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Action, Adventure, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
Renegade soldier Colonel Ryan Beckett (Mark Dacascos) is called in by the President of the United States (Rutger Hauer) to save the planet from imminent destruction after a Chinese nuclear-testing accidentally loosens the subterranean plat…
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action film, disaster film, drama film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Atlantic (1929) Atlantic is a drama film based on the sinking of the and set aboard a fictional ship, called the Atlantic. The main plotline revolves around a group of friends; a man named Mr. Tate Hughes who has a shipbo…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film
On August 23, 1992, Air Force General James Roberts leads a top-secret weather experiment off the coast of Florida. They use a cargo plane to launch a generator into the developing storm to enhance its power. The plane is destroyed by a li…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Zombiefilm, action film, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
A group of mercenaries led by Maj. Max Gatling are fleeing from a failed rescue attempt, having been hired by a rich industrialist to enter a zombie-infested city to rescue his daughter Jude. At the extraction point, Gatling tells the othe…
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Animation, Drama, High School Comedy Film, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Dash and his best friend Assaf are sophomores at Tides High School, a school located at a cliff edge above a fault line. The friends write as a team for the school newspaper, edited by mutual friend Verti. But one day Verti assigns Assaf t…
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disaster film
The film is set on Interstate 5 in California on the date of July 4, 24 hours before the summer vacation will officially commence. From the beginning, California Highway Patrol sergeant Sam Marcum (Robert Conrad) announces in a voice-over …
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comedy drama, disaster film, science fiction film
Alan Gould, a neurotic, unkempt anthropology graduate student, is beginning to believe he may be the last living person on the planet. A mysterious catastrophe appears to have killed everyone but him. Buildings are left standing and goods …
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Action, Ghost-Movie, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, television film, thriller film
In a small town alongside a mountain, spring break is approaching. One of the residents, Wade, attempts to search for his brother, Shredder who went missing along with his friend, Hucker, while skiing on the mountain. On the night after hi…
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Adventure, disaster film, drama film, pirate film
In 1883, the Boston company that owns the merchant sailing ship Gerrymander gives her captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit in the Netherlands East Indies. Facing both pirates and a Dutch trade exclusion policy preventing fore…
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action film, disaster film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
For a thousand years man has been adding a day to the calendar every 4 years and in doing so violated mankind's interpretation of the Mayan Calendar's prediction that the world would end in 2012. On the 13th day of the 13th month of the ne…
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Natural Disaster, disaster film, science fiction film
While a solar probe operated by the fictional Solar and Near Earth Laboratory (SNEL) is obtaining data, a large CME or solar flare destroys the probe. A crewed spacecraft, Galileo, is caught in the CME and destroyed; the tragedy is blamed …
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Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
The scientific team of Dr. David Conway (William Leslie), Dr. Ellis Morton (Tristram Coffin), and Laura Hutchinson (Kathryn Grant) has built a machine that can predict earthquakes.
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Natural Disaster, action film, drama film
The film begins with a newlywed couple skiing down the flanks of Angel Lakes Peak, a dormant volcano close to the ski resort town Angel Lakes. Without any warning, a volcanic fissure opens up right before them, killing both in the process.…
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Drama, Thriller, disaster film
Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the original; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree. Both pilots also eat the chicken. Passenger …
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Action, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film
An increase in sunspot activity causes disastrous, long-term consequences for the Earth. Los Angeles is, just as the rest of the world, covered with a layer of ice and snow. The government has collapsed and everyone is on their own.
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Natural Disaster, disaster film, katastrophe
A large freshwater lake above the small town of Brownsville, Oregon is a popular tourist attraction and fishing destination, which provides the town with much of its economic activity. After a season of heavy rains, the lake is nearly over…
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Natural Disaster, disaster film
Under the Alaskan permafrost organic materials have been rotting for thousands of years. As it thaws, volatile liquid methane and gases are released causing a succession of destructive earthquakes. A family is on the hunt for a Christmas t…
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Action, Sci-Fi, disaster film
A worldwide scientific conference is taking place in Sydney, Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard (Peter Fonda) suddenly disappears. Dr.
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heist film
Jack Wild is a Chicago police officer dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder after the murder of his wife and two children during an investigation into organized crime. Nicknamed "Crackerjack" by his colleagues due to his reckless beh…
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Action, Adventure, Thriller, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film, horror film, survival film, thriller film
The Caribbean Sea. The local authorities receive reports about an approaching cyclone and issue a general alert, but a small passenger plane, a tour boat and a fishing trawler fail to receive - or heed - the warning and are caught in the s…
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disaster film
Part 1 The residents of Silver Sands Condominium in Fiddler Key, Florida are dealing with rising condominium association fees, as well as interpersonal relationships and conflicts taking place within their building. Barbara Messenger (Barb…
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action film, disaster film
Convict Larry Durant escapes from an Oregon road gang, and starts a fire in a forest, which goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community. Involved are a lumber mill owner, Sam Brisbane; Martha Wagner, the widowed…
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Action, Natural Disaster, disaster film
A volcano beneath New York City seems unlikely, yet nothing else can explain the bizarre tremors and terrifying explosions wreaking havoc on the city. Tunnel digger Matt MacLachlan, head of the team of "Sandhogs," has witnessed lava seepin…
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disaster film
The movie opens with a small tremor occurring in the hills outside Los Angeles near a United States Geological Survey (USGS) research post, cutting to a scene of a teenage girl on a date with her boyfriend at the Earthquake Ride at Univers…
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