Films set in forests

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an "avatar", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.

1983 film directed by Richard Marquand

2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

1982 film directed by Ted Kotcheff

2006 film directed by Brett Ratner

2011 film directed by Rupert Wyatt

2014 film directed by Matt Reeves

1975 film by Akira Kurosawa

2004 film by M. Night Shyamalan

1981 film by Sam Raimi

1992 film directed by Michael Mann

1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham

2007 film directed by Gábor Csupó

2018 film by Travis Knight

2014 film directed by Rob Marshall

2012 film directed by Drew Goddard

1999 film directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez

2017 film directed by Matt Reeves

1938 film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

1997 film by Lee Tamahori

Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel. It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to whitewater canoe the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature. It stars Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, and Ronny Cox, with the latter two making their feature film debuts.

2024 film directed by Wes Ball

2018 film directed by Susanne Bier

1987 film by Sam Raimi

2009 film directed by Lars von Trier

2018 film directed by Marc Forster

2015 film directed by Robert Eggers

2007 film directed by Colin Strause and Greg Strause

2005 film by Terrence Malick

2010 film by Eric Brevig

2013 film directed by Fede Álvarez

2023 film directed by Elizabeth Banks

2016 film by David Lowery

1995 film by Jerry Zucker

1994 film directed by Mike Nichols

2002 film directed by Neil Marshall

2002 film directed by Eli Roth

2023 film directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

2025 film directed by Leigh Whannell

1994 film directed by Michael Apted

1970 musical film by Jacques Demy

2001 film by Santosh Sivan

2021 film directed by Taylor Sheridan

2018 film directed by Debra Granik

2024 American film by Ishana Night Shyamalan

2016 film directed by Adam Wingard

2023 film directed by Josh Greenbaum

1985 film directed by Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat

2007 film by Marcus Nispel

1936 film directed by Howard Hawks and William Wyler

1984 film by John Korty

2017 film by David Bruckner

2015 film by Ken Kwapis

2016 film directed by Jason Zada

V/H/S is a 2012 American found footage horror anthology film and the first installment in the V/H/S franchise created by Brad Miska and Bloody Disgusting, and produced by Miska and Roxanne Benjamin. It features a series of six found footage shorts written and directed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, and the filmmaking collective Radio Silence.

1981 film by Walter Hill

2002 film by Jay Russell

2017 film by Trey Edward Shults

1987 Hong Kong film directed by Ching Siu-tung

2002 film by Vikram Bhatt