Everest (1998), Touching the Void (2003), Climbing Blind (2020), The Walk (2015), Blindsight (2006), The Conquest of Everest (1953), Beyond the Edge (2013), Non-Stop (2014) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best High Altitude movies.
Storyline: Members of a 1996 expedition cross paths with an ill-fated group while planting scientific equipment and ascending to the summit. Liam Neeson narrates.
Plot Keywords: adventure, mountain climbing, survival, disaster, true story, teamwork, extreme challenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1985 two friends, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, set out to climb Siula Grande in Peru via the West Face, a hitherto unaccomplished feat by any climber. After a tough ascent they succeed but on the descent they run into significant problems. Soon they are both in dire danger and the chances of surviving are slim.—grantss
Plot Keywords: adventure, documentary, survival, mountain climbing, true story, extreme sports, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Acclaimed UK adventure filmmaker Al Lee tells the story of an incredible day in the life of Jesse Dufton. Jesse was born with 20% central vision. At four years of age he was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa: a rare genetic disease that breaks down the retinas' cells, and at age 20 he could no longer read. By his 30s Jesse's vision was reduced to just light perception, with around 1 or 2 % field of view. As a lifelong climber, he flies in the face of adversity and with his sight guide and fiancée Molly sets out on a fantastic challenge - attempting to be the first blind person to make a 'non-sight' lead of the iconic Old Man of Hoy sea stack in Scotland.—Jonny Tull
Plot Keywords: adventure, documentary, mountain climbing, extreme sports, inspirational, disability, blindness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the director of such marvels as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future, Polar Express and Flight, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry, The Walk is true big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoers to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds. The film, a PG-rated, all-audience entertainment for moviegoers 8 to 80, unlike anything audiences have seen before, is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, ...
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, adventure, true story, suspense, thriller, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Six blind Tibetan teenagers, shunned by their culture as sinners or possessed by demons, band together to climb the north side of Mount Everest. With the inspiration of their fiery, blind teacher who fought to establish a Tibetan school for blind children, the teens are guided by Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind mountaineer to have successfully scaled Everest. The climbers suffer through illness, bad weather, and the stark challenge of tackling one of the greatest natural wonders on the planet.
Plot Keywords: adventure, documentary, mountain climbing, blindness, challenge, team, inspirational ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 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.
Plot Keywords: documentary, expedition, history, himalayas, black and white, adventure, nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 - an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.
Plot Keywords: adventure, documentary, history, expedition, new zealand film, true story, extreme challenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bill Marks, a former cop dealing with his daughter's death by drinking, is now a federal air marshal. While on a flight from New York to London, Marks gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is transferred to an offshore account, someone will die every 20 minutes. Can he find the terrorist in time and save everyone?
Plot Keywords: action, thriller, mystery, crime, confined space, serial killer, psychological warfare ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1862, pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) teams up with daredevil balloon pilot Amelia Rennes (Felicity Jones) to advance human knowledge of the weather and fly higher than anyone in history. While their voyage to the very edge of existence helps the unlikely pair find their place in the world, they face physical and emotional challenges in the thin air, as the ascent becomes a fight for survival.
Plot Keywords: adventure, historical, drama, biography, romance, thriller, action ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmaker Nick Ryan uses footage, interviews and re-enactments to piece together events in August 2008 that resulted in the deaths of 11 people on Mount Everest.
Plot Keywords: adventure, documentary, mountain climbing, survival, true story, expedition, tragedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Whilst crossing a ledge, 4000 feet above the earth, Gabe's friend's equipment fails to work and she slips out of his hand, falling to the ground. Almost a year later, Gabe is asked to go back to the same mountain range and rescue a group of 'stranded' people. The only catch is that these so called 'stranded' people are in fact looking for three boxes filled with $100,000,000 and they need a mountain ranger to lead them to them!!
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, mountain climbing, survival, crime, heist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is an art history professor and collector who finances his hobby by performing the odd sanction (assassination) for an obscure government bureau. He is forced to take a case where he must find out which of the members of a mountain climbing team is the Russian killer he has been given as a target by joining an expedition to climb the treacherous Eiger.
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, spy, mountain climbing, 1970s, clint eastwood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin, and now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone. It's a big double-decker plane, so the very concerned mother has a lot of territory to cover in order to find her daughter. She takes matters into her own hands as she fights to discern the truth.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, drama, psychological thriller, aviation, disappearance, mother ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Taylor and Harold are good friends and avid climbers. While climbing one day, they meet a man who it seems might be attempting to climb K2, the world's second-highest peak. Always pushy, Taylor bugs the man for a spot on the team, claiming that he and Harold are good enough. They may be very good, but K2 is a very tough mountain.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: adventure, action, mountain climbing, survival, drama, thriller, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Robert Culp plays Bracken, a rich industrialist whose life seems perfect until his wife, Ellen, and their children are kidnapped by terrorists. After failed attempts by the police to capture the terrorists, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own rescue attempt. James Coburn plays McCabe, Ellen's ex-husband who hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorists' mountain top lair.—Patrick Knightly <pjknight@polsci.umass.edu>
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, crime, kidnapping, rescue, helicopter ...
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