Movies like Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Style: political
Plot: environmental, ship, ecology, oil, corruption, ecological disaster, corporation, disaster, boss, ship captain, conservation, scandal, senator, oil company, environmentalism, environmental issue, corporate greed, oil industry, catastrophe, oil tanker
Time: year 1989
Place: alaska

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Most similar movies to Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about society, environmental issue, disaster, environmental, life is a bitch, contamination and danger mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster: Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982), Always Further On (1965), The Rainbow Warrior (1993), Bitter Harvest (1981), Promised Land (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lois Gibbs and the Love Canal (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's
Style: realistic, serious, thought provoking, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: suburbs, society, life is a bitch, danger, criminal's revenge, fighting the system, rebellion, impossible love, school, family in crisis, suburban life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Always Further On (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Raul (Igancio Lopez Tarso) is a white man who enjoys the simple way of life practiced by the Indians of Mexico. He does his best to try and help the tribe, but he becomes a victim of greedy land grabbers who covet the tribal property. Jaime ...
Plot: native, environmental, exploitation, murder, corruption, anthropologist, mountain, environmental issue, corrupt politician, deforestation, ecology, land grab ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Rainbow Warrior (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Peter Wilcox (Voight), as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985, preparing for a protest against French nuclear testing in the south pacific. When a bomb rips open the vessel, killing a crew ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: terrorist attack, international law, environmental, spy, environmental issue, disaster, conspiracy, special agent, rebellion, terrorism, investigation, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Bitter Harvest (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: environmental, biology, farm, contamination, ecology, family relations, family problems, environmentalism, government agency, dishonesty, hopes, society ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Promised Land (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.
Style: inspirational, melancholic, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: propaganda, campaign, environmental, business, character study, environmentalism, cheerleader, corporate crime, corporate world, social relations, small town, social commentary ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, political, edutainment ...
Plot: evil corporation, greed, corporate crime, fighting the system, uncover truth, ambition, rise and fall, rise to the top, couple relations, love and romance, society, life is a bitch ...
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young boy in Alaska becomes involved with the legendary battle between a raven and a wolf.
Style: independent film
Plot: environmental, dog, poison, spirit, eskimo indian, dog actor, environmental issue, raven, toxic waste, hunting, helicopter, wolf ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Collapse (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Soviet Union
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 1986, Chernobyl disaster. Couples, friends, and a risk-taking journalist are woven into the larger framework of the disaster. Panic follows.
Plot: disaster, post apocalypse, survival, environmental issue, radioactivity, power plant, tragedy, evacuation, contamination, nuclear power, nuclear power plant, radiation sickness ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: ussr, soviet union, ukraine, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, ...
Style: clever, inspirational, touching, sentimental, twist ending ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family friendly ...
Plot: prison, prison escape, freedom, human spirit, hopes, stephen king, life, friendship between men, friendship, plot twist, life philosophy, adaptation ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, 1950s, 2010s, year 1994 ...
Place: usa, america, iran, persia, pacific ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Where Are My Children? (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning a 25-year struggle to be reunited with them.
Plot: adoption, corruption, car accident, prison
Time: 60s, 70s, 80s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Norbourg (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The story of Vincent Lacroix, a businessman convicted of defrauding thousands of investors and embezzling over $130 million in mid-2000s Quebec, Canada. Inspector and auditor Éric Asselin is mandated to monitor the activities of the Norbourg firm. ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: embezzlement, court case, corporation, legal investigation, lawsuit, scandal, court, courtroom drama, legal action, biopic, fraud
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Last Survivors (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Plot: boat, disaster, die hard, shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, sea, sinking ship
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Night That Panicked America (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: radio, mass hysteria, panic, disaster, halloween, radio show, radio broadcasting
Time: 20th century, 1930s
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32%
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The Runner (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the aftermath of the BP oil spill, an idealistic but imperfect New Orleans politician (Nicolas Cage) finds his plans of restoration unraveling as his own life becomes contaminated with corruption, scandal and deceit.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, enigmatic, tense, political
Plot: husband wife relationship, politician, sex scandal, woman, reputation, society, dishonesty, chase, politics, oil company, oil, female nudity ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, washington d.c., new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Flint (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman deals with the toxic water scandal in Flint, Michigan, and the effect it has on her family.
Plot: contaminated water, water, environmental activism, environmental, african american, environment, mother, underdog, city council, african american woman, contamination, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2015
Place: michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Future Weather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, teenage life, gain trust, youth, life is a bitch, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Devil Has a Name (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: oil, contamination, farmer, environment, congressman, water, legal action, environmental destruction, oil company, environmental issue, environmental health, showdown ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Miracle on Interstate 880 (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional
Plot: disaster, heroic mission, escapades, survival, rescue, danger, heroes, child in peril, car crash, hospital, news report, profanity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Mine (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, touching
Plot: business, mining, nature, environmental issue, investigation, corruption, government official, politics, technology, politician, government, interrogation ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.9
 133
One Way Ticket (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fictional retelling of the Regina Express tragedy, in which 22 Dominican stowaways died from suffocation in an attempt of illegal travel in September 1981.
Plot: ship, caribbean sea, illegal immigration, tank, economics, drowning, family relations, illegal immigrant, disaster, immigration, illegal alien, historical event ...
Time: 80s
Place: dominican republic, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.4
 23K
Lean on Me (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, hood, realistic, political ...
Audience: teens
Plot: african american, high school, teacher, black, education, mentor, school, teenager, urban, teaching, teenage pregnancy, violence ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century, 60s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.6
 3K
Mindwalk (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael, France. While walking through the medieval island discussing their philosophies of life they happen upon Sonja, a scientist in recluse, who joins in their conversation. The two men listen ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, talky, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: philosophy, dialogue, politics, isolation, island, social commentary, life, technology, science, environment, scientist, art ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Radio Flyer (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: brother brother relationship, physical abuse, bullying, coming of age, children, child abuse, childhood, dysfunctional family, abuse, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1969
Place: california, northern california, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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So B. It (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style: sad
Plot: mother daughter relationship, cross country, coming of age, young girl, mental disorder, mentally challenged person, foster parent, bank, lake, baby girl, mail, bus driver ...
Place: reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Water Engine (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil ...
Plot: law, world's fair, oil industry, oil company, water, invention, patent, motor, fuel
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Fire and Rain (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong ...
Plot: air disaster, airplane crash, aviation, thunderstorm, airplane accident, disaster, crash, cigarette smoking
Time: year 1985
Place: dallas texas, texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.2
 23K
Minamata (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.
Style: realistic, disturbing, art house, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot: war photographer, art, breaking point, frustration, poisoning, american abroad, journalism, photograph, photography, corruption, lifestyle, life philosophy ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, year 1971
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, India, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal tragedy, one of the great corporate and environmental scandals of the ...
Style: serious, bleak, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: environmentalism, chaos, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace, human nature, society, state affairs, danger, workplace situations, political corruption, disaster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1984
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Hurricane (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, hurricane, heroes, chases and races, rescue, danger, escapades, forces of nature, u.s. air force, boat, submarine ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.6
 31K
A Civil Action (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to "get rid of" a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything - including his career and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, court, legal, lawsuit, courtroom, trial, law firm, environmental, justice, business, law ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place: boston, massachusetts, new york, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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