Best Survival Game Movies & Films Subgenre

Top 37 must-see best survival game movies from survival game movies, including The Vanishing, Battle Royale, The Platform, Ready or Not, Cube, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Dave Made a Maze, Caveat, Meander, and Saw ranked and rated by score.

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Survival Game Movies List

1). The Vanishing (1988) 

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Score: 8.65/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 43,224 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.6/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor...

Director: George Sluizer
Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Saché

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2). Battle Royale (2000) 

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Score: 8.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 193,397 | Rotten Tomatoes: 9.0/10 | Metascore: 8.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k*ll each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act. Tagline: Their Game, No Rules, No Prisoners...

Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Stars: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama

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3). The Platform (2019) 

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Score: 7.43/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 268,004 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.0/10 | Metascore: 7.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A mysterious place, an indescribable prison, a deep hole. An unknown number of levels. Two inmates living on each level. A descending platform containing food for all of them. An inhuman fight for survival, but also an opportunity for solidarity...

Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay

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4). Ready or Not (2019) 

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Score: 7.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 181,315 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 | Metascore: 6.4/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $28,714,231
Plot / Synopsis: READY OR NOT follows a young bride (Samara Weaving) as she joins her new husband's (Mark O'Brien) rich, eccentric family (Adam Brody, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell) in a time-honored tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.Tagline: The Game Begins...

Directors: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
Stars: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Mark O''Brien, Henry Czerny, Andie MacDowell

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5). Cube (1997) 

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Score: 7.38/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 246,813 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.3/10 | Metascore: 6.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $501,818
Plot / Synopsis: Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps. Tagline: The only way out lies within your own mind...

Director: Vincenzo Natali
Stars: Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Julian Richings

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6). Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) 

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Score: 7.2/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 64,470 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.5/10 | Metascore: 6.9/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $11,446,602
Plot / Synopsis: When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong...

Director: Halina Reijn
Stars: Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Rachel Sennott, Chase Sui Wonders, Pete Davidson

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7). Dave Made a Maze (2017) 

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Score: 6.97/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 8,962 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.6/10 | Metascore: 6.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $34,117
Plot / Synopsis: Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation...

Director: Bill Watterson
Stars: Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch, James Urbaniak, Frank Caeti

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8). Caveat (2020) 

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Score: 6.67/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,761 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.1/10 | Metascore: 6.0/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A lone drifter, Isaac suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job from his old landlord Barrett, to look after his niece Olga, a psychologically troubled woman living in an abandoned house on an isolated island. When Barrett convinces Isaac to confine his movements to the house and leaves the two of them alone, a game of cat and...

Director: Damian Mc Carthy
Stars: Ben Caplan, Conor Dwane, Johnny French, Jonathan French, Inma Pavon

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9). Meander (2020) 

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Score: 6.57/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 11,337 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.0/10 | Metascore: 6.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A woman finds herself locked in a series of strange tunnels full of deadly traps. Tagline: You Have Just Woken Up Stock in a Pipe Full of Deadly Traps. How Far Would You Go?...

Director: Mathieu Turi
Stars: Gaia Weiss, Peter Franzén, Romane Libert, Frédéric Franchitti, Corneliu Dragomirescu

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10). Saw (2004) 

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Score: 6.53/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 464,591 | Rotten Tomatoes: 5.0/10 | Metascore: 4.6/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $56,000,369
Plot / Synopsis: James Wan's Saw (2004) has become a real classic of modern horror movies and today we have the official poster for the Saw 10th Anniversary Re-release. This will be a one-week only re-release into movie theaters. I don't know about you but I watch Saw once every year, this year I will relive the movie theater experience. Starring in Saw...

Director: James Wan
Stars: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer

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11). 13 Sins (2014) 

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Score: 6.51/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 38,746 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.4/10 | Metascore: 4.4/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $13,809
Plot / Synopsis: Daniel Stamm's (The Last Exorcism) 13 Sins (2014) looks really interesting and did I mention has Ron Perlman starring in the horror film. Other movies have done similar but I really think this movie will nail the intensity that is needed to make the film good. I saw the trailer and all I can say is that this movie is a...

Director: Daniel Stamm
Stars: Mark Webber, Devon Graye, Tom Bower, Rutina Wesley, Ron Perlman

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12). Await Further Instructions (2018) 

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Score: 6.5/10 | IMDB Rating: 4.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 9,572 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.1/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: It's Christmas Day and the Milgram family wake to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door, but what exactly - an industrial accident, a terrorist attack, nuclear war? Descending into terrified arguments, they turn on the television, desperate for any information. On screen a message glows ominously: 'Stay Indoors...

Director: Johnny Kevorkian
Stars: Sam Gittins, Neerja Naik, Abigail Cruttenden, David Bradley, Grant Masters

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13). Follow Her (2022) 

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Score: 6.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,281 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.7/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy...

Director: Sylvia Caminer
Stars: Dani Barker, Luke Cook, Eliana Jones, Mark Moses, Cristala Carter

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14). Severance (2006) 

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Score: 6.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 40,610 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.6/10 | Metascore: 6.2/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $137,221
Plot / Synopsis: During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one.Tagline: Another bloody office outing...

Director: Christopher Smith
Stars: Toby Stephens, Claudie Blakley, Andy Nyman, Babou Ceesay, Tim McInnerny

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15). Knock at the Cabin (2023) 

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Score: 6.37/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 113,164 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.7/10 | Metascore: 6.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $35,397,980
Plot / Synopsis: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost. From visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin stars Dave Bautista...

Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Jonathan Groff, Dave Bautista, Rupert Grint, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Ben Aldridge

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