Movies like Adrift 2017
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Adrift (2017)
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Original name: Perdidos
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
Style:
suspense, intense, tension, realistic
Plot:
boat, survival, sea, isolation, stranded, man versus nature, friendship, fear, danger, desperation, endurance, dehydration, rescue, minimalism, conflict, panic, hopes, ship, shipwreck, storm, character study, adventurer, heat wave, night, young adult ...
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Most similar movies to Adrift
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, intense and realistic films with plots about survival, isolation, desperation, fear, rescue, claustrophobia and sea mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Adrift: Not Without Hope (2025), Abandoned (2015), 49 Days (1962), The Oasis (1984), Land of the Little People (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
Style:
tense, intense, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
hopes, sea, survival, endurance, desperation, isolation, shipwreck, coast guard, lifeboat, rescue, trauma, friendship ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When their yacht capsizes during a storm; four men face almost certain death.
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
sea, lost at sea, death, desert island, ship, fear, survival, courage, storm, boat, sailing, wilderness survival ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A woman undergoing a medical treatment. Will she survive?
Style:
tension
Plot:
sea, rescue, survival, perseverance, storm, shipwreck, endurance, search and rescue, u.s. navy, hopes, desperation, cold war era ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
53%
104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A plane crash in the Mexican desert leaves a small group of survivors who are desperate for food and water. Fearing that they may never be found where they are, they head for where it is hoped there will be civilization and rescue. When their hopes ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, independent film
Plot:
dehydration, survival, desert, plane crash, stranded, hunger, desperation, moral dilemma, isolation, thirst, human nature, endurance ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Four young kids who live in a village of military officers families, form a small gang. An old abandoned army base, located in the surrounding fields, turns into their camp. A war begins and most men are drafted. When the kids return to their camp ...
Style:
dramatic, tension, intense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
children, army, military, conflict, gang, hiding place, camp, power struggle, power, moral dilemma, adolescence, fear ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
palestine
Similarity:
51%
556
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is attacked and sunk by a sperm whale in November 1820, her crew take to three fragile whalers. Alone in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the men must ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
whale, lost at sea, shipwreck, ship, survival, danger, dangerous animal, ocean, escapades, rescue, isolation, hunting ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends. They forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb. They are stuck in the water ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, family in danger, human nature, yacht, drowning, danger, social relations, sea, uninhibited rivalry, diving, shipwreck, survival horror ...
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
Style:
suspenseful, tension, realistic, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
rescue mission, ocean, sea adventure, rescue, survival, claustrophobia, man versus nature, teamwork, heroism, isolation, boat, male protagonist ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
43%
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109
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 63 min.
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Story:
Summer is almost over and Germán invites his friends for a few days of fun, sun and sex on his luxurious yacht. The dream vacation quickly turns into a night when the group of friends go for a swim and forget to attach the ladder to the side of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, tension, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, sea, yacht, isolation, struggle for survival, lost at sea, friends, sea adventure, sea disaster, sea voyage, problem, sailing ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style:
scary, suspense, sexy, clever, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, shark, shark attack, stranded, diving, ocean, panic, isolation, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, fish ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
caribbean, australia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When two friends from the city take a vacation to the wilds of Montana, they find themselves lost in the depths of the big sky country.
Style:
suspense, tense, grim, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bear attack, mountain, man versus nature, wilderness, survival, hiking, stranded, isolation, bear, bad weather, struggle for survival, storm ...
Place:
montana
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that ...
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, cult classic, period piece ...
Plot:
submarine, snake, boat, accident, underwater, danger, poison, survival, rescue, claustrophobia, crew, disaster ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Trapped in an underground pit during a storm, three students from an all-girls school must confront their personal conflicts as they fight to survive.
Style:
intense, suspense, emotional, realistic, inspirational
Plot:
trapped, girls' school, survival, disaster, underground, desperation, female friendship, fear, claustrophobia, resilience, high school, isolation ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, intense, dark ...
Plot:
photojournalism, missing person, investigation, civil war, political conflict, war zone, danger, violence, moral dilemma, chaos, moral ambiguity, brutality ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
Style:
tension, suspense, tense, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
disaster, subway, earthquake, trapped, escape, survival, fear, danger, claustrophobia, underground, urban, darkness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Best buds since childhood, Ben and Matt have grown apart with age. Even when Ben is diagnosed with diabetes, Matt struggles to support his friend like he should. Then, while vacationing at the lake, Matt is awakened by screams and groans coming from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, intense, emotional, suspense
Plot:
capture, swimming, lake, diabetes, friendship, survival, loyalty, panic, determination, isolation, fear, moral dilemma ...
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
38%
6K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a failed musician, sunny takes a dramatic turn as he smuggles himself back from Dubai to Kerala in midst of a global pandemic and shuts himself from the society.
Style:
emotional, intense, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, desperation, character study, survival, regret, redemption, isolation, homecoming, secrets, getting home, resilience, hopes ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india, dubai
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
blackout, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, solar eclipse, white trash, student, fight, eclipse, human nature, fear ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Hannah, a Djiboutian girl visits Kerala. She becomes friends with Loui and Aby who are living in Idukki district of Kerala. She arranges job for her friends in Djibouti, an African country. The problems faced by them there and how they plan to ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigration, social realism, survival, friendship, exploitation, female protagonist, escape, hopes, escape plan, young adult, small town life, desperation ...
Place:
india, africa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The small town of Ismailpur suffers an apocalyptic night when a sudden riot breaks out and the town descends into anarchy. Four victims of the riots, rival to each other, take shelter in an old woman`s home. As the woman awaits her son`s arrival, ...
Style:
tension, dark, suspense, intense, realistic
Plot:
religious conflict, violence, riot, anarchy, human nature, mistrust, small town, anger, fear, bloodbath, morality, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, boat, disaster, sea, storm, moral dilemma, sacrifice, desperation, human nature, character study ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
'Evolution of Evil' is the story of Lori and Christopher, a Pacific Northwest couple wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city into the wilderness. The couple makes their way past the usual campsites, and backpack into the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tension, sinister, psychological horror ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, isolation, forest, danger, backpacking, man versus nature, couples, paranoia, camping, threat, fear ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Nisa opens her eyes under the wreckage right after an earthquake. While she is struggling to survive and find a solution from under the narrow space where she is stuck, she glimpses the sky from a tiny hole above her, which helps her stay alive. In ...
Style:
tension, existential
Audience:
adult
Plot:
earthquake, claustrophobia, trapped, survival, perseverance, isolation, resilience, hopes, female protagonist, realism, rescue, desperation ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
At a cabin deep in the wilderness, a weekend of hunting turns to mayhem and a fight for survival when a pack of wolves attack a man, his female best friend and her fiance.
Style:
intense, suspense, tension, brutal
Plot:
wolf, survival, survival horror, struggle for survival, wilderness, isolation, animal attack, man versus nature, hunting, panic, fear, friendship ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Three friends hire a guide to take them on a fishing trip deep in the Northern Maine woods. But, when the Guide takes all their gear, they find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious
Plot:
wilderness, stranded, isolation, survival, friendship, fishing, man versus nature, mistrust, escape, moral dilemma, cold weather, search and rescue ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?
Style:
suspense, rough, exciting, suspenseful, depressing ...
Plot:
underwater, diver, trapped, survival, claustrophobia, self sacrifice, rescue, storm, scuba diving, friendship, diving, wilderness survival ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the book Working on the Edge by Spike Walker, Deadliest Sea tells the story of a young man who joins the crew of a King Crab trawler in Alaska seeking to make some real money. The captain of the vessel plays a hunch about where to set traps ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
ship, coast guard, survival, danger, escapades, forces of nature, inventions and discoveries, ocean, rescue, boat, sea, battles ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Kid campers fight to survive when their canoe capsizes.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
survival, teenager, friendship, brotherhood, struggle for survival, tragic event, camp, summer camp, vacation, summer vacation, coming of age, boy ...
Time:
1920s
Similarity:
31%
2K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Eight documentary makers decide to go to the location of Elsalam Ship which sunk years ago to make a new documntary where they face unforseen dangers.
Style:
tense, bleak, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
shark, danger, businessman, shark attack, ship, shipwreck, water monster, monster, peril, sea monster, jeopardy, giant monster ...
Similarity:
31%
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