermuda Triangle in search of remains of Atlantis.[2] |
| Beyond Atlantis | 1973 | The American-Filipino science fiction horror film follows pearl seekers who reach a remote island and encounter amphibious humanoids whose culture is framed as a surviving offshoot associated with Atlantis.[3][1] |
| Cocoon | 1985 | The American science fiction film presents Atlantis as the site of an ancient extraterrestrial outpost, with stranded aliens remaining in cocoons on the ocean floor after the city sinks.[2] |
| Conqueror of Atlantis | 1965 | The Italian fantasy adventure film has its hero enter an Atlantean remnant hidden in a desert region, where an Atlantean queen seeks a successor and the narrative treats Atlantis as a concealed survivance rather than a submerged city.[1][2] |
| Desert Legion | 1953 | The American adventure film includes a plotline in which a French Foreign Legion officer reaches a secluded "lost city" in the North African desert that is presented in Atlantean terms in later accounts of Atlantis in film.[2] |
| Escape from Atlantis | 1997 | The American made-for-television fantasy film follows a family who is transported by a time warp to Atlantis, which is depicted as an isolated realm populated by magical creatures and hazards.[1] |
| Les Exploits Erotique de Maciste dans l'Atlantide | 1973 | The French-Spanish exploitation film uses Atlantis as the setting for Maciste’s adventures, portraying it as a hidden kingdom ruled by a queen and threatened by sorcery and intrigue.[1] |
| Fire Maidens from Outer Space | 1956 | The British science fiction film depicts "New Atlantis" as a colony founded by refugees from Atlantis after its sinking, surviving on a distant celestial body and encountered by visiting astronauts.[3][1][2] |
| The Giant of Metropolis | 1961 | The Italian fantasy adventure film is set in Atlantis, depicted as a decadent capital whose rulers employ advanced devices and schemes that the hero attempts to overturn.[1] |
| Hercules | 1983 | The Italian-American fantasy film incorporates Atlantis as a principal locale within its mythological adventure, presenting it as a realm tied to the antagonist’s ambitions and the hero’s quest.[2] |
| Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis | 1961 | The Italian-French film has Hercules travel to Atlantis, where an Atlantean queen seeks domination through the creation and control of superhuman warriors.[3][1][2] |
| Island of the Fishmen | 1979 | The Italian science fiction horror film involves the discovery of Atlantis beneath surrounding waters, with its treasures targeted through the use of amphibious "fish-men" as tools for undersea plunder.[2] |
| Journey Beneath the Desert | 1961 | The Italian-French adventure film places Atlantis as an underground city beneath the desert, where stranded outsiders become involved in internal conflict and revolt.[3][1][2] |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | 1959 | The American science fiction film includes a sequence in which the explorers pass through the ruins of Atlantis, treating it as a sunken city encountered during the subterranean journey.[1] |
| Justice League: Throne of Atlantis | 2015 | A direct-to-video animated superhero film in which Atlantis and an Atlantean–surface conflict drive the story, with Arthur Curry's Atlantean heritage and succession as king being central.[citation needed] |
| Kull the Conqueror | 1997 | The American-Italian fantasy film identifies its protagonist as a barbarian from Atlantis, using Atlantean origin as a marker of lineage and status within its fictional ancient world.[1] |
| L'Atlantide | 1921 | The French silent film depicts Atlantis as a hidden Saharan kingdom ruled by Queen Antinéa, who ensnares intruding officers and preserves former lovers as trophies after their deaths.[3][1][2] |
| L'Atlantide | 1932 | Also Die Herrin von Atlantis or The Mistress of Atlantis; the German-French film again presents Atlantis as an underground Saharan realm ruled by Queen Antinéa, framed through the recollections of an officer who claims to have reached it.[3][1][2] |
| L'Atlantide | 1972 | The French television film follows lost French officers who are taken into Atlantis, portrayed as a concealed desert kingdom where Queen Antinéa’s influence drives rivalry and violence among her captives.[1][2] |
| L'Atlantide | 1992 | The French-Italian film portrays Atlantis as a legendary, elusive kingdom in North Africa tied to an ancient dynasty, with the narrative centered on a search that leads to its queen and her domain.[1][2] |
| The Laws of the Sun | 2000 | The Japanese animated film includes Atlantis among the settings in a religious-historical narrative, depicting it as one of several ancient civilizations visited through divine incarnation and instruction.[1] |
| MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis | 1994 | The American television film follows MacGyver and an archaeologist as they pursue artifacts and a "lost treasure" attributed to Atlantis, treating Atlantis as a historical source of knowledge and relics rather than an active polity.[1] |
| The Phantom Empire | 1935 | The American serial features the discovery of an advanced subterranean kingdom beneath a ranch, a "lost world" premise that has been grouped with cinematic Atlantean survivals and underground Atlantean analogues.[1] |
| The Phantom Empire | 1988 | The American science fiction horror comedy follows adventurers seeking a fabled underground realm associated with a vanished civilization, using the "lost empire" framework as a modernized Atlantean-style underworld quest.[1] |
| The Return of Captain Nemo | 1978 | A television film in which the Nautilus heads to Atlantis and the characters discover Atlantis's underwater ruins and interact with its inhabitants.[citation needed] |
| Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis | 1969 | The Mexican luchador film situates its antagonists’ scheme in an Atlantean base, depicting Atlantis as a hidden stronghold used for conspiratorial plans and confrontations with the heroes.[3][1][2] |
| Siren of Atlantis | 1949 | The American fantasy-adventure film adapts the "desert Atlantis" motif by presenting Atlantis as a lost Saharan kingdom ruled by Queen Antinéa, whose allure is linked to murder and captivity among visiting soldiers.[3][1][2] |
| Toto the Sheik | 1950 | Also Toto Sceicco; the Italian comedy parodies desert adventure narratives and includes a sequence that invokes Atlantis as a fantastical hidden realm associated with Queen Antinéa and the conventions of the Atlantis-in-the-desert tradition.[3][2] |
| Undersea Kingdom | 1936 | The American serial depicts Atlantis as a surviving undersea civilization discovered by an expedition in a rocket submarine, with much of the plot driven by an Atlantean civil war and attempts to weaponize Atlantean technology against the surface world.[1] |
| Warlords of Atlantis | 1978 | The British adventure science fiction film follows an expedition that locates Atlantis beneath the sea and is taken into the city, which is portrayed as a technologically powerful society whose rulers plan to extend control beyond the undersea world.[3][1][2] |
| The Weathering Continent | 1992 | The Japanese animated film is set on a shattered, post-catastrophe Atlantis, treating Atlantis as a ruined continent through which travelers move in search of surviving civilization and meaning.[1] |