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Not Without Hope (2025)
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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, emotional, intense, realistic, sentimental, tragic
Plot:
survival, sea, hopes, shipwreck, isolation, desperation, endurance, coast guard, friendship, rescue, lifeboat, dehydration, search and rescue, trauma, storm, sacrifice, grief, panic, character study, faith, defiant, flashback, shark, football player, fishing ...
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Most similar movies to Not Without Hope
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, tense, realistic and intense films with plots about survival, isolation, hopes, rescue, desperation, trauma and grief mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Not Without Hope: Adrift (2017), The Last Survivors (1975), Breath (2022), Jaras Enzar 2 (2026), Brotherhood (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
tension, suspense, intense, realistic
Plot:
boat, man versus nature, survival, stranded, isolation, sea, dehydration, danger, endurance, fear, friendship, desperation ...
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95%
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 ...
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91%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. One day Lara decides to stay a little longer to finish an exam and she remains alone. Returning, she has an accident, falling ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, existential, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
volcano, trapped, accident, isolation, loneliness, reflection, female protagonist, survival, geologist, claustrophobia, character study, desperation ...
Similarity:
61%
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:
52%
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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:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, Nepal
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
In 2008, a band of young Islamic militants from Pakistan lands in Mumbai, their primary target, the iconic Taj Mahal hotel. With Indian forces unable to regain control, for 4 days the guests must battle to survive as the terrorists seek to drive ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
terrorism, siege, survival, war on terror, terrorist attack, islamic terrorism, hotel, terrorist, terrorist bombing, threat, struggle for survival, crisis ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
mumbai india, india
Similarity:
44%
624
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is ...
Style:
dramatic, medical drama, suspense, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
cancer, survival, breast cancer, doctor, adaptation, isolation, hopes, happy ending, rescue, biopic, improv, blizzard ...
Place:
antarctica, south pole
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nichole Jolly is a nurse at the town’s hospital, who begins her day as usual, only to face an unimaginable crisis when a wildfire rapidly engulfs the town. Torn between her duty to protect her patients and her desperate need to find her husband ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
wildfire, courage, heroism, hopes, survival, natural disaster, evacuation, hospital, tribute, biopic, sacrifice, tragedy ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
43%
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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:
42%
4K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An ordinary suburban girl faces the biggest battle of her life when her sudden disappearance for a brief period leads to a desperate search by her loved ones.
Style:
suspense, sexy, suspenseful, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
survival, alone, search and rescue, missing person, family relations, love of one's life, tragedy, family tragedy, investigation, love, mysterious disappearance, family drama ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
41%
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:
40%
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:
40%
3K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Kamal resolves to change his life for the better, and so leaves Belgium to help victims of the war in Syria. But when he arrives, he is forced to join a militia and is left stranded in Raqqa. Back home, his younger brother Nassim quickly becomes ...
Style:
emotional, tense, heartbreaking, realistic, political drama
Plot:
family drama, mother, brotherhood, loss, trauma, desperation, resilience, extremism, moral dilemma, suffering, militia, refugee ...
Place:
syria, belgium
Similarity:
39%
305
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family crisis, grief, loss, trauma, missing person, intimate, family drama, desperation, love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.
Style:
realistic, tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
soccer, human trafficking, coming of age, illegal immigration, border crossing, social injustice, child labor, slave trade, life is a bitch, child, resilience, trauma ...
Place:
los angeles, mexico
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, kidnapping, child kidnapping, family bonds, protective parent, domestic abuse, domestic violence, motherhood, abduction, marital problem, kidnapped child, family relations ...
Similarity:
38%
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:
37%
26K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another ...
Style:
emotional, cerebral, philosophical, serious, uplifting ...
Plot:
survival, guilt, dealing with death, life & death, existentialism, character study, trauma, loneliness, rescue, confession, loss of son, human nature ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, usa, oakland california
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Mircea, former Intelligence officer, finds out that his son from has gone missing in the mountains. He travels there to find him. After days of searches, Mircea put his own rescue team together, leading to conflict with the local squad.
Style:
tense, intense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
search and rescue, father son relationship, missing person, lost, mountain, rescue mission, father, rescue, tragic event, squad, family relations, manhunt ...
Place:
romania
Similarity:
36%
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: 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:
36%
123
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, gradually her childhood memories returns; a childhood with incest and violence.
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, emotional, sinister ...
Plot:
incest, isolation, flashback, dark past, dysfunctional family, secrets, sexual abuse, abuse, family drama, trauma, female protagonist, childhood trauma ...
Place:
northern california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, nature, struggle for survival, teenager fighting adult, recluse, violence, life risking, child fighting adult, child in peril, survival, backwoods, danger ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 2009 John Jones entered Nutty Putty Cave with his brother Josh. What happened next has been a topic of much discussion and controversy ever since. Over 127 rescuers responded to the call for aid, and each one has their own take on the events. A ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, emotional, tear jerker ...
Plot:
cave, rescue, search and rescue, trapped, faith, faith based, underground, survival, claustrophobia, confined space, entrapment, saving a life ...
Place:
utah
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
How far are you willing to go to save the people you love? This is the question Christian is forced to answer when he is smuggled into Syria in a desperate search for his son Adam. It's a deadly and soul-searching journey into a brutal, ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
sacrifice, parenthood, desperation, father son relationship, search and rescue, survival, trauma, journey, dangerous mission, moral dilemma, resilience, hostage ...
Place:
syria, middle east
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, disturbing ...
Plot:
addiction, redemption, small town, hopes, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, danger, drug, desperation, loss, regret, anti hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son and pregnant wife if they have ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
wildfire, survival, forest fire, fire, disaster, danger, natural disaster, father son relationship, family relations, struggle for survival, forest, family drama ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband.
Style:
suspense, emotional, intense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
search and rescue, desert, kidnapping, motherhood, rescue, determination, female protagonist, grief, isolation, hopes, survival, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teenager, trauma, life is a bitch, teenage life, troubled past, tragic past, confronting the past, moral dilemma, self destructing, redemption, desperation, abuse ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
Similarity:
29%
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