If You Liked Into the Wild, Watch These Next
Finished Into the Wild (2007) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Into the Wild, most of them are adventure, drama.
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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Wildlike(2015)
6.2AdventureDramaThrillerAlso adventure and drama
Fourteen-year-old Mackenzie is sent to live with her uncle in Juneau when her mother can’t care for her anymore. The living situation quickly takes a turn for the worse, and she runs away to rejoin her mother in Seattle. While on her dangerous journey of sleeping in cars and breaking into hotel rooms, she’s drawn to…
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2.White Water Summer(1987)
6.2AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
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 wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of…
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3.Walkabout(1971)
7.3AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with harsh wilderness alone. They are saved by a chance encounter with an…
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4.Greenland 2: Migration(2026)
6.4AdventureThrillerScience FictionAlso adventure
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
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5.Lost on a Mountain in Maine(2024)
7.0AdventureDramaFamilyAlso adventure and drama
When twelve-year-old Donn Fendler gets tired of waiting for his father and brothers to join him on the summit of Maine's highest peak, he decides to find his own way back to camp. But Donn doesn't count on a fast-moving fog that obscures the path. He doesn't count on falling down an embankment that hides him from…
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6.Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog(1995)
6.2ActionAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
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 stranded when turbulent waters capsize their boat. Angus's parents relentlessly badger rescue teams. Angus, schooled by his father in…
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7.Alabama Moon(2009)
6.6AdventureDramaFamilyAlso adventure and drama
After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
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8.I Am David(2003)
6.8DramaAdventureAlso drama and adventure
A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.
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10.Dances with Wolves(1990)
7.8AdventureDramaWesternAlso adventure and drama
Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
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11.The Call of the Wild(1972)
6.1AdventureDramaFamilyAlso adventure and drama
John Thornton, is a fearless man who's after more than gold; he wants to do what's right. Thornton works for the U.S. mail and is the only person daring and smart enough to figure out how to travel the deadly 600 miles from Skagway to Dawson, Alaska in the icy winter. His incredibly dog Buck is by his side and part…
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12.Cave Rescue(2019)
5.9AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
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14.Nicholas Nickleby(2002)
6.8AdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
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15.The River Wild(1994)
6.5AdventureThrillerDramaAlso adventure and drama
Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.
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16.Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventure(1995)
6.2AdventureFamilyWesternAlso adventure
A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community. When Daniel Hackett sees his father Jonas gravely wounded by the villainous Stiles, his first urge is for his…
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17.The Emerald Forest(1985)
6.6ActionAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who…
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18.Stand by Me(1986)
7.8DramaAdventureAlso drama and adventure
After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the…
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19.Man in the Wilderness(1971)
6.3WesternAdventureDramaAlso adventure and drama
In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears…
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