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Alpha (2018)
 6.6
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Alpha (2018)
Genre: Action, 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, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, social, suspenseful, realistic, action adventure, epic, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, adult
Plot: wilderness, survival, wolf, human animal relationship, caveman, dog, animal attack, hunter, near death experience, boar, wolf pack, bison, coming of age, wolf attack, teenager, boy and dog, saving a life, father son relationship, tribal chief, lightning, hyena, flooding, killing an animal, presumed dead, medieval ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, future, ancient times
Place: europe
Keyword: buddy movie, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and exciting films with plots about survival, danger, escapades, wilderness, nature, blood and death mostly in Adventure, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Alpha: 10,000 BC (2008), The Tiger (2015), The Grey (2011), The Revenant (2015), The Eagle (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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10,000 BC (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Style: epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, daring rescue, caveman, animal attack, cave, giant bird, mammoth, dinosaur, danger, monster, natural disaster, mythology ...
Time: stone age, prehistory, prehistoric times, year 2008
Place: north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 7.2
 7K
The Tiger (2015)
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, survival, snow, medieval, hunter, occupation, japanese occupation, violence, japanese occupation of korea, life & death, tough heroes ...
Time: 1920s
Place: korea, china, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 8.0
 867K
The Revenant (2015)
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 ⇓
80%
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 6.2
 74K
The Eagle (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) arrives from Rome to solve the mystery and restore the reputation of his father, the commander ...
Style: exciting, intense, epic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ancient rome, roman empire, ancient history, ancient world, medieval, slavery, sword fight, master and servant, gladiator, legends and myths, ancient, legion ...
Time: ancient times, middle ages
Place: england, scotland, britain, greece, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 329K
Apocalypto (2006)
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: exciting, suspense, brutal, harsh, visually stunning ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, ancient history, slavery, manhunt, tribe, jungle, chase, native, solar eclipse, warrior, ancient civilization, violent ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, year 2006, 2000s, medieval times
Place: persia, mexico, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Call of the Wild (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
Style: captivating, disturbing, sincere, inspirational, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: dog, survival, dog sled, wolf, snow, gold rush, danger, friendship, wolf pack, animal, grizzly bear, gold ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 20th century, victorian era, 2020s
Place: alaska, yukon
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.6
 6K
Wolf Totem (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; ...
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: forces of nature, wolf, survival, dog, wilderness, tradition versus modernity, medieval, danger, society, wolf pack, disaster, wild animal ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1969
Place: china, mongolia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.8
 58K
Arctic (2018)
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, disturbing, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, snow, arctic, helicopter crash, man versus nature, polar bear, fish, very little dialogue, ice, snowstorm, struggle for survival, winter ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, disturbing, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: jungle, wolf, hunter, jungle book, feral child, bear, anthropomorphism, snake, human animal relationship, tiger, talking animal, threat ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Natural changes have the clans moving. Iza, medicine woman of the "Clan of the Cave Bear" finds little Ayla from the "others"' clan - tradition would have the clan kill Ayla immediately, but Iza insists on keeping her. When ...
Style: harsh, stylized, suspense, serious, prehistoric ...
Plot: caveman, prehistoric man, neanderthal, ancient history, bear, tribe, orphan, rescue, danger, human nature, uninhibited rivalry, self discovery ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, future, ancient times
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
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 ⇓
100%
White Wolves III - Cry of the White Wolf (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast sierra. Their pilot, Quentin, injured and ununable to make the dangerous journey, teaches them the ways of his ...
Plot: wolf, survival, nature, dog, airplane crash, teenager, wilderness, survivor
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Maiden and the Wolves (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Not long before World War I, in a French Alpine town near the Italian border, a pack of slaughtered wolves is delivered to local taxidermist Leon (Patrick Chesnais). A surviving black cub comes down from the mountains looking for his family, and is ...
Style: emotional, serious, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: wolf, survival, mountain, escapades, beast, danger, wilderness, world war one, female protagonist, forest, great war, nature ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, post world war one
Place: alps, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.2
 253K
The Road (2009)
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, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.3
 24K
Quest for Fire (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A colossal adventure odyssey that turns back the hands of time to the very beginning of man's existence. 80,000 years ago, when man roamed the earth, he was exposed to the many harsh elements of nature. Against the perilous atmosphere of rugged ...
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, prehistoric, serious ...
Plot: caveman, survival, neanderthal, cannibalism, prehistoric man, discovery, fire, tribe, ancient history, sword and sorcery, ancient, love story ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, ancient times, year 1981 ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
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, suspense, exciting, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, whaling, starvation, man versus nature, shipwreck, dangerous animal ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, future ...
Place: new england, america, pacific ocean, ecuador, massachusetts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 16K
Land (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, serious
Plot: solitude, nature, living alone, family tragedy, fishing, female protagonist, mountain, native american, wilderness, new life, mountain cabin, rocky mountains ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: wyoming, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.1
 11K
Desierto (2015)
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, rough, touching, bloody ...
Plot: survival, truck, desert, mexican border, running for your life, human prey, mass murder, characters killed one by one, mercilessness, psychopath, border crossing, u.s. mexico border ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 6K
Pathfinder (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the families teenage son, Aigin, observes the ...
Style: suspenseful, period piece, cult horror, cult classic, exciting ...
Plot: lapland, medieval, barbarian, survival, viking, winter, snow, coming of age, indigenous people, bear attack, nature, heroes ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 11th century, 10th century
Place: europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
50%
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story: The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot: world war two, survival, gulag, human spirit, pow, confined, getting home, captivity, wehrmacht, danger, jail, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, year 1939, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place: ussr, germany, soviet union, siberia, baltics ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.9
 84K
All Is Lost (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
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, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing
Plot: survival, boat, loneliness, storm, ocean, survivor, isolation, ship, human spirit, sailing, sailor, desperation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 5.8
 265K
Noah (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
Style: biblical, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic, fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, chick flick
Plot: apocalypse, survival, religion, chaos, god, natural disaster, old testament, belief, ancient history, life & death, christianity, animal ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, ancient times, middle ages, biblical epic
Place: holy land, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 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 ⇓
28%
 7.2
 165K
War Horse (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Follows a young man named Albert and his horse, Joey, and how their bond is broken when Joey is sold to the cavalry and sent to the trenches of World War One. Despite being too young to enlist, Albert heads to France to save his friend.
Style: touching, emotional, epic, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, date night, girls' night, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: world war one, horse, war, friendship, animal training, animal, battles, human spirit, wartime, battlefield, danger, military ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 2010s, 1920s, year 2011 ...
Place: england, belgium, britain, america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.9
 660
Disappearances (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Quebec Bill Bohomme is a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. Quebec Bill takes his son, Wild ...
Style: serious, sincere, touching, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot: wilderness, father son relationship, escapades, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, parents and children, prohibition era, dishonesty, nature, scenery, great depression, coming of age ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: canada, vermont, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, intense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, gorilla, future war, talking animal, revenge, chimpanzee, animal, killer animal, near death experience, journey ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future, future, 2040s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Emerald Forest (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when ...
Style: anthropological, retro, disturbing, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot: jungle, tribe, adoption, environmental, coming of age, amazon rainforest, sex trafficking, pagan, survival, kidnapping, culture clash, treasure hunt ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: brazil, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 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 ⇓
27%
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