Wilderness
see all genres ›In struggles against nature, man’s most basic survival scenarios play out. Though one could argue that, these days, it’s more "nature" struggling against "man," these films depict the drama of man wrestling against the fecund wildness that wants to absorb, kill or at least inconvenience our arrogant yet edible selves.
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Genres / Action/Adventure / Wilderness
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Africa in Flames
In the darkest region of Africa, the struggle for survival between man and beast has raged since the dawn of time. Jungle infant Boru is orphaned after his mother, cast into the wilderness, is devoured by a ravenous lion. Adopted by nomadic chieftain Shaikh Asgar, Bory and Asgar's son Nikitu grow up to be...Start your free trial to watch -
Ambush
AMBUSH takes place in the first days of World War II in Russian Karelia by the Finnish border. A young lieutenant is sent on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, leaving his beautiful fiancee behind. During his mission he receives the tragic news that she has been killed by the Russians. Now the war is personal and...Start your free trial to watch -
Appointment in Honduras
An adventurer (Glenn Ford) carrying a vast sum of money, a husband and wife (Ann Sheridan and Zachary Scott) whose marriage is on the rocks and a murderous band of cutthroats trek through the jungles of Central America on a mission to save an ousted political leader. On their incredible journey they must...Start your free trial to watch
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The Art of Travel
Conner Layne (Christopher Masterson) is about to embark on an adventure, just not the one he had planned. After discovering his fiance is having an affair with his best friend, he leaves her at the altar and heads off on his honeymoon alone. While experiencing the wonders that South America offers, he...Start your free trial to watch -
Asian Stories
Jim is a young close-fisted Chinese American living in LA who finds himself with a stack of white flower themed disposable cameras, fleur-de-lis invitations, a number of champagne bottles and a ten-thousand dollar engagement ring bill. The only thing missing is a bride. In financial debt and miserable for having his fiancée...Start your free trial to watch -
Bird of Paradise
From legendary Oscar®-winning director King Vidor comes BIRD OF PARADISE, an exotic tale of romance set in gorgeous Polynesia. Johnny (Joel McCrea) is an intrepid young sailor traveling the South Seas who falls in love with Luana (Dolores del Rio), the beautiful daughter of an island chief. But Luana is...Start your free trial to watch
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The Blonde Captive
What would you find in the heart of a white woman who was the captive bride of a cave-dwelling savage? Grotesque and weird though it may seem, a blonde English-speaking woman was found naked living in a cave! This shocking discovery turned Dr. Paul Withington's expedition into a drama of truth stranger...Start your free trial to watch -
Careful
Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents (adult, child and animal!) must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences....Start your free trial to watch -
Curse of the Voodoo
Big game hunter Mike Stacey (Bryant Haliday) leads a safari in the African jungle. After shooting and killing a lion, a tribe of lion worshippers place a curse on Stacey, vowing to kill him by witchcraft. The curse follows Mike back to London where it begins to take a terrible toll. After speaking with an...Start your free trial to watch
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Death in the Garden
Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of ill-starred fugitives (a roguish adventurer, a local hooker, a priest, an aging diamond miner and his deaf-mute daughter) are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander...Start your free trial to watch -
Escape to Burma
When a local British Burma prince is found murdered, his grieving father seeks vengeance and Jim Brecan (Robert Ryan) becomes the prime suspect. Fleeing for his life, he finds temporary sanctuary in a teak plantation managed by a wealthy colonial woman (Barbara Stanwyck). She believes in his innocence and the two fall in love...Start your free trial to watch -
Frontier
Based on the surrealist novel "Froktog" by famed author Mulnar Typsthat, FRONTIER is an epic saga set against the aftermath of the Klornsthog Revolution. Two members of the Expansionist Research Corps embark on a journey to civilize the most uncharted of territories. But the more these wartorn soldiers attempt to tame the...Start your free trial to watch
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Glen and Randa
Independent filmmaker Jim McBride (DAVID HOLZMAN'S DIARY) follows a hedonistic, innocent young couple as they roam the post-apocalyptic world in search of a fabled, unspoiled city of dreams. The record of the journey is GLEN AND RANDA, a primitive, desperate odyssey by the last bewildered survivors of an atomic holocaust,...Start your free trial to watch -
Hardly Gold
Beautifully shot in 35-mm, HARDLY GOLD is a high-comedy action adventure written and directed by artist William Wegman, starring his well-known Weimaraners, Fay Ray, Battina, Crooky and Chundo. The Hardly family spends its summers at the Hardly Inn in Maine, where the Hardly Boys play tennis, croquet, badminton, and hunt...Start your free trial to watch
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Jungle Bride
Two women and two men are shipwrecked on an island off the African coast, and take up housekeeping and other forms of dilly-dally in this definite pre-Code film. Charles Starrett (pre-DURANGO KID) has his way with Anita Page, or is it the other way around?Start your free trial to watch -
The Lost World
Though not as well remembered as the films that followed, you can thank this "stupendous story of adventure and romance" (as it was originally billed) for KING KONG (not to mention JURASSIC PARK). Drawn from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel, it's a marvelous fantasy in which an English crew of explorers sail off to prove that...Start your free trial to watch




