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Plot Summary:
A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, motivational, uplifting, touching, slasher
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Canopy (2013)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely friendship between 2 young men becomes everything, when an Australian soldier takes refuge under the canopied jungles of Singapore, during the violent Japanese invasion in World War II. Jim is lost, injured and defenseless in a hostile, tropical world, hunted by Japanese troops, Seng, a Singapore-Chinese resistance fighter emerges from the jungle and the two young men find themselves thrown together hoping to survive.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Australia, Singapore
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, independent film
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Captain Phillips (2013)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 485000
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, factual, serious, political, fast paced
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A Lonely Place to Die (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as they try to get the girl to safety.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, exciting, tense, realistic, scary, psychological, suspense, surreal, perverse
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Plot Summary:
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction?.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: West Germany, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: bleak, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, philosophical, surreal, art house, visual, epic, realistic
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Treasure of the Amazon (1985)
Plot Summary:
A ragtag group of adventurers, including a former Nazi, is led by a half-maddened grizzled treasure hunter who wants a second chance to find the mythical treasure of the Amazon, after his first mission went terrible wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, independent film, fantasy adventure
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Against the Sun (2014)
Plot Summary:
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic, minimal cast, independent film, suspenseful
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K2 (1991)
Plot Summary:
They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Japan, USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: epic, suspense, exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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Black Water (2007)
Plot Summary:
A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, christmas horror, natural horror, dark, intense, grindhouse
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Rescue Dawn (2006)
Plot Summary:
A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, War
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, tense, harsh, rough, emotional, intense, realistic, epic, sad
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination...An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere, breathtaking, road movie, epic, crying, rough
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6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017)
Plot Summary:
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disturbing, suspense, rough, suspenseful, sentimental, crying, independent film
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Open Water (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, psychological, stylized, rough, natural horror, clever
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Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
Plot Summary:
A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends. They forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb. They are stuck in the water many miles from shore, with baby Sara left alone on board. Sara's mother Amy must contend with her aqua-phobia as well as the group's increasing desperation, as the friends begin to turn on each other. Soon the exhaustion of keeping afloat and the struggle to get back on board begin to take a terrible toll. The happy reunion turns into a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, psychological, rough, tense, suspense, dark, slasher, disturbing, splatter
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Backcountry (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, natural horror, scary, disturbing
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The Emerald Forest (1985)
Plot Summary:
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: retro, disturbing, anthropological, exciting, atmospheric, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Beach (2000)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 250000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, intellectual, visual, philosophical, epic, atmospheric, psychological thriller
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In Enemy Hands (2004)
Plot Summary:
At the height of Hitler's infamous U-boat war, the crew of the U.S.S. Swordfish were heading home after months at sea. They never made it. Now prisoners of war aboard U-boat 429, a small group of American survivors will find their loyalties put to the ultimate test when they're forced to join their German captors to fight for their very lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller, War, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
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In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. But that told only half the story. “Heart of the Sea” reveals the encounter’s harrowing aftermath, as the ship’s surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 147000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scenic, suspense, exciting, realistic, inspirational, captivating, emotional, suspenseful, harsh, factual
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Alive (1993)
Plot Summary:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, suspense, sad, suspenseful, intense, breathtaking, exciting
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Adrift (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Iceland, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, suspenseful, sad, inspirational, twist ending, romantic, clever, touching, intellectual, feel good
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Frozen (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, bad ending, psychological thriller, natural horror, intense
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127 Hours (2010)
Plot Summary:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 395000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, inspirational, breathtaking, psychological, intense, touching, unusual plot structure, depressing, motivational, thought provoking
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Blood Diamond (2006)
Plot Summary:
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 577000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, captivating, harsh, emotional, intense, suspenseful, political, suspense, entertaining
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The Lost City of Z (2016)
Plot Summary:
A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: inspirational, meditative, exciting, period piece, suspense, atmospheric, factual, historical drama, motivational, retro
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Lone Survivor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level al-Qaeda 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.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 303000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, captivating, emotional, exciting, disturbing, realistic, serious, intense, touching
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Everest (2015)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 228000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, emotional, inspirational
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The Grey (2011)
Plot Summary:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 261000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting, emotional, psychological, suspense, rough, scenic
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Sanctum (2011)
Plot Summary:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them deep into the caverns, they must fight raging water, deadly terrain and creeping panic as they search for an unknown escape route to the sea. Master diver Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team--including 17-year-old son Josh (Rhys Wakefield) and financier Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd)--are forced to radically alter plans. With dwindling supplies, the crew must navigate an underwater labyrinth to make it out. Soon, they are confronted with the unavoidable question: Can they survive, or will they be trapped forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, breathtaking, tense, realistic, sad, entertaining, stylized
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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scenic, dramatic, natural horror, atmospheric, anamorphic, serious
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The Revenant (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 854000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, atmospheric, scenic, exciting, visually stunning, suspenseful, harsh, rough, realistic, serious