Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore disaster films and people facing large-scale danger.
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disaster film
Eric Stoltz plays John Dantley, an NTSB officer sent to O'Hare Airport in Chicago to investigate a collision between Global Airlines Flight 1025 (a Boeing 757-200 from Los Angeles to Washington D.C.) and PDO Cargo flight 342 (a Boeing 727-…
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Action, disaster film, drama film
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film
Dr. Karl Sorenson, a noted astronomer, believes that an asteroid is on a collision course with Earth based on his study of an ancient civilization's prophetic timeline, but few other scientists believe him. Desperate, he leads a group of m…
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Documentation, Event Documentary
Natural Disaster, Thriller, thriller
During a heavy flood a group of people become trapped in a deserted mall. Notwithstanding, this is not their biggest problem as an escaped prisoner is with them.
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Action, action film, disaster film, katastrophe, science fiction film
An asteroid much larger than that which caused the Chicxulub Crater is attacked by a ten-megaton nuclear warhead minutes before its collision with Earth, breaking it into three pieces, the largest of which (the size of Iceland) bounces off…
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action film, disaster film
disaster film
disaster film, drama film
Captain James Morgan and Dr. Peter Brooks on a cruise liner have to deal with various crises, including a hidden bomb, a suicide attempt and J. L.
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horror film, natural horror film, television film
When Karla brings her father Hans to a clinic in Mallorca because he was stung by a bee, it does not look good for him. The doctors insist that he suffered a normal bee sting, but Karla is convinced otherwise. Together with the researcher …
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Action, Natural Disaster, action film, katastrophe
Rick's (Ed Marinaro) small ski resort is going bankrupt and the investors have pulled out. His resort manager is drunk. His young, beautiful and possibly unfaithful wife is trapped in an ice tomb.
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Action, Adventure, Natural Disaster, katastrophe
Action, Sci-Fi, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
A glacier moves quickly towards North America, specifically the Eastern Seaboard, at 200 mph after a sudden and extremely violent volcanic eruption in Iceland. A series of freak climate and weather events occur such as winter-like snow in …
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, science fiction film
The film takes place in the United States in what is presumably the present day. A large, colossal meteorite is heading towards the Earth, and threatens to wipe out the human race in a manner similar to the extinction of the dinosaurs. Whi…
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LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, disaster film, science fiction film
San Francisco becomes a target for waves of destructive meteors after a rogue comet orbits around the earth. For astro-physicist, Dr. Michelle Young , what was meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime celestial event, soon turns into her worst nig…
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Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
During routine administration at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Dr. Rhodes discovers that a comet has suddenly veered off its orbit and smashed into Mars.
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disaster film, katastrophe, science fiction film
Strange things start happening beginning with the disappearance of the Black Sea which is engulfed by a crater created by an earthquake. Officials find that all this is happening according to Doomsday Prophecy novel by Rupert Crane who had…
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Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film
The movie is centered on Anna , who is the Mayor of a small town in Colorado. Her life has enough problems when Cottonwood becomes the victim of meteorite showers, causing devastation and chaos.
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Sci-Fi, disaster film, katastrophe, science fiction film
Drama, Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, disaster film, drama film
David Koch , a climatologist employed by Inter Sci, proposes a theory that the last ice age was triggered by Earth's polar shift in a single day. When unusually cold weather strikes Miami and the birds start to return from the south a few …
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Action, disaster film
Action, Natural Disaster, post-apocalyptic film
Action, Thriller, disaster film, katastrophe
A dam in a small town in midwest America is filling up with water due to heavy rains. The disgraced architect of the dam building project comes back to town to reunite with his estranged family, however he is rejected, with his wife claimi…
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