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1. Jurassic World (2015)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer
Votes: 679,342 | Gross: $652.27M
2. Wonder Woman (2017)
PG-13 | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
Director: Patty Jenkins | Stars: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Lucy Davis
Votes: 699,561 | Gross: $412.56M
3. Star Trek Beyond (2016)
PG-13 | 122 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The crew of the USS Enterprise explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a new ruthless enemy, who puts them, and everything the Federation stands for, to the test.
Director: Justin Lin | Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana
Votes: 258,470 | Gross: $158.85M
4. San Andreas (2015)
PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the state in order to rescue his daughter.
Director: Brad Peyton | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino, Alexandra Daddario, Colton Haynes
Votes: 256,659 | Gross: $155.19M
5. The Searchers (1956)
Passed | 119 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 96,267
6. The 5th Wave (2016)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Four waves of increasingly deadly alien attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother.
Director: J Blakeson | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Matthew Zuk, Gabriela Lopez, Bailey Anne Borders
Votes: 117,251 | Gross: $34.92M
7. Rambo: Last Blood (2019)
R | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Rambo must confront his past and unearth his ruthless combat skills to exact revenge in a final mission.
Director: Adrian Grunberg | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza
Votes: 109,493 | Gross: $44.82M
8. Capricorn One (1977)
PG | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.
Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston
Votes: 24,722
9. Cliffhanger (1993)
R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner
Votes: 139,943 | Gross: $84.05M
10. The Guardian (I) (2006)
PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ashton Kutcher, Sela Ward, Melissa Sagemiller
Votes: 98,015 | Gross: $55.01M
11. The Core (2003)
PG-13 | 135 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Bruce Greenwood
Votes: 107,296 | Gross: $31.19M
12. Searching (III) (2018)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Director: Aneesh Chaganty | Stars: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La
Votes: 179,919 | Gross: $26.02M
13. Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Comedy
"Rambo" parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.
Director: Jim Abrahams | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna
Votes: 97,357 | Gross: $38.91M
14. Northern Rescue (2019)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Family
After his wife dies, search and rescue commander John West uproots his three children, moving from Boston to his rural hometown of Turtle Island Bay. The death affects each of their lives as John and his kids cope with their loss.
Stars: William Baldwin, Kathleen Robertson, Amalia Williamson, Spencer Macpherson
Votes: 4,858
15. Volcano (1997)
PG-13 | 104 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A volcano erupts in downtown Los Angeles and a city official and a seismologist try to stop its inevitable flow through the city.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle
Votes: 81,536 | Gross: $49.32M
16. Jaws 2 (1978)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo
Votes: 84,490 | Gross: $102.92M
17. The Finest Hours (2016)
PG-13 | 117 min | Action, Drama, History
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Director: Craig Gillespie | Stars: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana
Votes: 70,652 | Gross: $27.57M
18. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)
R | 103 min | Animation, Action, Drama
A legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to return a young woman, who has been seemingly abducted by a vampire, to her family.
Director: Yoshiaki Kawajiri | Stars: Andrew Philpot, John Rafter Lee, Pamela Adlon, Wendee Lee
Votes: 35,797 | Gross: $0.15M
19. Silent Running (1972)
G | 89 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future where all flora is extinct on Earth, an astronaut is given orders to destroy the last of Earth's botany, kept in a greenhouse aboard a spacecraft.
Director: Douglas Trumbull | Stars: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint
Votes: 31,460 | Gross: $0.69M
20. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
PG | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When journalist April O'Neil discovers an ancient scepter with magical powers, the Turtles must cow-a-bunga their way back to 17th century Japan to rescue her from the evil clutches of Lord Norinaga.
Director: Stuart Gillard | Stars: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono
Votes: 36,436 | Gross: $42.66M
21. World Trade Center (2006)
PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, History, Thriller
Two Port Authority police officers become trapped under the rubble of the World Trade Center.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Votes: 87,863 | Gross: $70.28M
22. Miracle Mile (1988)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes.
Director: Steve De Jarnatt | Stars: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar, Lou Hancock
Votes: 12,345 | Gross: $1.15M
23. Rescued by Ruby (2022)
TV-G | 90 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Chasing his dream to join an elite K-9 unit, a state trooper partners with a fellow underdog: clever but naughty shelter pup Ruby.
Director: Katt Shea | Stars: Grant Gustin, Scott Wolf, Kaylah Zander, Camille Sullivan
Votes: 10,814
24. The Colony (I) (2013)
Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Director: Jeff Renfroe | Stars: Kevin Zegers, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Paxton, Charlotte Sullivan
Votes: 47,108
25. Ladder 49 (2004)
PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A firefighter, injured and trapped in a burning building, has flashbacks of his life as he drifts in and out of consciousness. Meanwhile, fellow firefighters led by the Chief attempt to rescue him.
Director: Jay Russell | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick
Votes: 59,425 | Gross: $74.54M
26. Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely teenagers band together to fight.
Director: Stuart Beattie | Stars: Caitlin Stasey, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Lincoln Lewis, Deniz Akdeniz
Votes: 32,026
27. Airport '77 (1977)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under one hundred feet of water.
Director: Jerry Jameson | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland
Votes: 12,311 | Gross: $30.00M
28. Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (1995)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Teenager Jesse becomes reunited with Willy two years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Jason James Richter, Michael Madsen, Francis Capra, Mary Kate Schellhardt
Votes: 19,580 | Gross: $30.08M
29. Two Rode Together (1961)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Western
A corrupt marshal is pressured by his army friend into negotiating the release of white captives of the Comanches, but finds that their reintegration into society has its consequences.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones, Linda Cristal
Votes: 6,950
30. The Snow Walker (2003)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Drama
A pilot and his passenger struggle for survival after crashing in the Arctic tundra.
Director: Charles Martin Smith | Stars: Barry Pepper, Annabella Piugattuk, James Cromwell, Kiersten Warren
Votes: 11,368
31. Infini (2015)
R | 110 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An elite 'search and rescue' team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak.
Director: Shane Abbess | Stars: Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, Luke Hemsworth, Luke Ford
Votes: 15,110
32. Snowbeast (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 86 min | Horror
A Colorado ski resort is besieged by a sub-human beast that commits brutal murders on the slopes.
Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: Bo Svenson, Yvette Mimieux, Robert Logan, Clint Walker
Votes: 2,273
33. Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)
R | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Three friends filming an audition tape for an extreme reality-TV show find themselves stranded in shark-infested waters, turning their recording into a bloody diary of death. Do they have what it takes to survive the open water?
Director: Gerald Rascionato | Stars: Joel Hogan, Josh Potthoff, Megan Peta Hill, Pete Valley
Votes: 5,036
34. Away and Back (2015 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hostility turns into something else between a widowed farmer and a pushy ornithologist who came to his farm to save a family of swans.
Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Jason Lee, Minka Kelly, Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Jaren Lewison
Votes: 1,587
35. 7 Guardians of the Tomb (2018)
TV-MA | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
An innocent discovery of a well-preserved mummified Chinese Emperor from 200 B.C. unearths a two-thousand-year-old nightmare, a secret that should have remained buried.
Director: Kimble Rendall | Stars: Bingbing Li, Kellan Lutz, Kelsey Grammer, Chun Wu
Votes: 4,166
36. 240-Robert (1979–1981)
60 min | Adventure
The missions of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Emergency Services Detail.
Stars: John Bennett Perry, Mark Harmon, Joanna Cassidy, Peter J. Pitchess
Votes: 253
37. 100 Million BC (2008 Video)
R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A scientist leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly when he accidentally brings a giant dinosaur back into Los Angeles.
Director: Griff Furst | Stars: Michael Gross, Christopher Atkins, Greg Evigan, Marie Westbrook
Votes: 4,780
38. After the Storm (2019 TV Movie)
91 min | Romance
Lauren wants to rebuild her community, including her family home, in the aftermath of a devastatingly disastrous storm.
Director: Emma Jean Sutherland | Stars: Madeline Leon, Bo Yokely, Carlisle J. Williams, Diana Chrisman
Votes: 537
39. Island in the Sky (1953)
Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Drama
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: John Wayne, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Abel, James Arness
Votes: 3,780
40. Missing 411 (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary
A documentary that chronicles the similar disappearances of five children in the wilds of North America, across multiple decades.
Directors: Michael DeGrazier, Benjamin Paulides | Stars: Jaryd Atadero, DeOrr Kunz Jr., Nate Eaton, Frank Vilt
Votes: 2,088
41. Redwood Highway (2013)
PG-13 | 90 min | Drama
Marie decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast of Oregon to revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years.
Director: Gary Lundgren | Stars: Shirley Knight, James Le Gros, Catherine E. Coulson, J.P. Phillips
Votes: 603 | Gross: $0.13M
42. The White Dawn (1974)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanasie Salamonie
Votes: 893 | Gross: $0.40M
43. High Mountain Rangers (1987–1988)
60 min | Action, Adventure
The adventures of a family based elite wilderness law enforcement and rescue force.
Stars: Robert Conrad, Christian Conrad, Shane Conrad, Tony Acierto
Votes: 168
44. Mountain Men (2014)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
Mountain Men is a comedy/drama that follows two estranged brothers, Toph and Cooper, as they journey to a remote family cabin in the mountains to evict a squatter. Buried resentment and ... See full summary »
Director: Cameron Labine | Stars: Chace Crawford, Tyler Labine, Christine Willes, Britt Irvin
Votes: 1,778
45. The Guard (2008–2009)
60 min | Drama
Drama series portraying the professional and personal lives of several Canadian Coast Guard workers specializing in search and rescue operations in the Pacific Ocean.
Stars: Steve Bacic, Jeremy Guilbaut, Zoie Palmer, Gordon Michael Woolvett
Votes: 285
46. Return to Christmas Creek (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 86 min | Drama, Romance
With Christmas approaching, a career-focused Chicago app developer returns to her small hometown to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There she reunites with her estranged uncle and her childhood best friend, who she begins falling for.
Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Tori Anderson, Stephen Huszar, Steven Weber, Kari Matchett
Votes: 2,410
47. Point Last Seen (1998 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband.
Director: Elodie Keene | Stars: Linda Hamilton, Kevin Kilner, Sam Hennings, Kieren van den Blink
Votes: 417
48. Dirkie (1969)
G | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
After a plane crash a young boy and his dog wander through the Kalahari desert.
Director: Jamie Uys | Stars: Wynand Uys, Jamie Uys, Lady Frolic of Belvedale, Wilhelm Esterhuizen
Votes: 480
49. 12 Men of Christmas (2009 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A high-powered New York City publicist finds herself in Montana promoting a charity calendar after being betrayed by her boss and fiancé. Unfortunately, matters of the heart are just as complicated in the wilds as they are in the big city.
Director: Arlene Sanford | Stars: Kristin Chenoweth, Josh Hopkins, Anna Chlumsky, Erin Dilly
Votes: 2,595
50. Ordeal in the Arctic (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 96 min | Drama
A Canadian military flight from Greenland to Canada crashes in the frozen arctic, nearby Alert base in Nunavut, and the survivors must endure for 32 hours until rescued.
Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Catherine Mary Stewart, Melanie Mayron, Scott Hylands
Votes: 289