Movies and TV shows set in greenland
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in greenland ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with arctic, danger, disaster, survival, catastrophe, inuit, friendship, escapades, snow and rescue plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in USA, Denmark, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as greenland: Greenland (2020), Against the Ice (2022), Thin Ice (2020), Endless Night (2015), Smilla's Sense of Snow (1997), A Polar Year (2018), Inuk (2010), Ice (2011), The Experiment (2010), Zero Kelvin (1995).
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List of movies set in greenland
163K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
suspense, exciting, scenic, unusual plot structure, psychotronic ...
Plot:
natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, panic, husband wife relationship, diabetic, comet, kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
greenland, atlanta georgia, canada, kentucky, moscow russia ...
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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:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, period piece, powerful ...
Plot:
survival, struggle for survival, cold, arctic, snow, island, winter, captain, crew, camp, ship, blaster ...
Time:
edwardian era, 2020s, 20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland, denmark
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Iceland, France
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
The series takes place in Greenland and revolves around a climate meeting for the Arctic Council, which is in the process of agreeing on a new and historic climate agreement that prohibits all environmentally harmful oil drilling in the area. Lena ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
police detective, arctic, police, kidnapping, female police detective, politician, hostage, oil, conspiracy, oil company, parent child relationship, police investigation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greenland, russia, eastern europe, scandinavia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Bulgaria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Greenland, 1908. Josephine, self-confident and bold wife of famous Arctic explorer Robert Peary, embarks on a dangerous journey in pursuit of her husband who is seeking a route to the North Pole. But Josephine is also naïve and ignores warnings ...
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, psychological, stylized ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, couples, escapades, danger, friendship, women, biopic, woman, friends, visceral, struggle for survival ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, visually stunning, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, culture clash, amateur detective, snow, family problems, mathematics, death in the family, winter, disorder, danger, human nature ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
denmark, greenland, copenhagen, europe, antarctica
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
Style:
feel good, inspirational, motivational, surreal, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, family outing
Plot:
self discovery, daydreamer, travel, life changing experience, loneliness, disorder, adventurer, journey, lifestyle change, photographer, coworker, obsessive quest ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
iceland, greenland, usa, new york, los angeles ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him embrace the snow-covered life.
Style:
semi documentary, light, sincere, visually appealing, entertaining ...
Plot:
blizzard, polar bear, grandmother grandson relationship, isolation, language barrier, elementary school, language learning, fishing, seal the animal, remote village, death of grandfather, hunting ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, greenland
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365
Genre: Drama
Country: Greenland, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Several years after losing his father, Inuk learns the way of his people again.
Style:
realistic, captivating, contemplative, visually appealing, melancholic ...
Plot:
dog sled, journey, self discovery, redemption, haunted by the past, teaching the ways of the world, winter, teenage life, culture, little boy, native, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greenland
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2K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story:
It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
Plot:
climate change, forces of nature, disaster, ecological disaster, evacuation, survival, iceberg, danger, escapades, storm, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, greenland
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, social, captivating, historical drama ...
Plot:
children's home, children, experiment, society, colonization, colonialism, assimilation, life is a bitch, child, parenting, social issues, social problems ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
denmark, greenland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, serious ...
Plot:
survival, winter, poetry, writer's life, wilderness, disaster, snow, male nudity, poet, frozen, schizophrenia, jazz ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, tokyo
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Genre: History, Mystery
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Mysterious frozen lakes filled with bones, mummified bodies hanging from inside a glacier, and a 30,000-year-old virus frozen in ice brought back to life in a laboratory. In an all new Science Channel series, SECRETS IN THE ICE, experts and ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, captivating, serious, educational ...
Plot:
expert, archaeology, glacier, science, technology, ice, mummy, exploration, virus, investigation, secrets, ancient ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
siberia, greenland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Denmark
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Danish ambassador to Washington declares himself to be the sole representative of a free Denmark during the Nazi occupation of the country.
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
world war two, ambassador, treason, wartime, diplomat, wartime life, nazi, political intrigue, nazism, politics, consul, political unrest ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
washington d.c., greenland
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Genre: Animation, Action, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A series of mysterious lightning storms wreaking havoc worldwide as they spiral through the atmosphere toward Greenland. Once they collide, they will create one massive storm that will result in cataclysmic destruction. But the Rescue Heroes use ...
Style:
computer animated, tense, uplifting, fast paced, anime ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
lightning, storm, save the world, teamwork, children, rescue, heroes, disaster, mission, danger, bravery, courage ...
Place:
greenland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.
Plot:
natural disaster, survival, hiding place, disaster, desperation, loss of father, angry mob, self sacrifice, marauder, teenage girl, shootout, building collapse ...
Place:
united kingdom, greenland, france, liverpool, britain ...
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635K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok, the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless ...
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, heroic, captivating, historical drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
viking, battles, king, medieval, warrior, sword and shield, sword fight, legends and myths, myth, norse mythology, historical character, adventurer ...
Time:
middle ages, ancient times, medieval times, 7th century, 9th century ...
Place:
scandinavia, chicago, ireland, europe, greenland ...
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296
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
Seabert is an animated television series from 1985. It was created by BZZ films in Paris and originally aired in French before being translated into different languages around the world. In the United States, the show aired on HBO starting in 1987. ...
Style:
retro, thought provoking, exciting, semi serious
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
seal the animal, environmentalism, animal life, save the planet, friends, friendship, wilderness, heroes, danger, society, rescue, young heroes ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
north america, denmark, greenland
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a mammoth cruise ship sails over the site of the Titanic’s disaster, dark and deadly events start to occur on board. As the ship’s captain investigates the tragic occurrences, it becomes clear that the passengers and crew from the original ...
Style:
mystical, suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
titanic, ghost, murder, threat, ship, supernatural, struggle for survival, cruise ship, mysticism, catastrophe, cursed object, water ...
Place:
new york, greenland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The ...
Style:
emotional, dramatic, tear jerker, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
superstition, snow, winter, folklore, innocence, prejudice, outsider, medieval, coming of age, iceberg, avalanche, isolation ...
Place:
iceland, greenland
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The five days when Copenhagen was held in a panic grip by an intelligent activist and former elite shooter, who takes to arms when a woman journalist writes about the government’s broken promises in an environmental question.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
sniper, politics, journalism, state affairs, environmentalism, society, media, reporter, hostage situation, die hard, environmental activism, manhunt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, greenland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Everybody expected military flight Boxtop 22 from Thule into the vast frozen wilderness of Canada's North Western territories to be boring routine, but in a matter of minutes a crash reduces Gulf War veteran pilot Captain John Couch's crew ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, airplane accident, space, aviation, disaster, plane crash, danger, heroes, escapades, rescue, save the day, forces of nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, greenland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Thomas and Thomas are going through a rough patch: they are both thirty-something actors living in Paris. They randomly decide to leave the city and fly away to Kullorsuaq, one of the most remote villages of Greenland, where Thomas' father ...
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, sincere, captivating
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
fish out of water, society, actor's life, disorder, life philosophy, friendship, youth, actor, city, dancing, dead animal, bear ...
Place:
paris france, greenland
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
journalist, uncover truth, idealism, dishonesty, state affairs, cold war, whistleblower, contamination, journalism, war, disaster, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
denmark, greenland
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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 ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
north pole, expedition, rivalry, controversy, biopic, ambition, survival, travel and leisure, perseverance, isolation, naval officer, character study ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
greenland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic
Plot:
espionage, james bond spoof, cold war, undercover, woman with a gun, secret service agent, flooding, underwater fight, superior officer, sicilian, telescope, villa ...
Time:
60s
Place:
sicily, greenland, italy, caribbean, new york ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Borgen is a drama series about the fight for political power – and about the personal sacrifices and consequences this has for those involved on and behind the political stage. The central figure is the 40-year old political leader Birgitte ...
Style:
political, serious, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
politics, prime minister, female politician, marriage, journalism, nordic, media coverage, politician, state affairs, ambition, power struggle, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, greenland, europe, copenhagen, scandinavia
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Denmark, France, Norway
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
When a boy child is stolen by bears who raise him as their own, his human parents hunt the bears in despair, and the boy is faced with the dilemma of who and what he is.
Style:
semi serious, touching, emotional, feel good, anime
Audience:
family outing, kids, preschool
Plot:
moral dilemma, young heroes, missing child, family relations, danger, escapades, youth, family life, parents and children, culture clash, death in the family, society ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
greenland
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, political, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, war, navy, nuclear explosion, reporter, u.s. navy, confrontation, propaganda, battlefield, military, torpedo ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greenland, atlantic ocean, russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dr. Dempsey is an American scientist who has become a skeptic. He isn't enthusiastic to be sent by his employer to Scotland to (dis)prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster. He finds the locals stubborn, 'primitive' and all but ...
Style:
mythical, mystical, serious, feel good, independent film
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
loch ness monster, cryptozoology, beast, dinosaur, creature, magic, animal, castle, monster, water, cryptid, sea monster ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe, greenland, madagascar, london ...
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, ironic, light ...
Plot:
time travel, fish out of water, abbey, hibernation, disorder, misfit, family life, culture clash, society, pretense, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, greenland, europe
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