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10 Best Movies Like The Wilderness

If you loved The Wilderness, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Coldwater

Coldwater

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wilderness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

#2
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog

1995★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wilderness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Teenager Angus adopts a stray dog and names him Yellow. Several days later, while travelling along the coast of British Columbia with Angus's father, John, the boy and dog become s...

#3
White Water Summer

White Water Summer

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wilderness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hopes to teach the four boys lessons about the ...

#4
Rancho Notorious

Rancho Notorious

1952★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wilderness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A man in search of revenge infiltrates a ranch, hidden in an inhospitable region, where its owner, Altar Keane, gives shelter to outlaws fleeing from the law in exchange for a pric...

#5
The Young One

The Young One

1960★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wilderness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions....

#6
Road to Paloma

Road to Paloma

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Wilderness for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While Native American Wolf is being pursued by the FBI for having taken the law into his own hands, when his mother was raped and killed on their reservation he crosses paths with ...

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