Wilderness movies and TV shows – page 4

List of wilderness movies

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A Field in England (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he ...
Style: surreal, black and white, stylized, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: folk horror, hallucination, psychedelia, wilderness, group of strangers, surrealism, captivity, danger, trippy, on the run, poisoning, military ...
Time: 17th century, year 2016, 2010s
Place: england
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 7.8
 84K
Yellowjackets (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot: survival, near death experience, cannibalism, survival horror, wilderness, air disaster, plane crash, psychological trauma, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, airplane, women ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, 20th century
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 6.8
 15K
Shoot to Kill (1988)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, wilderness, mountain, chase, fbi, manhunt, on the run, horse, survival, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, vancouver, seattle, san francisco
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Hammer of the Gods (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Action epic sees a passionate young man transform into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother Hakan The Ferrocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, historical drama, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: viking, wilderness, heroic mission, medieval, battles, danger, rivalry, gory, favoritism among siblings, sword, heir to the throne, werewolf ...
Time: 9th century, middle ages, medieval times
Place: england
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Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Argentina
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The epic story of the first contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and, eventually, life-transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people, and two scientists that, over the course of 40 years, travel ...
Style: meditative, depressing, melancholic, black and white, spiritual ...
Plot: shaman, amazon tribe, amazon river, jungle, amazon rainforest, nature, wilderness, friendship, existentialism, self discovery, genocide, indigenous people ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: colombia
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 5.7
 12K
A Single Shot (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: poacher, hostage, wilderness, violence, divorce, danger, human nature, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, small town, murder, rain ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: usa, west virginia
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 7.2
 9K
Duma (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
Style: sweet, touching, sentimental, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, preschool
Plot: wild animal, lion, wilderness, rescue, adolescence, youth, boy, bully, animal, bullying, coming of age, desert ...
Time: year 2005
Place: africa, south africa, kenya
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 5.2
 6K
Grizzly (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into ...
Style: scary, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: grizzly bear, national park, camping, park ranger, hunter, creature feature, bear, wilderness, helicopter pilot, bear attack, animal attack, survival ...
Time: 70s
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Troop Beverly Hills (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
Style: family comedy, independent film, realistic, not serious, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, girls' night, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: wilderness, divorce, female bonding, fish out of water, self discovery, friendship between girls, scout, wealth, female protagonist, competition, socialite, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: california, beverly hills, los angeles, usa, southern california
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 6.2
 80K
Frozen (2010)
Genre: Adventure, 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, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: utah, antarctic
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In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
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: scenic, suspense, exciting, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, whaling, starvation, man versus nature, shipwreck, dangerous animal ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, future ...
Place: new england, america, pacific ocean, ecuador, massachusetts ...
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 6.9
 84K
All Is Lost (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style: harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing
Plot: survival, boat, loneliness, storm, ocean, survivor, isolation, ship, human spirit, sailing, sailor, desperation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
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The Incredible Journey (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Style: road movie, touching, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, cat, wilderness, animal, friendship, pets, bear, camp, puppy love, camping trip, canine, wildlife ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: canada, ontario canada
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, independent film, mockumentary ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: found footage, witch, supernatural, urban legend, woods, fear, folk horror, survival, lost in the woods, wilderness, videotaping, panic ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1994
Place: maryland, usa
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 5.6
 26K
The Contract (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, wilderness, chase, fbi, murder, hitman, violence, assassin, serial killer, parents and children, danger, family problems ...
Time: year 2006, future
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The Donner Party (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, mysterious ...
Plot: wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, moral dilemma, danger, isolation, hopes, snow, mountain, wilderness survival, winter ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s
Place: usa, california
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The Survivalist (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Style: tense, stylized, disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, starvation, wilderness, violence, depression, imagination, crime gone awry, character study, forest, desperation ...
Time: future, near future
Is relevant ?
 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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 6.2
 3K
The Creeper (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five doctors on a wilderness outing are stalked by disfigured, crazed killers.
Style: slasher, scary, atmospheric, grindhouse, disturbing ...
Plot: wilderness, murder of friend, murder, doctor, river, burned alive, decapitation, group of friends, survival, stalking, woods, characters murdered one by one ...
Time: 70s
Place: canada
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 6.5
 1K
Amazonia (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Amazonia is an adventure in 3D inside the largest rainforest on the planet: the Amazon rainforest. Chestnut is a Capuchin monkey domesticated who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone in the dense forest. The monkey needs to learn to live ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: jungle, nature, monkey, wilderness, survival, jungle adventure, wild animal, predator, hopes, dangerous animal, biology, accident ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america
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 7.2
 784
The Old Man (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: wilderness, danger, family relations, farm, nature, wilderness survival, isolation, survival, arctic, landscape, mountain, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
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Scream of Stone (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Argentina, UK, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport ...
Style: captivating, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: mountain, climbing, wilderness, mountain climbing, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, love triangle, danger, mountaineering, dream, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: patagonia
Is relevant ?
 5.9
 65K
Vertical Limit (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, adventurer, disaster, mountain, natural disaster, wilderness, mountaineering, expedition, snow ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: himalaya, pakistan, antarctic, asia
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How the West Was Won (1962)
Genre: Adventure, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one pioneer family.
Style: exciting, epic, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: old west, native american, civil war, wilderness, american civil war, gold, usa history, outlaw, small town, attempted murder, cowboy, survival ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1962, year 1865, victorian era ...
Place: california, arizona, missouri, ohio, usa ...
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 64K
Alive (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 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: realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, disaster, stranded, cannibalism, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, snow, mountain, wilderness, historical event ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: andes mountains, chile, uruguay, antarctic, south america ...
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 6.9
 123K
Brother Bear (2003)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps until he learns some valuable life lessons. His courageous and often zany journey introduces him to a forest full of wildlife, ...
Style: touching, fairy tale, inspirational, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: friendship, brother brother relationship, brotherhood, bear, talking animal, turned into an animal, survival, self sacrifice, wilderness, native american, transformation, revenge ...
Time: year 2003, stone age, 2000s, prehistory, prehistoric times ...
Place: alaska
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Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten ...
Style: scary, gothic, dark, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, transformation, mythical creature, wilderness, sister, snow, curses spells and rituals, danger, winter, beast ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period, georgian era, 1800s
Place: canada
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Edge of Winter (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: winter, wilderness, cold weather, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, mentally unstable, divorced parents, child in peril, snow, survival, parent child relationship, snowstorm ...
Place: ontario canada, canada
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Prince Avalanche (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two highway road workers spend the summer of 1988 away from their city lives. The isolated landscape becomes a place of misadventure as the men find themselves at odds with each other and the women they left behind.
Style: road movie, talky, philosophical, humorous, cult classic ...
Plot: highway, friendship, wilderness, isolation, character study, male bonding, woods, workplace, workplace situations, buddies, camping, driver ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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The Kings of Summer (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, funny, emotional ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, runaway, summer, friendship, high school, lifestyle change, teenage runaway, wilderness, teenage protagonist, forest, hospital, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
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