At every stage of our lives, we encounter obstacles and difficulties that await us, or rather, that need to be overcome. Sometimes it is so difficult to overcome these obstacles, and sometimes we feel that we are so alone on this path that we look for experienced people who can understand us or who have passed through these obstacles before. If you think that even such people are not included in your life, do not be sad.
When you take a break from life for a while, take your tea, coffee or whatever you drink, you will have a quality activity that will force you to think about what you need to overcome your obstacles, albeit for a short time. We will compile the best survival movies, each more exquisite than the other, with various topics such as fighting a natural disaster, maybe a human conflict, being in a war, or even being stranded somewhere. If you are ready, we start the list.
Best survival movies according to IMDb ratings:
- The Revenant
- Cast Away
- gravity
- Life of Pi
- The Martian
- Into the Wild
- The Day After Tomorrow
- I Am Legend
Are you the hunter or the prey?: The Revenant
- Genre: Wild West, Drama, Adventure
- Year: 2015
- Director: Alejandro González Inárritu
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson
- IMDb: 8.0
Our hunter named Hugh Glass works for an organization that hunts animals for their fur. Other than themselves, Indians and French troops travel in the area where they are hunting. During the hunt, he leaves Glass to die, mortally wounded by a grizzly bear, in order not to slow down his team. Of course, our master hunter clings to life because he knows the region better than anyone. He has to live because he has a very valid reason.
How can the struggle to live alone change a person?: Cast Away
- Genre: Drama, Adventure
- Year: 2000
- Director: Robert Zemeckis
- Cast: Tom Hanks
- IMDb: 7.8
Let’s imagine a man who has lived in the city all his life, traveled the world by flying, had a busy work life at the computer, and became a person who didn’t even care about the people around him because of his job. Another day, while traveling by plane, the plane he was on unexpectedly crashes into the sea. He is forced to live alone for four years on a deserted island in Fiji. But how much could this life have changed his level of consciousness?
By space, no one meant the void: Gravity
- Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller, Drama
- Year: 2013
- Director: Alfonso Cuarón
- Cast: George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Ed Harris
- IMDb: 7.7
An astute medical engineer woman embarks on her first space voyage with an astronaut man on her last mission before her retirement, in a shuttle operated by him. When we say that everything is fine, the shuttle breaks up as a result of an object hitting it during the reconnaissance walk. These two scientists are left alone in the vacuum of space. Their communication with the Earth has been cut off and they have very little oxygen. Do you think these two scientists will be able to return to the world, that is, home?
Who would you like to be alone with in a boat?: Life of Pi
- Genre: Adventure, Drama
- Year: 2012
- Director: Ang Lee
- Cast: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Ayush Tandon
- IMDb: 7.9
The child of a family that runs a zoo, Pi immigrates with his family from India to Canada with his animals. The cargo ship they boarded sinks with almost all living things. But a lifeboat is left alone in the middle of the vast wild Pacific Ocean. The crew of the boat is a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, an orangutan, a tiger named Richard Parker, whom Pi tries to get along with at the zoo, and 16-year-old Pi. Do you think they can survive?
Living four years on Mars with a month’s rations, that’s what science is called: The Martian
- Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-fi
- Year: 2015
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Cast: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels
- IMDb: 8.0
A team of astronauts is sent to Mars. While this team is doing their job well, a storm will break out in their area. All astronauts are scheduled to be evacuated and returned to Earth before the storm begins. During the evacuation, the astronaut named Mark Watney was severely damaged due to the storm and was thrown away. Assuming he is dead, the evacuation is completed. But Watney is alive. He tries to hold on to life by using science with limited means. It should be able to last 4 years with 1 month’s supplies. You should witness Watney’s incredible adventure.
The story of a young man who finds himself in nature by standing out from the crowd: Into the Wild
- Genre: Adventure, Drama
- Year: 2007
- Director: Sean Penn
- Cast: Emile Hirsch
- IMDb: 8.1
Based on the inspiring true story of Christopher McCandless. Leaving his comfortable and comfortable life, Christopher sets out to the rural areas of Alaska to face the biggest challenge of his life and live freedom. Our character resorts to nature to find himself, or rather he loves the mountain and nature, because the solitude in nature allows people to listen to themselves.
The world is driven into annihilation: The Day After Tomorrow
- Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller, Sci-fi
- Year: 2004
- Director: Roland Emmerich
- Cast: Dennis Quald, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Milhok
- IMDb: 6.4
While the world was incurring the wrath of nature, severe hurricanes wiped out Los Angeles from the map, New Delhi was covered in snow, Tokyo was destroyed by the impact of hailstorms, each of which was the size of a ball, and New York was threatened by huge waves with sudden climate changes. Climate scientist Jack Hall wants to find a solution to this situation.
The only person left in the world, but not really alone: I Am Legend
- Genre: Drama, Thriller, Sci-fi
- Year: 2007
- Director: Francis Lawrence
- Cast: Will Smith, Alice Braga
- IMDb: 7.2
Due to a man-made virus, all humans have turned into bloodthirsty zombies. Thinking that he is the only person not affected by the virus, a scientist named Robert Neville resists with his dog. The difference of this movie from other survival movies is that the enemy, that is, zombies, are smart, thinking and planning zombies for the first time, and they even gather at night and come to raid.
We have listed the best survival movies for you according to the IMDb score that we want you to watch and check, including adventure, drama and science fiction. What’s the best survival movie you’ve ever watched? Is there a movie that you think ‘This movie should be on this list’? Don’t forget to mention it in the comments.
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