Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "survivalist"

1. Yellowjackets (2021– )

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A wildly talented girls high school soccer team become the unlucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the Canadian wilderness.

Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown

Votes: 85,676

2. The Martian (2015)

PG-13 | 144 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.

Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara

Votes: 925,017 | Gross: $228.43M

3. Prisoners (2013)

R | 153 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.

Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo

Votes: 809,274 | Gross: $61.00M

4. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick

Votes: 1,173,770 | Gross: $204.84M

5. Mortal Engines (2018)

PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

In a post-apocalyptic world where cities ride on wheels and consume each other to survive, two people meet in London and try to stop a conspiracy.

Director: Christian Rivers | Stars: Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving, Jihae

Votes: 140,720 | Gross: $15.95M

6. A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | Post-production

Experience the day the world went quiet.

Director: Michael Sarnoski | Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Lupita Nyong'o

7. A Quiet Place (2018)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

Votes: 583,415 | Gross: $188.02M

8. Deliverance (1972)

R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox

Votes: 119,230 | Gross: $7.06M

9. Captain Fantastic (2016)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.

Director: Matt Ross | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso

Votes: 235,032 | Gross: $5.88M

10. Tremors (1990)

PG-13 | 96 min | Comedy, Horror

Natives of a small isolated town defend themselves against strange underground creatures which are killing them one by one.

Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross

Votes: 150,484 | Gross: $16.67M

11. The Marsh King's Daughter (2023)

R | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A woman seeks revenge against the man who kidnapped her mother.

Director: Neil Burger | Stars: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooklynn Prince, Gil Birmingham

Votes: 9,815

12. I Am Legend (2007)

PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Drama, Horror

Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.

Director: Francis Lawrence | Stars: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield

Votes: 814,016 | Gross: $256.39M

13. A Quiet Place Part II (2020)

PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats lurking beyond the sand path.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Cillian Murphy, John Krasinski

Votes: 272,784 | Gross: $160.07M

14. Cast Away (2000)

PG-13 | 143 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Paul Sanchez, Lari White

Votes: 638,527 | Gross: $233.63M

15. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin

Votes: 354,647 | Gross: $72.08M

16. Love and Monsters (2020)

PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Seven years after he survived the monster apocalypse, lovably hapless Joel leaves his cozy underground bunker behind on a quest to reunite with his high school sweetheart.

Director: Michael Matthews | Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Jessica Henwick, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing

Votes: 145,405 | Gross: $1.07M

17. Angel Has Fallen (2019)

R | 121 min | Action, Thriller

Mike Banning is framed for the attempted assassination of the President and must evade his own agency and the FBI as he tries to uncover the real threat.

Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Frederick Schmidt, Danny Huston, Rocci Boy Williams

Votes: 110,597 | Gross: $69.03M

18. Halloween (I) (2018)

R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe, Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Director: David Gordon Green | Stars: Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney

Votes: 169,070 | Gross: $159.34M

19. You're Next (2011)

R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of the victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

Director: Adam Wingard | Stars: Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Nicholas Tucci

Votes: 109,423 | Gross: $18.47M

20. The Edge (1997)

R | 117 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An intellectual billionaire and two other men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood-thirsty Kodiak Bear hunting them down.

Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau

Votes: 79,015 | Gross: $27.78M

21. Leave No Trace (2018)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama

A father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.

Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard, Derek John Drescher

Votes: 65,268 | Gross: $6.05M

22. The Hunted (2003)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An FBI deep-woods tracker attempts to capture a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.

Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Leslie Stefanson

Votes: 51,407 | Gross: $34.24M

23. Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996 Video)

PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

Earl Bassett, now a washed-up ex-celebrity, is hired by a Mexican oil company to eradicate a Graboid epidemic that's killing more people each day. However, the humans aren't the only one with a new battle plan.

Director: S.S. Wilson | Stars: Fred Ward, Chris Gartin, Helen Shaver, Michael Gross

Votes: 32,734

24. Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001 Video)

PG | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Horror

The now famous Burt Gummer returns to his hometown of Perfection, Nevada for the first time in years, but the deadliest Graboid evolution yet forces him to save the town he swore to protect.

Director: Brent Maddock | Stars: Michael Gross, Shawn Christian, Susan Chuang, Charlotte Stewart

Votes: 19,231

25. Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)

R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller

A California couple and a survivalist encounter Leatherface and his family.

Director: Jeff Burr | Stars: Kate Hodge, Ken Foree, R.A. Mihailoff, William Butler

Votes: 19,357 | Gross: $5.77M

26. Braven (2018)

R | 94 min | Action, Thriller

A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

Director: Lin Oeding | Stars: Jason Momoa, Garret Dillahunt, Jill Wagner, Stephen Lang

Votes: 42,110

27. When the Wind Blows (1986)

16+ | 84 min | Animation, Drama, War

A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.

Director: Jimmy T. Murakami | Stars: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Robin Houston, James Russell

Votes: 12,636 | Gross: $0.01M

28. Tremors: Shrieker Island (2020 Video)

PG-13 | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When a group of hunters genetically modify Graboid eggs, they face an all-out war against the larger, terrifyingly intelligent Graboids, and the swiftly multiplying Shriekers.

Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Michael Gross, Jon Heder, Richard Brake, Caroline Langrishe

Votes: 5,291

29. Tremors (2003)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Small town notices weird deaths in the desert. There are giant worms under the sand. They can hear the location of people through the vibration of their movement. Finally they blow them up with dynamite.

Stars: Victor Browne, Gladise Jiminez, Marcia Strassman, Lela Lee

Votes: 3,140

30. Infestation (2009)

R | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A slacker awakes to find himself weak and wrapped in a webbing; after realizing that the world has been taken over by giant alien insects, he wakes a ragtag group of strangers and together they fight for survival.

Director: Kyle Rankin | Stars: Christopher Rodriguez Marquette, Brooke Nevin, Kinsey Packard, E. Quincy Sloan

Votes: 9,706

31. Goodbye World (2013)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

When a mysterious terrorist attack causes chaos in the cities, a group of friends take refuge in their countryside cabin. But the challenges of living in a post-apocalyptic world soon take their toll on relationships within the group.

Director: Denis Henry Hennelly | Stars: Adrian Grenier, Kid Cudi, Mckenna Grace, Kerry Bishé

Votes: 7,358

32. Tremors 5: Bloodlines (2015 Video)

PG-13 | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Burt and Travis battle ass-blasters and graboids in South Africa.

Director: Don Michael Paul | Stars: Brandon Auret, Natalie Becker, Emmanuel Castis, Michael Gross

Votes: 8,945

33. The Tomorrow Man (2019)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Romance

Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love.

Director: Noble Jones | Stars: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner, Derek Cecil, Katie Aselton

Votes: 2,371 | Gross: $0.35M

34. Alaska (1996)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

While searching for their missing father in the mountains of Alaska, two siblings come across a baby polar bear on the run from a pair of poachers.

Director: Fraser C. Heston | Stars: Thora Birch, Vincent Kartheiser, Dirk Benedict, Charlton Heston

Votes: 5,816 | Gross: $11.57M

35. The Survivors (1983)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed, James Wainwright

Votes: 5,731 | Gross: $14.00M

36. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.

Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer

Votes: 3,541

37. A Cry in the Wild (1990)

PG | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

Adapted from Gary Paulsen's novel "Hatchet", a boy crash-lands in Canada's bear country and survives with a hatchet his divorced mother gave him.

Director: Mark Griffiths | Stars: Jared Rushton, Ned Beatty, Pamela Sue Martin, Stephen Meadows

Votes: 1,165 | Gross: $1.49M

38. The Day (I) (2011)

R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Horror

A group of five people working to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic future discover what they think is a safe, abandoned farmhouse, but they soon find themselves fighting to stay alive as a gang of bloodthirsty predators attack.

Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Brianna Barnes, Ashley Bell, Brayden Edwards

Votes: 13,305 | Gross: $0.02M

39. Follow That Dream (1962)

109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A family of ragtag vagabonds sets up a makeshift home on a Florida beach after becoming marooned there, prompting an uptight local bureaucrat to attempt to evict them.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Elvis Presley, Arthur O'Connell, Anne Helm, Joanna Moore

Votes: 2,994

40. The Recall (2017)

R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Mystery

When five friends vacation at a remote lake house they expect nothing less than a good time, unaware that planet Earth is under an alien invasion and mass-abduction.

Director: Mauro Borrelli | Stars: Wesley Snipes, RJ Mitte, Jedidiah Goodacre, Laura Bilgeri

Votes: 9,345 | Gross: $0.02M

41. No Blade of Grass (1970)

R | 96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

An environmental catastrophe destroys civilization. Led by father John and mother Ann, the Custance clan sets out on a quest for safety in a savage world that may just end up turning them into the very thing they are fleeing.

Director: Cornel Wilde | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Jean Wallace, John Hamill, Lynne Frederick

Votes: 2,058 | Gross: $0.35M

42. Day the World Ended (1955)

Approved | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In a post-Apocalyptic world after an atomic war seven disparate people find themselves in a protected valley in the home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors

Votes: 2,608

43. Out of Reach (2004 Video)

R | 86 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A retired covert agent turned survivalist discovers that the foster program he is using to help a young orphan is actually a human trafficking network. He travels overseas to find the girl and shut down the operation.

Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Steven Seagal, Ida Nowakowska, Agnieszka Wagner, Matt Schulze

Votes: 5,223

44. Man Vs. (2015)

84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A mysterious stalker plagues a reality tv survivalist during his five days alone for a new season of his show in the northern Ontario wilderness; and the figure may not be human.

Director: Adam Massey | Stars: Chris Diamantopoulos, Chloe Bradt, Michael Cram, Kelly Fanson

Votes: 3,416

45. Mantracker (2006–2012)

Unrated | 60 min | Reality-TV

Contestants are pitted in a race to the finish against an expert wilderness tracker.

Stars: Shawn Devlin, Terry Grant, Chad Savage, Phil Lemieux

Votes: 434

46. Sherman's March (1985)

Not Rated | 157 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

Documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life.

Director: Ross McElwee | Stars: Ross McElwee, Dede McElwee, Ross McElwee Jr., Patricia Rendleman

Votes: 2,709

47. Death Hunt (2022)

Unrated | 92 min | Action, Thriller

A land developer and his girlfriend are hunted on a remote island for sport by three deranged locals.

Director: Neil Mackay | Stars: Marlene Malcolm, Omar Tucci, Terry McDonald, Rick Amsbury

Votes: 538

48. Devil's Trail (2017)

TV-MA | 73 min | Horror

Two reality TV stars who are experts at survival, embark on a mission to explore the legend of the Jersey Devil. Can they survive? Reality TV just got real.

Director: Henrique Couto | Stars: John Bradley Hambrick, Henrique Couto, Marylee Osborne, Joni Durian

Votes: 258

49. Black Circle Boys (1997)

R | 101 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

All-American Kyle is the newest initiate of the Black Circle Boys, an underworld society of gothic groupies whose primary interests are creating mayhem and studying the Occult. By the time ... See full summary »

Director: Matthew Carnahan | Stars: Scott Bairstow, Eric Mabius, Tara Subkoff, Chad Lindberg

Votes: 1,071

50. Sadie's Last Days on Earth (2016)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy

Everything in high school is like the world ending and Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is the heightened version of that. Undeterred by the naysayers, Sadie has two... See full summary »

Director: Michael Seater | Stars: Morgan Taylor Campbell, Clark Backo, Ricardo Hoyos, Munro Chambers

Votes: 486