French survival movies

List of the best French survival movies selected by visitors to our site: Alone, The Descent, Meander, Oxygen, The Divide, Just a Breath Away, Dheepan, The Prey, Gangsterdam, Samba.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, adventure, family
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:51

Five kids wake up in a world where everybody has disappeared.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:39

    After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
    CountryFrance

    After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryFrance, USA

    A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
    Duration02:02

    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, adventure
    CountryFrance, Canada
    Duration01:13

    A strange and deadly mist envelops Paris. A group of survivors finds refuge on the upper floors of apartment blocks and on the roofs of the capital. With no information, electricity, food or water, a couple attempts to survive this disaster and save their daughter... But as the hours go by, one thing becomes quite clear: there is no help on the way, and if they want to make it through this catastrophe alive, they will have to try their luck in the mist…

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:48

    Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to survive there, even when the ghosts of war begin to haunt them again.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:45

    A robber escapes from prison with a single objective in mind: to track down his former cellmate, a serial killer who intends to pin his crimes on him. A cop is sent after the robber who, despite his best efforts, soon becomes Public Enemy Number One. As the protagonists are driven to their limits, it becomes increasingly unclear who is the hunter and who is the prey.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryFrance, Netherlands, Belgium
    Duration02:07

    Ruben, Durex and Nora are three students in their last year of college. Ruben has already failed his exams once due to his lack of self-confidence. He's been as useless with Nora, to whom he dares not confess his feelings. And his childhood friend Durex, the most embarrassing guy in the world, is no help at all. When Ruben discovers that Nora is a dealer and that she's going to Amsterdam to bring back a new kind of drug, Ruben bucks up the courage to accompany her. This trip to Amsterdam is an ideal situation in which to at last seduce Nora. But his bad luck: Durex comes along for the ride. While the trio discover Europe's craziest capital, their lives really get complicated when they realize that the drug they've just picked up belongs to one of Amsterdam's most dangerous gangsters. Very quickly, Ruben, Durex and Nora will understand that to get their old lives back, they must stop being nerds in order to become true heroes.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:59

    Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:15

    Dead Shadows tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the comet of Haley could be seen from earth. Tonight, a new comet is going to appear and everyone in Chris’s building are getting ready for a big apocalypse party to celebrate the event. As the night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent and it doesn’t take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium
    Duration01:25

    Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller, crime
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:32

    Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their psychotic liaison to prison. Six years later, the men's nightmare begins again when the pyschopath is granted his freedom. Now, not having talked for years, the old friends are united again in order to survive.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, comedy
    CountryFrance
    Duration02:20

    For the Olympique de Paris soccer team, this away match scheduled against Caplongue was merely supposed to be one last chore before the end of the professional season. Yet no one could ever have imagined that an unknown rabies-like infection was going to spread like wildfire, turning this small town’s inhabitants into ultra-violent and highly contagious creatures.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, military, history
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration02:54

    Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountrySpain, USA, Hungary, France
    Duration01:53

    And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa, Germany, USA, France
    Duration01:28

    Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryFrance, Canada
    Duration02:34

    A young cobra and his scorpion best friend go on a journey across the Sahara desert to save a new-found love.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreadventure, family, documentary
    CountryFrance, Brazil
    Duration01:22

    Amazonia is an adventure in 3D inside the largest rainforest on the planet: the Amazon rainforest. Chestnut is a Capuchin monkey domesticated who survives a plane crash and finds himself alone in the dense forest. The monkey needs to learn to live in freedom, in a new world where animals of all kinds: Jaguars, alligators, snakes, tapirs, hawks. Gradually, Brown learns to live in the forest, making new friends, especially the monkey Gaia, their fellow species.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryFrance

    A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama
    CountryFrance

    Set around a wife and husband on vacation in Morocco with the wife plotting to murder her husband with help from her lover. The plan goes terribly wrong when her lover and husband get into a terrible car accident on a remote desert road. They escape the multi-car pileup at a desert intersection and encounter the group of survivors, including a wanted smuggler, an undercover cop, a kidnapper, a baby and an unconscious Australian. They embark on a journey of deceit and revelation that culminates in a Tangiers souk.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, Canada, USA
    Duration02:02

    Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, drama, military
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:44

      Afghanistan. War correspondent Elsa Casanova is taken hostage by the Taliban. Faced with her imminent execution, a Special Forces unit is dispatched to free her. In some of the world’s most breathtaking yet hostile landscapes, a relentless pursuit begins between her kidnappers who have no intention of letting their prey escape them and a group of soldiers who risk their lives in pursuit of their single aim – to bring her home alive. This strong, independent woman and these men of duty are thrown together and forced to confront situations of great danger that inextricably bind them – emotionally, violently and intimately.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryFrance, Spain

      The story about a group of youths who can't face the thought of growing up because anyone who does becomes a rampaging zombie.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryRussia, France
      Duration02:37

      The final part of Mikhalkov's trilogy about Divisional Commander Kotov finds him returning home during World War II having been betrayed, narrowly escaped execution for treason and nearly reduced to dust in a prison camp. Only to discover that everything has changed and he will have to fight again for his name, for his honor, and for his love.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
      CountryFrance

      1976: Two young journalists leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies for a TV channel. Yet, once they get there, the scientific team they were supposed to meet has gone missing. Escorted by a first-aider, a British biologist and an American forensic investigator, Melissa and David will go looking for the missing team deep into the mountains.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:57

      An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, France, India
      Duration02:07

      The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryFrance, Ukraine, Belgium
      Duration01:07

      A legendary but retired hit man lives in peace and isolation in the barren North American wilderness. When he rescues a woman from a snowmobiling accident, he soon discovers that she's harboring a secret that forces him to return to his lethal ways.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration01:37

      Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, action, thriller
      CountryUSA, France

      All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredocumentary
      CountryFrance, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain, Italy
      Duration01:38

      The cameras of Jacques Perrin fly with migratory birds: geese, storks, cranes. The film begins with spring in North America and the migration to the Arctic; the flight is a community event for each species. Once in the Arctic, it's family time: courtship, nests, eggs, fledglings, and first flight. Chicks must soon fly south. Bad weather, hunters, and pollution take their toll. Then, the cameras go

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Netherlands, France, USA
      Duration02:27

      The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, comedy, crime
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:45

      A man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers. Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war. His father was killed by a landmine in Morocco and one fateful night a stray bullet from a nearby shootout embeds itself in his skull, leaving him on the verge of instantaneous death. Losing his job and his home, Bazil wanders the streets until he meets Slammer, a pardoned convict who introduces him to a band of eccentric junkyard dealers including Calculator, a math expert and statistician, Buster, a record-holder in human cannonball feats, Tiny Pete, an artistic craftsman of automatons, and Elastic Girl, a sassy contortionist. When chance reveals to Bazil the two weapons manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, he constructs a complex scheme for revenge that his newfound family is all too happy to help set in motion.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration02:05

      Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend, which is disrupted when his friends suddenly arrive. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, drama, music
      CountryFrance

      Gauthier, a young journalist, learns from his mother that he is the illegitimate son of Guy Jamet, a popular French singer whose heyday stretched unevenly from the 1960’s to the nineties. Guy is currently promoting a new album of old material and heads on tour. Armed with a camera, Gauthier decides to follow Guy, recording his daily routine and his concerts to create a documentary portrait.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration01:50

      Syd March is an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genredrama
      CountryHungary, France, Luxembourg, Germany, USA
      Duration02:26

      A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, biography
      CountrySpain, Germany, France
      Duration01:53

      Entre lobos (Among Wolves) tells the remarkable story of a poor country boy named Marcos, who at the age of 7 is handed over to his father's employer, a rich landowner, who in turn delivers him to a life of labor with a hermetic goatherd in an isolated valley. The old man, who lives in a cave, is unused to human company and at first seems not very interested in having a live-in apprentice. The boy, who was abused by his parents, is frightened and equally aloof initially. Despite this, the shepherd begins teaching Marcos how to herd the goats, as well as how to care for himself and how to survive in the wilderness by trapping and fishing.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefamily, cartoon
      CountryFrance

      It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
      Duration02:00

      Based on a true story, the film is set in the summer of 1984 – when Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem - the union seems embarrassed to receive their support. However the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village of Onllwyn, in the Dulais Valley in Wales, and later set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama
      CountrySpain, France, Bulgaria

      Ellesmere Island, northern Canada, 1908. Josephine, a brave but naive woman, embarks on a dangerous journey through inhospitable regions in search of her husband, the explorer Robert Peary, who tries to find a route to the North Pole.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure
      CountryFinland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, France, Norway, Denmark, United Kingdom
      Duration01:33

        In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreadventure, family, documentary
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:35

        Set in the wilderness of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the land of legends and the kingdom of wild brown bears, we follow the daily adventures of five wild brown bears.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryCanada, France

        Two young women terrorized by a group of small town psychos seek revenge on their tormentors.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryFrance, Lithuania, Belgium

        Struggling to survive with her father after the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, 13-year-old Vesper must use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the future.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:07

        After waking up in an apartment where only the night before a party was raging, Sam is forced to come to grips with reality: He is now alone and the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris. Petrified with fear, Sam is going to have to barricade himself inside the building and organize his survival. But is he really the sole survivor?

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama, military, history
        CountryFrance, Germany, Hungary
        Duration01:55

        Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of life in an occupied Paris, on the Butte Montmartre, where they've taken shelter. At least that's what they think, until that morning on July 16th 1942, when their fragile happiness is toppled over.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
        CountrySpain, France
        Duration02:38

        A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
        CountrySpain, France

        When Carlos (Eduardo Antuña) invites his father (Boris Ruiz) and his brother (David Pareja) to spend a pleasant New Year in a strange house isolated in the forest with him and his wife Ana (Itziar Castro). But what promised to be a quiet family dinner, suddenly is interrupted by the presence of a peculiar vagabond, dwarf and very bad man, who claims to be God (Emilio Gavira).




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