Cold weather movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant cold weather movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic and captivating films and TV shows about / with cold weather, winter, survival, snow, death, violence, murder, cold, storytelling and danger plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, Russia, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cold weather: Frozen (2010), Wind River (2017), Edge of Winter (2016), Apocalypse of Ice (2020), Black Crab (2022), The High Frontier (2016), The Hateful Eight (2015), The Island (2006), The Revenant (2015), Viking (2016).
Best films
List of cold weather movies
87K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
antarctic, utah
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311K
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: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
winter, child in peril, mentally unstable, cold weather, wilderness, parent child relationship, brother brother relationship, snowstorm, divorced parents, snow, father son relationship, weekend ...
Place:
ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Already in the throes of a viral pandemic, a massive polar vortex threatens to cover nearly all of Earth in ice. When it's discovered the only chance of survival from the cold is a 100-mile temperate zone near the equator, a virologist, with ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, captivating, visually appealing, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, pandemic, cold weather, virus, storm, survival, cold war era, deadly virus, one man army, one against many, post apocalyptic, evacuation ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, mission, soldier, post apocalypse, winter, military, civil war, dystopia, military officer, apocalypse, struggle for survival, fate of humanity ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A father and his two teenage sons travel to a small mountain cabin for a male bonding adventure. When a lost tourist arrives at the cabin, their male-bonding outing turns into a struggle for survival.
Style:
compassionate, bleak, exciting, tense, disturbing
Plot:
cold weather, father son relationship, mountain, mountain cabin, survival, illegal immigrant, isolated place, wilderness, car accident, family in danger, smuggler, teenage son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
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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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
world war two, pow, survival, human spirit, gulag, confined, captivity, wehrmacht, danger, wilderness survival, nazi, fugitives ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, year 1937, year 1947, year 1951 ...
Place:
germany, ussr, soviet union, siberia, tehran iran ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, cerebral, spiritual, breathtaking ...
Plot:
religion, christian, redemption, forgiveness, monk, life philosophy, loneliness, church, island, philosophy, solitude, monastery ...
Time:
2000s, year 1976, 70s, 1940s, year 1942 ...
Place:
russia, soviet union
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940K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Argentina
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:
realistic, atmospheric, harsh, scenic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, wilderness, revenge, vengeance, native american, snow, violent, bear attack, wilderness survival, winter, hunter, wild west ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, north america, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a ...
Style:
saga, suspense, serious, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
cold weather, russian history, murder, revenge, viking, barbarian, sex scene, fratricide, betrayal, death, heroes, danger ...
Time:
middle ages, ancient times, 10th century
Place:
ukraine, russia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 199 min.
Story:
Russia attacked Finland in late November 1939. This film tells the story of a Finnish platoon of reservists from the municipality of Kauhava in the province of Pohjanmaa/Ostrobothnia who leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses on the ...
Style:
realistic, epic, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
war, world war two, winter, invasion, infantry, cold weather, wartime, military, world war, battlefield, tank, politics ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1939
Place:
finland, russia, baltics, europe, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Style:
cerebral, bleak, depressing, contemplative, philosophical ...
Plot:
world war two, partisan, cold weather, execution, betrayal, winter, torture, nazi, war, starvation, collaboration, nazi occupation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1977, year 1942
Place:
ussr, soviet union, iraq, europe, russia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 1953, the year Stalin died, many prisoners (some political, but mostly common criminals) were released from the Soviet Gulags. This is the story of a remote settlement which was under attack by a bunch of these recently-released blood-thirsty ...
Style:
rough, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, cold weather, injustice, village life, criminal heroes, village, fighting crime, life is a bitch, down on your luck, danger, rivalry, perestroika ...
Time:
1950s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
russia, soviet union, siberia, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After receiving a scholarship from the state, a recent Columbia University medical school graduate is required to set up his practice in an eccentric Alaskan town.
Style:
realistic, humorous, surreal, semi serious, touching ...
Plot:
small town, fish out of water, small town life, medical, cold weather, moose, self discovery, love and romance, doctors and patients, couple relations, misfit, graduation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa, north america
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come - here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything - ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, exciting, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
revolt, power struggle, czar, russian empire, pledge of allegiance, army, rebellion, cold weather, riot, military officer, russian revolution, fight for supremacy ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s
Place:
russia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
1976: Two young journalists leave for the French-Swiss border to investigate a strange case of cattle mutilations and record testimonies for a TV channel. Yet, once they get there, the scientific team they were supposed to meet has gone missing. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, mockumentary
Plot:
cold weather, found footage, survival, snow, werewolf, cold, monster, investigative reporter, journalist, investigation, mysterious disappearance, struggle for survival ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
779K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
small town, snow, dark humor, crime gone awry, ransom, kidnapping, murder, satire, foul language, police, psychopath, winter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1987, year 1996
Place:
minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, north dakota, usa, persia
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Norway
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
April, 1940. The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, a source of the iron ore needed for Hitler's war machine. Through two months of fierce winter warfare, the German leader is dealt with his first defeat.
Style:
dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
world war, winter, world war two, military, french soldier, cold weather, bombing, young girl, small town, hitler, defeat, battles ...
Time:
year 1940
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During WW2, in 1942 and 1943, a series of not-so-well known yet bloody battles occurred near the town of Rzhev. Those battles received the name of ‘Rzhev Meat Grinder’. The film is based on the award-winning novel by Vyacheslav Kondratyev, which ...
Style:
rough, epic, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infantry, soviet army, world war two, wehrmacht, heroism, death, war, battles, soldier, battle zone, great patriotic war, winter ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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16K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking ...
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, disturbing, art house, contemplative ...
Plot:
homeless, solitude, freeze to death, homelessness, death, drifter, rural setting, death of protagonist, cold weather, wanderer, feminist, wine ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, south of france, europe, paris france, morocco ...
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243K
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating 6-foot-5, 261-pound Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for 15 pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.
Style:
inspirational, saga, tense, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, manly
Plot:
boxing, boxer, revenge, training, underdog, cold war, christmas, brutality, vengeance, boxing match, fight, mercilessness ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
philadelphia, soviet union, las vegas, moscow russia, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding bond evolves between the two men, one civilized in the usual sense, the other at home in the glacial Siberian woods.
Style:
breathtaking, cerebral, atmospheric, dramatic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
wilderness, forest, wilderness survival, human spirit, cold weather, friendship, survival, hunter, nature, tiger, environment, explorer ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, year 1975, 1910s, 19th century
Place:
siberia, soviet union, russia, ussr, persia ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted ...
Style:
scary, bloody, gothic, atmospheric, horrifying ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, winter, small town, survival, snow, gory, blood, monster, supernatural, bloodsucker, blizzard, zombie ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, oceania, usa
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27K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, dark, intense ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
rape, child abuse, deaf mute, sex crime, mute or deaf, courtroom, sign language, disability, punishment, school, life is a bitch, deaf ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Viktor Gromov, once a legend of criminal Moscow, nicknamed the Butcher, has long retired and while away his days on a country farm. But one fine day, his former colleagues in a dangerous business appear on the farm and confront the fact that Vitya ...
Style:
humorous, buddy comedy, tense, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
small town, cold weather, arctic circle, small town life, mafia, male protagonist, urban setting, ex convict, isolation, memory loss, amnesia, man on the run ...
Time:
2010s
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1.2M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In 2307, a future soldier is sent on a mission to hunt down the leader of the humanoid rebellion.
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, independent film
Plot:
cold, reluctant hero, humanoid, avalanche, near death experience, human versus robot, post apocalypse, winter, dystopian future, humanity in peril, manhunt, humanoid robot ...
Time:
future, 24th century
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520K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style:
scary, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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42K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A thriller that follows two siblings who decide to fend for themselves in the wake of a botched casino heist, and their unlikely reunion during another family's Thanksgiving celebration.
Style:
neo noir, serious, grindhouse, road movie, suspense ...
Plot:
violence, redemption, robbery, partner, twists and turns, cons and scams, on the run, homecoming, survival, car chase, murder, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit, boston
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