The Fatal Game

1997

English

6.8

♡ 2

Richard Dennison Director

Mark Whetu as

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, Whetu was faced with a terrible decision...to leave Reinberger or stay with him forever.

Magic Mountains

2020

Dutch

5.1

♡ 3

Urszula Antoniak Director

Hannah Hoekstra as Hannah

Thomas Ryckewaert as Lex

Marcin Dorocinski as Voytek

Maria Maj as Voytek's mother

Hannah travels through the Polish mountains with her ex-boyfriend Lex. During their journey the young woman finds out that Lex has prepared the perfect crime, with Hannah as his victim.

Winterbeast

1992

English

4.5

♡ 6

52%

Christopher Thies Director

Bob Doucette as Additional Cast

Charles Majka as Charlie Perkins

Mike Magri as Ranger Stillman

Tim R. Morgan as Sergeant Bill Whitman

Set during the fall (NOT winter), a small New England town is brutally ravaged by possessed totem poles.

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

1935

Japanese

7.5

♡ 5

80%

Action

based on play or musical

Mikio Naruse Director

Toshiko Itô as Etsuko - Kimiko's mother

Sachiko Chiba as Kimiko Yamamoto

Kamatari Fujiwara as Shingo - Etsuko's brother

Chikako Hosokawa as Shingo's wife

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs her absent father to act as the go-between and negotiate the marriage. Kimiko travels and finds her father living with a second family.

Spencer's Mountain

1963

English

7.0

♡ 4

80%

66%

Action

based on novel or book

Delmer Daves Director

Rory Mallinson as Cop

Hope Summers as Mother Ida

Maureen O'Hara as Olivia Spencer

Wally Cox as Preacher Clyde Goodman

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his eldest son will be the first Spencer to attend college, if he can resist the charms of a pretty local girl and rustle up the money for tuition.

Action of the Tiger

1957

English

5.1

♡ 3

96%

Terence Young Director

Van Johnson as Carson

Yvonne Romain as Katina

Sean Connery as Mike

Martine Carol as Tracy Malvoisie

A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.

Just Before Dawn

1981

English

6.0

♡ 5

60%

Jeff Lieberman Director

Chris Lemmon as Jonathan

Jamie Rose as Megan

George Kennedy as Roy McLean

Mike Kellin as Ty

In the Oregon mountains, a pair of hunters encounter a machete-wielding killer in an abandoned church. Meanwhile, five campers arrive to examine some property one of them has inherited but are warned by the forest ranger not to venture forth. Soon after they set up camp, they begin hearing strange noises, encounter a mysterious singing girl and start disappearing one by one.

Expedition Everest

2020

English

6.5

♡ 4

In a groundbreaking expedition on Mount Everest, dozens of scientists converge to investigate what secrets the world’s highest peak has to tell us about our changing climate. The notorious Khumbu Glacier is mapped in stunning detail, biologists study extreme lifeforms, and a team of Sherpas and climate scientists climb straight toward the “death zone” to install the highest weather station in the world.

The Legend of Secret Pass

2010

English

4.9

♡ 22

31%

Steve Trenbirth Director

Joe Pantoliano as Chuckster

Shelley Berman as Ira

Cheryl Hines as Nitika

Ron Perlman as Parker

A Native American teenager named Manu spends the summer with his grandfather high in the desert mountains. As a terrifying doom approaches, Manu must embrace his remarkable destiny and take on an incredible responsibility if he and his family are to thrive and survive.

Postmen in the Mountains

1999

Chinese

7.8

♡ 8

96%

father son relationship

hiking

mountain

parent child relationship

postman

Jianqi Huo Director

Hao Chen as Dong girl

Rujun Teng as Father

Eddie Eagle as Narrator, DVD Trailer Ye Liu

Ye Liu as Son

An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire, his only son due to take over his duties.

My Son

2017

French

5.8

63%

Christian Carion Director

Antoine Hamel as Homme du pick-up

Ronnie Avenel as Homme du RAID

Guillaume Canet as Julien Perrin

Mélanie Laurent as Marie Blanchard

The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...

On the Milky Road

2016

Serbian

6.3

♡ 12

50%

Emir Kusturica Director

Monica Bellucci as Bride

Emir Kusturica as Kosta

Sloboda Micalovic as Milena

Predrag Manojlovic as Zaga

Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them… Two-times Palme D'Or winner Emir Kusturica directs and stars in this story of love and war, rich in emotion, comedy and adventure.

Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey

2017

English

7.6

♡ 1

100%

Dave O'Leske Director

Reinhold Messner as Self

Conrad Anker as Self

Ed Viesturs as Self

Barry Blanchard as Self

Fred Beckey is the legendary American "Dirtbag" mountaineer whose name is spoken in hushed tones around campfires. This rebel climber's pioneering ascents and lifestyle form an iconic legacy that continues to inspire generations.

Vysoké Tatry

1966

Slovak

5.5

♡ 2

Action

Documentary

mountain

Stefan Kamenicky Director

Documentary about a mountain range and surrounding area.

Out of Nature

2014

Norwegian

6.9

♡ 2

60%

Marte Vold Director

Harald Erdal as Mann i 60-årene

William Bache-Wiig as Martin 7 år

Trond Peter Stamsø Munch as Martins far

Frida Helland as Mia

Out of Nature is a journey inside Martins head. A family father in his 30s living in a small town of Norway. He feels alienated in his own life and longs to get away. Away from his job, away from his family, into the woods, up to the mountains. While spending a weekend alone on a hiking trip, he is forced to confront the way he lives his life. Out of Nature is an original, funny and tender film about how to take part in your own life as a husband, father and son.

Piano to Zanskar

2018

English

7.1

♡ 1

100%

himalaya mountain range

mountain

piano tuner

Michal Sulima Director

Anna Ray as

Harald Hagegard as

Kristina Nadler as

Desmond O'Keeffe as

Piano to Zanskar is a British documentary film which tells the story of the highest piano delivery attempt in history. It follows Desmond Gentle, a piano tuner from Camden Town in London, and his two apprentices: Anna Ray and Harald Hagegard, as well as a 100-year old Broadwood & Sons upright piano, on their way from London to Zanskar in the Indian Himalayas.

Lamb

2021

Icelandic

♡ 89

86%

Valdimar Jóhannsson Director

Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson as

Hilmir Snær Guðnason as Ingvar

Noomi Rapace as Maria

Björn Hlynur Haraldsson as Pétur

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

La Liste: Everything or Nothing

2021

English

7.0

♡ 2

Eric Crosland Director

Samuel Anthanmatten as

Jeremie Heitz as

Follows freeskiers Heitz and Anthamatten as they travel to the world’s high-altitude mountain ranges and attempt to make their distinct mark on those giant peaks, exploring the absolute limit of human possibility.

A Symphony of Summits: The Alps from Above

2013

German

6.9

♡ 3

Peter Bardehle Director

Udo Wachtveitl as Narrator

The most important mountain range in Europe is more than a holiday destination for sports and relaxation. The Alps are not just an unpredictable force of nature against which humans have to assert themselves again and again, or an area steeped in history, but also a landscape that enchants. The documentary takes a foray through the history and geography of the Alps.