Wilderness Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 59 films set in wilderness environments, spanning 1939–2022. 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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• 2010

  127 Hours

  Utah — 2000s
  Wilderness · Desert · Undergrounddir. Danny Boyle
• 1968

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  Space · Africa — Ancient · Near Future
  Off World · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick
• 2007

  3:10 to Yuma

  Bisbee · Contention — 1800s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. James Mangold
• 1964

  A Fistful of Dollars

  1800s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone
• 2018

  A Quiet Place

  Near Future
  Rural · Wildernessdir. John Krasinski
• 1972

  Aguirre, the Wrath of God

  Peru — 1700s
  Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Werner Herzog
• 2018

  Annihilation

  Near Future
  Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Alex Garland
• 1979

  Apocalypse Now

  Vietnam · Cambodia — 1960s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 1974

  Badlands

  South Dakota · Montana — 1950s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick
• 1977

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

  Indiana · Wyoming — 1970s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Steven Spielberg
• 1985

  Come and See

  Belarus — 1940s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov
• 1990

  Dances with Wolves

  Kansas — 1800s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner
• 1972

  Deliverance

  Georgia — 1970s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. John Boorman
• 2015

  Embrace of the Serpent

  1900s · 1910s · 1940s
  Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Ciro Guerra
• 2022

  EO

  2020s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Jerzy Skolimowski
• 2020

  First Cow

  Oregon — 1800s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt
• 1982

  Fitzcarraldo

  Iquitos — 1900s
  Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Werner Herzog
• 2005

  Grizzly Man

  Alaska — 2000s
  Wildernessdir. Werner Herzog
• 2017

  Hostiles

  Montana — 1800s
  Wildernessdir. Scott Cooper
• 2007

  Into the Wild

  Alaska — 1990s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sean Penn
• 1965

  Kwaidan

  Kyoto — Timeless
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Masaki Kobayashi
• 2018

  Leave No Trace

  Portland · Washington — 2010s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik
• 1994

  Legends of the Fall

  Montana — 1910s · 1920s · 1960s
  Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Edward Zwick
• 1981

  Mad Max 2

  Near Future
  Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller
• 2015

  Mad Max: Fury Road

  Near Future
  Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller
• 2011

  Meek's Cutoff

  Oregon — 1800s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt
• 2012

  Moonrise Kingdom

  1960s
  Island · Wildernessdir. Wes Anderson
• 2021

  Nomadland

  Nevada · Arizona · South Dakota · California — 2010s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Chloé Zhao
• 2021

  Petite Maman

  2020s · 1990s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Céline Sciamma
• 1975

  Picnic at Hanging Rock

  Victoria — 1900s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Peter Weir
• 2021

  Pig

  Portland — 2020s
  Wilderness · Urbandir. Michael Sarnoski
• 1986

  Platoon

  Vietnam — 1960s
  Wildernessdir. Oliver Stone
• 1997

  Princess Mononoke

  Japan — Medieval
  Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 1950

  Rashomon

  Kyoto — Ancient
  Wildernessdir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1985

  Runaway Train

  1980s
  Wildernessdir. Andrei Konchalovsky
• 2013

  Snowpiercer

  Near Future
  Mountain · Wildernessdir. Bong Joon Ho
• 1977

  Sorcerer

  Jerusalem · Paris · New York City · Veracruz — 1970s
  Wilderness · Urban · Mountaindir. William Friedkin
• 1939

  Stagecoach

  1800s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. John Ford
• 1979

  Stalker

  Timeless
  Wildernessdir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2018

  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

  1800s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Joel Coen
• 1957

  The Bridge on the River Kwai

  Thailand — 1940s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean
• 1978

  The Deer Hunter

  Pennsylvania · Saigon — 1970s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Michael Cimino
• 1966

  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  1800s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone
• 2022

  The Northman

  Iceland — Medieval
  Island · Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers
• 1993

  The Piano

  New Zealand — 1800s
  Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion
• 2015

  The Revenant

  1800s
  Wilderness · Mountaindir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• 2009

  The Road

  Near Future
  Wilderness · Rural · Coastal Seadir. John Hillcoat
• 1956

  The Searchers

  Texas · New Mexico — 1800s
  Wilderness · Desertdir. John Ford
• 1998

  The Thin Red Line

  1940s
  Wilderness · Island · Coastal Seadir. Terrence Malick
• 1982

  The Thing

  1980s
  Wildernessdir. John Carpenter
• 1953

  The Wages of Fear

  1950s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 2016

  The Witch

  1700s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers
• 2010

  True Grit

  Arkansas — 1800s
  Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ethan Coen
• 2014

  Under the Skin

  Glasgow — 2010s
  Urban · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Jonathan Glazer
• 1992

  Unforgiven

  Hokkaido — 1800s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Clint Eastwood
• 1971

  Walkabout

  Australia — 1970s
  Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg
• 2008

  WALL·E

  Far Future
  Off World · Wildernessdir. Andrew Stanton
• 2014

  Wild Tales

  Argentina — 2010s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Damián Szifron
• 2017

  Wind River

  Wyoming — 2010s
  Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Taylor Sheridan