Movies like Poseidon
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Poseidon (2006)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, breathtaking, entertaining, intense, serious, realistic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, trapped, ocean liner, drowning, forces of nature, passenger, water, suspense, father daughter relationship, flooding, castaway, cruise, daring rescue, giant wave, death, chaos and mayhem, sea disaster, apocalypse ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
atlantic ocean
Most similar movies to Poseidon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, serious and intense films with plots about survival, danger, catastrophe, disaster, suspense, natural disaster and death mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like Poseidon: San Andreas (2015), Sanctum (2011), The Perfect Storm (2000), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Deepwater Horizon (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, absurd, intense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, survival, forces of nature, earthquake, happy ending, tsunami, father daughter relationship, daring rescue, suspense, divorce ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, usa, nevada
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, cave, expedition, disaster, suspense, scuba diving, forces of nature, deathtrap, underground, struggle for survival, beautiful scenery, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, ship, storm at sea, storm, forces of nature, shipwreck, fish, sea, ocean, fishing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, atlantic ocean, boston, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, climate change, environmental, nature, scientist, stranded, global warming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., antarctica, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
terrorism, cruise ship, disaster, survival, ship, suspense, natural disaster, christmas, greed, new year's eve, ocean, daring rescue ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style:
exciting, inspirational, tense, emotional, compassionate ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, courage, sea, oil rig, oil, trapped, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
california, boston, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
ship, natural disaster, disaster, ocean liner, survival, catastrophe, sea, sea disaster, ocean, cruise, new year's eve, suspense ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
israel, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
383K

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, race against time, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, destruction, human existence, vestiges of humanity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 2000s, year 2009 ...
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, mount everest, british columbia, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
exciting, scenic, apocalyptic, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, suspense, comet, panic, race against time ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
greenland, canada, atlanta georgia, kentucky, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in ...
Style:
sincere, touching, sad, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
firefighter, disaster, friendship, rescue, death of protagonist, redemption, fire, firefighting, funeral, fire department, trapped, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, maryland, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the ...
Style:
talky, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, tornado, survival, natural disaster, race against time, rescue, save the day, secret agents, forces of nature, self sacrifice, global warming ...
Place:
london, europe, england, big ben london, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The town of Silverton is in one day destroyed by the unprecedented power of a series of tornadoes. The population is at the mercy of the unpredictable and deadly cyclones, while hunters warn that the worst is yet to come. Most people find shelter, ...
Style:
stylized, talky, exciting, campy, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, escapades, nature, catastrophe, survival, weather, death, redemption, high school, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style:
motivational, heartbreaking, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, courage, suspense, tsunami, forces of nature, destruction, hopes, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, entertaining, apocalyptic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, nasa, astronaut, space travel, space, save the world, race against time, suspense ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., paris france, usa, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, tunnel, catastrophe, race against time, suspense, trapped, apocalypse, rescue, daring rescue, save the day ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
survival, mountaineer, climbing, mountain climbing, adventurer, disaster, suspense, natural disaster, mountain, expedition, apocalypse, happy ending ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
himalaya, pakistan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, sentimental, dramatic, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids, teens ...
Plot:
love, love story, titanic, disaster, ship, forbidden love, love and romance, fall in love, tragedy, survival, ocean, shipwreck ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
los angeles, new york, atlantic ocean, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Russia, Cambodia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about bravery, self-sacrifice and human dignity put on trial by the merciless power of nature. A young pilot is fired from military air force after disobeying an absurd order. He gets a job as a co-pilot with a civil airline. Being brutally ...
Style:
sentimental, biting, disturbing, dramatic
Plot:
natural disaster, airplane, risk, heroism, rescue mission, disaster, aviation, coworker relationship, daring rescue, social relations, love affair, rescue team ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, psychotronic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
monster, creature, giant monster, sea monster, animal attack, water, fear, suspense, survival horror, earthquake, ocean, destruction ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.
Style:
scary, slasher, psychotronic, natural horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
animal attack, survival, disaster, suspense, flood, natural disaster, trapped, alligator, hurricane, survival horror, creature feature, predator ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When an Amacor oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, Captain Frank Towns and copilot "A.J." are sent to shut the operation down. However, on their way to Beijing, a major dust storm forces them to ditch their C-119 ...
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Plot:
desert, survival, stranded, air disaster, aviation, adaptation, suspense, chase, rescue, airplane, introspection, getting home ...
Place:
mongolia, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, tornado, divorce, twister, hurricane, weatherman, apocalypse, nature, peril ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to ...
Style:
serious, exciting, realistic, retro, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sea, ship, disaster, survival, forces of nature, sinking ship, race against time, escapades, titanic, chaos and mayhem, drowning, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Single-camera comedy centering on a diverse group of survivors adjusting to being stranded on an uninhabited island, a dangerous new world where they must face many threats – mostly brought on by themselves. No longer plugged into the rest of the ...
Style:
captivating, parody, funny, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desert island, survival, castaway, island, betrayal, friendship, twists and turns, catastrophe, hopes, fistfight, frame up, humour ...
Place:
fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, terrorism, hostage, rescue, suspense, surveillance, hijacking, bomb, twists and turns, terrorist, ransom, pilot ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
pentagon, washington d.c., athens greece, london, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, distopia, race against time, future dystopia, heroic mission, apocalypse, earthquake, chaos and mayhem, one man army, daring rescue, life is a bitch, survival ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, latin america, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, ocean, sailing, boat, distopia, water, rescue, dystopic future, sea, future dystopia ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with ...
Style:
intense, serious, entertaining, apocalyptic, ridiculous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, end of the world, disaster, survival, apocalypse, save the world, post apocalypse, catastrophe, hacker, worldwide chaos, space, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, rome italy, washington d.c., los angeles, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, entertaining, rough ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
shark, animal attack, beach, ocean, shark attack, fear, monster, dangerous animal, survival, killer shark, suspense, creature feature ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
long island, usa, massachusetts, new york state, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Sandra Bullock and Jason Patric star as a young couple whose dream cruise turns to terror when a lunatic computer genius (Willem Dafoe) sets a new course for destruction.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, ridiculous ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
cruise, cruise ship, ocean liner, boat, ship, suspense, disaster, happy ending, heroes, one man army, race against time, bomb ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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