Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore disaster films and people facing large-scale danger.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 446 films · Page 10.
Action, Thriller, disaster film, thriller film
During a flight from Oakland to Minneapolis, passenger Elly Brewster aboard Global Airways Flight 502, a Boeing 707, discovers a bomb threat written in lipstick on the mirror of a first-class bathroom. Captain Hank O'Hara believes it may b…
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Event Documentary
Explores the Fukushima nuclear accident, told through real-time detail with interviews from government advisors, power plant engineers, consultants and journalists, and emergency workers.
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film, kaiju, science fiction film
In the South Seas, a volcano explodes, causing North Pole icebergs to shift. A 200-foot-long praying mantis, trapped in the ice for millions of years, stirs. The personnel at Red Eagle One, a military station in northern Canada that monito…
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Action, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
Cultists with an enigmatic leader (Van Peebles) seize the only man capable of devising a way to stop a giant meteor from hitting the Earth. A female agent (Amis) teams up with a prisoner (Ice-T), who together have three days to rescue the …
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Drama, disaster film
On March 20, 1980, an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale struck Mt. St. Helens, signaling the first signs of volcanic activity there in 123 years.
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Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, prison film
As a passenger ship sails by the bleak ruins of a deserted island, Dr. Kersaint blows his former home a kiss. When a fellow passenger asks him about the place, he tells its tragic story, segueing into a flashback.
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Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
thumb|upright=1.2|James Anderson, Charles Lampkin and Susan Douglas Rubeš in Five Roseanne Rogers trudges from place to place, searching for another living human being. A newspaper headline reports a scientist's warning that detonating a n…
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science fiction film
While reviewing pictures of the planet Jupiter, astronomer Jennifer Dreiser (Joanna Miles) discovers a new comet streaking through space. The joy of finding the comet is short-lived, however, when it is determined that it may hit the Earth…
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Natural Disaster
Chaos rages as dozens of tornadoes descend on the Midwestern United States, forcing the deployment of a specialized scientific team.
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katastrophe
In an unnamed U.S. city near the Canadian border, the corrupt mayor William Dudley has allowed an oil refinery to be built right in the center of town, far from any river, lake, or reservoir. On one typically hot summer day, Herman Stover,…
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Action, Animalhorror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, horror film, independent film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, television film
A group of animal activists, consisting of Dr. Nikki Riley, Gia, and Ben, breaks into a house and steals dozens of exotic pythons before setting them free into the Florida Everglades. Their actions inadvertently cause the snakes to grow in…
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action film, disaster film, katastrophe, thriller
In Stillwater, Utah, Bradshaw Disposal Services is transporting a Russian nuclear bomb slated to be decommissioned. An employee, John Henry Bradshaw, decides to cut operating costs by concealing it in a freight train laden with biomedical …
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Natural Disaster, disaster film
Part 1 The film begins in the Seattle, Washington, area with increasingly severe earthquake activity. A quake of magnitude 7.9 is measured at the Earthquake centre, where Dr. Samantha Hill takes command, displacing Dr.
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Adventure, disaster film, drama film
thumb|left|upright|Myrna Loy as Edwina in The Rains Came The story centers on the redemption of Lady Edwina Esketh. Tom Ransome is an artist who leads a rather dissolute and socially active life in the fictional princely state of Ranchipur…
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science fiction
Astronomer Dr. Lehman (Christopher Lloyd), and his assistant, Imogene O'Neill (Marla Sokoloff), race against time to provide vital information to JPL rocket scientist Dr. Chetwyn (Jason Alexander).
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Natural Disaster, Romance Film, disaster film, drama film, romance film
In the 1920s Charlotte, an American painter, arrives from Boston on the island of Alava to visit her father, U.S. Navy Captain Charles Bruckner, whom she hasn't seen in quite some time. Bruckner is the U.S.
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, disaster film
Four couples gather for a regular brunch which, over the years, has devolved into a gathering fraught with tension and awkwardness. One guest (Glenn) is meeting the others for the first time, on his third date with Tracey, the notoriously …
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Action, Animalhorror, Horror, Monster Film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, drama film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Deep in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an illegal diamond mining operation awakens a giant prehistoric crocodile of 1,500 feet (460m). Meanwhile, on the Atlantic Ocean, the US Navy warship USS Gibson is attacked and sunk by the mega…
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disaster film
TOA airlines flight 502 takes off from New York City to London. At the airport, a bomb threat in the airline's first-class passenger lounge turns out to be an elaborate prank. Safety official Davenport receives a letter explaining that a s…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, horror film, science fiction film
In a secret military laboratory operating under the guise of a pesticide manufacturer, a sealed tube is broken, starting an outbreak of a virulent bacteria. Detecting the release of the biological weapon, Joanie Morse, the plant's security…
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Destiny, disaster film
In February 1988, two pilots in a flight simulator face the challenge of landing a crippled jet that experiences a cabin decompression, an engine fire and a loss of hydraulics. The three simulated emergencies foreshadow the events of Parad…
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disaster film, science fiction film
Starflight, the first hypersonic transport, is being prepared for its maiden flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia. Pilot Cody Briggs is cheating on his wife Janet with Erica Hansen, media-relations representative for Thornwell Avia…
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Natural Disaster, disaster film
Part 1 A minor earthquake in Seattle forms the trigger to a magnitude 10.5 earthquake which destroys San Francisco and then Los Angeles. The earthquake creates fault lines in the sea floor, which in turn creates a massive tsunami which cap…
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Drama, Natural Disaster, disaster film, drama television series
Interweaving stories examine the personal tragedies of several characters. Ian and Susie Carter are a young English couple searching for their six-year-old daughter Martha who was swept away by the tsunami. At the same time, Englishwoman K…
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