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Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: tense, bleak, suspenseful, harsh
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Luck (2005)
Plot Summary:
Petr, a recently discharged officer, arrives in a tiny mining town in the remote Siberian taiga to hunt for gold. When he finds it, the other prospectors cannot forgive his luck.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, suspenseful
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Convoy 48 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Yesterday's Leningrad schoolgirl Masha Yablochkina, after a fierce blockade winter of 1941-1942, comes to the railway courses hoping to survive and gain strength. From there, the girl is sent to the construction of the Shlisselburg highway, which connects the city with the mainland and is in direct sight of German artillery. So the heroine gets into the 48th locomotive column of the special reserve NKPS, which, at the cost of the deadly risk, will have to deliver 75% of all cargo and military equipment to Leningrad.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Drama, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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The Edge (2010)
Plot Summary:
The action takes place shortly after the end of the Second World War in the Siberian hinterland, among Russians and Germans with damaged personal stories and a strange transformation: the victors seem to be crawling into the skins of the defeated, and vice versa. Ignat, is the embodiment of the larger-than-life image of the Soviet victorious warrior who, in fact, proves to be shell-shocked, sick and broken, although not completely destroyed. Trains become fetish for the heroes of the film, and speed becomes a mania; they virtually become one with their steam engines, while the machines take on human names. The heroes set up an almost fatal race in the Siberian forest, risking their own lives and those of others.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: realistic, bleak, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful
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Sands of the Kalahari (1965)
Plot Summary:
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film
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Your Lover (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lucio and Enedina are a happily married young Teenek couple that lives in the Huasteca Potosina's jungle with their three children. They love each other and share everything, nevertheless, everything crumbles when the construction of a highway, that their community has been requesting for so long, finally arrives.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful
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Out of Inferno (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the hottest day in 50 years, a serious fire incident happened to a busy commercial tower, a gaggle of fire fighters with an indestructible enthusiasm are going to save lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, tense, rough, suspenseful, stylized, disaster movie
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Once Upon a Time in Rostov (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story about the activity in Rostov of the gang of "phantasms" that robbed state institutions and kept the entire city in fear. Vyacheslav Tolstopyatov, having witnessed the brutal execution of protesters in Novocherkassk in June 1962, completely rethinks his life and attitude towards the state and the authorities as such. Being a man of genius, he and his brother organized a gang that, from 1968-1973, keeps the whole city in fear.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
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St. Helens (1981)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, disaster movie
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Break (2019)
Plot Summary:
The company of three guys and two girls makes their way to the old funicular to have an unforgettable New Year’s Eve celebration at the top of the mountain. A fun adventure turns into a nightmare when the funicular stops over the abyss. Coldness, height and fear of a slow death make them reveal their true essence and get in a fight with each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological, disaster movie
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Innocent Saturday (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Siberia, Monamour (2011)
Plot Summary:
Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. Sometimes their relative uncle Yuri brings food to them. Once on his way back from Ivan's village uncle Yuri is attacked by dogs & perishes. Ivan & Leshia stay without supply. Once Leshia witnesses Ivan shooting at 'his' dog & runs away. The old Man finds him in a dry well, but he fails to get him out on his own. Ivan sets out through taiga in search of help. Now the dogs are hunting him... And the boy is waiting for his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, gloomy, sentimental, serious, captivating, bleak, realistic, suspenseful
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In the Forests of Siberia (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with the hectic, senseless world he lives in, Teddy decides to settle down alone in Siberia, in the midst of winter, in a hut by the shore of Lake Baikal. After an initial period of elation in front of the splendor and magic of unspoiled nature, Teddy soon finds himself confronted with the less glossy side of things : solitude, extreme cold, the necessity to find food, danger... One night Teddy gets lost in a blizzard and would be doomed to a certain death, were it not for Aleksei, a Russian convict living hidden away in the forest nearby, who rescues him in extremis. Friendship soon blossoms between the two men.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Call of the Wild (1992)
Plot Summary:
A young boy heads off to the Yukon after hearing tales about the Gold Rush, and he forms an unwavering friendship with a heroic Alsatian dog called Buck.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic
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Rugged Gold (1994)
Plot Summary:
A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Antarctica (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: depressing, ironic, suspenseful, serious, realistic, epic, tear jerker, tearjerker
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Earthquake (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Old Man (2012)
Plot Summary:
This is a survival story - a Hemingway's 'Old Man and the Sea' as if written for our days.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 774
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Kazakhstan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological, tense
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The Red Tent (1969)
Plot Summary:
Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: historical drama, exciting, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, epic
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As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles and three endless years of uncertainty later, he is finally about to reach his destination...An edge of your seat drama that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the force of will, while inspired and impowered by love.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere, breathtaking, road movie, epic, crying, rough
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The Call of the Wild (2020)
Plot Summary:
A sled dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, sincere, inspirational, fairy tale, period piece, tense
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Follow the River (1995)
Plot Summary:
Mary Ingles is pregnant when she and her two sons are captured from their homestead in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains by Shawnee Indians. Her husband, Will, narrowly escapes death during the attack. Impressed by her grace under the pressure of captivity, Wildcat, the Shawnee chief, confers special privileges on Mary and her children, eventually proposing that Mary become his mate. Surprised by her attraction to the handsome brave, Mary nonetheless opts to remain faithful to Will and engineers a plan for her escape. Separated from her children, Mary joins another female settler, and together they embark on a harrowing homeward trek. Her odyssey comes full circle more than a decade later when she is finally reunited with her long-lost children.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, epic
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The Return (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: bleak, emotional, art house, road movie, atmospheric, cerebral, thought provoking, lyrical, suspenseful, independent film
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How I Ended This Summer (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, realistic, suspense, slow cinema, aesthetic, relaxing, serious
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Zero Kelvin (1995)
Plot Summary:
Larsen, an aspiring poet in '20s Oslo, leaves his girlfriend to spend a year as a trapper in East Greenland. There he is teamed with a seemingly rough old sailor/trapper, Randbæk, and a scientist, Holm. Trapped in a tiny hut together as the Arctic winter sets in, a complex and intense love/hate relationship develops between Randbæk and Larsen, who are more similar than either would like to admit. A powerful psychological and physical drama set against stunningly bleak Arctic scenery.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, neurotic, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Plot Summary:
A cargo plane goes down in a sandstorm in the Sahara with less than a dozen men on board. One of the passengers is an airplane designer who comes up with the idea of ripping off the undamaged wing and using it as the basis for an airplane they will build to escape before their food and water run out.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense, harsh, serious, captivating, exciting, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, retro, action adventure
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Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Plot Summary:
This film dramatizes the true story of Farley Mowat, when he was sent to the Canadian tundra area to collect evidence of the grievous harm the wolf population was allegedly doing to the caribou herds. In his struggle to survive in that difficult environment he studies the wolves, and realizes that the old beliefs about wolves and their supposed threat are almost totally false. Furthermore, he learns that humans represent a far greater threat to the land, and also to the wolves, a species which plays an important role in the ecosystem of the north.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, semi autobiographical, philosophical, offbeat, sensitive, anthropological, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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Arctic (2018)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: minimal cast, suspense, touching, uplifting, disturbing, inspirational, captivating, action adventure, clever, intellectual
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Life of Pi (2012)
Plot Summary:
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 658000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Taiwan, UK, Canada, India, France
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: philosophical, motivational, visually appealing, scenic, reflective, touching, captivating, spiritual, dramatic, suspense
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Firequake (2014)
Plot Summary:
Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the highly-explosive product begins to seep deep below the Earth's crust, producing giant blasts of fire and violent earthquakes above the surface. As cities shake and oceans boil, Eve Adams, creator of the Helios technology, rushes to investigate the subterranean phenomenon. As the situation becomes ever more dire, she is the only one who can save mankind, not to mention reputation.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Way Back (2010)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: realistic, epic, inspirational, rough, serious, bleak, visually appealing, intense, road movie, dramatic