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One Mile Above (2011)
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One Mile Above (2011)
Original name: 轉山
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, Taiwan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shuhao is a 24 year old Taiwanese university graduate. His older brother Shuwei, whom he has idolized since childhood, dies on a bicycle ride to Lhasa. He decides to complete Shuwei's journey, hoping to prove himself through this challenging trip. Shuhao's inexperience almost sees him headed over a cliff one dark night. Food poisoning nearly costs him his life just after surviving an attack by a pack of menacing Tibetan Mastiffs. In the end, Shuhao arrives in Lhasa to see the Potola Palace. His lonely journey, filled with laughter and tears, brings him to the discovery of a new purpose in life.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, captivating, road movie
Plot: mountain, cycling, last wish, on the road, self discovery, direction and purpose, dead brother, escapades, danger, wilderness, mountaineer, freedom, bike, mountaineering, bittersweet, nature, food, snow, death, wild animal, buddhism, dream, accident, telephone call, bicycle ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: tibet, asia, china
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and atmospheric films with plots about escapades, survival, danger, mountain, wilderness, nature and society mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like One Mile Above: Edie (2017), Scream of Stone (1991), To Brave Alaska (1996), Wolf Totem (2015), Island Etude (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Edie (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, inspirational
Plot: senior citizen, road not taken, old woman, guide, mountain climbing, nature, elderly, ambitious woman, elderly woman, ambition, direction and purpose, elderly man ...
Place: scotland, scottish highlands
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Scream of Stone (1991)
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 ⇓
50%
To Brave Alaska (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
Style: uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, wilderness survival, treasure hunt, pets, treasure hunter, starvation, blizzard, disorder, human spirit, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 70s
Place: yukon, alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Wolf Totem (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; ...
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot: forces of nature, wolf, survival, dog, wilderness, tradition versus modernity, medieval, danger, society, wolf pack, disaster, wild animal ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1967, year 1969
Place: china, mongolia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Island Etude (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: First-time actor Tung Ming-Hsiang plays Ming, a young college student whose lifelong hearing problem causes him to communicate via slurred speech. Carrying a guitar on his back and lacking few concrete reasons, he decides to bike around the island ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, rough, exciting ...
Plot: cycling, bicycle, friendship, starting over, love and romance, self discovery, homecoming, misfit, mute or deaf, ambition, elderly lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, europe, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, 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
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42%
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Patagonia (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Patagonia narrates the journeys of two women - one looking for her past, the other for her future. The film inter-cuts between their stories, in which one of them travels south to north through the Welsh springtime and the other east to west through ...
Style: road movie, touching, atmospheric, sincere, uplifting ...
Plot: desert, couples, last wish, self discovery, on the road, elderly, love affair, crumbling marriage, redemption, family problems, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, wales, latin america, europe, argentina
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41%
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Himalaya (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK, Nepal
Duration: 108 min.
Story: As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and rebellious young Karma (Gurgon Kyap). Tinle tries to ...
Style: independent film, road movie, atmospheric, spiritual, dramatic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: buddhism, mountain, coming of age, survival, mountaineering, mountaineer, buddhist, cold weather, religion, human rights, camel, on the road ...
Time: 90s
Place: tibet, himalaya, nepal, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Travelers and Magicians (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bhutan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the ...
Style: road movie, serious, captivating, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: buddhism, road trip, magic, monk, storytelling, self discovery, introspection, friendship, clergy, culture clash, on the road, buddhist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Old Man (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: wilderness, danger, family relations, farm, nature, wilderness survival, isolation, survival, arctic, landscape, mountain, winter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kazakhstan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Mountain Patrol (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.
Style: captivating, serious, rough, sincere, masterpiece
Plot: survival, mountain, journalism, danger, animal life, extinction, village, desert, poacher, disaster, mountaineering, environmental ...
Time: 2000s
Place: tibet, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult ...
Style: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, anthropological ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: wilderness, nature, wolf, snow, scientist, survival, mountain, arctic, camping, environment, environmental, voice over narration ...
Time: year 1983, 1940s, 80s
Place: alaska, usa
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36%
Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Dreaming Lhasa (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, India
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, enigmatic, spiritual ...
Plot: adventurer, missing person, injustice, self discovery, fighting the system, society, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, fall in love, political unrest, homecoming ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tibet, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Touch the Top of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story of the first blind man ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest
Style: uplifting, realistic, touching, serious
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Time: 21st century
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34%
The Double Steps (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative
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33%
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K2 (1991)
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
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33%
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Antarctica (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
Style: suspenseful, depressing, ironic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog sled, survival, dog, expedition, nature, thoughtful, winter, landscape, animal life, escapades, pets, danger ...
Time: 50s, year 1957, 1950s
Place: antarctica, japan, asia, antarctic, hokkaido
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32%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
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Style: captivating, atmospheric, tense, suspense
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, mountain, army, military, team, rivalry, danger, escapades, mountaineering, japanese military, japanese man ...
Time: 20th century
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32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 145 min.
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Style: serious, captivating, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: world war two, sino japanese war, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, survival, family problems, family in danger, wartime life, on the road, on the run, against humanity ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place: china, taiwan, asia
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32%
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Lost and Love (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After his young son goes missing, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a 14-year quest to find him.
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
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32%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
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Style: captivating, exciting, atmospheric, epic, serious ...
Plot: adventurer, medieval, heroes, heroic mission, hopes, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, culture clash, political unrest, society, priest ...
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32%
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30%
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30%
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Style: sincere, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: youth, society, love and romance, wilderness, coming of age, danger, tradition versus modernity, hopes
Time: 21st century
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30%
The Beckoning Silence (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story: In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning "Touching the Void", travels to the treacherous North Face of the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering's most ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, scenic
Plot: mountaineer, climbing, mountain, mountain climbing, survival, wilderness, mountaineering, wilderness survival, human spirit, rescue, life philosophy, expedition ...
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30%
Follow the River (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of ...
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, epic
Audience: adult
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30%
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Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
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Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
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29%
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