Movies like 127 Hours

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127 Hours (2010)
 7.5
 399K
127 Hours (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style: suspense, inspirational, breathtaking, intense, touching, unusual plot structure, depressing, thought provoking, emotional, visually appealing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, isolation, mountain, wilderness, climbing, canyon, courage, alone, human spirit, loneliness, desert, life philosophy, hopes, struggle for survival, life & death, journey, stranded, peril, trap, accident, cave, hiking, survivor, hiker ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003, 21st century, contemporary
Place: utah, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspense and inspirational films with plots about survival, trapped, danger, nature, escapades, wilderness and wilderness survival mostly in Drama, Adventure and Biography genres. Some movies like 127 Hours: Alive (1993), Into the Wild (2007), Against the Sun (2014), Jungle (2017), Everest (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Alive (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style: realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, disaster, stranded, cannibalism, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, snow, mountain, wilderness, historical event ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: andes mountains, chile, uruguay, antarctic, south america ...
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100%
 8.1
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Into the Wild (2007)
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: road trip, wilderness, survival, self discovery, freedom, journey, solitude, life philosophy, isolation, travel, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place: alaska, los angeles, america, astoria oregon, seattle ...
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84%
Against the Sun (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, world war two, military, human spirit, danger, water, ocean, disaster, soldier, human nature, getting home, isolation ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
81%
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Everest (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
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, climbing, mountain, natural disaster, snow, mountaineer, stranded, forces of nature, man versus nature, beautiful scenery, wilderness ...
Time: year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place: mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 7.9
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Life of Pi (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Style: philosophical, motivational, visually appealing, scenic, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: survival, ocean, animal, human animal relationship, life & death, stranded, survivor, beautiful scenery, lost at sea, hopes, storm at sea, journey ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 70s
Place: india, pacific ocean, america, montreal, toronto ontario canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Impossible (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style: emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
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89%
 6.6
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Joy (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A story based on the life of a struggling Long Island single mom who became one of the country's most successful entrepreneurs.
Style: inspirational, stylized, emotional, motivational, intense ...
Plot: entrepreneur, business, businesswoman, career woman, inventor, entrepreneurship, strong female lead, ambition, divorce, career, women, female protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: boston, usa, california, new jersey, new york state ...
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100%
 7.8
 634K
Cast Away (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, air disaster, determination, solitude, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1995, year 1999 ...
Place: fictional island, persia, america, moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
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Wild (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style: meditative, road movie, uplifting, inspirational, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, female protagonist, starting over, human spirit, death of mother, cheating on husband, traveler ...
Time: year 1995, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, portland oregon, usa, mojave desert, oregon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
 32K
Tracks (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
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: uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wilderness, desert, solitude, camel, survival, travel, human spirit, photographer, explorer, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, 70s, year 1976 ...
Place: australia
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71%
 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 ⇓
58%
 6.9
 40K
The 33 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Style: factual, touching, suspense, serious, period piece ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, disaster, rescue, life, catastrophe, stranded, natural disaster, human spirit, doctor, honest, radio, hopes ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: chile, peru, latin america, south america
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80%
 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 ⇓
84%
 7.2
 182K
Unbroken (2014)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport, War
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A chronicle of the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
Style: motivational, uplifting, inspirational, epic, dramatic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: world war two, war, survival, torture, biopic, soldier, human spirit, prison, olympics, prisoners of war, lone hero, hopes ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2014, 2010s, 1930s ...
Place: japan, asia, pacific ocean, germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
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Gravity (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, suspense, minimal cast ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: isolation, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, outer space, space station, loneliness, disaster, sole survivor, catastrophe, survivor ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, seattle, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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
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67%
 7.3
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The Way Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot: survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, russia, soviet union, asia, mongolia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 65K
Vertical Limit (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, adventurer, disaster, mountain, natural disaster, wilderness, mountaineering, expedition, snow ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: himalaya, pakistan, antarctic, asia
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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
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57%
 7.5
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Lone Survivor (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find ...
Style: rough, tense, captivating, emotional, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, survival, soldier, war, terrorism, gunfight, courage, military life, selflessness, war on terror, squad, army ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Style: inspirational, emotional, sentimental, uplifting, motivational ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: homeless, life, human spirit, life philosophy, family drama, rags to riches, success, rise to the top, single father, against the odds, life is a bitch, down on your luck ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 2010s, 20th century
Place: usa, san francisco, bay area, california, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to ...
Style: realistic, psychological, uplifting, touching, sincere ...
Plot: disability, human spirit, life is a bitch, self discovery, family problems, hopes, society, social misfits, doctors and patients, parents and children, mental illness, isolation ...
Time: 70s, year 1970
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
50%
 8.0
 916K
The Martian (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style: futuristic, biting, clever, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: survival, mars, astronaut, space travel, stranded, nasa, isolation, outer space, science, scientist, space, loneliness ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 2030s, near future ...
Place: china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.6
 61K
Adrift (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Iceland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
Style: sincere, suspenseful, sad, inspirational, romantic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, boat, survivor, sailboat, sea adventure, storm, underwater, human spirit, power of love, death, yacht, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1983
Place: pacific ocean, tahiti
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.8
 5K
The Canyon (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.
Style: suspenseful, scary, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, desert, honeymoon, grand canyon, tour guide, dangerous animal, danger, isolation, newlyweds, animal attack, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.3
 135K
The Walk (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
Style: breathtaking, inspirational, suspense, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: skyscraper, world trade center manhattan new york city, life philosophy, biopic, tightrope walker, ambition, obsession, transformation, happy ending, planning, danger, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2015, 2010s, year 1973 ...
Place: new york, paris france, america, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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