Sole survivor movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant sole survivor movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary, psychological, slasher and tense films and TV shows about / with sole survivor, survival, blood, danger, murder, death, fear, supernatural, violence and flashback plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sole survivor: Cast Away (2000), Devil (2010), Circle (2015), I Am Legend (2007), The Directive (2019), House of 9 (2005), The Ritual (2017), Gravity (2013), Below Zero (2021), Dragon Head (2003).

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 7.8
 634K
Cast Away (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, air disaster, determination, solitude, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1995, year 1999 ...
Place: fictional island, persia, america, moscow russia, russia
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 6.3
 156K
Devil (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A group of people trapped in a elevator realizes that the devil is among them.
Style: scary, surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot: devil, supernatural, elevator, group of strangers, police investigation, supernatural horror, confined, trap, stranded, isolation, investigation, trapped in an elevator ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
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 6.0
 66K
Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, execution, morality, life & death, prejudice, game of death, survival horror, stranger, struggle for survival, plot twist, sole survivor, twists and turns ...
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 7.2
 808K
I Am Legend (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 2007, near future, jurassic, distant future ...
Place: new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont ...
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The Directive (2019)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the aftermath of an incurable virus spread, a robot seeking to eradicate humanity deceptively guides a Red Cross survivor to sanctuary with the false hope of his family awaiting in Safe Zone 57.
Style: suspense, allegory, educational, epic, psychotronic ...
Plot: sole survivor, zombie outbreak, robot, journey, expedition, infection, cholera, quarantine, murder, surrealism, betrayal, psychiatrist ...
Time: future, 2020s, year 2019, near future
Place: utah, colorado, china, usa, washington d.c. ...
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 5.3
 11K
House of 9 (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, deathtrap, captivity, mind game, murder, sole survivor, group of strangers, psychological torture, characters killed one by one, hidden camera, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.3
 118K
The Ritual (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Style: suspense, psychological, spooky, disturbing, demonic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lost in the woods, supernatural, forest, creature, paganism, ritual, hiking, supernatural horror, folk horror, monster, sole survivor, sacrifice ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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 7.7
 860K
Gravity (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, suspense, minimal cast ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: isolation, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, outer space, space station, loneliness, disaster, sole survivor, catastrophe, survivor ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, seattle, houston texas
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 6.2
 21K
Below Zero (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, perverse, disturbing ...
Plot: police, rapist, murder, revenge, ice, sole survivor, confined, prisoner, death, accidental death, all male cast, survival ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain
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 5.6
 832
Dragon Head (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Teru Aoki (青木 輝) is on a train to Tokyo after a school trip. A disaster occurs which partially destroys the train and blocks a tunnel. When Teru awakes, he finds all his classmates and teachers are dead.
Style: suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, serious, surreal ...
Plot: sole survivor, survival, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, left to die, isolation, volcano, vestiges of humanity, superhero, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time: future
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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 6.2
 78K
Wolf Creek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: massacre, torture, psychopath, serial killer, psycho killer, sadistic horror, macabre, backwoods, gory, killer, sadistic killer, road trip ...
Time: year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
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 5.5
 15K
Howl (2015)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
Style: suspense, tense, terrifying, minimal cast, spooky ...
Plot: werewolf, trapped, train, deadly creature, monster, full moon, forest, train conductor, murder, transformation, sole survivor, betrayal ...
Place: england, london
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 8.0
 532K
Squid Game (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
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Story: "Round Six" is a story of people who fail at life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win ten million US dollars. The game takes place at an unknown location, and the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: survival, game of death, prize, brutality, violence, cruelty, game, most dangerous game, sole survivor, contests and competitions, poverty, graphic violence ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: south korea
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The Belko Experiment (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be ...
Style: psychological, suspense, dark comedy, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Plot: game of death, social experiment, office, trapped in a building, last man standing, trapped, most dangerous game, survival, human experiment, struggle for survival, mass murder, cruelty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
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 1.9
 398
Space (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the year 2050, Dr. Ada Gray and her fellow astronauts aboard The Udo fight for survival after an accident leaves them stranded in deep space.
Style: captivating, scary, suspenseful, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: space travel, trapped in space, survival, survival horror, spacecraft, outer space, human in outer space, sole survivor, danger, fear, space, astronaut ...
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 6.8
 357K
Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style: suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing, lovecraft ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, creature, dna, mutation, scientist, expedition, research, genetic mutation, terror, biologist, transformation, mission ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: chicago, florida, pakistan
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 3.5
 1K
Darkest Day (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dan wakes up on a beach with no memory. He discovers an empty city ravaged by a deadly virus. After befriending a small group of survivors it soon becomes clear the army are hunting him down, and the group are forced on a dangerous journey to escape.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: zombie, virus, memory loss, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, survival horror, british, sole survivor, heroes, characters in danger, survival, walking dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, brighton
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 5.2
 13K
The Day (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.
Style: apocalyptic, serious, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival horror, trap, dystopia, trapped, countryside, dystopian future, danger, post apocalyptic, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, 2010s
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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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The New Mutants (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of the New Mutants, a team of mutant heroes comprised of the first graduates from Charles Xavier's school.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, exciting, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: superhero, mutant, superhero team, x men, teenage girl, coming of age, bear, superheroine, girl girl kiss, teenager, teenage superheroine, suicide attempt ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: boston
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 6.4
 140K
Escape Room (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
Style: suspense, exciting, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: puzzle, trapped, game of death, survival, escape room, clue, group of strangers, quest, riddles and clues, evil corporation, teamwork, death ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago
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 7.0
 641K
Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, survival, androids, outer space, robot, space and aliens, distant planet, expedition, alien encounter, spacecraft, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: scotland
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Sole Survivor (1984)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Denise Watson is a TV station worker who is the only survivor of a unexplained, horrific airplane crash in which she is completely unscratched. Soon, Denise becomes haunted by feelings of unworthiness as well as seeing strange people following her ...
Style: christmas horror, scary, independent film, retro, psychotronic ...
Plot: sole survivor, airplane crash, psychic, supernatural, undead, suicide, premonition, airplane, disaster, ghost, survival, exploitation ...
Time: 80s
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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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 5.6
 4K
Bad Dreams (1988)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Unity Field, a "free love" cult from the '70s, is mostly remembered for its notorious mass suicide led by Harris, its charismatic leader. While all members are supposed to burn in a fire together, young Cynthia is spared by chance. ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, creepy ...
Plot: hospital, cult leader, supernatural, suicide, afterlife, insanity, sole survivor, psychopath, mind game, woman in danger, danger, serial killer ...
Time: 80s, 70s
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The Bye Bye Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while ...
Style: suspense, slasher, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, demonic possession, nightmare, group of friends, bare chested male, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death, demon, murder, violence, sole survivor, running for your life ...
Time: year 2017, year 1969, 60s
Place: ohio, wisconsin
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Don't Breathe 2 (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Blind Man has been hiding out for several years in an isolated cabin and has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a devastating house fire. Their quiet life together is shattered when a group of criminals kidnap the girl, forcing the ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, tense, brutal ...
Plot: blind man, house, kidnapping, home invasion, murder, rottweiler, gunfight, recluse, sole survivor, criminal, invasion, organ transplant ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 4.1
 1K
Milo (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four young grade-school girls witness the murder of one of their classmates during what they thought was just an innocent game. The killer is a strange young boy named Milo Jeeder. Sixteen years later, the four survivors of the event re-unite under ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, dark, slasher ...
Plot: evil child, murder, serial killer, sole survivor, haunted by the past, gory, woman in danger, escapades, danger, survival, creepy child, youth ...
Time: 90s
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 6.2
 20K
Cold Prey (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Eirik and his girlfriend, Jannicke, join newly coupled Mikael and Ingunn, along with single wisecracker Morten, on a snowboarding excursion to a remote mountainous region in Norway. When Morten breaks his leg, however, and requires medical ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: mountain, hotel, psychopath, group of friends, characters killed one by one, snow, trap, snowboarding, winter, isolation, danger, sole survivor ...
Time: year 2006, year 2016, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: europe
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 6.5
 168K
X (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
Style: slasher, suspense, disturbing, psychological, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: elderly couple, serial killer, adult filmmaking, van, husband wife relationship, characters murdered one by one, lust, televangelist, old woman, farmhouse, old age, farmer ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, year 1979, 20th century, 1910s ...
Place: texas, houston texas
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