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Language
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Sam leaves home for the mountains after being told that the family trip has been canceled, preventing him from doing the algae experiments he had planned for. The film chronicles his struggle for independence, and his battle with the forces of natures. *"A slender, honest study of a boy learning to be a man in his own way." - Howard Thompson, **The New York Times***
2) Survive
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After surviving a plane crash on a remote mountain, two people must find a way to survive and get back to society.
3) The grey
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a roughneck group of oil drillers is forced to find a way back to civilization. As Ottway leads the injured survivors through the brutal snow and ice, they are relentlessly tracked by a vicious pack of rogue wolves that will do anything to defend their territory. Adrenaline-fueled, action-packed and loaded with some of the most intense and brutally realistic attack scenes ever filmed.
5) Fern Hill
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A coming of age story which follows four 13-year-old boys on an adventure into the mountains of Colorado in search of a lost father and his plane.
6) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
9) Buoyancy
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Central Khmer
Description
This story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor on a Thai fishing boat is a passionate testimony against social injustice and a moving coming-of-age tale about a boy whose humanity is put to the test.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Cliff and Cydney are an adventurous young couple celebrating their honeymoon by backpacking to one of the most beautiful, and remote, beaches in Hawaii. Hiking the wild, secluded trails, they believe they have found paradise. But when the pair comes across a group of frightened hikers discussing the horrifying murder of another newlywed couple on the islands, they begin to question whether they should turn back. Unsure whether to stay or flee, Cliff...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Sometime in the near future, near anarchy has broken out in Japan. The government responds by passing the Battle Royale Act, a piece of legislation mandating that a group of young people - and only young people - are forcibly marooned together on an island, and forced to kill each other until one survivor is left. If more than one is still alive after three days, every survivor will be killed. The film follows a class of 14-year-olds who believe they're...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a snowstorm strands former professional hockey player Eric LeMarque atop the Sierra Nevada Mountains for eight days, he is forced to face his past and come to terms with his personal demons and rediscover the power of faith within him in order to survive.
14) The great bear
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan, 11, usually spends his vacations alone with his grandfather who lives on the edge of a vast forest populated by mythical animals. This year his kid sister Sophie joins him. But it's not cool to be stuck with a little sister, so he does what he can to avoid her. He succeeds entirely too well: Sophie is kidnapped by a giant, 1000-year-old bear. Now, Jonathan has to venture into the heart of the forest to confront the strange beings that dwell...
15) Death ring
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Description
When ex-Special Forces agent Matt Collins (Norris) wins a survivalist competition, he becomes "the toughest man alive" ; perfect fodder for perverse millionaire Danton Vachs (Drago), whose annual manhunt on an island off the coast of Mexico attracts the most vicious killers in the world. As the diabolical competition begins, Collins and company must kill their attackers one by one ... or be added to the list of prey.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Based on Scott O'Dell's beloved children₂s classic is the heartwarming adventure of a nineteenth-century Native American girl who becomes stranded on a remote island off the California coast. Karana is forced to flee the island of her birth with the rest of her tribe when hunters threaten the area. Realizing her young brother has been left behind, she jumps ship and swims back to the island, where the two attempt to survive in solitude against staggering...
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