Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore disaster films and people facing large-scale danger.
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Drama, comedy drama, disaster film, science fiction film
In Toronto, a group of friends and family prepare for their last night before the end of the world, caused by a calamity that has not been explained but which has been expected for the last few months. The panic and rioting has largely die…
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Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film
USGS scientist Emily Schiffman theorizes that a series of minor earthquakes are building up to a super quake that will sink the entire city of Los Angeles into a lava-filled chasm. Engineer Jack, whose deep fracking company is responsible …
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
NATO operative Jacques Kristoff is summoned into action by his superior, General Zakev. His objective is to track down Galina Konstantin, who has stolen an extremely valuable and dangerous container from the Slovak Government, and extract …
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Historical drama, disaster film, drama film
In 1984, a few months before the Bhopal disaster, Dilip, a rickshaw driver, loses his income when his rickshaw breaks down while transporting an employee to the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal. Dilip lives in the slums near the pla…
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Natural Disaster, disaster film, drama film
A storm surge travels between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, raising sea levels at the same time as the spring tide. Several parts of Scotland are devastated as a result, including Wick. The Met Office's head forecaster, Keith Hop…
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Action, Drama, Natural Disaster, disaster film
At 1:16 p.m. on a Fall afternoon in 1996, Bob Iverson, a storm chaser with the Kansas State Tornado Center relaying information to the National Weather Service on a chase assignment, is driving down a country road in rural Central Nebraska…
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Action, Thriller, action film, disaster film, thriller film
During a forest fire in northern Wyoming, smokejumper Jesse Graves and his mentor Wynt Perkins are rescuing trapped civilians when a woman begs them to rescue her daughter from a burning cabin. They locate the girl, but Wynt is injured by …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, disaster film
The plot is centered around a colossal blast of heavily chilled mesosphere air, spreading over the Earth after a solar eclipse combined with the effects of environmental pollution caused a hole in the ozone layer. The catastrophic event th…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, disaster film, drama film
A small plane approaches the fictional Pacific island of Talua in French Polynesia, 500 miles from Tahiti, the plane's destination. The plane and its cargo of three manacled prisoners and a priest makes an overnight stop on the island, pla…
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Animalhorror, disaster film
Ted Jargenson, a city maintenance employee, is checking on a remote roadside pipe when he is attacked and killed by several hungry lampreys. About a week later, Michael Parker, his wife Cate, daughter Nicole and son Kyle move to a small la…
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action film, disaster film, katastrophe, thriller
Richard Lieberman, the scientist in charge at Yellowstone Volcano Observatory, gives a press conference with his colleagues Jock Galvin, Dave, Matt and Nancy, and their boss, Michael Eldridge, to present their new virtual imagery simulator…
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Animalhorror, action film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, horror film, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, television film
Off the coast of Alaska, oceanographer Emma MacNeil is studying the migration patterns of whales aboard an experimental submarine she took without permission from her employer. Meanwhile, a military helicopter drops experimental sonar tran…
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Thriller, disaster film, thriller film
At Los Angeles International Airport, a Douglas DC-8 airliner takes off for New York. Shortly after takeoff, the airline receives a bomb threat. The stranger on the telephone asks for a sum of $100,000 in small denominations.
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Adventure, Drama, disaster film, drama film
Nine passengers board a commercial flight from Los Angeles to Panama City: wealthy Judson Ellis and Alice Melhorne, eloping because their parents disapprove; an elderly couple, Professor Henry Spengler and his wife Martha; Tommy Mulvaney, …
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post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The film opens with the text: It is the day after tomorrow. The ultimate nuclear defense system has been perfected. Security has been achieved.
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Sci-Fi, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
An atomic war has seemingly destroyed most of human civilization, leaving the Earth contaminated with radioactive fallout. One exception is an isolated box canyon, surrounded by lead-bearing cliffs, in which former U.S. Navy Commander Jim …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, apocalyptic film, disaster film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The film opens with a montage of pollution, which, as implied by the narrator, is the cause of a virulent new disease arising in Asia, a virus that strikes all members of the grass family, including wheat, rice, and maize. It spreads to Af…
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disaster film, drama film
In a flight simulator, two airline pilots are given a scenario in which the plane experiences a sudden and complete loss of power, causing it to crash. When they protest that such a scenario could never happen, the examiner tells them, "It…
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Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film
Marine scientists prepare to leave their underwater ocean lab after an extended stay performing oceanographic research. An underwater earthquake interrupts their plans. Dr.
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disaster film, katastrophe
During a meteor shower said to be the most spectacular in 10,000 years, an asteroid hidden by the meteor field strikes the Moon. Fragments of the asteroid and of the Moon itself penetrate Earth's atmosphere and make impact. The initial dam…
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Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, action film, disaster film, science fiction film
Four strangers use their faith to go to Mexico before the Mayan calendar ends in 2012.
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disaster film, drama film, katastrophe
After the failure of both engines of his passenger jet during take-off, pilot Jack Savage (Rod Taylor) successfully belly lands the plane along what initially appears to be an open stretch of beach. However, it uncontrollably skids into a …
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Adventure, disaster film
Pilot John Dooley and the crew of a World War II-era Douglas C-47 Skytrain (the military version of the DC-3) experience icy conditions and are forced to execute an emergency landing on a frozen lake in the uncharted wildlands near the Que…
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disaster film, drama film
The story encompasses around nine characters portraying nine variants of emotion (Navarasa) and an outdated dam. The story starts with Vinay (Vinay Rai), who is a mariner and works in ships. One day he visits his native place, somewhere in…
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