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Plot Summary:
A daring dream to scale the world's most challenging trio of mountains soon turns into a terrifying nightmare for a group of friends when a deadly storm traps the climbers near the summit and cuts off all hope of rescue. With the odds stacked against them, the friends are forced to trust each other to save themselves by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
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The Eight Mountains (2022)
Plot Summary:
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: interesting
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Minamata (2020)
Plot Summary:
A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, realistic, disturbing, art house, cult classic, extraordinary
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Shocking Blue (2010)
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William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. Chris tries his best, but William is one lump of impenetrable rock, secretly wondering if the events of the night before, when Jack went off with fifteen-year old Marianne, had anything to do with the accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min
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A Brief Excursion (2017)
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Stola has been spending his summer in the sweltering haze of festival parties. But one day, he runs into Roko, an old acquaintance, who is on a mission to discover medieval frescoes at a nearby monastery. Roko convinces Stola and a random group of partygoers to join him in his search. However, when their bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, their brief excursion turns into an allegorical journey into the unknown.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min
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Giants of Valdes (2008)
Plot Summary:
A businessman travels to Patagonia and tries to convince people who live in the area to build an expensive hotel regardless of a building of such magnitude could destroy the beauty of the place. He will learn a valuable lesson about environmentalism.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min
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On the Wandering Paths (2023)
Plot Summary:
Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he decides to walk through France, following forgotten pathways.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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The Party's Over (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American businessman visits London and is horrified to discover his nubile teenage daughter has become involved with a gang of thuggish "beatniks". Her involvement leads to wild parties, sex, death and necrophilia.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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A Sand Castle (1962)
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Two boys are on an unplanned vacation by foot. They meet a girl who has nothing but a bikini under her coat. She says her cloths were stolen while she was bathing. She joins their company. They steel cloths for her. There is a little kissing with both but nothing that could make the other jealous. During most of the movie they enjoy minor pleasures. But occasionally when the girl is alone she has attacks of very painful emotions. In the end it turns out that she is a former child-prisoner of a German KZ-lager, who had run away from a mental hospital in bikini and coat. Some of the staff were searching for her. But when she sees them she commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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In the Land of Wonders (2009)
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Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, together with her uncle Valentin, collects shells and scraps of grenades to sell on the black market. Valentin dies of cancer, Alica's diagnosis is not good but there's no money for therapy. Alica's journey through the Land of Wonders begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Croatia, Hungary
Duration: 93 min
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Changing Destiny (2004)
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A story of friendship in a squalid suburb of a city of southern Italy. Alexander and Ferdi come from poor families and live in a city in decline, where there is no future.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Never Again as Before (2005)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
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Striker's Mountain (1985)
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A construction conglomerate, headed by a ruthless millionaire, wants to buy a ski resort that has been a family business for years, but the family does not want to sell. The businessman resolves to get the property, whether they want to sell it or not.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Child in Time (2017)
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Set two years after his daughter went missing, The Child In Time follows Stephen Lewis, a children's author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelma have retired to the countryside, battling demons of their own. With tenderness and insight, the movie explores the dark territory of a marriage devastated, the loss of childhood, the fluidity of time, grief, hope, and acceptance. The Child In Time is a lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss, and the power of things unseen.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: crying
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Maine (2018)
Plot Summary:
Backpacking alone on the Appalachian trail, a married woman meets a younger hiker and the two strangers become inexplicably drawn to one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, sincere, realistic
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Thin Ice (1988)
Plot Summary:
Vince, a college student, loves the mountains, skiing and fun, so an invitation to Lake Tahoe is a no-brain-er... HOWEVER, the trip includes people from a church group, and six strong sets of opinions about God soon collide. Vince's weekend of fun is threatened as tensions rise and sparks fly. This thought provoking drama combines plenty of action and humor both on and off the slopes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: christian film
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I Melt with You (2011)
Plot Summary:
Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, talky, depressing, psychological, bleak, art house, cerebral, independent film, realistic
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Mawson - Life and Death in Antarctica (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is considered one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis is retracing the gruelling experience, with the same meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically-and mentally-as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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Five Days One Summer (1982)
Plot Summary:
A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Himalaya (1999)
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As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and rebellious young Karma (Gurgon Kyap). Tinle tries to maintain his clout and preserve obedience to ancient customs when Karma challenges the old man's power.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland, UK, Nepal
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, atmospheric, spiritual, dramatic, tense, sincere, epic, serious, captivating
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A Matter of Courage (2015)
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Hermano, a successful doctor and enthusiastic rock climber, is planning to climb an almost invincible mountain in the Tierra del Fuego, when he discovers that his wife Adri is pregnant. Though Adri desires this unexpected pregnancy, Hermano is a bit reluctant to be a father, and he is obsessed by the challenge of the mountain. For Hermano, facing the mountain represents an essential proof of courage that he believes he owes to himself. Despite discovering that Adri's pregnancy is at risk, he seems determined to go ahead with the climb. Stricken by guilt since adolescence for having done nothing to save his friend Bonobo from a brutal beating, which resulted in his death, Hermano now thinks he can only redeem himself with this heroic act. On the day of his departure, Hermano relives the tragic event that has indelibly marked his life, just as Adri is rushed to hospital in premature labour, with all the more serious risks that this entails. What are Hermano's moral and personal options?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, serious, suspenseful
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Edie (2017)
Plot Summary:
To try and overcome a lifetime of bitterness and resentment, an older lady decides to climb a mountain in Scotland.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, inspirational, nostalgic
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The Summit: A Chronicle Of Stones to Serenity (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, atmospheric, suspense
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The Himalayas (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, scenic
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In This World (2002)
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Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin Enayat as they embark on a hazardous overland trip from their refugee camp at Peshawar, north-west Pakistan. Entering Turkey on foot through a snowy, Kurdish-controlled pass, the pair again take their lives into their hands and face suffocation when they are locked in a freight container on a ship bound for Italy. From there they plan to travel on to Paris, the Sangatte refuge centre and ultimately asylum in London.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: bleak, road movie, inspirational, disturbing, sincere, suspenseful, political, realistic, tense, thought provoking
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Little Boy Blue (1997)
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Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he goes to murderous lengths to keep it hidden. The young man, Jimmy, who has suspicions, but little comes out until a Yankee woman comes to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspense, bleak, sexy, explicit, realistic, crying, independent film
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The Art of Travel (2008)
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High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak, road movie, serious, emotional
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Close (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. An emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sad, teen, crying, iconic
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The Climbers (2019)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, scenic
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The Beckoning Silence (2007)
Plot Summary:
In The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, whose amazing battle for survival featured in the multi-award winning "Touching the Void", travels to the treacherous North Face of the Eiger to tell the story of one of mountaineering's most epic tragedies. As a child, it was this story and that of one of the climbers in particular, that first captured Simpson's imagination and inspired him to take up mountaineering.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, scenic
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Scream of Stone (1991)
Plot Summary:
A meeting of two world famous climbers, one an experienced mountaineer the other a sport climber, and a journalist (Ivan) results in a bet on which of the two is the best climber. Roger (the mountaineering expert) states that Martin (the sport climber) wouldn't survive a day on a 'real' climbing expedition, although he is considered to be the world's best sport climber (having just won an indoor 'world championship,' an event depicted in the opening scene). They plan to climb 'Cerro Torre,' in the Patagonia region of South America, near the Argentinian/Chilean border, one of the world's most difficult mountains, especially considering the extreme weather conditions common to the area.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Canada, Italy, Argentina, UK, South Africa
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco