Movies like San Andreas

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San Andreas (2015)
 6.1
 255K
San Andreas (2015)
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, apocalyptic, romantic, breathtaking, scenic, mockbuster ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, tsunami, earthquake, father daughter relationship, happy ending, daughter, daring rescue, divorce, family bonds, child in peril, rescue, collapse, rescue attempt, chaos, escapades, journey, giant wave, mass destruction, mother ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century, contemporary
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa, nevada, united states of america
Keyword: superior, russian

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Most similar movies to San Andreas

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, exciting and serious films with plots about survival, disaster, danger, death, catastrophe, helicopter and apocalypse mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like San Andreas: The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (2009), Poseidon (2006), Greenland (2020), Skyscraper (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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%
 5.8
 396K
2012 (2009)
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 ⇓
93%
 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
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, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 132K
Greenland (2020)
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 ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 133K
Skyscraper (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
Style: tense, suspense, psychotronic, anamorphic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, family outing, teens, kids
Plot: skyscraper, disaster, penthouse, heroism, terrorism, protective parent, fire, panic, courage, betrayal, hostage, lone hero ...
Time: 2010s
Place: hong kong, china, asia, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.5
 212K
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 ⇓
75%
 5.3
 117K
Geostorm (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, climate change, hurricane, ecological disaster, malfunction, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, year 2019
Place: miami, shanghai, new york, rio de janeiro, hong kong ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 71K
Into the Storm (2014)
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 ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 7.5
 242K
The Impossible (2012)
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: emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.5
 107K
The Core (2003)
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 ⇓
100%
 5.5
 81K
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 ⇓
78%
10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
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%
 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 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 ⇓
100%
Destruction Los Angeles (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A fatal explosion and sudden earthquake rock Los Angeles, and reporter John Benson seizes his chance to cover the breaking news of increasing seismic activity.
Style: action adventure, tense, exciting, brutal, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: volcanic eruption, asthma, survival, disaster, death, danger, fear, apocalypse, volcano, natural disaster, reporter, trauma ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style: suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: gunfight, terrorism, police, heist, race against time, bomb, police officer, car chase, revenge, weapons, puzzle, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa, north america, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Perfect Storm (2000)
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: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, storm at sea, storm, ocean, shipwreck, forces of nature, fish, sea, fishing ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: new england, boston, nova scotia, atlantic ocean, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.6
 42K
The Wave (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the fact that mountain party Ã…kneset, 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%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 189K
Deep Impact (1998)
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%
 6.5
 139K
Cliffhanger (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, France, Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who ...
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: climbing, mountain climbing, heist, mountain, rocky mountains, wilderness, rock climbing, villain, snow, redemption, rescue, survival ...
Time: 20th century, future, 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 436K
Godzilla (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: monster, giant monster, dinosaur, godzilla, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, deadly creature, giant, giant creature ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place: japan, san francisco, hawaii, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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%
 6.6
 6K
Flight Crew (2016)
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: biting, suspense, disturbing, sentimental, novela ...
Plot: natural disaster, air disaster, aviation, risk, heroism, rescue mission, disaster, rescue team, social relations, coworker relationship, daring rescue, beefcake ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.1
 58K
How It Ends (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
Style: apocalyptic, road movie, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Plot: end of the world, disaster, journey, volcano, father in law son in law relationship, murder, road trip, post apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, survival, apocalypse ...
Time: 2010s
Place: seattle, chicago, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 207K
Unstoppable (2010)
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 ⇓
57%
 3.1
 42K
Left Behind (2014)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.
Style: serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, biblical ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, airplane, chaos, parents and children, supernatural, christian, religions or cults, journalism, heroes, danger ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
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 ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 92K
No Escape (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot: survival, family in danger, coup d'etat, execution, riot, rebellion, violence, race against time, american abroad, revolution, danger, wrong place wrong time ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 98K
Dante's Peak (1997)
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: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.9
 76K
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 ⇓
50%
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