Survival movies and TV shows – page 4

List of survival movies

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 7.1
 52K
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style: harsh, realistic, inspirational, epic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: ocean, survival, sea voyage, shark, boat, expedition, raft, obsessive quest, adventurer, sailing, travel, lost at sea ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s ...
Place: pacific ocean, polynesia, peru, usa, south america ...
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Southern Comfort (1981)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror ...
Style: atmospheric, southern gothic, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, backwoods, swamp, violence, murder, manhunt, poacher, on the run, dog attack, ambush, vietnam war ...
Time: year 1981, year 1973, 70s
Place: louisiana, usa, southern usa
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12 Years a Slave (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In ...
Style: motivational, heartbreaking, disturbing, harsh, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: slavery, racism, survival, civil rights, torture, african american, freedom, american history, life is a bitch, black history, interracial relations, kidnapping ...
Time: 19th century, year 2013, 2010s, victorian era, ancient times ...
Place: louisiana, new orleans, america, africa, usa ...
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 7.1
 138K
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 ...
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 6.4
 48K
Revenge (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly — and viciously — intensifies, ...
Style: suspense, tense, bloody, minimal cast, post-horror ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: revenge, survival, rape, strong female character, rape and revenge, manhunt, female protagonist, desert, chase, danger, brutality, female vigilante ...
Time: 2010s
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 6.4
 25K
Hidden (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: virus, post apocalypse, epidemic, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, underground, twists and turns, infected, bomb shelter, mother daughter relationship ...
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 7.8
 688K
Get Out (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: racism, hypnosis, kidnapping, brainwashing, interracial romance, survival, paranoia, missing person, african american, female villain, revenge, african american protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, future, 21st century
Place: indiana, brooklyn new york city, new york
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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
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The Hunger Games (2012)
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, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot: survival, female protagonist, distopia, death, game of death, contests and competitions, competition, youth, danger, heroine, society, rivalry ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
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 7.0
 252K
Pitch Black (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, harsh, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, creature, survival, alien, space travel, alien life-form, one man army, outer space, dark hero, tough guy, anti hero, deadly creature ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Place: oceania, space western
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 6.3
 47K
#Alive (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, disturbing, splatter ...
Plot: zombie, survival, isolation, virus, infection, walking dead, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, deadly virus, infestation ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seoul, south korea
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 6.7
 159K
Pandorum (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, survival, outer space, isolation, monster, post apocalypse, space, survival horror, spacecraft, memory loss, danger, end of the world ...
Time: future, year 2009
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Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style: suspense, exciting, dramatic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sniper, military, survival, behind enemy lines, courage, fighter pilot, u.s. navy, war crime, fighter plane, rescue, bosnian war, aviation ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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 5.1
 41K
The Cave (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, scary, underground horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, diver, deadly creature, danger, creature, supernatural, monster, underwater, parasite, diving, transformation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
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 7.2
 155K
Cold Mountain (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Italy, Romania, UK
Duration: 154 min.
Story: In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind ...
Style: romantic, sincere, serious, period piece, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: american civil war, love story, survival, civil war, tragic love, war, loss of family member, wartime, getting home, slavery, loss of loved one, military ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, year 2003 ...
Place: south carolina, north carolina, usa, america, ancient greece ...
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The Lost City of Z (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
Style: inspirational, meditative, exciting, period piece, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: explorer, jungle, expedition, travel, survival, archaeology, journey, tribe, conquistador, amazon jungle, world war one, biopic ...
Time: 1920s, future, year 2016, 1900s, year 2017 ...
Place: south america, ireland, england, america, bolivia ...
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 6.8
 293K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, hotel, fear, stephen king, isolation, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, writers ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
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 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
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 7.0
 138K
Green Room (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young punk rock band find themselves trapped in a secluded venue after stumbling upon a horrific act of violence.
Style: suspense, tension, bleak, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: skinhead, survival, murder, brutality, violence, punk, friendship, punk band, escape, neo nazi, revenge, heroin ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2015
Place: oregon, portland oregon, astoria oregon
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Independence Day (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, suspense, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, end of the world, invasion, extraterrestrial, survival, ufo, space and aliens, alien, evil alien, first contact, alien encounter, save the world ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, jurassic, future
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa, houston texas, london ...
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 8.7
 504K
The Last of Us (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
Style: exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological ...
Plot: epidemic, post apocalypse, apocalypse, infection, survival, pandemic, survival horror, end of the world, survivor, zombie violence, violence, danger ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: usa
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 5.5
 3K
Numb (2015)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Husband and wife, Will and Dawn, are in financial crisis after learning the job Will was counting on to salvage their financial future has disappeared in the midst of a market collapse. They set out to drive home on the winter highway back to their ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, cliffhanger ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, treasure, treasure hunt, ex convict, hitchhiking, winter, buried treasure, snow, stolen gold, wilderness survival, husband wife relationship ...
Place: canada
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In Darkness We Fall (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Group of Spanish friends on the tropical island holiday of a lifetime. Discovering a secret cave adds adventure. They enthusiastically go underground with their camera, but soon become hopelessly lost. Nail-biting tension in the tradition of recent ...
Style: scary, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cave, survival, danger, found footage, isolation, friends, cannibalism, survival horror, dehydration, disaster, trapped, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Breaking Surface (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Plot: survival, underwater, ocean, trap, diving, isolation, winter, sister sister relationship, scuba diving, rescue from drowning, danger, rescue ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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 6.1
 93K
Crawl (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, psychotronic, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: animal attack, survival, trapped, disaster, flood, alligator, natural disaster, creature feature, hurricane, survival horror, killer animal, predator ...
Time: 2010s
Place: florida
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 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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 7.1
 16K
Lore (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Australia, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After her Nazi parents are imprisoned, Lore leads her younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos, she encounters mysterious Jewish refugee Thomas, who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire. To live, she must ...
Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nazi, world war two, survival, holocaust, coming of age, nazism, youth, war, children, hitler, child as adult, world war ...
Time: 1940s, year 2012, 90s, year 1945, post world war two ...
Place: germany, hamburg germany, russia
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 5.2
 10K
Infinite Storm (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland, Australia, USA, Slovenia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: One woman's journey for self-discovery and turns into a harrowing tale of survival.
Style: psychological, suspense, road movie
Plot: survival, mountain, blizzard, wilderness, rescue, trapped, ice, cold, trap, monster, traumatic past, frostbite ...
Place: new hampshire
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 7.3
 110K
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, tense, harsh, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, survival, pow, soldier, jungle, prison escape, camp, wilderness, prison, violence, military, prisoner ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, 60s, year 1965, year 1966
Place: vietnam, iraq, laos, asia
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 6.4
 69K
City of Ember (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, ...
Style: exciting, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, visually stunning, visual ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, teens, family outing ...
Plot: steampunk, post apocalypse, save the day, danger, survival, puzzle, underground, underground city, ancient mystery, girl, uncover truth, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2008, 20th century, distant future
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