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Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
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Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When the dam in the town of Rutland starts to show signs of wear. David Powell, the architect who originally worked on the dam but was removed and who left town after he was black balled by Walker, the man who only cares about making a profit; returns. He insists that the dam be drained and inspected but Walker claims it would take too long and would be too costly. David goes to the dam and notices a few anomalies. He then tries to warn the deputy mayor who happens to be his estranged wife but out of anger she refuses to listen. Also David tries to reconnect with his son who resents his desertion.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disaster movie
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dam, disaster, survival, rescue, danger, race against time, daring rescue, save the day, escapades, forces of nature, mentally unstable, natural disaster, architect, father son relationship, evacuation, apocalypse, heroes, chases and races, small town, small town life, flood, sheriff, signing a contract, estranged father, catastrophe ...
Time: contemporary

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Most similar movies to Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and realistic films with plots about disaster, danger, escapades, forces of nature, natural disaster, race against time and heroes mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke: Flood (2007), Landslide (2005), Frozen Impact (2003), Combustion (2004), Super Eruption (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Flood (2007)
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, suspenseful, talky, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, tornado, survival, natural disaster, race against time, rescue, save the day, epidemic, secret agent, danger, forces of nature ...
Place: london, england, europe, big ben london, scotland
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100%
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Landslide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, save the day, escapades, race against time, danger, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
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Frozen Impact (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Rutland, Vermont, Forestry Service supervisor Dan Blanchard and his wife Dr. Christy Blanchard hope life will return to normal now a transplant liver is expected for their brave son Jason (12). Daughter Marie was ordered to bring Jason to perform ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Plot: disaster, escapades, child illness, forces of nature, against the odds, daring rescue, one man army, save the day, survival, danger, race against time, heroes ...
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
 221
Combustion (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: USA
Story: Millwood City engineer Scott Daniels, moved from Houston, investigates a series of mysterious fires. Scott's and Lourie Harper's only son Jesse, who hated the move or dad's youth home, fakes a fever and invites his new girlfriend ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, heroic mission, forces of nature, rescue, government agency, save the day, undercover, dishonesty, small town, mayor, disaster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Super Eruption (2011)
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, suspenseful, serious, captivating, bleak ...
Plot: disaster, volcano, natural disaster, rescue, escapades, danger, forces of nature, time travel, apocalypse, catastrophe, threat, lava ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 758
Sub Down (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a nuclear attack submarine crashes on the floor of the Artic ocean, it's up to a pair of research scientists to save the entire crew before time and oxygen run out.
Style: independent film, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, disaster, die hard, boat, u.s. navy, ocean, underwater, save the day, chases and races, escapades, rescue, military ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
 3.3
 294
Heat Wave (2009)
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, save the day, danger, forces of nature, escapades, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, heat wave, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, resort, save the day, rescue, forces of nature, isolation, family in crisis, family life, danger, escapades, confined, heroic mission ...
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 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, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, urban, tragedy, hospital, climate, die hard, pandemic, tornado, epidemic, distopia ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 556
Tornado Valley (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Liz McAdams is haunted by the memories of a tornado that destroyed her home 25 years ago. Now a professional storm tracker, she and her family are in danger once again as another devastating twister rapidly gains momentum. Caught in the path of ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: disaster, tornado, natural disaster, danger, race against time, forces of nature, storm, salvation, apocalypse, cataclysm, widower, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.3
 434
Devil Winds (2003)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A brilliant meteorologist returns to his hometown in Oklahoma to try to stop the biggest tornado ever.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, save the day, haunted by the past, environmentalism, escapades, race against time, danger, forces of nature, laboratory, father daughter relationship, death of wife, homecoming ...
Place: oklahoma, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.3
 609
Counterstrike (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: daring rescue, terrorism, hostage, rescue, special agent, save the day, confined, escapades, danger, race against time, undercover, rivalry ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Fire from Below (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, chaos, danger, race against time, save the day, forces of nature, escapades, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, burned alive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.1
 834
Storm Cell (2008)
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, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, hurricane, tornado, natural disaster, danger, race against time, forces of nature, escapades, storm, save the day, fleeing, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 3K
Supervolcano (2005)
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, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, volcano, survival, apocalypse, chaos and mayhem, danger, heroes, dystopian future, optimism, escapades, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 3.7
 2K
Avalanche (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, avalanche, snow, rescue, natural disaster, ski, survival, catastrophe, ski resort, winter, danger, skating ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.0
 2K
MegaFault (2009)
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, apocalypse, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: It begins on a glacier nestled on a frozen peak high in the wild Ural Mountains of Russia, kissed by clouds, the top of the world. A lonely, forbidding place, it's home to THOM CUSSLER and brother, JOCK, a pair of transplanted westerners ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, save the day, danger, rescue, race against time, catastrophe, mountain, profanity, plague, heroic mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
Style: serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: convict, clergy, disaster, priest, evacuation, island, natural disaster, rescue, church, faith, volcano, quicksand ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Absolute Zero (2006)
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: suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, survival, forces of nature, save the day, save the world, rescue, race against time, husband wife relationship, winter ...
Time: future
Place: miami, usa, florida, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Lithuania, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, save the day, daring rescue, danger, race against time, forces of nature, violent content, escapades, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 401
Superfire (2002)
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: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forest fire, disaster, forces of nature, survival, save the day, hidden identity, heroes, disorder, danger, apocalypse, firefighter, natural disaster ...
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Storm War (2011)
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, humorous, tense, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, chaos, chaos and mayhem, danger, save the day, escapades, disorder, family relations, forces of nature, siblings relations, parents and children, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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25%
The Sky's on Fire (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The ozone is depleted and as a result of this all sorts things are happening like lethal insects flying around. A scientist tries to warn everybody about this but no one seems to believe him. When his predictions come true they now turn to him for ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, natural horror
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, environmental, dystopian future, anti hero, danger, dangerous animal, save the day, race against time, rescue, heroes, escapades ...
Time: 90s
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25%
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Tornado (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 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, danger, heroes, escapades, chases and races, fear, natural disaster, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, oklahoma, berlin germany
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24%
Airplane vs Volcano (2014)
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, realistic, serious, tense, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, airplane, save the day, danger, survival, heroes, spouse in danger, forces of nature, air disaster, military, volcano, aviation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Apocalypse (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In this epic disaster film of faith, a mother and father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth triggers a series of apocalyptic events.
Style: mockbuster, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, tornado, christian, apocalypse, danger, race against time, escapades, parents and children, missing child, forces of nature, chaos, asteroid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Firequake (2014)
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, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, fire, humanity in peril, chaos, rescue, danger, chaos and mayhem, survival, death, destruction, forces of nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)
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, exciting, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, distopia, forces of nature, mysterious character, save the day, chases and races, government agency, heroes, alien encounter ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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