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The Hunter (2011)
43K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Style:
suspenseful, cerebral, visually stunning, atmospheric, melancholic, psychological thriller, scenic, sad, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, hunter, little boy, mercenary, manipulation, greed, danger, obsessive quest, bio weapon, beautiful scenery, isolation, nature, single mother, killing an animal, winter, twists and turns, self discovery, tasmanian devil, monster, jungle, combat, forest, cia, politics ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
tasmania, oceania, australia, paris france, new zealand
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Most similar movies to The Hunter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, harsh and atmospheric films with plots about survival, wilderness, nature, danger, escapades, trapped and storytelling mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Hunter: Beyond the Reach (2014), The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), Shadow of the Wolf (1992), Lord of the Flies (1990), The Tiger (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the 1930's, Agaguk lives his traditional Inuit life. But one day, there is a murder in the tribe and Agaguk becomes a suspect. Soon he becomes persecuted by Henderson, a mean mountie, and he must flee through the cold winter of Northen ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
eskimo indian, village, survival, wilderness, murder, on the run, danger, shaman, winter, family life, village life, false accusation ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experience hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger.
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, scenic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
hunting, tiger, japanese occupation, japanese occupation of korea, lone hero, occupation, survival, violence, hunter, mountain, life & death, visceral ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s
Place:
china, south korea, korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Style:
intercultural, suspense
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
wilderness, survival, bear attack, snow, nature, treasure hunt, winter, friendship, coming of age, man versus nature, orphan, bonding ...
Place:
canada
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%
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:
runaway teen, nature, uncle niece relationship, road trip, travel, camping, grief, runaway, survival, family relations, solitude, danger ...
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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:
67%
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 ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, wolf attack, forces of nature, struggle for survival, wilderness survival, stranded ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
50%
128K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
wilderness, rape, survival, friendship, canoe, rape and revenge, nature, forest, river, nightmare, camping, revenge ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
georgia, southern usa, usa, appalachia
Similarity:
100%
692K
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:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
Similarity:
60%
17K
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, minimal cast, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
preschool
Plot:
memory, amnesia, alone, hallucination, isolation, murder, man with no name, forest, danger, introspection, haunted by the past, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's ...
Style:
thought provoking, semi autobiographical, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
racism, culture clash, introspection, against the rules, society, elderly, escapades, social misfits, wilderness, indigenous people, self discovery, alienation ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, tasmania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style:
breathtaking, cerebral, atmospheric, dramatic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wilderness, forest, wilderness survival, human spirit, cold weather, friendship, survival, hunter, nature, tiger, environment, explorer ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, year 1975, 1910s, 19th century
Place:
siberia, soviet union, russia, ussr, persia ...
Similarity:
100%
33K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
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:
touching, uplifting, sexy, scenic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
desert, wilderness, solitude, camel, photographer, human spirit, survival, independent woman, dog, explorer, obsessive quest, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, year 1976, year 1973 ...
Place:
australia, africa, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.
Style:
atmospheric, thought provoking, visually appealing, stylized, surreal ...
Plot:
survival, old west, road trip, brutality, family relations, modern western, character study, modern west, danger, escapades, settler, gunfight ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2010, 1840s
Place:
oregon, usa, salt lake city utah, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
winter, child in peril, mentally unstable, cold weather, wilderness, parent child relationship, brother brother relationship, snowstorm, divorced parents, snow, father son relationship, weekend ...
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
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43K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
submarine, underwater, sea, treasure hunt, boat, ocean, survival, gold, isolation, danger, sunken ship, greed ...
Time:
year 1941, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
black sea, scotland, ukraine, crimea, russia
Similarity:
33%
59K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, cave, expedition, disaster, danger, underwater, death, forces of nature, underground, water, struggle for survival, deathtrap ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
Similarity:
30%
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:
50%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, fast paced ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, tribe, hunter, manhunt, native, on the run, cannibalism, danger, adventurer, culture clash, desert ...
Time:
19th century, 60s, 1800s
Place:
africa, south africa
Similarity:
29%
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, wilderness, dangerous animal, danger, creature feature, couples, survival, mental disorder, crumbling marriage, isolation, family problems, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
28%
Movie in collections
7K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, small town, wilderness, parents and children, human nature, danger, family relations, drug dealing, disaster, survival, seaside, fishing village ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska
Similarity:
28%
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, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, murder, treasure hunt, mountain, rivalry, danger, hostage, manhunt, camping, skinny dipping, river ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa, montana
Similarity:
28%
29K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style:
road movie, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, boy, teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia ...
Similarity:
50%
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:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous ...
Style:
touching, harsh, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, nature, utopia, village, obsessive quest, danger, mental illness, father son relationship, rain forest, inventor, missionary, social commentary ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south america, central america, latin america, usa, baltimore ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
27%
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:
semi autobiographical, scenic, philosophical, anthropological, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, nature, wolf, mountain, scientist, arctic, camping, snow, voice over narration, skinny dipping, environment, dog ...
Time:
year 1983, 1940s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
alaska, usa, canada
Similarity:
27%
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