Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "arctic"

51. Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)

R | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Set in a small town near the North Pole where roads lead to nowhere, the story follows Roman and Lucy, two burning souls who come together to make a leap for life and inner peace.

Director: Kim Nguyen | Stars: Dane DeHaan, Tatiana Maslany, Gordon Pinsent, John Ralston

Votes: 2,167

52. 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: 12,381 | Gross: $10.76M

53. At the Mountains of Madness (I) (2021)

69 min | Horror, Thriller

A group of scientists studying climate change discover untold horrors on a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic in September 1992. Inspired by the H.P. Lovecraft short story.

Director: Matthew Cooper | Stars: Tony Coughlan, Ashe Russell, Gary Geeson

Votes: 38

54. Amundsen (2019)

125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The life and adventures of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the first man to arrive on the South Pole.

Director: Espen Sandberg | Stars: Pål Sverre Hagen, Christian Rubeck, Katherine Waterston, Trond Espen Seim

Votes: 5,004

55. Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007 Video)

Not Rated | 88 min | Animation, Comedy, Musical

Planet Express sees a hostile takeover and Bender falls into the hands of criminals where he is used to fulfill their schemes.

Director: Dwayne Carey-Hill | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille

Votes: 35,558

56. 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: 2,059

57. Eskimo (1933)

Passed | 117 min | Drama

The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Edgar Dearing, Peter Freuchen, Edward Hearn, Lotus Long

Votes: 608

58. Nanook of the North (1922)

Passed | 78 min | Documentary

In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou, Allegoo

Votes: 13,487

59. Born American (1986)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A trio of vacationing American students cross the border from Finland to the USSR during the Cold War and are soon imprisoned after a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Mike Norris, Steve Durham, David Coburn, Thalmus Rasulala

Votes: 2,192 | Gross: $3.39M

60. Thin Ice (2020– )

44 min | Drama, Thriller

A research vessel disappears in the waters off Greenland. Pure coincidence or dirty conspiracy?

Stars: Lena Endre, Bianca Kronlöf, Angunnguaq Larsen, Nukâka

Votes: 1,420

61. The Red Tent (1969)

G | 158 min | Adventure, Drama

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his failed 1928 Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Krüger

Votes: 2,424

62. Long Way North (2015)

PG | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

In 1882, a young Russian aristocrat goes on an epic adventure to find out what happened to her grandfather and save her family's reputation.

Director: Rémi Chayé | Stars: Christa Théret, Féodor Atkine, Thomas Sagols, Rémi Caillebot

Votes: 3,924

63. World War III (1982)

200 min | Drama, Thriller, War

In 1987, Soviet paratroopers drop into Alaska to sabotage the oil pipeline in retaliation against a United States grain embargo. A skirmish occurs at a pumping station, lightly defended by ... See full summary »

Stars: David Soul, Brian Keith, Cathy Lee Crosby, Jeroen Krabbé

Votes: 796

64. Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)

R | 172 min | Drama

The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace.

Director: Zacharias Kunuk | Stars: Natar Ungalaaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Lucy Tulugarjuk

Votes: 6,873 | Gross: $3.79M

65. A Frozen Rooster (2022)

TV-PG | 91 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

The movie centers on Toto's family journeying to the South Pole to return a polar bear and Spanish penguins home, facing obstacles that highlight the value of teamwork along the way.

Directors: Gabriel Riva Palacio Alatriste, Rodolfo Riva Palacio Alatriste | Stars: Bruno Bichir, Maite Perroni, Carlos Espejel, Angélica Vale

Votes: 76

66. Ice Soldiers (2013)

R | 95 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.

Director: Sturla Gunnarsson | Stars: Dominic Purcell, Adam Beach, Gabriel Hogan, Michael Ironside

Votes: 2,930

67. North of the Sun (2012)

46 min | Documentary, Adventure, Sport

Two young men decide to spend an archive circle Norwegian winter in the isolated and uninhabited bay of Norway. Their home is built from salvaged material washed up onshore. They surf every day with much time for self reflection.

Directors: Jørn Nyseth Ranum, Inge Wegge | Stars: Jørn Nyseth Ranum, Inge Wegge

Votes: 1,035

68. Far North (2007)

R | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A soldier's unexpected arrival affects two women's simple existence.

Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec, Sean Bean, Gary Pillai

Votes: 3,246

69. North of North

Comedy | Filming

A young Inuit woman in a tiny Arctic village strives to forge her own path, defying societal expectations and gossip in her tightknit community.

Stars: Anna Lambe, Keira Cooper, Jay Ryan, Mary Lynn Rajskub

70. Spread Your Wings (2019)

113 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Based on the real story of Christian, a specialist on wild goose migrations, and the adventure he and his son embarked.

Director: Nicolas Vanier | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Mélanie Doutey, Louis Vazquez, Frédéric Saurel

Votes: 2,825

71. Terra Nova (2008)

119 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

This dystopia takes place in the near future. The death penalty has been abolished throughout the world. The prisons are overcrowded. International organizations decide to conduct an experiment.

Director: Aleksandr Melnik | Stars: Konstantin Lavronenko, Andrey Feskov, Marat Basharov, Pavel Sborshchikov

Votes: 2,071

72. The Intruder Within (1981 TV Movie)

Unrated | 91 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

Drillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they have accidentally brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature. Chad Everett and Jennifer Warren risk their lives to stop it.

Director: Peter Carter | Stars: Chad Everett, Joseph Bottoms, Jennifer Warren, Rockne Tarkington

Votes: 532

73. Ice Pilots NWT (2009–2014)

Documentary

Ice Pilots NWT is a reality television documentary series that portrays Buffalo Airways, an airline based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Buffalo flies WWII-era propeller planes year-round in the Canadian North.

Stars: Michael Daingerfield, Mikey McBryan, Joe McBryan, Rod McBryan

Votes: 416

74. Archangel (1990)

Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An amnesiac soldier, seeking his lost love, arrives in Archangel in northern Russia to help the townsfolk in their fight against the Bolsheviks, all quite unaware that the Great War ended three months ago.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Michael Gottli, David Falkenberg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod

Votes: 1,638 | Gross: $0.03M

75. Bog (1979)

PG | 86 min | Horror

Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive.

Director: Don Keeslar | Stars: Gloria DeHaven, Aldo Ray, Marshall Thompson, Leo Gordon

Votes: 918

76. A Cold Night's Death (1973 TV Movie)

74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Two scientists suspect that there is someone other than their research primates inhabiting their polar station.

Director: Jerrold Freedman | Stars: Robert Culp, Eli Wallach, Michael C. Gwynne, Vic Perrin

Votes: 1,083

77. Earth (2007)

G | 90 min | Documentary

Feature-length version of the documentary TV series Planet Earth (2006), following the migration paths of four animal families.

Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield | Stars: James Earl Jones, Patrick Stewart, Anggun, Ulrich Tukur

Votes: 14,745 | Gross: $38.05M

78. The White Dawn (1974)

PG | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, History

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.

Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, Louis Gossett Jr., Joanasie Salamonie

Votes: 896 | Gross: $0.40M

79. Chasing Ice (2012)

PG-13 | 75 min | Documentary, Biography

Follow National Geographic photographer James Balog across the Arctic as he deploys time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the world's changing glaciers.

Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang | Stars: James Balog, Svavar Jónatansson, Louie Psihoyos, Kitty Boone

Votes: 8,872 | Gross: $1.33M

80. The Polar Bear King (1991)

PG | 88 min | Family, Adventure, Fantasy

After his father is killed, King Valemon ascends the throne, only to be turned into a polar bear by a bitter witch who wants to be his queen. Valemon must find a bride in the seven year ... See full summary »

Director: Ola Solum | Stars: Jack Fjeldstad, Maria Bonnevie, Tobias Hoesl, Monica Nordquist

Votes: 922

81. Absolute Zero (2006 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A shift in the Earth's polarity plunges the equatorial regions of the planet into an ice age of -459 degrees Fahrenheit; a temperature so cold that energy and light doesn't exist.

Director: Robert Lee | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Erika Eleniak, Bill Dow, Jessica Amlee

Votes: 1,759

82. The Night They Saved Christmas (1984 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Santa's home is threatened when an oil company blasts in the North Pole.

Director: Jackie Cooper | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Art Carney, Paul Le Mat, Mason Adams

Votes: 1,713

83. 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: 1,684

84. Gammera the Invincible (1966)

Unrated | 86 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi

An atomic explosion awakens Gammera--a giant, fire-breathing turtle monster--from his millions of years of hibernation. Enraged at being roused from such a sound sleep, he takes it out on Tokyo.

Directors: Sandy Howard, Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Diane J. Findlay, John Baragrey

Votes: 1,348

85. The Flight of the Eagle (1982)

140 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1897 Swedish engineer S. A. Andrée with 2 colleagues prepares to fly over the North Pole in his balloon "Eagle".

Director: Jan Troell | Stars: Max von Sydow, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Göran Stangertz, Eva von Hanno

Votes: 1,223

86. 200 Proofs Earth Is Not a Spinning Ball (2015 Video)

119 min | Documentary, Comedy, Fantasy

Add a Plot

Stars: Cabbage, Eric Dubay

Votes: 169

87. Deep (II) (2017)

PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

In 2100, when humanity has abandoned the Earth, a colony of extravagant creatures still thrives in the deepest abyss of the ocean. Deep, an adventurous "dumbo" octopus and the last one of ... See full summary »

Director: Julio Soto Gurpide | Stars: Justin Felbinger, Stephen Hughes, Lindsey Alena, Elisabeth Gray

Votes: 1,644

88. The Great Alone (2015)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama

The Great Alone is a feature length independent documentary film that tells the inspiring comeback story of Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey.

Director: Greg Kohs | Stars: Dick Mackey, Lance Mackey

Votes: 465

89. Orions belte (1985)

PG | 87 min | Action, Thriller

A group of seamen from Norway find a Soviet listening station and they become targets for both America and Russia. Another cold war takes place.

Directors: Ola Solum, Tristan de Vere Cole | Stars: Helge Jordal, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Hans Ola Sørlie, Kjersti Holmen

Votes: 2,175

90. Norm of the North: Keys to the Kingdom (2018)

PG | 91 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

When Norm returns to New York, he is falsely accused of a crime and must work with his pals to get the case dismissed while also protecting his kingdom in a winner-take-all hockey tournament.

Directors: Tim Maltby, Lisa Ortiz, Richard Finn | Stars: Andrew Toth, Cole Howard, Maya Kay, Jennifer Cameron

Votes: 945

91. Avalanche (1999)

PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Thriller

A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Kroschel | Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney, R. Lee Ermey, C. Thomas Howell

Votes: 707

92. Deep Freeze (2001)

R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

An Antarctic drilling station is under attack by a mysterious killer. Will anyone survive?

Director: John Carl Buechler | Stars: Götz Otto, Allen Lee Haff, Alexandra Kamp, Karen Nieci

Votes: 982

93. Polar Bear (2022)

PG | 84 min | Documentary

Follows a new mother as she prepares to navigate motherhood in the challenging world that polar bears face today.

Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson | Star: Catherine Keener

Votes: 840

94. Lost in Alaska (1952)

76 min | Adventure, Comedy

Two volunteer firemen rescue a gold prospector from suicide. However, once they discover that the police mistakenly want them for murder, they travel with the prospector to Alaska to help ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mitzi Green, Tom Ewell

Votes: 2,152

95. In Search of Santa (2003 Video)

Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family

A pair of sisters journey to the North Pole to prove that a mysterious sleigh bell belongs to one of Santa's reindeer.

Director: William R. Kowalchuk Jr. | Stars: Hilary Duff, Haylie Duff, Kathleen Barr, Scott McNeil

Votes: 331

96. How I Ended This Summer (2010)

Not Rated | 130 min | Drama

One place. One day. Two men. The place is a polar research station on an island in the Arctic Ocean, inhabited now only by Sergei and Pavel. One day when Sergei is out angling, Pavel picks up a radio message that he daren't communicate.

Director: Alexei Popogrebsky | Stars: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis, Igor Chernevich, Artyom Tsukanov

Votes: 7,003 | Gross: $0.01M

97. Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)

Not Rated | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Music

A collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist.

Director: François Girard | Stars: Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson

Votes: 3,920 | Gross: $1.57M

98. Ordeal in the Arctic (1993 TV Movie)

PG | 96 min | Drama

A Canadian military flight from Greenland to Canada crashes in the frozen arctic, nearby Alert base in Nunavut, and the survivors must endure for 32 hours until rescued.

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Catherine Mary Stewart, Melanie Mayron, Scott Hylands

Votes: 291

99. Ice Sharks (2016 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A group of scientists at a research facility based in the Arctic battle a breed of sharks that have invaded Arctic waters.

Director: Emile Edwin Smith | Stars: Edward DeRuiter, Jenna Parker, Kaiwi Lyman, Clarissa Thibeaux

Votes: 1,455

100. Spy Story (1976)

103 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A British spy is framed, so he must evade the KGB, the CIA and the British Intelligence to reach the the heart of the conspiracy in Arctic.

Director: Lindsay Shonteff | Stars: Michael Petrovitch, Philip Latham, Don Fellows, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 67