Best Survival movies of 1980s

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 : 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 : 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 : 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.

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 : Urmila Bhatt, Bob Christo, Birbal, Dharmendra,
Directors : B. Gupta,

A young baby from the doomed planet Krypton is sent to Earth, where he is adopted by an elderly couple in India who name him Shekhar. After growing to an adult and learning about his ...

Actors : Hal Terrance, Greg Ward, Jeremy Shamos, Jim Stafford,
Directors : David O'Malley,

A Boston boy escapes from spies and survives in the wild with tricks from his mountain-man father.

Actors : Joseph Campanella, Burl Ives, Meredith MacRae, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : James L. Conway,

A family of space aliens crash lands on Earth when their spaceship conks out.

Actors : Gianna Palminteri, Martha Peterson, Renee Raiford, Gideon Fountain,
Directors : J. Christian Ingvordsen,

Some sexy women get out of Fire Fighter School and go for the jobs they trained for, but first they must survive their male counterparts teasing them.

Actors : Francis Huster, Richard Bohringer, Nathalie Baye, Madeleine Robinson,
Directors : Robin Davis,

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

Actors : Mohamed Henedi, Mahmoud El Gendy, Abla Kamel, Faten Hamama,
Directors : Khairy Beshara,

A poor family struggles to survive in the slums of Cairo in this depressing social melodrama. Aicha is the widowed matriarch who uses her savvy to avoid tragic calamities. Soon even her ...

Actors : Steve Kanaly, Macon McCalman, Karen Carlson, Robert Chimento,
Directors : George Gage,

A soldier who deserted because of spiritual beliefs was tried and evaluated by four psychiatrists, and they all concluded that he was unable to distinguish right from wrong, so he was ...

Actors : Florin Zamfirescu, Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Mircea Daneliuc,

Iacob lives in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains near a gold mine and tries to survive.

Actors : Jeff Harding, Michael Fitzpatrick, Naomi Kaneda, Brad Powell,

A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.

Actors : Tyler Coppin, Jay Hackett, Saskia Post, Cassandra Delaney,
Directors : John Duigan,

In Australia, four teenagers in a Sydney theater are astounded to hear the news that a nuclear war has broken out in Eastern Europe. They try to figure out the best way they can survive the coming conflagration.

Actors : Donald Pleasence, Rick Hill, Josephine Jacqueline Jones, Sybil Danning,
Directors : Chuck Vincent,

In ancient Pompeii, slaves are bought and sold for household chores and sex. A mysterious queen moves among the elite, meantime secretly helping the slaves to escape. Eventually her life is...

Actors : Christopher Guard, Julie Christie, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie Hutchings,
Directors : David Gladwell,

Set in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion...

Actors : John Cullum, Franco Nero, Carole Laure, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. When Ben is stranded in Santiago on ...

Actors : Nicolay Lange-Nielsen, Camilla Strøm Henriksen, Per Jansen, Espen Skjønberg,
Directors : Martin Asphaug,

Gothic thriller about Old Martin who heeds the voice of Anna, who calls him back to the mountain cabin where he left her to die while she gave birth to their surviving son.

Actors : Maurice Arama, Antonin Brunel, Daniel Berlioux, Denise Boulet,
Directors : Alexandra von Grote,

Two women fall in love in nazi-occupied France, and must fight to survive the war. A task made more difficult as one is a jew on the run from Germany.