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 4.
Destiny, Modern-Day Fantasy, Natural Disaster, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, romance film, romantic comedy
Pete Sandich is an aerial firefighter whose excessive risk-taking in the air deeply troubles his girlfriend, Dorinda Durston, a pilot who doubles as an air traffic controller for the firefighters. It also concerns Pete's best friend, Al Ya…
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Animalhorror, Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, drama film, horror film, independent film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
Off the coast of Mexico, the ship of shark fin smuggler Captain Carlos Santiago is caught in a hurricane, interrupting his meeting with a potential buyer. A firefight ensues between the buyer and the Santiago before a tornado throws shoals…
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Girls with Guns, LGBTQ-related film, Zombiefilm, action comedy film, action film, action thriller, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, exploitation film, girls with guns, horror film, independent film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie comedy
In rural Texas, go-go dancer Cherry Darling runs into her mysterious ex-boyfriend El Wray at the Bone Shack, a restaurant owned by brothers J.T. and Sheriff Hague. Meanwhile, the demented Lt.
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Accident, Drama, Thriller, disaster film
During a severe January snowstorm at Chicago's Lincoln International Airport, Trans Global Airlines (TGA) Flight 45's crew misjudge their turn from Runway 29 onto the taxiway. The Boeing 707 gets stuck in the snow, and its tail fouls the r…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action film, buddy film, techno-thriller, treasure hunt film
In 1865, at the conclusion of the American Civil War, Richmond, Virginia is in ruins. The CSS Texas, captained by Mason Tombs is loaded with the last of the Confederacy's gold to keep it from Union forces before disappearing. In present-da…
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Political Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film
While visiting the Ventana nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles, television news reporter Kimberly Wells, her cameraman Richard Adams and their soundman Hector Salas witness the plant going through a turbine trip and corresponding SCRAM…
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Action, Military Film, action film, thriller film
In 1980, Operation Eagle Claw is aborted after a fatal helicopter crash, with the U.S. Delta Force evacuating to their C-130 transports. Among them is Captain Scott McCoy, who, against orders, rescues his wounded comrade, Pete Peterson, fr…
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Animalhorror, Drama, Psychodrama, Romantic Drama, adventure film, disaster film, drama film, horror film, independent film, natural horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, survival film, suspense film, thriller film
In an attempt to spend more time together, Daniel Kintner and Susan Watkins go on a scuba-diving vacation. On their second day, they join a group scuba dive. While underwater, Daniel and Susan briefly separate from the group.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Dr. Charles A. Forbin is the chief designer of a secret project, "Colossus", an advanced supercomputer built to control the United States and Allied nuclear weapon systems.
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cop Alex Shaw is on a motorcycle chasing a vehicle with stolen goods. After he catches the driver of the vehicle, his girlfriend Annie Porter encounters him during her driving test. She discovers that A…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, fantasy film, katastrophe, thriller film
University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele has flown home from college to New York to surprise her father, pilot Rayford Steele, for his birthday party. However, her mother, Irene, informs her that her father cannot make it. While…
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Action, Historie, Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, disaster film, drama film, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
In northern Britannia, AD 62, Roman soldiers led by General Quintus Attius Corvus wipe out a tribe of Celtic horsemen. Corvus personally kills the parents of a boy named Milo. Being the only survivor, Milo is later captured by slave trader…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, disaster film, docudrama, drama film
At dawn on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda members Ziad Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Ahmed al-Haznawi pray in a Newark, New Jersey hotel before boarding United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco. Among the passengers a…
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Monster Film, Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film
In March 1975, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race. U.S. Army Col.
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Arranged Documentary, Found Footage, Horror, disaster film, found footage film, horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
On the evening of March 11, 2008, news reporter Angela Vidal, and her cameraman, Scott Percival, are filming their report on the night shift at the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters, Jake and George Fletcher, receive an emergency c…
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Action, Sci-Fi, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the year 2058, an anomalously expanding red giant Sun threatens to engulf the Earth within 100 years. Under a world government, humanity has constructed 10,000 enormous fusion-powered "Earth Engines" to thrust Earth out of the Solar Sys…
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action film, disaster film, katastrophe, mockbuster
In the Arctic Ocean off the Helheim Glacier in Greenland, a person is surfing on waves created by chunks of ice falling off the glacier, caused by the effects of global warming. A huge chunk of ice falls into the water, creating an especia…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, vampire film
In the year 2019, a global plague caused by an infected vampire bat has transformed most of the world's human population into immortal vampires. As the population of uninfected humans decreases, vampires are faced with a severe blood short…
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Hard Science Fiction, Thriller, disaster film, katastrophe, science fiction film
Dr. Jeremy Stone recounts the events before the United States Senate Committee on Space Sciences in 1971: After a U.S. government satellite crashes near the small rural town of Piedmont, New Mexico, on February 5, nearly all the residents …
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Action, Drama, Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film, drama film, thriller film
In downtown Los Angeles, an earthquake strikes. Michael "Mike" Roark, the new director of the city's Office of Emergency Management, insists on coming to work to help with the crisis even though he has been on vacation with his daughter, K…
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Animalhorror, Natural Disaster, action film, drama film, horror film
University of Florida swimmer Haley Keller receives a call from her older sister Beth advising her to leave the state due to the imminent arrival of a Category 5 hurricane. Concerned for the safety of her estranged father Dave, Haley check…
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Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, historical film, katastrophe
Bernard "Bernie" Webber, a crewman at Coast Guard Station Chatham, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, has fallen in love with a local girl, Miriam Penttinen. The two plan to marry on April 16, but in accordance with Coast Guard regulations, Berni…
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Komödie, Parodie, comedy film, disaster film, parody film
In the year 10,001 B.C., a caveman runs away from a predator through a plain and immediately gets into a fight with Wolf. After defeating him, the caveman then encounters the predator, a saber-toothed, gasoline-drinking Amy Winehouse, who …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2008, the Reaper Virus ravages Scotland. Unable to contain the outbreak or cure the infected, the UK government erects a 30-foot wall isolating Scotland. The quarantine succeeds, but the extreme method turns the country into a pariah st…
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