Wilderness movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant wilderness movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense and exciting films and TV shows about / with wilderness, survival, nature, escapades, danger, wilderness survival, trapped, outdoor, snow and mountain plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wilderness: Into the Wild (2007), Wild (2014), The Way Back (2010), The Canyon (2009), Walking Out (2017), The Snow Walker (2003), Tracks (2013), A Lonely Place to Die (2011), Man in the Wilderness (1971), The Hunter (2011).

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 8.1
 655K
Into the Wild (2007)
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, reflective ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: road trip, wilderness, survival, self discovery, freedom, journey, solitude, life philosophy, isolation, travel, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1991 ...
Place: alaska, los angeles, america, astoria oregon, seattle ...
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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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 7.3
 122K
The Way Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot: survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, russia, soviet union, asia, mongolia ...
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 5.8
 5K
The Canyon (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.
Style: suspenseful, scary, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, desert, honeymoon, grand canyon, tour guide, dangerous animal, danger, isolation, newlyweds, animal attack, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
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 5.8
 7K
Walking Out (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A city teen who travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, independent film
Audience: teen drama
Plot: wilderness, grizzly bear, bear attack, snow, bear, hunting, parent child relationship, estranged father, grownups, winter, teenage boy, coming of age ...
Place: montana
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The Snow Walker (2003)
Genre: 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, serious, sentimental, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, nature, wilderness, arctic, airplane, human spirit, friendship, rescue, hunter, isolation, friends, hopes ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1953, post world war two, 1950s
Place: canada, antarctic, persia
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 7.1
 32K
Tracks (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style: uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: wilderness, desert, solitude, camel, survival, travel, human spirit, photographer, explorer, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 2010s, 70s, year 1976 ...
Place: australia
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A Lonely Place to Die (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wilderness, survival, mountaineer, kidnapping, hiking, hunt down, mountain, extreme sport, group of friends, rescue, mountaineering, poacher ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, britain, scottish highlands, europe
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Man in the Wilderness (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, bear attack, native american, mountain man, vengeance, fear, hallucination, paranoia, wounded, danger, isolation ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1820s, 1800s, 70s
Place: north dakota, usa
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 6.7
 41K
The Hunter (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, hunter, little boy, greed, manipulation, danger, obsessive quest, bio weapon, beautiful scenery, isolation, nature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tasmania, oceania, australia, paris france
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 6.6
 66K
Alpha (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
Style: sincere, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: wilderness, survival, wolf, human animal relationship, caveman, dog, animal attack, hunter, near death experience, boar, wolf pack, bison ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, future, ancient times
Place: europe
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 6.7
 263K
The Grey (2011)
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, harsh, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, stranded, forces of nature, air disaster, struggle for survival, wolf attack ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult ...
Style: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, anthropological ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: wilderness, nature, wolf, snow, scientist, survival, mountain, arctic, camping, environment, environmental, voice over narration ...
Time: year 1983, 1940s, 80s
Place: alaska, usa
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The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Style: scenic, suspenseful, romantic, visually stunning, tense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: survival, wilderness, snow, mountain, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, rescue, plane crash, stranger, peril, animal attack ...
Time: year 2017, future, 2010s
Place: london, new york, utah, idaho, manhattan new york city
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A Cry in the Wild (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: 13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry animals until or if he is found.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: wilderness, youth, dangerous animal, self discovery, danger, isolation, survival, survivor, boy, nature, grizzly bear, trapped ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: yukon, canada
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 4.5
 862
Thirst (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After wrecking their car in the middle of the desert, two couples find themselves stranded with few supplies. When the heat intensifies and their precious water supply dwindles, the frantic friends begin betraying each other in the hopes of ...
Style: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: desert, wilderness, survival, stranded in the desert, dehydration, isolation, danger, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, thirst, wilderness survival, road trip, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.7
 119K
Deliverance (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: wilderness, survival, rape, canoe, friendship, rape and revenge, nature, forest, camping, backwoods, revenge, hillbilly ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
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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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White Water Summer (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
Style: intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: wilderness, survival, river, coming of age, summer, nature, camping, friendship, youth, camp, mountain climbing, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, new york
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 8.0
 867K
The Revenant (2015)
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: atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style: surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murderous pair, psychopath, honeymoon, wilderness, danger, island, paranoia, vacation gone wrong, murder, survival horror ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
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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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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Style: atmospheric, epic, realistic, scenic, meditative ...
Audience: manly
Plot: wilderness, survival, native american, native, hunting, mountain man, indians, rocky mountains, snow, revenge, grizzly bear, mountain ...
Time: 19th century, year 1972, 1850s
Place: colorado, persia, usa
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 4.3
 2K
The Frozen (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a harrowing snowmobile accident, a young couple is stranded in the woods and must survive while waiting for help to arrive. Events take a turn for the worse after the disappearance of Emma's boyfriend, leaving her on her own not only to ...
Style: suspense, slasher, psychological, minimal cast, psychological thriller ...
Plot: wilderness, snow, lost in the woods, winter, stalking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fear, stranded, isolation, hiding, accident, wilderness survival ...
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 6.0
 24K
Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, 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: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
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 6.9
 79K
The Edge (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear, danger, animal attack, grizzly bear, survivalist, marital infidelity, bear attack, hunter, crash, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: alaska, usa
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Survival Quest (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, murder, rivalry, danger, hostage, mountain, camping, manhunt, treasure hunter, trapped ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
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 6.1
 5K
Escape (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ten years after the Black Death devastated the country, a poor family sets out on a journey to search for better living conditions. In a deserted mountain pass, they are attacked by a gang of ruthless killer thieves. The only one spared is 19 year ...
Style: exciting, suspense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, captive, viking, on the run, woman in danger, revenge, escapades, chases and races, gang, chase, danger ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 14th century
Place: europe
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 4.7
 9K
Prey (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by lions.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: animal attack, wilderness, nature, survival horror, survival, stalking, dangerous animal, danger, family life, escapades, poaching, creature ...
Time: jurassic
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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Lost in the Barrens (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear attack, nature, winter, treasure hunt, snow, treasure hunter, stranded, trapped, scenery, friendship between boys ...
Place: canada
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