Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore disaster films and people facing large-scale danger.
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disaster film, science fiction film
Stuart and his girlfriend Jennifer Russell come to the town to visit her hospitalized mother Margaret. The couple begin to notice increasingly odd behavior by several of the townspeople. Although Stuart drinks the local milk, Jennifer does…
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Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
In a post-apocalyptic future, human survivors are fighting a group of mutant monsters they refer to as "gargoyles". Two of these survivors Michael and John are out surveying the world after a chemical or biological attack which left a larg…
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Christmas film, Natural Disaster, science fiction film
A meteorite splits and one piece lands on a car in the small town of Lennox; the other piece in the mountains outside town. The town begins to progressively flash freeze, and the effect spreads outward at an alarming rate. Charlie Ratchet,…
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Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film
While Dori Thorell (Sharon Lawrence) and her 9-year-old son, Danny (Michal Suchánek), eat breakfast, Sam Thorell (Garwin Sanford) calls from his business trip. Ballerina Diane Agostini (Jennifer Garner) is on the phone with her father when…
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Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, historical film, musical film
In 1854, the O'Leary family are traveling to Chicago to start a new life when Patrick O'Leary tries to race a steam train in his wagon. He is killed when his wagon hits a bump and his horses break loose, dragging him. His wife Molly and th…
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Accident, Drama, disaster film
disaster film, documentary film
In May 1915, the RMS Lusitania departs New York City on a transatlantic voyage to Liverpool during World War I. Among the passengers are American publisher Charles Lauriat, wealthy art collector and nationalist Sir Hugh Lane, and socialite…
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Natural Disaster, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, science fiction film
When a massive tectonic shift triggers a tsunami capable of swallowing whole continents, the military creates an ark capable of holding only 50,000 people and the DNA of every species possible while the storm consumes most of the world.
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Action, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film
Following the events in Category 6: Day of Destruction, the superstorm that hit Chicago is continuing to grow in size and strength, with tornadoes hitting Paris and destroying the Eiffel Tower. Judith Carr, the new head of FEMA, struggles …
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disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
Chicago air traffic controller Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland) was cleared of liability for an ill-fated flight under his authority which resulted in the loss of Transair flight 290, a Lockheed L-1011 with all 174 souls aboard. He subseque…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
NASA Professor Andrew Boran is a research scientist who discovers strange radio signals in outer space that appear to originate from Earth. The signals seem to predict natural disasters that are occurring around the globe. When he and his …
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Drama Documentary
In 2055, the world has been ravaged by catastrophic climate change; London is flooded, Sydney is burning, Las Vegas has been swallowed up by desert, the Amazon rainforest has burnt up, snow has vanished from the Alps, and nuclear war has l…
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Thriller, disaster film, katastrophe
Brad (Rory Cochrane), an out-of-work musician, is home by himself one morning while his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack), is at work. He hears on the radio that several suspected dirty bombs have been detonated across Los Angeles, and sees larg…
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Adventure, Drama, drama film
A Douglas DC-2, from a tiny South American airline, is piloted by Captain Bill Lonagan and co-pilot Joe Brooks, bound for Boca Grande. The passengers are: Jud Ellis, a man of privilege escorting his new fiancée Louise Melhorn; repentant po…
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Adventure, Drama, disaster film, drama film, epic film
In the time of Jesus Christ, blacksmith Marcus is content with his life, beautiful wife Julia and six-month-old son Flavius. When Julia and their child are run down by a chariot in the streets of Pompeii, Marcus spends the little money he …
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Drama, Natural Disaster, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, horror film
Set in the rural Pacific Northwest, a mysterious character named Silas Hendershot takes refuge from a severe thunderstorm in a farm owned by Tom and Gillian Grady. He claims that he should stay and that they should watch after each other. …
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy horror film, disaster film, horror film, independent film, katastrophe, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
A tugboat pulling a huge iceberg arrives at a port in Alexandria, Egypt, when suddenly, the iceberg shatters and releases a megalodon from suspended animation. The Mega Shark begins its reign of terror by flipping the tugboat to the air un…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Military Film, action film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film
An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the Richter Scale splits California into an island with a perpetual dustcloud hanging over it. The survivors of the terrible ordeal have started to come together in the shape of Nick Preston (Dolph Lundgren) …
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Animalhorror, Horror, Sci-Fi, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film
Two people on dirt bikes are riding on the beach, but are then attacked by a predator in the sand. Meanwhile, Jimmy Green (Corin Nemec) the son of the Mayor (Edgar Allan Poe IV) of the small island town of White Sands returns home to throw…
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disaster film, science fiction film
Late one night, near Billings, Montana, a meteoroid suddenly impacts the ground in front of an oncoming tanker truck. The driver attempts to swerve out of the way but loses control and crashes, causing a massive fire. The following morning…
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disaster film, science fiction film
Alba is a 20-year-old girl who lives with her father of English origin in a farmhouse in a place near the city of Lleida. They have lived there for eighteen months, after Alba's mother died of cancer in London and her father's decision to …
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Drama, disaster film, katastrophe
On the flight of Maiden 1, the first American supersonic transport, Captain Jim Walsh is the assigned pilot on an attempt to set a world speed record from New York to Paris. The flight crew includes the flight engineer, stewardess Mae and …
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Drama, drama film
A Liverpool-bound train departs from Euston station in London in the period immediately after World War II. After dark, the train is travelling north at speed when a lantern being waved by the trackside is seen by the driver. He applies th…
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disaster film