Movies like Arctic

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Arctic (2018)
 6.8
 58K
Arctic (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
Style: minimal cast, suspense, touching, uplifting, disturbing, inspirational, captivating, action adventure, clever, intellectual ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, snow, arctic, helicopter crash, man versus nature, polar bear, fish, very little dialogue, ice, struggle for survival, snowstorm, winter, disaster, wilderness, wilderness survival, stranded, male protagonist, bear attack, danger, landscape, nature, police officer, hunting, cold, climbing ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: antarctica
Keyword: buddy movie, danish, thai, challenge

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Most similar movies to Arctic

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and suspense films with plots about survival, nature, wilderness, snow, danger, wilderness survival and trapped mostly in Drama, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like Arctic: Alive (1993), The Snow Walker (2003), All Is Lost (2013), The Grey (2011), Against the Ice (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.1
 64K
Alive (1993)
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%
The Snow Walker (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, nature, wilderness, arctic, airplane, human spirit, friendship, rescue, hunter, isolation, friends, hopes ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1953, post world war two, 1950s
Place: canada, antarctic, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 84K
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, reflective, touching, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing
Plot: survival, boat, loneliness, storm, ocean, survivor, isolation, ship, human spirit, sailing, sailor, desperation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 263K
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, 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 ⇓
100%
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Against the Ice (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, powerful, period piece ...
Plot: snow, cold, survival, struggle for survival, arctic, island, winter, captain, camp, crew, ship, biopic ...
Time: 2020s, edwardian era, 1900s, 20th century
Place: greenland, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 57K
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: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lost in the Barrens (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear attack, nature, winter, treasure hunt, snow, treasure hunter, stranded, trapped, scenery, friendship between boys ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 634K
Cast Away (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, air disaster, determination, solitude, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1995, year 1999 ...
Place: fictional island, persia, america, moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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White Water Summer (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
Style: intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: wilderness, survival, river, coming of age, summer, nature, camping, friendship, youth, camp, mountain climbing, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 66K
Alpha (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a hunting expedition goes awry, a young caveman struggles against the elements to find his way home.
Style: sincere, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: wilderness, survival, wolf, human animal relationship, caveman, dog, animal attack, hunter, near death experience, boar, wolf pack, bison ...
Time: prehistory, prehistoric times, stone age, future, ancient times
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.7
 16K
Land (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Edee, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, finds herself unable to stay connected to the world she once knew and in the face of that uncertainty, retreats to the magnificent, but unforgiving, wilds of the Rockies. After a local hunter brings ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, serious
Plot: solitude, nature, living alone, family tragedy, fishing, female protagonist, mountain, native american, wilderness, new life, mountain cabin, rocky mountains ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: wyoming, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, 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 ⇓
60%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 122K
The Way Back (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot: survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: himalaya, russia, soviet union, asia, mongolia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 6K
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 ⇓
100%
 6.0
 24K
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: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, nature, camping, bear, dangerous animal, lost in the woods, danger, bear attack, lost, woods, forest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Forests of Siberia (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal. After an initial period of elation in front of the splendor and magic of unspoiled ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
Plot: solitude, nature, friendship, loneliness, saving a life, food, poacher, lake, survival, rescue, isolation, human nature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
To Build a Fire (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
Story: A man travels by foot in the snow with his dog.
Plot: dog, snow, frozen, survival, man versus nature, wilderness survival, freezing, husky dog, hypothermia, hiking, cautionary tale, campfire
Place: yukon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
 98K
The Guardian (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's 'A' School, where legendary rescue swimmer, Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice.
Style: inspirational, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: ocean, coast guard, lifeguard, rescue, military, survival, training, friendship, daring rescue, aviation, swimming, military training ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: alaska, astoria oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 79K
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: 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%
 7.3
 68K
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, inspirational, breathtaking, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: survival, dog, wilderness, expedition, rescue, dog sled, pets, snow, husky dog, animal, winter, storytelling ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 90s
Place: antarctica, astoria oregon, antarctic, new zealand, oregon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 7K
Walking Out (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A city teen who travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father only for the strained trip to become a battle for survival when they encounter a grizzly bear
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, independent film
Audience: teen drama
Plot: wilderness, grizzly bear, bear attack, snow, bear, hunting, parent child relationship, estranged father, grownups, winter, teenage boy, coming of age ...
Place: montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 231K
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 ...
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 ⇓
50%
 5.8
 265K
Noah (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
Style: biblical, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic, fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, chick flick
Plot: apocalypse, survival, religion, chaos, god, natural disaster, old testament, belief, ancient history, life & death, christianity, animal ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, ancient times, middle ages, biblical epic
Place: holy land, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 916K
The Martian (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style: futuristic, biting, clever, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night
Plot: survival, mars, astronaut, space travel, stranded, nasa, isolation, outer space, science, scientist, space, loneliness ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, 2030s, near future ...
Place: china, london, houston texas, pasadena california, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 65K
Vertical Limit (2000)
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 ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, adventurer, disaster, mountain, natural disaster, wilderness, mountaineering, expedition, snow ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: himalaya, pakistan, antarctic, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 8.0
 867K
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: atmospheric, breathtaking, scenic, suspenseful, harsh ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, bear attack, life & death, nature, winter, obsessive quest, hunter ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 19th century, 90s, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Himalayas (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Based on true events, renowned mountaineer UM Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, scenic
Plot: climbing, snow, mountain climbing, hiking, natural disaster, forces of nature, expedition, friendship, survivor, human spirit, stranded, against the odds ...
Place: mount everest, himalaya, nepal
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will ...
Style: harsh, suspense, captivating, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, survival, airplane, air disaster, aviation, disaster, thirst, pilot, isolation, airplane accident, crew, rescue ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: sahara, libya, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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