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1. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
PG | 88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
The world-famous singing preteen chipmunk trio return to contend with the pressures of school, celebrity, and a rival female music group known as The Chipettes.
Director: Betty Thomas | Stars: Jason Lee, Zachary Levi, David Cross, Justin Long
Votes: 54,497 | Gross: $219.61M
2. Cold Skin (2017)
TV-14 | 108 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A young man arrives at a remote island to take a post of weather observer only to find himself defending the watchtower from deadly creatures which live in the island shores.
Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Ray Stevenson, David Oakes, Aura Garrido, Winslow M. Iwaki
Votes: 18,036
3. Frozen Planet (2011–2012)
TV-PG | 33 min | Documentary
Focuses on life and the environment in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
Stars: David Attenborough, Alec Baldwin, Chadden Hunter, Michael Kelem
Votes: 32,977
4. The Deadly Mantis (1957)
Approved | 79 min | Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
A giant prehistoric praying mantis, recently freed from the Arctic ice, voraciously preys on American military at the DEW Line and works its way south.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, Donald Randolph
Votes: 4,101
5. Winged Migration (2001)
G | 89 min | Documentary
Documentary on the migratory patterns of birds, shot over the course of three years on all seven continents.
Directors: Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats | Stars: Jacques Perrin, Philippe Labro
Votes: 12,367 | Gross: $10.76M
6. The Land Unknown (1957)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Three men and a woman crash-land in a deep crater in Antarctica, where they find a prehistoric world.
Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Shirley Patterson, William Reynolds, Henry Brandon
Votes: 2,045
7. Penguins (2019)
G | 76 min | Documentary, Family
A coming-of-age story about an Adélie penguin named Steve who joins millions of fellow males in the icy Antarctic spring on a quest to build a suitable nest, find a life partner and start a family.
Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson, Mark Linfield | Star: Ed Helms
Votes: 1,862 | Gross: $7.70M
8. Antarctica (1983)
G | 143 min | Adventure, Drama
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there.
Director: Koreyoshi Kurahara | Stars: Ken Takakura, Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Masako Natsume
Votes: 1,767
9. Ice on Fire (2019)
TV-PG | 88 min | Documentary
Can we reverse climate change? Ice on Fire explores the many ways we reduce carbon inputs to the atmosphere and, more important, how to "draw" carbon down, bringing CO2 out of the ... See full summary »
Director: Leila Conners | Stars: Raymond Baltar, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ottmar Edenhofer, Linwood Gill
Votes: 1,680
10. Haute Cuisine (2012)
PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Comedy
The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
Director: Christian Vincent | Stars: Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d'Ormesson, Hippolyte Girardot
Votes: 6,863 | Gross: $0.21M
11. 200 Proofs Earth Is Not a Spinning Ball (2015 Video)
119 min | Documentary, Comedy, Fantasy
Stars: Cabbage, Eric Dubay
Votes: 170
12. Hell Below Zero (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The captain of an Antarctic whaling ship falls overboard in mysterious circumstances and his daughter, aided by a sympathetic American, decides to investigate the accident.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Alan Ladd, Joan Tetzel, Basil Sydney, Stanley Baker
Votes: 548
13. Pole to Pole (1992– )
50 min | Adventure, Documentary
Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole.
Stars: Michael Palin, Neil Hardwick, Lasse Lehtinen, Graham Hancock
Votes: 1,427
14. Revisioned: Tomb Raider (2007)
6 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The animated adventures of Lara Croft, a famous sexy no-nonsense British aristocrat, who's an expert in the field of tomb raiding. Most episodes are inspired by various popular animation styles ranging from Looney Tunes to Æon Flux.
Stars: Minnie Driver, Jonathan Lipow, Peta Johnson, JB Blanc
Votes: 161
15. The Great White Silence (1922)
80 min | Documentary
In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
Director: Herbert G. Ponting | Stars: Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans
Votes: 1,680
16. Frost Giant (2010 TV Movie)
88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A dedicated explorer and his team search for a 19th century shipwreck off an island in the Arctic ocean. After the team digs up an alien ice creature that has been buried in the ice for ... See full summary »
Director: Víctor Garcia | Stars: Dean Cain, Steven Waddington, Lucy Brown, Louisa Clein
Votes: 957
17. Penguins (2012)
PG | 77 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Rex, a young King Penguin, has been away from his home for three years, learning to hunt in the deep oceans, but now he's back - in Penguin City. His mission: to find a mate, settle down and raise a chick - to become a true Penguin King.
Directors: Anthony Geffen, Sias Wilson | Star: Tim Allen
Votes: 83
18. The Jungle Bunch: The Movie (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 58 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
At the South Pole, the walruses install a rule of terror for the penguins. Tommy and his sister travel to the Equator, where legend says a jungle 'penguin warrior' and his six companions ... See full summary »
Directors: David Alaux, Eric Tosti | Stars: Michel Mella, Emmanuel Curtil, Paul Borne, Laurent Morteau
Votes: 667
19. The Thing (2002 Video Game)
M | Action, Horror, Mystery
You play the part of a military team sent to investigate what happened at U.S. Outpost 31, and must face the Thing yourself.
Stars: Per Solli, Michael J. Shea, Kevin Alan Moore, Jesse O'Connell
Votes: 755
20. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Zinco Epilogue (2008 Video)
6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Sinister Mr. Zinco locates the remains of undead nazi assassin Kroenen from the first movie, as well as a lost Nazi base at Antarctica. However, he's tricked by Rasputin.
Directors: Brooke Burgess, Shant Jordan | Stars: Michael Dobson, John Fitzgerald, Adam Fulton, Brooke Burgess
Votes: 554
21. Quick, Before It Melts (1964)
97 min | Comedy
A reporter and a photographer become entwined with women, marriage, and a defecting Russian scientist while on an expedition to Antarctica for their magazine.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, James Gregory
Votes: 120
22. Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001)
40 min | Documentary, Short
Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure is a giant-screen film that tells the dramatic true story of explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's now-legendary 1914-1916 British Imperial Trans-Antarctic ... See full summary »
Director: George Butler | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Conrad Anker, Iain Fraser, Michael Gambon
Votes: 486 | Gross: $0.16M
23. Love Doll Report: An Adult Toy (1975)
72 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Softcore Roman Porno film about a scientist who creates a female sex robot for lonely researchers in the Antarctic and becomes obsessed with his student who looks like her.
Director: Chûsei Sone | Stars: Maya Hiromi, Nobutaka Masutomi, Naomi Oka
Votes: 16
24. Donald's Penguin (1939)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Admiral Byrd ships Donald a penguin from the South Pole. Donald is amused by it, until he thinks it has eaten his goldfish. It hasn't - yet - so Donald gets a fish from the fridge to make ... See full summary »
Director: Jack King | Stars: Louis Manley, Clarence Nash, Tootsie
Votes: 672
25. To the Ends of the Earth (1983)
105 min | Documentary
The story of the three year expedition led by British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, which ended in August 1982, and which was man's first and only land and sea voyage around the world ... See full summary »
Director: William Kronick | Stars: Ranulph Fiennes, Ginny Fiennes, Richard Burton, King Charles III
Votes: 31
26. Antarctic Voyage (2024)
48 min | Documentary, Adventure | Completed
"Antarctic Voyage" is a documentary from award-winning filmmaker Kevin Schreck ("Persistence of Vision," "Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen") about a biological research expedition... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Schreck | Star: Samantha Monier
27. Nankyoku tairiku: Kami no ryouiki ni idonda otoko to inu no monogatari (2011– )
Adventure, Drama
Set in the 1950's, a Japanese Antarctic research exploration team and 19 dogs that accompanied the team are stationed at the Showa Base in Antarctica. After a year, the exploration team is ... See full summary »
Stars: Takuya Kimura, Haruka Ayase, Masato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa
Votes: 289
28. Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica (2007 TV Movie)
85 min | Drama
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is one of the most amazing feats of physical and mental endurance of all time. After an horrific journey across hundreds of kilometres of ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm Mcdonald | Stars: William McInnes, Tim Jarvis, Philip Ayres, Haakon Berg
Votes: 12
29. Shackleton and Scott: Rivals for the Pole (2001 Video)
53 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Shackleton and Scott were men with a common goal: the South Pole. However, divisions between them grew as jealousy and intrigue intensified their rivalry. The consequence of their polar ... See full summary »
Directors: John Murray, Donnacha O'Briain | Stars: Caroline Alexander, Ranulph Fiennes, David Hempleman-Adams, Diana Preston
30. Cabo de Hornos (1956)
100 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Antonio, a whale ship captain, has an affair with a woman who runs away convinced that her ill fate will fall upon him. He is sent to Cabo de Hornos, picking the ship owner and his wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Tito Davison | Stars: Jorge Mistral, Silvia Pinal, Eugenio Retes, Myriam Thorud
Votes: 31
31. Durch die Heimat des Eises und der Stürme (1990)
130 min | Documentary, Adventure
In 1989, the German polar explorer Arved Fuchs and the South Tyrolean mountaineer Reinhold Messner set out together to reach the South Pole on skis without sled dogs or motorized technology... See full summary »
Stars: Reinhold Messner, Arved Fuchs
32. South of Sanity (2012)
R | 90 min | Horror
One Antarctican winter isolated from the rest of the world, but not from eachother.
Directors: Mathew Edwards, Kirk Watson | Stars: Jonny Yates, Riet Van de Velde, Tony McLaughlan, Matt Von Tersch
Votes: 92
33. Dr. Mawson in the Antarctic (1913)
68 min | Documentary
Director: Frank Hurley | Stars: Douglas Mawson, Xavier Guillaume Mertz, Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis
Votes: 22
34. Escape from Antarctica: On the Trail of Shackleton (1999 Video)
54 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
A team of Irish adventurers attempts to follow in the footsteps of Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton, who, in 1914, tried to cross the polar continent.
Directors: Donnacha O'Briain, Mick O'Rourke | Stars: John Murray, Donagh Deeney, Mike Barry, Paddy Barry
35. Snow Animals (2019 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Nature documentaries presenter Liz Bonnin shows the various tactics animals use to survive in some of the coldest places on Earth.
Director: Simon Baxter | Star: Liz Bonnin
Votes: 52
36. The Official Film of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition (1949)
68 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Frank Hurley | Stars: Douglas Mawson, Xavier Guillaume Mertz, Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis
37. Siege of the South (1931)
86 min | Documentary
Director: Frank Hurley | Stars: Frank Hurley, Douglas Mawson, Stuart Alexander Caird Campbell, J.B. Child
38. Conquest (1928)
75 min | Drama
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank. One of the pilots is injured and the other ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Monte Blue, H.B. Warner, Lois Wilson, Edmund Breese
39. 2k3 (2009)
84 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
NYC Chinatown. A young pregnant couple battle parental anxieties and prophetic visions in the summer of 2003, a fever dream of Orange Alerts and SARS scares.
Meg and Noah are the begrudging ... See full synopsis »
Director: Gray Miller | Stars: Marin Gazzaniga, Anslem Richardson, Stephen Nicholson, Jennifer Clark
Votes: 19
40. Terra Nova (1984 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama
Director: John Bruce | Stars: Michael Harbour, Knut Husebø, Kate Fahy, Shaughan Seymour
41. Antarctica: The Frozen Time (2021 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary, History
When the polar lights of summer cover the ice landscape, the animals in the Antarctic are in a paradise. Whales blow their meter-high fountains towards the sky, penguins fly like small ... See full summary »
Directors: Tuan Lam, Yves Simard | Stars: Romanus Fuhrmann, Patricia Mouton
Votes: 17
43. Blue Ice (1954)
30 min | Short
A record of the 1954 Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition, which relieved the scientific stations at Macquarie and Heard Islands and established a new station at Mawson on ... See full summary »
Director: Phillip Garth Law | Star: James Dibble
44. The Last Husky (1993 Video)
54 min | Documentary, Adventure
Director: Chris Hilton | Stars: Guy Blackmore, Phillip Hinton
45. Antarctica 1948 (1949)
24 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
This black-and-white film was made as a record of operations of the Australian National Research Expedition to Antarctica, from November 1947 to April 1948. It follows the journeys of two ... See full summary »
Stars: Phillip Garth Law, Fritz Loewe, Stuart Campbell, Alan Campbell-Drury
46. The Mawson Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913 (2011 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
A reconstruction of two lectures given by Sir Douglas Mawson between 1914-1916 of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913. Using a combination of film and lantern slides of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Vincent Plush, Andrew Pike
47. Thin Ice VR (2021)
20 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Thin Ice VR is a 20-minute historical re-creation documentary VR experience presented by Tim Jarvis AM.
Director: James Calvert | Stars: Tim Jarvis, Craig Behenna, Jeff Lang, Mark Saturno
48. Mawson: Science and Survival (2012 TV Special)
53 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
'Mawson: Science and Survival' is the epic and relatively untold story of one of the Antarctic's most incredible stories of survival - the remarkable ill-fated trek of Douglas Mawson in ... See full summary »
Stars: Jack Thompson, Geoff Moxham, Douglas Mawson, Quentin Bryce
49. Douglas Mawson and Edgar P. Waite: Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1913 (1967)
17 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
[Shot List:] Ship at a wharf, huts in background, furry animal(?) on board, freight on deck, 'Aurora' on stern, ship departs from dock, shots on board, men climb mast rigging, 3 mast ship ... See full summary »
Director: John Heyer
50. Sir Hubert Wilkins: Polar Explorer and Aviator (2015)
37 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
The true and extraordinary life of Hubert Wilkins. He was compared to Lawrence of Arabia by Australian General John Monash who said he was "the bravest man I have ever seen".
Stars: Brian Hernan, Hubert Wilkins