Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore disaster films and people facing large-scale danger.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, action film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, survival film, thriller film
Five years after the impact of interstellar comet Clarke destroyed civilization and most life on Earth, the environment is chaotic, with sudden electromagnetic storms, lingering radioactive fallout, deorbiting fragments of Clarke's debris …
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Natural Disaster, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, drama film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Structural engineer John Garrity lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with his estranged wife, Allison, and their diabetic son, Nathan. He is on the way home to watch the near-earth passing of a recently discovered interstellar comet nicknamed "Clar…
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Drama, disaster film, drama film, survival film
On November 8, 2018, high winds and dry conditions lead a Pacific Gas & Electric transmission line failure to spark the 2018 Camp Fire. Firefighters are unable to contain the blaze from spreading into a massive wildfire, and computer issue…
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Animalhorror, Natural Disaster, Thriller, adventure film, horror film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, survival film, suspense film, thriller film
In the New England beach town of Amity Island, a young woman goes for a late-night ocean swim. An unseen force attacks and pulls her underwater. Her partial remains are found washed up on the beach the next morning.
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Dark Comedy, Satire, Sci-Fi, apocalyptic film, black comedy, comedy film, disaster film, drama film, satire, science fiction film
Kate Dibiasky, a doctoral candidate in astronomy at Michigan State University, discovers a previously unknown comet. Her adviser, Dr. Randall Mindy, confirms that it will collide with Earth in approximately six months and is large enough t…
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Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, adventure science fiction, alien invasion, disaster film, science fiction film, thriller film
On July 2, 1996, an extraterrestrial mothership, entering Earth's orbit outside the Moon, deploys its flying saucers, each in diameter, over major cities worldwide. U.S. Marine Captain Steven Hiller and his unit, the Black Knights fighter …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, vampire film
In 2009, a genetically engineered measles virus designed to cure cancer mutated and killed 90% of the human population, and transformed another 9% into vampiric-zombies known as Darkseekers, who hunt for immune humans at night as they are …
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Family Drama, Forensic, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film
In 1993, Erin Brockovich is an unemployed single mother of three living in Los Angeles, California. After being injured in a car crash with a doctor, she files a lawsuit. Her lawyer, Ed Masry, expects to win, but Erin's explosive courtroom…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Family Drama, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, katastrophe, science fiction film, thriller film
A narrator opens the film stating that extraterrestrials with immense intelligence have grown envious of humanity's dominion of Earth and are plotting against them. Charming but self-absorbed longshoreman Ray Ferrier works as a crane opera…
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Drama, Natural Disaster, disaster film, drama film, thriller film
In December 2004, Dr. Maria Bennett, her husband Henry, and their three sons — Lucas, Thomas, and Simon — go on holiday to Khao Lak, Thailand. Arriving on Christmas Eve, they settle in and begin to enjoy the new Orchid Beach Resort.
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, science fiction film
The planet Cybertron was ravaged by a civil war between two Transformer factions — the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, and the Decepticons, led by Megatron. Both search for a lost artifact called the AllSpark, the source of all Cybertronia…
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Action, Natural Disaster, disaster film
Kate Carter works in Oklahoma with storm chasers Javi, Addy, Praveen, and her boyfriend, Jeb. Alongside a Dorothy V doppler, the team launches barrels of sodium polyacrylate beads into a tornado in hopes of reducing its intensity and secur…
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Action, Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
A massive meteor shower destroys the orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis before entering the atmosphere and extensively damaging New York City. The meteors were pushed out of the asteroid belt by a collision from a rogue asteroid the size of T…
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Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film
On May 10, 1998, in Richmond, Virginia, high school student Leo Biederman observes an unidentified object in the night sky at his astronomy club's star party. His picture is sent to Marcus Wolf, who realizes it is a comet on a collision co…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
After an argument with her fiancé, a young woman named Michelle leaves her New Orleans apartment. That night, while driving through rural Louisiana, she hears news reports of blackouts in several major cities. Suddenly, her car is struck o…
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Natural Disaster, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, Thriller, adventure film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2057, the Sun is dying and Earth is freezing. Eight astronauts aboard the starship Icarus II are sent on a last-chance mission to deliver and detonate a colossal stellar bomb intended to reignite the Sun. As the ship passes Mercury, it …
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Accident, Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film, science fiction film
In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley visits astrophysicist Satnam Tsurutani in Jharkhand, India, and learns that a previously undiscovered type of neutrino from a solar flare is heating the Earth's core. Returning to Washington, D.C…
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Accident, Parodie, Satire, comedy film, disaster film, parody film, romantic comedy film, slapstick
Ex-fighter pilot Ted Striker is a traumatized war veteran turned taxi driver. Because of his pathological fear of flying and subsequent "drinking problem"—he splashes beverages anywhere but into his mouth—Ted has been unable to hold a resp…
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Accident, Drama, Historie, adventure film, disaster film, docudrama, drama film, historical film, survival film
On July 20, 1969, astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a party where guests watch Neil Armstrong's televised first steps on the Moon from Apollo 11. Lovell, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, tells his wife Marilyn that he will return to the Moon to …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
Bum-seok is the police chief of Hope Harbor, a small village consisting mostly of elderly near the Korea Demilitarized Zone. He is called by his second cousin, Sung-ki, to investigate a dead cow with gaping wounds. Sung-ki and his friend g…
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Action, Found Footage, Monster Film, action-adventure film, disaster film, fantasy film, found footage film, kaiju, katastrophe, pseudo-documentary, science fantasy, science fiction action film, thriller film
The footage from a personal camcorder is recovered by the U.S. Department of Defense in the area "formerly known as Central Park", bearing a disclaimer about multiple sightings of a case designated "Cloverfield". On April 27, 2008, Rob Haw…
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Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In New York City's Central Park, people begin committing mass suicide. The event is believed to be caused by a bio-terrorist attack using an airborne neurotoxin. The behavior quickly spreads across the Northeastern United States.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
In 1928, a solitary mountaineer exploring the Karakoram mountains in India encounters a glowing sphere. He loses consciousness and when he wakes, the sphere is gone and there is a scar on his hand. In the present day, a rapidly moving obje…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Hard Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, katastrophe
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist for the NOAA, drills for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf with his colleagues Frank and Jason. A large portion of the ice shelf splits away, but they manage to escape. At a United Nations conference …
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