Best Survival movies of 1970s

Actors : Michael Mislove, Steve Bluestein, Paul Zegler, Fred Willard,

What would happen if a 9.7 magnitude earthquake were to strike the L.A. area? This is what "Cracking Up" looks at from the lighter side. The movie is composed of individual skits of ...

Actors : Lorne Greene, Rhonda Leigh Hopkins, Hiroshi Fujioka, Keiju Kobayashi,

Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the ...

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 : Trish Van Devere, Lee Montgomery, George C. Scott, John David Carson,
Directors : George C. Scott,

A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.

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 : Spyros Kalogirou, Manos Katrakis, Mairi Hronopoulou, Nikos Kourkoulos,
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.

Actors : Reine Bartève, Paul-Eric Shulmann, Joseph Goldenberg, Richard Constantini,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

Two young French Jewish boys and their family struggle to survive the WWII and the invasion of Germans.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Helen Hunt, Martin Milner, George DiCenzo,
Directors : Harry Harris,

A family shipwrecked on a deserted island tries to survive the best way they can. All is going well until a gang of pirates arrives on the island looking for a hidden treasure.

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 : 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 : 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 : Jill Pearson, Nigel Davenport, Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

A black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.

Actors : Lucia Bosé, Stelvio Rosi, Farley Granger, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Mario Colucci,

A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.

Actors : Rodolfo Dal Pra, Bruce Robinson, Corinne Cléry, Katja Rupé,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in ...

Actors : William Smith, John Garwood, Liza Lorena, Roderick Paulate,

THEY FOUGHT SAVAGELY - for love of their country "A TASTE OF HELL" An explosive war epic depicting the heroic stand for patriotism from the hills down to the devastated countryside.

Actors : Alberto de Mendoza, Marcel Bozzuffi, Frederick Stafford, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Germán Lorente,

Robert is a police agent of American origins who lost his memory through an accident during a robbery in a branch of the Bank of America. A robber who survived the shooting is convinced the...

Actors : Charles Robinson, Katy Jurado, Elizabeth Guadalupe Chauvet, John Huston,
Directors : Pancho Kohner,

In this sequel to THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, John Huston portrays a tequila-swigging crocodile hunter who heads into the jungles of Mexico. He has been warned that only native Indians can survive there...

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Michael O'Daniels, Magdalena Montezuma, Ila von Hasperg,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

A feminist cult survives by robbing and killing passersby, at their remote desert ranch. The North Star Dhruva cult leader Magdalena refuses to work for the Yankee dollar. Consequently she ...

Actors : Joe Abeywickrama, Malini Fonseka, Arthur C. Clarke, David Dharmakirthi,
Directors : Lester James Peries,

The lives of a poor family in a small village called Beddagama as they struggle to survive the challenges presented by poverty, disease, superstition, the unsympathetic colonial system, and the jungle itself.

Actors : Christian Juttner, Salome Jens, Carl Betz, Denver Pyle,
Directors : Gary Nelson,

A young boy gets along better with the animals he befriends around his family's Canadian farm than with the people he lives with.