Wilderness Survival Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 23 films about survival and set in the wilderness, spanning 1953–2022. 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
• 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
• 1972

  Deliverance

  Georgia — 1970s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. John Boorman
• 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
• 2007

  Into the Wild

  Alaska — 1990s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Sean Penn
• 2018

  Leave No Trace

  Portland · Washington — 2010s
  Wilderness · Ruraldir. Debra Granik
• 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
• 1985

  Runaway Train

  1980s
  Wildernessdir. Andrei Konchalovsky
• 1977

  Sorcerer

  Jerusalem · Paris · New York City · Veracruz — 1970s
  Wilderness · Urban · Mountaindir. William Friedkin
• 2015

  The Revenant

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

  The Road

  Near Future
  Wilderness · Rural · Coastal Seadir. John Hillcoat
• 1982

  The Thing

  1980s
  Wildernessdir. John Carpenter
• 1953

  The Wages of Fear

  1950s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 1971

  Walkabout

  Australia — 1970s
  Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg
• 2017

  Wind River

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