Best Survival movies of 1990s

Actors : Lisa Pelikan, Milla Jovovich, Courtney Barilla, Brian Krause,
Directors : William A. Graham,

In this sequel to The Blue Lagoon (1980), two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become suntanned teenagers in love.

Actors : Reese Witherspoon, Jake Busey, Stephen Dorff, Joey Lauren Adams,
Directors : Jefery Levy,

An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.

Actors : Michael J. Fox, Ralph Waite, Sally Field, Al Michaels,
Directors : David R. Ellis,

Shadow, Sassy, and Chance have to find their way home after they become stranded at the San Francisco International Airport as their owners fly to Canada on vacation.

Actors : Polly Walker, William Takaku, Ian Hart, Pierce Brosnan,

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left ...

Actors : Liam Neeson, Debra Winger, Steve Martin, Lolita Davidovich,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Fake faith healer Jonas Nightingale is stranded in a small town where he finds he can't fool all of the people all of the time.

Actors : Dian Bachar, Stan Brakhage, Trey Parker, Stephen Blackpool,
Directors : Trey Parker,

The sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold was replaced by that of human flesh.

Actors : Manoj Bajpayee, Urmila Matondkar, J.D. Chakravarthi, Paresh Rawal,
Directors : Ram Gopal Varma,

An innocent man is embroiled in underworld after being falsely charged and sets out to punish the perpetrators who subjected his life to misery.

Actors : Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt,
Directors : Jeremiah S. Chechik,

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their ...

Actors : Michele Santopietro, Craig DuPlessis, Lisa Ristorucci, Brian Marc,
Directors : D. Ze'ev Gilad,

Two runaways struggle for survival on the gritty streets of New York.

Actors : Frank Whaley, Shannon Whirry, James Belushi, Kylie Travis,
Directors : Louis Morneau,

A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

Actors : Jessica Biel, Gary Cole, Adam LaVorgna, Jonathan Taylor Thomas,
Directors : Arlene Sanford,

A college student faces an impossible journey when he is left stranded in the desert, thousands of miles from home, with no money and only a few days left until Christmas.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Edward Furlong, Walter Matthau, Piper Laurie,
Directors : Charles Matthau,

After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. When a city ...

Actors : Nancy Travis, James Le Gros, Quentin Tarantino, Dylan McDermott,
Directors : Jack Baran,

Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stranger stranded in the desert. But then, things aren't always as they seem. Anything can ...

Actors : Jennifer Beals, Tom Berenger, Jeffrey Nordling, Craig Sheffer,
Directors : David Mackay,

A passenger of a hijacked airliner who happens to be an airplane engineer works to deactivate a chemical weapons bomb after the hijackers kill the pilot and threaten to kill all the passengers on the plane.

Actors : Brent Neale, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville, Kyle McCulloch,
Directors : Guy Maddin,

In the Alpine village of Tolzbad in the 1800s, the townsfolk talk quietly and restrain their movements lest they incur avalanches. This atmosphere lends itself to repressed emotions - shown...

Actors : Tom Bower, Mimi Rogers, Jesse Bradford, Bruce Davison,
Directors : Phillip Borsos,

Teenage Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while traveling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus' father, John, the boy and dog become stranded when...

Actors : Yoshiko Miyazaki, Fumi Dan, Akira Terao, Shirô Mifune,
Directors : Takashi Koizumi,

During a downpour, a generous ronin and his supporting wife are stranded at a country inn. The ronin comes to the attention of a lord who wants to hire him as an instructor for his men, who treat the ronin with disrespect.

Actors : Sacha Bourdo, Marie Matheron, Élisabeth Vitali, Sergi López,
Directors : Manuel Poirier,

Catalonian Paco is a traveling rep for a shoe manufacturer. When he stops to pick up Russian emigree hitchhiker Nino, Paco soon finds himself on the side of the road with everything stolen ...

Actors : Alicia Witt, Harvey Fierstein, Johnny Galecki, Brooke Langton,
Directors : Matthew Huffman,

A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her flame will be rekindled both for the piano and a new love?

Actors : Hocine Rifahi, Ferhendeh Feydi, Farhad Kheradmand, Buba Bayour,
Directors : Abbas Kiarostami,

A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier.