Movies and TV shows like Megastorm
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Megastorm (2009)
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Original name: The Storm
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
Through his Atmospheric Research Institute, Robert Terrell (Treat Williams) has finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of completing "weather creation" technology, which has been a landmark event. However, during a test run, a team composed of Dr. Jonathan Kirk, Carly Meyers and Dr. Jack Hoffman send a blast of energy into the ionosphere, driving the planet into unexpected natural disasters. The experiment also causes a damage of the weather control laboratory which causes the police led by the detective Devon Williams to begin the investigation.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, dramatic, intense, detective, political, disaster movie
Plot:
disaster, weather manipulation, natural disaster, weather, storm, catastrophe, scientist, climate, climate change, apocalypse, science, hi-tech, science runs amok, experimental technology, science gone wrong, save the day, survival, government conspiracy, secret project, man versus nature, hitman, chase, flooding, panic, rescue mission ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Megastorm
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and exciting films and TV series with plots about disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, catastrophe, danger, end of the world and survival mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Megastorm: Superstorm (2007), Tornado Warning (2002), CAT. 8 (2013), Oceans Rising (2017), Seattle Superstorm (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 59 min.
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Story:
Superstorm is a three-part British docudrama miniseries written and directed by Julian Simpson, about a group of scientists that try to divert and weaken hurricanes using cloud seeding.
Superstorm originally aired on BBC One for a period of three ...
Style:
tense, educational, suspenseful, bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
natural disaster, hurricane, disaster, weather, hurricane katrina, scientist, weather manipulation, storm, man versus nature, extreme weather, scientific experiment, research ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new york, miami
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Deep underwater in the Marianas Trench an accident results in a devastating Tsunami that destroys the Hawaiian Islands as it continues toward the west coast. Panic ensues all up and down the western coast of North and South America. In an attempt to ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, tsunami, catastrophe, panic, survival, evacuation, apocalypse, scientist, struggle for survival, water, giant wave ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
93%
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:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
When a breakthrough in global defense malfunctions, the result is a fireball four times the size of Earth streaking toward the planet. As fires blaze and panic spreads, a renegade scientist comes to the world’s rescue.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, disturbing
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, race against time, solar flare, heroes, global warming, society, danger, catastrophe, survival, chaos and mayhem, evacuation ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A scientist builds a massive ark after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. But when it's evident the disaster will occur, those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, boarding the ark and seeking his ...
Style:
apocalyptic, disturbing, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, sea, boat, end of the world, scientist, flooding, adaptation, hopes, danger, society, heroes ...
Time:
future, year 2017
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to effect the local weather ultimately threatening the whole world.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, storm, family in danger, weather, tornado, catastrophe, save the day, forces of nature, chaos, space and aliens, escapades, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington state, washington d.c.
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story:
Two scientists attempt to discover a new unlimited energy resource, but their experiment is sabotaged by eco-terrorists. A black hole is then formed and could destroy the world ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, black hole, science runs amok, save the world, terrorism, escapades, experiment gone awry, chaos, danger, heroes, natural disaster, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, apocalyptic, political drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
asteroid, save the planet, apocalypse, end of the world, comet, conspiracy, escape, atheism, betrayal, investigation, disaster, tragedy ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A high school science teacher must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe the US ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, mockbuster
Plot:
hurricane, disaster, tornado, storm, experiment, scientist, natural disaster, destruction, mass destruction, military, save the day, family in danger ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story:
Somewhere on the outskirts of our solar system, the unthinkable occurs. A giant asteroid collides with a smaller one and changes direction - headed directly toward The Earth. The burning meteor rain that beats down with devastating force, is only a ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, comet, small town life, save the world, natural disaster, chaos and mayhem, race against time, contests and competitions, danger, father daughter relationship, meteorite, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A climatologist cuts her anniversary celebration short to save her family - and all of North America - from an unimaginably destructive storm.
Style:
suspense, thrilling, intense, tense
Plot:
man versus nature, extreme weather, storm, disaster, flooding, family drama, resilience, survival, rescue mission, save the world, climate change, countdown ...
Place:
north america
Similarity:
53%
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:
53%
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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:
51%
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:
51%
2K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
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It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
Plot:
climate change, forces of nature, disaster, ecological disaster, evacuation, survival, iceberg, danger, escapades, storm, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, greenland
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jupiter’s famous blemish, the Great Red Spot, has vanished. When massive storms are reported in North America, it quickly becomes apparent that the huge, high storm that has been swirling around Jupiter for hundreds of years has landed on Earth. ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
disaster, tornado, natural disaster, apocalypse, hurricane, storm, heroes, teenage boy, humanity in peril, teenager, danger, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 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, 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:
50%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
When an oil rig causes an eruption in a small town, it's just the first in a series that could affect the dangerous Ring of Fire that contains most of the world's volcanoes. If these cataclysmic eruptions cannot be stopped, the Earth could ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
disaster, volcano, natural disaster, oil refinery, survival, danger, escapades, forces of nature, humanity in peril, chaos and mayhem, storm, chaos ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
disaster, storm, chaos, chaos and mayhem, escapades, danger, save the day, family relations, disorder, siblings relations, parents and children, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Action - When a shower of massive meteors threatens an extinction level on Earth, the world's greatest minds devise a dangerous plan that will take the planet off its axis in order to avoid the impact. - Tia Carrere, Jason Brooks, Robert Davi
Style:
apocalyptic, tension, suspense, grim, dark
Plot:
disaster, asteroid, natural disaster, earth, mass destruction, catastrophe, chaos, survival, countdown, sacrifice, panic, rescue mission ...
Similarity:
44%
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:
43%
4K
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:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a volcano expert becomes convinced that a cataclysmic natural disaster is about to unfold, a volcanologist Professor John Shepherd and his graduate students believes that recent unexplainable volcanic activity as all of the volcanoes in the ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, volcano, apocalypse, natural disaster, catastrophe, destruction, survival, fear, doom, evacuation, threat, lava ...
Similarity:
43%
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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:
43%
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:
42%
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:
42%
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:
42%
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:
42%
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:
41%
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:
40%
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