Movies like Wild
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Wild (2014)
138K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style:
meditative, road movie, uplifting, inspirational, touching, psychological, poignant, emotional, captivating, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, female protagonist, starting over, human spirit, death of mother, cheating on husband, traveler, on the road, mother daughter relationship, biopic, cancer, depression, ex husband ex wife relationship, journey, loneliness, road trip, hitchhiking, skinny dipping, loss of mother, isolation ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
california, portland oregon, usa, oregon, mojave desert, reno nevada
Keyword:
feminist film, life lessons, bruise, eye candy
Most similar movies to Wild
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, inspirational and touching films with plots about hopes, survival, biopic, travel, nature, human spirit and wilderness mostly in Drama, Biography and Adventure genres. Some movies like Wild: Tracks (2013), A Walk in the Woods (2015), The Way (2010), Land (2021), Eat Pray Love (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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32K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style:
uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
wilderness, desert, solitude, camel, survival, travel, human spirit, photographer, explorer, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, 70s, year 1976 ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
655K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style:
road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
road trip, wilderness, survival, self discovery, freedom, journey, solitude, life philosophy, isolation, travel, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, america, astoria oregon, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Style:
scenic, light, road movie, humorous, melancholic ...
Plot:
hiking, camping, elderly, friendship, camping trip, road trip, solitude, writers, friends, escapades, midlife crisis, storytelling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
appalachia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
35K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to ...
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
travel, road trip, journey, traveler, pilgrimage, death of son, self discovery, redemption, on the road, grief, wanderlust, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, france, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
16K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, serious
Plot:
solitude, nature, living alone, family tragedy, fishing, female protagonist, mountain, native american, wilderness, new life, mountain cabin, rocky mountains ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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105K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, she found herself lost, confused and searching for what she really wanted in life. Newly divorced ...
Style:
inspirational, romantic, touching, road movie, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
self discovery, travel, midlife crisis, lifestyle change, love, female protagonist, journey, starting over, introspection, changing lives, life, fall in love ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
italy, india, indonesia, bali, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
399K
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%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, serious, road movie, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, forest, nature, veteran, teenage girl, trust, wilderness, survivalist, hitchhiking, isolation, survival, hiking ...
Time:
2010s, future, near future, 90s
Place:
oregon, washington state, xian, portland oregon, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult ...
Style:
scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, anthropological ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
wilderness, nature, wolf, snow, scientist, survival, mountain, arctic, camping, environment, environmental, voice over narration ...
Time:
year 1983, 1940s, 80s
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in ...
Style:
road movie, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, on the road, old age, small town, aging, brother brother relationship, family feud, illness, reconciliation, determination, travel, nature ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
iowa, mississippi, nebraska, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, UK, South Africa, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, entertaining, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
travel, self discovery, life, psychiatrist, life philosophy, relationships, existentialism, introspection, happiness, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
africa, china, tibet, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style:
road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking ...
Plot:
self discovery, motorcycle, travel, freedom, on the road, revolutionary, poverty, revolution, road trip, journey, traveler, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 50s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place:
latin america, chile, cuba, south america, argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, nature, wilderness, arctic, airplane, human spirit, friendship, rescue, hunter, isolation, friends, hopes ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1953, post world war two, 1950s
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
32K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Style:
uplifting, emotional, touching, sentimental, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disability, coming of age, fall in love, human spirit, depression, adolescence, relationships, teenager, motorcycle, teenage love, family relations, protective parent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
52K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style:
harsh, realistic, inspirational, epic, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
ocean, survival, sea voyage, shark, boat, expedition, raft, obsessive quest, adventurer, sailing, travel, lost at sea ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s ...
Place:
pacific ocean, polynesia, peru, usa, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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181K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Style:
road movie, serious, social, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
van, homeless, traveler, motor home, loss of job, on the road, journey, nomad, road trip, homelessness, snow, loneliness ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 90s, year 2011
Place:
nevada, nebraska, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating
Plot:
nature, uncle niece relationship, runaway teen, road trip, travel, grief, camping, survival, danger, solitude, introspection, family relations ...
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
231K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style:
realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
survival, mountain climbing, climbing, mountain, natural disaster, snow, mountaineer, stranded, forces of nature, man versus nature, beautiful scenery, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Kenya, India, USA, Canada, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young refugee of the Sudanese Civil War who wins a lottery for relocation to the United States with three other lost boys. Encountering the modern world for the first time, they develop an unlikely friendship with a brash American woman assigned ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, sentimental, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
refugee, survival, culture clash, friendship, childhood, children, courage, civil war, self sacrifice, life is a bitch, fish out of water, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, sudan, south africa, kenya, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
64K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, stranded, cannibalism, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, snow, mountain, wilderness, historical event ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, antarctic, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies like Everest
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.
Style:
touching, emotional, poignant, factual, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
child abuse, aborigine, australian outback, racism, kidnapping, children, australian aboriginal, culture clash, survival, indigenous people, women, colonialism ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1931
Place:
australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
157K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style:
inspirational, motivational, sentimental, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, hospital, illness, doctors and patients, medical, psychiatry, fighting illness, hopes, medicine, disability, patient ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place:
america, new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
disability, hospital, human spirit, nurse, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, life turned upside down, writers, bittersweet, mute or deaf ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan, a midwestern housewife who managed to rescue her family from debt by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies.
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, semi serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
advertising, optimism, underdog, prize, creativity, courage, eviction, small town, contests and competitions, ambition, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, 60s, year 2005
Place:
ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. ...
Style:
inspirational, serious, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful
Plot:
mountaineer, disaster, mountain climbing, mountain, climbing, survival, wilderness, winter, mountaineering, rock climbing, wilderness survival, forces of nature ...
Place:
himalaya, mount everest, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, touching, captivating, sensitive ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
jungle, gorilla, environmental, animal, biopic, extinction, environmentalism, human spirit, nature, hunting, environment, life & death ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1966
Place:
africa, south africa, congo, rwanda
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, philosophical, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
friendship, road trip, elderly, terminal illness, unlikely friendships, journey, human spirit, philosophy, bucket list, dying, follow your dream, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa, cote d'azur, tanzania, mount everest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to ...
Style:
inspirational, christian film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
christian, christianity, culture clash, murder, life philosophy, battles, family relations, coming of age, courage, self discovery, introspection, dealing with death ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
ecuador
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, compassionate, emotional ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
autism, human spirit, teacher, disability, genius, female protagonist, scientist, against the odds, biopic, inventor, asperger's syndrome, ambition ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, 60s, 70s, year 1951 ...
Place:
arizona, new hampshire, boston, texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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