Movies about Antarctica

Movies about Antarctica
List of the best movies about Antarctica, selected by visitors to our site: Encounters at the End of the World, Arctic, The Grey, The Thing, Alien Hunter, Eight Below, Twice Born, Amundsen, Antarctica, 2036 Origin Unknown.

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

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Country
Markimdb: 7.7
Genredocumentary
CountryUSA
Duration01:41
CharactersPenguin, Investigators

Herzog and cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger go to Antarctica to meet people who live and work there, and to capture footage of the continent's unique locations. Herzog's voiceover narration explains that his film will not be a typical Antarctica film about "fluffy penguins", but will explore the dreams of the people and the landscape.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, adventure
CountryIceland
Duration01:33
CharactersFish, Pilots
PlotSurvival, Snow, Cold
PlaceCaves, Antarctica, Helicopters, Arctic
StyleUnexpected ending, Fascinating, Tense, Touching, For men

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 through the unknown for potential salvation.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:57
CharactersWolves
PlotSurvival, Disasters, Adventure, Karate, Death
PlaceAlaska, USA, New York
TimeFuture
StyleExciting, Action, Fascinating, Heavy, Depressive

An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
Duration01:49
CharactersAliens, Monsters, Scientists
PlotSurvival, UFO, Death, Supernatural, Snow
PlaceSpaceships, Antarctica
TimeWinter
StyleAction, Disturbing

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Bulgaria
Duration01:32
CharactersAliens, Heroes, Scientists, Womanizers
PlotSupernatural, Viruses, Saving the World, Rivalry
PlaceSubmarines, Aircraft, Antarctica
TimeFuture
StyleExciting, Serious, For men, Disturbing

Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, adventure, family
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:00
CharactersDogs, Animals, Scientists, Husky, Pilots
PlotOn real events, Survival, Adventure, Travel, Expeditions
PlaceAntarctica, Helicopters
StyleAction, Light, To cry, Inspirational, Fascinating

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: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryItaly, Spain
Duration02:07
CharactersPhotographers
StylePsychological problems, Soulful, By books, Fascinating, Gloomy

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, where his father died in the Bosnian conflict years ago.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, adventure, biography, history
CountryNorway
Duration02:05
CharactersHeroes
PlotOn real events, Survival, Adventure, Political, Expeditions
PlaceNorway, Antarctica
StyleAction, Soulful, Fascinating, Serious

Based on the true story of polar explorer, Roald Amundsen, this movie covers his life and the dangerous way to the pole.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama, adventure
CountryJapan
Duration01:31
CharactersDogs, Husky, Investigators

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrefantastic, action, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration02:25
PlotArtificial Intelligence, Investigation, Expeditions
PlaceSpace, Mars, Antarctica
StyleExciting, Fascinating, Tense, Disturbing

After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, mission controller Mackenzie 'Mack' Wilson assists an artificial intelligence system, A.R.T.I. Their investigation uncovers a mysterious object under the surface of Mars that could change the future of our planet as we know it.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, adventure
CountryCanada
Duration01:43
CharactersDogs, Wolves, Friends
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Motorcycles, Friendship
PlaceAircraft, Nature, Canada
TimeWinter
StyleAtmospheric, Touching, Serious

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 finding their way back to civilization. Along the journey the man finds a new respect for the native ways as they battle to survive the elements.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, thriller
CountryUSA
CharactersLifeguards, Truckers, Brothers, Drivers, Old men
PlotSnow, Cold, Fear, Avalanches, Post-traumatic syndrome
PlaceOcean, Caves, Canada
StyleFor men

After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, an ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the trapped miners.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama, adventure
CountryRussia
Duration02:37
CharactersGold miners
PlotTravel
PlaceUSSR, Siberia
StyleAction

It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper place for real men and real romantics. Our story is about the geologists prospecting gold in the Extreme North.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryUSA
Duration01:26
CharactersAnimals, Lions, Friends, Zebras
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Travel, Friendship
PlaceJungle, Islands, Antarctica
StyleFor children, Exciting

Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends -- Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo -- have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape -- with the help of some prodigious penguins -- to explore the world.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA
CharactersScientists, Terminally ill, Old man, Astronauts, Astronomers
PlotSurvival, Apocalypse, End of the world, Cancer, Dreams
PlaceSpace, Spaceships, Arctic
TimePost apocalypse

A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:55
CharactersScientists
PlotTravel, Test

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 expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryAustralia
Duration01:54
CharactersTeens, Lesbians, Family
PlotDancing, Friendship, Love triangle
PlaceAircraft, School, Australia
TimeNew Year
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Heavy, Touching, Serious

Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada, France, Turkey
Duration01:41
CharactersScientists, Special agents
PlotLove, Survival, Investigation
PlaceAircraft, USSR, Antarctica
StyleUnexpected ending, Exciting, Action, Twisted plot, Tense

The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration02:04
CharactersTeens, Lifeguards, Scientists, Fathers
PlotSurvival, Disasters, Apocalypse, End of the world, Tsunami
PlaceNew York
TimeFuture, Post apocalypse
StyleExciting, Disturbing

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: 7.8
Genredocumentary, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:15
CharactersPhotographers, Artists
PlotExpeditions, Snow
PlaceNature, Ocean, Antarctica, Arctic
StyleFascinating, Serious

When National Geographic photographer James Balog asked, “How can one take a picture of climate change?” his attention was immediately drawn to ice. Soon he was asked to do a cover story on glaciers that became the most popular and well-read piece in the magazine during the last five years. But for Balog, that story marked the beginning of a much larger and longer-term project that would reach epic proportions.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryNorway
Duration01:18
PlotTravel
StyleAtmospheric

Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
CharactersPregnant, Writers, Babies
PlotSurvival, Cars, Snow, Cold, Hunger
StyleHeavy, Gloomy

A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama, history
CountryNetherlands
Duration01:49
CharactersMonsters, Writers
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Travel, Cold
PlaceIslands, Ships, Court, Beach
Time16th century
StyleFascinating, Serious

Nova Zembla tells the gripping true story of the legendary failed mission of the late sixteenth century Dutch flotilla trying to find a trading route to Asia across the North Pole. The ship crew, who got stuck in the ice of Nova Zembla and had to survive the dark coldness of winter in the most gruesome of circumstances. An incredibly powerful story of determination, hardship and a triumph of the human spirit. The sixteenth century Dutch ship crew is leaving the port of Amsterdam and sailing to the northern arctic, where they get stuck in the ice. Two ships take part at the mission and captain De Rijp decides to return while he still can, while the other ship helmed by Willem Barentsz, stubbornly proceeds.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genremelodrama, drama, for adults, music
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:11
CharactersStudents
PlotLove, Passion, Relationship
PlaceEngland, London, Antarctica
StyleRomantic, Soulful, Explicit scenes

Matt, a young glaciologist, soars across the vast, silent, icebound immensities of the South Pole as he recalls his love affair with Lisa. They meet at a mobbed rock concert in a vast music hall - London's Brixton Academy. They are in bed at night's end. Together, over a period of several months, they pursue a mutual sexual passion whose inevitable stages unfold in counterpoint to nine live-concert songs.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
CharactersPartners
PlaceArctic, Small cities
StyleAction, Fascinating, Depressive, Serious, Disturbing

Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now. In such a close-knit community a murder touches everyone and the unsettling, mysterious horror of this crime threatens the future of the town itself.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama, musical, adventure, family, cartoon, music
CountryUSA, Australia, New Zealand
Duration01:40
CharactersPenguin, Heroes, Family, Friends
PlotAdventure, Music, Friendship
PlaceAntarctica
StyleExciting, Touching

Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryRussia
Duration01:39
CharactersCaptain of the ship
PlotOn real events, Friendship, Cold
PlaceSea, Ships, Ocean
StyleExciting, Tense, Serious, For men

The story is based on the real events of 1985. The team of a Russian polar icebreaker “Mikhail Gromov” discovered a giant iceberg. The ship came into collision while attempting to take cover from the weather and is forced to drift with ice along the Amundsen Sea coast. The crew of “Gromov” spent 133 days of polar night trying to find a way out of their icy trap. They have no room for mistakes; one wrong move and the vessel is crushed by ice.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, adventure, family
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:18
CharactersFamily
PlotSurvival, Travel
PlaceIslands, Nature, Antarctica
StyleExciting, Soulful, Fascinating, Touching, Serious

South Georgia - alone in a vast ocean. 900 miles from Antarctica, and a mere 100 miles long. A wild rugged landscape with mountain ranges, vast glaciers, windblown plains half buried beneath snow and ice. Three years ago, the Penguin King left home. Now he is returning to the place where he was born and raised: Penguin City. One of the most densely-packed, sought-after pieces of real estate in the entire southern hemisphere and somehow he must establish his own place in it. He must find a mate.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreadventure, family
CountryNorway
Duration01:27
PlotSurvival, Adventure, Travel, Expeditions
PlaceIslands, Nature
StyleFascinating, Tense

After stowing away on a rescue helicopter, three children find themselves stuck on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean with little hope of rescue. They have to conquer fear, wild animals, raging weather, lack of food, and find a way to communicate with the mainland.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:59
CharactersFriends, Fathers, Old man
PlotLove, Friendship, Happiness, Meaning of life
PlaceIslands, Russia, Arctic
StylePhilosophical, Makes me think

Having quarreled with his father Altan goes to work in the North. He will have to spend a month alone on a deserted island. But soon a neighbor appears. He is old Baibal who has come to the island to spend the last days of his life there. He asks Altan to bury him next to his wife. But the guy finds out that long ago the old man’s daughter went missing. He talks the old man into publishing an entertainment blog to find his daughter and put of the man’s death. Every day Altan does his best to stimulate the old man to live another beautiful day.





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