Movies dramas about avalanches

List of the best films dramas about avalanches according to visitors: Force Majeure, Downhill, Shivaay, Snow Beast, The Wave, Murder on the Orient Express, Dog Day Afternoon, Meteor, Everest, The Climbers.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, drama
CountrySweden, France, Norway, Denmark, Italy
Duration02:00

While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA

Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryIndia
Duration03:50

Shivaay , a fearless Himalayan mountaineer covered in Lord Shiva tattoos, heads to Bulgaria to fulfill his nine-year-old daughter Gaura’s wish of seeing her mother Olga, who abandoned them years ago. But their plan goes for a toss when the little girl gets kidnapped in the foreign land. Rescuing her from the masked child-traffickers becomes his only reason for survival.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim and his research team study the Canadian Lynx every year. This year, he has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryNorway, Sweden
Duration02:24

Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets caught in the middle of it and a race against time begins.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:08

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

Markimdb: 5
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Hong Kong
Duration01:48

After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Iceland
Duration02:46

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, drama, biography
CountryChina

May 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most difficult "second step". This is their fifth assault. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength - ...finally, the wind and snow stop the gap.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, military, history
CountryNorway
Duration01:16

After a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, a Norwegian resistance fighter finds himself fleeing the Gestapo through the snowbound reaches of Scandinavia.

Markimdb: 8
Genreaction, drama, adventure, western, biography
CountryUSA, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration02:27

    In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountryBelarus, Russia
    Duration02:11

    A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. The film shows the heroic defense of Brest Fortress, which has taken upon the first stroke of German fascist invaders on June 22 1941.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration02:04

    Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

      Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      In 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

        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: 6.2
        Genredrama, adventure, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA, Canada
        Duration01:44

        They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.

        Markimdb: 8.8
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:28

          Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
          Duration01:33

          The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genredrama, documentary, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:46

            A documentary based on the book of the same name by Joe Simpson about Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near-fatal attempt to climb 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genreaction, drama, crime
            CountryKazakhstan
            Duration00:29

            Sayan has survived the accident but 10 years later the past comes after him.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama, adventure, biography, history, sport
            CountryGermany, Austria, Luxembourg
            Duration02:06

            North Face tells the story of two German climbers Toni Kurz and Andreas Hinterstoisser and their attempt to scale the deadly North Face of the Eiger.

            Markimdb: 8.1
            Genredrama, adventure, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:28

            The true story of top student and athlete, Christopher McCandless, who after graduating from Emory University in 1992, abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genredrama, adventure
            CountryItaly, Soviet Union
            Duration02:39

            Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, adventure
            CountryFrance
            Duration02:21

            A true story of Samy, native of La Courneuve, who is out of love for Nadia, decides to climb Mount Everest.

            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: 7.1
            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: 7.3
            Genredrama, adventure, history
            CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
            Duration02:13

            Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film details their perilous & uncertain journey to freedom, as they cross deserts, mountains, & several nations.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, drama, biography, sport
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:17

            An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genredrama, biography
            CountrySouth Korea

            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.

            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: 5.7
            Genredrama
            CountryJapan
            Duration01:30

            Makoto Fukamachi (Junichi Okada) is a Japanese cameraman. He finds an old camera on a backstreet of Nepal. The camera might possibly solve the mystery of whether George Mallory became the first person to successfully climb Mount Everest on June 8, 1924 or not. Pursuing the old camera's past, Makoto Fukamachi meets legendary Alpinist Joji Habu (Hiroshi Abe). Joji Habu is isolated from other people because of his reckless and thoughtless personality.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, adventure, history
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration02:01

            The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genredrama, crime, biography
            CountryUSA, Canada, China
            Duration02:08

            Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA

            A recently single man finds solace in his upstairs neighbors' seemingly perfect relationship - until he suspects one of them is cheating.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA

            The inventor of the world's greatest toy reflects on his obsession with a woman who hates him.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryCanada, USA, Germany

            Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryArgentina, USA

            Thriller about a family whose ties are put to the test when the patriarch’s wife dies.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genredrama, biography
            CountryUSA

            In 1827, Joseph Smith, Jr. was only 21 years old when he received a prophetic calling to translate ancient scriptures that would soon be published as The Book of Mormon. Less than three years later, he founded The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that today has 14 million followers and is the 4th largest religious denomination in the United States. Plates of Gold follows Joseph's early adult years and portrays the events that lead up to the publishing of The Book of Mormon and the founding of a new worldwide church. The film also details Joseph's personal life and his desire to find forgiveness, acceptance and salvation from God. Directed by Christian Vuissa (The Errand of Angels, One Good Man).

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genredrama, western
            CountryUSA

            The story of notorious outlaw Taylon Flynn, a man hell-bent on exiting this life in a blaze of glory. His plans go awry upon the discovery of the sordid life his estranged daughter is forced to live. To save her, he must summon the inner demons he purged long ago, and finds that redemption is a hard road to travel.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:26

            Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genredrama
            CountryBrazil, USA
            Duration01:26

            Angie, a young Brazilian artist, abandons her old life and embarks on a journey around the country. Running from her past, and searching for her foundation in life, Angie finds not only herself but love in its many forms.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.

            Mark
            Genredrama
            CountryUSA

            Sonny Boone was a fighter who had everything, then lost it. He blamed God for all of his troubles and asked WHY bad things happened to him? His ultimate question: God Where Are You?

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:41

              A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

              Markimdb: 5.9
              Genredrama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:19

              When a pastor is shaken by the visible faith of a street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a journey that impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.

              Markimdb: 5.8
              Genredrama, sport
              CountryUSA

              A pro ball player with a substance abuse problem is forced into rehab in his hometown, finding new hope when he gets honest about his checkered past, and takes on coaching duties for a misfit Little League team

              Markimdb: 4.5
              Genrecomedy, drama
              CountryUSA

              Still reeling from his breakup with college sweetheart Allison, Adam's world is thrown into further chaos when he’s surprisingly invited to attend her wedding.




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