Mountainhead

Year: 2025 (May)

Genre:
Drama

Director:
Jesse Armstrong

Stars:
Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, Ramy Youssef, Hadley Robinson, Andy Daly, Ali Kinkade, Daniel Oreskes, David W. Thompson, Amie MacKenzie, Ava Kostia ...

Storyline:
They came for peace... They found a storm inside themselves.

A global economic disaster pushes society into chaos — but for four former friends, the bigger crisis is the one unfolding between them.

Seeking refuge and reconnection, they gather at an old mountain lodge from their youth. But time, distance, and trauma have changed them, and soon, what begins as a quiet reunion becomes a psychological reckoning with regret, buried betrayals, and broken dreams.

The mountain isn’t just where they are.
It’s what they’re still climbing — inside.

Similar movies to Mountainhead

If you appreciate emotionally rich, character-driven ensemble dramas, Mountainhead evokes the spirit of:

The Big Chill (1983) – Reunion, reflection, and lingering tension.

Leave No Trace (2018) – Nature, survival, and emotional distance.

Take Shelter (2011) – Paranoia and societal collapse mirrored through personal unraveling.

💡 Like these, Mountainhead explores what we hold onto when everything else falls away, delivering a haunting meditation on male friendship, economic pressure, and the quiet grief of growing apart.

📌 Final Thoughts

With moody cinematography, nuanced performances, and a timely undercurrent of social collapse, Mountainhead is a quiet storm of a film — a reminder that sometimes the loudest battles happen inside a silence shared by old friends.

The world ended quietly.
But they still had something to say.

Which of these films have you seen? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!