Highest-Rated Movies about 'North Pole', Sort by Popularity

The Red Tent (1971), The Bucket List (2007), Long Way North (2015), The Thing from Another World (1951), Elf (2003), The Little Polar Bear (2001), The Polar Express (2004), The Santa Clause (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best North Pole movies.

#2. The Bucket List (2007)

Storyline: Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.

Plot Keywords: cancer patient, billionaire, mechanic, servant, daughter, granddaughter, inspiring ...

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#3. Long Way North (2015)

Storyline: 1882, Saint Petersburg. Sasha, a young Russian aristocrat, has always been fascinated by her grandfather's life as an adventurer. A renowned explorer, he designed a magnificent arctic ship, but he hasn't returned from his last expedition to the North Pole. To save her family's honor, Sasha runs away. Headed towards the Great North, she follows her grandfather's trail in search of his famous ship.—pump11

Plot Keywords: russian, young girl, aristocrat, adventurer, explorer, charming, moving ...

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#4. The Thing from Another World (1951)

Storyline: Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!

Plot Keywords: scientist, captain, journalist, soldier, creature, creepy, thrilling ...

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#5. Elf (2003)

Storyline: Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.

Plot Keywords: son, father, girlfriend, elf, hilarious, new york city, department store ...

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#7. The Polar Express (2004)

Storyline: This is the story of a young hero boy on Christmas Eve who boards on a powerful magical train that's headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus's home. What unfolds is an adventure which follows a doubting boy, who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole; during this ride, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery which shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

Plot Keywords: young boy, santa claus, waiter, conductor, playful, creative, emotional ...

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#8. The Santa Clause (1994)

Storyline: Divorcé Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas - then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group, who claim they're elves, that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food - Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?

Plot Keywords: mother, daughter, horse, man, thrilling, suspenseful, emotional ...

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#9. Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)

Storyline: This is the story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves in the North Pole and becomes Santa Claus. But when Santa's eager-to-please elf Patch leaves the North Pole for the big streets of New York City, he becomes mixed up with a dastardly toy tycoon's plans to take over Christmas. And so begins Santa's adventure - to rescue his faithful elf and to save Christmas for all the children of the world!

Plot Keywords: friend, elf, businessman, wife, toy maker, lighthearted, heartwarming ...

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#10. The Golden Compass (2007)

Storyline: It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--discovered in the vast Arctic expanse of the North--was rumored to possess profound properties that could unite whole universes. But there were those who feared the particle and would stop at nothing to destroy it. Catapulted into the heart of a terrible struggle, Lyra was forced to seek aid from clans, 'gyptians, and formidable armored bears. And as she journeyed into unbelievable danger, she had not the faintest clue that she alone was destined to win, or to lose, this more-than-mortal battle...

Plot Keywords: young girl, mother, father, bear, cowboy, monkey, intricate ...

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#11. Iceman (1984)

Storyline: An anthropologist who is part of an arctic exploration team discovers the body of a prehistoric Neanderthal man who is subsequently resuscitated. The researcher must then decide what to do with the prehistoric man and he finds himself defending the man from those that want to dissect him in the name of science.—K. Rose <rcs@texas.net>

Plot Keywords: anthropologist, scientist, linguist, doctor, emotional, fascinating, touching ...

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#12. Operation Arctic (2014)

Storyline: Julia and her twin siblings Sindre and Ida have moved to a small town with their mother. Desperate to reach their father, who is working in southern Norway, they secretly jump aboard a helicopter flying in his direction. Unfortunately, the helicopter changes its route, and soon they find themselves lost and alone on a deserted island. Now the three are forced to face the epic powers of nature, as both blizzards and hungry polar bears threaten their very existence.

Plot Keywords: young girl, twin, mother, father, animal, pilot, intense ...

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#14. Santa Mesa (2008)

Storyline: Following his mother's death, Hector arrives in Manila to live with his grandmother. Unable to speak Tagalog, Hector falls in with a street gang before a photographer takes him under his wing. Haunted by memories of his mother, Hector photographs an anonymous woman when suddenly, these seemingly disconnected lives collide.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: business woman, santa claus, elf, woman, daughter, father, charming ...

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#15. Last Chance for Christmas (2015)

Storyline: Ewan McGregor is Jesus - and the Devil - in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test.

Plot Keywords: stableman, mother, young girl, reindeer, santa claus, emotional, endearing ...

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