Mountain movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mountain movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic, psychological and disturbing films and TV shows about / with mountain, survival, wilderness, danger, nature, snow, escapades, death, trapped and flashback plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mountain: The Ledge (2022), Postmen in the Mountains (1999), Land (2021), The Mountain Between Us (2017), Wind River (2017), High Lane (2009), Last of the Dogmen (1995), 127 Hours (2010), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Still (2018).
Best films
New films
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A rock climbing adventure between two friends turns into a terrifying nightmare. After Kelly captures the murder of her best friend on camera, she becomes the next target of a tight-knit group of friends who will stop at nothing to destroy the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
mountain, struggle for survival, murder, trapped, survival, threat to kill, murderer, mountain climbing, murder witness, death threat, threat, witness ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through the mountains, the son begins to appreciate the toil and burden ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
mountain, narration, landscape, father son relationship, postman, on the road, parent child relationship, hiking, homecoming, small town, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
canada, china
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17K
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:
sincere, captivating, psychological, serious, f word
Plot:
solitude, living alone, new life, nature, family tragedy, female protagonist, mountain, wilderness, rocky mountains, mountain cabin, fishing, death of family ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, chicago
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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, visually stunning, romantic, romantic drama, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
survival, wilderness, mountain, snow, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, sole survivor, stranger, plane crash, wilderness survival, peril ...
Time:
year 2017, future, 2010s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, utah, idaho, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: UK, France, USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, snow, fbi, rape, native american reservation, murder investigation, winter, violence, fbi agent, forest, native american ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
wyoming, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of friends on vacation decide to venture onto a trail high up in the mountains that has been closed for repairs. The climb proves more perilous than planned, especially as they soon realize that they are not alone. The adventure turns into a ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, mountain, serial murder, forest, climbing, danger, disappearance, survival horror, stalking, friends, escapades, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A Montana bounty hunter is sent into the wilderness to track three escaped prisoners. Instead he sees something that puzzles him. Later with a female Native Indian history professor, he returns to find some answers.
Style:
suspenseful, anamorphic, serious, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
mountain, native american reservation, american indian, native american tribe, native, bounty hunter, native american, dog, survival, treasure hunt, nature, scenery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, usa
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422K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, inspirational, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, mountain, wilderness, canyon, courage, alone, desert, trap, loneliness, life & death ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
utah, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
World War II is raging, and an American general has been captured and is being held hostage in the Schloss Adler, a Bavarian castle that's nearly impossible to breach. It's up to a group of skilled Allied soldiers to liberate the general ...
Style:
retro, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, mind blowing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
world war two, mountain, nazi, two man army, winter, military, espionage, machine gun, fortress, castle, secret mission, army ranger ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
germany, alps, bavaria, europe, austria
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When a young hiker stumbles onto an isolated farm after losing her way on the Appalachian Trail, she is taken in by a strange yet beautiful couple desperate to protect a secret deep in the mountains.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
farm, mountain, secret, murder, trapped, trap, malice, woman in danger, female protagonist, couples, reconciliation, love ...
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Poland, Australia, USA, Slovenia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
One woman's journey for self-discovery and turns into a harrowing tale of survival.
Style:
psychological, suspense, road movie
Plot:
mountain, survival, blizzard, wilderness, rescue, loss of loved one, female protagonist, rescue attempt, stranded, frostbite, search and rescue, snowstorm ...
Place:
new hampshire
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Dashrath Manjhi was a poor man from the lowest of the low castes, living in a remote village cut off from the world by a rocky mountain range. Life for him was a daily struggle for survival. He loved his wife, Phaguniya, beyond belief. One day, ...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, psychological, captivating, art film ...
Plot:
mountain, caste system, love, determination, poverty, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, struggle for survival, family tragedy, mining, tragic event, travel ...
Time:
year 2015, 60s, 70s
Place:
india
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A bunch of city slickers from different backgrounds go into the wild mountains to be one with nature, but basically to have a good time. However, a paramilitary group has chosen the same time to go camping. When one of the soldiers thinks their boss ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, murder, treasure hunt, mountain, rivalry, danger, hostage, manhunt, camping, skinny dipping, river ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa, montana
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21K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Eirik and his girlfriend, Jannicke, join newly coupled Mikael and Ingunn, along with single wisecracker Morten, on a snowboarding excursion to a remote mountainous region in Norway. When Morten breaks his leg, however, and requires medical ...
Style:
slasher, brutal, scary, creepy, perverse ...
Plot:
hotel, psychopath, group of friends, mountain, characters killed one by one, manic, snowboarding, sole survivor, female fighter, abandoned hotel, characters murdered one by one, photograph ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2016, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
europe
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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, serious, exciting, captivating, crying ...
Plot:
mountain, mountaineer, mountain climbing, climbing, survival, adventurer, wehrmacht, disaster, man versus nature, rivalry, mountaineering, forces of nature ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
switzerland, alps, germany, swiss alps, bavaria
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Still struggling to accept her fiancé's death in a rock climbing accident, mountain guide Diana Pennington gratefully accepts industrialist Curt Seaver's offer to find the body using a new satellite imagery technology his company has ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, cliffhanger, enigmatic
Plot:
mountain, mountain climbing, missing person, woman in danger, danger, twists and turns, dishonesty, climbing, woman in jeopardy, snowman, marriage proposal, pistol ...
Place:
vancouver
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246K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Iceland, USA, Italy
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, mountain, mountaineer, natural disaster, disaster, snow, stranded, forces of nature, frostbite, tragedy, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Seo Yi-Gang is the best ranger at Jiri Mountain National Park. She knows virtually everything about the area, including where to climb the mountain. Kang Hyun-Jo is a rookie ranger at Jiri Mountain National Park. He graduated from the military ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mountain, forest ranger, teamwork, rescue, peril, workplace situations, ranger, workplace, rescue mission, search and rescue, saving a life, rock climbing ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: UK, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, wendigo, winter, death, fort, mountain, gory, survival, food, violent, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, 20th century, victorian era, 1800s ...
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, ...
Style:
sexual, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
mountain, winter, amnesia, male nudity, hospital, memory loss, coma, death, drinking, infidelity, obsession, photography ...
Time:
90s
Place:
germany, bavaria, europe, spain, berlin germany
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Genre: Adventure, 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, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mountain, mountain climbing, wilderness, climbing, rivalry, danger, ambition, contests and competitions, love triangle, mountaineering, dream, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
patagonia, chile, argentina
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, blood, chase, disfigurement, brutality ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
Style:
captivating, talky, bloody, stylized, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
bounty hunter, winter, stagecoach, prisoner, gang, cold weather, old west, murder, snow, dark humor, brutality, twists and turns ...
Time:
19th century, year 2015, 2010s, victorian era, year 2016
Place:
wyoming, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Style:
melancholic, psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Plot:
actress, skinny dipping, lesbian, movie actress, divorce, midlife crisis, women, mountain, relationships, sexual attraction, character study, suicide attempt ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps, alps, london, zurich switzerland ...
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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:
scenic, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot:
mountaineer, mountain, mountain climbing, wilderness, survival, mountaineering, alpinism, wilderness survival, life philosophy, tragedy, life & death, forces of nature ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Film adaption of the novel by Jean Craighead George. A family movie made by Paramount Studios, the story revolves around thirteen-year old Sam Gribley (Teddy Eccles), a devotee of Thoreau, as many were back in the in 1960's. Sam decides to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
survival, mountain, wildlife, nature, youth, treasure hunt, runaway, animal, owl, childhood, bird, camp ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, forest, gory, danger, fanatic, survival, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, mountain, rescue, murder, religions or cults ...
Place:
west virginia, usa, virginia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.
Style:
serious, rough, captivating, sincere, masterpiece
Plot:
survival, mountain, desert, danger, journalism, animal life, village, poacher, disaster, mountaineering, environmental, environment ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
tibet, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
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, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, mountain, adventurer, disaster, climbing, natural disaster, wilderness, expedition, happy ending, mountaineering ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
himalaya, pakistan, asia, antarctic
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a ...
Style:
breathtaking, philosophical, epic, spiritual, scenic ...
Audience:
family outing, adult
Plot:
buddhism, beautiful scenery, mountain, expedition, traveler, biopic, world war two, life philosophy, spirituality, wanderlust, travel, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s, 90s, year 1997
Place:
tibet, himalaya, austria, chile, asia ...
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