Movies like The Hunter
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The Hunter (2011)
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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, tense, psychological, thought provoking, dark, melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, sad, philosophical ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, hunter, mercenary, little boy, manipulation, greed, twists and turns, obsessive quest, bio weapon, beautiful scenery, isolation, nature, single mother, killing an animal, winter, self discovery, catastrophe, monster, jungle, distopia, children, loneliness, forest, cia ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
tasmania, australia, paris france
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Most similar movies to The Hunter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, harsh and interesting films with plots about survival, brutality, storytelling, suspense, nature, danger and mentor mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Hunter: Backcountry (2014), The Grey (2011), The Revenant (2015), Walkabout (1971), Meek's Cutoff (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, nature, camping, wilderness, forest, dangerous animal, suspense, bear, isolation, bear attack, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
canada, ontario canada
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100%
256K
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, exciting, tense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, wolf, hunting, air disaster, dangerous animal, forces of nature, wolf attack, stranded, struggle for survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
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60%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
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:
breathtaking, atmospheric, exciting, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, snow, bear attack, life & death, obsessive quest, lone hero, father son relationship, bravery, violent ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, georgian era
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
26K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
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, thought provoking, atmospheric, surreal, meditative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desert, survival, suicide, culture clash, teenage girl, wilderness, rite of passage, children, brother sister relationship, australian outback, language barrier ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
survival, native americans, family relations, women, road trip, character study, brutality, twists and turns, old west, escapades, gunfight, settler ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
oregon, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
Style:
disturbing, melancholic, bleak, futuristic, erotic ...
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, forest, distopia, rape, death of father, isolation, sisters, father daughter relationship, apocalypse, end of the world, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada
⇓ 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:
atmospheric, visually appealing, cerebral, dramatic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wilderness, hunter, friendship, human spirit, cold weather, forest, explorer, survival, snow, nature, wilderness survival, tiger ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
siberia, russia, japan, tokyo, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
39K
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:
tense, suspenseful, tricky, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
submarine, boat, sea, treasure hunt, survival, gold, ocean, heist, murder, greed, suspense, disaster ...
Time:
year 2008, year 1941, 21st century
Place:
black sea, russia, scotland, ukraine, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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244K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style:
psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
travel, island, adventurer, utopia, obsessive quest, exotic island, beach, drugs, tourist, marijuana, desire, secret place ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 2000
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
630K
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, motivational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, road trip, self discovery, wilderness, solitude, freedom, journey, life philosophy, isolation, lifestyle change, adventurer, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
20th century, year 1990, year 1992, year 1991, 90s
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, usa, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Movies like The Revenant
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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, psychological, serious, sincere, talky ...
Plot:
small town, stranded, mother daughter relationship, parents and children, human nature, family relations, drug dealing, survival, disaster, wilderness, catastrophe, crime gone awry ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, innocence lost, island, survival, stranded on an island, coming of age, bullying, isolation, youth, children, childhood, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future
Place:
pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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, tense, captivating
Plot:
village, survival, wilderness, murder, on the run, eskimo indian, native american, family life, false accusation, village life, righting the wronged, escapades ...
Time:
1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, touching, rough, bloody ...
Plot:
desert, survival, truck, mexican, running for your life, human prey, mass murder, mexican border, mercilessness, psychopath, characters killed one by one, border crossing ...
⇓ 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.
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
survival, bear attack, wilderness, nature, winter, native american, treasure hunt, snow, friendship between boys, train, mountain, bear ...
Place:
canada
⇓ 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:
harsh, atmospheric, scenic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
hunter, hunting, survival, tiger, snow, korean, violence, winter, animals, tough heroes, visceral, life & death ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: 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:
suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, desert, hunting, wilderness, chase, confined, isolation, witnessing a crime, hunter, travel, thirst, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, mojave desert, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, suspenseful, intense, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, rape, canoe, rape and revenge, hillbilly, nature, revenge, friendship, forest, river, homosexual rape ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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:
tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate, intense ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, suspense, bear, grizzly bear, bear attack, marital infidelity, hunter, nature, older man younger woman relationship, billionaire, survivor ...
Time:
90s
Place:
alaska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, scenic, dramatic ...
Plot:
survival, colonialism, jungle, dangerous animal, animal attack, lion, suspense, obsessive quest, adventurer, hunting, heroes, animals ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
africa, kenya, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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:
thought provoking, touching, harsh, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, nature, utopia, survival, village, obsessive quest, mental illness, immigrants, father son relationship, missionary, inventor, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
south america, latin america, central america, usa, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, 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:
suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, isolation, suspense, snow, stranded, ski resort, frostbite, survival horror, winter, sole survivor, mountain, youth ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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:
suspenseful, road movie, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
train, survival, runaway train, train crash, prison, disaster, prisoner, wilderness, suspense, violence, winter, prison warden ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
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:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, cave, expedition, disaster, suspense, scuba diving, forces of nature, deathtrap, underground, struggle for survival, beautiful scenery, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, captivating, rough, scenic, brutal ...
Plot:
island, coming of age, isolation, innocence lost, death, bullying, childhood, survival, distopia, literature, brutality, child ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, meditative, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
suspense, terrorism, dam, crime gone awry, character study, environmental issue, rebellion, radical, environmentalism, bomb, gang, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Paul (Macfadyen), a prize-winning war journalist, returns to his remote New Zealand hometown due to the death of his father, battle-scarred and world-weary. For the discontented sixteen-year-old Celia (Barclay) he opens up a world she has only ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, emotional, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
journalism, small town, disappearance, father daughter relationship, homecoming, small town life, society, doubts and hesitations, haunted by the past, twists and turns, reporter, betrayal ...
Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
desert, destiny, betrayal, paranoia, manic, character study, psychic power, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, a vision, business venture ...
Time:
future
Place:
boston, new mexico, usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, serious, realistic, sexy ...
Plot:
cold war, spy, undercover, kgb, iron curtain, espionage, assassination, politics, dishonesty, journalism, rivalry, race against time ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
east germany, germany, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
Style:
clever, surprise ending, dark, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, obsession, police, manipulation, police investigation, twists and turns, mind game, psychology, guilt, greed, gangsters ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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