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Movies that transport you into the great outdoors
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items Sometimes you crave the scenic immersion of being outside, but the sticks and stones are out of reach for the moment. Maybe it's a busy week at work. Perhaps you're stuck in bed with a cold. Or you might not have the energy to motor off to the neares...
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Comedy
Drama
Family
Horror
Action/Adventure
The outdoors can go from enchanting to deadly in a matter of seconds. Take Aron Ralston, who found himself trapped in a slot canyon in the Southwest when an unstable boulder fell and pinned his arm to the wall. Danny Boyle's ingenious adaptation of t...
127 Hours
One of the most hardcore and criminally under-seen action films of all time, Runaway Train has an irresistibly nightmarish premise. Jon Voight and Eric Roberts break out of a maximum security prison in Alaska, they hop a train, and the train engineer...
Runaway Train
Slawomir Rawicz's epic WWII memoir about a desperate foot journey from a Siberian gulag to the northern border of India gets the Peter Weir treatment in this continent-spanning adventure story with a robust international cast and world-class photogra...
The Way Back
Comedy
Some role are so well-cast that they can almost feel like fate. Or like witnessing an A-list actor do something that's as natural to them as breathing. That's how it feels seeing Kurt Russell play the titular Captian Ron, a grizzled and bronzed sea s...
Captain Ron
A foster father and son venturing into New Zealand's woodlands and mountains while being hunted by the authorities might not sound like the stuff of comedy classics, but this charming film by Taika Waititi channels the sense of wonder and irreverence...
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
When you're young, the outdoors can feel like a place where you can create your own little world, as the leads of Wes Anderson's great Moonrise Kingdom set off to do. It's simple and timeless. Two kids on an island in New England fall in love and ven...
Moonrise Kingdom
Drama
No director captures natural landscapes with as much sweeping, atmospheric detail as Terrence Malick, and Days Of Heaven might just be his masterpiece. A love triangle set on a Texas panhandle wheat plantation during the Great Depression era, the ent...
Days of Heaven
Animation is capable of imbuing the natural world with even more majesty, menace, and visual power. Hayao Miyazaki's epic tale of forest spirits and extractative human in a war for dominance is one of the legendary director's most powerful and creati...
Princess Mononoke
Thru-hiking long distance trails like the PCT has become an aspirational hot topic in American life these days. Wild evocatively captures the reality that many people find their way into backpacking after being chewed up and spat out by the hardships...
Wild
Family
A young cat and pug living side-by-side on a farm find their way to a river and are wisked away, kicking off a coming of age adventure in the countryside that will transform their lives. The premise is as irresistible now as it was back in 1989, when...
The Adventures Of Milo And Otis
Disney has produced so many movies that a lot of them have been virtually lost to history. This 1984 stunner is based on an incredible true story about a biologist who was sent to the Alaksan tundra to prove that local wolves were picking off the car...
Never Cry Wolf
This animated adventure just gets better with each passing year and I'm mystified as to why it's not widely considered a classic. A chapter of the United Nations consisting of mice that organizes missions to extact kids from danger? A pair of these m...
The Rescuers
Horror
Easily the gnarliest movie on this list (and also one of the most visually inspired,) Lars von Trier's first horror movie, which he made while suffering from depression, follows a couple played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe as they retreat...
Antichrist
The gold standard of outdoor horror movies and possibly the best “found footage” movie ever made, The Blair Witch Project still slaps because it perfectly captures the terrifying disorientation and mounting dread of being lost in the woods. In this c...
The Blair Witch Project
There haven't been a lot of horror movies set in caves. Maybe that's because just thinking about caves (and what might be lurking deep within them) is scary enough for most of us. Neil Marshall's 2005 masterpiece taps into this primal fear, with a st...
The Descent