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, suspense, suspenseful, visually appealing and interesting films and TV shows about / with survival, danger, death, escapades, mentor, catastrophe, storytelling, dialogue, beautiful scenery and life & death plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
survival
TOP 10 movies tagged as survival: Cast Away (2000), The Martian (2015), The Revenant (2015), 127 Hours (2010), Frozen (2010), Life of Pi (2012), The Mist (2007), Alive (1993), The 100 (2014), The Impossible (2012).
Best films
List of survival movies
502K
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, loneliness, isolation, desert island, island, human spirit, courage, sole survivor, air disaster, adventure, solitude, suicide attempt ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s, 2000s
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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729K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, 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, suspenseful, disturbing, clever ...
Plot:
survival, space travel, isolation, mars, nasa, astronaut, stranded, alone, loneliness, human spirit, adventure, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
houston texas, china, beijing china, london, pasadena california
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674K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, 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:
atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, vengeance, lone hero, native american, snow, violence, native americans, bear attack, grizzly bear, old west, betrayal ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
usa
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339K
Genre: Biography, Drama
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, cerebral, inspirational ...
Plot:
survival, trapped, isolation, human spirit, courage, desert, loneliness, adventure, desperation, extreme sport, cave, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2003, 2000s
Place:
utah, usa
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66K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, 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:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, sole survivor, isolation, danger, ski resort, mountain, stranded, youth, skiing, snow, death, animal attack ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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564K
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:
motivational, captivating, melancholic, dramatic, scenic ...
Plot:
survival, hopes, beautiful scenery, adventure, storytelling, ocean or sea, human nature, journey, lost at sea, life, isolation, teenage boy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
india, mexico, toronto ontario canada, montreal, paris france ...
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273K
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, bad ending, bleak, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, monster, fog, fear, trapped, tentacle, creature, deadly creature, alternate dimension, insanity, death ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place:
maine, usa
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49K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 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:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, air disaster, starvation, cannibalism, stranded, danger, human spirit, human nature, against the odds, isolation, rescue, hopes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
uruguay, andes mountains, latin america, chile, south america
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194K
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, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, youth, leadership, danger, space station, betrayal, heroes, rivalry, young heroes, society, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
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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:
heartbreaking, motivational, suspense, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
survival, tsunami, natural disaster, family in danger, catastrophe, courage, forces of nature, disaster film, tragedy, destruction, death, fear ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2004, 2000s
Place:
thailand, asia, southeast asia
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190K
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:
based on true events, realistic, dramatic, scenic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, mountain, forces of nature, mountain climbing, adventure, beautiful scenery, natural disaster, climbing, death, stranded, against the odds, adventurer ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, asia, texas, nepal
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667K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, 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:
atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, plague, loneliness, future dystopia, experiment, quarantine, danger, isolation, chaos ...
Time:
future, 21st century, near future, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
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236K
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:
bad ending, suspenseful, rough, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wolf, wilderness, dangerous animal, isolation, air disaster, male camaraderie, stranded, danger, death, snow, forces of nature ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
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145K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
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:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, intense, serious ...
Plot:
survival, confined, captivity, isolation, danger, desperation, buried alive, fear, terrorism, characters in danger, race against time, trapped ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, year 2006
Place:
iraq, middle east
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695K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, War
Country: UK, France, Poland, Germany
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, emotional, suspense, harsh, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
survival, holocaust, nazi, pianist, world war two, ghetto, against humanity, nazi occupation, anti semitism, genocide, jewish, nazism ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 30s, 20th century, 40s ...
Place:
poland, germany, europe, warsaw poland
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552K
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, melancholic, inspirational, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot:
self discovery, survival, journey, wilderness, freedom, isolation, life philosophy, adventure, on the road, solitude, introspection, human spirit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place:
alaska, usa, california, washington state, georgia ...
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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:
suspense, exciting, captivating, scenic, inspirational ...
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, dangerous animal, lost at sea, adventure, against the odds, sea, shipwreck, isolation, danger, whale ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, georgian era, 1820s
Place:
new england, massachusetts, south america, pacific ocean, ecuador
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217K
Genre: Drama
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, rough, harsh, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, post apocalypse, father son relationship, starvation, cannibalism, dying, selflessness, journey, loss of family member, worldwide chaos ...
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, serious, tense, biblical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, warrior, post apocalyptic, dystopic future, chaos, future dystopia, lone wolves, danger, lone hero, tough heroes ...
Time:
future, 2040s
Place:
usa, san francisco
Is relevant ?
282K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, UK
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, intense, suspenseful, serious, harsh ...
Plot:
survival, tribe, slavery, chase, adventure, manhunt, solar eclipse, native, sacrifice, prophecy, warrior, death ...
Time:
ancient history, 16th century
Place:
central america, mexico
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476K
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:
exciting, atmospheric, enigmatic, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
survival, island, desert island, adventure, death, plane crash, destiny, air disaster, danger, stranded, leadership, stranded on an island ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
pacific ocean
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747K
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, space station, space travel, spacecraft, astronaut, sole survivor, loss, space and aliens, spacewalk, survivor ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, future
Place:
houston texas
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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:
twists and turns, exciting, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, adventure, imaginary, maze, isolation, memory loss, trapped, youth, society, young heroes, danger ...
Time:
future
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42K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, virus, infection, biohazard, pandemic, post apocalypse, plague, desperation, deadly virus, trust, life is a bitch, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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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, stylized, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, adventure, courage, storm at sea, sinking ship, ocean, rescue mission, daring rescue, coast guard, forces of nature, escapades ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts, england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, uplifting, compassionate, touching, serious ...
Plot:
survival, airplane, wilderness, human spirit, friendship, adventure, danger, stranded, forces of nature, isolation, rescue, eskimo indian ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1953
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, intense, road movie ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, in the woods, dangerous animal, danger, bear attack, camping, lost, bear, couple relations, nature, wilderness, isolation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 70s
Place:
canada
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106K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, survival, cannibalism, manhunt, disfigurement, danger, chase, gory, youth, massacre, isolation, friendship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2000s
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
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115K
Genre: 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:
suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
shark, survival, trapped, strong female character, ocean, surfing, island, animal horror, death, shark attack, young woman, stranded ...
Place:
tijuana mexico, mexico, australia, texas
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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, girls' night
Plot:
future dystopia, survival, young heroes, against the odds, contests and competitions, youth, heroes, killings, heroine, death, trap, society ...
Time:
future
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