Movies like Everest

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Everest (2015)
 7.1
 222K
Everest (2015)
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 of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
Style: realistic, breathtaking, dramatic, scenic, tense, suspenseful, serious, emotional, inspirational, captivating ...
Plot: survival, mountain, mountaineer, climbing, mountain climbing, natural disaster, stranded, snow, beautiful scenery, man versus nature, forces of nature, disaster, death, frostbite, wilderness, hiking, tragedy, camp, freeze to death, adventurer, blizzard, expedition, oxygen, human spirit, suspense ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas

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Most similar movies to Everest

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about survival, nature, death, danger, catastrophe, disaster and suspense mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like Everest: Alive (1993), Vertical Limit (2000), Sanctum (2011), K2 (1991), Kon-Tiki (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 7.1
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Alive (1993)
Genre: 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, emotional, inspirational, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, air disaster, disaster, stranded, starvation, cannibalism, death, airplane accident, mountain, snow, human spirit, airplane ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 63K
Vertical Limit (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, 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 ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, intense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: survival, mountaineer, climbing, mountain climbing, adventurer, disaster, suspense, natural disaster, mountain, expedition, apocalypse, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: himalaya, pakistan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 56K
Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, suspense, scuba diving, forces of nature, deathtrap, underground, struggle for survival, beautiful scenery, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 7K
K2 (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Japan, USA, Canada
Duration: 104 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, serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, mountain, mountaineer, survival, nature, winter, disaster, snow, rock climbing, suspense, catastrophe ...
Time: 90s
Place: himalaya, seattle, usa, middle east, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.2
 50K
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Style: harsh, realistic, exciting, epic, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: ocean, survival, shark, boat, adventurer, raft, sea voyage, obsessive quest, expedition, travel, fish, diary ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s ...
Place: pacific ocean, polynesia, peru, usa, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, ship, storm at sea, storm, forces of nature, shipwreck, fish, sea, ocean, fishing ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new england, atlantic ocean, boston, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.9
 82K
All Is Lost (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style: harsh, touching, suspenseful, tense, reflective ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, boat, isolation, sea, storm, survivor, loneliness, forces of nature, ship, ocean, human spirit, sailor ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 39K
The 33 (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Style: factual, touching, tense, serious, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, catastrophe, rescue, disaster, suspense, stranded, life, human spirit, natural disaster, race against time, honest, radio ...
Time: 2010s, 70s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: australia, south america, latin america, chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.9
 76K
The Edge (1997)
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: tense, suspenseful, serious, compassionate, intense ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, suspense, bear, grizzly bear, bear attack, marital infidelity, hunter, nature, older man younger woman relationship, billionaire, survivor ...
Time: 90s
Place: alaska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)
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, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious
Plot: mountaineer, disaster, mountain, climbing, survival, winter, forces of nature, rock climbing, camp, hiker, mountain climbing, adventurer ...
Place: himalaya, mount everest, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 383K
127 Hours (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
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: inspirational, psychological, breathtaking, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot: survival, isolation, suspense, trapped, mountain, loneliness, courage, human spirit, alone, climbing, canyon, life philosophy ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.2
 76K
Frozen (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, 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, scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, isolation, suspense, snow, stranded, ski resort, frostbite, survival horror, winter, sole survivor, mountain, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.5
 229K
The Impossible (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style: motivational, heartbreaking, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, courage, suspense, tsunami, forces of nature, destruction, hopes, family in danger ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.6
 58K
Adrift (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Iceland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
Style: sincere, suspenseful, sad, inspirational, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, survivor, boat, sailboat, storm, human spirit, female protagonist, young couple, love, sea adventure, power of love, sailing ...
Time: year 1983
Place: pacific ocean, tahiti
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Finest Hours (2016)
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, serious, realistic, tense, scenic ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: survival, natural disaster, disaster, ocean, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, daring rescue, catastrophe, sinking ship ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951
Place: new england, massachusetts, england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Mountain Between Us (2017)
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, romantic, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, mountain, snow, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, plane crash, rescue, crash landing, travel, love, stranger ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: new york, london, utah, manhattan new york city, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.7
 59K
Jungle (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: survival, jungle, amazon rainforest, suspense, alone, nature, adventurer, rescue, wilderness, hallucination, river, raft ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, year 1981
Place: south america, bolivia, andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.3
 131K
The Walk (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
Style: inspirational, breathtaking, realistic, emotional, exciting ...
Plot: skyscraper, world trade center manhattan new york city, tightrope walker, suspense, life philosophy, ambition, obsession, happy ending, transformation, planning, artists and showbiz, escapades ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, future, year 1973, year 1974
Place: new york, paris france, usa, manhattan new york city, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style: exciting, inspirational, tense, emotional, compassionate ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, courage, sea, oil rig, oil, trapped, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: california, boston, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.8
 256K
The Grey (2011)
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, exciting, tense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, wolf, hunting, air disaster, dangerous animal, forces of nature, wolf attack, stranded, struggle for survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.6
 72K
Only the Brave (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Style: exciting, emotional, dramatic, tense, motivational ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: natural disaster, forest fire, heroism, firefighter, rescue, tragedy, friends, partners, fire, disaster, fire department, loss of loved one ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 8.0
 819K
The Revenant (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Style: breathtaking, atmospheric, exciting, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, snow, bear attack, life & death, obsessive quest, lone hero, father son relationship, bravery, violent ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, georgian era
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.1
 30K
Tracks (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Accompanied only by her faithful dog and four camels, an Australian satisfies her craving for solitude by embarking on a solo trip across the desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean.
Style: uplifting, touching, scenic, atmospheric, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: desert, wilderness, travel, solitude, survival, human spirit, camel, beautiful scenery, obsessive quest, dog, photographer, aborigine ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 70s, year 1973, year 1935 ...
Place: australia, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Movie in collections
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1329
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 8.2
 31K
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style: atmospheric, visually appealing, cerebral, dramatic, breathtaking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: wilderness, hunter, friendship, human spirit, cold weather, forest, explorer, survival, snow, nature, wilderness survival, tiger ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 1910s
Place: siberia, russia, japan, tokyo, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 66K
Eight Below (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is ...
Style: touching, sentimental, breathtaking, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: survival, dog, expedition, rescue, wilderness, dog sled, animals, snow, husky dog, disney, pets, winter ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: antarctica, british columbia, canada, new zealand, oregon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 22K
Backcountry (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: survival, nature, camping, wilderness, forest, dangerous animal, suspense, bear, isolation, bear attack, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time: 70s, 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 630K
Into the Wild (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Style: road movie, philosophical, melancholic, inspirational, motivational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, road trip, self discovery, wilderness, solitude, freedom, journey, life philosophy, isolation, lifestyle change, adventurer, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 20th century, year 1990, year 1992, year 1991, 90s
Place: alaska, los angeles, north america, usa, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 35K
The Aeronauts (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Pilot Amelia Wren and scientist James Glaisher find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a hot air balloon.
Style: exciting, uplifting, tense, atmospheric, entertaining ...
Plot: balloon, scientist, twists and turns, survival, science, weather, weatherman, saving a life, snow, scientific discovery, experiment, explorer ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future, 1860s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
Style: disturbing, rough, suspenseful, sentimental
Plot: survival, snow, wilderness, snowboarding, snowboard, suspense, rescue attempt, lost, winter, police officer, ice hockey, mother son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.6
 3K
Shackleton (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 206 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his 28 man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.
Style: serious, suspenseful, epic, realistic, exciting
Plot: survival, expedition, adventurer, endurance, human spirit, against the odds, nature, leadership, ambition, forces of nature, explorer, sea ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, year 1914
Place: antarctica, south pole, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%