Top 37 must-see best survival movies from survival movies, including Assault on Precinct 13, Threads, 127 Hours, A Quiet Place, Battle Royale, Misery, Tigers Are Not Afraid, One Cut of the Dead, Bedevilled, and Barbarian ranked and rated by score.
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Plot / Synopsis: A police sergeant and an unlikely band of criminals defend a closing LA precinct office on New Years Eve against an army of gang members.
Tagline: L.A.'s deadliest street gang just declared war on the cops...
Director: John Carpenter Stars: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton
Plot / Synopsis: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long running effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Tagline: The end of the world as we know it...
Director: Mick Jackson Stars: Karen Meagher, Reece Dinsdale, David Brierly, Rita May, Nicholas Lane
Plot / Synopsis: An adventurous mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Tagline: Every Second Counts...
Director: Danny Boyle Stars: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger
Plot / Synopsis: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Tagline: Their Game, No Rules, No Prisoners...
Plot / Synopsis: After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.Tagline: This Christmas there will be... Misery...
Director: Rob Reiner Stars: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Richard Farnsworth, Frances Sternhagen, Lauren Bacall
Plot / Synopsis: We are in some northern border. Any of them. All of them. Estrella is 10 years old and has 3 wishes: The first one, that her missing mother comes back and it happens. Her mother returns but she is dead and follows Estrella everywhere. Petrified, Estrella tries to escape from her by joining a gang orphaned by violence. Soon...
Director: Issa López Stars: Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo, Hanssel Casillas, Rodrigo Cortes
Plot / Synopsis: Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies...
Plot / Synopsis: A woman subject to mental, physical, and s**ual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.
Tagline: Nothing is more deadly than a woman seeking revenge...
Director: Cheol-soo Jang Stars: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang, Min Je, Ji-eun Lee
Plot / Synopsis: In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that her rental has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but soon discovers that there is much more to be afraid of in the...
Director: Zach Cregger Stars: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Kurt Braunohler, Jaymes Butler
Plot / Synopsis: 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) is directed by Dan Trachtenberg and is being called Cloverfield 2 (2016), a Cloverfield (2008) sequel directed by Matt Reeves. The film just got an attached movie trailer which I recommend you watch. The film releases in movie theaters in a short two months, March 11, 2016. The new Cloverfield movie stars John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth...
Director: Dan Trachtenberg Stars: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin, Suzanne Cryer
Plot / Synopsis: The story is set in the year of 2001 in a prison owned by a major company. A new prisoner sees his friends being harassed and killed by the guards and seeks his revenge.
Tagline: The Greatest Hong Kong Martial Arts Action Revenge Gore-Soaked Prision Breakout Love Story Cult Film of 1991 Ever Put on DVD!!! (2010 Media Blasters...
Plot / Synopsis: Maya (Tara Basro) with her best friend, Dini (Marissa Anita), tries to survive in a city without a family. She realized that she might inherit a property from her rich family. Maya returns to the village with Dini and unaware of the danger was waiting for her...
Director: Joko Anwar Stars: Tara Basro, Ario Bayu, Marissa Anita, Marissa Anita, Christine Hakim
Plot / Synopsis: One day, after returning from work late in the evening, Hideo witnesses a traffic accident in which a car crashes into a nearby pedestrian, killing the victim instantly. However, despite severe injuries including a broken neck, the victim's body stands up and walks away. Hideo questions whether this is another one of his hallucinations, but strange events begin happening...
Plot / Synopsis: S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk (2015) is a horror western that is about cannibals in the old west. Watched the trailer and noticed that the film does seem to take a slower paced western feel build up. RLJ Entertainment is releasing the film on VOD and iTunes this October 23, 2015. Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili...
Director: S. Craig Zahler Stars: Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Matthew Fox, Richard Jenkins, Lili Simmons
