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Survival Movies

Do you think finding a parking space at the mall is tough? Or you just can't handle the stress of cooking for your in-laws? Stop for a moment, take a deep breath, and watch one of these movies to remind yourself just how much worse it could be.

Black Cadillac (2002)
What starts out as a night of celebration for three friends, quickly becomes the ultimate test of survival. The mystery grows further when they are joined by a local deputy sheriff and are stalked down the mountain by the ominous, probing headlights of a black Cadillac.
 
Cast Away (2000)
Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a FedEx systems engineer, finds his ruled-by-the-clock existence over when a harrowing plane crash leaves him isolated on a remote island. As Chuck struggles to survive, he finds that his own personal journey has only just begun.
 
The Day After (1983)
Following a nuclear strike against the United States, families in a small-town in Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.
 
Deliverance (1972)
When four city dwellers spend a weekend canoeing down a mystery-laden Georgian river, they soon find themselves in a fight for survival. (Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds)
 
Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane.
 
Island in the Sky (1953)
A transport plane crashes on Labrador's frozen tundra. The pilot (John Wayne) must keep his crew alive while waiting to be rescued.
 
Lord of the Flies (1990)
Adaptation of William Golding's novel about a group of English boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island when the plane that is evacuating them from a war-threatened England crash lands. Without adult control, the boys regress to savagery.
 
The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
A madman on his island fortress, tired of pursuing game, becomes obsessed with the idea of hunting the most dangerous game of all - man.
 
The Posiedon Adventure (1972)
During a New Year's eve celebration aboard a luxury liner, a tidal wave capsizes the ship and ten passengers struggle to survive. Stars Gene Hackman.
 
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964)
When his spaceship crash lands on the barren wastelands of Mars, U.S. astronaut Commander "Kit" Draper must fight for survival, with a pet monkey as his only companion until he meets "Friday," an alien.
 
The Snow Walker (2003)
When a plane carrying Charlie Halliday and a sick Inuit woman, Kanaalay, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature's worst.