Movies Like Ten Canoes

If you liked Ten Canoes (2006), a adventure and comedy movie directed by Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, 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
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…
2
Red Dog (2011)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and comedy
The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
3
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
★ 7/10Also adventure and drama
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.
4
Man in the Wilderness (1971)
★ 6.3/10Also 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…
5
Deliverance (1972)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and adventure
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
6
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…
7
The Hunter (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and adventure
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
8
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
★ 7.6/10Also adventure and comedy
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work…
9
Ned Kelly (2003)
★ 6/10Also adventure and drama
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to…
10
The Defiant Ones (1958)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and adventure
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
11
The Rundown (2003)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and comedy
When Travis, the mouthy son of a criminal, disappears in the Amazon in search of a treasured artifact, his father sends in Beck, who becomes Travis's rival for the affections of Mariana, a mysterious Brazilian woman…
12
Watership Down (1978)
★ 7.2/10Also adventure and drama
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.
13
Vesper (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and adventure
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking…
14
Surviving the Game (1994)
★ 6.2/10Also adventure and drama
A homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.
15
Alpha (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also adventure and drama
In the prehistoric past, Keda, a young and inexperienced hunter, struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe when bison hunting goes awry. On his way back he will find an unexpected ally.
16
Primal: Tales of Savagery (2019)
★ 8.4/10Also adventure and drama
Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: Tales of Savagery features a caveman and a dinosaur on the brink of extinction. Bonded by tragedy, this unlikely friendship becomes the only hope of survival.
17
The Mountain Men (1980)
★ 5.9/10Also adventure and drama
The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes…
18
The Dressmaker (2015)
★ 7/10Also drama and comedy
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion…
19
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also adventure and drama
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's…
20
Robinson Crusoe (1997)
★ 6/10Also adventure and drama
Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over the love of Mary. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. Left to fend for himself, Crusoe…