Survival movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant survival movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, intense, suspenseful, tense, suspense and stylized films and TV shows about / with survival, danger, escapades, death, storytelling, mentor, catastrophe, dialogue, sacrifice and beautiful scenery plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
survival
TOP 10 movies tagged as survival: 127 Hours (2010), Cast Away (2000), The Revenant (2015), Life of Pi (2012), The Mist (2007), The Martian (2015), The Grey (2011), Apocalypto (2006), The 100 (2014), The Book of Eli (2010).
Best films
List of survival movies
320K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
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, uplifting, psychological, inspirational, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, desert, human spirit, adventure, courage, extreme sport, loneliness, peril, climbing, determination ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, year 2003, 2000s
Place:
utah, usa, mcdonald's restaurant
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467K
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, serious, suspense, gloomy, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
survival, island, loneliness, isolation, human spirit, courage, desert island, adventure, air disaster, natural disaster, suicide attempt, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 1990s
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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624K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan
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:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, vengeance, violence, lone hero, revenge, snow, old west, betrayal, native american, manhunt, danger ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
usa
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528K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada
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:
melancholic, dramatic, motivational, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, hopes, adventure, human nature, ocean or sea, teenage boy, isolation, ship, storytelling, ocean, journey, starvation ...
Place:
india, toronto ontario canada, mexico, pacific ocean, montreal quebec ...
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258K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, scary, bad ending, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, monster, fear, trapped, fog, deadly creature, insanity, siege, small town, desperation, tentacle ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
maine, usa
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683K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
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, suspenseful, biting, disturbing, clever ...
Plot:
survival, space travel, isolation, mars, human spirit, nasa, astronaut, space and aliens, stranded, peril, adventure, human nature ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
houston texas, china, pasadena california, beijing china
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227K
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, tense, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, isolation, wilderness, dangerous animal, death, stranded, wolf, eaten alive, male camaraderie, air disaster, danger, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
alaska, usa
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268K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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, suspenseful, intense, harsh, epic ...
Plot:
survival, slavery, adventure, chase, manhunt, tribe, solar eclipse, native, sacrifice, death, prophecy, jaguar ...
Time:
ancient history, 16th century
Place:
central america
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170K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, danger, leadership, space station, betrayal, young heroes, post apocalypse, rivalry, rebellion, against the rules, youth, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style:
futuristic, rough, tense, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, chaos, lone wolves, christianity, warrior, future dystopia, brutality, danger, post apocalyptic, tough heroes, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2040s
Place:
usa, cross country, san francisco
Is relevant ?
626K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, scary, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, plague, zombie, future dystopia, loneliness, heroes, danger, isolation, experiment, chaos, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future, 21st century, year 2012, near future, 2010s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
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700K
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:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, scenic ...
Plot:
survival, isolation, outer space, spacecraft, space travel, space station, astronaut, survivor, spacewalk, space and aliens, trapped in space, mission gone awry ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, future
Place:
houston texas
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69K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, scary, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, gang, forest, camping, slasher, fear, weekend, torture, revenge, in the woods, youth, danger ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england
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182K
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, dramatic, suspenseful, tense, scenic ...
Plot:
survival, mountain climbing, death, forces of nature, against the odds, adventure, climbing, adventurer, stranded, tragedy, death of protagonist, natural disaster ...
Time:
year 1996, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
mount everest, asia, himalaya, texas, nepal
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62K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport, 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, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, danger, youth, isolation, frostbite, skiing, ski lift, forces of nature, ski resort, mountain, vacation, loss of friend ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
Story:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, zombie, apocalypse, plague, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, future dystopia, vestiges of humanity, danger, chaos, post apocalypse, fear ...
Time:
future, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
usa, georgia
Is relevant ?
519K
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:
melancholic, inspirational, road movie, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, self discovery, wilderness, journey, freedom, isolation, hitchhiker, on the road, introspection, adventure, obsessive quest, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, cross country, usa, california, washington state ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, contests and competitions, young heroes, future dystopia, against the odds, killings, death, heroes, trap, life is a bitch, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, 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:
suspense, realistic, touching, heartbreaking, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, tsunami, natural disaster, courage, family in danger, forces of nature, fear, tragic event, parents and children, tragedy, survivor, separation from family ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s, year 2004
Place:
thailand, asia, southeast asia
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450K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
Story:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, exciting, enigmatic, emotional ...
Plot:
island, survival, destiny, adventure, danger, death, lost, leadership, air disaster, human nature, stranded, survivor ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Is relevant ?
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style:
exciting, twists and turns, suspenseful, tense, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, memory loss, apocalypse, adventure, isolation, trapped, young heroes, danger, youth, imaginary, society, on the run ...
Time:
future
Is relevant ?
51K
Genre: 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, serious, tense, suspenseful, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, expedition, adventure, forces of nature, danger, isolation, deathtrap, family relations, water, underground, cave, death ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Is relevant ?
630K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: France, Poland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The true story of pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, emotional, compassionate, harsh ...
Plot:
holocaust, pianist, survival, ghetto, against humanity, anti semitism, atrocity, nazi, jewish, world war two, deportation, starvation ...
Time:
1940s, 30s, 20th century, 40s, 1930s
Place:
poland, germany, europe, warsaw poland
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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, suspenseful, tense, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, daring rescue, ocean, coast guard, courage, adventure, rescue mission, sinking ship, escapades, danger, boat, natural disaster ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, england
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342K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, scary, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, deadly creature, monster, jungle, alien, invisibility, warrior, chase, trap, tough heroes, evil alien, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, twentieth century, year 1987, future
Place:
latin america, central america, south america, mine
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51K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style:
captivating, twists and turns, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, small town, apocalypse, chaos, secret, conspiracy, isolation, leadership, courage, danger, mystery, heroes ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa, kansas
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396K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
survival, fighting the system, danger, youth, rebellion, society, training, mentor, heroes, rebelliousness, save the day, chosen one ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
Is relevant ?
244K
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
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:
captivating, tense, rough, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
military, survival, gunfight, soldier, courage, military life, terrorism, selflessness, battles, squad, enemy, death ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s, year 2005
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, usa, iraq, israel
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, exciting, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, female protagonist, rebellion, future dystopia, danger, society, social decay, adventure, revolution, youth, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
future
Is relevant ?
138K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, France
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:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, captivity, isolation, danger, confined, desperation, fear, characters in danger, terrorism, buried alive, race against time, cell phone ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
iraq, middle east
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