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1. 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: 232,600 | Gross: $43.48M
2. Vertical Limit (2000)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A climber must rescue his sister on the peak of K2, the second highest mountain in the world .
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Scott Glenn, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney
Votes: 65,389 | Gross: $69.24M
3. 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: 22,358 | Gross: $1.53M
4. 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: 38,123 | Gross: $4.59M
5. A Lonely Place to Die (2011)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A group of mountaineers in the Scottish Highlands discover a kidnapped girl and are pursued by her captors.
Director: Julian Gilbey | Stars: Alec Newman, Ed Speleers, Melissa George, Kate Magowan
Votes: 30,723
6. 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: 4,825
7. Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A dramatization of the disastrous 1996 Mount Everest expeditions.
Director: Robert Markowitz | Stars: Peter Horton, Nathaniel Parker, Richard Jenkins, Christopher McDonald
Votes: 1,746
8. Everest (1998)
Unrated | 44 min | Documentary, Short
An international team of climbers ascends Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996. The film depicts their lengthy preparations for the climb, their trek to the summit, and their successful return... See full summary »
Directors: David Breashears, Stephen Judson, Greg MacGillivray | Stars: Liam Neeson, Lhakpa Dorji, Dorje Sherpa, Ed Viesturs
Votes: 3,397 | Gross: $87.18M
9. 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: 1,331 | Gross: $0.20M
10. Nanga Parbat (2010)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Drama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier | Stars: Florian Stetter, Andreas Tobias, Karl Markovics, Steffen Schroeder
Votes: 1,922
11. The Quest: Everest (2024)
97 min | Documentary | Completed
'THE QUEST: Everest' Documentary is an extraordinary quest to deeper understand and climb the most legendary mountain in the world, while revealing the remarkable culture, history and ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Harz | Stars: Alex Harz, Russell Brice, Erlend Ness, Gulnur Tumbat
12. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical
A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart
Votes: 2,643
13. 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: 1,255 | Gross: $0.70M
14. 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: 1,476
15. 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
16. 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: 648
17. Blind Husbands (1919)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Votes: 1,695
18. Tout ça... pour ça! (1993)
PG-13 | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Marie, a young lawyer, leaves with her husband Fabrice and a couple of friends, Francis and Alessandra. They are engaged in a dangerous sentimental game together, from which their relations will not come out unseemly.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Marie-Sophie L., Francis Huster, Fabrice Luchini, Alessandra Martines
Votes: 817
19. Camp Courage (2023)
PG | 33 min | Documentary, Short, War
In this documentary, a girl displaced by the war in Ukraine heads to a summer camp in the Alps with her grandmother, testing the limits of her bravery.
Director: Max Lowe | Stars: Milana Abdurashytova, Amit Oren
Votes: 199
20. Our Everest Challenge with Ben Fogle & Victoria Pendleton (2018 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary, Adventure
Ben and Victoria are tested to their physical and mental limits as they attempt to scale the world's highest mountain.
Director: Mark Fisher | Stars: Sundeep Dhillon, Mark Fisher, Kenton Cool, Ben Fogle
Votes: 27
21. Piker's Peak (1957)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
In the Alps Bugs and Yosemite Sam vie for 50,000 Cronkites, the prize for the who "climbs the Schmatterhorn."
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 411
22. THE QUEST: Nepal (2022)
70 min | Documentary
'THE QUEST: Nepal' is like combining Werner Herzog with Anthony Bourdain and a bit of Bear Grylls on an extraordinary Quest to deeper understand and climb the most iconic mountain in the ... See full summary »
Director: Alex Harz | Stars: Hanuman Baba, Russell Brice, Mike Hamill, Alex Harz
Votes: 68
23. The Mystery Mountain Project (2021)
76 min | Documentary
In 1926, a young couple set off into the British Columbia wilderness in search of an undiscovered mountain. A century later a group of would-be adventurers tries to retrace their steps. ... See full summary »
Director: Greg Gransden
Votes: 47
24. Steep (I) (2007)
PG | 92 min | Documentary, Sport
Steep traces the legacy of extreme skiing from its early pioneers to the daredevils of today.
Director: Mark Obenhaus | Stars: Ingrid Backstrom, Anselme Baud, Bill Briggs, Doug Coombs
Votes: 696 | Gross: $0.26M
25. Before Everest (2020)
92 min | Documentary, History
After damning comments by Edmund Hillary in his autobiography, the filmmaker investigates the life of his father, mountaineer Earle Riddiford, the man who got Hillary to Everest.
Director: Richard Riddiford | Stars: Anna Riddiford, Tom Scott
Votes: 12
26. Beyond the Peak
71 min | Documentary | Completed
Beyond the Peak is a spiritual mountain climbing documentary that follows David, a man on a mission to climb a mountain in memory of his recently deceased brother, which only becomes the first step of a more profound journey.
Director: Aleksandar Jovic | Stars: Michael Rayman, Dragan Petrovic, Ranko Radlovic, Branka Rayman-Rajkovic
27. 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
28. Tsurugidake: Ten no ki (2009)
139 min | Adventure, Drama
In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.
Director: Daisaku Kimura | Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryûhei Matsuda, Yukiyoshi Ozawa
Votes: 220
29. The Grand Rescue (2014)
Documentary, Adventure
The Grand Rescue is a story about a rescue that became legend. In 1967, on the North Face of the Grand Teton, seven rescuers risked their lives to save a severely injured climber and his ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Kerig, Meredith Lavitt Williams, Jenny Wilson | Stars: Andy Bardon, Gaylord Campbell, Lorrie Hough, Bob Irvine
Votes: 10
30. Facing the Void (2020)
52 min | Documentary
In the collective imagination, mountaineering is seen as an elitist and dangerous activity. When the mainstream press talks about mountaineering, it is generally to relate a drama or an ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Brulard
Votes: 23
31. Touching the Void: Return to Siula Grande (2004 Video)
24 min | Documentary, Short
The story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' return to the mountain of Siula Grande for the making of the film 'Touching The Void'.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Brian Hall, Richard Hawking, Kevin Macdonald, Joe Simpson
Votes: 179
32. The Mountain Runners (2012)
90 min | Documentary
The Mountain Runners is the story of America's first mountain endurance/adventure foot race, which took place in Bellingham, Washington. First run in 1911, the grueling 28 to 32 mile race ... See full summary »
Directors: Todd Warger, Brian Young | Stars: Michael Bart, Sandy Brewer, Brian Brunkow, William B. Davis
Votes: 59
33. Icefall Doctors (2023– )
Documentary
A broad look at the working lives and families of Mt. Everest's Icefall Doctors, who each climbing year manage the route through the perilous Khumbu Icefall to ensure Western mountaineers have an opportunity to reach the top of the world.
Stars: Ang Kami Sherpa, Angnima Sherpa, Samdo Sherpa
34. Climbing Blind (2020)
81 min | Documentary
Blind climber Jesse Dufton's ascent of the Old Man of Hoy.
Director: Alastair Lee | Stars: Jesse Dufton, Neil Gresham, Leo Houlding, Alastair Lee
Votes: 110
35. Found on Everest (2001 Video)
91 min | Documentary
You hold in your hands the inside story of he 2001 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition. 'Found On Everest' documents in vivid detail the daily struggles facing this team of elite ... See full summary »
Director: Riley Morton | Stars: Dave Hahn, Tap Richards, Eric Simonson, Jason Tanguay
36. Vertikal (1966)
77 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A group of alpinists make a perilous journey up a mountain.
Directors: Boris Durov, Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Margarita Kosheleva, Gennadi Voropayev, Aleksandr Fadeyev, Georgi Kulbush
Votes: 608
37. Eiger: Wall of Death (2010 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, History, Sport
The documentary explores its history and includes testimony from people who have climbed its forbidding slopes and those who live in its shadow.
Director: Steve Robinson
Votes: 45
38. Living Earth (2013)
45 min | Documentary
Africa - a sparkling jewel, a continent full of life between the Indian and Atlantic Ocean. Over a length of more than 3,500 kilometers stretches one of the most fascinating geological ... See full summary »
Director: Elias Danner | Stars: Ashley Adler, Obadia Jackson, Gudluk Mariki Juma, Sadiki Kombe
Votes: 8
39. Hobnails and Hemp Rope (2016)
25 min | Short
A group of amateur climbers set out to re-enact one of the most daring feats in Canadian mountaineering history - the 1916 ascent of Bugaboo Spire in British Columbia's Purcell Mountain ... See full summary »
Director: Greg Gransden | Stars: Natalia Danalachi, Robert Le Blanc, Garry Reiss, Bryan L.M. Thompson
40. Annapurna (1953)
56 min | Documentary
This documentary was released in France 1953 only 8 weeks before Tenzing and Hillary conquered Mount Everest. The first 8,000 m peak to be climbed was the Annapurna I, three years earlier ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Ichac | Stars: Jean Couzy, Francis de Noyelle, Maurice Herzog, Marcel Ichac
Votes: 12
41. Psycho Vertical (2017)
64 min | Documentary
Based on his best-selling autobiography, Psycho Vertical is a study of the complex life and motivations of British writer, funny-man and unlikely hero-mountaineer, Andy Kirkpatrick, woven into an 18-day solo ascent of El Capitan, Yosemite.
Director: Jen Randall | Star: Andy Kirkpatrick
Votes: 14
42. Sentinel: The West Face (1967)
29 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
A breath-taking record of two mountain climbers scaling the west face of Sentinel Rock, a 7,000 foot peak in Yosemite National Park.
Director: Roger C. Brown | Stars: Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Barry Corbet
43. Elbrus (2016)
66 min | Documentary, Adventure, History
Embark on a journey to the North Caucasus and its legendary Mont Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe (5642 meters). Through this adventure, Lucas Swieykowski and Thibaud Duchosal will soon ... See full summary »
Director: Laurent Jamet | Stars: Thibaud Duchosal, Lucas Swiekowski
45. The Making of 'Touching the Void' (2003 TV Movie)
23 min | Documentary
Directors: Bruno de Almeida, Zetna Fuentes | Stars: Nicholas Aaron, Kevin Macdonald, Brendan Mackey, Joe Simpson
Votes: 42
46. Encordades (2011)
Documentary
Through personal testimonies and archival footage, this documentary takes a journey through the history of women in mountaineering and climbing in Spain
Director: Gerard Montero
Votes: 10
47. Myanmar: Bridges to Change (2014)
44 min | Documentary, Short, Action
In August 2013 a group of 7 climbers, 5 Americans and 2 Burmese climbers, traveled to northern Myanmar to make a first ascent of Southeast Asia's disputed highest peak. All told, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Eric Daft, Mark Fisher
Votes: 33
48. Kilimandscharo: diesmal mit Krücken (2022)
108 min | Documentary
After an accident with a para glider, Mountaineer Thomas Lämmle ended up in a wheelchair - with the suspicion to never be able to walk again. He started training hard and set himself a goal: to climb his beloved Kilimanjaro once again.
Director: Michael Scheyer | Star: Thomas Laemmle
49. Rock Queen (1998)
50 min | Documentary
Catherine Destivelle's first solo ascent of The Old Man of Hoy, Europe's tallest rock stack.
Director: Martin Belderson | Stars: Catherine Destivelle, Gavin Crowther, Jim Curran, Dave Cuthbertson
50. Guido che sfidò le Brigate Rosse (2007)
102 min | Crime, Drama
The story of trade unionist Guido Rossa, killed in 1979 by Riccardo Dura, a member of the Red Brigades.
Director: Giuseppe Ferrara | Stars: Massimo Ghini, Anna Galiena, Gianmarco Tognazzi, Elvira Giannini
Votes: 50