Movies thrillers about climbers

List of the best thriller movies about climbers and conquering mountain peaks, selected by visitors to our site: 127 Hours, Stonehearst Asylum, The Ides of March, Captain Phillips, The Town, Bridge of Spies, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Unstoppable, Bad Times at the El Royale, Unknown.

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

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: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

      The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUSA, Germany, India
      Duration02:39

        During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:52

          After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genreaction, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genreaction, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA
          Duration01:53

          An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:33

            When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:48

              Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

              Markimdb: 6.7
              Genrethriller, detective
              CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

              Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:55

                Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
                Duration02:10

                  Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:32

                    Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

                    Markimdb: 8.2
                    Genrethriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:18

                    World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA

                    In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

                    Markimdb: 7.8
                    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

                    What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryUSA

                    Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

                    Markimdb: 7
                    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
                    Duration01:47

                    France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

                    Markimdb: 7.2
                    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:43

                    A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

                    Markimdb: 7.3
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, Japan
                    Duration02:27

                    Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:51

                    Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

                    Markimdb: 6.6
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:48

                    When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

                    Markimdb: 7.9
                    Genrethriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, France
                    Duration02:27

                      After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

                      Markimdb: 6.8
                      Genrethriller, drama, music
                      CountryUSA, Canada, Netherlands
                      Duration01:20

                      After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

                      Markimdb: 7.3
                      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:34

                      Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

                      Markimdb: 7.5
                      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:43

                        A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

                        Markimdb: 6.9
                        Genrethriller, comedy, crime, music
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:45

                        Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

                        Markimdb: 8.3
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:53

                        A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

                        Markimdb: 7
                        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:43

                          The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                          CountryUSA, Italy
                          Duration02:10

                          The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
                          Duration02:19

                          Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrethriller, crime
                          CountryUSA

                          A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

                          Markimdb: 7.1
                          Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
                          Duration02:13

                          Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

                          Markimdb: 6.3
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:55

                          A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

                          Markimdb: 6.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA, Canada
                          Duration01:58

                          Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

                          Markimdb: 7.6
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:54

                          When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

                          Markimdb: 8.4
                          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                          Duration02:24

                          Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

                          Markimdb: 7.4
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:52

                          A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, he slowly assimilates despite his urban grit and forges a romantic bond with the child's beautiful mother.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:48

                          After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

                          Markimdb: 6.4
                          Genrethriller, drama, military
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
                          Duration02:08

                          Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.

                          Markimdb: 7.2
                          Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                          CountryMexico, Spain, USA
                          Duration02:05

                          Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

                          Markimdb: 6.3
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                          CountryUSA, Netherlands
                          Duration01:38

                            The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.

                            Markimdb: 7.5
                            Genrethriller, drama
                            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                            Duration01:59

                            Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.

                            Markimdb: 6.7
                            Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
                            CountryFrance, Spain, USA
                            Duration02:13

                            An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.

                            Markimdb: 7.2
                            Genrethriller, drama, detective
                            CountryUSA, Germany
                            Duration02:04

                            Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

                            Markimdb: 6.9
                            Genrethriller, crime
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration02:02

                            Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring down Willy Bank along with everything he's got. Even if it means asking for help from an enemy.

                            Markimdb: 7.5
                            Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                            CountryUSA, Germany
                            Duration02:24

                            A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.




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