100 URBAN/HOOD/HIP-HOP MOVIES. A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
I don’t watch as many movies as I used to, but I still enjoy a good survival movie from time to time. They’re usually not very realistic, but I don’t care about that.
I’m not trying to learn survival skills from movies, anyway. I enjoy them because they’re inspirational and they make me think.You can’t discount the value of inspiration. Preparedness can be boring sometimes, but if you’ve just seen a movie about people surviving a disaster against all odds, suddenly boring tasks like pulling weeds in your or inventorying your supplies become interesting again. And even if the movie isn’t inspirational, it could make you think of a problem or situation you never considered before, which will help you round out your preps.Want to save this post for later? These are, in my opinion, the 100 best survival movies (that I’ve seen). A few things I want to mention first: I stayed away from the really over-the-top movies like 2012 or The Day After Tomorrow.
I also avoided movies about aliens (like Independence Day) and Zombies (like Dawn Of The Dead). Although I like those movies, including them all would have made this list twice as long.For the same reason, I also didn’t include any documentaries (although many of these movies are based on true stories).The movies are in alphabetical order, and for each movie I included a link to the DVD on Amazon.com.
From there you can select Blu-Ray, Amazon Video, or any other format you prefer (if they’re available). Now on to the list:1.
– Based on a true story, this is about a hiker who is trapped in a canyon for five days and must find a way out in order to survive.2. – A boy and his telepathic dog survive in the wilderness after WWIV has turned the country into a desert-like wasteland.3. – The story of a young man’s survival in the Canadian wilderness after his plane crashes.4. – When an English lord is captured by a Sioux Indian tribe, he is given to the chief’s aging mother as a servant. Gradually, he embraces their way of life.5. – After New York City is rocked by a massive earthquake, two men face uncertainty as their own family members lie buried in the toppled buildings.6. – During World War II, three men end up adrift in a lifeboat with no food or water surrounded by shark-infested water.7.
– A team of tough rugby players resort to drastic methods in order to survive after their plane crashes in the snow-covered Andes.8. – A team of scientists races against time to destroy a deadly alien virus that threatens to wipe out life on Earth.9. – In the twilight of the mysterious Mayan culture, young Jaguar Paw is captured and taken to the great Mayan city where he faces a harrowing end.10. – True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.11. – A young couple goes camping in the Canadian wilderness and up lost in the territory of a dangerous black bear.12.
– A group of children are stranded on an island where their only chance of is through the death of all their classmates.13. – After his plane gets shot down in Bosnia, Burnett is alone and trying to outrun a pursuing army.14. – This film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare.15. – Frightening look at America after a.
Eli is on a mission to deliver an important book.16. Truck driver gets buried alive by Iraqis. All he has is a, his cell phone, and a limited supply of oxygen.17.
– Amazing story of survival on a desert island after a man’s plane crashes. One of Tom Hanks’ most impressive performances. – For years, no one has been able to have children and the world faces the potential end of the human race. But when I man meets a pregnant girl, he has to get her to safety.19. – A post-nuclear movie in which nearly all life has been wiped off the face of the planet, leaving only a few survivors.20. – A lone soldier makes friends with and eventually joins a tribe of Native Americans.21. – Great depiction of how an unexpected volcano eruption could devastate a small town.22.
– Charles Bronson stars in a movie that details the determination of two men in a manhunt across the Canadian tundra.23. – A teenager discovers a comet that turns out to be headed toward Earth. People struggle to reach safety before it’s too late.24.
– True story of the Bielski brothers, simple farmers who turned a group of war refugees into powerful freedom fighters.25. – The story of four men who test themselves against the elements and set out on a treacherous ride on the rapids of an Appalachian river.26. – To save humanity from an epidemic, an elite fighting unit must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades.27. – Eight sled dogs and their guide are stranded in Antarctica during one of the most brutal winters on record.
– A young British boy’s noble spirit allows him to survive the hardships of a Japanese prison camp in China during World War II.29. – WWII epic about a Russian and a German soldier.30.
– In the near future, crime is everywhere and New York City is a maximum security prison.31. – This movie follows the stories of two Everest expeditions that struggle against a severe snow storm.32. – During WWII, an American soldier escapes his Japanese captors and flees into the jungles of Borneo.33. – Green Beret vet John Rambo wanders into the wrong small town and gets the living hell kicked out of him by the local law enforcement.
He strikes back the only way he knows how, leading to a visceral flight and fight through the local mountains.34. – The story of two young men who cross continents and great oceans, climb pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their regiment at the fateful battle of Gallipoli.35. – An astronaut is stranded on a space station after a disaster. This movie teaches a powerful lesson: Never ever give up.36. – A disabled submarine sinks down to the side of an underwater mountain and the U.S.
Navy attempts a rescue.37. – An adventure about two wartime enemies trapped alone on a desert island.38. – The story of a lone human survivor in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by genetically-mutated humans.
– A small town is destroyed by a series of tornadoes while storm chasers attempt to get the best footage possible.40. – The true story of Christopher McCandless who gave up his money and possessions and went in search of adventure.41. – Based on a true-life story, a young man and his team of sled dogs embark on a grueling and treacherous cross-country marathon, in hopes of winning a $10,000 prize.42. – One man’s effort to shed the burden of civilization and learn to survive in the of the Rocky Mountains.43. – In 1947, an explorer travels thousands of miles across the Pacific ocean on a balsawood raft.44. – Set during World War II, after their ship is sunk in the Atlantic by Germans, eight people are stranded in a lifeboat.45.
– While lost at sea on a lifeboat, a young man forms a connection with a dangerous Bengal tiger.46. – A group of children from a military academy are stranded on an island. Eventually they turn savage and start to kill each other.47. – The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.48. – In a post-apocalyptic future, a warlord has hundreds of slaves, some of whom attempt to escape.49. – After being given up for dead, Zachary Bass fights man and nature during his 600-mile Northwest Territory trek.
– When a man finds out about an imminent nuclear holocaust, he and his friend attempt to escape the city before it’s too late.51. – Tyler, a young and inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto the desolate Arctic terrain.
Once settled, he struggles to endure the forces of nature.52. – The edge-of-your-seat story of a competition to climb the most dangerous rock in the Alps. Based on a true story.53. – The war is over.
Only the inhabitants of Australia and the men of the US submarine Sawfish have escaped the nuclear destruction and radiation.54. – experts are called in to identify and stop a deadly virus which was carried into the country by an illegally smuggled monkey. – A post-nuke survival story of a father who fights to his family from looters, rapists and murderers.56. – A group of teenagers fight back after Russians and Cubans invade America.57. – Real-life story of a US fighter pilot Dengler, shot down and captured during the Vietnam War.58. – During a series of earthquakes, a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot attempts to rescue his ex-wife and daughter.59. – In 1914, a crew of 28 men must survive in Antarctica after their ship is destroyed.60.
– When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. – A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing on a deserted island.62. – When nine National Guardsmen enter the Louisiana swamp for routine training, they are unaware that just a handful of their ranks will make it out alive.63. – It was supposed to be the ultimate wilderness challenge: Four weeks at the North Rockies Survival Quest School. But when the group crosses trails with an unstable and sadistic paramilitary squad, a shocking accident turns their nature trek into a desperate struggle for life and death.64. – A homeless man, recruited as a guide by a band of wealthy hunters, winds up the hunted instead.65. – After being shipwrecked on a deserted island, the Robinson family overcome the obstacles of nature and transform their new home into a community.66.
– A farmer begins having visions of a terrifying disaster. Despite the protests of his friends and family, he starts preparing.67. – A crack team of U.S. Special Ops commandos struggle to rescue innocent missionaries amidst the bloody horror of Nigerian ethnic cleansing.68.
– An unexpected nuclear strike has occurred and no one knows who did it or why it happened.69. – The story of a sea captain who, in 1787, steered The Bounty on a 27,000-mile voyage into danger, chaos and madness.70. – Brought to a desolate island, a death row prisoner finds himself trapped in a fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world.71. – The inhabitants of a small town in Kansas learn along with the rest of America that they have fewer than 30 minutes before 300 Soviet warheads begin to appear overhead. – The story of a dying man with a fascinating past who teaches a small boy not only how to survive in the wild but how to survive in life.73. – Two men up against a giant Kodiak bear, and their own inner demons, when lost together in the Alaskan wilderness.75. – Robert Aldrich’s tense, 1965 drama about a plane crash in the Sahara is a unique psychological study of men in desperate circumstances.76.
– Six oil workers are stranded in Alaska after their plane crashes, and a pack of wolves stalk them every step of the way.77. – Based on the tsunami that devastated Thailand in 2004, this movie follows a family that fights for survival amid the chaos.78. – Schanberg is a journalist who covered the war in Cambodia, and Dith is his translator and aide, who is exiled to Cambodian labor camps where millions of others have died.79. – After a plague wipes out the human, Dr. Robert Morgan looks for a cure at night while hunting vampires during the day.80.
– After an astronaut is stranded on Mars, he has to find a way to survive with only a few basic supplies.81. – When a man finds out he only has an hour before nuclear missiles destroy Los Angeles, he searches for the one girl with whom he wants to spend his last minutes.82. – The story of a modern man who takes his family into the jungle.
– Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp lead a rugged life as fur trappers in the Rocky Mountains amongst hostile Indian tribes and must decide whether to help a chief’s runaway squaw.84. – In the late nineteenth century, colonialists are captured and hideously tortured. Only one is released, without clothes or weapons, to be hunted for sport, and he embarks on a harrowing journey through savanna and jungle and back to a primitive state.85. – Welcome to the future. Biological war has decimated life on Earth.
Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies.86. – Follows ten survivors as they struggle to escape from an ocean liner capsized by a tidal wave.87. – A drifter leads the resistance against a military tyrant after the collapse of civilization.88. – A government research scientist wakes up to discover that he may be the last man on earth. – In the 1820’s, a frontiersman is mauled by a bear and left for dead by his fellow hunters. He struggles to survive against all odds.90. – A father and his son search for food and in a nuclear winter.91.
– In a post-nuclear war world, Gibson plays Max, a lone adventurer who drives the roads of outback Australia in an endless search for gasoline.92. – The story of an Alaskan bush pilot and young Eskimo girl who survived a plane crash in the Alaskan outback.93. – When the power goes out in the big city and society starts to break down, husband and wife Matthew and Annie find out that not even suburbia is safe. – Based on the true story of seven prisoners who escape from a Siberian gulag and travel thousands of miles on foot to freedom.95. – Seven college students must fight for their survival and their freedom when a foreign army invades their country.96. – Two British mountaineers attempt to climb the previously unconquered mountain Siula Grande. A mixture of overconfidence in their own abilities and underestimation of the climb’s difficulties bring them to grief.97.
– The story of a young woman who leaves her life in the city and treks across 2,000 miles of Australian desert.98. – Based on the true story of three men who survive on a raft for 47 days before being captured by the Japanese navy and sent to a POW camp.99. – Two teenage siblings are lost in the Australian outback where they meet an Aborigine, who teaches them how to survive in the wilderness.100. – Set in the future when Earth is completely covered in water and the human race is struggling to survive.Like this post? Don’t Forget to. I got news for everybody if real aliens were hostile and came to our planet we would be doomed and would never even get a chance to face our enemy.They would just sit in orbit and drop one artificial plague after another in us. We would have no chance.
With speed of light technology to travel to get here they don’t even need weapons then can just grab asteroids or small pebbles and sand on the way here and release them at the speed of light and they would hit our world so hard it would be just like there was a nuclear war with nuclear winter minus radioactive fallout.No the only chance we have is if the majority of humanity GO VEGAN and hope they judge us by our own actions against our fellow inhabitants of Earth.
Urban Fantasy Brings the Best of Fantasy, Noir, and Everything Else You Could Want!I’m quickly becoming a big fan of the urban fantasy genre, which means it’s my duty as a geek to obsess over it. While everyone who knows me will have to listen to me drone on and on for the next few weeks, you only have to put up with me for 10 movies. That being said, I should probably let you know what constitutes urban fantasy in my book. For one thing, it has a lot of elements of classic fantasy including magic, mythological creatures, ghosts, and, occasionally, the fate of the world hanging in the balance. The thing that makes it different is that these are hardly sword and sorcery films, meaning that the fantasy elements in it have adapted to a more modern environment (one that is hopefully dark and gritty too). Think of it like fantasy and noir had a baby, and you pretty much have an urban fantasy.
If that caught your attention, then you’re in luck, because I’m counting down the 10 best urban fantasy movies to date. The only rule is that they have to be live action movies that received theatrical releases. Lord of Illusions. Another day another supernaturally empowered client.Clive Barker is known for his exceptionally dark, dirty, and dystopian aesthetic. He received a ton of admiration for films like Hellraiser and Dark Breed. I loved his urban fantasy flick Lord of Illusions, which follows a down and out who winds up getting involved in a very different kind of underworld. While magicians exist in the world of Lord of Illusion actual magic wielders are also very much alive and real.
Like most noir movies, the detective soon finds that his case is much bigger than he thought at first and winds up getting involved trying to stop a cult attempting to revive their long-dead leader, who will inevitably bring about the end of the world. Lord of Illusion asks the real questions, like can a.38 Special save you from a guy who shoots fireballs out of his hands? Who knew swords made so many sparks.I might have gotten ahead of myself when I said that the urban fantasy movies on this list weren’t going to be “sword and sorcery.” One of the best movies of the 80’s tells the tale of a rare race of immortals who are destined to do battle until only one remains. Since they’re kinda far and few between, this battle manages to make it all the way into the 1980’s.
This is where the last stand begins between an ancient Scotsman and an evil German known only as The Kurgan. The two are forced to do battle until one can manage to chop the head off the other (it’s the only way for them to truly die). The winner will receive the ultimate power, which is never really explained.
While it might be a classic movie, that still doesn’t stop me from questioning why one of the characters was a Spaniard, with a Welsh accent ( Sean Connery), also uses a katana 8. You better not pout, you better not cry. You better not shout, I’m telling you whyThe next urban fantasy movie to make this list is actually a comic book adaptation. Don’t worry though, because this is.
The Crow is a film marred by tragedy due to the untimely death of Brandon Lee on the set. Regardless of that though, it’s still a cult classic that saw a slew of sequels (all of which pretty much sucked) and even a short-lived sci-fi series. The story revolves around a musician who is killed by a bunch of gangsters. Unfortunately for the killers, it turns out the guy they killed wasn’t quite ready for the afterlife and he comes back as an immortal who is hellbent on getting vengeance on them. It’s one hell of a and from a time when Alex Proyas wasn’t making problematic movies like Gods of Egypt.
Definitely worth watching if you like dark and gritty films. Criminals beware!
This short order cook is coming for you!Anton Yelchin left a pretty big hole in my heart after his tragic death in 2016, but that doesn’t mean that I still don’t look back on all his movies fondly. One of his craziest films was Odd Thomas in which he plays a short order cook who “sees dead people.” The thing is that he actually does something about it when ghosts cry out for justice. So, this small town guy ends up becoming the avenger for those that suffered unnatural deaths. Thomas finds himself getting in over his head when he discovers that a mass murder is going to occur in his small town. With the help of his psychic abilities and the lingering dead to help him stop a terrible tragedy, it’s Yelchin at his finest as an “everyman” faced with extraordinary circumstances. Careful who you go making deals with.Angel Heart is a weird horror-noir film from the late 80’s starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro.
It’s a tale filled with twists and turns, and the ending will shake you to the core. As far as the urban fantasy movies on this list, Angel Heart is by far away the darkest of them all. It’s not for the faint of heart. It’s hard to watch, but Angel Heart is a truly great urban fantasy tale, that only reveals the fantasy elements at the very end. Turns out that when you’re a detective you should really pay attention to who hires you for a job.
Detective Harry Angel learns this the hard way (like every other big-screen detective) when it’s revealed that his employer is hardly a good guy. If you like horror movies that will really mess with your mind, then Angel Heart is one that you’ll definitely want to check out.