Maggie’s Survival Movies

[OldSalty]

Anyone else like survival movies? Not that zombie apocalyspe shit...its tired AF.

Problem is, most suck.

Saw this one a while back was pretty good.

Jungle (2017) ⭐ 6.7 | Adventure, Biography, Drama

1h 55m | R

m.imdb.com

Anyone have any recomendations?

 

[Kamerad]

Anyone else like survival movies? Not that zombie apocalyspe shit...its tired AF.

Problem is, most suck.

Saw this one a while back was pretty good.

Jungle (2017) ⭐ 6.7 | Adventure, Biography, Drama

1h 55m | R

m.imdb.com

Anyone have any recomendations?

Well stated. I watched this movie recently. Mikkelsen is skilled at holding scenes on his own. Long stretches of no dialogue.

 

[Sean the Nailer]

Again I'll recommend "The 12th Man". The things this guy goes through, and has to do,,,, to survive. And it's a true story.

 

[Namekagon]

Defiance. True story of Jewish resistance group fighting Nazis and trying to survive.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

Against the Sun (WWII Navy Survival Drama)
Rescue Dawn (Vietnam War POW Movie)
Beyond the Reach (Western Desert Thriller)
All Is Lost (Ocean Survival)
The Great Escape (WWII POW Movie)
Bravo Two Zero (Desert Storm SAS Movie. One of the few where Sean Bean lives.)

 

[Zilla]

The Grey
Flight of the Phoenix
The Edge
The Way Back
The Martian

 

[357Max]

 

[Soulezoo]

Anything on Lifetime.

 

[EddieNFL]

Against the Sun (WWII Navy Survival Drama)
Rescue Dawn (Vietnam War POW Movie)
Beyond the Reach (Western Desert Thriller)
All Is Lost (Ocean Survival)
The Great Escape (WWII POW Movie)
Bravo Two Zero (Desert Storm SAS Movie. One of the few where Sean Bean lives.)

You hacked my Amazon account.

 

[Trigger Monkey]

You have good taste.

 

[Cheyenne Bodie]

Into the Wild was decent, I had read the book long ago though. It's the story of Christopher McCandless, a young man who walked away from the world and hitchhiked his way to the Alaskan wilderness. Has a Travels with Charlie type of vibe to it.

 

[RichJ]

Sands of the Kalahari

like Flight of the Phoenix........only darker..... and I think they were actually shooting real ammo in what looked like a Weatherby, recoil looked authentic.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059675/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Rich

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Rescue From Gilligan's Island
Available free on Tubi.

 

[quietmike]

127 hours
Death Hunt
Alone in the Wilderness
Hey, I'm alive.
A cry in the Wild
Snow Walker

 

[acudaowner]

old yeller a story about a faithful dog who got shot while providing a meal to its hungry humans those bastards killed yellow dog . lol

 

[armorpl8chikn]

Death Hunt

One of the greatest movies EVER! Many folks have never even heard of it.
Charles Bronson
Lee Marvin
Carl Weathers
Angie Dickinson

Should be required viewing to receive one's man card.

 

[Matches Malone]

Meet the parents was the best survival movie I've ever seen..

 

[sirhrmechanic]

One of the greatest movies EVER! Many folks have never even heard of it.
Charles Bronson
Lee Marvin
Carl Weathers
Angie Dickinson

Should be required viewing to receive one's man card.

It’s also based on a true story. The book “The Mad Trapper” tells the story. The movie is decent... but pumped up for Bronson. The real guy and the story of the real Manhunt... is like something Tom Clancy or Stephen Hunter came up with.

it was one of my favorite books as a kid!

Read the book for sure!

Cheers, Sirhr

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Papillon.

Sirhr

 

[DaveinCO]

It’s also based on a true story. The book “The Mad Trapper” tells the story. The movie is decent... but pumped up for Bronson. The real guy and the story of the real Manhunt... is like something Tom Clancy or Stephen Hunter came up with.

it was one of my favorite books as a kid!

Read the book for sure!

Cheers, Sirhr

I looked for this book on Amazon and there are a lot of different ones, do you remember who the author was?

 

[sirhrmechanic]

I looked for this book on Amazon and there are a lot of different ones, do you remember who the author was?

Rudy Wiebe... book about 1980.

Cheers,

Sirhr

 

[DaveinCO]

Rudy Wiebe... book about 1980.

Cheers,

Sirhr

Thanks! You are all over it today. Got it ordered for less than 6 bucks.

 

[remmynikon.308]

Deliverance....

 

[OldSalty]

Well stated. I watched this movie recently. Mikkelsen is skilled at holding scenes on his own. Long stretches of no dialogue.

This was actually quite good. Thanks!

 

[buffalowinter]

Remember this one?

and this one

 

[buffybuster]

One of the greatest movies EVER! Many folks have never even heard of it.
Charles Bronson
Lee Marvin
Carl Weathers
Angie Dickinson

Should be required viewing to receive one's man card.

Lee Marvin charter to Carl Weathers character: "Best part of you ran down your mama's leg." CLASSIC!!!

 

[502Chevelle]

^^^ I saw this in the movie theater in about 1981. Awesome on the big screen.

 

[opus56]

Shackleton

 

[W54/XM-388]

Death Hunt

One of the greatest movies EVER! Many folks have never even heard of it.
Charles Bronson
Lee Marvin
Carl Weathers
Angie Dickinson

Should be required viewing to receive one's man card.

I also like how the movie sets it over the Dog the guy rescues. I could see killing a lot of people over them trying to take a dog you rescued back to certain horrible death.

 

[myronman3]

one i saw as a kid was called “the earthling” with william holden i believe. Now it’s been a long time since i saw it, and many movies of that time frame suck when i watch them now. I do remember enjoying it when i was a kid though. “Death Hunt” was a fun watch. Angie Dickenson.....oh mama!

 

[Bender]

Broken Down Palace. Messed up true story.

 

[Screehopper]

Well stated. I watched this movie recently. Mikkelsen is skilled at holding scenes on his own. Long stretches of no dialogue.

I saw that too. When on an international flight I end up watching many movies.

 

[Alphatreedog]

Bravo two zero . The Book was very awesome .

 

[mountainman308]

The Revenant. Read the book first, but the movie is pretty good.

 

[502Chevelle]

^^^ Sorry, but I didn’t like The Revenant at all. That movie is dark as all get out.

 

[quietmike]

^^^ Sorry, but I didn’t like The Revenant at all. That movie is dark as all get out.

You should try The Road, Threads, or Johnny Got His Gun.

 

[W54/XM-388]

^^^ Sorry, but I didn’t like The Revenant at all. That movie is dark as all get out.

I tend to like them the darker the better, since usually reality can be pretty dark.

That could just be from one's childhood reading library containing such classics as "A Dog of Flanders" and "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" or having an old faithful to the book, short movie of The Little Match Girl as a staple of your childhood Christmas movie rotation on that new fangled VHS thing.

Or just you know from reading the actual fairytale books....

Dark and disturbing isn't I guess as popular as it once was.

 

[sirhrmechanic]

Thanks! You are all over it today. Got it ordered for less than 6 bucks.

Did you like it?

 

[DaveinCO]

Did you like it?

Haven't read it yet but it's in the to be read pile.

 

[PinesAndProjectiles]

Again I'll recommend "The 12th Man". The things this guy goes through, and has to do,,,, to survive. And it's a true story.

I just finished it after seeing you recommend it on multiple threads. Great flick and definitely worth the watch.

 

[jonthomps]

The Road is one of the darkest movies I've ever watched. It is what The Gulag Archipelago would be if they made it a movie.

 

[Harleystoo]

"The Decline". A Canadian variant about a survival training gone bad. Currently on Netflix.

 

[Friar]

 

[hankpac]

Apocalypto.

 

[Strangedays]

Defiance. True story of Jewish resistance group fighting Nazis and trying to survive.

Loosely based on a true story

 

[Strangedays]

Book of Eli

 

[brt1963]

A Boy and His Dog

 

[acudaowner]

a inspirational story of a man who made a cabin in Alaska and how he survived and thrived in that environment ... found both stories on you tube

 

[Decoy]

Well perhaps the greatest survival film of all time.....

Deliverance

with Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty

 

[Penguins]

"I shouldn't be alive' its always on tv. People lost in the wild and have to starve or find a way to survive all alone.