Six sliders. No stars.
Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
61 films tagged survival, showing 50
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2015 · Action
A driver hauling a stolen war rig runs for the desert with five women escaping a warlord, and picks up a drifter on the way. Nearly the whole film is one chase, out across a stretch of desert and back again.
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2017 · Horror
A young Black photographer goes with his white girlfriend to meet her parents at their country house for the weekend, where everyone is a little too welcoming. The discomfort arrives well before anything else does.
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2007 · Thriller
A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.
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1979 · Horror
The crew of a commercial towing ship is woken early to investigate a signal from a nearby moon, and brings something back aboard. Long stretches of corridor and waiting.
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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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1995 · Drama
An oxygen tank blows two days into a moon landing, and the mission becomes getting three men home in a crippled ship. Half the film is engineers at desks.
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2014 · Science fiction
With the crops failing on Earth, a former pilot leaves his daughter behind and flies through a wormhole looking for somewhere else to live. Long stretches of orbital mechanics, and a clock that runs at different speeds for different people.
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2016 · Thriller
A woman wakes from a car crash in a locked underground bunker, where the man who put her there says the air outside will kill her. Nearly all of it is three people in a few small rooms.
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2013 · Drama
A free Black musician living in New York in 1841 is drugged, kidnapped and sold to a plantation in Louisiana. It moves slowly and stays with the worst of it rather than cutting away.
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2019 · War
Two young British soldiers are sent on foot across enemy ground to call off an attack that would walk sixteen hundred men into a trap. Shot to look like one unbroken take, so it runs at their pace.
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2002 · Horror
A bike courier wakes alone in a London hospital a month after an infection tore through Britain, and walks out into a city with nobody in it. The first stretch is very quiet, and then it stops being quiet.
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2025 · Horror
Almost thirty years after a virus emptied Britain, a boy leaves the island community he was born into and crosses to the mainland with his father. Much of it is the two of them walking.
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2018 · Horror
A family lives on a farm in total silence, because anything that hears them comes for them. Most of it is signed or whispered, with long stretches where nobody makes a sound at all.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Horror
A mother and her children leave the farm and go looking for other survivors, in a world where anything that hears you comes for you. Long stretches with no talking, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
1988 · Action
A New York cop visiting his wife's office Christmas party in a Los Angeles tower is the only one out of the room when armed men take it over. He spends the night barefoot in the building's guts.
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1993 · Adventure
A billionaire invites two palaeontologists to inspect his island park before it opens, where the attractions are live dinosaurs. The power goes out during the tour.
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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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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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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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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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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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2006 · Science fiction
Nobody has been born anywhere on earth for eighteen years, and Britain has become a locked-down state rounding up refugees. A tired civil servant is asked to get one woman to the coast.
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2008 · Science fiction
A going-away party in Manhattan is cut short by something very large coming ashore, and the whole night is filmed on one guest's camcorder. Short, shaky and more or less in real time.
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2025 · Science fiction
A young woman drives out with her boyfriend to a weekend at a rich friend's lake house, where the group is smaller and stranger than she expected. A handful of people in one house, and it turns nasty early.
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2016 · Horror
Three young burglars pick a house on an emptied-out Detroit street belonging to a blind veteran who is supposed to keep cash at home. Almost all of it is one dark house and very little talking.
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2017 · War
Hundreds of thousands of British soldiers are trapped on a French beach with the sea behind them, followed here through a soldier, a small boat and a fighter pilot. Almost no dialogue, and the tension barely lets up.
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2024 · Animation
A cat wakes to a rising flood and ends up sharing a boat with a dog, a lemur, a bird and a capybara. There is no dialogue at all, just animals, water and sound.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2024 · Action
A girl is stolen from a green, hidden place and grows up among the warlords of the wasteland, working her way back toward home. Told in chapters over many years, with long stretches of vehicles chasing each other.
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2013 · Science fiction
A medical engineer on her first shuttle mission is left drifting when debris tears the craft apart, with limited air and no way to call home. Ninety minutes of one problem after another, mostly in silence.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Horror
A broke punk band takes a late gig at a bar in the Oregon woods run by skinheads, and after the set they see something backstage they were not meant to see. Almost all of it is one building, one night, and trying to get out.
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2024 · Horror
Two young missionaries knock on the door of a polite man who says he is interested in their church, and he keeps them talking. Almost all of it is three people in one house, arguing about belief.
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2016 · Comedy
A city kid placed with a foster family in the New Zealand bush ends up out in the wild with his grumpy uncle while the whole country hunts for them. Jokes every minute, and a lot of scenery.
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2016 · Horror
A deaf writer living alone in the woods sees a masked man at her window, and he works out that she cannot hear him. Almost no dialogue, one house, eighty minutes.
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2017 · Horror
A family lives sealed inside a house in the woods with strict rules about the doors, and then a second family asks to come in. Very quiet, very dark, and almost entirely in that house.
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2014 · Horror
After a date, a nineteen-year-old is told that something will now walk towards her, slowly and without stopping, wherever she goes. Wide empty suburbs, a loud synth score, a lot of watching the background.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2018 · Drama
A veteran and his teenage daughter live hidden in a park outside Portland until they are found and moved into a house. Quiet and slow, mostly the two of them working out what the other one needs.
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2012 · Adventure
A boy from a zoo-owning family in India ends up adrift in a lifeboat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger, telling the story years later to a writer. Long stretches of just the boat, the boy and the animal.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2019 · Horror
A bride marries into a very rich family and learns that tradition calls for a game on the wedding night, with everyone in the house playing. One house, one night, fast and bloody and funny.
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2007 · Horror
A late-night TV reporter and her cameraman follow a fire crew into a Barcelona apartment block, and the building is sealed off with them inside. Shot entirely as camera footage, in one place, and it is short.
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2015 · Drama
A woman and her five-year-old son live in a single locked room, which is the only world he has ever known. Told from the boy's side of it, in a small space with two people.
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2004 · Comedy
A man stuck in a dead-end job decides that the day the dead start walking is the day he sorts his life out, starting with a trip to the pub. Fast, very jokey, and gorier than you might expect.
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2025 · Horror
Twin brothers come home to the Mississippi Delta in 1932 and open a juke joint in an old mill, and opening night brings more than dancers. Half of it is the day of getting ready, and the blues playing matters as much as the plot.
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2013 · Science fiction
The last people alive circle a frozen Earth on a train that never stops, and the ones at the back decide to fight their way to the front. Each carriage is its own set piece and it only goes one way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Drama
A plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team comes down high in the Andes in 1972, and the survivors have to work out how to last the winter. Cold, slow and hard to watch, with the crash early on.
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2016 · Horror
A man with many personalities takes three teenage girls and locks them in a room underground, and they have to work out which of him they are talking to. Mostly a few rooms, one actor playing most of it.
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2007 · Science fiction
The sun is dying, and a crew of eight is sent out with a bomb the size of Manhattan to restart it, on the second ship to try after the first never came back. It all happens inside the ship, and it gets tense as they get closer.
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2012 · Horror
Five college friends drive out to a cabin in the woods for the weekend, and somebody somewhere is watching them do it. It knows every horror film you have seen and plays with all of them.
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2005 · Horror
Six women meet up for a caving trip in the Appalachians and drop into a system that is not on any map. Half of it is the dark and the squeeze, and then it turns into something else.
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2012 · Science fiction
In a country where every district must send two teenagers to a televised fight to the death, a girl volunteers in her younger sister's place. The first half is preparation and television, the second is the arena.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2020 · Horror
A woman escapes a controlling partner and starts over at a friend's house, then begins to feel that someone else is in the room with her. Long held shots of empty corners, tense most of the way.
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