# The best survival movies

Alone against the mountain, the sea, the cold or space: gripping survival films, based on MovieHunt, Critique Film and Mouton-Résilient.

- 11 votes · 15 items
- Jul 20, 2026 · episode94
- https://even.best/en/l/4059/the-best-survival-movies

## Top 10

1. **The Revenant (2015)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Hugh Glass left for dead after a bear attack.
2. **127 Hours (2010)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A climber trapped by a boulder in a Utah canyon.
3. **The Martian (2015)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A botanist stranded on Mars who grows potatoes.
4. **Alive (1993)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The Uruguayan rugby team lost in the Andes.
5. **Arctic (2018)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Mads Mikkelsen survives alone after a crash in the Arctic.
6. **Into the Wild (2007)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Christopher McCandless's one-way journey to Alaska.
7. **Open Water (2003)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Two divers left behind at sea among sharks.
8. **Gravity (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two astronauts adrift around the Earth.
9. **All Is Lost (2013)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Robert Redford alone at sea, almost without a word.
10. **The Shallows (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A surfer stuck on a rock with a shark circling.
11. **Sanctum (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Divers trapped in an underwater cave system.
12. **Cast Away (2000)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Tom Hanks stranded on an island with a volleyball named Wilson.
13. **The Grey (2011)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Oil workers facing wolves after a plane crash in Alaska.
14. **The Way Back (2010)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Escapees from a gulag walking all the way to India.
15. **Crawl (2019)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A daughter and her father facing alligators during a hurricane.

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