Alpine cinema
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1. The Wildest Dream (2010)
PG | 94 min | Documentary, Biography
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
Director: Anthony Geffen | Stars: Conrad Anker, Susan Robertson, Robert Macfarlane, Peter Gillman
Votes: 2,728 | Gross: $0.87M
2. K2 (1991)
R | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport
A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.
Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Annie Grindlay, Elena Wohl
Votes: 7,226 | Gross: $3.11M
3. Vertikal (1966)
77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A group of alpinists make a perilous journey up a mountain.
Directors: Boris Durov, Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Margarita Kosheleva, Gennadi Voropayev, Aleksandr Fadeyev, Georgi Kulbush
Votes: 607
4. Belyy vzryv (1969)
75 min | Action, History, War
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Sergey Nikonenko, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Anatoliy Ignatyev, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Votes: 86
5. Poka stoyat gory... (1976)
78 min | Adventure, Drama
A fallen stone broke the rope, the climber hanging on it fell into a crack, died of hypothermia, although he could have been found and saved. The climbers walking with him in the same ... See full summary »
Director: Vadim Mikhaylov | Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Georgiy Tretyakov, Yury Solovyov, Konstantin Zakharov
Votes: 29
6. Scream of Stone (1991)
105 min | Drama
Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Stefan Glowacz, Mathilda May, Al Waxman
Votes: 1,477
7. Vertical Limit (2000)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A climber must rescue his sister on the peak of K2, the second highest mountain in the world .
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Scott Glenn, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney
Votes: 65,373 | Gross: $69.24M
8. North Face (2008)
Not Rated | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A secretary at a Berlin newspaper in 1936 gets to write about two Alpinists, as she knows them well. She later gets to report on and photograph her friends' and other Alpinists' climbs of the dangerous Swiss Eiger north face.
Director: Philipp Stölzl | Stars: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Simon Schwarz
Votes: 16,435 | Gross: $0.71M
9. Nanga Parbat (2010)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Florian Stetter, Andreas Tobias, Karl Markovics, Steffen Schroeder
Votes: 1,921
10. Touching the Void (2003)
R | 106 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron
Votes: 38,117 | Gross: $4.59M
11. Les étoiles de midi (1959)
78 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
A group of mountaineers embark on high mountain climbing and photographing. In the evening, at the refuge, they also recount some of their most perilous climbing adventures.
Directors: Jacques Ertaud, Marcel Ichac | Stars: Roger Blin, Pierre Danny, Pierre Rousseau, Lionel Terray
Votes: 24
12. Mort d'un guide (1975 TV Movie)
101 min | Drama
Veteran Chamonix mountain guide Michel Servoz (Pierre Rousseau) and the young aspiring guide Patrick Falavier (Jeane-Pierre Marry) attempt to climb the west face of the Dru in the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Jacques Ertaud | Stars: Pierre Rousseau, Georges Claisse, Victor Lanoux, Jean-Pierre Mary
Votes: 65
13. Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A dramatization of the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest expeditions.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Peter Horton, Nathaniel Parker, Richard Jenkins, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 1,744
14. Tsurugidake: Ten no ki (2009)
139 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Director: Daisaku Kimura | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Votes: 220
15. Lavina (1982)
153 min | Adventure, Drama
This film shows serious moral problems in the society which become visible in an extreme situation, when happiness, trust, sense of life are so precious.
Directors: Irina Aktasheva, Hristo Piskov | Stars: Veliko Stoianov, Lyuben Chatalov, Stefan Stefanov, Diana Batzieva
Votes: 233
16. Everest (2015)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
On May 10, 1996, mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer combine their expedition teams for a final ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. With little warning, a storm strikes the mountain and the climbers must now battle to survive.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Jason Clarke, Ang Phula Sherpa, Thomas M. Wright, Martin Henderson
Votes: 232,513 | Gross: $43.48M
17. The Holy Mountain (1926)
100 min | Drama
Diotima meets Karl in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. When Karl's friend, Vigo, meets her, he mistakenly believes she is in love with him. Karl then believes that she is betraying him with his friend.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen, Frida Richard
Votes: 922
18. The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen, Ernst Udet
Votes: 1,109
19. Storm Over Mont Blanc (1930)
93 min | Adventure, Drama
In the Mont Blanc Observatory works Hannes. The only contact to the outside world is a pilot and Hella over the morse-code-radio. As Hella climbs the mountain with her father, the father ... See full summary »
Director: Arnold Fanck | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Ernst Udet, Mathias Wieman
Votes: 272
20. Take It to the Limit (2000)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Adventure
A troubled teenager joins a group of rock climbers and is quickly forced into a death-defying adventure.
Director: Sam Kieth | Stars: Jason Bortz, Christian Couto, Bobby Debevec, Leo Fitzpatrick
Votes: 59
21. The Conquest of Everest (1953)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Adventure
Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
Director: George Lowe | Stars: Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, George Band, Tom Bourdillon
Votes: 881
22. The Fatal Game (1997)
52 min | Documentary
In 1994, New Zealand mountaineer, Mark Whetu, summitted Mt Everest with climbing partner and friend Mike Reinberger. However it was late in the day and after a freezing night on the summit,... See full summary »
Director: Richard Dennison | Star: Mark Whetu
Votes: 171
23. The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1984)
45 min | Documentary, Adventure
Film-maker Werner Herzog follows mountaineers Reinhold Messner and Hans Kammerlander as they attempt to climb the high altitude peaks of Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one expedition, seeking to reveal their inner motivation.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Reinhold Messner, Hans Kammerlander, Werner Herzog
Votes: 1,065
24. The Beckoning Silence (2007 TV Movie)
PG | 73 min | Drama
After a mountain climber's severe injuries and near-death accident, he's told he'll never climb again. His recovery left him to confront the question: why, after coming so close to death, did he feel compelled to continue climbing?
Director: Louise Osmond | Stars: Roger Schäli, Simon Anthamatten, Andreas Abegglen, Cyrille Berthod
Votes: 1,394
25. Everest Unmasked (1979)
52 min | Documentary
Legendary high-altitude climber Reinhold Messner pushes himself to the limit in achieving the first successful summit without the use of supplemental oxygen.
Director: Leo Dickinson | Stars: Reinhold Messner, Peter Habeler, Eric Jones, Leo Dickinson
Votes: 95
26. Messner (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Feature documentary about mountaineering icon Reinhold Messner and how he became what he is. This film is as much about his personality as it is about his extraordinary exploits - the psycho-gram of a controversial mountaineer.
Director: Andreas Nickel | Stars: Reinhold Messner, Maxime Belleville, Maurice Cretton, Paul Faller
Votes: 803
27. Beyond the Edge (2013)
Unrated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 - an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.
Director: Leanne Pooley | Stars: Chad Moffitt, Sonam Sherpa, John Wraight, Joshua Rutter
Votes: 1,920
28. Sherpa (2015)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary
In 2014, director Jennifer Peedom was working on a documentary about the Sherpas of Mount Everest when the largest avalanche in recent history occurred on the mountain, killing 16 Sherpas.
Director: Jennifer Peedom | Stars: Russell Brice, Tim Medvetz, Pasang Tenzing Sherpa, Phurba Tashi Sherpa
Votes: 5,414
29. Beyond the Summits (2009)
TV-G | 80 min | Documentary
One of the world's greatest climbers scales the mighty Alps in this documentary. Catherine Destivelle is one of the most revered mountain-scalers worldwide. "Beyond the Summits" follows ... See full summary »
Director: Rémy Tezier | Stars: Catherine Destivelle, Lothar Mauch, Claire Destivelle, Gabriel Briand
Votes: 124
30. Meru (2015)
R | 90 min | Documentary, Sport
Three elite climbers struggle to find their way through obsession and loss as they attempt to climb Mount Meru, one of the most coveted prizes in the high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.
Directors: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | Stars: Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jimmy Chin, Amee Hinkley
Votes: 19,062 | Gross: $2.33M
31. Pura vida - The Ridge (2012)
86 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
A unique rescue operation in the most dangerous mountain of the Himalayas. A film about love of life, friendship and action, passion and truth that encourages living life a full.
Directors: Pablo Iraburu, Migueltxo Molina | Stars: Sergey Bogomolov, Alexei Bolotov, Don Bowie, Horia Colibasanu
Votes: 191
32. Encouragement of Climb (2013–2018)
5 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
As a child, Aoi Yukimura adored mountains and was passionate about climbing. However, a playground accident has since left her afraid of heights, turning her toward indoor hobbies. ... See full summary »
Stars: Yuka Iguchi, Kana Asumi, Yôko Hikasa, Yui Ogura
Votes: 153
33. Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A boy attempts to realize his father's dream of climbing an alpine peak known as the Citadel.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Michael Rennie, James MacArthur, Janet Munro, James Donald
Votes: 1,247
34. The White Tower (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure
A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 1,018
35. Urvakannere heranum en lernerits (1955)
96 min | Adventure
Directors: Erazm Karamyan, Stepan Kevorkov | Stars: Sos Sosyan, Violetta Yutujyan, Artyom Karapetyan, Hrachia Nersisyan
Votes: 24
36. Mtsvervalta dampkrobni (1952)
89 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Director: Davit Rondeli | Stars: Nato Vachnadze, Zura Lejava, Liana Asatiani, Giorgi Shavgulidze
Votes: 13
37. Lavina (1975)
81 min | Drama
Directors: Nikolay Koshelev, Valentin Morozov | Stars: Natalya Sayko, Yuriy Demich, Nikolay Merzlikin, Vladimir Artyomov
Votes: 9
38. Survival on the Mountain (1997 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
Couple go to Nepal and gets caught in a snowstorm.
Director: John Patterson | Stars: Markie Post, Dennis Boutsikaris, Ian Tracey, Antony Holland
Votes: 262
39. The Mountain (1956)
Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest
Votes: 2,255
40. The Ascent (1994)
PG | 96 min | Adventure, War
A highly fictionalized real-life adventure of an Italian soldier who escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp to climb the challenging 17,000-foot Mt. Kenya and plant the Italian flag on the ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Vincent Spano, Ben Cross, Tony Lo Bianco, Rachel Ward
Votes: 207
41. Bialy slad (1932)
67 min | Drama, Romance
One day Hanka and Andrzej go for a walk up to the mountains but an avalanche will interfere with their idyll; Jasiek will try to rescue the unfortunate couple but he only will find Andrzej ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Krzeptowski | Stars: Andrzej Krzeptowski, Janina Fischer, Stanislaw Sieczka, Lina Kari
Votes: 60
42. Der Berg ruft! (1938)
95 min | Drama
The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Herbert Dirmoser, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Peter Elsholtz
Votes: 262
43. Monte Miracolo (1945)
75 min
Director: Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Umberto Sacripante, Evi Maltagliati, Ernesto Sabbatini
Votes: 24
44. Il prigioniero della montagna (1955)
101 min | Drama
Plain-looking Giovanni Testa can barely support his family from his artisan wharf. Angelic son Carlito is the meat in the sandwich when Giovanni's sexy wife Teresa bitterly compares him to ... See full summary »
Director: Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Marianne Hold, Robert Freitag, Yvonne Sanson
Votes: 85
45. Rockface (2002–2003)
50 min | Drama
Drama about the members of a Scottish mountain rescue team both on and off the hills.
Stars: Clive Russell, Brendan Coyle, Cal MacAninch, Richard Graham
Votes: 90
46. Dzentzaghikner yev Edelveysner (1982)
88 min | War, Adventure
Movie on World War II. An uneven battle occurs between a small detachment of Soviet soldiers and German detachment from the Edelweiss division.
Director: Levon Grigoryan | Stars: Lorents Arushanyan, Arshak Hovhannisyan, Anahit Aghajanyan, Aleksandr Yanvaryov
Votes: 25
47. Puteshestvie v molodost (1957)
79 min | Comedy, Sport
Directors: Vladimir Kraynichenko, Grigori Lipshits | Stars: Evgeniy Bondarenko, Tamara Chernova, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Oleg Anofriev
Votes: 14
48. Everest: The Summit of the Gods (2016)
123 min | Adventure, Drama
A Japanese journalist decides to climb Mount Everest.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Pierre Taki, Shunsuke Kazama
Votes: 260
49. The Mountain (2011)
73 min | Drama
Nora and Solveig are hiking through snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months ... See full summary »
Director: Ole Giæver | Stars: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem
Votes: 273
50. The Climb (1986)
PG | 90 min | Adventure
Based on the true story of the 1953 assault on Nanga Parbat, a treacherous Himalayan Peak.
Director: Donald Shebib | Stars: Bruce Greenwood, James Hurdle, Kenneth Welsh, Ken Pogue
Votes: 118
51. Himalaya (1999)
108 min | Drama
An aging chief's last stand, lessons for the new, and the education of a young chief-to-be played against harsh Nature in Nepal's Dolpo. When his son dies returning from Tibet's salt lakes,... See full summary »
Directors: Eric Valli, Michel Debats | Stars: Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Karma Wangel
Votes: 5,693 | Gross: $2.48M
52. The Challenge (1938)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Directors: Milton Rosmer, Vincent Korda, Luis Trenker | Stars: Robert Douglas, Frank Birch, Geoffrey Wardwell, Moran Caplat
Votes: 203
53. Fight for the Matterhorn (1928)
117 min | Drama
This Alpine thriller is based on the story of English climber Edward Whymper who vies with Jean-Antoine Carrel, an Italian mountain guide, to conquer the Matterhorn.
Directors: Mario Bonnard, Nunzio Malasomma, Luis Trenker | Stars: Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, Peter Voß, Alexandra Schmitt
Votes: 61
54. The Himalayas (2015)
124 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Based on true events, renowned mountaineer UM Hong-gil sets out on a mission to Everest to retrieve his late junior climber's body and faces the greatest challenge of his life.
Director: Seok-hoon Lee | Stars: Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woo, Jo Sung-ha, Lee Chae-yun
Votes: 1,255 | Gross: $0.70M
55. Storm and Sorrow (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Adventure
Fact-based story about the US team who attempted a climb on Lenin Peak in 1974 with a focus on climber Molly Higgins.
Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Lori Singer, Todd Allen, Marcia Cross, Jay Baker
Votes: 141
56. Operatsiya Edelveys: Poslednyaya tayna (2012 TV Movie)
44 min | Documentary
On the Elbrus glacier in the last year, climbers suddenly began to find the remains of Soviet soldiers. How they were able to reach almost the top of Elbrus without any climbing equipment, ... See full synopsis »
Directors: Ruslan Bozhko, Igor Malakhov | Stars: Vladimir Belilovskiy, Omar Burdanov, Ivan Dusharin, Khusey Dzhutubaev
Votes: 8
57. The Climb (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man from the suburbs with no mountaineering experience decides to climb Mt Everest to show a woman he'd do anything for her.
Director: Ludovic Bernard | Stars: Ahmed Sylla, Alice Belaïdi, Kévin Razy, Nicolas Wanczycki
Votes: 8,314
58. Climbing the Matterhorn (1947)
21 min | Short, Documentary
Iring Allen was filming High Conquest when he shot this short film. Locale villagers rescue a couple trapped om the mountain.
Director: Irving Allen | Star: Warren Douglas
Votes: 21
59. Farther Than the Eye Can See (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
Film follows blind climber Erik Weihenmayer's successful climb of Mount Everest.
Director: Michael Brown | Stars: Eric Alexander, Luis Benitez, Brad Bull, Reba Bull
Votes: 98
60. Alpinisty (2014)
88 min | Drama
Director: Arshaluys Harutyunyan | Stars: Dimitri Klepatski, Aleksandr Nosik, Natalya Bardo, Armen Petrosyan
61. Alpinist (2008 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Aleksandr Kirienko | Stars: Andrey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskyte, Svitlana Smirnova
Votes: 15
62. Blekitny krzyz (1955)
55 min | Drama, War
It's February 1945. A Polish rescue team sets out to bring back the wounded Soviet and Slovak partisans who are trapped behind the mountain border as well as behind enemy lines.
Director: Andrzej Munk | Stars: Stanislaw Byrcyn-Gasienica, Stanislaw Wawrytko, Stanislaw Marusarz, Stanislaw Lasa Gasienica
Votes: 151
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