Best Survival movies of 1980s

Actors : Marina Giulia Cavalli, Daniel Bosch, Robert Marius, Luciano Pigozzi,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Two members of Greenpeace discover that a local factory sheds radioactive waste into an active volcano, which has created a terrifying creature that wreaks havoc in the area.

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Billy Barty, Diana Rigg, Sarah Patterson,
Directors : Michael Berz,

Dame Diana Rigg (TV's "The Avengers"), Billy Barty ("Willow") and Sarah Patterson ("The Company of Wolves") as Snow White star in this feature-length, live-action, musical version of the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Actors : Googy Gress, Michael Sanville, John Flood, Georgia Harrell,

A group of teenage summer campers and one counselor share the stories of their first sexual experiences when an avalanche traps them in a cave...

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 : Murray Ord, Sheri McFadden, Riva Spier, Georgie Collins,
Directors : Jim Makichuk,

A group of three friends on a snowmobiling trip find themselves stranded at an abandoned lodge isolated in the mountains. They discover that an old woman resides in the hotel, along with an evil entity that she is keeping in the basement.

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.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Donald Pleasence, Rick Hill, Sybil Danning, Josephine Jacqueline Jones,
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 : 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 : 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 : Yuriy Kuznetsov, Andrey Krasko, Sergey Kokovkin, Aleksey Krychenkov,
Directors : Dmitriy Svetozarov,

A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle.

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 : Hamdy Ahmed, Youssra, Gamil Ratib, Safiyyah Al-Omary,
Directors : Salah Abouseif,

After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.

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 ...