Films set in jungles

Bhooth Bangla is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language comedy horror film directed by Priyadarshan and produced by Akshay Kumar, Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under Balaji Motion Pictures and Cape of Good Films. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Jisshu Sengupta, Rajpal Yadav, Tabu and Wamiqa Gabbi.

1957 film directed by David Lean

Apocalypto () is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia. The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras. Set in Yucatán around the year 1511, Apocalypto portrays the hero's journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw, a late Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are capt

2016 film directed by Jon Favreau

1986 film directed by Roland Joffé

1951 film by John Huston

1972 film by Werner Herzog

1973 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner

2010 film directed by Nimród Antal

2004 film by Dwight H. Little

Fitzcarraldo () is a 1982 epic adventure-drama film written, produced, and directed by Werner Herzog. The film stars Klaus Kinski as Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irish would-be rubber baron known in Peru as "Fitzcarraldo", who is determined to transport a steamship over the Andes mountains to access a rich rubber territory in the Amazon basin, with the ultimate goal of using the wealth to build an opera house in the area. The character was inspired by Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald, who once had a disassembled steamboat transported over the Isthmus of Fitzcarrald by natives.

2003 film by Antoine Fuqua

2002 film by Andrew Davis

2004 film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud

2017 film by Greg McLean

2013 American cannibal horror film by Eli Roth

2016 film directed by Stephen Gaghan

2017 film directed by Michael Noer

1992 film by John McTiernan

1997 film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller

1932 film directed by Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel

2008 film by Carter Smith

1985 film by John Boorman

1985 film by Jeremy Kagan

2008 television film directed by Don E. Fauntleroy

2023 film directed by Moritz Mohr

2005 film by Soham Shah

1949 film by Vincent Sherman

1940 film by Frank Borzage

1975 film by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

2011 film directed by Daniel Nettheim

Apex is a 2026 survival action thriller film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, written by Jeremy Robbins, and starring Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, and Eric Bana. It tells the story of a rock climber in the wild who finds herself being hunted as she tries to survive. It was released on Netflix on April 24, 2026.

Kantara is a 2022 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film written and directed by Rishab Shetty, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur and Chaluve Gowda under Hombale Films. The film stars Rishab Shetty in a dual roles as Kaadubettu Shiva and Annappa, along with Sapthami Gowda, Kishore, and Achyuth Kumar.

1956 film by Luis Buñuel

1940 film by Ernest B. Schoedsack

2005 docudrama film

2007 film by Robert Young

2018 film by Indra Kumar

1957 film by Virgil W. Vogel

Kantara: A Legend – Chapter 1 is a 2025 Indian Kannada-language epic mythological action drama film co-written and directed by Rishab Shetty, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur and Chaluve Gowda under Hombale Films. The film stars Rishab Shetty in a four roles as Berme, Mayakara, Annappa and Kaadubettu Shiva, along with Jayaram, Rukmini Vasanth, and Gulshan Devaiah. A prequel to the 2022 film Kantara, the story delves deeper into the origins of the tradition and ancestral conflict introduced in the first film. Despite the release of the predecessor, this film is considered to be the first chapter of the franchise.

1951 film by Curt Siodmak

1990 film by Mika Kaurismäki

1957 film by Bert I. Gordon

1953 film by Jacques Tourneur

2019 film directed by Chuck Russell

1934 film by Cecil B. DeMille

1940 film by James Whale

2017 film directed by Agustín Díaz Yanes

1996 film directed by William Mesa

2000 film by Ram Gopal Varma

2005 film directed by Vincent Ward

Bhediya: Jungle Mein Kaand (; ) is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy horror film directed by Amar Kaushik. Produced by Dinesh Vijan from a story and screenplay by Niren Bhatt, it stars Varun Dhawan alongside Kriti Sanon, Abhishek Banerjee, Deepak Dobriyal and Paalin Kabak. The plot of the film is inspired by Arunachal Pradesh folklore about a Yapum, a shape-shifting werewolf, who wants to protect the jungle, even if they have to kill somebody. This marks the second collaboration between Dhawan and Sanon since Dilwale (2015). It is the second installment in the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe.

1991 film by Umberto Lenzi

1979 film by Joe D'Amato

1952 Tamil film directed by William Berke

Varanasi is an upcoming Indian Telugu-language epic action-adventure film directed by S. S. Rajamouli, who co-wrote the film with V. Vijayendra Prasad and S. S. Kanchi. Produced by Sri Durga Arts and Showing Business, the film stars Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra and Prithviraj Sukumaran. The plot follows the adventures of Rudhra (Babu) as the city of Varanasi faces the impending arrival of an asteroid, with the narrative spanning across several timelines.

1987 film by Ken Dixon

2016 film by Antonin Peretjatko

2009 film by Nagesh Kukunoor

1954 film by Roberto Gavaldón