Best Survival movies of 1980s

Actors : Helen Pearce, Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren,
Directors : Clive Rees,

A pair of children befriend an accentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and ...

Actors : John Karlen, Hume Cronyn, Tim Matheson, Meg Tilly,
Directors : Graham Baker,

After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behaviour...

Actors : Andrew Stevens, Terri Treas, George Kennedy, Starr Andreeff,
Directors : Thierry Notz,

When a chemical warfare leaves the world barren and filled with mutated monsters, a band of survivors in a underground complex battles one of the creatures who was able to break in.

Actors : Gérard Darmon, Natalya Gundareva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan,
Directors : Georgiy Daneliya,

A case of mistaken identity, by a switched Passport leaves a Georgian man stranded in Israel.

Actors : Ralph Cotterill, Arna-Maria Winchester, Steve Bisley, Ross Thompson,
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 : Reine Brynolfsson, Tinna Gunnlaugsdóttir, Sune Mangs, Egill Ólafsson,
Directors : Hrafn Gunnlaugsson,

Trausti returns to Iceland just in time to be entangled in a family feud over a stranded whale-cadaver. His mother (the family head) is mortally wounded and Grim kills Erikur; the other ...

Actors : Sener Sen, Ali Erkazan, Orhan Çagman, Serap Aksoy,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a ...

Actors : Pavel Nazarov, Dinara Drukarova, Elena Popova, Valeriy Ivchenko,
Directors : Vitali Kanevsky,

Two children living in a remote mining town in the distant wastes of Siberia in 1947, survive poverty and hardship through the warmth of their friendship and a shared sense of humour.

Actors : Stéphane Excoffier, John Kraaykamp, Josse De Pauw, Jim van der Woude,
Directors : Jos Stelling,

A woman gets off a train by mistake and finds herself stranded alone with a peculiar man who doesn't even speak her language.

Actors : Cihangir Gaffari, María Casal, Laurene Landon, Ramiro Oliveros,
Directors : Matt Cimber,

Born in a tribe of fierce warrior women, Hundra has been raised to despise the influence of men. An archer, fighter and sword fighter, Hundra is superior to any male. Hundra finds her ...

Actors : Pamela Sue Martin, Ned Beatty, Jared Rushton, Stephen Meadows,
Directors : Mark Griffiths,

13-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of an unreported plane crash. Alone in the Yukon wilderness, Brian must learn to survive by his wits, find food and shelter, and brave wild, hungry ...

Actors : Alfred Böhm, Marte Harell, Hans Holt, Karl Merkatz,
Directors : Franz Antel,

A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

Actors : David Broadnax, Diane Clayre Holub, Rita Jenrette, Tom Cantrell,
Directors : John N. Carter,

Americans on vacation in the Caribbean take a tour of a nearby island at night and watch a local voodoo ritual. Soon after, they find themselves stranded on the island and under attack by unseen foes. One by one they meet violent ends.

Actors : Alicia Moro, Robert Iannucci, Eduardo Fajardo, Luciano Pigozzi,
Directors : Giuliano Carnimeo,

In the year 3000, the Earth has turned into a desert after nuclear war. A group of survivors runs out of water, so they need to search for the valuable water, but it will not be easy because other group also wants to get it at any cost.

Actors : Rebecca Stanley, Guy Boyd, Sally Klein, Dennis Lipscomb,
Directors : Avery Crounse,

A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.

Actors : Daniel Stephen, Harrison Muller, Al Cliver, Peter Hooten,

In a post-apocalyptic Texas, a band of warriors fight against a fascist regime that is trying to take control of all surviving population.

Actors : Jim Wolfe, Marjorie Fitzsimmons, Laurie Pennington, Jesse Emery,
Directors : Daniel Boyd,

Five passengers in a bus depot are waiting for a bus that is overdue. To pass the time, they start telling each other horror stories.

Actors : Jonas Bloch, Zózimo Bulbul, Bené Batista, Emmanuel Cavalcanti,
Directors : Carlos Diegues,

Palmares is a 17th-century quilombo, a settlement of escaped slaves in northeast Brazil. In 1650, plantation slaves revolt and head for the mountains where they find others led by the aged ...

Actors : Jacques Dutronc, Robert Dhéry, Michel Serrault, Jacques Villeret,
Directors : Christian de Chalonge,

In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his...

Actors : Patty Mullen, Ruth Collins, William Hay, Kristin Davis,
Directors : Richard Friedman,

A demented coroner uses autopsy equipment to kill off the teenagers who trespass on the long-abandoned asylum he inhabits. Filmed on location in an actual abandoned asylum.