Movies About Survival
Kinora's catalogue lists 198 films about survival, spanning 1936–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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[REC]
Urbandir. Jaume Balagueró - 2013
12 Years a Slave
Ruraldir. Steve McQueen - 2010
127 Hours
Wilderness · Desert · Undergrounddir. Danny Boyle - 2019
1917
Undergrounddir. Sam Mendes - 2002
28 Days Later
Urban · Ruraldir. Danny Boyle - 2007
28 Weeks Later
Urbandir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - 2007
30 Days of Night
Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Slade - 1984
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Suburbandir. Wes Craven - 2009
A Prophet
Urban · Undergrounddir. Jacques Audiard - 2018
A Quiet Place
Rural · Wildernessdir. John Krasinski - 2021
A Quiet Place Part II
Rural · Islanddir. John Krasinski - 1979
Alien
Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott - 1986
Aliens
Off Worlddir. James Cameron - 1993
Alive
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Frank Marshall - 2013
All Is Lost
Coastal Seadir. J.C. Chandor - 2022
All Quiet on the Western Front
Ruraldir. Edward Berger - 1997
Anaconda
Wildernessdir. Luis Llosa - 2006
Apocalypto
Wilderness · Rural · Urbandir. Mel Gibson - 1995
Apollo 13
Off Worlddir. Ron Howard - 2012
Argo
Urbandir. Ben Affleck - 1976
Assault on Precinct 13
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 2011
Attack the Block
Urbandir. Joe Cornish - 1983
Barefoot Gen
Urbandir. Mori Masaki - 2000
Battle Royale
Island · Wildernessdir. Kinji Fukasaku - 2015
Beasts of No Nation
Rural · Wildernessdir. Cary Joji Fukunaga - 2012
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Rural · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Benh Zeitlin - 1948
Bicycle Thieves
Urbandir. Vittorio De Sica - 2018
Capernaum
Urbandir. Nadine Labaki - 2000
Cast Away
Island · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis - 2009
Castaway on the Moon
Island · Urbandir. Lee Hae-jun - 1985
Cat's Eye
Urban · Suburbandir. Lewis Teague - 2009
Cell 211
dir. Daniel Monzón - 1973
Charley Varrick
Rural · Desertdir. Don Siegel - 2000
Chicken Run
Ruraldir. Peter Lord - 2006
Children of Men
Urbandir. Alfonso Cuarón - 2002
City of God
Urbandir. Fernando Meirelles - 1993
Cliffhanger
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Renny Harlin - 2008
Cloverfield
Urban · Undergrounddir. Matt Reeves - 2003
Cold Mountain
Rural · Mountaindir. Anthony Minghella - 2004
Collateral
Urbandir. Michael Mann - 1985
Come and See
Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov - 2011
Contagion
Urbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2019
Crawl
Suburbandir. Alexandre Aja - 1998
Cube
dir. Vincenzo Natali - 2013
Dallas Buyers Club
Urbandir. Jean-Marc Vallée - 1997
Dante's Peak
Mountain · Ruraldir. Roger Donaldson - 1981
Das Boot
Off Worlddir. Wolfgang Petersen - 1978
Dawn of the Dead
Urban · Suburbandir. George A. Romero - 2004
Dawn of the Dead
Suburban · Urbandir. Zack Snyder - 1985
Day of the Dead
Underground · Wildernessdir. George A. Romero - 1998
Deep Impact
Urban · Off Worlddir. Mimi Leder - 2016
Deepwater Horizon
Coastal Seadir. Peter Berg - 1991
Delicatessen
Urban · Undergrounddir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 1972
Deliverance
Wilderness · Ruraldir. John Boorman - 1971
Duel
Desert · Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 2017
Dunkirk
Coastal Seadir. Christopher Nolan - 2014
Edge of Tomorrow
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Doug Liman - 1987
Empire of the Sun
Urbandir. Steven Spielberg - 2022
EO
Rural · Wildernessdir. Jerzy Skolimowski - 1981
Escape from New York
Urbandir. John Carpenter - 1990
Europa Europa
Urbandir. Agnieszka Holland - 2015
Everest
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Baltasar Kormákur - 1987
Evil Dead II
Wildernessdir. Sam Raimi - 1973
Fantastic Planet
Off World · Wildernessdir. René Laloux - 1982
First Blood
Wilderness · Mountain · Ruraldir. Ted Kotcheff - 2020
First Cow
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt - 2024
Flow
Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Gints Zilbalodis - 1996
From Dusk Till Dawn
Desert · Ruraldir. Robert Rodriguez - 2008
Frozen River
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Courtney Hunt - 1997
Funny Games
Ruraldir. Michael Haneke - 1988
Grave of the Fireflies
Urbandir. Isao Takahata - 2013
Gravity
Off Worlddir. Alfonso Cuarón - 2020
Greyhound
Coastal Seadir. Aaron Schneider - 1978
Halloween
Suburbandir. John Carpenter - 1967
Hombre
Desert · Mountaindir. Martin Ritt - 2019
Hotel Mumbai
Urbandir. Anthony Maras - 2004
Hotel Rwanda
Urbandir. Terry George - 2005
Hustle & Flow
Urbandir. Craig Brewer - 2007
I Am Legend
Urbandir. Francis Lawrence - 1958
Ice Cold in Alex
Desertdir. J. Lee Thompson - 1996
Independence Day
Urban · Desertdir. Roland Emmerich - 2014
Interstellar
Off Worlddir. Christopher Nolan - 1975
Jaws
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Steven Spielberg - 1972
Jeremiah Johnson
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Sydney Pollack - 1993
Jurassic Park
Islanddir. Steven Spielberg - 2001
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Ruraldir. Ashutosh Gowariker - 2012
Life of Pi
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ang Lee - 1944
Lifeboat
Coastal Seadir. Alfred Hitchcock - 2016
Lion
Urban · Ruraldir. Garth Davis - 2013
Lone Survivor
Mountaindir. Peter Berg - 1990
Lord of the Flies
Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Harry Hook - 1981
Mad Max 2
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 2015
Mad Max: Fury Road
Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller - 2003
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Coastal Seadir. Peter Weir - 2011
Meek's Cutoff
Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt - 1978
Midnight Express
Urbandir. Alan Parker - 1990
Misery
Ruraldir. Rob Reiner - 1936
Modern Times
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 1983
Never Cry Wolf
Wildernessdir. Carroll Ballard - 1968
Night of the Living Dead
Ruraldir. George A. Romero - 1964
Onibaba
Wildernessdir. Kaneto Shindō - 1973
Papillon
Island · Wildernessdir. Franklin J. Schaffner - 1955
Pather Panchali
Ruraldir. Satyajit Ray - 2000
Pitch Black
Off World · Desert · Undergrounddir. David Twohy - 1980
Pixote
Urbandir. Héctor Babenco - 1986
Platoon
Wildernessdir. Oliver Stone - 2009
Pontypool
Rural · Undergrounddir. Bruce McDonald - 1987
Predator
Wildernessdir. John McTiernan - 2022
Prey
Wildernessdir. Dan Trachtenberg - 2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence
Desert · Wildernessdir. Phillip Noyce - 1999
Rosetta
dir. Luc Dardenne - 1985
Runaway Train
Wildernessdir. Andrei Konchalovsky - 1943
Sahara
Desertdir. Zoltan Korda - 1998
Saving Private Ryan
Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg - 1954
Seven Samurai
Rural · Mountaindir. Akira Kurosawa - 1968
Shame
Island · Ruraldir. Ingmar Bergman - 2004
Shaun of the Dead
Urbandir. Edgar Wright - 2008
Slumdog Millionaire
Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 2013
Snowpiercer
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Bong Joon Ho - 2023
Society of the Snow
Mountain · Wildernessdir. J. A. Bayona - 2015
Son of Saul
Undergrounddir. László Nemes - 1977
Sorcerer
Wilderness · Urban · Mountaindir. William Friedkin - 1981
Southern Comfort
Wildernessdir. Walter Hill - 1993
Stalingrad
Urbandir. Joseph Vilsmaier - 2007
Sunshine
Off Worlddir. Danny Boyle - 1960
Swiss Family Robinson
Island · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ken Annakin - 1999
The 13th Warrior
Wilderness · Rural · Undergrounddir. John McTiernan - 2015
The 33
Underground · Ruraldir. Patricia Riggen - 1989
The Abyss
Coastal Seadir. James Cameron - 1983
The Ballad of Narayama
Rural · Mountaindir. Shōhei Imamura - 1988
The Bear
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Jean-Jacques Annaud - 1999
The Blair Witch Project
Wildernessdir. Daniel Myrick - 2009
The Blind Side
Suburban · Urbandir. John Lee Hancock - 2004
The Day After Tomorrow
Urban · Wildernessdir. Roland Emmerich - 2005
The Descent
Underground · Mountaindir. Neil Marshall - 1955
The Desperate Hours
Suburbandir. William Wyler - 1997
The Edge
Wildernessdir. Lee Tamahori - 1983
The Evil Dead
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sam Raimi - 1965
The Flight of the Phoenix
Desertdir. Robert Aldrich - 2017
The Florida Project
Suburbandir. Sean Baker - 1977
The Gauntlet
Urban · Desertdir. Clint Eastwood - 1996
The Ghost and the Darkness
Wildernessdir. Stephen Hopkins - 1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Desert · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone - 1940
The Grapes of Wrath
Ruraldir. John Ford - 2012
The Grey
Wildernessdir. Joe Carnahan - 1953
The Hitch-Hiker
Desertdir. Ida Lupino - 2006
The Host
Urbandir. Bong Joon Ho - 1959
The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
Wildernessdir. Masaki Kobayashi - 2013
The Immigrant
Urbandir. James Gray - 2012
The Impossible
Coastal Seadir. J. A. Bayona - 1957
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Suburbandir. Jack Arnold - 1976
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Nicolas Gessner - 1979
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Urban · Suburbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 2015
The Martian
Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott - 1971
The Omega Man
Urbandir. Boris Sagal - 2000
The Perfect Storm
Coastal Seadir. Wolfgang Petersen - 2002
The Pianist
Urbandir. Roman Polanski - 1972
The Poseidon Adventure
Coastal Seadir. Ronald Neame - 2012
The Raid
Urbandir. Gareth Evans - 1985
The Return of the Living Dead
Urbandir. Dan O'Bannon - 2015
The Revenant
Wilderness · Mountaindir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - 2009
The Road
Wilderness · Rural · Coastal Seadir. John Hillcoat - 1982
The Secret of NIMH
Rural · Undergrounddir. Don Bluth - 1957
The Spirit of St. Louis
Coastal Seadir. Billy Wilder - 1984
The Terminator
Urbandir. James Cameron - 1974
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Ruraldir. Tobe Hooper - 1982
The Thing
Wildernessdir. John Carpenter - 1951
The Thing from Another World
Wildernessdir. Christian Nyby - 2021
The Tomorrow War
Urban · Coastal Sea · Wildernessdir. Chris McKay - 1974
The Towering Inferno
Urbandir. John Guillermin - 1953
The Wages of Fear
Desert · Wildernessdir. Henri-Georges Clouzot - 2019
The Wandering Earth
Off World · Underground · Urbandir. Frant Gwo - 1953
The War of the Worlds
Rural · Urbandir. Byron Haskin - 1979
The Warriors
Urban · Undergrounddir. Walter Hill - 2015
The Wave
Mountain · Coastal Seadir. Roar Uthaug - 1969
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Sydney Pollack - 2022
Thirteen Lives
Underground · Mountaindir. Ron Howard - 1994
To Live
Ruraldir. Zhang Yimou - 2016
Train to Busan
Urbandir. Yeon Sang-ho - 1990
Tremors
Desert · Ruraldir. Ron Underwood - 2022
Triangle of Sadness
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ruben Östlund - 1993
True Romance
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 2005
Tsotsi
Urbandir. Gavin Hood - 2018
Utøya: July 22
Island · Wildernessdir. Erik Poppe - 1985
Vagabond
Ruraldir. Agnès Varda - 2000
Vertical Limit
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Martin Campbell - 1965
Von Ryan's Express
Rural · Mountaindir. Mark Robson - 1967
Wait Until Dark
Urbandir. Terence Young - 1971
Walkabout
Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg - 2005
War of the Worlds
Urban · Suburbandir. Steven Spielberg - 1978
Watership Down
Rural · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Martin Rosen - 1973
Westworld
dir. Michael Crichton - 1976
Who Can Kill a Child?
Island · Coastal Seadir. Chicho Ibáñez Serrador - 2017
Wind River
Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Taylor Sheridan - 2010
Winter's Bone
Rural · Mountaindir. Debra Granik - 2013
World War Z
Urbandir. Marc Forster - 2009
Zombieland
Rural · Urbandir. Ruben Fleischer - 1964
Zulu
Ruraldir. Cy Endfield
Frequently asked
How many movies are about survival?
Kinora's catalogue lists 198 films about survival, spanning 1936–2024.
What are some movies about survival?
Films about survival in our catalogue include [REC] (2007), 12 Years a Slave (2013), 127 Hours (2010), 1917 (2019), and 28 Days Later (2002).
What is the oldest movie about survival?
Modern Times (1936) is the earliest film about survival in our catalogue; the most recent is Flow (2024).