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 6.
Sci-Fi, disaster film, katastrophe, science fiction film
The broadcast of a murder mystery film starring Loni Anderson, titled Without Warning, is interrupted with a news bulletin of a series of three earthquakes, one of them located in the Thunder Basin National Grassland area of Wyoming. The f…
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Thriller, action film, disaster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
Michael Lander is a Goodyear Blimp pilot who flies over National Football League games for network television coverage. Secretly deranged by years of torture as a POW in the Vietnam War, he had a bitter court martial upon his return and a …
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Animalhorror, comedy film, disaster film, horror film, speculative fiction film
With the Earth completely devastated from the global sharknado swarm, Fin Shepard and his adult son Gil time travel to the Cretaceous period in a bid to change the future and undo the destruction. Gil vanishes upon arrival, and a hologram …
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Action, Adventure, Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, war film
In Honolulu, Hawaii, a DC-4 airliner prepares to take off for San Francisco, California with 17 passengers and a crew of 5. Former captain Dan Roman, the flight's veteran first officer, known for his habit of whistling, is haunted by an ai…
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Destiny, Family Drama, drama film
In the small town of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus hits a patch of ice, runs through a barrier, and crashes into a lake, killing 14 children. The grieving parents are approached by an out-of-town lawyer, Mitchell Stephens, who i…
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Animalhorror, adventure film, disaster film, horror film, independent film, natural horror film, thriller film
Captain Nolan is an Irish Canadian fisherman living in Newfoundland, who catches marine animals in order to pay the mortgage on his boat, "Bumpo", and eventually return to Ireland. Nolan's crew is looking for a great white shark on behalf …
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Zombiefilm, found footage film, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Film footage from a news crew shows a story about an immigrant man killing his wife and son before committing suicide. The son and wife turn into zombies and kill several medical personnel and police officers, but leave one medic and a rep…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Thriller, horror film, romance film
Rod is a young software salesman living a successful life in Silicon Valley. He meets up with old classmate and aspiring fashion model Nathalie and begins dating her. Things go well for the couple, with Rod receiving a large bonus that he …
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Accident, Action, Drama, action film, drama film
Baltimore City firefighter Jack Morrison saves a man's life in a massive four-alarm fire in a 20-story concrete grain elevator/warehouse in the Canton waterfront neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. However, the grain stored in the warehou…
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Horror, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, exploitation film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In Evans City, Pennsylvania, a man kills his wife and burns down his farmhouse. Firefighters David and Clank—both Vietnam War veterans—are called to the scene. David's pregnant girlfriend, a nurse named Judy, is called to the office of Dr.
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Animalhorror, adventure film, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film
In south Texas, an unknown force invades and neutralizes a top-security United States Air Force ICBM command bunker. An Air Force unit, led by Major Baker, investigates and finds an unauthorized scientist at the secured base, Dr. Bradford …
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Action, action film, crime film, disaster film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
During a heavy rainstorm, Tom and his uncle Charlie, two armored truck drivers, are collecting money from banks in the town of Huntingburg, Indiana, which has been evacuated due to flooding. They are ambushed by Jim and his gang of armed r…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Komödie, Sci-Fi, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the late 20th century, a large-scale nuclear war ends in a nuclear holocaust. In the aftermath, Earth has become a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where, due to fallout, most humans have been rendered sterile. As a result, the government pl…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Mysterie, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film
The film opens with a montage of scenes of daily life in Australia in the 1970s— a rural school in the desert with children playing, the main street of an Outback town, a traffic jam in the city— all being affected by unusually adverse wea…
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Animalhorror, comedy television program, disaster film, horror film, science fiction, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In Washington, D.C., Fin Shepard attends an awards ceremony at the White House, where he is given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the President for his heroic actions during the 2013 and 2014 sharknadoes. When a tropical depression ap…
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Drama, Natural Disaster
Four families in the fictional Oklahoma town of Minninnewah, whose lives are intertwined, wrestle with undocumented immigration, closeted homosexuality, abortion, and other issues before a massive tornado wipes out the town, leaving death …
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
The state-of-the-art nuclear submarine, Seaview, is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. Seaview is designed by scientist Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret). Captain Lee Crane is Seaview's Commanding Officer.
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, disaster film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the prologue, quotes from the Book of Genesis are shown and narrated, describing God's decision to wipe out humanity. Pilot David Randall flies top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr.
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Action, action film, disaster film, katastrophe, thriller film
The capsized luxury liner S.S. Poseidon is still afloat after six survivors have been rescued by the French Coast Guard. Mike Turner, captain of the tugboat Jenny, spots the rescue helicopter and finds the shipwreck.
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Drama, Historie, Romance Film, action film, disaster film, drama film, romance film
Richard Sturges, a wealthy expatriate in Europe, buys a third-class ticket for the maiden voyage of the Titanic from a Basque emigrant. Once aboard, he seeks his runaway wife Julia and discovers that she is trying to take their two unsuspe…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Social Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film
The film begins with a young professional suddenly going blind in his car while at an intersection, with his field of vision turning white. A seemingly kind passerby offers to drive him home. However, he then steals the blind man's car.
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, disaster film, drama film
Seventeen-year-old Joshua "Josh" McGuire, expedition bank-roller Carl and his girlfriend, Victoria "Vic", travel to the Esa'ala Cave, an underwater cave exploration site in Papua New Guinea. Josh's father, Frank, a master diver, has alread…
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Animalhorror, comedy television program, disaster film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
Following the events of the previous film, Fin and April travel to London with their young son Gil to attend a NATO meeting regarding the escalating sharknado threat. Meanwhile, Nova and her assistants investigate a temple hidden beneath S…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
First Lieutenant Jake Tanner shares ICBM silo duty at a US Air Force missile base in the Mojave Desert in eastern California with Major Eugene "Sam" Denton. Denton notifies Tanner he's requesting that command reassign him, considering Tann…
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