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169 films tagged survival, showing 50
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2025 · Science fiction
Dinosaurs now survive only near the equator, and a drug company hires an ex-operative and a paleontologist to take samples from the three biggest species. They head for the island where the failed experiments were left.
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2025 · Horror
A college student keeps dreaming of a 1969 tower collapse her grandmother saw coming and stopped, and learns Death has been working through the survivors and their children ever since. The sixth in the series.
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2018 · Science fiction
A biologist joins an all-woman expedition into a stretch of coastline sealed off behind a shimmering wall, where the plants and animals have gone strange. It moves slowly and gets stranger the further in they walk.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A woman drives into northern Minnesota in a snowstorm to scatter her husband's ashes, stops at a cabin for directions, and sees blood on the snow. From there it is her, the couple who live there, and the girl in their basement.
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2025 · Horror
A deer mutated by chemical waste hunts through the woods, and a mother and her small son are stuck at a family house in its way. Short, quick and gory.
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2025 · Horror
Riya wakes on a research station on a distant planet with no memory of how she got there and her crew dead around her. A man arrives saying he came for her, and she has to decide whether to believe him.
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2006 · Action
A young man from a forest village is taken captive in a raid and marched to a Mayan city, and then he runs. Most of the film is a chase through the jungle, very violent, in Mayan with subtitles.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
During the occupation of Nanjing, a postman saves his life by claiming he can develop film, and ends up printing the army's photographs in a studio where a family is hiding. Grim, and nearly all of it in one building.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A bomb on a Tokyo-bound bullet train will go off if the train drops below 100 km/h, and the crew have to keep it moving while the government refuses the ransom. It plays out on the train and in the control room.
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2025 · Thriller
An Indigenous game warden and a poacher just taken into custody race to reach millions of dollars from a plane that went down in a frozen lake. It is essentially those two, out on the ice.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
An oceanographer whose father was killed by a shark goes diving for sunken treasure off Thailand, and pirates take the boat. They send the divers back into the water to fetch what they came for.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A rodeo rider comes to in the snow of a Nevada meadow with his horse gone and his foot freezing, and starts working his way towards shelter. It cuts between that walk and the life that got him there.
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2025 · Horror
A woman hiking in the Tennessee mountains is taken by a large figure in a porcelain doll mask and wakes up in a crib in a nursery. Most of it is her in that house, made to play along with the game.
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2025 · War
In 1942 a Japanese ship carrying British prisoners of war is torpedoed off the Chinese coast, and fishermen on a nearby occupied island start pulling survivors out of the sea. Taken from the real Lisbon Maru sinking, with the Japanese garrison right there.
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2022 · Horror
A woman arrives late at night at the house she has rented in a rundown part of Detroit and finds a stranger already staying there. The first stretch is two polite people working out what to do, and it does not stay polite.
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2025 · War
Refugees from the fall of Nanjing settle in a small mountain town, and when Japanese soldiers stumble into it the townspeople have to defend it themselves. Labourers and shopkeepers, not soldiers.
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2025 · Thriller
A widow goes back to the reef in the Florida Keys where she used to dive with her husband, on the day two cartel divers are down there hunting a lost load of cocaine. Then the sharks arrive.
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2000 · Action
A class of Japanese ninth-graders is taken to an island, handed weapons, and told that in three days only one of them may be left. It moves fast and does not soften what the kids do to each other.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A woman returns from her mother's funeral to find her Caracas flat seized by an armed militia, in a city of protests, shortages and officials on the take. Tense, and it stays close to her.
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2025 · Thriller
In an America run by the military, fifty teenage boys set off on an annual walk they have to keep at three miles an hour, with three warnings before the soldiers shoot. The last one going wins.
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2025 · Science fiction
In a near-future America run by a television network, a blacklisted worker joins the show where runners are hunted for thirty days and have to film themselves daily. It moves at a sprint from there.
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2025 · Horror
Two snipers are posted for a year on opposite sides of a gorge, told to guard it and not to contact each other. They start writing on signs across the gap, and something lives down there.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Horror
Five friends retracing the steps of a missing sister shelter from the rain in a visitor centre, where something kills them all and the night starts over. Each loop brings a different threat, and they have to last until morning.
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1968 · Science fiction
A strange black slab turns up at three points in human history, and a ship heads for Jupiter to find out why. Very little is explained, and long stretches carry no dialogue at all.
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2025 · Science fiction
A widowed AI researcher wakes to water rising through her thirty-floor apartment block and tries to get her six-year-old to the roof. The UN knew this was coming, and it moves fast from there.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A school bus driver in Paradise, California turns back into a wildfire to collect twenty-two children and their teacher, with the roads closing behind him. Most of it is the drive itself.
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2025 · Action
In 1946 a Finnish ex-commando pulls down his old family house in Soviet Karelia, loads it on a truck and drives west, with the officer who killed his family sent after him. One long road chase, and very violent.
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2018 · Horror
Something arrives that kills anyone who looks at it, so a woman takes two small children down a river blindfolded. It cuts between that trip and the crowded house where it all started.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
Maya wakes in a small-town hospital after being stabbed by three masked strangers, and they have come to finish it. A straight chase through a town whose sheriff would rather this went away.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
Three saturation divers are working on a gas line 300 feet under the North Sea when the ship above them loses its position, dragging the diving bell away and stranding one of them on the bottom. It is a true story, and most of it is the rescue.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
A college student comes home to Hawaii with friends, to a cliffside house where her family keeps the chimpanzee they raised. The chimp has rabies, and the rest is one long attack.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A broke ex-thief climbs into an unlocked luxury SUV to strip it and the doors shut on him: the owner has rebuilt the car as a trap and is watching him through its cameras. Almost all of it happens inside the car.
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Little-known
2025 · Fantasy
An office worker finishes the web novel only he has been reading, and that evening its apocalypse starts happening around him, scenario by scenario. He is the one person who knows what comes next.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
A recon squad goes into a Vietnamese jungle valley in 1968 to find a Green Beret platoon that vanished, and the thing that killed them turns out to be dinosaurs. Soldiers, guns and monsters, played straight.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
Clawed creatures come up through a rift in the ground and turn most of the men they wound into something worse, so it is the women who take up swords and fight them. A girl and her father hide out on a remote island, and most of it is attacks and close-quarters fighting.
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Little-known
2025 · Science fiction
A special forces team is ambushed in the desert and wakes up in stasis pods aboard an alien ship, with whatever weapons they can scavenge. From there it is corridors, creatures and gunfire.
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Little-known
2025 · War
A British pilot shot down over the Philippines in 1942 is thrown into a Japanese prison camp, where the officers make prisoners fight each other for their own entertainment. Most of it is the camp and the fights.
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2026 · Science fiction
A middle school teacher wakes from a coma on a spacecraft light-years from home, with no memory of how he got there and both crewmates dead. Flashbacks fill in the mission and what is eating the sun.
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2026 · Horror
A furniture store owner in San Jose falls through a glowing slit in his basement wall into an endless run of yellow rooms and corridors, where a researcher went missing in 1990. His therapist goes looking too.
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2026 · Horror
Straight on from 28 Years Later, a boy is taken in by a gang of Satan-worshipping killers, while a doctor building a temple out of the bones of the dead forms a bond with one of the infected. Grim and bloody, and it gives the cult as much room as the monsters.
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2026 · Horror
Passed over for promotion, a corporate strategist ends up washed onto a Thai island with the boss who denied it, and he is the badly injured one. Two people, one beach, and the power the other way round.
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2026 · Science fiction
A staff sergeant who lost his brother in Afghanistan puts himself through Ranger selection, and the final training exercise turns into a fight with an otherworldly killing machine. It is straight-ahead action, fast and loud.
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2026 · Thriller
Months after her partner died on a climb, a woman drives alone into an Australian national park to scatter his ashes, and the local who helps her turns out to be hunting her. Mostly one long chase outdoors.
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2026 · Horror
Straight after surviving one rich family's deadly game, Grace and her estranged sister are taken to a house where four more families have until dawn to kill her. It is a chase through a big building, as funny as it is nasty.
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2026 · Horror
After every star and inhabited planet vanishes, a convict is made to pilot a sealed submarine through an ocean of blood on a dead moon, with a crude camera for eyes. One man in a metal box, mostly.
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2026 · Thriller
Five years after the comet, the Garrity family are living in a bunker in Greenland when earthquakes bring it down and they have to run for Europe. It is one leg after another, and the group keeps shrinking.
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2026 · Science fiction
In 1982 a suburban street finds itself surrounded by prehistoric forest, with dinosaurs coming out of it and, inside one house, a marriage already coming apart. It stays on that one street, boarded up.
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2026 · Science fiction
Years after a flu killed almost everybody, a former mechanic lives by an airstrip outside Denver with his dog and a survivalist neighbour who shoots strangers on sight. A radio signal from the west keeps coming and going.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2026 · Horror
An ex-convict takes a maid's job at an exclusive New York high-rise where people have been disappearing for a hundred years, because her younger sister works there. The residents come for her on the first night, and it does not let up.
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2026 · Horror
A scientist releases a mutating bioweapon at a company presentation, and the building goes into lockdown with everyone still inside. Fast, loud and almost entirely in the one building.
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