Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore disaster films and people facing large-scale danger.
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
A joint operation between American and Russian special forces captures General Ivan Radek, the dictator of a rogue neo-Soviet regime in Kazakhstan that retained its nuclear weapons, threatening war. Three weeks later, U.S. president James …
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Drama, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, post-apocalyptic film
Dr. Russell Oakes works at a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and spends time with family as his daughter Marilyn prepares to move away. In nearby Harrisonville, farmer Jim Dahlberg and family hold a wedding rehearsal for his eldest daug…
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Action, Natural Disaster, Thriller, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film
In 1993, USGS volcanologist Harry Dalton and his partner-turned-fiancée Marianne attempt to escape an ongoing eruption in Colombia. As they venture out, a lava bomb smashes through the roof of the truck, killing Marianne. Four years later …
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action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe
The Poseidon, a luxury cruise ship, is making a transatlantic crossing from London. Former New York City Mayor and firefighter Robert Ramsey is traveling with his daughter Jennifer and her boyfriend Christian Sanders to New York, soon to b…
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Action, Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, science fiction film
To relieve his boredom, Emperor Ming the Merciless of the planet Mongo begins Earth's destruction by remotely causing natural disasters. On Earth, football star Gregory "Flash" Gordon boards a small plane and meets travel agent Dale Arden.…
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Adventure, Animation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, teen film
Many years following the third film's events, Manny and Ellie are living happily with their now teenage daughter Peaches. While Ellie tries supporting her daughter, Manny becomes exceedingly overprotective. Meanwhile, Sid's family returns,…
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Drama, Military Film, Thriller, disaster film, drama film, historical film, katastrophe, thriller film
During the nuclear arms race in 1961, the Soviet Union possesses enough missiles to destroy the world twice-over, the United States ten times over, and they continue to build more. American nuclear submarines patrol near Leningrad and Mosc…
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Action, Thriller, action film, detective film, disaster film, mystery film, thriller film
Bill Marks is a U.S. Air Marshal and ex-NYPD officer who boards a British non-stop transatlantic flight, British Aqualantic Airlines Flight 10, from New York City to London. Bill sits next to Jen Summers in business class, who has switched…
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Action, Animalhorror, Thriller, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film, horror film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Four years after the killing of the great white shark, another great white shark kills two scuba divers photographing the wreckage of the Orca. Their camera, which took pictures during the attack, is later recovered by Deputy Jeff Hendrick…
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Action, Adventure, Horror, Mysterie, Romantic Drama, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, kaiju, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In New York Harbor, filmmaker Carl Denham, known for wildlife films in remote exotic locations, is chartering Captain Englehorn's ship, the Venture, for his new project. However, he is unable to secure an actress for a female role he has b…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Recently widowed Berlin-based American aviation engineer Kyle Pratt is taking her husband David's body back to the United States. Traveling with their six-year-old daughter Julia, they board a new double-decker aircraft Kyle helped design.…
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
After 32 people mysteriously drop dead in Boston, the U.S. government calls in scientists Dr. Joshua "Josh" Keyes and Dr.
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Action, action film, disaster film, thriller film
An explosion at a mine in Manitoba traps 26 miners. Mike McCann and his brother Gurty, an Iraq War veteran suffering from PTSD and aphasia, work for a trucking company in North Dakota until Mike punches another trucker for making fun of Gu…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film
In 2002, young Quinn Abercromby is visiting a London Underground construction project. Construction workers penetrate a cave and a dragon emerges from hibernation, incinerating the workers with its fire breath. The only survivor is Quinn, …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the future year of 1964, World War III has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, killing all humans there. The cobalt bomb's fallout is elevated compared to that of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. Air currents are slowly carrying the fal…
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Animation, Komödie, Natural Disaster, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, flashback film
Sometime after the events of the first film, Manny, Sid, and Diego live in a valley that is surrounded by a high ice wall on all sides and is inhabited by many other mammals. The trio discovers that the ice wall is actually a dam that is b…
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Accident, action film, disaster film, docudrama, drama film, survival film
A group of photographs of the Stella Maris College's Old Christians Rugby Team are seen as Carlitos Páez points out several members of the team and reflects on the accident in a brief monologue. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 flies over th…
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Zombiefilm, action film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
In the fictional town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa, resident Rory interrupts a local baseball game, entering the outfield with a shotgun. Sheriff David Dutten attempts to dissuade Rory but is forced to kill him when he raises his weapon. David's w…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Natural Disaster, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, environmental film, science fiction film, survival film
In 2019, following many catastrophic natural disasters, an international coalition commissions "Dutch Boy", a system of climate-controlling satellites. After it neutralizes a typhoon in Shanghai, a US Senate subcommittee reprimands chief a…
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Thriller, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
In 1967, during the Stanleyville mutinies, a virus called Motaba, which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle. To keep the virus a secret, U.S. Army officers Donald McClintock and William Ford order the bombing of the …
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Drama, Terrorism, disaster film, docudrama, drama film
On September 11, 2001, members of the Port Authority Police are dispatched to Downtown Manhattan in response to the North Tower of the World Trade Center having been hit by a plane. The officers learn en route that the South Tower was hit …
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, horror film, science fiction film
On June 19, 1987, as the Earth crosses the tail of a rogue comet, Rhea-M, previously inanimate machines spring to life; an ATM insults a customer (Stephen King) and a bascule bridge rises during heavy traffic, causing all vehicles upon the…
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Animalhorror, Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, horror film, mystery film, natural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
On Amity Island, Martin Brody, famous for his deeds as the police chief, has died from a heart attack. Martin's widow, Ellen, still lives in Amity, close to her younger son, Sean, and his fiancée, Tiffany. Sean works as a police deputy, an…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, disaster film, drama film, thriller film
Two firefighters of Engine 17 of the Chicago Fire Department (CFD) are brothers: the elder, Lieutenant Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey, is experienced, while Brian has labored in his brother's shadow. Brian returns to firefighting after several o…
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