
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

Midsommar
›R2019 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 147m · Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Don't Breathe
›R2016 · Horror, Thriller, Crime · 89m · Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Barbarian
›R2022 · Horror, Mystery · 103m · Georgina Campbell, Justin Long, Bill Skarsgård
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

Green Room
›R2016 · Horror, Crime, Thriller · 95m · Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Patrick Stewart
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.

The Thing from Another World
›NR1951 · Drama, Horror, Science Fiction · 87m · Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite
Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

AbsentiaSeries
›TV-MA2017 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Stana Katic, Patrick Heusinger, Neil Jackson
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.

The PassageSeries
›TV-142019 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 1 season · Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Saniyya Sidney, Caroline Chikezie
A post-apocalyptic story about a botched U.S. government experiment that turns a group of death row inmates into highly infectious vampires, and an orphan girl who might be the only person able to stop the ensuing crisis.

PrimevalSeries
›TV-142007 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama · 5 seasons · Ciarán McMenamin, Ben Mansfield, Andrew-Lee Potts
When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.

CrossSeries
›TV-MA2024 · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 3 seasons · Aldis Hodge, Isaiah Mustafa, Juanita Jennings
Alex Cross is a brilliant but flawed homicide detective and full of contradictions. A doting father and family man, Cross is single-minded to the point of obsession when he hunts killers. He is desperate for love, but his wife’s murder has left him too damaged to receive it.

While the City Sleeps
›NR1956 · Thriller, Drama · 100m · Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Newspaper men compete against each other to find a serial killer dubbed "The Lipstick Killer".

SurfaceSeries
›TV-PG2005 · Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama · 1 season · Lake Bell, Jay R. Ferguson, Carter Jenkins
A marine biologist, an insurance salesman and a teenage boy find their lives changed when a new and often dangerous sea life species emerges, while the government tries to keep the affair under wraps.

The Honeymoon Killers
›R1970 · Crime, Drama, Romance · 108m · Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man who seduces lonely single women, kills them and then takes their money. She poses as Ray's sister and joins Ray on a wild killing spree, fueled by her lingering concern that Ray will leave her for one of his marks.

To Catch a Killer
›1992 · Crime, Drama, Thriller · Brian Dennehy, Michael Riley, Margot Kidder
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.

The Deliberate Stranger
›NR1986 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · 185m · Mark Harmon, Frederic Forrest, George Grizzard
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.

I Am Legend
›PG-132007 · Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller · 101m · Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

The Equalizer
›R2014 · Thriller, Action, Crime · 132m · Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz
McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

Us
›R2019 · Horror, Mystery · 116m · Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

It Follows
›R2015 · Horror, Mystery · 101m · Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Daniel Zovatto
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

Starship Troopers
›R1997 · Adventure, Action, Thriller · 129m · Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an interstellar war between mankind and an arachnoid species known as "the Bugs."

Alien: Romulus
›R2024 · Horror, Science Fiction · 119m · Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux
While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

Dawn of the Dead
›R2004 · Horror, Science Fiction · 101m · Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

Heretic
›R2024 · Thriller, Horror · 111m · Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East
Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Companion
›R2025 · Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller · 97m · Sophie Thatcher, Jack Quaid, Lukas Gage
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

Send Help
›R2026 · Horror, Thriller, Comedy · 113m · Rachel McAdams, Dylan O'Brien, Edyll Ismail
Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
