Train to Busan (2016)
Yeon Sang-ho's 2016 Korean zombie film. The whole movie happens on one train.
Tag: Survival Against the Odds (Page 5)
1980sGrave of the Fireflies (1988)
Takahata's 1988 Studio Ghibli WWII drama. Two siblings starve in firebombed Japan.
2010s13 Assassins (2010)
Takashi Miike's 2010 samurai siege film. Pairs with Seven Samurai as the modern remake the genre needed.
1970sEscape from Alcatraz (1979)
Siegel's 1979 prison thriller. Clint Eastwood as Frank Morris.
1990sThe Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Darabont's 1994 King novella adaptation. The film IMDb ranked #1 for two decades.
1980sDas Boot (1981)
Petersen's 1981 German U-boat drama. Three-hour theatrical, six-hour director's cut, miniseries.
HorrorWar of the Worlds (1953 & 2005)
The War of the Worlds material has been adapted as theatrical film twice across more than fifty years: The War of the Worlds (1953) starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson, and War of the Worlds (2005) starring Tom Cruise and…
1970sAssault on Precinct 13 (1976)
John Carpenter's 1976 LA siege thriller. Decommissioned police station under gang assault.
1960sThe Day of the Triffids (1962)
The Day of the Triffids is the British apocalypse film about ambulatory carnivorous plants invading a world that has been blinded by a comet. Steve Sekely directed most of the film, with Freddie Francis uncredited for the lighthouse subplot.
1950sWhen Worlds Collide (1951)
When Worlds Collide is the early-Cold War apocalypse film that established the planetary-impact template for the next seventy-five years. The screenplay by Sydney Boehm adapts the 1933 novel by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
1990sIndependence Day (1996)
Dean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
2010sThe Martian (2015)
The Martian is the rare mainstream science fiction film that treats its science as the point instead of as decoration. Drew Goddard adapted Andy Weir's 2011 novel.