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Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young couple struggles to keep themselves and their infant son alive in a frozen shelter while awaiting rescue. Realizing they won't be found, Jim ultimately strikes out on a courageous 50-mile mission, determined to reach help and return to save his loved ones in this exciting and moving true story. Written by Anonymous
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
frostbite, survival, hypothermia, snowstorm, rescue, wilderness, heroes, family life, isolation, babies and infants, danger, forces of nature, snow, cold, baby, blizzard, frozen, husband wife relationship, mountain, cave, winter, family relations, stranded, child in peril, infant ...
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about danger, survival, escapades, wilderness, heroes, isolation and disaster mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story: Ordeal in the Arctic (1993), The Donner Party (2009), Scream of Stone (1991), Zero Kelvin (1995), First Winter (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
mountain, mountain climbing, wilderness, climbing, rivalry, danger, ambition, contests and competitions, love triangle, mountaineering, dream, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
baby, rescue, isolation, twins, babies and infants, daring rescue, confined, heroes, danger, escapades, young mother, child in peril ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
greenland, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
disaster, heroic mission, heroes, survival, danger, escapades, rescue, child in peril, car crash, baseball, news report, decapitation ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Time:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
wilderness, radio, solitude, isolation, survival, arctic, human nature, danger, confined, dishonesty, snow, winter ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, antarctica
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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