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Tidal Wave (2009)
6K
Original name: 해운대
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, 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 divorced wife. Hyoung-sik, after rescuing a woman from Seoul, rides out a ferocious storm to gladden her heart. A tsunami which destroys Haeundae symbolizes the establishment of a typical axis called provocation of conflicts, and later the inner spaces of the couples without anything left behind after all conflicts have ended
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tear jerker, apocalyptic, psychotronic, tearjerker, disaster movie
Plot:
tsunami, lifeguard, disaster, forces of nature, natural disaster, demolished city, race against time, danger, post apocalypse, death of mother, apocalypse, survival, giant wave, alien, beach, family relations, masturbation, evil, climate, doom, profanity, chases and races, escapades, woman, loss of father ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
korea, south korea, busan, asia
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Most similar movies to Tidal Wave
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and suspense films with plots about disaster, catastrophe, danger, natural disaster, race against time, forces of nature and escapades mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Tidal Wave: The Tower (2012), Sector 7 (2011), Quantum Apocalypse (2010), Titanic II (2010), Supervolcano (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve at Tower Sky, an ultra-luxurious building complex, a White Christmas party is held to dazzle its equally high-end tenants and VIP guests. Dae-ho, the manager of the building and single father, is forced to cancel plans with his ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, christmas horror, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, skyscraper, catastrophe, firefighter, fire, tower, rescue, christmas, trapped, danger, survival, save the day ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the disappearing Japan
Style:
action thriller, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, forces of nature, tsunami, prime minister, natural disaster, distopia, epidemic, earthquake, evacuation, chaos, race against time ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
asia, japan, mount fuji, tokyo, australia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned ...
Style:
serious, exciting, scary, suspenseful, crying ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
oil rig, kaiju, sea monster, survival, sea creature, ocean, communication problem, deadly creature, isolation, danger, escapades, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
korea, asia
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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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, mockbuster, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
titanic, sea, iceberg, disaster, sinking ship, forces of nature, escapades, race against time, danger, chaos and mayhem, ocean liner, collision ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, mockbuster ...
Plot:
volcano, natural disaster, disaster, survival, chaos and mayhem, heroes, danger, dystopian future, optimism, escapades, chases and races, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Things start to heat up when public prosecutor Kang takes on the case of Han Sang-woo, a former high school classmate and the future chairman of the Myung-Sun Foundation. Despite his innocent facade, Kang's old friend looks to be guilty of ...
Style:
crime drama, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lawyer, extreme, violent content, spoiled brat, uninhibited rivalry, master villain, law enforcement, grudge, vengeance, chases and races, rivalry, martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea, south korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When tornadoes hit a nuclear power plant, critically damaging the plant's cooling system, the results could be catastrophic. Atomic Twister, a countdown to disaster, traces an extraordinary day in the lives of small town citizens who ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
disaster, tornado, nuclear power plant, race against time, danger, heroes, natural disaster, nuclear reactor, friends, apocalypse, weather, bad weather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Story:
An earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by aftershocks and tsunami.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, earthquake, survival, danger, save the day, race against time, government agency, heroic mission, forces of nature, building collapse, evacuation ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, california, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Stagnant since 1903, at an elevation of 9000', a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, suspense, action packed
Plot:
disaster, volcano, natural disaster, inter-korean relations, heroic mission, forces of nature, volcanic eruption, earthquake, cataclysm, peril, race against time, self sacrifice ...
Time:
1900s, 2010s
Place:
north korea, south korea, korea
Similarity:
100%
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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:
suspense, exciting, intense, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, volcano, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, race against time, lava, teenage girl, fire, panic, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
future, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
100%
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, exciting, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
natural disaster, airplane, co pilot, aviation, disaster, danger, daring rescue, forces of nature, stewardess, pilot, survival, passenger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
100%
204K
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, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, survival, tsunami, astronomer, self sacrifice, spacecraft, president ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
tucson arizona, washington d.c., new york, north america, atlanta georgia ...
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, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Romania, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A rescue goes terribly wrong for a sheriff when trying to save four dirt bikers when they are trapped by growing forest fires. Desperate, they seek shelter in an abandoned mine, never realizing they are headed straight for evil from the ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, fast ...
Plot:
disaster, heroes, rivalry, danger, wilderness, rescue, escapades, confined, forces of nature, woods, chases and races, natural disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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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:
67%
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, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, distopia, mysterious character, forces of nature, law enforcement, chases and races, contests and competitions, environmentalism, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
26%
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, tornado, hurricane, natural disaster, heroic mission, survival, lightning, chaos, forces of nature, race against time, journalism, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
las vegas, usa, chicago
Similarity:
25%
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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, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat, military ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
7K
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:
24%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Japan sinks! Proving once again that Japan will never cease to find inventive ways to destroy itself on screen, this summer's blockbuster Sinking of Japan brings apocalypse through tectonics. Based on Sakyo Komatsu's best-selling novel, ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller
Plot:
disaster, tsunami, race against time, rescue, escapades, leadership, danger, head of state, love affair, chaos, chases and races, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, freezing, survival, ecological disaster, forces of nature, demolished city, natural disaster, solar eclipse, save the world, obsessive quest, evacuation, chaos ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
seattle, tasmania, usa, australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation's weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, tornado, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, forces of nature, survival, race against time, obsessive quest, escapades, danger, heroes, evil alien ...
Similarity:
22%
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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:
exciting, compassionate, intense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
natural disaster, ice age, forces of nature, arctic, husband and wife, struggle for survival, survival horror, disaster, destruction, family relations, cold, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
18 years on from the devastating impact of 2004's tsunami, the world still fights to come to terms with this devastating environmental disaster. Little does humanity know that it is about to face the ultimate peril; a monumental death wave ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, exciting, serious
Plot:
tsunami, natural disaster, warning, forces of nature, environmental, apocalypse, stranded, destruction, danger, flood, chaos, exodus ...
Time:
future
Place:
bangkok thailand, thailand
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A helicopter pilot and an environmental scientist lead a exodus of survivors in a search for a safe haven after a catastrophic tectonic event causes the crust of the earth to break apart.
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, destruction, fear, escapades, survival, humanity in peril, heroes, pilot, evacuation, forces of nature, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For 5 billion years the Earth's core has operated like a giant, nuclear reactor. Now it's overheated, melting down like a bomb that's about to explode. The earth is being ripped apart at the seams and beneath LA, pressure is building. ...
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, weather, survival, race against time, love, demolished city, global warming, destruction, evacuation, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a piece of the massive comet "Copernicus" collides with the Earth, it knocks the planet off of its axis and unleashes a disaster never before witnessed. Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) and his highly trained research team are the ...
Style:
exciting, apocalyptic, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, collision, comet, natural disaster, forces of nature, danger, family relations, one last chance, save the day, survival, apocalypse, space and aliens ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
476
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
The hottest summer in years: Meteorologist Jan returns from Oklahoma, where he has studied twisters up close, after faring a traumatic catastrophe during his dangerous research. Back in Berlin, he comes to face with his past and his ex-girlfriend ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
tornado, disaster, forces of nature, save the day, obsessive quest, chases and races, heroes, escapades, danger, natural disaster, fear, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, oklahoma, berlin germany
Similarity:
21%
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:
tense, captivating, apocalyptic, exciting, intense ...
Plot:
flood, end of the world, disaster, survival, destruction, forces of nature, chaos, rescue, evacuation, danger, race against time, society ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
21%
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