454 films
Films about survival
Stories stripped down to whether a person continues.
Every film here has been read through the same lens: which rung of the E0–E14 reality ladder its story fights on, whether it moves consciousness off the human, and which rule of its world it alters. Ordered by how many people have rated them.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)★ 8.2
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)★ 7.6
The Hunger Games (2012)★ 7.2
The Maze Runner (2014)★ 7.2
I Am Legend (2007)★ 7.2
World War Z (2013)★ 6.8
Alien (1979)★ 8.2
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)★ 7.5
The Terminator (1984)★ 7.7
Ice Age (2002)★ 7.4
Life of Pi (2012)★ 7.4
Zombieland (2009)★ 7.3
The Shape of Water (2017)★ 7.2
2012 (2009)★ 5.9
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)★ 7.3
Transformers (2007)★ 6.8
Oblivion (2013)★ 6.7
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)★ 6.7
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)★ 6.8
Bird Box (2018)★ 6.8
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)★ 6.8
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)★ 6.7
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)★ 7.2
Shaun of the Dead (2004)★ 7.5
Predator (1987)★ 7.5
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)★ 6.2
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)★ 6.6
Train to Busan (2016)★ 7.7
Life (2017)★ 6.5
The Thing (1982)★ 8.1
Children of Men (2006)★ 7.6
The Platform (2019)★ 7.0
Cloverfield (2008)★ 6.7
Prey (2022)★ 7.7
Bullet Train (2022)★ 7.4
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)★ 6.2
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)★ 6.6
Terminator Salvation (2009)★ 6.1
Resident Evil (2002)★ 6.7
It Follows (2015)★ 6.6
This Is the End (2013)★ 6.2
The Book of Eli (2010)★ 6.8
Noah (2014)★ 5.7
Mortal Kombat (2021)★ 7.0
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)★ 6.9
Bambi (1942)★ 7.0
The 5th Wave (2016)★ 5.9
Battleship (2012)★ 5.9
The Mist (2007)★ 6.9
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)★ 7.3
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)★ 6.4
Paranormal Activity (2007)★ 6.0
Ready or Not (2019)★ 7.1
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)★ 6.1
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)★ 6.8
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)★ 7.2
Cube (1998)★ 6.8
Escape Room (2019)★ 6.5
Evil Dead (2013)★ 6.6
I Am Number Four (2011)★ 6.2
Mad Max (1979)★ 6.7
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)★ 5.9
Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)★ 6.1
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)★ 7.5
Over the Hedge (2006)★ 6.6
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)★ 6.4
Predators (2010)★ 6.3
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)★ 6.3
Alien: Romulus (2024)★ 7.2
Dawn of the Dead (2004)★ 7.1
The Evil Dead (1981)★ 7.3
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)★ 5.8
Army of the Dead (2021)★ 6.2
The Descent (2005)★ 7.0
Underworld: Awakening (2012)★ 6.3
Blade: Trinity (2004)★ 5.9
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)★ 7.1
Crank (2006)★ 6.7
Saw IV (2007)★ 6.2
The Host (2013)★ 6.3
Planet of the Apes (1968)★ 7.7
The Call of the Wild (2020)★ 7.5
Finch (2021)★ 7.8
9 (2009)★ 6.9
Planet Terror (2007)★ 6.7
Predator 2 (1990)★ 6.3
Battle Royale (2000)★ 7.3
Lightyear (2022)★ 6.9
The Gorge (2025)★ 7.6
Evil Dead Rise (2023)★ 6.9
Moonfall (2022)★ 6.2
Evil Dead II (1987)★ 7.5
Underwater (2020)★ 6.3
The Ritual (2017)★ 6.3
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)★ 7.8
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)★ 6.5
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)★ 5.2
Saw 3D (2010)★ 6.0
Jeepers Creepers (2001)★ 6.5
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)★ 6.2
The Thing (2011)★ 6.2
10,000 BC (2008)★ 5.5
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)★ 7.7
Godzilla Minus One (2023)★ 7.6
Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018)★ 7.9
30 Days of Night (2007)★ 6.4
Triangle (2009)★ 6.9
Terrifier (2018)★ 6.3
The Darkest Minds (2018)★ 7.0
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)★ 5.5
Legion (2010)★ 5.9
65 (2023)★ 5.9
I Am Mother (2019)★ 6.7
Anaconda (1997)★ 5.3
Flow (2024)★ 8.1
The Land Before Time (1988)★ 7.1
Dinosaur (2000)★ 6.6
Night of the Living Dead (1968)★ 7.6
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)★ 5.9
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