Best Survival movies of 1970s

Actors : Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they ...

Actors : Saverio Vallone, Tisa Farrow, Margaret Mazzantini, Serena Grandi,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Sally Field, Michael Caine,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

Adventurers return to the overturned ship, seeking a fortune.

Actors : James Earl Jones, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

Actors : Jonathan Frid, Roger Davis, Grayson Hall, Kathryn Leigh Scott,
Directors : Dan Curtis,

Vampire Barnabas Collins is accidentally released from his centuries-long confinement at his family's estate in Maine. He targets his clueless descendants who live there now and pursues Maggie, the incarnation of his lost love.

Actors : Bud Spencer, Cary Guffey, Raimund Harmstorf, Joe Bugner,
Directors : Michele Lupo,

A young humanoid alien who gets stranded on earth hooks up with a grizzled old sheriff in a western town and tries to help him solve a tough case, but the sheriff doesn't want any help from a "kid."

Actors : Drewe Henley, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen, Victoria Vetri,
Directors : Val Guest,

Set in the ancient past when humans and dinosaurs lived together, a small tribe is struggling to survive by giving a sacrifice of a blond woman to their god, the sun, in return for ...

Actors : Clive Revill, Richard Kiley, Steven Warner, Joss Ackland,
Directors : Stanley Donen,

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.

Actors : Richard Harris, Percy Herbert, Henry Wilcoxon, John Huston,
Directors : Richard C. Sarafian,

Left for dead after a bear attack, a fur-trapper exacts revenge on his fellow companions who abandoned him in dangerous Indian territory.

Actors : Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Paul Newman,
Directors : James Goldstone,

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masao Kusakari, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Actors : Monique van de Ven, Hannah de Leeuwe, Rutger Hauer, Andrea Domburg,
Directors : Paul Verhoeven,

The young girl Keetje moves to Amsterdam in 1881 with her impoverished family, and is led into prostitution in order to survive. In the process she sees the corrupting influence of money.

Actors : Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith-Jackson, Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles,
Directors : Jeannot Szwarc,

An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James ...

Actors : Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Leslie Nielsen, Richard Jaeckel,
Directors : William Girdler,

A battle for survival as hikers encounter a chemically imbalanced forest.

Actors : Christopher Cabot, Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Jack Gold,

Englishman Robinson Crusoe, stranded alone on an island for years, is overjoyed to find a fellow man, a black islander whom he names Friday. But Crusoe cannot overcome the shackles of his ...

Actors : Lila Kedrova, Klaus Kinski, Florinda Bolkan, Peter McEnery,

A woman is tormented by strange dreams of astronauts on the moon. She visits a deserted seaside town whose inhabitants know her even though she does not know them.

Actors : William Holden, Jack Thompson, Ricky Schroder, Olivia Hamnett,
Directors : Peter Collinson,

Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets ...

Actors : Jeanette Nolan, Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Rock Hudson,
Directors : Corey Allen,

The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.

Actors : Joëlle Coeur, Willy Braque, John Rico, Paul Bisciglia,
Directors : Jean Rollin,

A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted island, where they are granted supernatural powers to strike revenge against the pirates.

Actors : Ewa Aulin, Klaus Kinski, Angela Bo, Sergio Doria,
Directors : Joe D'Amato,

A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.