Movies and TvShows featuring "survival-instinct" theme.

Mia, a pregnant woman, flees a crisis-stricken country and hides in a container on a cargo ship. After a storm, she gives birth while lost at sea and must fight to stay alive. With limited resources, Mia uses items from the container to survive, stitches her wounds with TV parts, and catches fish for food. She eventually gives birth and constructs a makeshift raft. After being rescued, Mia and her daughter are brought to Ireland.

In order to pay off his debts, a young man named Zheng Kaisi takes part in a deadly survival game on a mysterious ship. As the game progresses, Kaisi must use his intelligence and survival instincts to outwit his opponents and stay alive. With his life on the line, he must confront betrayal, deception, and the dark side of human nature.

In this nature adventure, a courageous cougar must struggle to survive after a cruel human hunter kills her mate.

During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally distraught, dresses in women's clothes and eventually joins a passing gypsy caravan, who think him a young girl... as well as a kind of seer, or 'rawney'. In time, however, he regains some composure and becomes attracted to one of the gypsy girls, which only leads to problems within the gypsy band, especially when the wounded commanding officer finds him.

Roy is a robot mechanic holed away in a rundown barn, living in a world of rustic antiques melded with futuristic sensibilities. He is a man forgotten by society and spends his days tinkering at projects. That is until someone opens the door into his shop.

STARVED is a post-apocalyptic psychological horror machinima by Alvin Soprano, created in Fallout 3. Set in the desolate ruins of the Capital Wasteland, the film explores the descent into madness of a lone survivor trapped in an abandoned metro tunnel — cut off from food, light, and hope. After a supply run gone wrong, a scavenger named Joanna Creek finds herself trapped beneath the city in a collapsed metro tunnel. Her radio is dead, her flashlight battery fading, and all exits are sealed. Days pass. Hunger gnaws. Water runs out. Rats scurry, but offer no salvation.

When a doctor is stranded on a deserted island, he has to make grisly choices to survive.