American survival films

1956 film by John Huston

1965 film by Robert Aldrich

2006 film by Werner Herzog

1972 film by Sydney Pollack

2013 film by J. C. Chandor

2017 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad

2022 film directed by Baltasar Kormákur

Sisu is a 2022 action thriller film written and directed by Jalmari Helander and produced by Petri Jokiranta. The film stars Jorma Tommila, alongside Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo and Onni Tommila. It is set during the Lapland War between Finland and Nazi Germany towards the end of World War II, where a legendary Finnish Army commando-turned-gold prospector attempts to defend himself from being robbed and murdered by a Waffen-SS platoon led by a brutal and corrupt officer.

1985 film by Wolfgang Petersen

2000 film directed by Antony Hoffman

2021 film directed by Taylor Sheridan

2017 film directed by Johannes Roberts

2018 film directed by Baltasar Kormákur

2011 film by Alister Grierson

2009 film directed by David Twohy

2003 film by William Friedkin

The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel by Stephen King. The film stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill.

2015 film by Patricia Riggen

Send Help is a 2026 American survival horror thriller film directed and co-produced by Sam Raimi and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as an employee and her boss, respectively, who become stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash and attempt to survive while tension rises between them.

1998 film by Stephen Sommers

2007 film by Marcus Nispel

1959 film by Stanley Kramer

1991 film directed by William A. Graham

Eden is a 2024 American historical survival thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Noah Pink, from a story by the pair. It stars Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney, Daniel Brühl, Felix Kammerer, Toby Wallace, and Richard Roxburgh. The film is based on the true story of several European settlers, including Margret Wittmer, who arrive on the isolated Floreana Island, in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador, pre-World War II, hoping to start a life there.

1990 film directed by Harry Hook

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is an upcoming American dystopian action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Billy Ray. Based on the 2025 novel Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, it serves as both a sequel to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) and a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012), and will be the sixth installment in The Hunger Games film series. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Mckenna Grace, Whitney Peak, Maya Hawke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ralph Fiennes, and Glenn Close.

1981 film by Walter Hill

2015 film by Jeremy Saulnier

2003 film by Chris Kentis

2002 film by Gus Van Sant

1932 film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel

2021 film directed by Alexandre Aja

2006 film by David Von Ancken

1997 film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller

1954 film by Luis Buñuel

2016 film by Kevin Reynolds

2010 American film

2008 film by Carter Smith

2019 film directed by Ericson Core

1975 film directed by L. Q. Jones

2019 film by Johannes Roberts

2005 film directed by Bruce Hunt

2021 film directed by Miguel Sapochnik

1978 film directed by Irwin Allen

1996 film by Ridley Scott

1993 American film

2023 film directed by Álex Pastor and David Pastor

2025 film directed by Alex Parkinson

2017 film by Scott Waugh

2021 film directed by Joe Penna

Greenland 2: Migration is a 2026 American post-apocalyptic film that is the sequel to the disaster film Greenland (2020), with Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin reprising their roles. The film is directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling and Mitchell LaFortune. The film also stars Roman Griffin Davis, Amber Rose Revah, Gordon Alexander, Peter Polycarpou, William Abadie, and Tommie Earl Jenkins.

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a 2026 American comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. It serves as a sequel to Ready or Not (2019), with Samara Weaving reprising her role as Grace MacCaullay. The film also stars Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, David Cronenberg, and Elijah Wood. Set immediately after the events of Ready or Not, it follows Grace (Weaving) as she must protect her estranged sister (Newton) while being hunted by several elite families in a high-stakes ritual to claim a seat of ultimate power.

1980 film by Peter R. Hunt

1969 American film directed by John Sturges

1991 film directed by Franc Roddam

1993 film directed by Stephen Hopkins

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The Lost Bus is a 2025 American survival drama film directed by Paul Greengrass, who co-wrote the screenplay with Brad Ingelsby based on the 2021 book Paradise by Lizzie Johnson. It stars Matthew McConaughey, America Ferrera, Yul Vazquez and Ashlie Atkinson. It portrays a fictionalized version of the evacuation of schoolchildren during the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California by bus driver Kevin McKay and teacher Mary Ludwig.

1971 film by Richard C. Sarafian

1996 film directed by Fraser Clarke Heston