Movies like Vertical Limit
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Vertical Limit (2000)
65K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.
Style:
suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, intense, serious, realistic, entertaining, action adventure ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, adventurer, disaster, mountain, natural disaster, wilderness, mountaineering, expedition, snow, apocalypse, treasure hunt, happy ending, winter, danger, forces of nature, daring rescue, siblings relations, race against time, woman in danger, heroic mission, catastrophe, cold ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
himalaya, antarctic, pakistan, asia
Keyword:
sport, cricket the game
Most similar movies to Vertical Limit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and suspense films with plots about survival, danger, disaster, escapades, snow, mountain and rescue mostly in Adventure, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Vertical Limit: Everest (2015), K2 (1991), Alive (1993), The Edge (1997), Frozen (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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231K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style:
realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
survival, mountain climbing, climbing, mountain, natural disaster, snow, mountaineer, stranded, forces of nature, man versus nature, beautiful scenery, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
7K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Japan, USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.
Style:
epic, suspense, exciting, tense, serious ...
Plot:
climbing, mountain climbing, mountaineer, mountain, survival, mountaineering, snow, nature, winter, disaster, camping, rock climbing ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
himalaya, usa, middle east, seattle, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
64K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, sad ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, stranded, cannibalism, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, snow, mountain, wilderness, historical event ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, antarctic, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
79K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, bear, danger, animal attack, grizzly bear, survivalist, marital infidelity, bear attack, hunter, crash, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
80K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
utah, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Movies like Everest
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Style:
scenic, suspenseful, romantic, visually stunning, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
survival, wilderness, snow, mountain, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, rescue, plane crash, stranger, peril, animal attack ...
Time:
year 2017, future, 2010s
Place:
london, new york, utah, idaho, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
76K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, trapped, tunnel, race against time, catastrophe, apocalypse, rescue, danger, save the day, daring rescue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Luxembourg
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While filming an advertisement, some extreme sports enthusiasts unwittingly stop a group of terrorists.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, chase, avalanche, skiing, danger, extreme sports, isolation, save the day, leadership, on the run, rescue, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
austria, antarctic, europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
139K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style:
serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
climbing, mountain climbing, heist, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, villain, snow, redemption, rescue, survival ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s
Place:
colorado, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It begins on a glacier nestled on a frozen peak high in the wild Ural Mountains of Russia, kissed by clouds, the top of the world. A lonely, forbidding place, it's home to THOM CUSSLER and brother, JOCK, a pair of transplanted westerners ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, save the day, danger, rescue, race against time, catastrophe, mountain, profanity, plague, heroic mission ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Day After Tomorrow
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
May 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most difficult "second step". This is their fifth assault. The first four failures have ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, scenic
Plot:
climbing, mountain climbing, mountaineer, expedition, adventurer, survival, forces of nature, tragedy, wilderness, mountain, friendship between men, human spirit ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
618
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A device that controls a powerful Russian-made satellite weapon is stolen by Russian terrorists, who try to escape by flying out but are shot down. The device is now on top of K2. The device is still active and where it will strike is ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, fast
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, terrorism, race against time, daring rescue, survival, undercover, danger, government agency, intrigue, climbing, forces of nature, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
himalaya, pentagon, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
263K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style:
suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, stranded, forces of nature, air disaster, struggle for survival, wolf attack ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, ...
Style:
suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, volcano, survival, rescue, scientist, race against time, volcanic eruption, small town, mayor, apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Movies like San Andreas
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, climate, cataclysm, survival, stranded ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., california, antarctic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
399K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, inspirational, breathtaking, intense, touching ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, trapped, isolation, mountain, wilderness, climbing, canyon, courage, alone, human spirit, loneliness, desert ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust cloud that soon covered most of the Northern hemisphere, it changed the face of our planet forever.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ice age, evacuation, disaster, satellite, insubordination, rescue, heroic mission, chaos, danger, save the day, forces of nature, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Style:
road movie, suspense, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
train, survival, runaway train, prison, prisoner, wilderness, snow, chases and races, violence, winter, fugitives, train crash ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
cold, snow, avalanche, mine, mission, rescue, truck driver, snowstorm, trapped, ice, self sacrifice, life risking ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, north dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies like 10,000 BC
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, psychological, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, disaster, airport, survival, aviation, catastrophe, natural disaster, flying, stewardess, airplane accident, death, police officer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
los angeles, salt lake city utah, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
135K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Style:
epic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, daring rescue, caveman, animal attack, cave, giant bird, mammoth, dinosaur, danger, monster, natural disaster, mythology ...
Time:
stone age, prehistory, prehistoric times, year 2008
Place:
north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. ...
Style:
inspirational, serious, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful
Plot:
mountaineer, disaster, mountain climbing, mountain, climbing, survival, wilderness, winter, mountaineering, rock climbing, wilderness survival, forces of nature ...
Place:
himalaya, mount everest, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Style:
touching, exciting, serious, captivating, breathtaking ...
Plot:
climbing, mountain climbing, mountaineer, mountain, disaster, survival, adventurer, wehrmacht, man versus nature, rivalry, mountaineering, forces of nature ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, alps, germany, swiss alps, bavaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, avalanche, snow, rescue, natural disaster, ski, survival, catastrophe, ski resort, winter, danger, skating ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Films like Frozen
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, treasure hunt, murder, rivalry, danger, hostage, mountain, camping, manhunt, treasure hunter, trapped ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, end of the world, survival, chaos, save the world, forces of nature, danger, post apocalypse, autism, tsunami, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Argentina, UK, South Africa
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mountain, climbing, wilderness, mountain climbing, contests and competitions, rivalry, ambition, love triangle, danger, mountaineering, dream, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
patagonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, factual, disturbing
Plot:
mountaineer, climbing, mountain climbing, rock climbing, mountaineering, mountain, disaster, expedition, brother brother relationship, winter, frostbite, team ...
Place:
himalaya, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, scenic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, courage, daring rescue, sinking ship, fisherman ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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