Mountaineering movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mountaineering movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tense, captivating, suspense, serious, suspenseful and psychological films and TV shows about / with mountaineering, mountain, climbing, survival, mountaineer, rock climbing, mountain climbing, outdoor, alpinism and nature plots mostly in Drama, Adventure and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mountaineering: Nanga Parbat (2010), A Lonely Place to Die (2011), North Face (2008), The Climb (1986), K2 (1991), Everest (2015), The Beckoning Silence (2007), Vertical Limit (2000), Broad Peak (2022), Reel Rock Film Tour (2010).
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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 Günther died.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, factual, disturbing
Plot:
mountaineer, rock climbing, mountain climbing, mountain, mountaineering, disaster, expedition, brother brother relationship, alpinism, winter, frostbite, team ...
Place:
himalaya, pakistan
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of five mountaineers are hiking and climbing in the Scottish Highlands when they discover a young Serbian girl buried in a small chamber in the wilderness. They become caught up in a terrifying game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers as ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, scary, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
wilderness, survival, mountaineer, kidnapping, hunt down, extreme sport, forest, hiking, rescue, group of friends, kidnapper, poacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, britain, europe, seattle
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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: Adventure
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
Style:
independent film, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
climbing, mountaineering, survival, mountain, mountaineer, alpinism, nature, disaster, man versus nature, expedition, teamwork, perseverance ...
Time:
1950s, year 1986, 50s
Place:
himalaya
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, Japan, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 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:
mountain climbing, mountain, survival, mountaineer, climbing, mountaineering, snow, alpinism, nature, winter, avalanche, rescue ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
himalaya, usa, middle east, seattle, pakistan
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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: 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: 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, Thriller
Country: Poland, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After climbing Broad Peak mountain, Maciej Berbeka learns his journey to the summit is incomplete. 25 years later, he sets out to finish what he started.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Plot:
mountain, journey, mountaineering, mountain climbing, fight, danger, alpinism, survival, life, love, female nudity, escapades ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
poland, himalaya
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Makoto Fukamachi is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, disturbing, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
mountain, climbing, mountaineering, journalist, mountaineer, rock climbing, investigation, obsession, survival, risk, danger, expedition ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
mount everest, nepal, himalaya
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Genre: Adventure, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
Every fall the REEL ROCK Film Tour brings the year's most exciting new climbing films to live audiences around the world. For 2010, the tour features six amazing short films, with stories from the cutting edge of alpine climbing, bouldering, ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, inspirational, heroic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
climbing, rock climbing, alpinism, mountaineering, athlete, mountaineer, extreme sport, mountain, multiple storylines, coping, ambition, athlete's life ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Style:
visually stunning, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mountain climbing, mountain, hitman, climbing, catastrophe, assassination, revenge, murder, mountaineering, desert, cold war, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
alps, switzerland, europe, arizona, germany ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Japan, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
heist, mountain climbing, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, rescue, redemption, climbing, villain, cave, chase ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s, 80s
Place:
colorado, antarctic
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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: 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, rock climbing, mountaineering, wilderness survival, forces of nature ...
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, asia
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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
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
A team of climbers are preparing for their new mountain climbing expedition. They are brought together by their mutual love for this dangerous sport, for its challenges. They, however, differ in tempers, in problems and notions of honor and dignity. ...
Style:
thought provoking, tense, reflective, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, life & death, mountaineering, avalanche, friendship, responsibility, character study, leadership, snowstorm, sacrifice, rivalry, introspection ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A group of climbers embarks on a dangerous climb that has been off-limits for years. What initially begins as an audacious expedition transforms into a battle for survival against a force that toys with them.
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological horror
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, mountaineering, isolation, man versus nature, paranoia, claustrophobia, rescue attempt, perseverance, local legend, teleportation, aborigine, rock climbing ...
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 31 min.
TV show
Story:
Nine strangers are brought together to summit a 20,000-foot mountain in the Peruvian Andes. With each step, these novice climbers will push themselves to their limits and beyond.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, captivating
Plot:
expedition, climbing, competition, reality competition, perseverance, mountaineering, mountaineer, mountain, ambition, rock climbing, coping, aspiration ...
Place:
peru, thailand
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mateo undertakes the ascent of Annapurna, the most dangerous mountain on the planet, in order to fulfill an old promise.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
rock climbing, mountain, climbing, mountaineer, dream, ambition, survival, perseverance, mountaineering, mountain climbing, man versus nature, help ...
Place:
himalaya
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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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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, dramatic, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
buddhism, nature, mountain, coming of age, survival, mountaineer, mountaineering, buddhist, travel, climbing, camel, on the road ...
Time:
90s
Place:
himalaya, tibet, nepal, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Documentary, Sport
Country: USA
Story:
The complete 2011 REEL ROCK Film Tour: Six astounding short films covering every style of climbing on the planet. Starring Tommy Caldwell, Dean Potter, "Sketchy" Andy Lewis, Ashima Shiraishi, Will Gadd, Kevin Jorgeson, Corey Richards, Obe ...
Style:
thrilling
Plot:
rock climbing, climbing, mountaineering, extreme sports, motivation, risk, danger, inspiration, mountain, courage, machinery, expedition ...
Place:
patagonia, himalaya
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hermano, a successful doctor and enthusiastic rock climber, is planning to climb an almost invincible mountain in the Tierra del Fuego, when he discovers that his wife Adri is pregnant. Though Adri desires this unexpected pregnancy, Hermano is a bit ...
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, mountain climbing, obsession, husband wife relationship, traumatic experience, rock climbing, death of friend, pregnancy, guilt, trauma, parenthood, mountaineering ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A park ranger clashes with an egotistical army officer over how to handle a rescue operation to save three rock climbers stranded on a high elevation ledge of a mountain in Washington state.
Style:
tense, serious, tension, action drama, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
climbing, mountain, rescue attempt, rescue, search and rescue, glacier, park ranger, mountaineering, man versus nature, rivalry, survival, isolation ...
Place:
washington state
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The investigations and adventures of the Forestry Corps of San Candido.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, detective, comedy drama, melancholic ...
Plot:
love story, police, mountain village, mountain, nature, grief, small town, lifestyle, love and romance, tragic past, male female relationship, social relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
alps
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
A girl, inexperienced hiker, decided to embark on one of the most amazing marked trail on the planet, Corsican GR 20. Through her feelings you will see trekking like never before. The Story full of unforgettable moments is an adventure of 16 days ...
Style:
nature documentary, inspirational, motivational, meditative, independent film
Plot:
hiking, female protagonist, personal growth, self discovery, wilderness, mountaineering, endurance, realism, introspection, backpacking, camping, coming of age ...
Place:
corsica, france
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854
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A pair of mismatched rock climbers must learn to work together to conquer one of the world's most treacherous mountains in this adventure tale. After rescuing a wealthy man, solo climbers Michael and Derrick are rewarded with a chance to summit ...
Style:
serious, realistic, christian film, suspense, uplifting
Plot:
survival, friendship, interracial friendship, christian, human spirit, ambition, adventurer, against the odds, danger, escapades, underdog, forces of nature ...
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Josh Gates sets off on a quest to find the Yeti, a legendary man-ape living in the high altitude of the Himalayas.
Style:
captivating, enigmatic, entertaining, intense, suspense
Plot:
yeti, mountain, cryptozoology, exploration, expedition, scientific research, research, knowledge, scientific discovery, puzzle, escapades, explorer ...
Place:
himalaya
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of two Highlander brothers – Maciek and Andrzej. After the death of their father, which Andrzej contributed to, and the loss of his beloved Bronka, Andrzej leaves the family home. On his way, he meets the mysterious ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tension, intense ...
Plot:
world war two, brothers, family conflict, conflict, brotherhood, anthropologist, collaboration, feud, war, brother, family feud, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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