Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom (1984)

After a narrow escape from Shanghai, Indiana Jones crash-lands in the mountains of India, where he discovers a devastated village whose children have mysteriously vanished. Drawn into a quest to retrieve a sacred stone believed to hold immense power, Indy, nightclub singer Willie Scott, and street-smart sidekick Short Round descend into a dark underworld ruled by the cult of the Thuggee.

Forced into the depths of a brutal mine system and confronted with rituals of human sacrifice, Indy must battle brainwashing, slavery, and supernatural forces to free the kidnapped children and stop a reborn ancient evil. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom delivers relentless adventure with a darker tone that helped redefine the action genre.