human beings has always been bewitch by our role in and conflict with the natural world . And , that mean movies about dangerous beast , treacherous flock , wild seas and foreboding desert . Let ’s outrank the best ; you may find out the victor decently here .
35 ) Orca
Before there was Blackfish , there was this Jaws clone . It ’s essentially the same patch as the shark motion picture , just set up in the Arctic with an epic final encounter on an crisphead lettuce . Its portrayal of an Orca as a murderously mad sea wolf is patently preposterous , but somehow that , combined with the threat of the frigid arctic ocean just compound to make a merriment , eminently watchable moving picture about men wear out rubber coat getting slop in the face with frigid water supply .
34 ) K2
The prototypical man vs mountain movie has it all : a really grandiloquent mountain , avalanches , crevice , forget me drug , EL unwellness , buddies coming to each other ’s saving , the flash-frozen corpse of a rich weekend warrior and even striking sherpas . What it miss is good storytelling .
33 ) The River Wild
Meryl Streep has never bring a great badass , simultaneously defeating Kevin Bacon , John C. Reilly and Idaho ’s Salmon River . That there ’s a cool dog , magnificently shot scenery and in high spirits - budget moving-picture show making just makes it all the better , but the passably authentic rafting seals the tidy sum .
32 ) The Perfect Storm
George Clooney make believe some defective decisions for catch a few fish , forcing Marky Mark to do some maritime heroic meter . Thankfully , they both die . A big special event budget was largely applied to making giant waves and a gravid storm feel extra scary . set aside your incredulity and you ’ll be treated to one of the few films that ’s oversee to capture the big businessman of the sea .
31 ) The Day After Tomorrow
Has another flick ever cast nature as the bad hombre more literally ? It ’s operose to get past the to a fault sensational and totally unbelievable weather condition phenomena , but if you may it ’s a fun report about down parkas save the day .
30 ) White Fang ( 1991 )
Jack London ’s Graeco-Roman story of man - on - brute erotic love is here successfully understand by Ethan Hawke . They fight grizzlies , they press detent fighters , they fight robbers and eventually live mirthfully ever after , just the two of them , in the Yukon wilderness , aside from multitude who judge their relationship unfairly . It ’s basically my ultimate fantasy inmovie shape .
29 ) The hunting watch
Willem Dafoe , who ’s some sort of cause of death for hire , is despatched to the Tasmanian wilderness to receive and bring back the last Tasmanian Panthera tigris . It ’s actually a good story and the background of this unfamiliar and beautiful environmentis really orderly .
28 ) The Grey
A well distinguish and beautifully inject story about Liam Neeson trying to come through in an arctic forest , in winter , follow a plane clang . In typical Hollywood fashion , the wolves are way bounteous and way more fast-growing than they are in realness , which all make sense once you get to the ridiculously disappointing , to a fault noetic plot twist at the closing . essentially , stop watch 60 seconds before the closing and you ’ll be treated to the outdoors natural process flick you ’re hope for .
27 ) All Is Lost
Robert Redford runs into a jettisoned shipping container while on a solo sailing jaunt , give his boat a slow leakage . This leads to a series of unfortunate result , the last of which is very misjudged signaling flak that sends him plummeting into the sea depth . It ’s one of those laborious story of doggedness that ’s actually a much more realistic portrayal of survival than all the overblown activeness flicks out there , but it ’s also one of those movies in which you basically just stare at Redford while he does n’t utter a single word for two hours .
26 ) The Call Of The Wild
Another Jack London dog tale , this clip asterisk Clark Gable . Basically , best dog ever rescue his hapless human over , and over , and over , and over . Adults probably should n’t be this into picture about animate being .
25 ) Lord Of The Flies ( 1963 )
Was Boy Scouts like this for you too ? A planing machine load of schoolboys being evacuated from Fortress Britain during WWII is shot down and crash kingdom on a distant island . No grownup subsist and the child learn through trial and mistake how to thrive in the wild . They also form their own societal order , which is … less successful . One of the mostcritically acclaimedfilm adaptations of a book ever and enthusiastically back by the source , William Golding . Here Piggy , Piggy , Piggy …
24 ) Wild
A fair sex who does n’t know her shoe size set out to pack the Pacific Crest Trail to get over a drug dependency . It ’s fun to see Hollywood so intimately examine a pastime that so many of us raise up doing and still relish and it ’s a beautiful look at the Sierra Nevada too . unmarried handedly responsible for thru hiking ’s current popularity .
23 ) Kon - Tiki ( 2012 )
The rightful story of Thor Heyerdahl ’s unbelievable expedition to voyage the Pacific in a balsa wood slew made using 1,500 - twelvemonth - old technology , thereby turn up that Polynesia was settled by people from South America . One of the high budget Norse film ever , it ’s interesting and reasoning in a room only films from that country can be .
22 ) The route
I do n’t think anything else can wholly capture the stark , but unbelievably worked up nature of Cormac McCarthy ’s most famous Holy Scripture , but this high - budget film order forth a healthy effort . A gentleman and his son wander a post - apocalyptic barren , struggling to endure as nature dies and human life dwindles . The hoagy - text is herculean argument for self - trust while retaining compassionate humanity . Would someone please accommodate Blood Meridian next ?
21 ) The Flight Of The Phoenix ( 1965 )
An allied cargo plane crashes in the Sahara desert during WWII and the pull round passenger and crowd have to project out how to travel one C of mile across the devoid desert to safety . mechanically skillful ingeniousness ultimately overcomes grampus nature , making this movie an engineer ’s wet dream .
20 ) 127 Hours
James Franco gets really into self - mutilation while draw close up to a boulder . In all seriousness , it ’s the true write up of total badass Aron Ralston , who snapped his radius and ulna , then carved through the flesh of his forearm to polish off the whole shebang and escape a tricky scenario . Think that put him off ? He mount rocks and mountains to this day .
19 ) tramp Away
Sort of a modern - day Robinson Crusoe tale , just with Tom Hanks as the supporter and a volleyball game as his man Friday . The prototypical desert island survival tale is full of the usual find water supply , find food , make shelter figure , but is a fun watch no matter . One of those where you get to tell apart your lady friend how you ’d do other than and better the whole meter . Or mayhap that ’s just Lara ’s problem .
18 ) Schackleton
One of thosegreat television mini - seriesthe British put out . Kenneth Branagh plays Ernest Schakleton , who in 1914 enter on a journeying to cross Antarctica for the first time . The expedition was chevvy by tragedy from the commencement and is one of the more compelling tale of human endurance ( also the name of his boat ) ever told .
17 ) The Bear
Not so much man vs wild asbear cub vs gentleman’s gentleman . I loved this one as a kid , it ’s awing how compelling a flick Jean - Jacques Annaud was able to make by editing together clips of a baby bear ’s capers . You will cry .
16 ) Deliverance
Known more for its hardihood ( for the time ) portrayal of a adult male raping another man , Deliverance is in reality a fib of metropolis slickers going into the state of nature and being overwhelmed , then struggling to pull through . One of Burt Reynolds ’ fine roles .
15 ) Antarctica
The Nipponese name translate more accurately to “ South Pole Story , ” and this movie is just that . In tells the floor of Japan ’s disastrous try in 1958 to send its own scientific expedition across Antarctica . They travel by frankfurter sleigh , but are forced to call in a helicopter for rescue when the conditions turns bad and have to leave the frank behind . about a year later the humans returned and found , unbelievably , two of the dogs still active . The movie conduct an educated guess at what it took for them to hold out and what their plight must have been like .
14 ) Letter Never send
A good ol’ fashionedsurvival taleset in the boreal woodland of Siberia . The Russian language film is one of the good meditations on the menacing power of nature ever made .
12 ) Jaws
You ’re still a small scared to swim in the sea because of a movie that premier path back in 1975 . The shark is obviously massively exaggerated both in size , menace and intention , but it ’s a reasonably realistic story otherwise . As much about human personality when face with adversity as it is a really prominent froth rubber monster .
11 ) Into The Wild
A city kid with issues decided he was going to be one with nature , had some merriment , then made a bunch of really bad determination and finally died just a few miles from civilisation in Alaska . A monitory narration , for sure , but also one that observe the temptingness of the wild and the benefits of jeopardy taking .
10 ) Dersu Uzala
Akira Kurosawa’sfirst foreign - language filmtells the story of a native trapper living in Russia ’s far eastern wild ; one of the most remote environments on earth . The flick was totally shot on location in Siberia The news report is told by a Russian explorer who befriended Dersu and lived for a time in the wilderness with him . One of those motion-picture show that ’s all about the ills of advanced civilization compare to unsubdivided life story outdoors .
9 ) Grizzly Man
Werner Herzog severalise the tale of a sick person who thought gray bear were his friend . Herzog delves deep into Timothy Treadwell ’s person , as only the German managing director can do , find someone who think well , but is ultimately unable to take on realness . One of the rationality I like this one so much is because it demonstrates , through the real death of a literal somebody , why an overly anthropomorphic and cutesy adaptation of nature is ultimately very flawed . Nature is a military unit , not your cuddle buddy .
- Aguirre : Wrath Of God
Herzogagain . The storey ’s about conquistador on a quest through the rain timberland , but Herzog being the softheaded person he is , decided to take the movie in elongate order , as the production team travel through the hobo camp themselves . The real ordeal they faced , or were thrust to last by Herzog , make up the film . And everyone give way fucking harebrained .
7 ) Rescue Dawn
Another Herzog ! I do n’t be intimate how they all cease up grouped together like this . Here , Christian Bale escapes a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp , fleeing through the jungle while being pursue by his captor . It ’s hard to conceive it ’s a true write up .
6 ) Jeremiah Johnson
Robert Redford learns the harsh animation of a trapper in the Rocky Mountains during the midriff of the 1800s . He bulge off green , but after getting embroiled in conflict with the Crow , eventually emerges as a mythic warrior . It ’s very ‘ LXX in its footstep and political rightness , but is the prototype of the mickle man theme as it ’s ever been realized by Hollywood .
5 ) The Edge
Anthony Hopkins vs Alec Baldwin vs Elle MacPherson vs a grizzly bear in the Alaskan wilderness . I ’m pretty indisputable that would have been the pitch for the flick originally , is all you need to cognise about it and sums up the plot in totality .
4 ) Alive
In 1972 , the Uraguayan rugby team was in a plane crash high in the Andes . They ended up eating the flesh of their numb mate in rules of order to survive the frigid condition , which they did for two months . That ’s the big marketing point of the movie , but there ’s much more to it as the protagonists learn to make do with their limited supply and eventually send a team to take the air 12 daytime to happen help .
3 ) Touching The Void
“ Themost successful documentary in British cinema account , ” ( which is saying something ) say the story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates ’ disastrous attempt to rise a 6,000 m blossom in the Andes . Joe breaks his leg on the path down and Simon is lowering him on a rope when a violent storm hits and the pair abide a fall . Simon is hale to skip the rope , presumptively killing Joe . But , he subsist the tumble and cower out finds Simon at base camp . The film commingle interviews with reenactments to really plunge you in the story . Your heart will be in your throat the intact time .
2 ) The means Back
During WWII a Polish soldier is entrance by the Russians and send out to a gulag in Siberia . It ’s more dread than you ’d require . So , he and a smattering of fellow prisoner run away and take the air 4,000 mile to freedom in India . Yeah . Did we mention this was a honest storey ? The proficient thing about this picture is how it key small-scale problems like bugs and terminology barrier as being the primary and insidious challenges people face on such a journey . It ’s very real , but also compellingly told . And they really emphasize how life-sustaining a dependable tongue is , which I obviously liked .
1 ) Alone In The Wilderness
So the whole affair about all this overblown “ Survival ” hokum is that it ’s not only utterly unrealistic , it ’s misleading . human beings is totally equal to of mastering nature , it just contain tools , get it on how and provision . Which is what former Navy man Richard Proenneke was armed with when , in 1968 , he prepare about build a archaic log cabin on a distant lake in Alaska , where he ’d go on to live off and on for 30 years . As he was building it and creating lifespan for himself in the wild , he carried along a tv camera and document the whole thing . need to see what it ’s like to experience outdoors and want to see how to do something similar ? Proenneke ’s little flick is as unquestionable a How To manual of arms as you ’ll ever notice . Part 2,Part 3 .
Part of the fun of all this is going to be you guy wire tell me what I missed and what I got wrong . So , tell us which movies go on this listing , which I do n’t , and why .
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