Sub-genre
Survival
🪓 Every survival title worth your dread, gathered and ranked by the Crypt Score — our audience-first blend of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and viewer reviews.
2812 titles
A Quiet Place
›PG-132018 · Horror, Drama, Science Fiction · 91m · Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
›R2019 · Comedy, Drama, Thriller · 162m · Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie
Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…
YellowjacketsSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Mystery · 4 seasons · Melanie Lynskey, Tawny Cypress, Sophie Nélisse
This equal parts survival epic, psychological horror story and coming-of-age drama tells the saga of a team of wildly talented high school girls soccer players who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash deep in the remote northern wilderness. The series chronicles their descent from a complicated but thriving team to savage clans, while also tracking the lives they’ve attempted to piece back together nearly 25 years later.
The Walking Dead: The Ones Who LiveSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Pollyanna McIntosh
Rick and Michonne are thrown into another world, built on a war against the dead... And ultimately, a war against the living. Can they find each other and who they were in a place and situation unlike any they've ever known before? Are they enemies? Lovers? Victims? Victors? Without each other, are they even alive – or will they find that they, too, are the Walking Dead?
Mr. MercedesSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 3 seasons · Brendan Gleeson, Jharrel Jerome, Holland Taylor
A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again.
CardinalSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Crime, Drama · 4 seasons · Billy Campbell, Karine Vanasse
Detective John Cardinal attempts to uncover the mystery of what happened to the missing 13-year-old girl whose body is discovered in the shaft-head of an abandoned mine. At the same time, he comes under investigation by his new partner, Lise Delorme, a tough investigator in her own right.
Zombieland
›R2009 · Comedy, Horror · 87m · Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone
Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.
28 Days Later
›R2002 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 113m · Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
›R1974 · Horror · 83m · Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
Frenzy
›1972 · Crime, Thriller, Horror · 116m · Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
›NR1957 · Science Fiction, Adventure, Horror · 81m · Grant Williams, Randy Stuart, April Kent
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
The SerpentSeries
›TV-MA2021 · Drama, Crime · 1 season · Tahar Rahim, Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle
The remarkable story of how murderer Charles Sobhraj was captured. As the chief suspect in unsolved murders of young Western travellers across India, Thailand and Nepal’s ‘Hippie Trail’ in 1975 and 1976, Sobhraj had repeatedly slipped from the grasp of authorities worldwide to become Interpol's most wanted man, with arrest warrants on three different continents.
Dead SetSeries
›TV-MA2008 · Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Kevin Eldon, Beth Cordingly, Warren Brown
Zombies are rampaging throughout Britain. Blissfully unaware of gory events outside, the Big Brother housemates are in for the ultimate eviction night...
DesSeries
›2020 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Jason Watkins
The story of one of the most infamous cases in UK criminal history, that of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Told through the prism of three men, the series explores the personal and professional consequences of coming into contact with a man like Nilsen.
The BridgeSeries
›TV-MA2013 · Drama, Crime · 2 seasons · Diane Kruger, Demián Bichir, Annabeth Gish
A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
The Long ShadowSeries
›2023 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Michael McElhatton, Jack Deam, Lee Ingleby
Dramatizing one of the most infamously notorious and shocking serial killer cases in the world, the hunt for Peter Sutcliffe, commonly dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper, between October 1975 and January 1981, South Yorkshire police undertook the biggest manhunt in British criminal history. The search for Sutcliffe lasted five years, involved over a thousand officers and changed the way the British police worked forever.
Touching EvilSeries
›NR1997 · Drama, Crime, Mystery · 3 seasons · Nicola Walker, Robson Green, Shaun Dingwall
Follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is the newest member of the unit, an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society.
Predator
›R1987 · Science Fiction, Action, Adventure · 107m · Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
›R1999 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 140m · Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Take Shelter
›R2011 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 120m · Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 109m · Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams
Dr. Kelson finds himself in a shocking new relationship - with consequences that could change the world as they know it - and Spike's encounter with Jimmy Crystal becomes a nightmare he can't escape.
The Walking Dead: Daryl DixonSeries
›TV-MA2023 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 3 seasons · Norman Reedus, Melissa McBride, Eduardo Noriega
After washing ashore in France, Daryl struggles to piece together how he got there and why, as he navigates a fractured, walker-infested landscape to find his way home. During his journey, Daryl has to protect a young boy, Laurent, who is seen as a messiah, while facing new, dangerous walker variants and the "Power of the Living" paramilitary group, as the connections he forms along the way complicate his plan to return home.
The Most Dangerous Game
›1932 · Thriller, Adventure, Horror · 63m · Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
Targets
›R1968 · Thriller, Crime, Drama · 90m · Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson
An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.
