Thriller movies about survival

List of the best survival thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: The Hole, Return to Paradise, The Ninth Gate, Juice, The Usual Suspects, Last button 2, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Panic Room, Bang Bang You're Dead, Fear.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:42

Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
CountryFrance, Spain, USA
Duration02:13

An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:35

Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:46

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

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Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy
CountryRussia

After the events that took place in that ill-fated hut, 2 years pass. Brian, Nerd, and Olivia have moved into a new apartment and are living a quiet life. However, the Nerd is plagued by nightmares at night and decides to conduct his own independent investigation. After much thought, he finds a clue that reveals what secret plans are behind the YouTube corporation.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

      Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:27

      Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:32

      A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:40

      A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:48

      While investigating the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, a detective spots a piece of graffiti that depicts the crime scene perfectly—but the graffiti was drawn a month before the crime took place, and that the artist knows more than he is telling.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryDenmark, Finland, USA, Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway
      Duration02:58

      A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth their effort, so Grace works hard under the employ of various townspeople to win their favor. Tensions flare, however, and Grace's status as a helpless outsider provokes vicious contempt and abuse from the citizens of Dogville.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:38

      The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

      The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Japan, United Kingdom
      Duration02:01

        Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.

        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryRussia, Estonia, France

        Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:37

        An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a night porter at the hotel. The pair discover the hotel is a front for all sorts of clandestine activities. Their only wish is to avoid possible deportation. Okwe becomes more entangled in the goings on when he is called to fix a toilet in one of the rooms. He discovers the plumbing has been clogged by a human heart.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryItaly
        Duration02:11

        Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop and a high-profile 'fixer' enter high-stakes negotiations.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:38

        Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:53

        Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:10

        Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. A psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel of the same name by Winston Graham.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, military
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:06

        Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryItaly
        Duration01:37

        The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration01:51

        On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the detective’s hit-and-run, but instead of asking for money, he wants to know about the body’s whereabouts, leading to a do-or-die showdown of the witness and detective.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:30

        A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:55

        Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:00

        Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.

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