Movies like A Vacation in Hell

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A Vacation in Hell (1979)
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A Vacation in Hell (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Five tourists, four women and one man, escape from the group in a holiday camp at a tropical place and get lost. They have to find the way back, but problems are still to come...
Plot: survival, tourist, disaster, wilderness, jungle, island, wildlife, vacation, women in prison, native, female protagonist, death of child, waterfall, raft, stranded, falling from height, female bonding, mountain lion, woman in jeopardy, vacation gone wrong, lost, woman in danger, spear, shower, stabbed to death ...

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Most similar movies to A Vacation in Hell

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about survival, danger, escapades, disaster, nature, death and wilderness mostly in Thriller, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like A Vacation in Hell: Dangerous Waters (1999), When Time Ran Out... (1980), The Edge (1997), Poseidon (2006), Beyond the Reach (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dangerous Waters (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A river expert (Connie Selleca), her boy friend (Matt McCoy), and her children go on a river rafting trip. But things go awry when they are taken captive by escaped convicts searching for stolen money.
Style: cliffhanger, psychotronic
Plot: river, diving, vacation gone wrong, loot, woman in jeopardy, captivity, escaped prisoner, family relations, smuggling, cave, survival, loss of husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, hotel, resort, pandemic, escape, survival, infidelity, ranch, love affair, trapped, escapades ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.9
 79K
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 ⇓
88%
 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Beyond the Reach (2014)
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: suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, desert, wilderness, hunting, chase, hunter, isolation, witnessing a crime, travel, thirst, danger, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, mojave desert, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
A Cry in the Wild (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry animals until or if he is found.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: wilderness, youth, dangerous animal, self discovery, danger, isolation, survival, survivor, boy, nature, grizzly bear, trapped ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: yukon, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Survival Quest (1988)
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, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, murder, rivalry, danger, hostage, mountain, camping, manhunt, treasure hunter, trapped ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The blood orchid - A rare flower that holds the secret of eternal life and a fortune to the pharmaceutical company that finds it. Led by a two-fisted soldier of fortune, a scientific expedition is sent deep into the jungles of Borneo to locate and ...
Style: suspense, scary, intense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot: jungle, snake, treasure hunt, animal attack, survival, expedition, monster, killer animal, dangerous animal, creature, eaten alive, greed ...
Time: jurassic, year 2004, 2000s
Place: borneo, new york, usa, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 6.2
 80K
Frozen (2010)
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: suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: utah, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Valley of Mystery (1967)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Meridian Airlines flight from Miami to Caracas crashes in the Venezuelan jungle, stranding 130 passengers and crew in hostile surroundings.
Plot: jungle, airplane, airplane crash, survival, pilot, human sacrifice, novelist, waterfall, missionary, jungle adventure, burning village, blowgun ...
Time: year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.0
 98K
Dante's Peak (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, volcano, survival, rescue, scientist, race against time, volcanic eruption, small town, mayor, apocalypse ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Weekend Warriors (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A fun camping trip turns into a desperate fight for survival after two kids witness a horrific event in the wild. They have to endure the elements and wildlife and they must also find a way to reach civilization before it's too late.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, cliffhanger
Plot: witness, runaway, battles, threat, man versus nature, escape, wildlife, fight, hunting, struggle for survival, survival
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 8.2
 1.1M
Jurassic Park (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. ...
Style: suspense, epic, breathtaking, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, boys' night, date night, teens ...
Plot: dinosaur, island, survival, creature feature, animal attack, scientist, disaster, research, children, experiment, dangerous animal, child in peril ...
Time: jurassic, 20th century, year 1993, prehistoric times, 90s
Place: fictional island, montana, caribbean, central america, costa rica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.9
 57K
Sanctum (2011)
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: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.5
 139K
Cliffhanger (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
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: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, heist, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, villain, snow, redemption, rescue, survival ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.1
 255K
San Andreas (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, tsunami, earthquake, father daughter relationship, happy ending, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.5
 212K
Twister (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, anamorphic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, tornado, catastrophe, survival, divorce, twister, weatherman, nature, hurricane, forces of nature, apocalypse ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Jurassic Park III (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, predictable, saga ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: dinosaur, island, jungle, tyrannosaurus rex, jurassic park, monster, fantasy world, survival, lost world, genetics, dangerous animal, heroes ...
Time: year 2001, jurassic, 2000s, prehistoric times, 90s ...
Place: costa rica, fictional island, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Movie in collections
 4.8
 12K
Aftershock (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Chile
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mayhem and death follow when an earthquake traps a group of tourists in a Chilean town.
Style: suspense, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, survival, danger, escapades, violence spree, profanity, gory, natural disaster, brutality, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Air Collision (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, save the day, survival, danger, aviation, disorder, escapades, confined, disaster, aeroplane, army, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
48%
Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Deep underwater in the Marianas Trench an accident results in a devastating Tsunami that destroys the Hawaiian Islands as it continues toward the west coast. Panic ensues all up and down the western coast of North and South America. In an attempt to ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, captivating, tense
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, earthquake, tsunami, panic, evacuation, water, scientist, giant wave, survival ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Endangered Species (2021)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Kenya, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jack Halsey takes his wife, their adult kids, and a friend for a dream vacation in Kenya. But as they venture off alone into a wilderness park, their safari van is flipped over by an angry rhino, leaving them injured and desperate. Then, as two of ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: dangerous animal, animal attack, wild animal, vacation, stupidity, animal, monster, wildlife, safari, wilderness, struggle for survival, survival ...
Place: africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
46%
Destruction Los Angeles (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A fatal explosion and sudden earthquake rock Los Angeles, and reporter John Benson seizes his chance to cover the breaking news of increasing seismic activity.
Style: action adventure, tense, exciting, brutal, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: volcanic eruption, asthma, survival, disaster, death, danger, fear, apocalypse, volcano, natural disaster, reporter, trauma ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
40 Days and Nights (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, independent film
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, mass destruction, save the day, survival, chaos and mayhem, chaos, danger, chases and races, forces of nature, escapades, scientist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.7
 273K
First Blood (1982)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, the Vietnam vet snaps, runs for the hills and rat-a-tat-tats his way into the action-movie hall of fame. Hounded by a relentless sheriff, Rambo ...
Style: cult classic, serious, suspense, exciting, bloody ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: gunfight, one man army, vietnam war, manhunt, soldier, tough heroes, tough guy, danger, police brutality, escape, bad cop, lone wolves ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: vietnam, washington state, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.7
 63K
Jungle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for ...
Style: suspense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, jungle, wilderness, nature, alone, adventurer, rescue, amazon rainforest, raft, river, hallucination, jaguar ...
Time: 20th century, year 2017, year 1981, year 1980
Place: south america, bolivia, andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When Quinn, a grouchy pilot living the good life in the South Pacific, agrees to transfer a savvy fashion editor, Robin, to Tahiti, he ends up stranded on a deserted island with her after their plane crashes. The pair avoid each other at first, ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, light, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: island, survival, stranded, jungle, desert island, love and romance, battle of the sexes, opposites attract, initially antagonists, fall in love, air disaster, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: hawaii, fictional island, tahiti, pacific ocean, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Welcome to the Jungle (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared in 1961.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, mockumentary ...
Plot: cannibalism, jungle, wilderness, found footage, cannibal, survival, obsessive quest, danger, gory, african tribe, escapades, cons and scams ...
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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