Best Survival movies of 1980s

Actors : Malik Berrichi, Tuncel Kurtiz, Ayse Emel Mesci Kuray, Nicolas Hossein,
Directors : Yilmaz Güney,

Teens in a Turkish prison struggle to survive under hideous conditions. Made by dying Yilmaz Guney in France, after he escaped from a Turkish prison, enabling him to accept his award at ...

Actors : Terence Kelly, Mark Erickson, Caroline Barclay, Sarah Torgov,
Directors : John Hough,

On a lonely island in the Pacific Northwest, a group of travelers find themselves targeted by a crazed, homicidal family.

Actors : Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, ...

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 : Laurie Moran, Sean Garlick, Elaine Cusick, Rachel Ward,
Directors : Arch Nicholson,

An Australian school teacher and her students are kidnapped. She and the children fight for their lives and try to escape from their captors.

Actors : Gilbert Roland, Willie Nelson, Isela Vega, Gary Busey,
Directors : Fred Schepisi,

A young cowboy hooks up with a legendary outlaw, and before long both are on the run from the law.

Actors : Richard D. Sharp, Elvis Payne, Aidan Quinn, Ade Sapara,
Directors : Caleb Deschanel,

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

Actors : Alice Diabo, Catherine Roche, Constance Garneau, Beth Webber,
Directors : Cynthia Scott,

A busload of women become stranded in an isolated part of the Canadian countryside. As they await rescue, they reflect on their lives through a mostly ad-libbed script.

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 : Andrés Pajares, Gabino Diego, Carmen Maura, Maurizio De Razza,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into...

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

Actors : Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins, Ken Abraham, Linnea Quigley,
Directors : David DeCoteau,

A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III; when they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.

Actors : Karen Austin, Richard Masur, Drew Barrymore, Matt Frewer,
Directors : Meiert Avis,

A teenage girl and her father driving cross-country become stranded when their car runs out of gas in a remote Nevada desert town and they're forced to stay in a dilapidated trailer park where a serial killer lurks.

Actors : Maury Chaykin, Kevin King, Lenore Zann, Kate Lynch,

Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one...

Actors : Richard Lynch, Leonard Mann, Willie Aames, Lisa Blount,
Directors : Ruggero Deodato,

A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.

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 : Biff Manard, Art LaFleur, Timothy Van Patten, Tim Thomerson,
Directors : Danny Bilson,

In Italy, during World War II some American soldiers find an alien UFO.

Actors : Ajay Naidu, Charles Durning, Alessandro Rabelo, Divana Brandão,
Directors : Christopher Cain,

An orphaned boy who was raised in the Amazon jungle is brought back to civilization by a priest who knows his father.

Actors : Sarah Kendall, Frederick Flynn, Carol Kottenbrook, Alan McRae,
Directors : J.S. Cardone,

Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.

Actors : Kelli Maroney, Daniel Hirsch, Nicole Rio, Tom Shell,
Directors : Nico Mastorakis,

A group of friends travel to a wilderness area to play a survival game. Soon they unexpectedly find themselves in a real-life survival situation.