Best Survival movies of 1970s

Actors : Ralph Cotterill, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Steve Bisley,
Directors : Ian Barry,

An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly hurt in the accident, knows that the leak will ...

Actors : Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Actors : Timothy Bottoms, Joanasie Salamonie, Louis Gossett Jr., Warren Oates,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft...

Actors : Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Jüri Järvet, Uldis Pucitis,
Directors : Grigori Kromanov,

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen.

Actors : Carroll Baker, Arthur Kennedy, Andrés García, Lionel Stander,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any ...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

Actors : Alan Scott, Eduardo Fajardo, Carroll Baker, Ida Galli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now...

Actors : Ivonne Sentis, Kenneth More, Pep Munné, Frank Braña,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

Like in the novel of Jules Verne four persons try to get to the centre of the world by entering into a world of caves by a volcano. On their way they discover among other things also ...

Actors : David Sobiesk, Marcus Claudel, Dawn Wells, Dana Plato,
Directors : Tom Moore,

Two men travel deep into the woods to search for a Bigfoot-like creature called "Big Bay-Ty" which has recently been sighted near Boggy Creek. Three children secretly follow. Little do they know a hurricane is about to commence.

Actors : Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean, Anthony Forrest, Alison Elliott,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.

Actors : Victor French, Jean Durand, Mike Evans, Janee Michelle,
Directors : Ron Honthaner,

Murders occur at the southern estate of a voodoo priestess when four relatives gather to hear her will.

Actors : Steve Curry, Shelley Plimpton, Woody Chambliss, Garry Goodrow,
Directors : Jim McBride,

Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that ...

Actors : Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Jan Troell,

The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Frank Zuniga,

The Wilderness Family now face terrifying times in fierce winter storms, an avalanche, and being attacked by a ferocious pack of hungry wolves. Watch as America's favorite family stands ...

Actors : Rajesh Khanna, Hema Malini, Prem Chopra, Asrani,
Directors : Shakti Samanta,

A singer by profession, Suraj (Rajesh Khanna) gets stranded in resthouse in the coutnryside during a rainstorm. While there he experiences ununsual feelings, as if he has been there before....

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hiroshi Katsuno, Yumi Takigawa,
Directors : Kenjirô Ohmori,

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Actors : Pablo Ferrel, Hugo Stiglitz, Norma Lazareno, Luz María Aguilar,
Directors : René Cardona,

A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Mikki Jamison, Cjon Damitri Patterson,
Directors : Stewart Raffill,

A man and a woman and 3 children start to sail around the world. They are shipwrecked near an uninhabited isle. This island is full of wild animals and it is very dangerous for them in the ...

Actors : Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, James Earl Jones,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

An African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way.

Actors : Spyros Kalogirou, Manos Katrakis, Nikos Kourkoulos, Mairi Hronopoulou,
Directors : Nikos Foskolos,

Angelos Kreouzis (Nikos Kourkoulos) survives a shipwreck and reveals to the committee in charge that the disaster was not an accident, but the consequence of the neglect of the ship by those responsible.