Movies like When Time Ran Out...

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When Time Ran Out... (1980)
 4.5
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When Time Ran Out... (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
Style: psychotronic, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, hotel, resort, escape, pandemic, survival, infidelity, ranch, love affair, trapped, heroes, love triangle, chases and races, escapades, wiretap, danger, forces of nature, race against time, daring rescue, horse, jungle, airplane, police officer, cave ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: pacific ocean
Keyword: challenge

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Most similar movies to When Time Ran Out...

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and realistic films with plots about disaster, danger, natural disaster, escapades, forces of nature, race against time and heroes mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like When Time Ran Out...: Twister (1996), The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974), Skyfire (2019), The Poseidon Adventure (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Twister (1996)
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 ⇓
100%
The Towering Inferno (1974)
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: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, catastrophe, skyscraper, firefighter, rescue, survival, natural disaster, race against time, trapped, fire, trapped in a building, architect ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
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Story: New York, the city that never sleeps, is trapped in a nightmare of horror and destruction when a massive earthquake rocks the unsuspecting city. Countless lives are lost, families are torn apart, and chaos runs rampant as the mayor and former Fire ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, urban, tragedy, hospital, climate, die hard, pandemic, tornado, epidemic, distopia ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 18K
Earthquake (1974)
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 ⇓
39%
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Skyfire (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tianhuo Island is a beautiful paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the "Ring of Fire", the world-famous Pacific Rim volcanic belt. Young geologist Li Xiaomeng brings her team here to develop the first volcanic ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, independent film, suspense ...
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, resort, fire, father daughter relationship, island, volcanic eruption, catastrophe, female warrior, race against time, destruction, survival ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, 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: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, disaster, survival, cruise ship, ship, natural disaster, christmas, greed, new year's eve, ocean, daring rescue, save the day ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.7
 2K
Avalanche (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, avalanche, snow, rescue, natural disaster, ski, survival, catastrophe, ski resort, winter, danger, skating ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Apocalypse Pompeii (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, mockbuster, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, volcano, tourist, daring rescue, forces of nature, chaos and mayhem, family in danger, escapades, heroes, rescue mission, volcanic eruption, lava ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, napoli italy, pompeii
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 5.9
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Daylight (1996)
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 ⇓
34%
Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)
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: serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, save the day, danger, rescue, race against time, catastrophe, mountain, profanity, plague, heroic mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.8
 12K
Airport '77 (1977)
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
Plot: disaster, airplane, underwater, rescue, airport, survival, aviation, bermuda triangle, airplane accident, hijacking, airplane hijack, frogman ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Airplane vs Volcano (2014)
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, realistic, serious, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, airplane, save the day, danger, survival, heroes, spouse in danger, forces of nature, air disaster, military, volcano, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
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 ⇓
31%
The Finest Hours (2016)
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%
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Lithuania, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, save the day, daring rescue, danger, race against time, forces of nature, violent content, escapades, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Super Eruption (2011)
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 ⇓
30%
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MegaFault (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
Style: exciting, serious, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, apocalypse, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: disaster, climate change, natural disaster, forces of nature, rescue, chaos, danger, escapades, volcano, snow, evacuation, scientist ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: europe, iceland, usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Landslide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, save the day, escapades, race against time, danger, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Volcano (1997)
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 ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, volcano, catastrophe, end of the world, firefighter, forces of nature, race against time, lava, panic, fire ...
Time: year 1997, future, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Storm Cell (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A brother and sister are torn apart when their parents die tragically in a tornado. While he moves to Seattle to be away from the memory, she devotes her life to studying storms and weather patterns. When she discovers the threat of a powerful ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, hurricane, tornado, natural disaster, danger, race against time, forces of nature, escapades, storm, save the day, fleeing, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.3
 3K
Air Crew (1980)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, serious ...
Plot: airplane, natural disaster, co pilot, aviation, disaster, danger, heroic mission, daring rescue, forces of nature, stewardess, pilot, survival ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: soviet union, ussr, moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.1
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St. Helens (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The movie begins with the volcano's awakening on March 20 and ends with its eruption on May 18, 1980
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, volcano, volcanic eruption, survival, climate, darkness, evacuation, escapades, society, journalism, danger ...
Time: year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place: oregon, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Tidal Wave (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Man-sik and Yeon-hee, are unsure as to whether they can overcome past wounds and continue being a couple. Dr. Kim, who cautions against a possible mega-tsunami at Haeundae, collapses in agony springing from an unexpected turn-up of his daughter and ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tear jerker ...
Plot: disaster, tsunami, lifeguard, forces of nature, natural disaster, demolished city, race against time, danger, giant wave, post apocalypse, death of mother, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, busan, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Absolute Zero (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: INTER SCI climatologist Dr. David Kotzman has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age...in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, survival, forces of nature, save the day, save the world, rescue, race against time, husband wife relationship, winter ...
Time: future
Place: miami, usa, florida, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the problem?
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, distopia, forces of nature, mysterious character, save the day, chases and races, government agency, heroes, alien encounter ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
San Andreas Mega Quake (2019)
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 ⇓
29%
The Sky's on Fire (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The ozone is depleted and as a result of this all sorts things are happening like lethal insects flying around. A scientist tries to warn everybody about this but no one seems to believe him. When his predictions come true they now turn to him for ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, environmental, dystopian future, anti hero, danger, dangerous animal, save the day, race against time, rescue, heroes, escapades ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Super Cyclone (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, mockbuster
Plot: disaster, tornado, forces of nature, heroes, danger, evacuation, chases and races, escapades, lava, chase, partner, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
Style: serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: convict, clergy, disaster, priest, evacuation, island, natural disaster, rescue, church, faith, volcano, quicksand ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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