Movies like Volcano 2009
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Volcano (2009)
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Original name: Vulkan
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, disaster movie
Plot:
disaster, escape, fire, danger, panic, fear, lava, fright, volcanic eruption, natural disaster, rescue, chaos, rivalry, society, firefighter, women, earthquake, death, volcano, catastrophe, explosive, disaster film
Time:
21st century
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Most similar movies to Volcano
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and exciting films with plots about disaster, danger, catastrophe, natural disaster, survival, rescue and evacuation mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Volcano: 20.0 Megaquake (2022), Aftershock (2008), Uncommon Valor (1983), San Andreas Mega Quake (2019), Earthquake (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As a megaquake threatens San Francisco, a series of foreshocks wreaks havoc across the city. Now, an elite team of emergency service and disaster experts converge on the anticipated epicenter, working tirelessly to save as many lives as possible and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, rescue, nature, rescue mission, lifeguard, forces of nature, rescue attempt, man versus nature, salvation, lifesaver, search and rescue ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Aftershock follows four groups of people in the minutes, hours and days after Wellington is struck by a magnitude 8.2 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Buried office workers must pull together. Strangers, caught by the tsunami on a ruined ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, destruction, humanity in peril, apocalypse, chaos, society, chaos and mayhem, forces of nature, survival, evacuation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging ...
Style:
action drama, intense, tense, suspense
Plot:
courage, arson, firefighter, teamwork, danger, disaster, rescue, heroism, panic, hospital, fire, fireman ...
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah
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, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, demolished city, fire, death, apocalypse, survival, chaos and mayhem, race against time, chaos, destruction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
Style:
psychological, touching, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, catastrophe, survival, rescue, demolished city, humanity in peril, society, chaos and mayhem, human existence, death ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, russia, ussr
Similarity:
47%
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:
47%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
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:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
disaster, volcano, natural disaster, lava, volcanic eruption, pregnant woman, mountain, forces of nature, chaos and mayhem, resort, evacuation, chaos ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot:
disaster, fire, firefighter, revenge, arson, natural disaster, trapped, rescue, fire brigade, city, explosions, firefighting ...
Time:
year 1979
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, tension
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, weather, death threat, catastrophe, social problems, struggle for survival, small town, scientist, danger, man versus nature, twister ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A former NASA asteroid tracker discovers a looming asteroid collision that could send it on a collision-course with Earth. Because he made a wrong call ten years earlier that cost him his career, nobody at NASA will listen to him when he starts ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
disaster, fear, heroes, earth, death, humanity in peril, race against time, survival, evacuation, destruction, dishonesty, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A heroic story about firefighters and rescuers. What we call an act of bravery is just a usual routine for them, if only one can get used to mortal danger and extreme risk. When people in distress seem to have nobody who may help them, rescuers come ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, sentimental, intense, emotional
Plot:
firefighting, natural disaster, forest fire, fire, friendship between men, race against time, heroism, machismo, bravery, mentor, friends, danger ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
Style:
tension, suspense, tense, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
disaster, subway, earthquake, trapped, escape, survival, fear, danger, claustrophobia, underground, urban, darkness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The bond of brotherhood is always stronger when you can be pitched into a life and death situation at any time and the only thing that gets you through the inferno is the trust that your brother will have your back. The firefighters of Hong Kong’s ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
fire brigade, firefighter, disaster, save the day, partner, heroic mission, politics, forces of nature, fireman, factory, danger, friendship ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
34%
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:
34%
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, serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, rescue, escapades, danger, forces of nature, volcano, time travel, apocalypse, catastrophe, lava, threat ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, robot, computer program, danger, destruction, military, society, chaos and mayhem, humanity in peril, distopia, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a series of strange earthquakes hit California, a seismologist named Kimberly Stevenson is sent to the Angeles Forest to investigate the epicenter. This might prove to be her biggest task so far, but also the one that will bring her renown. She ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, race against time, chases and races, mysterious character, escapades, danger, frame up, rescue, isolation, wilderness, disaster, catastrophe ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
33%
417
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tension, period piece, psychotronic
Plot:
forest fire, natural disaster, wildfire, survival, man versus nature, danger, catastrophe, arson, disaster, smoking, spectacle, rescue ...
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a family survives Hurricane Katrina, there is another storm but this one is much worse.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, stormy night, storm, natural disaster, death, sea disaster, survival, danger, chaos and mayhem, race against time, drowning ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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:
31%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ex-Royal Marine Commando uncovers evidence that could bring down a corrupt official and put him behind bars for life. When his childhood sweetheart is kidnapped, his mission is to rescue her and let nothing stand in his way.
Style:
exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot:
conspiracy, marine, investigation, murder, corruption, uncover truth, danger, save the day, war veteran, dishonesty, haunted by the past, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Nell is a young mother convicted of accidentally killing her alcoholic husband. When given the opportunity to serve his sentence as a forest firefighter, demonstrates his courage and discipline in an exceptional way.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, action drama ...
Plot:
female protagonist, teamwork, rescue mission, young mother, second chance, redemption, wildfire, firefighting, firefighter, fire, intelligence agency, workplace situations ...
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A firefighter is wrongly blamed for the death of her father, hours before he was due to retire from the department. Eager to prove herself to her peers, she sets out to join an elite squad of smoke jumpers who are expected to jump from aeroplanes ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
firefighter, save the day, daring rescue, ambition, danger, basic training, gender, female protagonist, false accusation, death of father, fire brigade, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Los Angeles is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, and time is running out to save the city from imminent danger.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, apocalypse, industry, chaos, survival, chaos and mayhem, scientist, science, problem, death ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Disaster hits when two teenagers are caught in a fire on the 20th floor of a skyscraper. Their parents are on the 60th. Will they survive the flames?
Style:
psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
disaster, fire, trapped in an elevator, murder, firefighter, heroes, tragic event, fear, family relations, chaos, death, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
28%
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:
27%
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, tense, captivating
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, climate change, forces of nature, rescue, chaos, danger, escapades, volcano, evacuation, scientist, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, usa, paris france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A deadly patchwork of destructive cyclones is on an apocalyptic path of convergence at a populated Midwest city center. There, the twisters will merge into one mega tornado that threatens to obliterate the cities for hundreds of miles around.
Style:
intense, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, fast paced ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
tornado, disaster, natural disaster, destruction, extreme weather, survival, mass destruction, chaos, man versus nature, evacuation, panic, spectacle ...
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a mysterious orb of light strikes a deep water oil rig, the massive explosion erupts into a ball of flames creating a swirling mass of clouds and fire. As the twister begins to move ...
Style:
suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
tornado, natural disaster, apocalypse, disaster, firefighter, fire, death, chaos and mayhem, storm, danger, race against time, survival ...
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
26%
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