Movies like The Wolves 1996

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The Wolves (1996)
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The Wolves (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Blackie Blacavov and his sister Barbara inherit 50,000 acres of Alaskan wilderness, he tries to live a more harmonious, natural existence on the land. But Barbara, without informing Blackie, gives mining exploration rights to King, a businessman with a passion for hunting wolves. On the sly, King also uses the area as a toxic waste dump. So Blackie and Barbara join together with the wolves to defeat their common enemy and save the idyllic refuge.
Style: independent film
Plot: wolf, nature, wilderness, hunter, toxic waste, corporate greed, poaching
Place: alaska

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and suspense films with plots about wilderness, nature, survival, danger, forest, snow and hunting mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Wolves: Hold the Dark (2018), Wounded (1997), The Grey (2011), The Edge (1997), Killing Season (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hold the Dark (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological horror, exciting, brutal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: wolf, blood, survival, murder, hunter, snow, dark secret, werewolf, child murder investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, wilderness ...
Time: 2010s
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Wounded (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a grizzly-bear poacher named Hanaghan kills her fiance and fellow Fish & Wildlife Deptartment officer, Julie Clayton sets out to track the killer down and discover why the FBI is keeping its case secret from her. She is joined in her ...
Style: cliffhanger, independent film, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, serial killer, psychiatrist, woods, vengeance, rehabilitation, law enforcement, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, wilderness ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
White Wolves III - Cry of the White Wolf (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast sierra. Their pilot, Quentin, injured and ununable to make the dangerous journey, teaches them the ways of his ...
Plot: wolf, survival, nature, dog, airplane crash, teenager, wilderness, survivor
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
26%
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 6.9
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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 ⇓
26%
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Killing Season (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, who clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
Style: harsh, rough, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hunter, wilderness, chase, ex military, revenge, uninhibited rivalry, haunted by the past, danger, rivalry, mortal combat, woods, survival ...
Time: year 2013, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, georgia, bosnia herzegovina, usa, appalachia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Brothers in Arms (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hillbillies, when they save a girl from rape.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: wilderness, survival, rural setting, rape, religious fanatic, redneck, survivalist, hillbilly, domineering father, nature, backwoods, survival horror ...
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25%
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Wildlike (2014)
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 ⇓
25%
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 7.2
 33K
Runaway Train (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Style: road movie, suspense, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot: train, survival, runaway train, prison, prisoner, wilderness, snow, chases and races, violence, winter, fugitives, train crash ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
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 ⇓
22%
Sugar Mountain (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: survival, winter, brother brother relationship, prison, brothers, mishap, incest, plan, deception, brother, desert, snow ...
Time: future
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Operation Sundarbans (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Story: Based on the Rapid Action Battalion - RAB's adventures in the world's largest mangrove forest 'The Sundarbans', the action thriller showcases the challenges faced by the law enforcement team to demolish the evil force in the wild.
Style: suspenseful, entertaining, tense, captivating, exciting
Plot: wildlife, forest, pirate, wilderness, nature, hobby, opportunist, wilderness survival, escapades
Place: bangladesh
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20%
 4.8
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Bullitt County (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.
Style: enigmatic, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: buried treasure, wilderness, bachelor party, autumn, party, drunkenness, friends, buddies, friendship, haunted by the past, gang, drinking ...
Time: 70s
Place: kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Hounds of Zaroff (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rachel wakes up to discover she is trapped on an island and must survive while being hunted by the madman Zaroff, a Russian game hunter.
Style: psychotronic, dark
Plot: manhunt, serial killer, hunter, hunting, death, island, survival, sister, pistol, angel, trap, rain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 66K
Alpha (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
Style: sincere, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: wilderness, survival, wolf, human animal relationship, caveman, dog, animal attack, hunter, near death experience, boar, wolf pack, bison ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, future, ancient times
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
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Druid Peak (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, sad
Plot: wolf, nature, animal, teenage boy, teenager, human animal relationship, animal human communication, dangerous animal, adolescence, family problems, wild animal, teenage life ...
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
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Fire Festival (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
Plot: village, wilderness, nature, male nudity, lumberjack
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Surviving with Wolves (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her ...
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot: wolf, world war two, orphan, survival, feral child, little girl, human animal relationship, young heroes, danger, obsessive quest, missing person, wilderness ...
Place: belgium, germany, ukraine, europe, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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 ⇓
19%
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Abducted (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: kidnapping, creature feature, nature, home invasion, murder, hunting, wilderness, father son relationship, damsel in distress, woman, runner, filicide ...
Time: year 1986
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19%
 6.1
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The Hunted (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. Former Special Operations instructor, L.T. Bonham is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum, his former student, who has 'gone rogue' ...
Style: suspense, intense, brutal, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: manhunt, wilderness, survival, commando, one man army, homicidal maniac, assassin, conspiracy, hitman, chase, murder, violence ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, kosovo, portland oregon, usa, british columbia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Breed Apart (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: island, recluse, vietnam veteran, rock climbing, hunter, wilderness, rivalry, danger, environmentalism, hunting, reporter, collector ...
Time: 80s
Place: north carolina
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18%
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Beyond Fear (1993)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Martial Arts Champion Mimi Lesseos is back - and the wilderness just got wilder! Tipper Taylor, martial arts expert turned wilderness tour guide, is stalked deep in the wilderness by two desperate men who will stop at nothing to retrieve a videotape ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female fight, women, martial arts, femme fatale, environment, nature, group, murder, tour guide, wilderness, female martial artist
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Open Road (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Angie, a young Brazilian artist, abandons her old life and embarks on a journey around the country. Running from her past, and searching for her foundation in life, Angie finds not only herself but love in its many forms.
Style: captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, exciting
Audience: teens
Plot: police, drug dealer, road trip, search for father, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, police officer, coming of age, nature, art ...
Time: year 2013
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18%
The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Style: scenic, suspenseful, romantic, visually stunning, tense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: survival, wilderness, snow, mountain, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, rescue, plane crash, stranger, peril, animal attack ...
Time: year 2017, future, 2010s
Place: london, new york, utah, idaho, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.6
 42K
The Wave (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the fact that mountain party Ã…kneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, intense, road movie, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, tsunami, landslide, hotel, geologist, dysfunctional family, apocalypse, family drama, paranoid ...
Time: 80s, year 2015
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18%
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Arctic Blue (1993)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An environmentalist gets involved in transporting an accused killer (Ben) from an isolated Alaskan town to the authorities. Ben is determined to escape, and his fellow trappers are ready to help
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddies, die hard, wilderness, struggle for survival, environmentalist, prison life, isolation, prison, danger, confined, heroes, on the run ...
Time: 90s
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Southern Comfort (1981)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror ...
Style: atmospheric, southern gothic, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, backwoods, swamp, violence, murder, manhunt, poacher, on the run, dog attack, ambush, vietnam war ...
Time: year 1981, year 1973, 70s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
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Ladder 49 (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in ...
Style: touching, sincere, sad, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: firefighter, disaster, friendship, rescue, death of protagonist, redemption, firefighting, fire, funeral, trapped, family relations, danger ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 4.9
 208
The Manhunt (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced ...
Style: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, partner, prison life, frame up, false accusation, life is a bitch, heroes, protagonist as suspect, manhunt, fugitives, confined, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona
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18%
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