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Ice Bound (2003)
624
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is little love lost between the somewhat aloof Nielsen and her more down-to-earth colleagues, a strong bond develops among them as the extreme Antarctic winter progresses. Nielsen, in particular, grows quite close to two of the "Polies": Big John Penny (Aidan Devine) and Claire Furinski (Cynthia Mace).
Style:
dramatic, medical drama, suspense, realistic, disturbing, tense, inspirational
Plot:
cancer, survival, breast cancer, doctor, adaptation, isolation, hopes, happy ending, rescue, blizzard, improv, female empowerment, biopic, claustrophobia, survivalist, sacrifice, illness, trapped, airplane, party, storm, wind, cold, nature, videotaping ...
Place:
antarctica, south pole
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Most similar movies to Ice Bound
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, realistic, tense and intense films with plots about survival, hopes, isolation, sacrifice, biopic, rescue and grief mostly in Drama, Thriller and Biography genres. Some movies like Ice Bound: My Breast (1994), Chinese Doctors (2021), Jaras Enzar 2 (2026), Hello Beautiful (2025), The Last Descent (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
154
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's ...
Style:
reflective, medical drama
Plot:
breast cancer, courage, journalist, female protagonist, inspiration, hopes, illness, introspection, self discovery, relationships, redemption, female empowerment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Based on real-life events, the film recounts the efforts of the Wuhan medical staff as they attempt to deal with the rising cases of Covid-19.
Style:
medical drama, disturbing, captivating, realistic, inspirational ...
Plot:
doctor, hospital, epidemic, medical, virus, medicine, doctors and patients, vaccine, physician, illness, sacrifice, infection ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Trapped in an underground pit during a storm, three students from an all-girls school must confront their personal conflicts as they fight to survive.
Style:
intense, suspense, emotional, realistic, inspirational
Plot:
trapped, girls' school, survival, disaster, underground, desperation, female friendship, fear, claustrophobia, resilience, high school, isolation ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hello Beautiful is a powerful and emotionally charged film that delves into the harrowing yet transformative journey of Willow, a successful model whose life is shattered by a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. Based on Christine Handy's ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, medical drama, tear jerker ...
Plot:
transformation, cancer, female protagonist, resilience, breast cancer, biopic, empowerment, identity, self discovery, survival, women, personal growth ...
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 2009 John Jones entered Nutty Putty Cave with his brother Josh. What happened next has been a topic of much discussion and controversy ever since. Over 127 rescuers responded to the call for aid, and each one has their own take on the events. A ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, emotional, tear jerker ...
Plot:
cave, rescue, search and rescue, trapped, faith, faith based, underground, survival, claustrophobia, confined space, entrapment, saving a life ...
Place:
utah
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA, Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A captive daughter endures around two decades of abuse at the hands of a sadistic father. One day, destiny presents her with an opportunity to break free.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
father, child abuse, female protagonist, trauma, psychological abuse, domestic abuse, locked in a basement, locked in, captive, despot, brother sister relationship, father and daughter ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An abused woman escapes from prison, is recaptured, and sent back then tries to get her sentence reduced. Based on a true story.
Style:
serious, dramatic, emotional, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, female protagonist, survivor, prison life, wrongful imprisonment, psychological trauma, legal battle, biopic, courtroom, escape, survival, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A woman (Karin Viard) in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, inspirational, reflective, bleak ...
Plot:
breast cancer, hospital, pregnant woman, pregnancy, female protagonist, motherhood, life & death, ethical dilemma, determination, resilience, cancer, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nichole Jolly is a nurse at the town’s hospital, who begins her day as usual, only to face an unimaginable crisis when a wildfire rapidly engulfs the town. Torn between her duty to protect her patients and her desperate need to find her husband ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
wildfire, courage, heroism, hopes, survival, natural disaster, evacuation, hospital, tribute, biopic, sacrifice, tragedy ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drama directed by Sandor Stern.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, tear jerker, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family crisis, hospital, tragedy, hopes, grief, sacrifice, fatherhood, resilience, biopic, diagnosis, families, disability ...
Similarity:
58%
581
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
navy, submarine, accident, rescue mission, survival, rescue attempt, crash, underwater fight, rescue from drowning, military officer, team, saving a life ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
aviation, airplane, disaster, air disaster, flight attendant, airplane accident, real life, danger, hostage, race against time, survival, confined ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, montreal
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, boat, disaster, sea, storm, moral dilemma, sacrifice, desperation, human nature, character study ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Style:
suspense, exciting, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mine, cave, mining, working conditions, underground, miner, rescue, friendship between men, survival, rescue attempt, teamwork, perseverance ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010
Place:
chile
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the day that Antoinette Tuff considered suicide, she realized that all of her challenges had prepared her for a purpose; to save an Atlanta school under siege from a deranged killer bent on murdering the students.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational ...
Plot:
faith, hostage situation, courage, psycho killer, psychopath, hostage, mentally unstable, mental disorder, death threat, threat, murderer, gunfight ...
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
Style:
tense, intense, emotional, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
hopes, sea, survival, endurance, desperation, isolation, shipwreck, coast guard, lifeboat, rescue, trauma, friendship ...
Similarity:
50%
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Businessman Raj Kundra's 63 days inside India's most over crowded jail, Arthur Road jail.
Style:
realistic, tense, intense
Plot:
biopic, claustrophobia, celebrity culture, urban, media frenzy, legal battle, male protagonist, isolation, ethical dilemma, police interrogation, corporate crime, tabloid journalism ...
Place:
mumbai india
Similarity:
46%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jason Priestley (TV's "Beverly Hills, 90210") and Andrea Roth star in this inspirational adventure story about courage, love and the power of family. Aspiring author Robert (Priestly) organizes a quick getaway with his wife and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, island, isolation, storm, wilderness, escapades, danger, forces of nature, parent child relationship, reconciliation, courage, family drama ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is faced with a choice to fight for her life or sacrifice it for another. After years of infertility, a newly-expectant mother is diagnosed with a life-altering disease.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, medical drama, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
motherhood, choice, female protagonist, parenthood, infertility, mother, pregnant woman, sacrifice, pregnancy, woman, ethical dilemma, mother love ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Television drama in which miners spend their Christmas Eve in a collapsed mine.
Style:
realistic, emotional, period piece, historical drama, poignant ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, danger, disaster, coal mine, rescue attempt, mining town, small town, survival, blue collar, family drama, resilience ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1951
Place:
appalachia
Similarity:
42%
42K
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, suspense, touching, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, rescue, disaster, life, catastrophe, stranded, natural disaster, hopes, doctor, honest, radio, trapped ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
chile, peru, south america, latin america, australia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
Style:
tension, suspense, tense, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
disaster, subway, earthquake, trapped, escape, survival, fear, danger, claustrophobia, underground, urban, darkness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A widow and her daughter join a commune that is actually a front for something much more sinister.
Style:
tense, suspense, intense
Plot:
commune, widow, mother daughter relationship, human trafficking, corruption, danger, exploitation, survival, escape, deception, rescue, paranoia ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
amazon jungle, jungle, hostage, kidnapping, survival, amazon rainforest, ransom, captive, kidnapped, abduction, partisan, amazon ...
Place:
colombia, ecuador
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, abduction, sex slavery, sex trafficking, sexploitation, exploitation, kidnapped child, slavery, slave girl, predator, social issues ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War ...
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
holocaust, genocide, homecoming, haunted by the past, human spirit, confined, hopes, wartime life, anti semitism, infidelity, concentration camp, survival ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
france, paris france, europe, canada
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with Pompe disease - a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, inspirational, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot:
medical, hopes, race against time, family drama, cure, against the odds, family problems, unlikely partners, doctors and patients, child illness, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, portland oregon, boston, las vegas, california ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple searches for the cure for the girl's terminal illness.
Style:
emotional, poignant, romantic drama, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, illness, hopes, love story, relationships, mortality, young couple, youth, loss, desperation, resilience ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her wild younger sister Ashley, who suffers from bipolar disorder and drug addiction, goes missing, Libba Phillips pours all her time and energy into finding Ashley and bringing her home. As the years go by, Libba refuses to give up hope, and, ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, inspirational, dramatic ...
Plot:
missing person, bipolar disorder, drug addict, rescue, split personality, mental illness, mentally unstable, sister, addiction, family drama, loss, determination ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
It is based on the story of young cartoonist Xiong Dun who encounters double setbacks in love and the workplace. In the face of adversity, she bravely fights her illness and spreads positivity with her infectious smile.
Xiang Yang is a carefree ...
Style:
dramatic, emotional, inspirational, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
cancer, doctor, illness, medical, terminal illness, mishap, resilience, hopes, cartoonist, personal growth, female protagonist, self discovery ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
shanghai
Similarity:
35%
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