| Into the Wild (2007) | 8.0 | |
| K2 (1991) | 6.2 | |
| A Walk in the Woods (2015) | 6.4 | |
| Jeremiah Johnson (1972) | 7.6 | |
| Life of Pi (2012) | 7.9 |
Hiker movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant hiker movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, interesting, psychological, suspense and suspenseful films and TV shows about / with hiker, survival, nature, travel, escapades, mentor, storytelling, catastrophe, death and mountain plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hiker: The Seeding (2023), Old Man (2022), The Way (2010), A Walk in the Woods (2015), K2 (1991), Into the Wild (2007), Never Hike Alone (2017), Ogre (2008), Next Stop for Charlie (2010), Walkabout (1971).
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List of hiker movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.
Style:
thrilling, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
desert, hiker, trapped, isolation, captive, folk horror, sadist, sadistic horror, sadism, sadistic violence, problem, desperation ...
Place:
utah
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Deep in the woods, a lost hiker stumbles upon the cabin of an erratic and reclusive old man. What starts off as cordial conversation soon turns dangerous as it becomes clear that one or both of them might be hiding a terrifying secret.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
cabin in the woods, old man, living alone, hiker, mysterious character, stranger, danger, threat, jeopardy, forest, infertility, gym ...
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38K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, scenic, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
road trip, travel, journey, pilgrimage, death of son, spiritual journey, dead son, self discovery, redemption, on the road, grief, wanderlust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, france, iberian peninsula, basque country, europe ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the Appalachian Trail with one of his oldest friends.
Style:
scenic, light, humorous, road movie, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, hiking, camping, elderly, camping trip, escapades, road trip, wilderness, writers, woods, foul language, backpacking ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
appalachia, new hampshire, usa, california
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Japan, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.
Style:
epic, suspense, exciting, tense, serious ...
Plot:
mountain climbing, mountain, survival, mountaineer, climbing, mountaineering, snow, alpinism, nature, winter, avalanche, rescue ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
himalaya, usa, middle east, seattle, pakistan
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692K
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:
wilderness, self discovery, survival, road trip, freedom, isolation, solitude, journey, life philosophy, lifestyle change, beautiful scenery, nature ...
Time:
2000s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1990, year 1992 ...
Place:
alaska, los angeles, north america, northern california, america ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
A hiker's survival skills is put to the test when he stumbles upon the remains of an old abandoned camp and discovers its long dark secrets.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, suspense, rough, spooky ...
Plot:
homicidal maniac, psychopath, murderer, lake, masked man, serial killer, murder, danger, friday the 13th, summer camp, brutality, violence ...
Place:
new jersey
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2K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A vicious Ogre rules over a town that has been stuck in time since the 1800's.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, scary, serious ...
Plot:
ogre, curse, small town, deadly creature, supernatural, isolation, supernatural ability, escapades, curses spells and rituals, urban legend, monster, save the day ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Charlie Murray is on one hell of a vacation. Financed by his aunt, Charlie plays private eye as he tracks his M.I.A. cousin Eric across six continents and multiple countries. Turns out Eric is on a quest to attend all of the world's biggest ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, semi serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nothing goes right, adventurer, friendship, chase, on the road, disorder, buddies, cross country, customs, obsessive quest, culture clash, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
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29K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style:
road movie, visually stunning, visual, philosophical, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, australian outback, rite of passage, boy, teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage girl, culture clash ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia ...
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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, scenic, epic, meditative, factual ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
wilderness, survival, native, hunting, mountain man, native american, revenge, mountain, rocky mountains, grizzly bear, indians, trapper ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 1850s, year 1972
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, north america
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Style:
visually stunning, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mountain climbing, mountain, hitman, climbing, catastrophe, assassination, revenge, murder, mountaineering, desert, cold war, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
alps, switzerland, europe, arizona, germany ...
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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:
semi autobiographical, scenic, philosophical, anthropological, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
wilderness, nature, wolf, mountain, scientist, arctic, camping, snow, voice over narration, skinny dipping, environment, dog ...
Time:
year 1983, 1940s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
alaska, usa, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate ...
Style:
epic, costume drama, scenic, suspense, talky ...
Plot:
british raj, politics, british empire, lawyer, small town, racism, tourist, colonialism, culture clash, investigation, false accusation, dishonesty ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1984, 70s
Place:
india, asia, london, kashmir, himalaya ...
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
Style:
independent film, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
climbing, mountaineering, survival, mountain, mountaineer, alpinism, nature, disaster, man versus nature, expedition, teamwork, perseverance ...
Time:
1950s, year 1986, 50s
Place:
himalaya
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Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hansel and Gretel tells the tale of two young children driven from home by their scolding mother. Losing their way in the dark forest they stumble upon the cottage of a kindly old woman. But is this kindly old woman everything she seems...?
Style:
fairy tale, humorous, stylized, feel good, mysterious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
woods, youth, curses spells and rituals, witch, siblings relations, danger, escapades, parents and children, coming of age, high school, cannibalism, countryside ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.
Style:
psychological, brutal, captivating, rough, scenic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, coming of age, island, violent, death, bullying, child, distopia, stranded, innocence lost, brutality, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
fictional island
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68K
Genre: 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:
inspirational, emotional, breathtaking, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, disaster, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, mountain, mountain climbing, historical event, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, antarctic ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
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, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, mountain, adventurer, disaster, climbing, natural disaster, wilderness, expedition, happy ending, mountaineering ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
himalaya, pakistan, asia, antarctic
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France, UK, USA, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style:
road movie, breathtaking, touching, political, cerebral ...
Plot:
self discovery, motorcycle, revolutionary, poverty, on the road, road trip, journey, travel, politics, idealism, revolution, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 50s, 1950s, y2k ...
Place:
latin america, south america, chile, bolivia, argentina ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
publisher, village life, fall in love, writer's life, odd couple, artists and showbiz, writers, writer's block, father daughter relationship, loss of wife, exile, skinny dipping ...
Place:
italy, tuscany, london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
adventurer, travel, self discovery, canceled wedding, escapades, friends, prank, youth, wanderlust, survival, nature, disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
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203K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, survival, danger, captivity, sadistic horror, revenge, blood, tourist, torment, dismemberment ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, medical horror, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jungle, torture, survival, gory, youth, violence, murder, strong violent content, chase, transplant, brutality, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands, they decide to hitchhike to Cuenca. Along the way they meet ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, touching, scenic, captivating ...
Plot:
travel, on the road, countryside, journey, hitchhiking, strike, self discovery, hopes, student, journalist, survival, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ecuador, andes mountains
Is relevant?
90K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, creepy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, jungle, gory, ruins, tourist, vacation, danger, self sacrifice, murder, death, ancient mystery, group of friends ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
mexico, oceania, latin america
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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, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murderous pair, wilderness, honeymoon, psychopath, danger, escapades, vacation gone wrong, murder, island, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania
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12K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to ...
Style:
road movie, sexy, philosophical, realistic, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
road trip, self discovery, motorcycle, terminal illness, travel, cancer, love story, depression, solitude, coming of age, beautiful scenery, wanderlust ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pacific ocean, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada, british columbia
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young soldier, Kate (Zara Phythian), returns from a tour in Afghanistan after witnessing her boyfriend's tragic death in combat. With the comfort of her friends, including Torri (Barbara Nedeljacova), she takes the chance to get away on a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, psychotronic, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
redneck, camping, murder, fight to the death, survival, hiking, camping trip, fight, violence, torture, female fighter, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A local guide takes a young couple through a twisted backpacking trip across the Georgian wilderness.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hiking, mountain, engaged couple, couple relations, couples, love triangle, dishonesty, love and romance, twists and turns, male female relationship, rain, man in underwear ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
georgia, europe, eastern europe
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