Why watch?

Joel Kinnaman plays a guy trapped in the mountains with a gang of criminals, and most of the film is tense survival drama in the snow with raw, concrete scenes and no padding. The cold actually matters to how things play out. If you want something gritty and stripped-down, it delivers.

Who is it for?

Perfect for an evening when you want a tense action thriller that doesn't overthink itself — something you watch and move on. If you liked Escape Plan or similar action-crime hybrids with gritty intensity, this fits that mood. It's brutal with violence and intense action sequences, not for young kids.

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If you liked Icefall because it's a crime thriller that builds tension slowly instead of just throwing action at you, check out White Bear or Cold Graves — they're the same kind of survival-against-nature intensity where you're constantly calculating odds. If the crime and personal stakes angle got you more, Hunt and Head to Head both have that same edge-of-your-seat desperation where nobody's safe and deals fall apart fast.

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Plakat — Icefall

Icefall

2025 · 1h 39min6.3MA 15+
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A young Indigenous game warden arrests an infamous poacher only to discover that the poacher knows the location of a plane carrying millions of dollars that has crashed in a frozen lake. When a group of criminals and dirty cops are alerted to the poacher’s whereabouts, the warden and the poacher team up to fight back and escape across the treacherous lake before the ice melts.

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Annie, a wildlife ranger, stops a poacher on a frozen lake and thinks it's just another day at work — then a ruthless gang shows up looking for money, and suddenly both of them are trapped on ice with nowhere to run. Joel Kinnaman and Cara Jade Myers have to survive against Danny Huston's crew in one of the most exposed, unforgiving settings possible, where one mistake means falling through and drowning. Director Stefan Ruzowitzky turns a frozen lake into a pressure cooker, and the whole thing becomes a cat-and-mouse game where geography itself is the enemy. If you liked Wind River or Sicario — survival thriller with real stakes and killers who mean business.

Why watch?

Joel Kinnaman plays a guy trapped in the mountains with a gang of criminals, and most of the film is tense survival drama in the snow with raw, concrete scenes and no padding. The…

Who is it for?

Perfect for an evening when you want a tense action thriller that doesn't overthink itself — something you watch and move on. If you liked Escape Plan or similar action-crime hybri…

Similar titles

If you liked Icefall because it's a crime thriller that builds tension slowly instead of just throwing action at you, check out White Bear or Cold Graves — they're the same kind of…

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