Best Survival movies of 1970s

Actors : Lembit Peterson, Mikk Mikiver, Jüri Järvet, Uldis Pucitis,
Directors : Grigori Kromanov,

Police gets a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly an avalanche cuts them out from the rest of the world and strange things are going to happen.

Actors : Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanasie Salamonie, Warren Oates,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft...

Actors : Barry Newman, Susan Clark, Leslie Nielsen, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Actors : Ralph Cotterill, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Steve Bisley,
Directors : Ian Barry,

An earthquake in rural Australia causes a dangerous leak at WALDO, a nuclear waste storage facility. Heinrich Schmidt, an engineer badly hurt in the accident, knows that the leak will ...

Actors : Heather Rattray, Robert Logan, Ham Larsen, Susan Damante,
Directors : Frank Zuniga,

The Wilderness Family now face terrifying times in fierce winter storms, an avalanche, and being attacked by a ferocious pack of hungry wolves. Watch as America's favorite family stands ...

Actors : Victor French, Jean Durand, Mike Evans, Janee Michelle,
Directors : Ron Honthaner,

Murders occur at the southern estate of a voodoo priestess when four relatives gather to hear her will.

Actors : Ivonne Sentis, Kenneth More, Pep Munné, Frank Braña,
Directors : Juan Piquer Simón,

Like in the novel of Jules Verne four persons try to get to the centre of the world by entering into a world of caves by a volcano. On their way they discover among other things also ...

Actors : Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean, Anthony Forrest, Alison Elliott,
Directors : Alan Birkinshaw,

Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls.

Actors : David Sobiesk, Marcus Claudel, Dawn Wells, Dana Plato,
Directors : Tom Moore,

Two men travel deep into the woods to search for a Bigfoot-like creature called "Big Bay-Ty" which has recently been sighted near Boggy Creek. Three children secretly follow. Little do they know a hurricane is about to commence.

Actors : Alan Scott, Eduardo Fajardo, Carroll Baker, Ida Galli,
Directors : Umberto Lenzi,

As a thirteen year old, Martha Caldwell witnessed the death of her parents in a terrible railway accident. Barely surviving the tragedy herself, Martha was struck dumb due to the shock. Now...

Actors : Jason Robards, Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Jan Troell,

The desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and an American painter, against the will of her father. Amid this man-made tension comes a hurricane so devastating, the lives of the lovers and the entire island are imperiled.

Actors : Steve Curry, Shelley Plimpton, Woody Chambliss, Garry Goodrow,
Directors : Jim McBride,

Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that ...

Actors : Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, Ben Gazzara, Walter Pidgeon,
Directors : Daniel Petrie,

When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.

Actors : Andrés García, Carroll Baker, Arthur Kennedy, Lionel Stander,
Directors : René Cardona Jr.,

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any ...

Actors : Reine Bartève, Paul-Eric Shulmann, Joseph Goldenberg, Richard Constantini,
Directors : Jacques Doillon,

Two young French Jewish boys and their family struggle to survive the WWII and the invasion of Germans.

Actors : Jill Pearson, Nigel Davenport, Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes,
Directors : Don Chaffey,

A black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.

Actors : Cameron Mitchell, Helen Hunt, Martin Milner, George DiCenzo,
Directors : Harry Harris,

A family shipwrecked on a deserted island tries to survive the best way they can. All is going well until a gang of pirates arrives on the island looking for a hidden treasure.

Actors : Trish Van Devere, Lee Montgomery, John David Carson, George C. Scott,
Directors : George C. Scott,

A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.

Actors : Rodolfo Dal Pra, Bruce Robinson, Corinne Cléry, Katja Rupé,
Directors : Carlo Lizzani,

Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in ...

Actors : Lucia Bosé, Stelvio Rosi, Farley Granger, Giacomo Rossi Stuart,
Directors : Mario Colucci,

A group of stranded travelers takes refuge in an old abandoned house, only to find out that they are not the only residents of the building.