Movies like Volcano
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Volcano (1997)
81K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike Roark, working with geologist Amy Barnes, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming Los Angeles.
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, breathtaking, cult classic, action adventure, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, survival, volcano, catastrophe, end of the world, firefighter, forces of nature, race against time, lava, fire, father daughter relationship, panic, subway, save the day, teenage girl, heroes, apocalypse, danger, evacuation, scientist, doctor, rescue, courage, rain ...
Time:
future, year 1997, 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, iceland, beverly hills, antarctica, hawaii ...
Keyword:
superior, doctors
Most similar movies to Volcano
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, exciting and serious films with plots about disaster, danger, survival, natural disaster, race against time, catastrophe and apocalypse mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Volcano: The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Deep Impact (1998), Daylight (1996), The Core (2003), Armageddon (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, climate, cataclysm, survival, stranded ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., california, antarctic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
189K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, president, tsunami, save the world, destruction, life & death, self sacrifice ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., virginia, tucson arizona, philadelphia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
76K
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
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, trapped, tunnel, race against time, catastrophe, apocalypse, rescue, danger, save the day, daring rescue ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
107K
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, apocalyptic, serious, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, survival, save the world, space, worldwide chaos, catastrophe, hacker, danger, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, chicago, pacific ocean, houston texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
449K
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:
suspense, apocalyptic, sentimental, entertaining, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, outer space, asteroid, race against time, self sacrifice, nasa ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, future, 20th century
Place:
new york, paris france, washington d.c., usa, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to I Am Legend
396K
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, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, destruction, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, human existence, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, year 2010 ...
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, british columbia, mount everest, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
212K
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, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, anamorphic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, catastrophe, survival, divorce, twister, weatherman, nature, hurricane, forces of nature, apocalypse ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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, suspenseful ...
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, destruction, animal attack, helicopter crash, african american, building collapse, survival, danger, race against time, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, realistic, serious, scenic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, courage, daring rescue, sinking ship, fisherman ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
255K
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, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, tsunami, earthquake, father daughter relationship, happy ending, daughter ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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, apocalyptic, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, escapades, survival, end of the world, catastrophe, high school, redemption, panic, weather, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
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Story:
A jolted West Coast deals with the deadly aftereffects of a massive tremor in this sequel to the disaster drama 10.5. Concerned that a widening fault line may set off two nuclear reactors, seismologist Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney) contacts the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, survival, apocalypse, save the world, rescue, save the day, danger, escapades, race against time, chaos ...
Place:
texas, las vegas, usa, south dakota, denver colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, volcano, survival, rescue, scientist, race against time, volcanic eruption, small town, mayor, apocalypse ...
Time:
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Place:
washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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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:
suspense, exciting, scenic, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot:
natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, diabetic, comet, panic, mass destruction ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
greenland, canada, kentucky, atlanta georgia, beirut lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
207K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to ...
Style:
breathtaking, serious, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
train, runaway train, disaster, train crash, chase, save the day, train engineer, train wreck, race against time, determination, survival, courage ...
Time:
year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After 30 years of searching, Harry (Edwards) has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surreal, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
end of the world, nuclear war, night, apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, race against time, coffee shop, post apocalyptic, panic, danger, love affair ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, disaster, subway, survival, flood, panic, train, group of strangers, danger, chaos and mayhem, chaos, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, universe, desert, survival, danger, astronomer, heroic mission, save the planet, escapades, natural disaster, violence, military ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, africa, taj mahal, tokyo, sydney australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Yellowstone National Park scientist and a thrill-seeking ranger join forces to plug-up a volatile super volcano that threatens to wipe out the entire United States.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
disaster, volcano, natural disaster, rescue, escapades, danger, forces of nature, time travel, apocalypse, catastrophe, threat, lava ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A USGS scientist attempts to convince his boss and the residents of Angel Falls, California that a nearby volcano is about to erupt.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
volcano, disaster, natural disaster, lava, pregnant woman, resort, chaos and mayhem, forces of nature, chases and races, save the day, heroes, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
Style:
disturbing, exciting, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ice age, natural disaster, disaster, forces of nature, arctic, survival horror, struggle for survival, destruction, family relations, cold, cold the temperature, husband and wife ...
Place:
california, usa
⇓ 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
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, survival, catastrophe, danger, national guard, end of the world, love triangle, forces of nature, infidelity, love affair ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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, intense, road movie, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, tsunami, landslide, hotel, geologist, dysfunctional family, apocalypse, family drama, paranoid ...
Time:
80s, year 2015
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, bad weather, tornado, aftermath, destruction, rescue, race against time, family relations, hiding place, small town, survival ...
Time:
2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, martial arts, evacuation, danger, rescue, race against time, soldier, atomic bomb, government agency, daring rescue, save the world, secret agent ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, antarctica, usa, pacific ocean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.
Style:
captivating, tense, apocalyptic, exciting, intense ...
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, flood, survival, evacuation, danger, rescue, chaos, forces of nature, destruction, escapades, demolished city ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, save the world, heroes, danger, forces of nature, global warming, catastrophe, death, society, destruction ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, hurricane, tornado, heroic mission, survival, forces of nature, chaos, race against time, journalism, apocalypse, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
las vegas, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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, suspense, tense, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, trapped, oil, oil rig, sea, courage, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scientists make a horrible discovery: The "Big One" is coming in two days, with it, California will sink to the ocean. Their only hope is to rupture a volcano that will displace the earthquake's energy and build a new crust on the ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, demolished city, death, fire, survival, apocalypse, violence, humanity in peril, vestiges of humanity, end of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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