Best Survival movies of 1980s

Actors : Albert Salmi, Cassie Yates, Art Carney, David Huffman,
Directors : Ernest Pintoff,

Dramatization of the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980.

Actors : Googy Gress, Michael Sanville, John Flood, Georgia Harrell,

A group of teenage summer campers and one counselor share the stories of their first sexual experiences when an avalanche traps them in a cave...

Actors : Marina Giulia Cavalli, Daniel Bosch, Robert Marius, Luciano Pigozzi,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

Two members of Greenpeace discover that a local factory sheds radioactive waste into an active volcano, which has created a terrifying creature that wreaks havoc in the area.

Actors : Rebecca Stanley, Sally Klein, Guy Boyd, Dennis Lipscomb,
Directors : Avery Crounse,

A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.

Actors : Nicola Stapleton, Billy Barty, Diana Rigg, Sarah Patterson,
Directors : Michael Berz,

Dame Diana Rigg (TV's "The Avengers"), Billy Barty ("Willow") and Sarah Patterson ("The Company of Wolves") as Snow White star in this feature-length, live-action, musical version of the classic fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm.

Actors : John Cullum, Franco Nero, Carole Laure, Jane Alexander,
Directors : Mihalis Kakogiannis,

Anna and Ben are settled in rural Chile in the early 1970's. They are very isolated and their only real friends are two Chilean sisters, Eva and Monica. When Ben is stranded in Santiago on ...

Actors : Florin Zamfirescu, Dorel Visan, Cecilia Bârbora, Ion Besoiu,
Directors : Mircea Daneliuc,

Iacob lives in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains near a gold mine and tries to survive.

Actors : Walter Abbot, Franklin Anson, Lou Ferrigno, Shari Shattuck,
Directors : Jim Goldman,

In the post-nuclear wastes of Earth two civilizations fight for survival. The Tyrogs, in the City of Doom, and the Drones, who live underground, free from radiation. The nuclear war is over but the fight for survival has just begun.

Actors : Urmila Bhatt, Bob Christo, Birbal, Dharmendra,
Directors : B. Gupta,

A young baby from the doomed planet Krypton is sent to Earth, where he is adopted by an elderly couple in India who name him Shekhar. After growing to an adult and learning about his ...

Actors : Maury Chaykin, Paul Gross, Margaret Langrick, Jayne Eastwood,
Directors : Vic Sarin,

Three lonely people depend on each other when they get stranded at a deserted gas station in a blizzard. Floyd is a truck driver balancing on the edge of lunacy. He is the caring father of ...

Actors : Michael Ensign, David Muir, Cathy Cahn, Stacey Travis,
Directors : Richard Clark,

Dr. Hackenstein is a genial but somewhat misguided scientist. He murders the locals for their body parts, but it's not for power or scientific research; he just needs them to put his wife back together.

Actors : Jeff Harding, Michael Fitzpatrick, Naomi Kaneda, Brad Powell,

A film crew producing a rock music video decides to shoot at an abandoned factory above the snow line. When an avalanche strands them, a murderous family living in the factory attacks and kills many of them.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Hiroshi Katsuno, Yumi Takigawa,
Directors : Kenjirô Ohmori,

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.

Actors : Francis Huster, Richard Bohringer, Nathalie Baye, Madeleine Robinson,
Directors : Robin Davis,

After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.

Actors : Andrey Krasko, Yuriy Kuznetsov, Sergey Kokovkin, Aleksey Krychenkov,
Directors : Dmitriy Svetozarov,

A group of hunters enters a ghost town in Central Asia with a mission to kill packs of abandoned, and now wild cannibal dogs. But tables turn and there seems to be no way for the hunters to survive the horrific battle.

Actors : Hamdy Ahmed, Youssra, Gamil Ratib, Safiyyah Al-Omary,
Directors : Salah Abouseif,

After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.

Actors : Steve Kanaly, Macon McCalman, Karen Carlson, Robert Chimento,
Directors : George Gage,

A soldier who deserted because of spiritual beliefs was tried and evaluated by four psychiatrists, and they all concluded that he was unable to distinguish right from wrong, so he was ...

Actors : Molly Ringwald, Marianne Price, Jeffrey Robert, Robert Lindsay,
Directors : James Scott,

A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.

Actors : Jannina Poynter, Carl Irwin, Macka Foley, David O'Hara,

A young woman newly arrived in a small town comes up against a crazed group of survivalists who have killed a party of motorcyclists in the desert. They capture and rape her, but she ...

Actors : Sandra Lea, Tara Trimble, Steve Railsback, Jason Healey,
Directors : Sig Shore,

An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed. Cold War panic turns to chaos, martial law is declared and the US Constitution suspended. Survivalist John Tillman must save his family from roaming gangs and a corrupt army unit.