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27 films tagged wilderness
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2025 · Comedy
Four childhood friends with disappointing lives buy the rights to a film they loved and go to the Amazon to remake it cheaply themselves. Then a much bigger snake than the one they hired turns up.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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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Little-known
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.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
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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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A woman wakes from a coma with her memory in pieces, and her husband checks her into an experimental trauma clinic deep in the woods. She gets the story of her own marriage back a fragment at a time.
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2025 · Fantasy
On a Black Sea island where the men hunt a shy forest creature, a farm girl finds a wounded baby one in a trap and sets off to take it home. Her father takes his young hunters after her.
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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 · Thriller
In 1790s Scotland, a young Japanese woman is chased across the hills by a gang of brigands, hiding first in a strange mansion and then with a travelling circus. Her father, a former samurai turned puppeteer, trained her in both trades, and most of the film is the chase.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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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 · Thriller
An aged Robin Hood lives alone in the woods, burying the people who come to avenge his victims, until a raid on a friend's farm leaves him badly wounded. He is carried to a priory and taken in by a prioress and an orphaned girl.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
In Oregon in 1933, a man is taken from his daughter and put in a brutal work camp, where the warden offers early release if he will carry gold out through the wilderness. It is a hard trip with a crew he cannot count on.
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2026 · Drama
On the last days of 2000, a group of mountaineers set out for the Balandrau peak and are caught in one of the worst storms the Pyrenees has seen. Based on what actually happened up there.
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2026 · Drama
A farmer sets out to build a life and start a family alone in the remote Norwegian wilderness. An epic taken from Knut Hamsun's 1917 novel, and it runs two and a half hours.
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2026 · Fantasy
Every four years the nymphs of a Ukrainian forest lake come into the human world, and this time a group of biology students is camping nearby. One of them falls for a girl he meets there, and she falls back.
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2026 · Horror
A couple do up a derelict house in the Finnish forest to raise a family in, and the baby that arrives is silent, covered in dark hair and hurts to feed. Everyone but the mother says he is fine.
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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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2015 · Adventure
A fur trapper in the American wilderness of the 1820s is mauled by a bear and left behind by his party, and starts crawling back. Long, cold, nearly wordless, and shot in daylight and snow.
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2017 · Mystery
A wildlife tracker finds a young woman dead in the snow on a Wyoming reservation, and a new FBI agent arrives from Las Vegas with no idea what she is walking into. Cold, quiet and slow, until it is not.
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2010 · Drama
A climber goes out alone into a Utah canyon without telling anyone where he is going, and a boulder pins his arm. Almost all of it is one man in one crevice with a camcorder.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A cook and a Chinese immigrant in 1820s Oregon start selling fried cakes made with milk taken at night from the only cow in the territory. Very slow and very gentle.
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Little-known
2018 · Documentary
Alex Honnold prepares to climb El Capitan with no rope, while the crew filming him work out where to stand. The last twenty minutes are the climb.
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Little-known
2005 · Documentary
Timothy Treadwell spent thirteen summers camping among Alaskan grizzlies and filming himself, and Werner Herzog goes through what he left behind. Herzog disagrees with him throughout.
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2007 · Drama
A graduate gives away his savings, burns his papers and hitchhikes towards Alaska to live in the country on his own. Two hours of the journey, cut against the last camp.
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Little-known
2020 · Documentary
A burnt-out filmmaker starts free-diving every day in a South African kelp forest and follows one octopus for a year. Quiet, and mostly underwater.
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2018 · Science fiction
A teenager and her father land on a toxic forest moon to dig for gems, and meet other prospectors already working it. Small, muddy and handmade.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A logger and railway labourer in the American northwest lives through the first half of the twentieth century, mostly alone in the woods. Narrated, slow and quiet.
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