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
The Nine Lives of Chloe KingSeries
›TV-PG2011 · Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Skyler Samuels, Gracie Gillam, Ki Hong Lee
Chloe King is looking forward to celebrating her birthday with her friends and single mother, just like every other year... that is until she starts developing heightened abilities and discovers she's being pursued by a mysterious figure. Chloe soon learns she's part of an ancient race which has been hunted by human assassins for millennia —and that she may be their only hope for ultimate survival.
Intensity
›1997 · Horror, Thriller, TV Movie · 186m · John C. McGinley, Molly Parker, Blu Mankuma
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.
Above SuspicionSeries
›2009 · Mystery, Crime, Drama · 4 seasons · Kelly Reilly, Ciarán Hinds, Shaun Dingwall
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders left by an unknown serial killer. Each series is based on a novel by Lynda La Plante: Above Suspicion (2009), The Red Dahlia (2010), Deadly Intent (2011), and Silent Scream (2012).
Durham CountySeries
›TV-MA2007 · Drama · 3 seasons · Hugh Dillon, Louis Ferreira, Helene Joy
Detective Mike Sweeney has just moved with his wife and daughters from Toronto to his hometown of Durham County after the death of his partner. Hoping to escape the violent world of big city police work, Mike falls into a suburban world besieged by crime, abuse and murder.
World War Z
›PG-132013 · Action, Horror, Science Fiction · 116m · Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
Death Proof
›R2007 · Action, Thriller · 113m · Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
28 Weeks Later
›R2007 · Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction · 99m · Robert Carlyle, Rose Byrne, Jeremy Renner
Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.
Cube
›R1998 · Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery · 90m · Nicole De Boer, Nicky Guadagni, Maurice Dean Wint
A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.
Run
›PG-132020 · Thriller, Horror, Drama · 90m · Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen, Pat Healy
Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Speak No Evil
›R2024 · Horror, Thriller · 110m · James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy
When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.
The Long Walk
›R2025 · Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror · 108m · Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Ben Wang
In a dystopian 1970s America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.
Day of the Dead
›NR1985 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 101m · Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Joseph Pilato
As the world is overrun by zombies, scientists and military personnel in an underground Florida bunker must decide on how they should deal with the undead.
The Loved Ones
›R2010 · Horror · 84m · Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, John Brumpton
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
Dead Calm
›R1989 · Thriller, Horror · 96m · Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane
An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
The Last Man on Earth
›1964 · Science Fiction, Drama, Horror · 87m · Vincent Price, Franca Bettoia, Emma Danieli
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Coma
›PG1978 · Thriller, Mystery, Horror · 113m · Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley
When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.
The Stepfather
›R1987 · Horror, Thriller · 89m · Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack
Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison has just murdered his entire family. After adopting a new identity and skipping town, he begins building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter. However, he soon begins struggling to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.
Someone's Watching Me!
›1978 · Horror, Mystery, Thriller · 97m · Lauren Hutton, David Birney, Adrienne Barbeau
A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.
Isle of the Dead
›1945 · Horror, Drama, Mystery · 72m · Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people—a superstitious old peasant—suspects a young woman of being a vampiric demon.
Fortress
›1985 · Drama, Horror, Thriller · 88m · Rachel Ward, Sean Garlick, Elaine Cusick
After being kidnapped by four masked men, a teacher and her students rebel by plotting against the criminals.
The LochSeries
›TV-142017 · Crime, Drama · 1 season · Laura Fraser, Siobhan Finneran, Don Gilet
The search for a serial killer becomes a matter of life and death for detective Annie Redford, who is trying to cope with her first murder case.
Apartment Zero
›R1989 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 124m · Colin Firth, Hart Bochner, Dora Bryan
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
Zomboat!Series
›TV-MA2019 · Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy · 1 season · Leah Brotherhead, Cara Theobold, Ryan McKen
We follow two sisters contending with the recent zombie apocalypse.
The Swerve
›2018 · Thriller, Drama, Horror · 96m · Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell
The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.