Man versus nature movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant man versus nature movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, captivating and tense films and TV shows about / with man versus nature, suspense, nature, survival, disaster, danger, catastrophe, death, chase and escapades plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
man versus nature
TOP 10 movies tagged as man versus nature: In the Heart of the Sea (2015), Everest (2015), Arctic (2018), The Perfect Storm (2000), North Face (2008), The Shallows (2016), The Revenant (2015), Jaws (1975), 47 Meters Down (2017), The Finest Hours (2016).
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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, exciting, inspirational, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, starvation, shipwreck, man versus nature, dangerous animal, castaway ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, middle ages, georgian era ...
Place:
new england, ecuador, pacific ocean, south america, massachusetts
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222K
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, breathtaking, dramatic, scenic, tense ...
Plot:
survival, mountain, mountaineer, climbing, mountain climbing, natural disaster, stranded, snow, beautiful scenery, man versus nature, forces of nature, disaster ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
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55K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: 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:
touching, disturbing, uplifting, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot:
survival, arctic, helicopter crash, snow, stranded, man versus nature, polar bear, suspense, fish, ice, very little dialogue, struggle for survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antarctica
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, ship, storm at sea, storm, forces of nature, shipwreck, fish, sea, ocean, fishing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, atlantic ocean, boston, portugal
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Style:
touching, exciting, serious, captivating, breathtaking ...
Plot:
climbing, mountain climbing, mountaineer, disaster, mountain, adventurer, survival, wehrmacht, rivalry, forces of nature, man versus nature, nature ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, germany, alps, swiss alps, bavaria
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136K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
Style:
scary, exciting, tense, harsh, absurd ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, shark attack, creature feature, ocean, beach, sea, killer shark, trapped, surfer ...
Time:
future
Place:
mexico, australia, tijuana mexico, texas
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819K
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:
breathtaking, atmospheric, exciting, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, snow, bear attack, life & death, obsessive quest, lone hero, father son relationship, bravery, violent ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, georgian era
Place:
los angeles, usa
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617K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, entertaining, rough ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, beach, ocean, shark attack, fear, monster, dangerous animal, survival, killer shark, suspense, creature feature ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
long island, usa, massachusetts, new york state, new england ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot:
shark, survival, shark attack, ocean, animal attack, great white shark, survival horror, rescue, killer animal, sister, diver, creature feature ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, tense, scenic ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, disaster, ocean, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, daring rescue, catastrophe, sinking ship ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951
Place:
new england, massachusetts, england, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sport, Thriller
Country: China, Germany, USA, Austria, Italy, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A young undercover FBI agent infiltrates a gang of thieves who share a common interest in extreme sports. A remake of the 1991 film, "Point Break".
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, intense, realistic, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, extreme sports, surfing, bank robbery, skydiving, rescue, fbi, chase, sport, redemption, working undercover, friendship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean, california, italy, usa, mumbai india ...
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176K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style:
captivating, tense, light, funny, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
shark, giant monster, ocean, sea monster, survival, animal attack, giant creature, giant animal, mission, killer shark, creature feature, self sacrifice ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, prehistory
Place:
shanghai, usa, pacific ocean, asia, california ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When an inexperienced park ranger finds a dead body under mysterious circumstances on a remote mountain trail, she must guard it overnight until authorities can arrive, forcing her to confront some of her deepest, darkest fears.
Style:
scary, exciting, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
grizzly bear, lost in the woods, bear attack, suspense, crime scene, corpse, forest, fear, night, life & death, women, man versus nature ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
1984: Searching for an experience that goes deeper than the superficiality of modern civilization, Bruno Manser travels into the jungles of Borneo and finds it with the nomadic Penan tribe. It is an encounter that changes his life forever. When the ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, sincere, captivating, political
Plot:
rain forest, jungle, environmental activist, tribe, environment, courage, deforestation, environmental activism, fighting the system, environmentalism, man versus nature, showdown ...
Time:
year 1984, year 1991, year 1987, year 1999, year 1988
Place:
germany, switzerland, borneo, munich germany
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Genre: Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Buck and Jessica's merry little Christmas together takes a dangerous turn when their journey through the wild turns into a battle for survival.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
christmas, struggle for survival, family relations, love affair, couple relations, man versus nature, couples, cold, wildlife, relationships, male female relationship, love and romance ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they’re appearing again in unexpected ways.
Style:
absurd, parody, captivating, semi serious, natural horror ...
Plot:
shark, creature feature, shark attack, monster, animal attack, absurd humor, killer animal, man versus nature, human versus animal, silly humor, battles, human versus monster ...
Place:
austin texas, kansas, las vegas
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A romantic escape into nature turns into the ultimate moment of reckoning when a husband and wife are trapped in a tent with a deadly snake. Unable to escape and with certain death looming, the tent becomes a heated confessional to a cataclysmic ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
snake, survival, suspense, near death experience, dangerous animal, family relations, husband wife relationship, death threat, struggle for survival, hiking, confession, family problems ...
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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:
captivating, tense, psychological
Plot:
wild animal, dangerous animal, hyena, vacation, animal attack, stupidity, monster, wildlife, suspense, wilderness, family problems, family relations ...
Place:
africa, kenya
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is considered one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, scientist and adventurer ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, uplifting, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, hiking, heroism, explorer, endurance, hunger, snow, dog sled, expedition, diary, life risking ...
Place:
antarctic, antarctica, south pole
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A crew of men who do the high-wire work of fixing the electrical grid are hit by a sudden deadly storm.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
electrician, disaster, suspense, storm, heroism, electricity, workplace situations, life risking, workplace problem, worker, man versus nature, courage ...
Time:
year 1999
Place:
texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bloody, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, forest, suspense, stranded, small town sheriff, gang, criminal, illegal drugs, struggle for survival, alone, fight, loneliness ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
kentucky
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal, France, Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Stranded along a sublime river fjord in northern Portugal, a hunky ornithologist is subjected to a series of brutal and erotic Stations-of-the-Cross-style tests.
Style:
avant garde, captivating, psychological, unusual plot structure, visually appealing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
gay, bondage, ornithologist, male objectification, lgbt, suspense, forest, river, male nudity, lgbtq, lost, nude ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
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630K
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, motivational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, road trip, self discovery, wilderness, solitude, freedom, journey, life philosophy, isolation, lifestyle change, adventurer, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
20th century, year 1990, year 1992, year 1991, 90s
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, usa, arizona ...
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201K
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, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, tornado, divorce, twister, hurricane, weatherman, apocalypse, nature, peril ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, intense, psychological, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
wilderness, river, hostage, suspense, family in danger, rafting, kidnapping, survival, boat, criminal, rescue, bank robber ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, idaho, usa
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58K
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:
realistic, emotional, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, air disaster, disaster, stranded, starvation, cannibalism, death, airplane accident, mountain, snow, human spirit, airplane ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, latin america
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188K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send ...
Style:
exciting, intense, surprise ending, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, extreme sport, special agents, gang, surfer, extreme sports, surfing, gangsters, undercover, robbery, fbi, suspense ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, hawaii, australia ...
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603K
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:
captivating, psychological, serious, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, date night
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, air disaster, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, solitude, determination, survivor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, year 1995, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia, fictional island
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 206 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, epic, realistic, exciting
Plot:
survival, expedition, adventurer, endurance, human spirit, against the odds, nature, leadership, ambition, forces of nature, explorer, sea ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1914
Place:
antarctica, south pole, england
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56K
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:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, cave, expedition, disaster, suspense, scuba diving, forces of nature, deathtrap, underground, struggle for survival, beautiful scenery, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
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