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The Donner Party (2009)
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a number of the trapped settlers joined together in a final effort to reach California and organize a rescue party.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, realistic, mysterious, suspenseful, bleak, wild
Plot:
wilderness survival, wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, isolation, danger, moral dilemma, hopes, snow, mountain, winter, desperation, cannibal, nature, food, ice, landscape, stranded, trapped, based on real people, survival, escapades, confined, native american ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
usa, california
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Most similar movies to The Donner Party
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about survival, danger, isolation, wilderness, escapades, confined and snow mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Donner Party: Ravenous (1999), Ordeal (1973), Alive (1993), Thirst (2010), Siberia, Monamour (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
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:
black comedy, dark comedy, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, winter, death, fort, mountain, gory, survival, food, violent, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 20th century, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
frostbite, survival, hypothermia, snowstorm, rescue, wilderness, heroes, danger, babies and infants, family life, forces of nature, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
246
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.
Style:
tension, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
desert, stranded in the desert, survival, adultery, betrayal, revenge, man versus nature, isolation, struggle for survival, broken leg, love triangle, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
100%
68K
Genre: 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:
inspirational, emotional, breathtaking, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, disaster, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, mountain, mountain climbing, historical event, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, antarctic ...
Similarity:
100%
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924
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After wrecking their car in the middle of the desert, two couples find themselves stranded with few supplies. When the heat intensifies and their precious water supply dwindles, the frantic friends begin betraying each other in the hopes of ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
desert, wilderness, stranded in the desert, survival, isolation, dehydration, danger, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, thirst, wilderness survival, pregnancy, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
wilderness, elderly, isolation, orphan, life is a bitch, danger, woods, nature, wilderness survival, survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Idaho, an estranged couple are trapped in a blizzard while on vacation just before Christmas.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
christmas, survival, wilderness, search and rescue, husband wife relationship, danger, hopes, couple relations, escapades, estrangement, forces of nature, against the odds ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
idaho
Similarity:
100%
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, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, world war two, military, human spirit, danger, ocean, soldier, disaster, human nature, getting home, isolation, wilderness ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, 20th century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
stranded, trapped, backwoods, blizzard, snowstorm, frostbite, pregnant woman, breast feeding, couples, argument, birth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot:
female nudity, survival, isolation, social relations, confined, wilderness, snow, party, lesbian sex, male nudity, yoga, female pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A plane crash in the Mexican desert leaves a small group of survivors who are desperate for food and water. Fearing that they may never be found where they are, they head for where it is hoped there will be civilization and rescue. When their hopes ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, independent film
Plot:
dehydration, survival, desert, plane crash, stranded, hunger, desperation, moral dilemma, isolation, thirst, human nature, endurance ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
22%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, island, isolation, storm, wilderness, escapades, danger, forces of nature, parent child relationship, reconciliation, courage, family drama ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
641
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, blackout, lie, danger, violence, nypd, urban, stash, woman
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, contamination, terrorism, danger, bio weapon, plague, dystopia, disaster, violence, thirst, husband wife relationship, toxin ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Day One, is an NBC made for tv sci-fi movie. It was originally written as a tv series pilot about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure. The series was slated to fill the Heroes time slot ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
survival, group of strangers, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse, worldwide chaos, chosen one, dystopian future, society, life is a bitch, danger, chaos, escapades ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
Style:
captivating, uplifting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, wilderness survival, pets, blizzard, treasure hunter, starvation, disorder, chases and races, confined, escapades ...
Time:
70s
Place:
yukon, alaska, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, boat, disaster, sea, storm, moral dilemma, sacrifice, desperation, human nature, character study ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lisa's husband, Bill, abuses her. With her sister's encouragement, she takes their three kids and leaves her husband. Bill keeps interfering with Lisa's attempts at a new life. She gets an order of protection against him, but the ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
abusive relationship, murder, danger, starting over, life is a bitch, domestic disturbance, hopes, family relations, injustice, family problems, woman in danger, family in danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of baby Jessica McClure who fell into a drain pipe in her back yard while playing. She was stuck in the pipe about 20 to 30 feet down and it took rescuers 58 hours to get her out. There was fear that if they shook the earth ...
Style:
emotional, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
baby, rescue, isolation, twins, babies and infants, daring rescue, confined, heroes, danger, escapades, young mother, child in peril ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Argentina, UK, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mountain, mountain climbing, wilderness, climbing, rivalry, danger, ambition, contests and competitions, love triangle, mountaineering, dream, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
patagonia, chile, argentina
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Five juvenile delinquents break out of jail and attempt to make their way to a house in the Mendoza foothills of Argentina.
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, art house ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, survival, hopes, wilderness, getting home, escape, youth, escapades, human nature, society, social decay, disintegration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poetic realism, argentina
Similarity:
18%
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117
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, disturbing, rough, mystic ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, love affair, family life, family problems, love and romance, survival, isolation, dysfunctional family, parents and children, pregnancy, prohibition era, wilderness ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Martinón is the last inhabitant of Auzal, a village in the mountains where he lives in communion with nature. He only goes down to the valleys twice a year to trade and to buy provisions. But one day he’s convinced to take a wife, a decision ...
Style:
bleak, touching, realistic, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
recluse, one night stand, survival, minimal dialogue, lone hero, husband wife relationship, loneliness, danger, destiny, escapades, winter, death ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Fifty elderly women are abandoned to die on a snow covered mountain, but instead wor together to build their own village named "Dendera." Some of the women wants to live their remaining days in peace, but others seek revenge against the ...
Style:
uplifting, captivating, serious, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
human spirit, left to die, survival, escapades, hopes, strong female presence, wilderness, elderly, aging, danger, village life, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Slovenia, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war-torn world.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
on the road, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, getting home, survival, danger, society, wartime life, introspection, dystopia, runaway child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young female prison guard finds out that her first assignment is to San Quentin, one of the toughest prisons in the country.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
prison, women in prison, survival, moral dilemma, violence, sexism, corruption, isolation, law and order, realism, urban, redemption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A struggling, indebted business man leaves his family immediately after Christmas to pursue a lucrative property deal that could solve all of his problems: buying foreclosed properties from banks at a fraction of their value, refi tting them for a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, thought provoking, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
on the road, moral dilemma, danger, forces of nature, boss and employee, power relations, road trip, survival, greed, mountain, society, patronizing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colorado, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
wilderness, danger, farm, family relations, nature, wilderness survival, isolation, winter, mountain, arctic, landscape, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan
Similarity:
18%
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