Movies like The Poseidon Adventure
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
53K
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, suspense, tense, serious, erotic, dramatic, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, ocean liner, race against time, underwater, sea disaster, cruise ship, sea, sinking ship, ocean, courage, flood, rescue, catastrophe, hysteria, shipwreck, new year's eve, love, priest, boy, brother sister relationship, self sacrifice, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
israel, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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Most similar movies to The Poseidon Adventure
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and suspense films with plots about disaster, survival, danger, catastrophe, natural disaster, escapades and rescue mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Poseidon Adventure: The Towering Inferno (1974), Poseidon (2006), The Finest Hours (2016), Airport '77 (1977), Flood (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, skyscraper, rescue, natural disaster, race against time, survival, firefighter, evacuation, trapped in a building, trapped, fire ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california
Similarity:
100%
115K
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, suspense, suspenseful, rough, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, ship, shipwreck, catastrophe, cruise ship, ocean, sea disaster, drowning, father daughter relationship, trapped ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, rescue, airplane, airport, underwater, airplane accident, aviation, frogman, bermuda triangle, hijacking, airplane hijack, natural disaster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977, 80s
Place:
washington d.c.
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:
serious, talky, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, tornado, flood, natural disaster, race against time, rescue, epidemic, save the day, secret agent, danger, forces of nature ...
Place:
london, europe, england, big ben london, scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a discredited L.A. Seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake, no one takes her seriously. Now on her own, she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.
Style:
mockbuster, intense, suspense, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, destruction, animal attack, african american, building collapse, helicopter crash, survival, danger, race against time, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
274K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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:
intense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, tsunami, danger, earthquake, end of the world, daughter, father daughter relationship, happy ending ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, catastrophe, storm at sea, survival, storm, boat, fish, forces of nature, shipwreck, sea ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
atlantic ocean, boston, new england, nova scotia, portugal
Similarity:
100%
46K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, road movie, feel good, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, landslide, geologist, hotel, destiny, stupidity, flood, evacuation ...
Time:
80s, year 2015
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
airplane, airport, catastrophe, aviation, disaster, airplane accident, survival, natural disaster, flying, stewardess, death, mountain ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, washington d.c., salt lake city utah, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A bomber has planted 7 bombs on a transatlantic cruise ship. While a crack bomb squad team try to defuse the bombs the police attempt to track down the mad bomber.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
terrorism, shipwreck, ship, disaster, cruise, cruise ship, ransom, sea, ocean, espionage, brutality, passenger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, atlantic ocean, scotland yard, london, scotland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, earthquake, catastrophe, danger, chaos, national guard, love triangle, daring rescue, save the day, infidelity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
275K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
Style:
biblical, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic, fairy tale ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly
Plot:
apocalypse, god, survival, religion, destiny, belief, natural disaster, chaos, old testament, ancient history, life & death, christianity ...
Time:
year 2014, ancient times, 2010s, middle ages, biblical epic
Place:
holy land, peru
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship, and its ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
terrorist, cruise ship, one against many, hostage, survival, betrayal, ocean, fight, kidnapping, terrorist group, teenage girl, conspiracy ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
san francisco, pentagon, san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
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:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, intense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
survival, mountaineer, mountain climbing, mountain, adventurer, disaster, climbing, natural disaster, wilderness, expedition, happy ending, mountaineering ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
himalaya, pakistan, asia, antarctic
Similarity:
100%
Genre: 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:
suspense, inspirational, heartbreaking, emotional, motivational ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, tsunami, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, family in danger, vacation ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2012, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, asia
Similarity:
100%
81K
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:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, race against time, tunnel, trapped, rescue, catastrophe, taxi driver, fire, self sacrifice, loss of loved one ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
75%
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459
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dillan Johansen is a disorganized transit authority supervisor suffering from a serious personal tragedy. Dillan's bravery is put to the test the day a major earthquake hits Los Angeles and traps Dillan in an underground tunnel with a handful ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
subway, disaster, survival, heroes, confined, rescue, save the day, escapades, danger, race against time, isolation, forces of nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, scotland, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
cruise, cruise ship, ship, boat, ocean liner, happy ending, vacation, terrorist, sign language, catastrophe, hostage, caribbean sea ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.
Style:
road movie, suspense, intense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
train, prison escape, survival, runaway train, escaped prisoner, escape, prison, violence, prisoner, wilderness, fugitives, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, airplane, save the day, survival, danger, spouse in danger, heroes, forces of nature, military, volcano, aeroplane, aircraft ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It begins on a glacier nestled on a frozen peak high in the wild Ural Mountains of Russia, kissed by clouds, the top of the world. A lonely, forbidding place, it's home to THOM CUSSLER and brother, JOCK, a pair of transplanted westerners ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, danger, save the day, race against time, rescue, catastrophe, mountain, profanity, village, heroic mission ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The last of the 'Airport' series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni, this time having to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!
Style:
psychological, cult classic, fast, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, aviation, airport, airplane, natural disaster, air disaster, arms dealer, survival, terrorism, murder, airplane accident, missile ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 80s
Place:
europe, france, alps, washington d.c., paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
107K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, ...
Style:
breathtaking, suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
natural disaster, catastrophe, disaster, volcano, volcanic eruption, apocalypse, survival, mayor, small town, mountain, coffee, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
washington state
Similarity:
40%
8K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, action thriller, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tunnel, subway, flood, disaster, panic, danger, survival, chaos, train, group of strangers, chaos and mayhem, asthma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
80%
24K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
airport, disaster, airplane, aviation, bomb, airplane accident, passenger, natural disaster, survival, danger, panic, stewardess ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, 1930s
Place:
chicago, rome italy, minnesota, detroit, milwaukee wisconsin ...
Similarity:
100%
579
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, exciting
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, fire, humanity in peril, danger, destruction, chaos, death, evacuation, race against time, forces of nature, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style:
scenic, realistic, suspenseful, emotional, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, sea, boat, disaster, man versus nature, starvation, whale, whaling, shipwreck, hunting ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, 1820s ...
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean, new england, america, massachusetts ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, chaos, save the world, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, post apocalypse, autism, tsunami, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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