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Plot Summary:
When Blackie Blacavov and his sister Barbara inherit 50,000 acres of Alaskan wilderness, he tries to live a more harmonious, natural existence on the land. But Barbara, without informing Blackie, gives mining exploration rights to King, a businessman with a passion for hunting wolves. On the sly, King also uses the area as a toxic waste dump. So Blackie and Barbara join together with the wolves to defeat their common enemy and save the idyllic refuge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, Germany, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Beyond Fear (1993)
Plot Summary:
Martial Arts Champion Mimi Lesseos is back - and the wilderness just got wilder! Tipper Taylor, martial arts expert turned wilderness tour guide, is stalked deep in the wilderness by two desperate men who will stop at nothing to retrieve a videotape innocently shot by one of Tipper's group - a tape which shows the men committing a heinous murder! As each attempt to recover the tape is foiled by the intrepid Tipper, the murderers' desperation mounts, leading to a final, terrifying and action-packed confrontation which takes them all Beyond Fear.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hounds of Zaroff (2016)
Plot Summary:
Rachel wakes up to discover she is trapped on an island and must survive while being hunted by the madman Zaroff, a Russian game hunter.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark, psychotronic
Similar in 88%
Abducted (1986)
Plot Summary:
A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Brothers in Arms (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers on a hike in the woods, one of them with a hidden motive, get in trouble with hillbillies, when they save a girl from rape.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
Similar in 87%
Fire Festival (1985)
Plot Summary:
Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Open Road (2013)
Plot Summary:
Angie, a young Brazilian artist, abandons her old life and embarks on a journey around the country. Running from her past, and searching for her foundation in life, Angie finds not only herself but love in its many forms.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, contemplative
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Druid Peak (2014)
Plot Summary:
A troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sad
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Wounded (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a grizzly-bear poacher named Hanaghan kills her fiance and fellow Fish & Wildlife Deptartment officer, Julie Clayton sets out to track the killer down and discover why the FBI is keeping its case secret from her. She is joined in her quest by Rollins, a police detective fresh out of alcohol-dependency rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: cliffhanger, independent film, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Velaikkaran (2017)
Plot Summary:
An enterprising youngster in a slum wants his people to lead a life of dignity, but has to take on an ambitious capitalist, who only wants to dominate his field.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, motivational
Similar in 81%
The Manhunt (1984)
Plot Summary:
A young man buys two horses at an Arizona race track but fails to get a receipt. Later, when riding across the land of a rancher named Robeson, he's accused of stealing the two horses. Unable to prove ownership, the young man is then sentenced to prison where he's forced to do chain-gang type work. He escapes, is recaptured, and escapes again as he tries to locate the man who sold him the horses.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco
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A Breed Apart (1984)
Plot Summary:
A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, psychological, retro, independent film, rough, realistic
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Hold the Dark (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, psychological horror, exciting, brutal, psychological thriller, dark, mysterious, stylized, art house
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Runaway Train (1985)
Plot Summary:
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, road movie, suspense, intense, rough, realistic, bad ending, exciting, existential, cult classic
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Sugar Mountain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Ladder 49 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sad, emotional, tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, inspirational, realistic
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The Hunted (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. Former Special Operations instructor, L.T. Bonham is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum, his former student, who has 'gone rogue' after suffering severe battle stress from his time in Kosovo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, brutal, slasher, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak
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Wildlike (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, atmospheric, captivating
Similar in 76%
Southern Comfort (1981)
Plot Summary:
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, southern gothic, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic, gothic, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, offbeat
Similar in 79%
Killing Season (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two veterans of the Bosnian War, one American, one Serbian, who clash in the remote Smoky Mountain wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Bulgaria
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: harsh, rough, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, meditative, action thriller, twisted, stylized, tense
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White Wolves III - Cry of the White Wolf (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers are put to the test when the plane taking them to a wilderness boot camp for juvenile offenders crashes into the vast sierra. Their pilot, Quentin, injured and ununable to make the dangerous journey, teaches them the ways of his ancient people and to have faith in the spirit of the white wolf as well as themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Into the Grizzly Maze (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two estranged brothers reunite at their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, natural horror, suspense, tense, cliffhanger, slasher
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Arctic Blue (1993)
Plot Summary:
An environmentalist gets involved in transporting an accused killer (Ben) from an isolated Alaskan town to the authorities. Ben is determined to escape, and his fellow trappers are ready to help.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
Similar in 77%
Bullitt County (2018)
Plot Summary:
An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, dark
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The Wave (2015)
Plot Summary:
Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets caught in the middle of it and a race against time begins.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, suspense, intense, road movie, psychological thriller, feel good, depressing, transgressive, light
Similar in 89%
The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scenic, romantic, suspenseful, visually stunning, tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting, serious, entertaining
Similar in 83%
Surviving with Wolves (2007)
Plot Summary:
In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide from the Germans in a small house in Ardennes, Belgium. Misha is very connected to her mother that advises her that if one day a person comes to her saying "love of my life", she would follow him or her without any question. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Misha is delivered to a German family and the abusive matriarch gives a bad treatment to the girl. However, she finds support in the family of Ernest and his deranged wife Marthe that supplies groceries to foster family. Misha loves Ernest's dogs and the old man gives a compass to her and tells that her parents have been sent to East to forced labor. When the old couple is denounced for sheltering the girl and arrested by the Germans, Misha flees through the woods heading east. Along her journey seeking out her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: touching, uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Plot Summary:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult environment he studies the wolves, and realizes that the old beliefs about wolves and their supposed threat are almost totally false. Furthermore, he learns that humans represent a far greater threat to the land, and also to the wolves, a species which plays an important role in the ecosystem of the north.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, sensitive, anthropological, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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The Edge (1997)
Plot Summary:
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle might not be the elements, or even the Kodiak bear stalking them -- it could be Robert, whom Charles suspects is having an affair with his wife and would not mind seeing him dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate, exciting, entertaining, intense, atmospheric, clever
Similar in 84%
Alpha (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, social, suspenseful, realistic, action adventure, epic, 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