Movies Like Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling (2009)

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling is a 2009 action, adventure, comedy film from Ellory Elkayem with a MovieMagicScore of 4.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Without a Paddle and Buddymoon.

Action Adventure Comedy

Without a Paddle

2004

Three friends, whose lives have been drifting apart, reunite for the funeral of a fourth childhood friend. When looking through their childhood belongings, they discover a trunk which contained details on a quest their friend was attempting. It revealed that he was hot on the trail of the $200,000 that went missing with airplane hijacker D.B. Cooper in 1971. They decide to continue his journey, but do not understand the dangers they will soon encounter.

5.6

MagicScore

Buddymoon

2016

When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's previously planned honeymoon: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of Oregon. Their adventures are bookended with passages from William Clark's diary describing his friendship with Meriwether Lewis and the terrain they crossed during their expedition.

6.1

MagicScore

Wildlike

2015

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 Rene, a lonesome backpacker looking for tranquility in the wilderness.

6.2

MagicScore

The Revenant

2015

In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

7.5

MagicScore

The Outwaters

2023

Deep in the Mojave desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers have set up camp to make art. One fateful night, the group is thrust into a feverish tornado of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere humans simply cannot fathom.

4.4

MagicScore

Deliverance

1972

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.

7.3

MagicScore

Pain Threshold

2019

Four friends travel to the Altai for a rafting trip on a mountain river. Cut off from civilization and face-to-face with nature at its wildest, the heroes are not able to relax but instead are forced to fight for survival. They ask for help from a group of seemingly ‘sportsmen-boaters’ they encounter on the river. But then the heroes realize that they have been taken hostage by criminals. All their weaknesses and faults are laid bare and their true selves are revealed.

4.5

MagicScore

Perri

1957

This True Life Fantasy follows and shows how the life of a female squirrel, Perri, in the forest is filled with danger and fraught with peril. When not fleeing her natural enemy, the Marten, Perri finds time to fall in love with her prince-charming male squirrel.

6.5

MagicScore

Hunt for the Wilderpeople

2016

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 together to survive.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

Wild America

1997

Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, bears and moose.

6.1

MagicScore

#11

Survival Quest

1989

A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss has been killed by one of the city slickers, he coaxes his team into exterminating all of them. They will have to rely on their wits and on each other in order to survive.

5.4

MagicScore

#12

Into the Wild

2007

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 wilderness.

7.8

MagicScore

#13

Rituals

1977

Five doctors go camping in the remote woods of Northern Ontario. When their boots are stolen they begin to suspect they are being stalked.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

Letter Never Sent

1960

Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage to find their luck and put the diamond mine on the map. The map must be delivered back to Moscow. But on the day of their departure a terrible forest fire wreaks havoc, and the geologists get trapped in the woods.

7.1

MagicScore

#15

White Water Summer

1987

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 help and must rely on his students in order to survive.

6.2

MagicScore

#16

Amazonia

2013

After a plane crash, Saï, a capuchin monkey born and raised in captivity, finds himself alone and lost in the wilderness of the Amazon jungle.

6.2

MagicScore

#17

The Adventures of the Wilderness Family

1975

The story of a modern family bored with the hassles of the city life in Los Angeles. They head for the wilderness never to return.

6.0

MagicScore

#18

Prey

2007

An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by vicious killer lions.

5.8

MagicScore

#19

The Holy Mountain

1926

In the mountains, Diotima meets Karl and fall in love and have an affair. Karl's friend Vigo mistakenly believes she's in love with him, causing rifts in all relationships.

6.5

MagicScore

#20

Out of Nature

2014

Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While spending a weekend alone on a hiking trip, he is forced to confront the way he lives his life. Out of Nature is an original, funny and tender film about how to take part in your own life as a husband, father and son.

6.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling?

The top films similar to Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling by MovieMagicScore are Without a Paddle (5.6), Buddymoon (6.1), Wildlike (6.2). Each shares action/adventure/comedy themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling worth watching?

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling holds a MovieMagicScore of 4.4/10 from 76 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling?

Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling (2009) is a action, adventure, comedy film directed by Ellory Elkayem, starring Oliver James, Kristopher Turner, Rik Young.

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