{"title":"Best Survival Movies","theme":"survival","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/survival","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":60,"listedFilms":47,"frames":3893,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"sand","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.28,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00586,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00179,"observedInFrames":130},{"element":"ocean","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":3.15,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00379,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0012,"observedInFrames":84},{"element":"debris","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.9,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00329,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00113,"observedInFrames":73},{"element":"foliage","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.9,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00505,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00174,"observedInFrames":112},{"element":"water","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.82,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.01056,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00374,"observedInFrames":234},{"element":"backpack","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.73,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00392,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00144,"observedInFrames":87},{"element":"blood","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.51,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00798,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00318,"observedInFrames":177},{"element":"stubble","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.37,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00663,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00279,"observedInFrames":147}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"low_angle","shareOfThemeFrames":0.1135,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0528,"ratio":2.15},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"wide","shareOfThemeFrames":0.2528,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.1952,"ratio":1.29},{"axis":"shot_size","value":"medium","shareOfThemeFrames":0.3852,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.4818,"ratio":0.8}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.401,"ratio":0.88},{"hue":"blue","share":0.137,"ratio":0.79},{"hue":"red","share":0.134,"ratio":0.88},{"hue":"cyan","share":0.12,"ratio":2.14}],"meanSaturation":0.257,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.393,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"28 Years Later","year":2025,"director":"Danny Boyle","cinematographer":"Anthony Dod Mantle","exemplarScore":1.349,"framesIndexed":68,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/28-years-later-2025"},{"rank":2,"title":"The Road","year":2009,"director":"John Hillcoat","cinematographer":"Javier Aguirresarobe","exemplarScore":1.292,"framesIndexed":60,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-road-2009"},{"rank":3,"title":"The Shallows","year":2016,"director":"Jaume Collet-Serra","cinematographer":"Flavio Martínez Labiano","exemplarScore":1.283,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-shallows-2016"},{"rank":4,"title":"In The Heart of the Sea","year":2014,"director":"Ron Howard","cinematographer":"Anthony Dod Mantle","exemplarScore":1.285,"framesIndexed":66,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-2014"},{"rank":5,"title":"Swiss Army Man","year":2016,"director":"Daniel Kwan","cinematographer":"Larkin Seiple","exemplarScore":1.237,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/swiss-army-man-2016"},{"rank":6,"title":"The Red Turtle","year":2016,"director":"Michael Dudok de Wit","cinematographer":null,"exemplarScore":1.196,"framesIndexed":61,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-red-turtle-2016"},{"rank":7,"title":"Battle Royale","year":2000,"director":"Kinji Fukasaku","cinematographer":"Katsumi Yanagijima","exemplarScore":1.058,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/battle-royale-2000"},{"rank":8,"title":"The Martian","year":2015,"director":"Ridley Scott","cinematographer":"Dariusz Wolski","exemplarScore":0.907,"framesIndexed":61,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/the-martian-2015"},{"rank":9,"title":"Triple Frontier","year":2019,"director":"J.C. 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