Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Apex follows a grieving woman on a solo journey through the Australian wilderness who discovers that her toughest challenge is not the landscape — a cunning killer has marked her as prey. The film turns survival into an asymmetric contest of wits and will: one person chosen, one person hunting. Fans of it tend to want that same dynamic — isolation, a hunter-hunted imbalance, and a protagonist who has to outthink violence rather than simply outrun it.
Apex is a 2026 survival film directed by Baltasar Kormákur, written by Jeremy Robbins, and starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton. It tells the story of a rock climber and kayaker who finds herself being hunted in the wilds of Australia.
From the Wikipedia article Apex_(2026_film), available under CC BY-SA.
Series
Apex Legends
Competitors with distinct abilities fight to be the last one standing in an escalating battle-royale format.
Series
Wipeout
Competitors are physically and mentally ground down across a multi-stage obstacle gauntlet designed to find their limits.
Series
Australian Survivor
Strangers are stranded in isolation with almost nothing, competing to be the one person left standing.
Series
Killing Eve
A cat-and-mouse chase where hunter and hunted become equally fixated on each other.
Series
Aussie Gold Hunters
Crews push deep into Australia's remote outback, chasing high stakes against brutal, unforgiving terrain.
Series
Extracted
Untrained competitors face predators and grueling wilderness conditions while family members wait helplessly elsewhere.
Game
Collapse: The Rage
Survivors navigate hostile ground as alien creatures use the territory as their own hunting grounds.
Game
Apex Construct
A lone figure must use wits and resourcefulness to survive as merciless synthetic hunters patrol the world.
Game
Primal Carnage
Players are dispatched to reclaim a remote island, fighting savage opponents in team-based survival combat.
Game
Die Young
A kidnapped young woman must escape a mysterious island armed only with agility and the will to survive.
Game
The Quarry
Every choice shapes who survives the night — a cinematic thriller where no character is guaranteed safety.
Game
Kona
A detective stranded in a frozen wilderness must investigate strange events while battling the elements to survive.
Book
Eternal journey
A TV archaeologist investigates disputed artifacts at an Australian dig site after filming a monster-hunting episode.
Book
Apex hides the hurt
A nomenclature consultant is hired to rename a small town, uncovering tangled questions of identity and history.
Book
Ace in the Hole
Terror and high-stakes manipulation converge as a powerful figure tries to control an outcome against the odds.
Film
Apex
An innocent man must survive six hunters on a remote island in a formal, paying game of human prey.
Film
Primal
A remote Australian wilderness trip turns lethal when one of the group becomes a feverish, bleeding threat to the others.
Film
Prey
A couple stranded after a crash must fight both armed militants and wild animals to stay alive.
Film
Rogue
Tourists trapped on a shrinking mud island by an enormous crocodile in remote Australian waterways.
Film
Jolt
A woman with a dangerous edge hunts down those responsible after someone close to her is murdered.
Film
High Ground
A manhunt across wild, remote Australian country where the line between hunter and hunted keeps shifting.
For more human-hunting survival thrills, try Apex (2021), where a wrongly imprisoned man must outwit six armed hunters on a remote island, or Prey (2024), in which a couple crash-lands in the Kalahari and fights both militants and wildlife to survive.
Die Young drops you on a mysterious island with only your wits and agility to escape, while The Quarry delivers a cinematic wilderness horror where every choice shapes who lives — both capture that desperate, one-wrong-move tension.
Killing Eve is the closest match — two equally matched opponents locked in an obsessive, deadly chase — while the reality series Extracted tests untrained people against brutal wilderness and genuine predators.