Movies Like The Emerald Forest

If you liked The Emerald Forest (1985), a adventure and drama movie directed by John Boorman, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Sound of Freedom (2023)
★ 7.9/10Also drama
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers.
2
Lion (2016)
★ 8/10Also drama
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his…
3
Walkabout (1971)
★ 7.3/10Also 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…
4
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
★ 7.1/10Also drama
Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
5
Medicine Man (1992)
★ 6/10Also adventure and drama
An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.
6
Into the Wild (2007)
★ 7.8/10Also adventure and drama
After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the…
7
Jungle Run (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure
A brother and sister's journey into the jungle to find their missing father.
8
Midnight Special (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and drama
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
9
Greenland 2: Migration (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also 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.
10
Cave Rescue (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also 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…
11
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure
Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.
12
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also adventure
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
13
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and drama
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and…
14
The Mosquito Coast (1986)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and adventure
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
15
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also adventure and drama
A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.
16
Light of My Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also drama
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
17
Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and drama
In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.
18
Saving Flora (2019)
★ 7/10Also adventure and drama
Flora is a circus elephant who can no longer perform her tricks. The night before she's scheduled to be euthanized, the circus owner's 14-year old daughter, Dawn, sneaks Flora from the circus. All that stands between…
19
Fluke (1995)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and adventure
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in an auto accident and reincarnates as a dog. Remembering some of his previous being, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time…
20
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also 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…