Movies like The Canyon

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The Canyon (2009)
 5.8
 5K
The Canyon (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.
Style: suspenseful, scary, realistic, suspense, tense, sexy, serious, independent film
Plot: survival, wilderness, desert, honeymoon, grand canyon, tour guide, dangerous animal, danger, isolation, newlyweds, animal attack, husband wife relationship, nature, stranded, wedding, camping, woman with a gun, wolf, vacation, treasure hunter, lonely, problem, road trip, trapped, man versus nature ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, arizona

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, tense and realistic films with plots about survival, danger, wilderness, escapades, isolation, confined and trapped mostly in Thriller, Horror and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Canyon: Deadfall Trail (2009), Frozen (2010), Backcountry (2014), Open Water (2003), Long Weekend (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Deadfall Trail (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: John, Julian and Paul enter the Kaibab National Forest for a three-week survival trip and peyote vision quest. The only items they take with them are a knife, a bottle of water and a garbage bag each. A week into their journey a disastrous turn of ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: wilderness, moral dilemma, isolation, friendship, danger, confined, hiking, desert, expedition, redneck, national park, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
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100%
 6.2
 80K
Frozen (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: utah, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.0
 24K
Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
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: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.1
 6K
Long Weekend (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mother Nature gets revenge on some careless campers in this remastered version of the Australian horror classic.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: forces of nature, dangerous animal, survival, nature, couples, danger, wilderness, family problems, isolation, crumbling marriage, creature feature, camp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 16K
Black Water (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: crocodile, survival, animal attack, swamp, trapped, tourist, couples, shark, killer animal, creature, vacation, creature feature ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 263K
The Grey (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style: suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, stranded, forces of nature, air disaster, struggle for survival, wolf attack ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Surviving Crooked Lake (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: teenage girl, wilderness, river, estrangement, buddies, youth, starting over, escapades, danger, haunted by the past, teenage life, forces of nature ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
 79K
The Edge (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear, danger, animal attack, grizzly bear, survivalist, marital infidelity, bear attack, hunter, crash, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Beyond the Reach (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, desert, wilderness, hunting, chase, hunter, isolation, witnessing a crime, travel, thirst, danger, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, mojave desert, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 4.4
 1K
The Mooring (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Every 40 seconds a person goes missing. In northern Idaho, a group of teenage girls attended a summer camp to help them connect with nature without technology. They were told it would be a summer of change. As the girls' houseboat is suddenly ...
Style: scary, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, river, psychopath, serial killer, chase, woods, survival, missing person, woman in danger, isolation, on the run, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
 809
Lost Signal (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, dark, scary ...
Plot: danger, stalking, isolation, confined, friendship, survival, wilderness, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, blood, new year ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, natural horror, suspense ...
Plot: bear attack, animal attack, survival, grizzly bear, bear, camping, creature feature, dangerous animal, danger, family relations, siblings relations, monster ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 399K
127 Hours (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style: suspense, inspirational, breathtaking, intense, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, isolation, mountain, wilderness, climbing, canyon, courage, alone, human spirit, loneliness, desert ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style: surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murderous pair, psychopath, honeymoon, wilderness, danger, island, paranoia, vacation gone wrong, murder, survival horror ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The King of the Hill (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Quim drives around an isolated rural area through a maze of lanes. When he drives into the woods, he gets lost. Trying to find his direction, he suddenly gets shot from the hill. On his escape from gunshots, he meets Bea, an attractive young woman, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: survival, chase, on the run, wilderness, isolation, danger, male female relationship, mountain, murder, violence, killer child, supernatural horror ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 101K
Fall (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter’s expert ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, survival, father daughter relationship, trap, twists and turns, loss of loved one, mountain climbing, female protagonist, rock climbing, female friendship, trapped, tower ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 4.8
 6K
Preservation (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three family members head deep into the woods for a hunting trip that doubles as a distraction from their troubles at home. When all of their gear is stolen, they turn on each other, but soon realize there are much more treacherous forces at work.
Style: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: survival, masked killer, woods, manhunt, survival horror, camping, child with gun, stalking, danger, couple relations, human prey, lost in the woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 4.8
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Black Rock (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, woman in danger, manhunt, self defense, strong violent content, friends, human prey, confined, chase, chases and races, danger, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 4.4
 573
Deadly Cargo (2003)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Journalist Sara joins timid Victor and pregnant wife Thais, instructors Ivan and Edgar, and local kid Drui in Senegal for some underwater exploration. When their craft blows up following a misfired bullet, they float around in the water for a while ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: dangerous animal, murder, survival, isolation, rescue, danger, ship, ocean, sea, pregnancy, violent content, stowaway ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.2
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Detour (2013)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Trapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds; battling Mother Nature for his survival.
Style: suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, trapped, isolation, natural disaster, against the odds, wilderness survival, confined, danger, fear, mortality, confusion, buried alive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 17K
Wrecked (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man awakens in a car wreck at the bottom of a steep cliff. He can't remember who he is or how he got there, but a report over the radio fills in some of the blanks, as it describes a violent bank robbery and names a perpetrator who happens to ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, clever, minimal cast ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: memory, memory loss, alone, hallucination, survival, isolation, murder, forest, introspection, danger, haunted by the past, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kaaterskill Falls (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A romantic road trip to the Catskills for some much-needed time alone turns bumpy for Ren (Hilary Howard) and Mitchell (Mitchell Riggs) in this indie film directed by Josh Apter and Peter Olsen. After picking up a hitchhiker, Lyle (Anthony Leslie), ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, isolation, estrangement, danger, stalking, hitchhiker, married couple, violent content, sexual content, mountain, voyeurism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 2.7
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Venom (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, desert, survival, chase, danger, dangerous animal, on the run, crash, pursuit, creature feature, killer animal, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.2
 814
For Elise (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A young college is responsible for the care of an innocent little girl, but soon all he knows give a twist that will endanger his own life. All begin when crossing under the floor of the third floor to the left, a road without knowing directly the ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, survival, isolation, danger, puppet, doll, governess, toys, puzzle, babysitting, violent content, mentally unstable ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Held for Ransom (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: captivity, ransom, danger, confined, survival, rivalry, psychopath, teenage life, wilderness, murderous pair, chases and races, hijacking ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.7
 430
Poker Run (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Robert (Bertie Higgins) and Allan (J.D. Rudometkin) decide to add some excitement to their lives by taking up Harley riding. But things go south when two psychopathic bikers (Robert Thorne and Jay Wisell) kidnap their wives (Debra Hopkins and ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: biker, desert, psychopath, gang, confined, mind game, couple relations, buddies, danger, motorcycle chase, family in crisis, abduction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Survival Quest (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, murder, rivalry, danger, hostage, mountain, camping, manhunt, treasure hunter, trapped ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.8
 210
Devil Girl (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Fay is a small town girl on a cross country road trip, trying to escape her own reality after the death of her father. When her muscle car breaks down during a drag race she finds herself stranded along route 66 in an isolated desert town. Short on ...
Style: bleak, surreal, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: female protagonist, desert, small town, woman in danger, stripper, psychopath, road trip, escapades, survival, dealing with death, danger, killer clown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.8
 1K
Event 15 (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three soldiers get trapped in an elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb. But when White escapes, her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: isolation, survival, soldier, military, trapped in an elevator, terrorist attack, veteran, elevator, danger, confined, losing-it hero, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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