Apex

Solo in the Australian wild, a grieving woman is pushing herself past whatever limit she came out here to find, and someone has decided she is prey. The hunt-the-human premise gets a sharp twist, since the target is already deep inside her own reckoning and has no intention of being easy quarry. Stripped back and outdoors-hostile, it trades on landscape, isolation and a cat-and-mouse game in which terrain is the only weapon either side can rely on.

This is for survival-thriller fans who like their pictures lean and physical, with grief supplying weight the chase alone would not carry. At 1h 36m there is little slack; expect a quick pivot into pursuit and then sustained pressure with few places to breathe. If you enjoy wilderness thrillers where a capable protagonist is badly underestimated, put it on when you want tension without a long runway.