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Amundsen (2019)
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Amundsen (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on the true story of polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, this movie covers his life and the dangerous way to the pole.
Style: tense, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot: explorer, survival, north pole, brother brother relationship, escapades, heroes, dream, love and romance, disaster, danger, ambition, couples, winter, conquistador, landscape, nordic, snow, arctic, zeppelin, freeze to death, northern lights, childhood memory, extramarital affair, airplane crash, remote location ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s
Place: south pole, antarctica, oslo norway
Keyword: norwegian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, realistic and exciting films with plots about survival, danger, escapades, biopic, wilderness, winter and nature mostly in Drama, Adventure and History genres. Some movies like Amundsen: Against the Ice (2022), Shackleton (2002), Kon-Tiki (2012), The Flight of the Eagle (1982), The Red Tent (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Shackleton (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 206 min.
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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: expedition, adventurer, survival, explorer, endurance, human spirit, against the odds, danger, ambition, forces of nature, nature, sea ...
Time: 1910s, edwardian era, 20th century, year 1914
Place: antarctica, south pole, britain, england
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 7.1
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Kon-Tiki (2012)
Genre: 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, inspirational, epic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, family outing
Plot: ocean, survival, sea voyage, shark, boat, expedition, raft, obsessive quest, adventurer, sailing, travel, lost at sea ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s ...
Place: pacific ocean, polynesia, peru, usa, south america ...
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The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Norway
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The Swedish 19th century engineer S. A. Andrée sets out to become the first man on the north pole. His idea is to launch a polar expedition using a hydrogen balloon, together with two friends. The balloon, "The Eagle", takes off from ...
Style: contemplative, epic, sincere, bleak, exciting ...
Plot: north pole, survival, biopic, zeppelin, aviation, nordic, winter, nature, island, polar bear, ice, weather ...
Time: 19th century, year 1982, 1890s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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The Red Tent (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Style: historical drama, realistic, serious, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience: date night
Plot: survival, aviation, disaster, arctic, interwar period, conquistador, post soviet, space, winter, 007, nature, rescue attempt ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: soviet union
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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 ...
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The Great Alaskan Race (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, psychological
Plot: danger, escapades, hopes, parents and children, life is a bitch, heroes, youth, chases and races, chase, life philosophy, epidemic, children ...
Time: 1920s
Place: alaska
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North Face (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 126 min.
Story: North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.
Style: touching, exciting, serious, captivating, breathtaking ...
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, mountaineer, mountain, disaster, survival, adventurer, wehrmacht, man versus nature, rivalry, mountaineering, forces of nature ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
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Togo (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, adult
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Place: alaska, usa
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Nanga Parbat (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother GĂĽnther died.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, factual, disturbing
Plot: mountaineer, climbing, mountain climbing, rock climbing, mountaineering, mountain, disaster, expedition, brother brother relationship, winter, frostbite, team ...
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Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through ...
Plot: expedition, north pole, historical figure, commander, explorer, arctic, physician, navy
Place: greenland
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El Dorado (1988)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The story of an expedition down the Orinoco and Amazon rivers in 1560 by Spanish soldiers searching for the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.
Style: rough, disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: conquistador, spanish conquest, adventurer, amazon rainforest, conquering, treasure hunt, colonial america, biopic, myth, colonialism, traveler, explorer ...
Time: 16th century
Place: peru, spain, latin america
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Alive (1993)
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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
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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 ...
Style: minimal cast, suspense, touching, disturbing, uplifting ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, boys' night, adult
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Time: year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: antarctica
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Odyssey of Heroes (2012)
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Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story: When their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: naval battle, world war one, german officer, war, weapons, escapades, danger, love and romance, sea, great war, british empire, german history ...
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Style: scenic, captivating, realistic, factual, tense ...
Audience: adult
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Gagarin: First in Space (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition ...
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, exciting, dramatic ...
Plot: outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, space mission, folk hero, national hero, cosmonaut, follow your dream, rise to the top, space, space travel, biopic ...
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Story: The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
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Style: atmospheric, cerebral, dramatic, visually appealing, visual ...
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Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Hungary
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Style: epic, captivating, exciting, tense, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night
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The Lost City of Z (2016)
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Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilazation in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.
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The White Dawn (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
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Duration: 110 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, vintage
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Odyssey (2016)
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Style: factual, exciting, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
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Plot: american politics, politician, royalty, corporation, fascism, assassination, biopic, campaign, rise to the top, society, life is a bitch, media ...
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Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
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Style: epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
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Time: 2010s, 1940s, 20th century
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