The struggle for survival and overcoming impossible challenges are the principles that sometimes make a film a masterpiece.

‘The Snow Society’ became a success precisely because of these elements, combined with the telling of a real event: the tragedies that a group of 16 people experienced after their plane hit the Andes in 1972. Discover other films that follow the same format!

The temperatures that Andean survivors faced that inspired the film ‘The Snow Society’

Survival films available in streaming

“The Snow Society” transfers the story to real events. Photo: Instagram @filmbayona.

The impossible

Like The Snow Society, Juan Antonio Bayona was the one to direct this feature film based on the challenges a family faced reuniting after a tsunami ended their holiday in Thailand in 2004. This film is available on Netflix, Prime Video and MUBI.

thirteen lives

This is a tribute to the group of rescuers who saved twelve children trapped in Thailand’s Tham Luang Cave in 2018. The production was directed by Ron Howard, written by William Nicholson and is available on Prime Video, according to Infobae.

The Revenant

The work that won Leonardo DiCaprio his long-awaited Oscar for Best Actor is available on Netflix, Star+ and MUBI. The story is semi-briographical and tells the story of Hugh Glass, a man who was attacked by a bear and his supposed corpse left in the Missouri River lands.

127 hours

This feature film, available on Star+, tells how mountain climber Aaron Ralston, without telling anyone, took an excursion to Utah’s Robbers Roost National Park in 2003, where his right arm was stuck between two rocks for more than five days.

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Only

Álvaro Vizaíno, a surfer through and through, was looking for the perfect wave when he was injured and trapped on a remote cliff for 48 hours. The feature film based on real events was directed by Hugo Stuven Casasnovas and is part of the Netflix catalogue.