Movies like Man in the Wilderness
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Man in the Wilderness (1971)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, rough, suspenseful, independent film, epic, period piece, bleak, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
wilderness, survival, bear attack, native american, mountain man, vengeance, fear, hallucination, paranoia, wounded, isolation, danger, forces of nature, wolf pack, nature, faith, wilderness survival, violence, obsession, battles, revenge, expedition, disaster, forest, snow ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1820s, 1800s, 70s
Place:
north dakota, usa
Keyword:
crawling
Most similar movies to Man in the Wilderness
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and wild films with plots about horse, cowboy, native american, murder, escapades, danger and survival mostly in Drama, Western and Adventure genres. Some movies like Man in the Wilderness: Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Revenant (2015), Lost in the Barrens (1990), The Mountain Men (1980), The Retrieval (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Style:
atmospheric, epic, realistic, scenic, meditative ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
wilderness, survival, native american, native, hunting, mountain man, indians, rocky mountains, snow, revenge, grizzly bear, mountain ...
Time:
19th century, year 1972, 1850s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa
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100%
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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:
atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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, wilderness, bear attack, nature, winter, treasure hunt, snow, treasure hunter, stranded, trapped, scenery, friendship between boys ...
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur ...
Style:
action adventure, perverse, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mountain man, american indian, native american, wilderness, mountain, survival, wild west, camp, cowboy, camping, wild man, camping trip ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, 1830s
Place:
wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, suspense, road movie ...
Plot:
american civil war, civil war, slavery, african american, moral dilemma, male bonding, danger, survival, escapades, society, racism, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Revenant related movies
95K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
Style:
rough, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, indian chief, reconciliation, widow, murder, american indian, wild west, bigotry, military, gunfight, hostility ...
Time:
19th century, year 2017, 90s, victorian era, 2010s ...
Place:
new mexico, montana, america, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic ...
Plot:
survival, jungle, animal attack, dangerous animal, colonialism, adventurer, lion, danger, hunting, obsessive quest, heroes, creature feature ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, ancient times, 90s, 1890s
Place:
africa, kenya, south africa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. ...
Style:
tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful, scenic ...
Audience:
manly, date night, family outing, boys' night, teen drama
Plot:
vengeance, old west, revenge, cowboy, bounty hunter, justice, gunfight, texas ranger, determination, teenage girl, death of father, murder ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010, 2010s, 1870s, 1800s ...
Place:
texas, arkansas, oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe seeks out a tentative survival ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, desert island, island, ocean, friendship, stranded on an island, destiny, stranded, jungle, adventurer, passionate kiss ...
Time:
year 1997, 18th century
Place:
fictional island, london, scotland, oceania, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 552 min.
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Steven Spielberg executive produced this TNT miniseries about American Westward expansion during the 19th century. Told from both the perspective of the white Wheeler family and the Native American Lakota tribe, the 12-hour epic follows the clans as ...
Style:
epic, realistic, sincere, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
native american, american indian, wild west, indian war, old west, native american attack, tribe, native american white relationships, wagon train, interracial relations, friendship, injustice ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Dances with Wolves
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1825 an English aristocrat is captured by Indians. He lives with them and begins to understand/accept their lifestyles. Eventually he is accepted as part of the tribe and becomes their leader.
Style:
intense, scenic, suspense, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
native american, horse, ritual, sioux tribe, indians, native, lifestyle, survival, captivity, danger, manhood, interracial relations ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, 1820s
Place:
usa, south dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
killer whale, whale, ocean, survival, killer animal, dangerous animal, ship, revenge, sea, fish, animal attack, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
newfoundland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Lord John Morgan has returned to civilized life in England, but finds he has nothing but disdain for that life. Yearning to embrace the simplicity of the American West-and the Yellow Hands Sioux tribe he left behind, Morgan returns to the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american, sioux tribe, horse, wild west, culture clash, redemption, native, gunfight, redsploitation, foreign legion, legion, colonialism ...
Time:
year 1976, 19th century, 1840s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
During the last winter of the Civil War, cavalry officer Amos Dundee leads a contentious troop of Army regulars, Confederate prisoners and scouts on an expedition into Mexico to destroy a band of Apaches who have been raiding U.S. bases in Texas.
Style:
tense, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
american civil war, military, soldier, civil war, rescue, apache, battles, raid, heroes, apache indian, leadership, friend turned foe ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, year 1965, year 1865
Place:
mexico, new mexico, usa, austin texas, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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, visually appealing, surreal, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
survival, road trip, family relations, old west, native american, brutality, character study, modern western, modern west, danger, escapades, gunfight ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2010, 1840s
Place:
oregon, usa, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: Spain, Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Shunka Wakan (Richard Harris), formerly Lord John, helps his Dakota son (Michael Beck) defend their tribe against gold rushers.
Style:
independent film, saga, tense, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
native american, sioux tribe, woman with a gun, redsploitation, cowboy, native, family relations, interracial relations, indian war, half breed, violent content, injustice ...
Time:
year 1983, 19th century, victorian era, 1870s
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Czech Republic, Mexico, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale ...
Style:
disturbing, dark comedy, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, snow, winter, gory, death, camp, isolation, military, fort, survival ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, 1840s ...
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The eldest daughter of a pioneer family is kidnapped by a mysterious Indian tribe and the eldest son pursues. In order to win back his sister's freedom, he must sacrifice his own life by passing the test of "Crooked Sky" and shield ...
Style:
action adventure, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
youth, survival, swing, stranded, rescue, kidnapping, violent content, family relations, rivalry, danger, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
year 1975, 19th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
Style:
epic, humorous, sentimental, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
native american, indians, american history, orphan, chief, injustice, escapades, imperialism, wild west, salesman, thief, society ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, 70s, 20th century, 1870s ...
Place:
montana, south dakota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through his hunt into Mexico he is ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, bank robbery, revenge, pacifist, heroes, vigilantism, squad, convent, quicksand, wild west, heist, bank ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas, usa, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies similar to The Grey
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
old west, revenge, vengeance, cowboy, redemption, gunfight, hitman, sheriff, prostitute, small town, wild west, tough heroes ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, 90s, 1800s, year 1992 ...
Place:
wyoming, kansas, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who ...
Style:
captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, against the odds, rivalry, obnoxious boss, on the road, fish out of water, culture clash, father son relationship, cowboy, painting, native american, wagon train ...
Time:
19th century, year 1967, 1840s
Place:
missouri, oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 219 min.
Story:
Harvard graduate James Averill (Kris Kristofferson) is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners ...
Style:
epic, captivating, talky, atmospheric, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
immigrant, violence, cattle ranch, culture clash, prostitute, brothel, ranch, gunfight, justice, civil war, love triangle, injustice ...
Time:
19th century, year 1980, 1890s, 1870s, 1800s
Place:
montana, wyoming, usa, america, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
25%
79K
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 ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two orphans set out to claim their inheritance - a 400 acre plot of land in Salem Oregon. To Do so they must cross the rugged snow covered Rocky Mountains in the year 1876.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
rocky mountains, wilderness, youth, wolf, gambler, orphan, on the run, winter, snow, mountain lion, family relations, inheritance ...
Time:
1870s, 19th century, 70s
Place:
oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A small gold mining camp is terrorised by a ruthless land owner wanting to take their land. Clint Eastwood arrives riding a pale horse just as a young girl is praying to God to help the miners. He is revealed to be a preacher with mysterious and ...
Style:
spaghetti western, suspense, realistic, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, courage, murder, greed, revenge, one against many, teenage girl, gunfight, wild west, cowboy, one man army, gunfighter ...
Time:
year 1985, 1800s, 20th century, 19th century, 1880s
Place:
california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, wilderness, social decay, old west, violence spree, social misfits, wild west, cowboy, husband wife relationship, gunslinger, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
19th century, year 1971, 1880s, 70s
Place:
new mexico, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver is on one final mission – to kill Gideon, no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes the two men through frigid snow-capped mountains and ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, intense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
wilderness, civil war, survival, chase, american civil war, revenge, justice, plot twist, twists and turns, colonel, indians, union soldier ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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