Antarctica Drama Movies

List of the best drama movies about Antarctica, selected by visitors to our site: The Father, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Dallas Buyers Club, The Light Between Oceans, Minamata, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Hector and the Search for Happiness, Step Up 3D, The Fighter, Eight Below.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama, adventure, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

    Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, New Zealand, USA, India, Australia
    Duration02:40

    A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

    A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, China
    Duration02:26

    A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, South Africa, USA
    Duration01:54

    Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life. As he tells his girlfriend, Clara, he feels like a fraud: he hasn’t really tasted life, and yet he’s offering advice to patients who are just not getting any happier. So Hector decides to break out of his deluded and routine driven life. Armed with buckets of courage and child-like curiosity, he embarks on a global quest in hopes of uncovering the elusive secret formula for true happiness. And so begins a larger than life adventure with riotously funny results.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

      A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers, including Luke and Natalie, team up with NYU freshman Moose, and find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown that will change their lives forever.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genredrama, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

        The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, adventure, family
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:00

        In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own fortune. For six months, Jerry tries to find a sponsor for a rescue mission.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA, Germany

        A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrecomedy, drama, biography
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:50

        On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:31

        Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama, music, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia
        Duration02:05

        Author P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood as Walt Disney Pictures adapts her novel Mary Poppins for the big screen.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryItaly, France, USA, Brazil
        Duration02:09

        Elio Perlman is spending the summer with his family at their vacation home in Lombardy, Italy. When his father hires a handsome doctoral student, the curious 17-year-old finds himself developing a growing attraction to the young man.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:27

        Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control -- all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, China, Canada
        Duration01:55

        Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the unforgettable friends that help us through life.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genredrama, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:20

        The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter on a collision course with his estranged, older brother, an ex-marine with a tragic past.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

          On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:33

          After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:30

          An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrecomedy, drama, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:04

          Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genredrama, family
          CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Canada
          Duration02:15

          The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:23

          Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, adventure, crime, biography
          CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Spain
          Duration01:00

          Henri “Papillon” Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, where he forges a strong friendship with Louis Dega, a counterfeiter who needs his protection.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland, France, Iceland, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, Hong Kong
          Duration02:04

          Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genremelodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:00

          After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:01

          A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

          Markimdb: 8.4
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:25

          During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genredrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:26

          Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

            Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genredrama, military
            CountryUSA, Germany
            Duration02:11

            While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is being sheltered by her adoptive parents.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genredrama, adventure, family
            CountryFrance, Germany, South Africa, Luxembourg, Monaco, USA
            Duration01:38

            A young girl from London moves to Africa with her parents where she befriends a lion cub.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:41

            A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genreaction, drama, family, sport
            CountryUSA, China
            Duration02:20

            12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre's feelings make him an enemy of the class bully, Cheng. With no friends in a strange land, Dre has nowhere to turn but maintenance man Mr. Han, who is a kung fu master. As Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries, but maturity and calm, Dre realizes that facing down the bullies will be the fight of his life.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genredrama, adventure, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:55

            A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genredrama
            CountrySpain, Thailand, USA
            Duration01:49

              In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA, France
              Duration01:38

              Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genredrama, biography, history
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
              Duration01:58

              The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genredrama, crime
              CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy
              Duration02:47

              It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genremelodrama, drama, biography
              CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada
              Duration01:58

              "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genredrama, adventure, military, biography, history
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration02:16

              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 fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:41

              A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

              Markimdb: 8
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:43

                A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

                Markimdb: 7.4
                Genredrama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:22

                  A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.




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