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Movies that feel like The Mountain Between Us (2017)

If you loved The Mountain Between Us, the closest films we have are A Royal Affair (2012), Anna Karenina (2012) and Australia (2008). All three share The Mountain Between Us' contemplative and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

🍅 39% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Hany Abu-Assadcontemplativeepicromantictender

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A Royal Affair
2012 · dir. Nikolaj Arcel
🍅 90%7.5drama · history · romance

Both are built on the same subject: doctor

The difference: Reviewed even better

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever.

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Anna Karenina
2012 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 63%6.6drama · romance · history

The same mix in both: stillness, then scale

The difference: Sits closer to history than The Mountain Between Us does

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

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Australia
2008 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
🍅 53%6.6adventure · romance · drama

Both land romance and tenderness at once

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin by Japanese forces firsthand.

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Bajirao Mastani
2015 · dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
🍅 67%7.3history · romance · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Peshwa Bajirao married to Kashibai, falls in love with Mastani, a warrior princess in distress. They struggle to make their love triumph amid opposition from his conservative family.

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Brooklyn
2015 · dir. John Crowley
🍅 97%7.5drama · history · romance

Romance with a pulse of scale, in both cases

In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

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Never Look Away
2018 · dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
🍅 77%7.7drama · romance · history

Both lean on romance more than on adventure

German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regime.

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Attraction
2017 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 36%5.6drama · romance · science fiction

One thread runs through both: survival

After an alien ship crash lands in a Russian city, many who see the inside and the occupants start to question their own existence while others demand the aliens leave Earth.

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The Best of Me
2014 · dir. Michael Hoffman
🍅 12%6.7drama · romance

Tender drama in both cases

The difference: None of the scale The Mountain Between Us is built on

A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.

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Jodhaa Akbar
2008 · dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
🍅 80%7.5romance · history · drama

Romance built on stillness, twice over

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

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Arn: The Knight Templar
2007 · dir. Peter Flinth
6.6action · adventure · drama

Adventure with a pulse of scale, in both cases

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

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Adrift
2018 · dir. Baltasar Kormákur
🍅 70%6.6thriller · romance · adventure

Both keep coming back to the same thing: survival

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Mountain Between Us

Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

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The Wind Rises
2013 · dir. Hayao Miyazaki
🍅 88%7.8animation · drama · history

Drama built on romance, twice over

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

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