Most Popular Andes Mountains Movies and TV Shows

1. Triple Frontier (2019)

R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Loyalties are tested when five friends and former special forces operatives reunite to take down a South American drug lord, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences.

Director: J.C. Chandor | Stars: Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund

Votes: 85,852

2. Alive (1993)

R | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A Uruguayan rugby team stranded in the snow swept Andes are forced to use desperate measures to survive after a plane crash.

Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, Bruce Ramsay

Votes: 47,167 | Gross: $36.73M

3. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

Not Rated | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo, Del Negro

Votes: 48,209

4. The Three Caballeros (1944)

Approved | 71 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Donald receives his birthday gifts, which include traditional gifts and information about Brazil (hosted by Zé Carioca) and Mexico (by Panchito, a Mexican Charro Rooster).

Directors: Norman Ferguson, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts, Harold Young | Stars: Aurora Miranda, Carmen Molina, Dora Luz, Sterling Holloway

Votes: 10,981

5. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

R | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán

Votes: 92,881 | Gross: $16.76M

6. 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: 31,989 | Gross: $4.59M

7. The Crawling Eye (1958)

Unrated | 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: 3,175

8. Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

Passed | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

At a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Rita Hayworth, Richard Barthelmess

Votes: 11,390

9. Neruda (2016)

R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba

Votes: 8,367 | Gross: $0.94M

10. The Last Movie (1971)

R | 108 min | Drama

After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.

Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Julie Adams, Daniel Ades, Richmond L. Aguilar, John Alderman

Votes: 1,515

11. Pressure Point (1997)

97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Deadly government assassin Sebastian Dellacourt botches a job and ends up in prison. His only way out is to do one final job and infiltrate a dangerous militia led by delusional Arno Taylor, who wants to overthrow the US government.

Director: David Giancola | Stars: Don Mogavero, Steve Railsback, Larry Linville, Linda Ljoka

Votes: 138

12. Magic Magic (2013)

R | 97 min | Drama, Thriller

A naive young tourist's road trip across Chile with friends turns into a waking nightmare.

Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Michael Cera, Juno Temple, Emily Browning, Catalina Sandino Moreno

Votes: 8,915

13. The Liberator (2013)

R | 119 min | Biography, Drama, History

Simon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered -- it liberated.

Director: Alberto Arvelo | Stars: Edgar Ramírez, Erich Wildpret, María Valverde, Juana Acosta

Votes: 4,762 | Gross: $0.11M

14. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

PG | 120 min | Drama, Romance

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.

Director: Mary McGuckian | Stars: Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Kathy Bates

Votes: 3,232 | Gross: $0.04M

15. The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)

G | 118 min | Adventure, Drama

In 1532, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro leads an expedition into the heart of the Inca Empire and captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa and claims Peru for Spain.

Director: Irving Lerner | Stars: Robert Shaw, Christopher Plummer, Nigel Davenport, Leonard Whiting

Votes: 551

16. The Cordillera of Dreams (2019)

84 min | Documentary

Patricio Guzmán left Chile more than 40 years ago when the military dictatorship took over the democratically-elected government, but he never stopped thinking about a country, a culture, ... See full summary »

Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Jorge Baradit, Vicente Gajardo, Francisco Gazitúa, Pablo Salas

Votes: 197

17. The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982–1983)

TV-Y7 | 28 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A trio of kids must search throughout 16th Century South America for personal answers linked to the legendary El Dorado.

Stars: Janice Chaikelson, Adrian Knight, Michael Rudder, Terrence Labrosse

Votes: 3,250

18. Way of a Gaucho (1952)

Passed | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

In 1875 Argentina, after killing a man, a gaucho is sentenced to harsh army duty but he deserts the army and becomes a bandit leader.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Gene Tierney, Richard Boone, Hugh Marlowe

Votes: 521

19. Red Planet Mars (1952)

Approved | 87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

An American scientist is able to contact and communicate with Mars with shattering political, economic, and spiritual repercussions.

Director: Harry Horner | Stars: Peter Graves, Andrea King, Herbert Berghof, Walter Sande

Votes: 1,083

20. Law of the Pampas (1939)

Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Western

Hoppy and Lucky are headed to South America to deliver a herd of cattle. Bad guy Ralph Merritt gets in their way. For a while.

Director: Nate Watt | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Sidney Toler, Steffi Duna

Votes: 113

21. Madeinusa (2006)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

14-year-old Madeinusa comes of age during the Easter festivities of her tiny, isolated village.

Director: Claudia Llosa | Stars: Magaly Solier, Carlos J. de la Torre, Yiliana Chong, Juan Ubaldo Huamán

Votes: 1,477

22. I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash (2010 TV Movie)

88 min | Documentary

On Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. For 72 days, the world thought they were dead.

Director: Brad Osborne | Stars: James Lentzsch, Benjamin Josse, Kelly Haitz, Cindy Latch

Votes: 349

23. Survive! (1976)

R | 85 min | Drama, Thriller

A Uruguayan rugby team crashes in the Andes Mountains and has to survive the extremely cold temperatures and rough climate. As some of the people die, the survivors are forced to make a terrible decision between starvation and cannibalism.

Director: René Cardona | Stars: Pablo Ferrel, Hugo Stiglitz, Norma Lazareno, Luz María Aguilar

Votes: 374 | Gross: $5.00M

24. San Martín: El cruce de Los Andes (2011)

90 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

The story follows a 15-year-old Manuel Corvalán, who decides to leave his upper-class family and be disinherited by his father to join the newly formed Army of the Andes, commanded by the General José de San Martín.

Director: Leandro Ipiña | Stars: Rodrigo De la Serna, Víctor Hugo Carrizo, Alfredo Castellani, Juan Ciancio

Votes: 453

25. Night Flight (1933)

Passed | 84 min | Drama

Polio breaks out in Rio de Janeiro, the serum is in Santiago and there's only one way to get the medicine where it's desperately needed: flown in by daring pilots who risk the treacherous weather and forbidding peaks of the Andes.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Hayes, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 669

26. Stranded: I've Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2007)

Unrated | 130 min | Documentary

For the first time ever, survivors of the famous 1972 Andes plane crash tell in their own words their harrowing story of survival.

Director: Gonzalo Arijon | Stars: Jose Algorta, Roberto Canessa, Alfredo Delgado, Daniel Fernandez

Votes: 1,175 | Gross: $0.09M

27. The Dancer and the Thief (2009)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama

With the advent of democracy in Chile, a general amnesty for prisoners of non violent crime is enacted. Angel Santiago, a young man determined to avenge the abuse he suffered in prison, ... See full summary »

Director: Fernando Trueba | Stars: Ricardo Darín, Abel Ayala, Miranda Bodenhofer, Ariadna Gil

Votes: 1,196

28. Oedipo alcalde (1996)

100 min | Drama, War

Set amidst the rebel wars (representing the Theban plagues) of contemporary Colombia, young Mayor Edipo must mediate a peace deal between conflicting guerrilla groups and the army. It is ... See full summary »

Director: Jorge Alí Triana | Stars: Jorge Perugorría, Ángela Molina, Francisco Rabal, Jorge Martínez de Hoyos

Votes: 274

29. How Much Further (2006)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama

Esperanza and Tristeza both have to get to Cuenca. However, by an unlucky turn of events, the bus they are on gets delayed due to a worker strike. Taking their journey into their own hands,... See full summary »

Director: Tania Hermida | Stars: Tania Martinez, Cecilia Vallejo, Pancho Aguirre, Fausto Miño

Votes: 680

30. Blood of the Condor (1969)

70 min | Crime, Drama

The reaction of an indigenous community against a group of foreigners who under the guise of development assistance are forcibly sterilizing the peasant women.

Director: Jorge Sanjinés | Stars: Marcelino Yanahuaya, Benedicta Mendoza, Vicente Verneros Salinas, Danielle Caillet

Votes: 399

31. La boca del lobo (1988)

128 min | Drama, Action, War

The Peruvian anti-terrorist army takes control of a far away and unknown small village isolated in the Andes by the terrorist militia "Sendero Luminoso" (Shining Path), during the dirty war in Peru at 80's decade.

Director: Francisco J. Lombardi | Stars: Gustavo Bueno, Toño Vega, José Tejada, Gilberto Torres

Votes: 462

32. Simón Bolívar (1969)

PG | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History

Historical drama about Venezuelan military and political leader Simón Bolívar who helped much of Latin America to achieve independence from Spain.

Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Rosanna Schiaffino, Francisco Rabal, Conrado San Martín

Votes: 51

33. Secret of the Andes (1998)

PG | 95 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Diana and her mother Brenda travel from their home in New York City to Argentina. Once there they will seek out Diana's dad who's an archaeologist looking for a legendary cache of gold.

Director: Alejandro Azzano | Stars: José Luis Alfonzo, Nancy Allen, Rodrigo Barrena, Camilla Belle

Votes: 218

34. Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000)

R | 93 min | Documentary, Adventure, Romance

A retired gay anthropologist revisits the native cultures he studied in his youth.

Directors: David Shapiro, Laurie Gwen Shapiro | Stars: Tobias Schneebaum, Norman Mailer, Michael Rockefeller

Votes: 788 | Gross: $0.35M

35. The Dream Is Alive (1985)

Not Rated | 37 min | Documentary, Short

Traveling on the Space Shuttle, covers training, launch, flight, deployment of LDEF from Challenger in April 1984 (STS-41C).

Director: Graeme Ferguson | Stars: Walter Cronkite, David Leestma, George Nelson, Sally Ride

Votes: 417

36. Pedro (1943)

Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short

In a little airport near Santiago, Chile, live three airplanes, a papa plane, which carries mail over the Andes between Chile and Argentina, a mama plane, and a baby plane, Pedro. Pedro ... See full summary »

Director: Hamilton Luske | Star: Fred Shields

Votes: 176

37. La rosa de los vientos (1983)

84 min

Exiled Chilean director Patricio Guzmán filmed in Cuba and in Venezuela to create this controversial statement on the creation and survival of Latin American culture from the late-15th ... See full summary »

Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Patxi Andión, José Antonio Rodríguez, Nelson Villagra, Asdrúbal Meléndez

Votes: 14

38. Great Natural Wonders of the World (2002 TV Movie)

TV-G | 57 min | Documentary

David Attenborough sets out on an intrepid quest across seven continents to create a unique television event to celebrate the wealth of natural features that makes Planet Earth so varied, so distinctive and so spectacularly beautiful.

Star: David Attenborough

Votes: 95

39. Alive: 20 Years Later (1993 Video)

51 min | Documentary

In 1972 an airplane carrying an Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes Mountains, killing many of those on board. After exhausting what little food supply they had, the survivors ... See full summary »

Director: Jill Fullerton-Smith | Stars: Martin Sheen, Laura Canessa, Roberto Canessa, Sergio Catalan

Votes: 80

40. Jungle Flight (1947)

Approved | 67 min | Adventure

Kelly Jordan (Robert Lowery) and Andy Melton (Robert Kent) are former AAF fliers operating a cargo service over the South American mountain ranges in order to get enough money to return to ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Robert Lowery, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Douglas Fowley

Votes: 17

41. Storm Over the Andes (1935)

82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Jack Holt, Antonio Moreno, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart

Votes: 17

42. Flight from Glory (1937)

Approved | 67 min | Drama

This laudable RKO programmer casts Chester Morris as a fearless pilot whose misdeeds have exiled him to a remote flying field in the Andes mountains.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Whitney Bourne, Onslow Stevens, Van Heflin

Votes: 169

43. The Promised Land (1973)

80 min | Drama, History

A socialist epic recounting the struggles of revolutionary Chilean peasants in the 1920s and 1930s.

Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Nelson Villagra, Marcelo Gaete, Rafael Benavente, Shenda Román

Votes: 62

44. Adventures in South America (1946)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short

Narrated travelogue covering the Andes Mountains portion of Bolivia, and three very different areas of Peru, the traditional cities of the Andes Mountains, the modern cities of the coastal plains, and the upper Amazon jungle.

Director: Lewis N. Cotlow | Star: Knox Manning

Votes: 52

45. The Goatherd (2009)

Not Rated | 80 min | Horror

Three friends go hiking for the weekend, but what begins as an innocent walk in the open air becomes the ultimate test of friendship, love and survival.

Director: León Errázuriz | Stars: Luis Dubó, Wil Edgar, Patricia Gonzalez Ciuffardi, Macarena Paz Chacon

Votes: 113

46. Voices of the Andes (2009)

TV-G | 78 min | Documentary, History

A poetic film along the Inca trail.

Director: Stéphane Pachot

Votes: 21

47. Long Road North (2008)

93 min | Documentary, Adventure, Family

This epic journey begins at the most southern tip of Argentina, taking us on a modern day "Motorcycle Diaries" through eighteen countries, along the longest road in the world. From the ... See full summary »

Director: Ian Hinkle

Votes: 12

48. Desafío de los volcanes (2007– )

300 min | Adventure, Sport

Seven days and seven nights, fifty teams from twenty countries worldwide and most amazing volcano's in the Andes.

49. The Ultimate Resource (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 58 min | Documentary

Skilled, spirited and hopeful people are the world's ultimate resource. Meet individuals from around the world whose lives are being transformed from the darkness of poverty through the ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Taylor | Stars: Zanobia Atau, Minara Begum, Vita Corimbi, Allexandrina Juliman de Chavez

50. Shikashika (2008)

10 min | Documentary, Short

Filmed in the Peruvian Andes, this rhythmic portrait documentary reveals the process of making a colorful shave ice called Shikashika. To make it one family must journey afoot to the vast ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen James Hyde