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Fight to the death in a blizzard
- 1959
- Japan
- 76 min
A Japanese mountain suspense movie by Teruo Ishii starring Ken Utsui. Goro Kasuya is a ski expert who once participated in the Olympic Games when he was a student, but since he lost his fiance in an avalanche, he lives in retirement in the mountains, where he works as a guide. One day Goro meets in a mountain hut, three men who turn out to be jewelry robbers, and who in their flight to escape the police, take him as hostage to lead them in the snowy mountains of Yamagata.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 1980
- France
- 106 min
The poet and writer Luc Decaunes must solve an enigma that is partly located in the Chamonix region. Accompanied by Bernard Golay on stage, he followed the various interviews of the witnesses on television screens. While the son of a great industrialist is threatened with death, strange events are happening in the Grandes Jorasses massif in Chamonix: a thug found dead in a crevasse, a seriously wounded man, crystalliers equipped with dynamite, a lonely climber with a double identity who will be murdered from a helicopter... The 'middle' does not accept the sons of good families who are involved in the crime.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 1996
- Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland
- 93 min
An expert mountaineer meets an attractive young Vietnamese woman who is abused by a despotic former mercenary. Determined to free her, he plans a perfect crime to get rid of that type, preparing an alibi based on the realization in an impossible time of a journey to a mountain shelter. Once his objective is covered, a judge initiates the investigation, suspecting that the mountaineer has something to hide.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 2006
- France
- 90 min
In the sumptuous setting of the Mont Blanc, a family secret in the form of a perfectly conserved body has remained buried deep in the ice for 15 years. Its reappearance will spark off many emotions. Everyone had believed that Bertrand Santini had been living happily abroad all those years. The difficult task of solving the mystery surrounding Bertrand Santini’s death falls to Police Lieutenant Martin Le Kerrec. From false leads to good intuition, from false suspects to true revelations, the young policeman will gently but determinedly untangle the painful secret weighing down on two families who have lived a lie for fifteen years.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 1949
- Poland
- 98 min
Blessed with beautiful landscapes of the Tatra Mountains, this is a thriller drama focused on anti-smuggling action on the border between Poland and Chekoslovaquia. The climber Jasiek was once a smuggler, now, as a soldier of the frontier troops, he serves in his place of origin, in the Tatras. Under the influence of the educational work of his superiors and the love of Halki, he becomes a citizen respectful with the law and helps to thwart the plan of a group of foreign smugglers.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 1961
- Japan
- 87 min
Kuroi gashû - Aru sonan is a drama about alpinism that takes place in Kashima Yarigatake. It was directed by Toshio Sugie in 1961 and produced by Toho. It features Hisaya Itô, Takashi Wada, Kiyoshi Kodama, Kyôko Kagawa, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Bin Amatsu and others.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 2005
- Switzerland
Steinschlag is a drama about rock climbing that takes place in Bernese Alps. It was directed by Judith Kennel in 2005 and produced by Triluna Film AG. It features Mathias Gnädinger, Sandra Utzinger, Andrea Zogg, Vincent Coppey, Lilian Fritz, Patrick Serena and others.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 2011
- UK
- 17 min
When God and the Devil go on a rock climbing weekend in Wales it's down time, a chance to call a temporary truce.But, when they discover Nancy slumped at the bottom of a cliff, old rivalries soon surface when she joins them for a day of adventure.As night falls, they take shelter in a remote abandoned chapel and Nancy begins to feel a creeping sense of the worry about the the two men who introduced themselves as Sid and Sergio.When day breaks she is confronted by the horrific danger of her immediate predicament and the terrifying reality of what her future could hold.Climbing locations
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Höchste gefahr - Einsatz hubschrauber
- 1963
- Germany
- 25 min
Hans Maussner and Toni Kaiser work for the border police in the Bavarian mountains. They chase murderers through the impassable mountainous terrain near Garmisch, set smugglers' gangs, solve thefts, help accident victims and search for missing people. In this episode, Hans and Toni have to rush to the aid of an injured pilot: he is hanging on a rock face with his parachute. The two alpine policemen undertake a dangerous ascent to save the man. Very soon they realize that without the help of a helicopter it is not possible to save the already unconscious man. Alarm in den Bergen (Alarm in the Mountains) was a German thriller television series that was broadcast on ZDF in 1965.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 1963
- Germany
- 25 min
Hans Maussner and Toni Kaiser work for the border police in the Bavarian mountains. They chase murderers through the impassable mountainous terrain near Garmisch, set smugglers' gangs, solve thefts, help accident victims and search for missing people. In this episode, Hans and Toni have been watching for the third week an extreme mountaineer climbing the same peak: the one that forms the border with Austria. They do not yet know that the man is picking up cocaine stored there and handing it over to a stranger in the valley who is part of an international drug ring. Alarm in den Bergen (Alarm in the Mountains) was a German thriller television series that was broadcast on ZDF in 1965.Climbing locations
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Drama / Thriller
- 1947
- Japan
- 89 min
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not realize their guests are wanted criminals and the visitors are treated with great kindness. Honda volunteers to lead them over the mountains, but Eijima's paranoia endangers all of them as they make the perilous trip.Climbing locations
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