Forces of nature movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant forces of nature movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting, suspense, realistic and tense films and TV shows about / with forces of nature, danger, disaster, catastrophe, survival, escapades, natural disaster, apocalypse, nature and end of the world plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
forces of nature movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as forces of nature: Tidal Wave (2009), Long Weekend (2008), Wolf Totem (2015), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Finest Hours (2016), The Perfect Storm (2000), Frozen (2010), Ice Quake (2010), Aftershock (2012), Arctic Blast (2010).

List of forces of nature movies

 5.5
 6K
Tidal Wave (2009)
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 ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tear jerker ...
Plot: tsunami, lifeguard, disaster, forces of nature, natural disaster, demolished city, race against time, danger, post apocalypse, death of mother, survival, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, busan, south korea, asia
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 5.1
 7K
Long Weekend (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mother Nature gets revenge on some careless campers in this remastered version of the Australian horror classic.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: forces of nature, wilderness, dangerous animal, danger, creature feature, couples, survival, mental disorder, crumbling marriage, isolation, family problems, nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, new zealand
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 6.6
 7K
Wolf Totem (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In 1969, a young Beijing student, Chen Zhen, is sent to live among the nomadic herdsmen of Inner Mongolia. Caught between the advance of civilization from the south and the nomads' traditional enemies - the marauding wolves - to the north; ...
Style: captivating, exciting, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forces of nature, wolf, medieval, survival, nature, tradition versus modernity, dog, wilderness, society, danger, wolf pack, disaster ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1967
Place: china, mongolia
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place: new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
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The Finest Hours (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style: exciting, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time: 1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place: new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
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The Perfect Storm (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexy, emotional ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, catastrophe, storm at sea, survival, storm, boat, fish, forces of nature, shipwreck, sea ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place: atlantic ocean, boston, new england, nova scotia, portugal
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 6.1
 87K
Frozen (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: antarctic, utah
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 4.1
 2K
Ice Quake (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: As the permafrost melts in Alaska, underground rivers of volatile liquid methane form which sets off a series of devastating earthquakes. Forced apart by this violent occurrence, one family must find each other during the holidays and work to stop ...
Style: tense, captivating, apocalyptic, christmas horror, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, avalanche, forces of nature, earthquake, one man army, winter, save the world, survival, danger, daring rescue, family in danger, natural disaster ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
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 4.8
 13K
Aftershock (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mayhem and death follow when an earthquake traps a group of tourists in a Chilean town.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, forces of nature, survival, chaos, profanity, danger, violence spree, escapades, earthquake, gory, brutality, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america, santiago chile
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 3.9
 4K
Arctic Blast (2010)
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
Is relevant?
 4.6
 2K
Ice (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story: 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
Is relevant?
 5.9
 59K
Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, cave, expedition, disaster, danger, underwater, death, forces of nature, underground, water, struggle for survival, deathtrap ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
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 6.7
 273K
The Grey (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style: suspenseful, harsh, bad ending, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, wolf attack, forces of nature, struggle for survival, wilderness survival, stranded ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
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 1.9
 3K
Age of Ice (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the rapidly cooling ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot: disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, climate change, danger, escapades, snow, pyramid, natural disaster, apocalypse, holiday, snowstorm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt, middle east, cairo egypt
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 7.1
 246K
Everest (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Iceland, USA, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style: realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: survival, mountain climbing, mountain, mountaineer, natural disaster, disaster, snow, stranded, forces of nature, frostbite, tragedy, wilderness ...
Time: year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place: mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
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 7.3
 54K
Ragnarok (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Norway
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A small Norwegian town experiencing warm winters and violent downpours seems to be headed for another Ragnarök -- unless someone intervenes in time.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, intellectual, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: norse mythology, supernatural power, teenage protagonist, uncover truth, end of the world, good versus evil, gay, climate change, forces of nature, catastrophe, salvation, superhero ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
Is relevant?
 6.9
 87K
All Is Lost (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style: harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
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Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the seeds from the original Garden of Eden are carelessly released into today's toxic climate, the plant is transformed by our contaminated environment into a writhing mass of foliage that wreaks havoc over earth.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, ecological disaster, save the world, forces of nature, danger, chaos, escapades, inventions and discoveries, experiment gone awry, environmentalist, heroes, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.5
 480
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: 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
Is relevant?
 5.0
 226K
The Happening (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style: tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
Is relevant?
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An unexplained, local split in the atmosphere causes a series of total unpredictable, yet devastating tornadoes. Rookie fireman Brian Flynn gets trapped in the underground sewage with his girlfriend, deputy mayor James 'Jim' Lawrence and ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, surprise ending, apocalyptic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, chaos and mayhem, weatherman, couple relations, global warming, forces of nature, save the day, evacuation, escapades, rescue, ecological disaster, danger ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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From What Is Before (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 338 min.
Story: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and houses are burned. Ferdinand E. Marcos announces Proclamation ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, realistic, serious, intense ...
Plot: village life, forces of nature, isolation, chaos, danger, confined, clergy, society, fired from the job, army, death, very little dialogue ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1971, year 1972, year 1970
Place: the philippines
Is relevant?
 6.1
 274K
San Andreas (2015)
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 ...
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 4.1
 1K
Solar Attack (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a solution to avoid natural disaster.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, forces of nature, heroic mission, danger, apocalypse, escapades, survival, nuclear missile, scientist, military officer, sun ...
Place: shanghai, detroit, pentagon, russia, new zealand ...
Is relevant?
Super Cyclone (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, mockbuster
Plot: disaster, tornado, forces of nature, danger, heroes, evacuation, chases and races, escapades, lava, chase, partner, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant?
Arctic Apocalypse (2019)
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
Is relevant?
 5.6
 87K
Volcano (1997)
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 ...
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 7.5
 261K
The Impossible (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style: suspense, inspirational, heartbreaking, emotional, motivational ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, tsunami, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, family in danger, vacation ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
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 6.6
 250K
Twister (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, tornado, catastrophe, twister, weatherman, divorce, survival, nature, hurricane, forces of nature, storm ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: oklahoma, oklahoma city, north america, usa
Is relevant?
 6.2
 7K
Ashfall (2019)
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
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