Fantastic movies about mountaineering

List of the best science fiction films about mountaineering according to the audience: Total Recall, Metropolis, The Last Battle, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Lady Shogun and Her Men, Man Facing Southeast, Ex Machina, Heart of a Dog, Cabbage Soup, I Am Legend.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryCanada, Germany, USA
Duration01:53

Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who planted the chip.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:25

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrefantastic
CountryFrance
Duration01:32

The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:20

Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth, Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou, a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government, and his entire plan is threatened.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, drama
CountryJapan
Duration01:56

In the year 1716 a mysterious epidemic stickens men in the country of Japan, dropping the population of men to 1/4th of its prior state. With the drastic reduction of men, the gender roles have become reversed in Japan. Woman become the dominant members of society and males are sought out for the ability to produce children. A young man named Unoshin Mizuno (Kazunari Ninomiya) hopes to marry childhood sweetheart Onobu (Maki Horikita), but due to class differences realizes this is almost impossible. To raise his social status and also save his poor family, Unoshin Mizuno enters the Ohoku (inner chambers of the Shugun's castle) and attempts to vie among 3,000 other men for the affection of the female shogun. What Unoshin Mizuno quickly learns about the Ohoku is that the men there are all beautiful, but highly ambitious and conniving. In this environment, the 7th shogun Tokugawa passes away and the new shogun Yoshimune Tokugawa (Kou Shibasaki) takes the thrown and enters the Ohoku.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrefantastic, drama, detective
CountryArgentina

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:48

Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountrySoviet Union
Duration02:16

Old Prof. Preobrazhensky and his young colleague Dr. Bormental inserted the human's hypophysis into a dog's brain. Couple of weeks later the dog became "human looking". The main question is "Is anybody who is looking like a man, A REAL MAN?"

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
CountryFrance

2 buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

    Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantastic, comedy, crime
    CountryFrance, Italy

    The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

      Due to a genetic disorder, handsome librarian Henry DeTamble involuntarily zips through time, appearing at various moments in the life of his true love, the beautiful artist Clare Abshire.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, action, comedy, music
      CountryJapan

      A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, and the song strikes a comet and saves the Earth from total destruction.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      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 shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

        In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the best agents in the business, but when he becomes the recipient of an artificial heart, he finds himself in the same dire straits as his many victims.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        High School student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Defense Department's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:36

        Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
        Duration01:44

        In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, comedy
        CountryFrance, Italy
        Duration01:22

        The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural shock they behave so to make believe it's 1905 and they are his cousins, uncle...

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        When the renegade crew of Serenity agrees to hide a fugitive on their ship, they find themselves in an action-packed battle between the relentless military might of a totalitarian regime who will destroy anything – or anyone – to get the girl back and the bloodthirsty creatures who roam the uncharted areas of space. But... the greatest danger of all may be on their ship.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:34

        Follows the history of two robots, the members of Daft Punk, on their quest to become human.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrefantastic, action, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA
        Duration02:05

        Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrefantastic, action, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:57

        A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:59

          Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration02:06

          Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:01

          Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

          Markimdb: 8.3
          Genrefantastic, adventure
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:29

          Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantastic, action, comedy, adventure, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:50

          When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:47

          With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:57

          In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantastic, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:52

          An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, Buddy is on his way to Vegas to succeed Elvis as King. Along the way, he saves an orphan who decides to tag along.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantastic, melodrama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

          When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

          A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, West Germany, United Kingdom
          Duration01:48

          A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds himself caring for his enemy in a completely unexpected way.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:18

          Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
          CountryUSA, Japan
          Duration01:38

          Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for 20 years, only to find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:47

            In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

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