Top 10 best survival movies similar to Alice in Borderland that you should not miss

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Zero: The Bravest Money Game

Survival movie review, Zero: The Bravest Money Game

• Directed by: Maruya Syunpei, Satoru Nakajima
  Cast: Shigeaki Kato, Shotaro Mamiya, Yuta Koseki, Ryo Kato, Amane Okayama, Yosuke Sugino, Ryuga Sato, Kendo Kobayashi, Takahisa Masuda, Yuya Tegoshi, Noriko Iriyama
  Country: Japan
  Airtime: 15/7/2018 – 16/9/2018
  Genre: survival, action, mystery, thriller
  Zero is a middle school teacher at a private academy. He has the opportunity to participate in a survival game. If someone wins, the reward is one hundred billion yen. The rides are set in an amusement park under construction. The participants of the game form friendships and try to help each other.

  Zero: The Bravest Money Game belongs to the survival movie subgenre of death game. We will follow the protagonist who is struggling and wants to change his future. The potential of the games is clearly presented similar to Alice in Borderland.

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3 Percent

Trailer for the survival movie, 3 Percent

• Directed by: César Charlone, Daina Giannecchini, Dani Libardi, Jotagá Crema, Philippe Barcinski
  Cast: João Miguel, Bianca Comparato, Michel Gomes, Rodolfo Valente, Vaneza Oliveira, Rafael Lozano, Viviane Porto, Samuel de Assis, Cynthia Senek, Laila Garin, Bruno Fagundes, Thais Lago, Amanda Magalhães, Fernando Rubro
  Country: Brazil
  Airtime: 25/11/2016 – 14/8/2020
  Genre: survival, drama, horror, science fiction
  3 Percent is a survival drama about the harsh reality of people belonging to the impoverished majority, where society is divided into two categories. The well-off and wealthy, and those who are not. Typically, young people up to the age of 20 will have the opportunity to try and complete the experience of the so-called "Process" to be promoted to the wealthy side of the country.

3 Percent is very similar to Alice in Borderland in the way it uses survival elements. With 2 groups of people trying to live a better life by going through some tough challenges to get there, even then only 3% of test registrants will pass the test.

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The Purge (TV series)

Season 1 trailer for survival drama, The Purge (TV series)

• Created by: James DeMonaco
  Cast: Gabriel Chavarria, Hannah Emily Anderson, Jessica Garza
  Lili Simmons, Amanda Warren, Colin Woodell, Lee Tergesen, Derek Luke, Max Martini, Paola Núñez, Joel Allen
  Country: USA
  Airtime: 4/9/2018 – 17/12/2019
  Genre: survival, horror, action, crime
  You may have heard of the popular series The Purge. The same concept was the basis for the TV series adaptation The Purge. Eager to prevent crime from reaching large numbers, Americans decided to legalize all crimes for twelve hours once per year. We will follow a few different characters, all living in a town, and of course they will have to survive the purge.

Just like in Alice in Borderland, The Purge (TV series) contains 1 separate set of rules for survival games. Everyone is given the twelve-hour/once-a-year rule to freely commit any crime without breaking the law. This theme of survival is what makes the two films similar.

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Panic

Trailer for survival movie, Panic

• Created by: Lauren Oliver
  Cast: Olivia Welch, Mike Faist, Jessica Sula, Ray Nicholson, Camron Jones, Enrique Murciano
  Country: USA
  Airtime: 5/28/2021
  Genre: survival, drama
  Every summer in rural Texas, a town called Carp, hosts a series of challenges for seniors about to graduate. No one knows when these games started or who invented them, but for most people in this town, it's like the ultimate ticket out of it. Wanting to win a large amount of money, they have to face their worst fears.

  Panic is a series with the survival game as the main driving force of a similar Alice in Borderland story. We will see the protagonists almost forced to play these games in order to find a better future for themselves. This is something that characters like Arisu and Usagi also have to deal with in order to find the answer to their imprisonment.

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Liar Game

Survival movie review, Liar Game

• Directed by: Hiroaki Matsuyama
  Cast: Erika Toda, Shota Matsuda
  Country: Japan
  Airtime:
  Season 1: April 14, 2007 – June 23, 2007
  Season 2: 10/11/2009 – 19/1/2010
  Genre: survival, drama, live-action, psychological
  Liar Game is a survival movie about a college student who participates in a game called Liar Game Tournament. To play the game and win, you have to lie, cheat, and use any means of deception against other players. Kanazaki and Akiyama, the main cast of the film, collaborated and decided to uncover the truth behind the games together.

  Firstly, we will see the similarity in the use of the puzzle game of Liar Game, where the player must achieve a certain goal to win. More importantly, we have two main characters trying to figure out what or who is behind these tournaments, which is the same dynamic in the Alice in Borderland survival series.