Connecting with nature is a wonderful experience that everyone needs in their life, whether camping in the desert, forest, beside the sea, or over a mountain, you will make happy memories and learn more about yourself and about the creatures around you. Find here the best camp movies on Netflix and have a nice time.
Stand by Me
One of the best camp movies on Netflix created by Stephen King, Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans, directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, Gary Riley, Bradley Gregg, Jason Oliver Lipsett, Marshall Bell, Frances Lee McCain, and Bruce Kirby.
Movie Plot
Teddy, Gordie, Chris and Vern, are a group of 12 year-old friends living in Castlerock, Oregon in 1959. The group hears about the location of the body of a missing boy from their neighborhood, so they went together to the forest to camp there for several days to look for him. They learn great lessons about themselves and their friendship, and discover the importance of standing up for what’s right.
Movie Time: 1 hour and 29 minutes.
Movie Type: Adventure and Drama.
Crip Camp (camp movies on Netflix)
A documentary and one of the camp movies on Netflix created and directed by James Lebrecht, and Nicole Newnham, and starring James Lebrecht, Lionel Je’ Woodyard, Joseph O’Conor, Ann Cupolo Freeman, Denise Sherer Jacobson, Larry Allison, Ellie Abrashkin, Jean Malafronte, and Steve Hofmann.
Movie Plot
Camp Jened is a special camp in Catskills for teenagers with disability. It was built in the 1970s’, at a time when people with disabilities faced isolation and discrimination, but the camp gave them a safe haven, it also helped in changing the laws for people with disabilities, and gave them more rights by making the community more accepting of them.
Movie Time: 1 hour and 46 minutes.
Movie Type: Documentary and History.
The Ritual
One of the most interesting thriller camping movies on Netflix created by Joe Barton and Adam Nevill, directed by David Bruckner, and starring Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, Sam Troughton, Paul Reid, Matthew Needham, Jacob James Beswick, Maria Erwolter, Peter Liddell, and Francesca Mula.
Movie Plot
A reunion of old friends in a camp built in a Swedish forest. One of visitors gets injured, forcing the rest of the group to go back to the hotel. However, the trip this time is not easy because they face a strong rainy storm. The storm forces them to spend the night in an abandoned house, and they have no idea what is waiting for them inside!
Movie Time: 1 hour and 34 minutes.
Movie Type: Horror, Mystery and Thriller.
The Fundamentals of Caring
Another one of the camp movies on Netflix created by Rob Burnett and Jonathan Evison, directed by Rob Burnett, and starring Craig Roberts, Paul Rudd, Selena Gomez, Alex Huff, Donna Biscoe, Julia Denton, Jennifer Ehle, Ashley White, Matthew Pruitt, Alan Boell, Bill Murphey, and Eric Singer.
Movie Plot
Ben Benjamin is a famous writer, he wants to quit his job and retire from the modern-day world, so he becomes a caregiver to a disabled teenager, they go together on a road trip and camp anywhere, day after day they develop a better understanding of life, hope, friendship and everything that truly matter in the world.
Movie Time: 1 hour and 37 minutes.
Movie Type: comedy and Drama.
Wild (camp movies on Netflix)
A true story and one of the camp movies on Netflix created by Nick Hornby and Cheryl Strayed, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann, Michiel Huisman, Thomas Sadoski, Keene McRae, W. Earl Brown, Kevin Rankin, Brian Van Holt, Mo McRae, Leigh Parker, Nick Eversman, and Ray Buckley.
Movie Plot
Cheryl Strayed is going through a bad period in her life; she got divorced and her mother died. She found herself desperately in need to succeed at something and to have a purpose, so she decides to walk for over a thousands miles alone on the Pacific Crest Trail. She camps along the way, and she becomes stronger and discovers the way to self-healing.
Movie Time: 1 hour and 55 minutes.
Movie Type: Adventure, Biography and Drama.
Without a Paddle
One of the funny camping movies on Netflix created by Fred Wolf, Harris Goldberg and Tom Nursall, directed by Steven Brill and starring Matthew Lillard, Seth Green, Dax Shepard, Matthew Price, Andrew Hampton, Jarred Rumbold, Carl Snell, Antony Starr, and Nadine Bernecker.
Movie Plot
A group of childhood friends are separated from each other for many years, until the death of one of them reunites them for the funeral. They look through his childhood belongings and discover a box with some instructions that lead to a missing airplane that was hijacked in 1971. The airplane has 200,000 dollars on board, so they decide to go on a wild trip together to find it.
Movie Time: 1 hour and 35 minutes.
Movie Type: Adventure, Comedy and Mystery.
Bunks (camp movies on Netflix)
Another one of the scary camping movies on Netflix you can watch now, created by Tim Burns, Mike Kiss and Tom McGillis, directed by Tibor Takács and starring Dylan Schmid, Aidan Shipley, Emilia McCarthy, Atticus Mitchell, Anthony Christian Potenza, Zane Davis, Nicholas Bode and Drew Davis.
Movie Plot
Dylan and Dane are teenagers, they were forced to go to a summer camp they don’t want, so they tried to get out of it and ran away. They found themselves in a wooden cabin with some little boys, needing someone to lead them. The two volunteer to lead the group, but they do everything wrong! They even they trigger a curse that summons a group of campfire zombies. Could they find a way to rescue the boys and themselves?
Movie Time: 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Movie Type: Family, Comedy and Horror.
Wet Hot American Summer
A romance movie and one of the camp movies on Netflix you can watch now, created by Michael Showalter and David Wain, directed by David Wain, and starring Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Paul Rudd, Zak Orth, Christopher Meloni, and A.D. Miles.
Movie Plot
It is 1981 and the last day in firewood camp, everyone is preparing to go home, but still there are many things to do.
For example, Beth the camp director has fallen in love with the physics teacher but he is too busy to notice that. He is constantly worried about a deadly piece of Skylab related to NASA that is about to hit the earth.
There are also many strange things that need an explain, like the talking vegetable cans and the dangerous waterfall.
Movie Time: 1 hour and 37 minutes.
Movie Type: Comedy and Romance.
The Package
Another one of the camp movies on Netflix created by Kevin Burrows and Matt Mider, directed by Jake Szymanski, and starring Daniel Doheny, Geraldine Viswanathan, Sadie Calvano, Luke Spencer Roberts, Eduardo Franco, Michael Eklund, Gary Jones, Alexander Calvert, Sugar Lyn Beard, Blake Anderson, Chance Hurstfield, Kevan Kase, and Mary Holland.
Movie Plot
It is spring break, and a group of friends decide to go together camping, but nothing goes well after that. They face an unfortunate accident that makes them race against time to save their friend’s most precious possession.
Movie Time: 1 hour and 34 minutes.
Movie Type: Comedy and Thriller.
