Top Survive Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Morgan Freeman

Life on Our Planet (2023) TV Show

8.0 206 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Life's extraordinary journey to conquer, adapt and survive on Earth across billions of years comes alive in this groundbreaking nature docuseries.

Plot: dynasty, survival, prehistoric creature, miniseries, dinosaur, nature, nature documentary, planet earth, ...

Cast

George MacKay

Dean-Charles Chapman

Mark Strong

Andrew Scott

1917 (2019)

8.0 13.6K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

Style: intense

Plot: race against time, british army, survival, soldier, period drama, real time, trenches, trench warfare, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s

Cast

Park Seo-jun

Han So-hee

Gyeongseong Creature (2023) TV Show

7.9 320 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 17

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Gyeongseong, 1945. In Seoul's grim era under colonial rule, an entrepreneur and a sleuth fight for survival and face a monster born out of human greed.

Style: philosophical, satirical

Plot: monster, survival, hospital, japanese occupation of korea, dramatic, audacious, cliché

Time: 1940s

Cast

Lauren Cohan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Aimee Garcia

Jimmi Simpson

The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023) TV Show

7.9 743 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, survival, zombie, spin off, based on graphic novel, manhattan, new york city

Cast

Eliza Taylor

Bob Morley

Lindsey Morgan

Marie Avgeropoulos

The 100 (2014) TV Show

7.9 8.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 100

Audience: TV-14

Story: 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.

Plot: based on novel or book, self-discovery, space colony, space travel, post-apocalyptic future, space, survival, apocalypse, ...

Cast

Lee Jung-jae

Yim Si-wan

Wi Ha-jun

Jo Yu-ri

Squid Game (2021) TV Show

7.9 17.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes.

Plot: secret organization, challenge, survival, fictional game show, cruelty, game, prize, death game, ...

Cast

Yoko Hikasa

Ai Kayano

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Kazuyuki Okitsu

No Game No Life: Zero (2017)

7.8 445 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward the tomorrow his heart believes in. One day, in the ruins of an Elf city, he meets Schwi, a female exiled "Ex Machina" android who asks him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.

Plot: magic, anti hero, post-apocalyptic future, prequel, end of the world, survival, tragedy, disaster, ...

Cast

Miyu Tomita

Mariya Ise

Shiori Izawa

Toshiyuki Morikawa

Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul (2020)

7.8 309 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Corpses, and encounter the mysterious Bondrewd, a legendary White Whistle whose shadow looms over Nanachi's troubled past. Bondrewd is ingratiatingly hospitable, but the brave adventurers know things are not always as they seem in the enigmatic Abyss.

Plot: child abuse, immortality, underground, gore, exploration, sequel, survival, human sacrifice, ...

Cast

Elle Fanning

Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi

Ravi Narayan

Michael Homick

Predator: Badlands (2025)

7.8 3.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.

Plot: sequel, survival, outcast, alien planet, spin off, casual, team up, frustrated, ...

Cast

Tom Hanks

Caleb Landry Jones

Oscar Avila

Lora Martinez-Cunningham

Finch (2021)

7.8 4.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, India

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

Style: provocative, witty, whimsical

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, survival, robot, taunting, questioning, journey, speculative, humanity, ...

So I'm a Spider, So What? (2021) TV Show

7.8 207 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: I, the protagonist, was just an ordinary high school girl, but suddenly I was reincarnated as a spider monster in a fantasy world. Not only that, but I awakened in a dungeon filled with vicious monsters. Armed with only my human knowledge and my overwhelming positivity, I'm forced to use spiderwebs and traps to defeat far stronger monsters just to stay alive... So begins the labyrinth survival story of a girl with incredible mental strength living as one of the lowest-ranked beasts!

Plot: spider, survival, creature, demon, fantasy world, summons, anime, other world, ...

Surviving Escobar - Alias JJ (2017) TV Show

7.8 1.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Colombia, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 69

Audience: TV-MA

Story: As the Medellín Cartel crumbles, Pablo Escobar's No. 1 hit man struggles to stay alive and gain respect in the prison hierarchy.

Plot: prison, based on novel or book, drug cartel, drug trafficker, survive, pablo escobar

The Martian (2015)

7.7 21.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.

Style: philosophical

Plot: spacecraft, planet mars, based on novel or book, nasa, isolation, botanist, survival, space, ...

Time: 2030s

Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale

Cast

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Haruka Tomatsu

Kanae Itou

Ayana Taketatsu

Sword Art Online the Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017)

7.7 765 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In 2026, a new machine called the Augma is developed to compete against the NerveGear and its successor, the Amusphere. A next-gen wearable device, the Augma doesn't have a full-dive function like its predecessors. Instead, it uses Augmented Reality to get players into the game. It is safe, user-friendly and lets users play while they are conscious, making it an instant hit on the market. The most popular game on the system is “Ordinal Scale” an ARMMORPG developed exclusively for the Augma. Asuna and the gang have already been playing OS for a while, by the time Kirito decides to join them. They’re about to find out that Ordinal Scale isn’t all fun and games…

Plot: video game, virtual reality, swordplay, sword fight, survival, anime, mmorpg, vrmmo

Cast

Taylor Kitsch

Betty Gilpin

Dane DeHaan

Saura Lightfoot-Leon

American Primeval (2025) TV Show

7.7 482 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A mother and son fleeing from their past form a found family while confronting a harsh landscape of freedom and cruelty in the American West.

Plot: bounty hunter, wyoming, usa, utah, polygamy, survival, miniseries, massacre, ...

Time: 19th century, 1850s

Place: america

Cast

Michael Beck

James Remar

David Patrick Kelly

Dorsey Wright

The Warriors (1979)

7.7 2.4K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Style: intense

Plot: new york city, street gang, gangster, disc jockey, gang war, coney island, survival, pursuit, ...

Cast

Tom Hardy

Charlize Theron

Nicholas Hoult

Hugh Keays-Byrne

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

7.6 24.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Style: intense

Plot: rescue, dystopia, sandstorm, post-apocalyptic future, sequel, survival, on the run, peak oil, ...

Place: australia

The Man from Earth (2007)

7.6 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.

Plot: immortality, birthday, legend, philosophy, professor, psychology, bible, time, ...

Treme (2010) TV Show

7.6 158 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Tremé takes its name from a neighborhood of New Orleans and portrays life in the aftermath of the 2005 hurricane. Beginning three months after Hurricane Katrina, the residents of New Orleans, including musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and other New Orleanians struggle to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture.

Plot: jazz, new orleans, louisiana, rebuilding, survival, hurricane katrina, cultural drama

Cast

Sam Corlett

Frida Gustavsson

Leo Suter

Laura Berlin

Vikings: Valhalla (2022) TV Show

7.6 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Ireland, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In this sequel to "Vikings," a hundred years have passed and a new generation of legendary heroes arises to forge its own destiny — and make history.

Style: dark, violent

Plot: fight, sword, brotherhood, vikings (norsemen), survival, historical, european history, war, ...

Time: medieval, 11th century, middle ages

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