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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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31). Gerald's Game (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Our Take on Gerald's Game (2017)

Survival, Thriller, Confined, Drama, Isolation

Gerald's Game is Streaming on Netflix

Plot / Synopsis: Mike Flanagan directs one of Stephen King's most challenging movie adaptations with Gerald's Game (2017). The entire film revolves around a woman handcuffed to her bed at a remote lake house after her husband's sudden death and how she is going to stay alive. Obviously, we are going to have flashbacks to move the storyline along but still, a complicated...

Director: Mike Flanagan
Stars: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken, Henry Thomas

32). Sweetheart (2019) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Mystery, Psychological, Survival, Black Horror - Thriller, Isolation, Madness, Road Trip, Wilderness, Blumhouse

Sweetheart is Streaming on Netflix

Plot / Synopsis: Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn't take her long to realize she's completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night...

Director: J.D. Dillard
Stars: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Andrew Crawford, Benedict Samuel

33). A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Detailed Review: A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

Rotten Tomatoes: 8.6/10 | Metascore: 6.8/10 | MPAA Rating: 0 | Gross: $139,051,884

Psychological, Supernatural, Survival, Thriller, Creatures, Apocalypse, Dangerous Exploration, Desolate, Isolation, Sci-Fi, Urban Decay, Wilderness

Plot / Synopsis: Synopsis: Experience the day the world went quiet. A Quiet Place: Day One is the prequel to A Quiet Place. A Quiet Place: Day One arrives on Digital July 30th and on 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/DVD/4K Ultra HD SteelBook on October 8: "Experience the day the world went quiet in the thrilling and action-packed blockbuster hit A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE, arriving...

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

34). Inside (2007) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Full Review of Inside (2007)

Score: 7.46/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 47,032 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R

Psychological, Survival, Christmas - Extreme, Home Invasion, New French Extremity, Pregnancy, Revenge, Stalker

Plot / Synopsis: Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby...

Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury
Stars: Alysson Paradis, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin, Claude Lulé, Dominique Frot, Nathalie Roussel

35). The Descent (2005) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Our Take on The Descent (2005)

Creatures, Survival, Confined, Dangerous Exploration

Plot / Synopsis: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators. Tagline: The Scariest Movie In Earth...

Director: Neil Marshall
Stars: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring

36). Send Help (2026) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Thriller, Adventure, Psychological, Survival, Dark Comedy

Plot / Synopsis: An employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. Here, they must overcome past grievances and work together to make it out alive. Tagline: Meet Linda Liddle... She's from strategy and planning...

37). Tag (2015) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Rotten Tomatoes: 9.2/10 | MPAA Rating: 0

Gore, Survival, Alternate Timelines, Campy, J-Horror, B-Horror

Plot / Synopsis: As the sole survivor of a horrendous and rather mysterious accident, Mitsuko, a typical Japanese teenager, can safely say that her day has got off to a bad start. It seems that an unstoppable force of nature, a doomed field trip, and a strange case of amnesia can easily coexist in a bizarre parallel universe, where a desperate Mitsuko...

Director: Sion Sono
Stars: Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, Erina Mano, Yuki Sakurai, Aki Hiraoka

38). Here for Blood (2023) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 7.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,025 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.8/10 | MPAA Rating:

Comedy, Slasher, Survival, Campy, Home Invasion, Suburbs, Teens, B-Horror

Plot / Synopsis: When his girlfriend, Phoebe, is swamped with college exams; Tom O'Bannon, a rowdy pro-wrestler struggling to make ends meet, agrees to fill in as a last-minute replacement for her well paying babysitting job. Tom arrives at an isolated family home where he meets the precocious 10-year-old Grace. What starts off as a quiet night of pizza and video games...

Director: Daniel Turres
Stars: Shawn Roberts, Maya Misaljevic, Joelle Farrow, Tara Spencer-Nairn, Michael Therriault

39). Buried (2010) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Survival, Thriller, Confined, Drama, Isolation

Plot / Synopsis: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.Tagline: 170,000 SQ miles of desert. 90 minutes of Oxygen. No way out...

Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Stars: Ryan Reynolds, José Luis García Pérez, Robert Paterson, Stephen Tobolowsky, Samantha Mathis

40). Cube (1997) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Our Take on Cube (1997)

Survival, Thriller, Isolation, Mind Bender, Sci-Fi, Survival Games

Plot / Synopsis: Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps. Tagline: The only way out lies within your own mind...

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Stars: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings

41). Talk to Me (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Black Horror, Possession, Supernatural, Survival, Black Horror - Thriller, Cursed, Dangerous Exploration, Folk Horror, Satanic, Supernatural Serial killer (Top Supernatural Serial Killers in Movies), A24

Talk to Me is Streaming on Peacock

Plot / Synopsis: When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and opens the door to the spirit world forcing them to choose who to trust: the dead or the living. Talk to the hand as Second Sight Films is definitely listening,...

Directors: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Stars: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Hamish Phillips, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji

42). Trench 11 (2017) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Score: 7.35/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 3,049 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R

Survival, Thriller, War, Epic Battle, Madness, Military, Wilderness

Plot / Synopsis: In the final days of WWI a shell-shocked soldier must lead a mission deep beneath the trenches to stop a German plot that could turn the tide of the war...

Director: Leo Scherman
Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Robert Stadlober, Charlie Carrick, Shaun Benson, Ted Atherton

43). The Battery (2012) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Detailed Review: The Battery (2012)

Score: 7.35/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 10,901 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R

Survival, Zombies, Apocalypse, Tourists, Urban Decay, Virus

Plot / Synopsis: The personalities of two former baseball players clash as they traverse the rural back roads of a post-plague New England teeming with the undead.Tagline: In a land ravaged by the undead, Ben and Mickey must learn to survive each other...

Director: Jeremy Gardner
Stars: Jeremy Gardner, Adam Cronheim, Niels Bolle, Alana O''Brien, Jamie Pantanella

44). The Sadness (2021) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Gore, Survival, Thriller, Zombies, Apocalypse, Cannibalism, Extreme, Madness, Mutants, Splatter, Urban Decay, Virus

Plot / Synopsis: After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. Murder, torture, r*pe...

Director: Rob Jabbaz
Stars: Regina, Ying-Ru Chen, Tzu-Chiang Wang, Ralf Chiu, Berant Zhu