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 7.0
 244K
Rambo (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent ...
Style: brutal, bloody, action packed, grindhouse, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, rambo, violent, lone hero, jungle, warrior, sniper, mercenary, heroes, army, military, survival ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: burma, asia, thailand, arizona, southeast asia
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 5.8
 16K
Black Water (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: crocodile, survival, animal attack, swamp, trapped, tourist, couples, shark, killer animal, creature, vacation, creature feature ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, oceania
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
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 8.1
 800K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The giant, man-eating Graboids are back and even deadlier than before, terrorizing the inhabitants of a South African wildlife reserve as they attack from below-and above.
Style: suspense, scary, psychotronic, natural horror, horror comedy ...
Plot: creature, mad scientist, monster, death, storytelling, brutality, fantasy world, creature feature, kaiju, giant monster, mutant, epidemic ...
Time: 2010s
Place: africa, south africa
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 7.5
 578K
A Quiet Place (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style: suspense, scary, minimal cast, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: creature, post apocalypse, creature feature, sign language, monster, survival, silence, deafness, survival horror, fear, alien, pregnancy ...
Time: 2010s, distant future, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york state
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 5.8
 10K
Infestation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Our hero, Cooper, awakes to find himself nauseous, weak and covered in webbing, hanging from the ceiling of an office where, just minutes ago, he started his new job. As he struggles out of his slimy prison he comes face to face with his opponent - ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cocoon, evil alien, insect, survival, attempted seduction, mutant, monster, creature feature, transformation, giant insect, chaos, plague ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Lost in Siberia (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The political drama is set in the Stalin's Soviet Union after the Second World War. A British archaeologist Andrei Miller is working in Iran. He is mistakenly kidnapped and arrested by the KGB. He is falsely accused of spying and wrongfully ...
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot: gulag, prison, survival, false accusation, kgb, cold war, prisoner, violence, arrest, attempted rape, british, communist ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: iran, ussr, soviet union, siberia, russia ...
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Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, splatter, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, gory, cannibalism, torture, texas chainsaw massacre, survival, psychopath, murder, masked killer, psychological torture, hitchhiker ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, florida, usa, california
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 4.5
 228
Wicked Games (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Harley joins her boyfriend for a Halloween weekend at his family's estate, they’re invaded by a band of masked freaks and forced into playing a game. But the intruders don’t know that Harley is ready to fight back with her own tricks.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: game of death, halloween, revenge, masked man, masked killer, most dangerous game, role playing, threat, invasion, privacy invasion, dark past, survivalist ...
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 3.6
 947
The Driver (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a zombie apocalypse, one man desperately tries to keep his family alive.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, apocalyptic, tense
Plot: zombie apocalypse, hitman, father daughter relationship, zombie outbreak, child in peril, death of wife, murder, child with gun, road trip, husband wife relationship, struggle for survival, family in danger ...
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The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret: her father is the infamous “Marsh King,” the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is ...
Style: dramatic, bleak, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: kidnapped woman, missing mother, daughter, kidnapper, vengeance, avenge, mother and daughter, abduction, kidnapped, revenge, survivalist
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Lost: Missing Pieces (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story: Lost: Missing Pieces is a series of thirteen never-before-seen stories taken from the 'Lost' Flashbacks. The Missing Pieces retains many of the cast members from the television series and gives more clues about the past days of the island ...
Style: tense, captivating, apocalyptic
Plot: desert island, stranded on an island, tropical island, survivalist, struggle for survival, remote island, survival, interlinked stories, hebrew
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When the Wind Blows (1986)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II
Style: adult animation, bleak, apocalyptic, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, cold war, nuclear threat, tragedy, apocalypse, countryside, nuclear disaster, epidemic, chaos, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, distant future, 80s
Place: england, europe
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My Apocalyptic Thanksgiving (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Story: A zombie-obsessed, special needs adult searches for his long lost mother; meanwhile, he befriends a Korean family and a drug-dealing gang who compete to teach him the meaning of family; but in the end, he teaches them all the powerful lesson of ...
Style: hispanic
Plot: autism, thanksgiving, black, learning disability, zombie, caregiver, death, drug dealer, caretaker, apocalypse, asian, abuse ...
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Friend of the World (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Style: suspense, postmodern, independent film, black and white, dark comedy ...
Plot: body horror, military, absurdism, surrealism, parasite, post apocalypse, fight, murder, violence, filmmaker, zombie, survival horror ...
Time: 2020s, future, near future, 21st century
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The Crossroads of Hunter Wilde (2019)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Hunter Wilde is the leader of a group of Christian survivalists who are trying to live as normal as possible two years after an EMP attack and knocking all the power down. In a world of chaos living day to day has become more treacherous. But that ...
Style: tense, stylized, suspenseful, captivating, touching ...
Plot: demon, christian, survival, supernatural, dystopian future, leader, society, friendship, moral dilemma, sheriff, protection, conflict ...
Time: future
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Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young boy finds himself pursued by two assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert determined to protecting him - and a forest fire threatening to consume them all. Download : ...
Style: suspense, captivating, cliffhanger, cult classic, grindhouse ...
Plot: female protagonist, murder witness, strong female lead, runaway, murder, home invasion, survival, assassin, waking up from a nightmare, on the run, female warrior, forest fire ...
Time: 2020s
Place: montana, florida
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 3.5
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Devil's Trail (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Two reality TV stars are experts at survival, but when they decide to embark upon the legendary home of the Jersey Devil can they survive? Reality TV just got real.
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: found footage, demon, blood, death, survival, supernatural power, supernatural, paranormal, revenge, murder, fear, chase ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, new jersey
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 6.5
 3K
Tremors (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tremors: The Series is a television spin-off of the Tremors franchise. Originally airing out of order on the Sci-Fi Channel, it was later aired in its proper sequence on the G4 Network.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, scary
Plot: heroic mission, monster, desert, small town, survival, escapades, danger, rescue, deadly creature, supernatural, mutant, heroes ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
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Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Secret Service Agent Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, intense, humorous ...
Audience: manly, adult
Plot: secret service, agent, terrorist, fbi, secret service agent, president, lone hero, justice, white house, gunfight, false accusation, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., west virginia, virginia, north carolina, usa
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 4.1
 9K
The Recall (2017)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, alien invasion, cabin in the woods, asthma, mind control, alien, danger, spacecraft, humanity in peril, escape attempt, murder ...
Place: alaska, california
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 6.5
 168K
Halloween (2018)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago. This film, ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, halloween, masked killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, violence, terror, psycho killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, evil ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: illinois, chicago, midwest
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Brothers in Arms (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hillbillies, when they save a girl from rape.
Style: slasher, independent film
Plot: wilderness, survival, rural setting, rape, religious fanatic, redneck, survivalist, hillbilly, domineering father, nature, backwoods, survival horror ...
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Nightmare at Bittercreek (1988)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a deadly battle for survival, four women are hunted by a ruthless group of killers they accidentally stumble upon while camping.
Style: tension
Plot: hiker, backpacking, dog, friendship, survivalist, racist, hiking, aryan, wilderness, alcoholic, manhunt, survival ...
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In the Year 2889 (1969)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against an attack by a mutant cannibal.
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, scary, serious, rough ...
Plot: post apocalypse, monster, mutant, distopia, post apocalyptic, end of the world, radiation, murder, survival, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, dystopia ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style: apocalyptic, controversial, disturbing, depressing, offbeat ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, distopia, post apocalyptic, disaster, wasteland, epidemic, railway, quarantine, natural disaster ...
Time: future
Place: england, northern england, london
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Goodbye World (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a mysterious cyber-attack cripples civilization, a group of old college friends and lovers retreat to a remote country cabin, where they must cope with an uncertain future while navigating the minefield of their shared past.
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, apocalyptic, captivating, grindhouse ...
Plot: survival, apocalypse, social relations, chaos, couple relations, danger, human nature, cyberspace, hacker, post apocalyptic, end of the world, group of friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, washington d.c.
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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Burt Gummer returns home to Perfection, Nev., to find that the town of terror has become a theme park, and when the simulated giant worm attacks turn real, the survivalist must battle the creatures once again. Gummer pits his impressive knowledge of ...
Style: scary, humorous, natural horror, absurd, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature, small town, survival, creature feature, chase, giant monster, danger, supernatural, deadly creature, rescue, store, worm ...
Place: nevada, usa
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 4.0
 5K
Out of Reach (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Vietnam veteran Billy Ray Lancing, a former CSA agent who now works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irina Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Poland that he's helping out ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rescue, friendship, danger, human trafficking, secret code, orphan, martial arts, obsessive quest, righting the wronged, special agent, secret agent, good versus evil ...
Time: 2000s
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland, montreal, eastern europe
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