Top Survive Movies & TV Shows

The Society (2019) TV Show

7.5 625 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.

Style: dark

Plot: small town, murder, survival, trapped, isolated society, teenager

Cast

Fionn Whitehead

Tom Hardy

Mark Rylance

Kenneth Branagh

Dunkirk (2017)

7.5 17.7K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Style: intense

Plot: army, beach, allies, raf (royal air force), military officer, evacuation, pilot, british army, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: france

Cast

Melanie Lynskey

Tawny Cypress

Sophie Nu00e9lisse

Jasmin Savoy Brown

Yellowjackets (2021) TV Show

7.4 985 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Canada, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-MA

Story: This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.

Plot: women's football (soccer), wilderness, stranded, flashback, survival, female protagonist, psychological thriller, lgbt, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Tom Hudson

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Baptiste Goy

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Axel Devillers

Barbara Beretta

The Red Turtle (2016)

7.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Family

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.

Plot: coming of age, survival, loneliness, crab, raft, sea turtle, deserted island, flood, ...

Lone Survivor (2013)

7.4 4.8K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.

Plot: based on novel or book, fight, biography, based on true story, taliban, survival, u.s. navy seal, military, ...

Place: afghanistan

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Josh Hutcherson

Liam Hemsworth

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

7.4 18.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 146 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symbols of hope and resistance while the Capitol prepares a new and deadly challenge that will change the future of the nation forever.

Plot: rebellion, based on novel or book, propaganda, dystopia, uprising, sequel, president, survival, ...

Cast

Eoin Macken

Chiku00e9 Okonkwo

Zyra Gorecki

Rohan Mirchandaney

La Brea (2021) TV Show

7.4 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-14

Story: An epic adventure begins when a massive sinkhole opens in the middle of Los Angeles, pulling hundreds of people and buildings into its depths. Those who fell in find themselves in a mysterious and dangerous primeval land, where they have no choice but to band together to survive. Meanwhile, the rest of the world desperately seeks to understand what happened. In the search for answers, one family torn apart by this disaster will have to unlock the secrets of this inexplicable event to find a way back to each other.

Plot: time travel, alternate dimension, survival

Cast

Skeet Ulrich

Lennie James

Ashley Scott

Kenneth Mitchell

Jericho (2006) TV Show

7.4 553 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-14

Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

Plot: small town, kansas, usa, survival, conspiracy, family drama, post nuclear, no electricity, ...

Cast

Suraj Sharma

Irrfan Khan

Ayush Tandon

Gautam Belur

Life of Pi (2012)

7.4 13.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Plot: sea, faith, loss of loved one, zebra, survival, young boy, zookeeper, orangutan, ...

Time: 1970s

BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense.

Cast

Kaede Hondo

Ruriko Noguchi

Saori Hayami

Satomi Arai

BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. (2020) TV Show

7.4 162 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: Kaede Honjou is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.

Plot: competition, video game, virtual reality, survival, female protagonist, anime, virtual world, based on light novel, ...

Cast

Antonia Campbell-Hughes

Thure Lindhardt

Trine Dyrholm

Amelia Pidgeon

3096 Days (2013)

7.4 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Germany

Duration: 111 min.

Story: A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.

Plot: child abuse, rape, kidnapping, hostage, based on true story, survival, missing child, woman director, ...

Cast

Ryoma Takeuchi

Marie Iitoyo

Love You as the World Ends (2021) TV Show

7.4 46 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 32

Story: 26-year-old car mechanic Hibiki Mamiya lives with his high school sweetheart of the same age, Kurumi Ogasawara. Life together feels so natural and filled with the warmth of each other's love. It was a happiness they expected would last a lifetime.Hibiki is secretly preparing his proposal to Kurumi when misfortune strikes. A tunnel collapses, trapping him for four days. Barely making it out alive, he discovers a world completely changed. There is absolutely no one around, communication signals are dead, the transportation network is a wreck, and the only information available is the emergency evacuation order being repeated on the radio. Everywhere Hibiki goes, he sees bloodstains.Just what happened to this town?!

Plot: shelter, survival, zombie, zombie apocalypse

Time: post-apocalyptic

Cast

Daisuke Ono

7.4 850 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.

Plot: hero, monster, survival, based on manga, game, adult animation, seinen, anime, ...

The Big Game (2020) TV Show

7.4 60 votes

Genre: Action

Country: Russia

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Story: Sixteen contestants of a new survival show are taken to the Siberian taiga to compete for the price of one million euros. The rules are simple: no food, personal belongings, electricity, communications and civilization for hundreds of kilometers around. The one remains wins. Soon TV project turns into a deadly game, where LIFE becomes the main prize... What is it? Is it sick TV script? Who is behind this? And who can survive without losing their humanity?

Plot: survival

Cast

Aliyah Royale

Alexa Mansour

Hal Cumpston

Nicolas Cantu

The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) TV Show

7.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, gore, undead, survival, zombie, spin off, based on graphic novel, horror

Cast

Robert Redford

Will Geer

Delle Bolton

Josh Albee

Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

7.3 697 votes

Genre: Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-on-one combat on the early frontier.

Plot: based on novel or book, loss of loved one, rocky mountains, survival, snow, cabin, mountain man, fur trapper, ...

Time: 19th century

Sonny Boy (2021) TV Show

7.3 89 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: On August 16, midway through a seemingly endless summer vacation, middle school third-year student Nagara, transfer student Nozomi, classmates Mizuho, Asakaze and their entire class are suddenly transported from their tranquil lives to a school adrift in an alternate dimension. They must survive with the super powers that have awakened within them.

Style: psychological

Plot: utopia, alternate dimension, romance, survival, school, another dimension, super power, junior high school, ...

Cast

Jeff Probst

Survivor (2000) TV Show

7.3 437 votes

Genre: Reality

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 51

Episodes: 731

Audience: TV-PG

Story: A reality show contest where sixteen or more castaways split between two or more “Tribes” are taken to a remote isolated location and are forced to live off the land with meager supplies for roughly 39 days. Frequent physical challenges are used to pit the tribes against each other for rewards, such as food or luxuries, or for “Immunity”, forcing the other tribe to attend “Tribal Council”, where they must vote off one of their players.

Plot: competition, fire, island, puzzle, tribe, survival, marooned, voting, ...

Cast

Ha Jung-woo

Bae Doona

Oh Dal-su

Shin Jung-keun

Tunnel (2016)

7.3 654 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.

Plot: survival, disaster, reporter, trapped, rescue team, news reporter, trapped underground

Place: south korea

Godzilla Singular Point (2021) TV Show

7.3 164 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Brought together by a mysterious song, a grad student and an engineer lead the fight against an unimaginable force that may spell doom for the world.

Plot: super computer, physics, mecha, survival, prehistoric creature, giant robot, giant monster, cryptozoology, ...

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