10 survival movies that’ll stop your heartbeat!!
Do you enjoy watching survival movies? here is a list of 10 movies that will make your heartbeat stop at times!
10. The Shallows
2016 released Drama/Thriller movie was directed by Jaume Collet Serra. Hollywood star Blake Lively was the lead in the film playing Nancy Adams. The film is about a surfer who gets stranded 200 yards from shore and has to survive from the attack of a great white shark.
9. Jungle
The movie was released in 2017 and is based on true events. The movie is an Australian biographical survival drama film. The story revolved around the Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg’s 1981 journey into the Amazon rainforest. Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has portrayed Yossi in the movie.
8. Escape Plan
2013 released Escape Plan tells so much in its name. The action thriller film has been starred by Sylvester Stallone as Ray Breslin and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Emil Rottmayer. The movies go as Ray who is a structural engineer is incarcerated in the world’s most secret and secure prison and is supported in his break out by fellow inmate Emil.
7. The Mountain Between Us
The film was released in 2017 and is based on the novel of the same name published in 2011. Idris Elba and Kate Winslet are in the main roles as a surgeon and a journalist respectively. The movies follow as both the leads surviving a private plane crash, stranded in High Uintas Wilderness with injuries and inconsiderate weather situations.
6. Everest
It is a biographical adventure film based on real events and came out in 2015. The movie incorporates multiple stars. Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal can be seen in the movie. It has been anchored from the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. The main focus of the film is on the survival attempts of two expedition groups.
5. 127 Hours
Based on true incidents, it is a biographical survival drama film. The movie was released in 2010 and is a masterpiece of director-producer Danny Boyle. James Franco, Kate Mara, and Amber Tamblyn are starring the film. In the movie, Aron Ralston (played by James Franco) gets trapped by a boulder in an isolated slot canyon in Blue John Canyon, southeastern Utah and has to find a way in order to survive.
4. The Martian
The Drama/Fantasy science fiction movie was released in 2015. The film is based on the novel of the same name starring Matt Damon. Matt is seen in the role of a botanist named Mark Watney. The movie is showing lone struggle an astronaut to stay alive on Mars after being left behind and attempts to rescue him and bring him home to Earth.
3. I Am Legend
Released in 2007, the movie is one of the most admired films because of the story plot. The science-fiction horror film is starred by Will Smith as a US Army virologist Robert Neville. The film depicts the scenario of New York City after a virus, which was originally created to cure cancer, has wiped out most of mankind. And other than nocturnal mutants, only human left in the city was Neville with his dog. Robert is immune to the virus and he makes efforts to create a cure while defending himself against the virus affected mutants.
2. Gravity
It is one of the best pieces when talking about survival films. The movie was released in 2013. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were seen in the lead roles playing American astronauts. The storyline revolves around the two being stranded in space after the mid-orbit destruction of their Space Shuttle, and their efforts to return to Earth.
1. Cast Away
Topped with survival and drama, the movie was released in 2000. Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy are in the lead playing Chuck Noland, Kelly Frears, and Stan respectively. The film is about a FedEx employee trapped and alone on a bare island after surviving a plane crash in the South Pacific and his attempts to stay alive on the island using leftovers of his plane’s cargo.
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