Wilderness Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 81 films set in wilderness environments, spanning 1926–2023. 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
• 1968

  2001: A Space Odyssey

  Space — Ancient · Near Future
  Wilderness · Off Worlddir. Stanley Kubrick
• 2002

  28 Days Later

  London — 2000s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Danny Boyle
• 2018

  A Quiet Place

  Near Future
  Rural · Wildernessdir. John Krasinski
• 1972

  Aguirre, the Wrath of God

  Peru — Early Modern
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Werner Herzog
• 2022

  All Quiet on the Western Front

  France — 1910s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Edward Berger
• 1966

  Andrei Rublev

  Russia
  Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 2018

  Annihilation

  Florida — 2010s
  Wilderness · Coastal Sea · Undergrounddir. Alex Garland
• 1979

  Apocalypse Now

  Vietnam · Cambodia — 1960s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Francis Ford Coppola
• 2016

  Arrival

  Montana — 2010s · Near Future
  Wilderness · Off Worlddir. Denis Villeneuve
• 1974

  Badlands

  South Dakota — 1950s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick
• 2005

  Brokeback Mountain

  Wyoming · Texas — 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s
  Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
• 1998

  Central Station

  Rio de Janeiro · Brazil — 1990s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Walter Salles
• 1977

  Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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

  Come and See

  Belarus — 1940s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Elem Klimov
• 2000

  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

  Beijing — 1700s
  Urban · Rural · Wilderness · Mountaindir. Ang Lee
• 1990

  Dances with Wolves

  Kansas · Tennessee
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Kevin Costner
• 1978

  Days of Heaven

  Chicago · Texas — 1910s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick
• 2012

  Django Unchained

  Mississippi · Texas — 1800s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Quentin Tarantino
• 1964

  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  1960s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick
• 2021

  Drive My Car

  Tokyo · Hiroshima — 2010s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi
• 1982

  E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

  California — 1980s
  Suburban · Wildernessdir. Steven Spielberg
• 2015

  Ex Machina

  Norway — 2010s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Alex Garland
• 1996

  Fargo

  Minneapolis · Fargo — 1980s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
• 1982

  Fitzcarraldo

  Iquitos — 1900s · 1910s
  Wilderness · Rural · Urbandir. Werner Herzog
• 2000

  Gladiator

  Rome — Ancient
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Ridley Scott
• 2005

  Grizzly Man

  Alaska — 1990s · 2000s
  Wildernessdir. Werner Herzog
• 2004

  Howl's Moving Castle

  Early Modern
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 1993

  Jurassic Park

  1990s
  Island · Wilderness · Urbandir. Steven Spielberg
• 2015

  Mad Max: Fury Road

  Far Future
  Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller
• 1971

  McCabe & Mrs. Miller

  Washington State — 1900s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Altman
• 2011

  Melancholia

  2010s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Lars von Trier
• 2019

  Midsommar

  Sweden — 2010s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Ari Aster
• 2021

  Minari

  Arkansas — 1980s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Lee Isaac Chung
• 2012

  Moonrise Kingdom

  1960s
  Island · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Wes Anderson
• 2021

  Nomadland

  Nevada · Arizona · South Dakota · California — 2010s
  Rural · Wilderness · Desertdir. Chloé Zhao
• 2000

  O Brother, Where Art Thou?

  Mississippi — 1930s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
• 2023

  Oppenheimer

  Los Alamos · New Mexico — 1930s · 1940s · 1950s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Christopher Nolan
• 2014

  Paddington

  London · Peru — 2010s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Paul King
• 2006

  Pan's Labyrinth

  Spain — 1940s
  Rural · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Guillermo del Toro
• 2021

  Petite Maman

  1990s · 2010s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Céline Sciamma
• 1975

  Picnic at Hanging Rock

  Victoria — 1900s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Peter Weir
• 1997

  Princess Mononoke

  Japan — Medieval
  Wilderness · Rural · Urbandir. Hayao Miyazaki
• 1981

  Raiders of the Lost Ark

  Cairo · Washington, D.C. — 1930s
  Wilderness · Urban · Coastal Sea · Island · Undergrounddir. Steven Spielberg
• 1985

  Ran

  Japan — Early Modern
  Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1950

  Rashomon

  Kyoto — Medieval
  Wilderness · Urbandir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1954

  Seven Samurai

  Japan — Early Modern
  Rural · Mountain · Wildernessdir. Akira Kurosawa
• 1975

  Sholay

  India — 1970s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Ramesh Sippy
• 1993

  Short Cuts

  Los Angeles — 1990s
  Urban · Wildernessdir. Robert Altman
• 1972

  Solaris

  Near Future
  Off World · Rural · Wildernessdir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1960

  Spartacus

  Italy — Ancient
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Stanley Kubrick
• 1979

  Stalker

  Timeless
  Urban · Wilderness · Undergrounddir. Andrei Tarkovsky
• 1957

  The Bridge on the River Kwai

  Thailand — 1940s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. David Lean
• 1999

  The Color of Paradise

  Tehran · Iran — 1990s
  Rural · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Majid Majidi
• 1978

  The Deer Hunter

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

  The General

  Georgia
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Clyde Bruckman
• 1966

  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  Desert · Rural · Wildernessdir. Sergio Leone
• 1940

  The Grapes of Wrath

  Oklahoma · California — 1930s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. John Ford
• 2019

  The Lighthouse

  Island · Coastal Sea · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers
• 2022

  The Northman

  Iceland — Medieval
  Rural · Coastal Sea · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers
• 1993

  The Piano

  New Zealand — 1800s
  Wilderness · Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Jane Campion
• 2021

  The Power of the Dog

  Montana — 1920s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Jane Campion
• 2015

  The Revenant

  1800s
  Wilderness · Mountain · Ruraldir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
• 1956

  The Searchers

  Texas · New Mexico
  Rural · Desert · Wildernessdir. John Ford
• 1957

  The Seventh Seal

  Sweden — Medieval
  Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Ingmar Bergman
• 1980

  The Shining

  Colorado — 1980s
  Wilderness · Mountain · Ruraldir. Stanley Kubrick
• 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
• 2016

  The Witch

  Rural · Wildernessdir. Robert Eggers
• 1991

  Thelma & Louise

  Arkansas · Grand Canyon — 1990s
  Rural · Desert · Wildernessdir. Ridley Scott
• 2007

  There Will Be Blood

  California · New Mexico — 1900s · 1910s · 1920s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• 1957

  Throne of Blood

  Japan — Medieval
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Akira Kurosawa
• 2022

  Triangle of Sadness

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

  True Grit

  Arkansas — 1800s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Joel Coen
• 1953

  Ugetsu

  Japan — Early Modern
  Rural · Wilderness · Coastal Seadir. Kenji Mizoguchi
• 2014

  Under the Skin

  Glasgow — 2010s
  Urban · Rural · Wildernessdir. Jonathan Glazer
• 1992

  Unforgiven

  Japan — 1800s
  Rural · Wilderness · Urbandir. Clint Eastwood
• 1971

  Wake in Fright

  Australia — 1960s
  Rural · Desert · Wildernessdir. Ted Kotcheff
• 1971

  Walkabout

  Australia — 1960s · 1970s
  Wilderness · Desert · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg
• 1987

  Where Is The Friend's House?

  1980s
  Rural · Wildernessdir. Abbas Kiarostami