Survival Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 28 films about survival against the odds, spanning 1926–2022. 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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• 2019

  1917

  France — 1910s
  Rural · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Sam Mendes
• 1979

  Alien

  Far Future
  Off Worlddir. Ridley Scott
• 2022

  All Quiet on the Western Front

  France — 1910s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Edward Berger
• 2006

  Children of Men

  London — Near Future
  Urban · Rural · Coastal Seadir. Alfonso Cuarón
• 1985

  Come and See

  Belarus — 1940s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov
• 1981

  Das Boot

  La Rochelle — 1940s
  Coastal Sea · Undergrounddir. Wolfgang Petersen
• 2017

  Dunkirk

  Dunkirk — 1940s
  Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Christopher Nolan
• 2000

  Gladiator

  Rome — Ancient
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Ridley Scott
• 1988

  Grave of the Fireflies

  Kobe — 1940s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Isao Takahata
• 2013

  Gravity

  2000s
  Off Worlddir. Alfonso Cuarón
• 1975

  Jaws

  New York City — 1970s
  Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Steven Spielberg
• 1993

  Jurassic Park

  1990s
  Island · Wilderness · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2012

  Life of Pi

  Montreal · Pacific Ocean — 1970s · 2000s
  Coastal Sea · Island · Urbandir. Ang Lee
• 2015

  Mad Max: Fury Road

  Far Future
  Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller
• 1998

  Saving Private Ryan

  Normandy — 1940s
  Rural · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 1954

  Seven Samurai

  Japan — Early Modern
  Rural · Mountain · Wildernessdir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1939

  Stagecoach

  Arizona · New Mexico — 1800s
  Desert · Ruraldir. John Ford
• 2007

  Sunshine

  Sydney — Near Future
  Off Worlddir. Danny Boyle
• 1978

  The Deer Hunter

  Saigon — 1960s · 1970s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino
• 1926

  The General

  Georgia
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Clyde Bruckman
• 2006

  The Host

  Seoul — 2000s
  Urban · Undergrounddir. Bong Joon Ho
• 2002

  The Pianist

  Warsaw — 1930s · 1940s
  Urbandir. Roman Polanski
• 2015

  The Revenant

  1800s
  Wilderness · Mountain · Ruraldir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• 1998

  The Thin Red Line

  Guadalcanal — 1940s
  Wilderness · Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Terrence Malick
• 1982

  The Thing

  Antarctica — 1980s
  Wilderness · Undergrounddir. John Carpenter
• 1953

  The Wages of Fear

  1950s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 2022

  Triangle of Sadness

  2010s · 2020s
  Coastal Sea · Island · Wildernessdir. Ruben Östlund
• 1971

  Walkabout

  Australia — 1960s · 1970s
  Wilderness · Desert · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg