Arctic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant arctic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, atmospheric and exciting films and TV shows about / with arctic, snow, winter, survival, ice, danger, escapades, suspense, blood and nature plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, Canada, Iceland and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as arctic: The Terror (2018), The North Water (2021), Arctic (2018), Far North (2007), The Snow Walker (2003), Thin Ice (2020), How I Ended This Summer (2010), Ice Station Zebra (1968), Arctic Apocalypse (2019), An Enemy to Die For (2012).
Best films
List of arctic movies
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, slasher ...
Plot:
arctic, expedition, cannibalism, starvation, insanity, violence, british navy, paranoia, leadership, animal attack, delusion, corpse ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1940s
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
Henry Drax is a harpooner and brutish killer whose amorality has been shaped to fit the harshness of his world, who will set sail on a whaling expedition to the Arctic with Patrick Sumner, a disgraced ex-army surgeon who signs up as the ship’s ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
whaling, expedition, arctic, sea, north pole, scientific expedition, struggle for survival, ship, sailor, psychopath, irishman, murder ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1850s
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: 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:
touching, disturbing, uplifting, inspirational, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, boys' night
Plot:
survival, arctic, helicopter crash, snow, stranded, man versus nature, polar bear, suspense, fish, ice, very little dialogue, struggle for survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antarctica
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A soldier's unexpected arrival affects two women's simple existence.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
hunting, survival, mother daughter relationship, eskimo indian, isolation, arctic, curse, dog sled, love triangle, betrayal, life turned upside down, haunted by the past ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, breathtaking, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, nature, wilderness, friendship, arctic, airplane, human spirit, rescue, hunter, stranded, isolation, hopes ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, post world war two, year 1953
Place:
canada
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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:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating
Plot:
police detective, arctic, police, hostage, politician, kidnapping, oil, disappearance, climate change, female police detective, conspiracy, oil company ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greenland, russia, sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
solitude, survival, wilderness, arctic, radio, isolation, human nature, dishonesty, confined, winter, nature, snow ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ussr, russia, antarctica
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A top-secret Soviet spy satellite -- using stolen Western technology -- malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arctic research encampment called Ice Station Zebra, belonging to the British, which starts sending out ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, entertaining, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, espionage, spy, cold war, satellite, arctic, military, political intrigue, catastrophe, disaster, double agent, winter ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
scotland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
Style:
exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, compassionate ...
Plot:
ice age, natural disaster, disaster, apocalypse, forces of nature, struggle for survival, arctic, destruction, cold, catastrophe, survival horror, post apocalypse ...
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: History, Thriller, War
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Despite the threat of war in the fall of 1939, the Germans decide to launch a sea expedition in search of evidence for Pangaea. Although the multi national geologists embark enthusiastically on their research mission, the growing political tension ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
world war two, scientific expedition, ship, arctic, wartime, military, expedition, war, mission, suspense
Time:
year 1939
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, unusual plot structure, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, race against time, chase, superhuman powers, save the day, arctic, escapades, heroes, supernatural, snow, superhuman, brutality ...
Time:
60s, 2010s, year 1962, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, scenic, breathtaking, philosophical, harsh ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
wilderness, nature, wolf, snow, scientist, survival, mountain, animals, disney, arctic, camping, dog ...
Time:
1940s, 80s, 1930s
Place:
alaska, usa, canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, climate change, environmental, nature, scientist, stranded, global warming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., antarctica, california ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, native american, grief, death, family relations, youth, buddies, parents and children, society, village, accidental death, indigenous people ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
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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, sexy, breathtaking ...
Plot:
survival, winter, writer's life, bdsm, nature, disaster, male nudity, dreams, love, drugs, loneliness, french ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, greenland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Denmark, Greenland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit, showing their traditional beliefs and lifestyle. It tells the story of the last great ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, philosophical ...
Plot:
spirit, shaman, culture clash, village, religions or cults, family relations, hopes, society, clergy, couples, tradition, native american ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Three stranded 1890s whalers (Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr.) corrupt the culture of their Eskimo saviors.
Style:
realistic, serious, vintage
Plot:
survival, winter, snow, culture clash, seafaring, hiking, shipwreck, nature, gambling, wilderness, arctic, racism ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infected, quarantine, parasite, plague, expedition, deadly creature, scientist, beast, disaster, isolation, glacier, winter ...
Time:
prehistory, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of grad students have booked passage on the fishing trawler Harbinger to study the effects of global warming on a pod of Orcas in the Bering Sea. When the ship's crew dredges up a recently thawed piece of old Soviet space wreckage, ...
Style:
rough, tense, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot:
alien, creature feature, ship, infection, winter, suspense, military, scientist, fishing boat, snow, transformation, creature ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
alaska
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A story, which takes place in 2013, describes the world overflowing with "dangerous" criminals due to the official termination of death penalty. The UN "blue helmets" under the directive from the central authority (i.e., One ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, sadistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prison life, friendship, life is a bitch, confined, rivalry, leadership, survival, serial killer, island, heroic mission, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch ...
Style:
bleak, tense, harsh, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, revenge, native american, betrayal, jealousy, dog sled, love triangle, tragic love, rivalry, intrigue, human nature, temptation ...
Time:
18th century, middle ages
Place:
canada, tokyo
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story about Robert Peary's forgotten African American employee Mathew Henson who proved crucial in their race to North Pole.
Plot:
winter, snow, arctic, racism, civil rights, servant, african american, exploration, eskimo indian, expedition, black american, explorer ...
Time:
20th century
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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:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
disaster, survival, aviation, arctic, interwar period, nature, space, rescue attempt, heroes, leadership, daring rescue, ghost ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
russia, ussr
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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:
sincere, humorous, captivating, feel good, light
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
fish out of water, village, society, life philosophy, actor's life, disorder, actor, youth, friendship, city, hiking, hunting ...
Place:
paris france, greenland
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During their journey the expedition led by Captain Choi Do-hyung discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the ...
Style:
mind bending, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
isolation, escapades, confined, delusion, snow, paranoia, winter, survival, disaster, asian prostitute, mental disorder, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antarctica
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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:
captivating, disturbing, dark
Plot:
survival, struggle for survival, snow, crew, ship, camp, captain, winter, cold, suspense, nature, survivor ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
greenland, denmark
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Style:
entertaining, clever, suspenseful, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, space travel, changing the past or future, space wars, good versus evil, space and aliens, alien, space, parallel universe, heroic mission, save the world, escapades ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 2000s, 1930s, year 1939 ...
Place:
egypt, russia, atlantic ocean, california
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a arctic circle radio shack, an ancient evil lurks, ready to strike at a psychologist, an army man and their collective forces.
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic
Plot:
survival, experiment gone awry, investigation, psychopath, supernatural, winter, murder, snow, military officer, zombie, disorder, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
antarctica
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A giant flesh-eating reptile takes the Arctic region by storm.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, exciting, tense
Plot:
hitchhiker, creature, truck, dinosaur, monster, trophy, mutant, threat, giant monster, death, arctic, environment ...
Place:
alaska
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, slasher, exciting, scary ...
Plot:
animal attack, polar bear, winter, monster, creature, genetics, climate change, bear, mutant, photographer, cold, death ...
Time:
80s
Place:
alaska
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