Movies and TvShows featuring "back-to-nature" theme.

After experiencing a personal tragedy, Cheryl Strayed sets out on a 1,100-mile solo hike to find healing and redemption. Along the way, she faces physical and emotional challenges while reflecting on her past and rediscovering herself.

Christopher McCandless, a top student and athlete, gives up his conventional life to live in the Alaskan wilderness. His journey is marked by encounters with different people and the realization that true happiness is found in sharing with others.

In La Belle Verte, a group of extraterrestrials from a harmonious and technologically advanced planet visit Earth to observe its inhabitants. The film explores themes of satire, social criticism, anti-materialism, and anti-consumerism as the extraterrestrials witness the destructive and materialistic nature of human civilization. Through their interactions, they encourage a return to nature, empathy, and spirituality as a way to address ecological and environmental issues. The film also critiques the negative impact of technology and capitalism on the planet, advocating for green living and a more natural way of life. Ultimately, it offers a message of spiritual redemption and the importance of communing with nature.

After their plane crashes in a remote jungle, a group of office workers must rely on their survival skills to navigate the treacherous environment and fend off dangerous animals. As tensions rise and sanity begins to waver, they must find a way to escape the jungle and make it back to civilization.

An idealistic inventor takes his family to live in the remote jungle of Honduras, where their utopian dream turns into a dangerous obsession.

When a beauty queen becomes the lone survivor of a plane crash, she must use her wits and humor to survive while encountering absurd situations on the island.

Surviving with Wolves follows the journey of a young Jewish girl who escapes persecution and deportation during World War II and finds refuge in the forest, where she forms a unique bond with a pack of wolves.

In 'The Year of the Hare,' a man named Kaarlo Vatanen hits a hare with his car during a business trip. This incident prompts him to leave his ordinary life behind and embark on a transformative adventure in the Finnish wilderness. Along the way, he encounters various characters and experiences, including sleeping in a barn, bathing in a river, and fighting a forest fire. Through his encounters with nature and newfound freedom, Kaarlo learns to reevaluate his priorities and find true happiness.

After surviving in the wilderness, the Wilderness Family faces new challenges when they return to civilization. They must adapt to modern life while still cherishing their love for nature and adventure.

In the city, Goofy finds his daily job much too stressful so he decides to leave this hustle and bustle for a more peaceful life in the tropics. He finds life there most enjoyable collecting shells from the beach, making a hut in which to live, getting back to nature, and even joining in the big luau feast (with meals such as shark fin soup). Yes, Goofy thinks nothing can go wrong in this paradise...until the natives need to sacrifice someone to their volcano.

Independent film by early New Hollywood figure John Korty

A family decides to move to the most remote place they can find and live for as long as they can. This is the true story of a family living off the land in remote Alaska with no modern tools or 'luxuries' (except a movie camera!). This documentary is a year in their life.

This documentary on the "youth movement" of the late 1960s focuses on the hippie pot smoking/free love culture in the San Francisco Bay area.

When their plane crashes in the Rocky Mountains, a family must use their survival skills to navigate the wilderness and find a way back to civilization.

In a future dystopia, a documentary filmmaker is invited to a commune in San Francisco to document the lives of survivors after a deadly plague. The film explores themes of survival, morality, and the human spirit as the characters navigate their new reality.

Valtteri and Sepe, two ordinary white-collar guys from southern Finland drive up north to implement a plan they've been hatching for months. Because they simply love the taste of lamb, baked "robber-style" in a hole dug under a campfire, they forge their car's number plates and other important documents just to be able to poach sheep grazing on the roadside without getting caught. Lots of man talk around the campfire, aided by lots of booze. The summer may be wet, but the vodka is definitely dry.

In a post-apocalyptic world, a man's mental breakdown leads him to form an imaginary friendship with a talking rabbit. Together, they navigate a dystopian landscape and confront themes of loneliness, isolation, and loss.

A short satire that parodies a passionate and fashionable return to nature, a green self-sufficient life.