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A list of movies that feature characters facing life-threatening situations and overcoming challenges to survive. The list includes genres such as adventure, drama, thriller, and war, and covers various settings and scenarios.
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A personal list of 50 movies that feature characters facing various survival scenarios, from space to zombies. See the ratings, genres, directors, stars and summaries of each movie on IMDb.
Jun 17, 2022 · Apollo 13. View full post on Youtube. WATCH NOW. The original space survival story. Ron Howard's classic docudrama brings to life the failed 1970 Apollo lunar mission, during which an oxygen tank ...
A list of 13 movies that feature characters facing life-threatening situations and overcoming them with courage and skill. From shark attacks to space disasters, from tsunamis to wars, these movies show the power of human survival.
- “The Impossible”
- “Captain Phillips”
- “Panic Room”
- “127 Hours”
- “Swiss Family Robinson”
- “A Quiet Place”
- “Wild”
- “Gerald’s Game”
- “Titanic”
- “Alive”
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Fourteen-year-old Tom Holland makes his feature filmdebut in “The Impossible,” an epic dramatization of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster that claimed nearly 230,000 lives. Directed by J. A. Bayona (“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”), the film is based on Spanish physician María Belón’s harrowing experience. She survived the event with her husb...
Directed by Paul Greengrass, “Captain Phillips” is controversial not for its content, but because the film’s real-life inspirations disagree about what happened during the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking. Tom Hanks stars as the titular Richard Phillips, the captain of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates. Over four days, Phillips and his c...
Jodie Foster appears with a 10-year-old Kristen Stewart in “Panic Room”: David Fincher’s edge-of-your-seat survival thriller from 2002 about a violent home invasion. Set in a brownstone on New York City’s Upper West Side, the film features Forest Whitaker, Jared Leto, and Dwight Yoakam as burglars intent on retrieving a hefty sum they believe is hi...
Sweeping survival epics portend a kind of you-get-what-you-pay-for mentality. Go to space? Yes, you might die. Survive the apocalypse? That sucks that that happened, but, again: Yes, you might die. Directed by Danny Boyle, “127 Hours” tells the more grounded tale of a solo mountain climber that still capitalizes on the dramatic irony of its protago...
By far the cheeriest title on this list, director Ken Annakin’s “Swiss Family Robinson” is the second adaption of author Johann David Wyss’ novel about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the West Indies. (Edward Ludwig delivered his good-but-not-as-good version, released by RKO Radio Pictures, in 1940. It’s worth seeing, if only because Walt Disney purc...
John Krasinski delivers one hell of a directorial debut with “A Quiet Place,” the post-apocalyptic sci-fi survival epic that imagines Earth as a planet infested with creatures hunting humans by sound. Casting himself and his wife Emily Blunt in the lead roles, Krasinski elevates what could be a one-note schtick fit for a C-level creature feature in...
One could argue “Wild” should be disqualified from ranking on a best survival movies list because it features only a handful of life-and-death scenarios. Based on author Cheryl Strayed’s memoir of the same name, the 2014 film chronicles the then-novice hiker’s 1995 solo expedition on the Pacific Coast Trail, confronting its protagonist with a varie...
A truly spectacular Carla Gugino fights for her life in “Gerald’s Game,” horror master Mike Flanagan’s first stab at a Stephen King adaptation and the harrowing story of a stranded woman handcuffed to a bed inside a remote cabin. When Jessie and Gerald Burlingame (an appropriately understated Bruce Greenwood) plan a sexy couple’s getaway — complete...
James Cameron’s “Titanic” is remembered primarily as a swelling romance — starring a stunning Kate Winslet and a dashing Leo DiCaprio — that won big at the box office with a $1.84 billion worldwide gross at the time of its initial release. But the 1997 historical epic is also a brutal dramatization of the mass-casualty disaster with which its synon...
Survivor’s guilt takes center stage in this tragic dramatization of a real plane crash along the Andes Mountains. On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, bound for Chile with a winning rugby team on board, veered into a mountain when an inexperienced pilot mistakenly began the flight’s descent. Ethan Hawke, Josh Hamilton, John Haymes N...
Explore the most compelling survival stories in cinema, from real-life disasters to sci-fi adventures. See how 'The Revenant,' 'Gravity,' 'Jaws,' and more stack up in this list of the best survival movies ever made.
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Jan 23, 2023 · A list of the best survival movies ever made, from true stories of survival to fictional adventures in the wild. See how films like "Kon-Tiki", "Cast Away", and "Deliverance" rank among the most gripping and realistic survival tales.
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A list of 28 movies that feature characters facing various challenges and dangers in the wilderness, from Siberian gulag escapes to desert island castaways. See ratings, genres, directors, stars and plot summaries for each movie.
