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Lost - Pilot Episode (TV)

2004 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction J.J. Abrams

Cast Matthew Fox · Evangeline Lilly · Jorge Garcia · Dominic Monaghan

Synopsis The pilot episode introduces the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, who experience a plane crash and end up on a mysterious island. Three of the characters, Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan), start...

8.1

26K votes

8.1

26K votes

The African Queen

1951 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Katharine Hepburn · Robert Morley · Peter Bull

Synopsis Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose Sayer (Hepburn), "a crazy psalm-singing skinny old maid," after her brother (Morley) is...

7.9

33K votes

7.9

33K votes

Lost (TV Series)

2004 · Series · 42 min. · United States

Direction J.J. Abrams · Damon Lindelof · Jeffrey Lieber · Carlton Cuse

Cast Matthew Fox · Evangeline Lilly · Terry O'Quinn · Josh Holloway

Synopsis TV Series (2004-2010). 6 Seasons. 121 Episodes. 48 survivors fight to stay alive on a tropical island with a malicious mind of its own, after their plane mysteriously tears apart over it. When a plane crash leaves 48 survivors on...

7.9

110K votes

7.9

110K votes

Castaway on the Moon

2009 · Movie · 116 min. · South Korea

Direction Lee Hey-jun

Cast Jung Jae-young · Jeong Ryeo-won · Yang Mi-kyeong · Park Yeong-seo

Synopsis 'Castaway on the Moon' tells the story of a man whose life is falling apart. His girlfriend has left him, he's in debt and a failure at business. Feeling that there's no way out he decides to kill himself by...

7.8

9K votes

7.8

9K votes

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When the Wind Blows

1986 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jimmy T. Murakami

Synopsis A old British couple, Jim and Hilda, who live in the countryside, believe in the fact that the Government will always know what it is doing. However the world is fast heading for the Third World War between the US...

7.7

7K votes

7.7

7K votes

Made in Abyss (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 24 min. · Japan

Direction Masayuki Kojima

Synopsis TV Series (2017-). 1 season. 13 episodes. An enormous pit and cave system called the "Abyss" is the only unexplored place in the world. Strange and wonderful creatures reside in its depths, and it is full of precious relics that...

7.7

1K votes

7.7

1K votes

Into the Wild

2007 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Emile Hirsch · Marcia Gay Harden · William Hurt · Jena Malone

Synopsis Freshly graduated from college and with a promising future ahead, 22-year-old Christopher McCandless chose instead to walk out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. Christopher abandoned his possessions, gave his $24,000 savings account to...

7.6

68K votes

7.6

68K votes

Direction Masayuki Kojima · Hitoshi Haga

Synopsis TV Series (2022). 12 Episodes. Sequel of "Made in Abyss" anime series, based on the events after the anime sequel film "Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul".

7.6

227 votes

7.6

227 votes

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Direction Masayuki Kojima

Synopsis Second compilation movie of the anime series "Madre in Abyss".

7.6

68 votes

7.6

68 votes

Jeremiah Johnson

1972 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Robert Redford · Will Geer · Allyn Ann McLerie · Stefan Gierasch

Synopsis Sydney Pollack directs this notable picturesque film in which a solitary man named Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) battles ruthless Indians, who use him as the target of a long-awaited vendetta, and the merciless elements of nature, in search of peace....

7.6

11K votes

7.6

11K votes

Society Of The Snow

2023 · Movie · 144 min. · Spain

Direction J.A. Bayona

Cast Enzo Vogrincic · Agustín Pardella · Matías Recalt · Esteban Bigliardi

Synopsis In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most...

7.6

39K votes

7.6

39K votes

Direction Brad Osborne

Synopsis "I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash" is a 2010 television documentary recounting the tragedy of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 from the perspective of survivor Nando Parrado. Directed by Brad Osborne, this 2-hour special features reenactments of the...

7.6

105 votes

7.6

105 votes

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Direction Gonzalo Arijon

Synopsis For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.

7.6

589 votes

7.6

589 votes

Touching The Void

2003 · Documentary · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Kevin Macdonald

Cast Brendan Mackey · Nicholas Aaron · Joe Simpson

Synopsis In 1985, two adventurous young mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, set off to climb the treacherous west face of the Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. They were experienced climbers, and climbed "Alpine-style," climbing the mountain in "one great...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

Threads (TV)

1984 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mick Jackson

Cast Karen Meagher · Reece Dinsdale · David Brierly · Rita May

Synopsis Threads is a 1984 BBC television play set in the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire, depicting the effects of a nuclear war and its aftermath on the United Kingdom. Written by Barry Hines and directed by Mick Jackson, Threads was...

7.4

679 votes

7.4

679 votes

The Beckoning Silence (TV)

2007 · Documentary · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Louise Osmond

Synopsis Joe Simpson, whose battle for survival featured in "Touching the Void" (2003), travels to the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering’s most epic tragedies. Toni Kurtz was a brilliant mountaineer who in 1936 tried to be the...

7.4

397 votes

7.4

397 votes

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Human

1962 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

7.4

110 votes

7.4

110 votes

Black Mirror: White Bear (TV)

2013 · Movie · 42 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carl Tibbetts

Cast Lenora Crichlow · Michael Smiley · Tuppence Middleton · Ian Bonar

Synopsis On the face of it, this sounds like your garden-variety post-apocalyptic scenario, but there's probably more to it than meets the eye. Toni (Being Human's Lenora Crichlow) wakes up with amnesia in a house she doesn't recognize. And when she...

7.4

31K votes

7.4

31K votes

North of the Sun

2012 · Documentary · 46 min. · Norway

7.4

56 votes

7.4

56 votes

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