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The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
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Original name: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, apocalypse, hitman, climate, assassination attempt, survival, heroes, politics, battles, journalism, escapades, media, danger, family in crisis, forces of nature, warning, assassination, save the day, sniper, school, murderer, firefighter, police ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and realistic films with plots about disaster, danger, natural disaster, catastrophe, forces of nature, heroes and race against time mostly in Action, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake: San Andreas Quake (2015), 10.5 (2004), City on Fire (2009), Earthquake (1974), Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
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, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, urban, climate, distopia, die hard, epidemic, pandemic, hospital, tragedy, rock ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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, exciting ...
Plot:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
TV show
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
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert, one scientist must put her theories to the test in a desperate effort to prevent the catastrophe.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, danger, save the day, forces of nature, escapades, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, chases and races, heroes, heat wave ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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, kids
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, earthquake, catastrophe, danger, chaos, national guard, love triangle, daring rescue, save the day, infidelity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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32%
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
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459
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
subway, disaster, survival, heroes, confined, rescue, save the day, escapades, danger, race against time, isolation, forces of nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, scotland, california, usa
Similarity:
31%
480
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, forest fire, forces of nature, survival, save the day, heroes, hidden identity, disorder, danger, apocalypse, natural disaster, firefighter ...
Place:
usa, oregon, portland oregon
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hoping to make a killing on the insurance money, oil refinery owner Wendell Mays decides to burn the place to the ground. His greed endangers the lives of the entire town as the fireball creates a spreading inferno threatens to engulf the entire ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
87K
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:
28%
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:
28%
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:
28%
476
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
28%
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, serious, realistic, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
antarctic, tokyo
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
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:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, natural disaster, survival, save the world, rescue, save the day, forces of nature, race against time, husband wife relationship, winter, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future
Place:
miami, usa, florida, new york
Similarity:
27%
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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:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, christmas horror, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, mockbuster ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
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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, suspense, tense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, hurricane, tornado, natural disaster, danger, race against time, forces of nature, escapades, storm, save the day, fleeing, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., seattle
Similarity:
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7K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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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:
26%
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:
26%
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:
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Lithuania, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, russia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
25%
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