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The Grey (2011)
273K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, harsh, bad ending, tense, exciting, breathtaking, scenic, rough, visually stunning, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, wolf attack, forces of nature, struggle for survival, wilderness survival, stranded, killer animal, machismo, natural disaster, air disaster, survivor, wolf pack, catastrophe, lost, frostbite, male camaraderie, winter, airplane crash, stupidity ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
alaska, usa
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Most similar movies to The Grey
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and realistic films with plots about survival, danger, nature, death, trapped, wilderness and disaster mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Grey: The Edge (1997), Backcountry (2014), Arctic (2018), Frozen (2010), The Revenant (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
84K
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, suspenseful, sexy, serious, clever ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, bear, danger, animal attack, grizzly bear, survivalist, bear attack, hunter, lost in the woods, billionaire, nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa, california
Similarity:
94%
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:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, natural horror, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, woods, nature, camping, bear, lost in the woods, dangerous animal, danger, bear attack, forest, lost ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
92%
63K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek ...
Style:
minimal cast, suspense, touching, visually stunning, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, arctic, helicopter crash, man versus nature, snow, wilderness survival, polar bear, male protagonist, struggle for survival, very little dialogue, ice, fish ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
100%
87K
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:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
antarctic, utah
Similarity:
81%
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940K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Argentina
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, harsh, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, violent, bear attack, wilderness survival, winter, hunter, wild west ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, north america, usa
Similarity:
88%
71K
Genre: 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, captivating, exciting, prehistoric, social ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
survival, wolf, wilderness, human animal relationship, caveman, dog, animal attack, near death experience, boar, medieval, wolf pack, man versus nature ...
Time:
prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, future, ancient times
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
82%
684K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
74%
Movie in collections
269K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, distopia, end of the world, cannibalism, starvation, dystopia, on the road, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, distant future, 2000s ...
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, catastrophe, storm at sea, survival, storm, boat, fish, forces of nature, shipwreck, sea ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
atlantic ocean, boston, new england, nova scotia, portugal
Similarity:
100%
68K
Genre: 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:
inspirational, emotional, breathtaking, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, disaster, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, mountain, mountain climbing, historical event, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, antarctic ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, rough, suspense, sentimental ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, snow, snowboarding, snowboard, amputee, rescue attempt, lost, winter, rocky mountains, police officer, hockey ...
Similarity:
100%
246K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Iceland, USA, Italy
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, mountain, mountaineer, natural disaster, disaster, snow, stranded, forces of nature, frostbite, tragedy, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
Similarity:
73%
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:
67%
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, visually stunning, romantic, romantic drama, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
survival, wilderness, mountain, snow, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, sole survivor, stranger, plane crash, wilderness survival, peril ...
Time:
year 2017, future, 2010s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, utah, idaho, london
Similarity:
57%
355K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate ...
Style:
suspenseful, bloody, exciting, historical drama, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, jungle, ancient history, tribe, manhunt, slavery, chase, native, ancient, death, warrior, forest ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, year 2006, 2000s, medieval times
Place:
mexico, mexico city, persia, central america
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style:
scenic, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, sea, boat, disaster, man versus nature, starvation, whale, whaling, shipwreck, hunting ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, 1820s ...
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean, new england, america, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, scenic, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, animal attack, dangerous animal, jungle, adventurer, colonialism, lion, danger, obsessive quest, creature feature, heroes, greed ...
Time:
19th century, ancient times, 1800s, turn of the century, 90s ...
Place:
africa, south africa, east africa, kenya, london
Similarity:
57%
Movie in collections
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:
80%
468K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story:
In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, scenic, action adventure, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
king kong, creature, jungle, dinosaur, giant animal, monster, gorilla, giant ape, beast, rescue, island, dangerous animal ...
Time:
1930s, year 2005, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, scenic, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
crocodile, animal attack, monster, creature, dangerous animal, survival horror, gory, killer animal, river, isolation, creature feature, disaster ...
Time:
jurassic, 70s, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
67%
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, sexy, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, desert, grand canyon, tour guide, dangerous animal, danger, honeymoon, animal attack, isolation, newlyweds, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
50%
147K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Japan, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
heist, mountain climbing, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, rescue, redemption, climbing, villain, cave, chase ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s, 80s
Place:
colorado, antarctic
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
153K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, harsh, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, killer shark, shark attack, trapped, ocean, creature feature, great white shark, stranded, beach ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
mexico, texas, tijuana mexico, australia
Similarity:
67%
730K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style:
suspense, scary, classic horror, natural horror, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, horror for children, adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, shark attack, creature feature, ocean, beach, fear, killer shark, boat, monster, dangerous animal, great white shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
boston, fictional island, persia, oceania, long island ...
Similarity:
67%
48K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Iceland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A recently widowed man and his two teenage daughters travel to a game reserve in South Africa. However, their journey of healing soon turns into a fight for survival when a bloodthirsty lion starts to stalk them.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
animal attack, killer animal, survival horror, father daughter relationship, animal, wild animal, lion, rescue, wilderness, monster, wilderness survival, dangerous animal ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, 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, sad, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, nature, arctic, isolation, rescue, human spirit, stranded, hopes, airplane, winter, friendship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
Similarity:
100%
102K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.
Style:
suspense, natural horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
animal attack, trapped, disaster, survival, flood, alligator, creature feature, natural disaster, hurricane, survival horror, crocodile, killer animal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
100%
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, animal attack, bear attack, grizzly bear, survival, camping, creature feature, danger, family relations, siblings relations, monster, mountain ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
67%
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:
atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, desert, hunting, chase, hunter, isolation, witnessing a crime, travel, thirst, danger, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, mojave desert, usa, new mexico
Similarity:
67%
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