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1. Frozen (I) (2013)
PG | 102 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Fearless optimist Anna teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey to find Anna's sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter.
Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee | Stars: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad
Votes: 663,275 | Gross: $400.74M
2. Everest (2015)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
On May 10, 1996, mountain guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer combine their expedition teams for a final ascent to the summit of Mount Everest. With little warning, a storm strikes the mountain and the climbers must now battle to survive.
Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Jason Clarke, Ang Phula Sherpa, Thomas M. Wright, Martin Henderson
Votes: 232,239 | Gross: $43.48M
3. 127 Hours (2010)
R | 94 min | Biography, Drama
A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Sean Bott
Votes: 401,064 | Gross: $18.34M
4. Susan Slade (1961)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 941
5. Cliffhanger (1993)
R | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner
Votes: 139,861 | Gross: $84.05M
6. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
PG-13 | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, returns from a spiritual quest to investigate the disappearance of a rare white bat, the sacred animal of a tribe in Africa.
Director: Steve Oedekerk | Stars: Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi
Votes: 233,297 | Gross: $108.39M
7. The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Not Rated | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A team of Allied saboteurs is assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held Greek island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: David Niven, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 55,338 | Gross: $28.90M
8. The Bucket List (2007)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd
Votes: 259,678 | Gross: $93.47M
9. The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Approved | 129 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Classical art professor and collector Dr. Jonathan Hemlock, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Vonetta McGee, Jack Cassidy
Votes: 22,312 | Gross: $1.53M
10. Smallfoot (2018)
PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
High up on a mountain peak surrounded by clouds, a secret Yeti society lives in peace and harmony. One day, a Yeti witnesses an airplane crash; Inside lies "Smallfoot", a legendary creature that will rock the society to its core.
Directors: Karey Kirkpatrick, Jason Reisig | Stars: Channing Tatum, James Corden, Zendaya, Common
Votes: 42,918 | Gross: $83.24M
11. Queen of the Desert (2015)
PG-13 | 128 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis
Votes: 12,569
12. Dreams (1990)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Fantasy
A collection of tales based upon eight of director Akira Kurosawa's recurring dreams.
Directors: Akira Kurosawa, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
Votes: 29,139 | Gross: $1.96M
13. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
R | 129 min | Drama, Thriller
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 9,876
14. Touching the Void (2003)
R | 106 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
The true story of two climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron
Votes: 38,080 | Gross: $4.59M
15. The Crawling Eye (1958)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
Votes: 4,816
16. The Summit of the Gods (2021)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
Director: Patrick Imbert | Stars: Lazare Herson-Macarel, Eric Herson-Macarel, Damien Boisseau, Elisabeth Ventura
Votes: 8,679
17. Valley Uprising (2014)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary
In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service.
Directors: Peter Mortimer, Nick Rosen, Josh Lowell | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Alex Honnold, Yvon Chouinard, Royal Robbins
Votes: 6,269
18. One Million B.C. (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.
Directors: Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach | Stars: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr., Conrad Nagel
Votes: 1,682
19. Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
Not Rated | 115 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A group of university employees arrive in a small village during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being university students who're attempting to spread communism and mobilizes the townspeople to lynch them.
Director: Felipe Cazals | Stars: Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa
Votes: 1,861
20. The Wildest Dream (2010)
PG | 94 min | Documentary, Biography
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
Director: Anthony Geffen | Stars: Conrad Anker, Susan Robertson, Robert Macfarlane, Peter Gillman
Votes: 2,726 | Gross: $0.87M
21. Five (1951)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
The world is destroyed in a nuclear holocaust. Only five Americans survive, including a pregnant woman, a neo-Nazi, a black man and a bank clerk.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: William Phipps, Susan Douglas Rubes, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin
Votes: 1,562
22. The Climb (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young man from the suburbs with no mountaineering experience decides to climb Mt Everest to show a woman he'd do anything for her.
Director: Ludovic Bernard | Stars: Ahmed Sylla, Alice Belaïdi, Kévin Razy, Nicolas Wanczycki
Votes: 8,307
23. Five Days One Summer (1982)
PG | 108 min | Drama
Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, Lambert Wilson, Jennifer Hilary
Votes: 1,330 | Gross: $0.20M
24. The Mountain (1956)
Approved | 105 min | Adventure, Drama
Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest
Votes: 2,252
25. The Tag-Along (2015)
93 min | Horror, Thriller
Based on true events and long-circulating urban legend in Taiwan. Wei is nowhere to be found one day before his grandma returns from her own strange missing incident. Wei's girlfriend ... See full summary »
Director: Wei-Hao Cheng | Stars: Wei-Ning Hsu, River Huang, Yin-Shang Liu, Po-Chou Chang
Votes: 2,065
26. Snow Trail (1947)
89 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Three bank robbers on the run from the police hide out in a remote mountain lodge high up in the snowy Japanese Alps.
Director: Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Kosugi, Akitake Kôno
Votes: 742
27. Scream of Stone (1991)
105 min | Drama
Two famous competitive climbers make a bet on who can climb Cerro Torre, one of the most dangerous mountains in Argentina and the world, first. As the day of the climb approaches, their increasing competitiveness becomes destructive.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Stefan Glowacz, Mathilda May, Al Waxman
Votes: 1,472
28. The Himalayas (2015)
124 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
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.
Director: Seok-hoon Lee | Stars: Hwang Jung-min, Jung Woo, Jo Sung-ha, Lee Chae-yun
Votes: 1,256 | Gross: $0.70M
29. The White Tower (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure
A group of people come together in the Swiss Alps to climb a previously unconquered mountain, revealing their inner selves in the process.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Claude Rains, Glenn Ford, Alida Valli, Oscar Homolka
Votes: 1,018
30. Cat Burglar (2022)
TV-14 | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Interactive Tex Avery-inspired cartoon where the viewer answers questions with a scenario about a guard dog named Peanut protecting a priceless work of art and a cat burglar named Rowdy trying to steal it from the art museum.
Director: James Bowman | Stars: Alan Lee, James Adomian, Trevor Devall
Votes: 646
31. The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen, Ernst Udet
Votes: 1,108
32. Everest (2007)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama
When an unexpected solo mountain trek ends in catastrophe for John Lauchlan, inspired fellow climbers set out to brave the elements and follow John's dream - to conquer the world's tallest peak, Mt. Everest.
Stars: Eric Johnson, Jason Priestley, Ted Atherton, John Pyper-Ferguson
Votes: 490
33. Lost on Everest (2020)
Documentary
A team of climbers set out to find Irvine and his climbing partner George Mallory camera. If that camera could be found, it would rewrite history.
Directors: Renan Ozturk, Drew Pulley | Stars: Renan Ozturk, Thom Pollard, Mark Synnott
Votes: 556
34. The Climb (2002)
PG | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two professional solo climbers form an uneasy partnership after a successful rescue mission grants them the gift of a lifetime.
Director: John Schmidt | Stars: Jason George, Ned Vaughn, Dabney Coleman, Kyli Santiago
Votes: 802 | Gross: $0.08M
35. The Guard from Underground (1992)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A woman begins working at the same company as a security guard that she believes might be a former sumo wrestling serial killer.
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Makiko Kuno, Yutaka Matsushige, Hatsunori Hasegawa, Tarô Suwa
Votes: 465
36. Wings Over Everest (2019)
110 min | Action
When a plane carrying important documents crashes in the Death Zone of Mount Everest, two men claiming to work for India's research and analysis department offer a large sum of money to Team Wings to take them up to recover them.
Director: Fay Yu | Stars: Jingchu Zhang, Koji Yakusho, Po-Hung Lin, Victor Webster
Votes: 318
37. What Lies Above (2004)
Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Still struggling to accept her fiancé's death in a rock climbing accident, mountain guide DIANA PENNINGTON gratefully accepts industrialist CURT SEAVER's offer to find the body using a new ... See full summary »
Director: Rex Piano | Stars: Nicole Eggert, Marc Singer, George Stults, Mike Dopud
Votes: 385
38. The Epic of Everest (1924)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
The official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition.
Director: J.B.L. Noel | Stars: Andrew Irvine, George Mallory
Votes: 674
39. The Constant Factor (1980)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
A young man is facing death of his mother. A petty corruption at his job leads to him being framed and robbed of his only desire to climb mountains in Himalayas, as his father did and where he died.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Tadeusz Bradecki, Zofia Mrozowska, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Cezary Morawski
Votes: 1,146
40. Sub Zero (2005 Video)
PG-13 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A high-powered military weapon has been stolen and lost at a towering mountain peak and it's up to a u.s. team of expert climbers and military personnel to reach it before the Russian terrorists do.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Costas Mandylor, Nia Peeples, Linden Ashby, Michael Sunczyk
Votes: 624
41. The Conquest of Everest (1953)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Adventure
Documentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak.
Director: George Lowe | Stars: Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, George Band, Tom Bourdillon
Votes: 881
42. The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918)
Not Rated | 16 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.
Director: Willis H. O'Brien | Stars: Alan V. Day, Chauncey A. Day, Herbert M. Dawley, Willis H. O'Brien
Votes: 366 | Gross: $0.10M
43. Blindsight (I) (2006)
PG | 104 min | Documentary, Adventure
Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.
Director: Lucy Walker | Stars: Gavin Attwood, Sally Berg, Sonam Bhumtso, Dachung
Votes: 699 | Gross: $0.09M
44. Death on Demand (2008)
R | 90 min | Horror
Twenty years ago Sean McIntyre murdered his family then hung himself on Thanksgiving day. For tonight's webcast he's just warming up.
Director: Adam Matalon | Stars: Jerry Broome, Suzannah Lawson Matalon, Bridget Megan Clark, Daphne Ciccarelle
Votes: 486
45. Zlocin v dívcí skole (1966)
107 min | Comedy, Crime
Three short story omnibus. The main hero and connecting link is Lieutenant Boruvka, created by Lubomír Lipsky. He deals with the murder case between climbers, the death of the dancer in the... See full summary »
Directors: Jirí Menzel, Ivo Novák, Ladislav Rychman | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jan Preucil, Petr Kostka, Jana Gýrová
Votes: 105
46. In Your Dreams! (2016)
79 min | Family, Romance
16-year-old Laura is swift, lively and stubborn. She wants to join a group of parkourists and gets caught off guard by love which she begins to feel toward Luky. She starts living a double ... See full summary »
Director: Petr Oukropec | Stars: Barbora Stikarová, Klára Melísková, Jan Vondrácek, Ivan Martinka
Votes: 67
47. Farther Than the Eye Can See (2003 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
Film follows blind climber Erik Weihenmayer's successful climb of Mount Everest.
Director: Michael Brown | Stars: Eric Alexander, Luis Benitez, Brad Bull, Reba Bull
Votes: 98
48. Once Upon a Time in Paradise (2016)
99 min | Biography, Drama, War
The story of real life Czech mountain climber Josef 'Joska' Smítka who tried hiding from the Nazis in the rocky area known as Bohemian Paradise (aka Ceský ráj) during WWII.
Directors: Dan Krzywon, Peter Palka, Lordan Zafranovic | Stars: Vavrinec Hradilek, Vica Kerekes, Miroslav Etzler, Petr Smíd
Votes: 97
49. La petite Chartreuse (2005)
90 min | Drama
Eight-year-old Eva and her mother have a very positive CHILD-TO-CHILD-RELATION. The mother is incapable of mature behaviour when problems arise. When the mother forgets to fetch Eva at ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Denis | Stars: Olivier Gourmet, Marie-Josée Croze, Bertille Noël-Bruneau, Marisa Borini
Votes: 240
50. The Story of a Blooming Flower (1992)
92 min | Drama
A Japanese botanist creates his masterpiece: the red begonia hybrids will represent the Juche ideology and stand as a symbol of love, justice and peace. In honor of the beloved leader, he gives her the name Kimjongilia.
Director: Sang Gyu Ri | Stars: Yu Son Chan, Yong Suk Kim, Hen Sun Pak, Mi Hyan Pyon
Votes: 29