Extreme weather movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant extreme weather movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating, suspense and realistic films and TV shows about / with extreme weather, natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, weather, storm, heroes, apocalypse and danger plots mostly in Drama, Action and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as extreme weather: The Last Wave (1977), Twister (1996), Summit Fever (2022), Super Icyclone (2024), Ice Storm (2023), The Twisters (2024), Superstorm (2007), Fatal Frontier: Evil in Alaska (2021), America Is Sinking (2023), Erebus: Into the Unknown (2014).
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, surreal, philosophical, lovecraft, psychological ...
Plot:
nightmare, cosmic horror, lawyer, murder, water, folk horror, disaster, extreme weather, aborigine, shaman, surrealism, fantasy world ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, future
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia
Is relevant?
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A daring dream to scale the world's most challenging trio of mountains soon turns into a terrifying nightmare for a group of friends when a deadly storm traps the climbers near the summit and cuts off all hope of rescue. With the odds stacked ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
mountain climbing, storm, mountaineer, mountain, man versus nature, extreme weather, rock climbing, struggle for survival, alpinism, survival, ambition, problem ...
Place:
alps
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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
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a devastating winter storm freezes over the whole of North Carolina, climatologists and disaster relief experts are called in before the entire East Coast is destroyed.
Style:
exciting, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ice, weather, snow, cold, cataclysm, extreme weather, freezing, science ...
Place:
usa, north carolina
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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
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Genre: Documentary
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
Yellowstone is one of the most remarkable places on the planet. It’s home to North America’s most iconic wildlife, including grizzly bears, wolves, great grey owls, beavers and bison. Every year they must survive extreme weather as the thaw ...
Style:
nature documentary, educational
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
nature, natural history, climate change, bison, grizzly bear, wildlife, extreme weather, survival, national park, wolf, conservation, wilderness ...
Time:
year 2016
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
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
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Investigating homicide cases in Alaska and the darkness that lurks within America's Last Frontier.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, crime drama, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, forensics, true crime, police investigation, homicide, law enforcement, murder investigation, who done it, sleuth, homicide detective, neurology, crime solving ...
Place:
alaska
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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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When glacial flooding causes a ripple effect of earthquakes and tsunamis, scientists must create sinkholes to absorb the water and makethe Arctic cold once more.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
tsunami, catastrophe, survival, flood, disaster, glacier, climate change, global warming, natural disaster, flooding, ecological disaster, apocalypse ...
Time:
near future
Place:
north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
On 28 November 1979, an Air New Zealand jet with 257 passengers went missing during a sightseeing tour over Antarctica. Within hours 11 ordinary police officers were called to duty to face the formidable Mount Erebus. As the police recovered the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, disaster, survival, uncover truth, dishonesty, escapades, heroic mission, danger, aviation, forces of nature, air disaster, grief ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, new zealand
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Already in the throes of a viral pandemic, a massive polar vortex threatens to cover nearly all of Earth in ice. When it's discovered the only chance of survival from the cold is a 100-mile temperate zone near the equator, a virologist, with ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, captivating, visually appealing, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, pandemic, cold weather, virus, storm, survival, cold war era, deadly virus, one man army, one against many, post apocalyptic, evacuation ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style:
anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, marriage, folk horror, macabre, japanese mythology, naval battle, promise, visceral, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 13th century, 11th century, 12th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
Style:
spoof, parody, exciting, witty, visually stunning ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, mad scientist, spying, 007, cold war, secret agent, chase, agent, weather, weather manipulation, spy spoof ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966
Place:
fictional island, washington d.c., new york, marseille, france ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Style:
period piece, road movie, compassionate, talky, sentimental ...
Plot:
music, biopic, great depression, character study, friendship, depression, artists and showbiz, musician's life, couple relations, love and romance, musician, labor union ...
Time:
1930s, year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
texas, california, oklahoma, usa, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When a professional couple who have lived & worked together for many years finally decide to marry, their sudden betrothal causes many unexpectedly funny and awkward difficulties. They soon find that being married is often quite different ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi autobiographical, biting, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
wedding, marriage, friendship, screenwriter, honeymoon, train, hollywood, reconciliation, lust, husband wife relationship, love, film producer ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
virginia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, gloomy, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
farmer, courage, natural disaster, survival, small town, society, countryside, river, strike, apocalypse, farming, extreme weather ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tennessee, usa, alabama, birmingham alabama, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1952, an Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home and family to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City. Uprooted, far from his loved ones, unable to speak French and faced with a completely alien world, he becomes ...
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, intercultural ...
Plot:
tuberculosis, disease, wilderness, husky dog, isolation, hospital, illness, friends, hopes, human spirit, friendship, family relations ...
Time:
50s, 1950s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
Style:
fairy tale, touching, exciting, witty, computer animated ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, preschool
Plot:
holiday, christmas, childhood, belief, good versus evil, friendship, fairy, protector, heroic mission, heroes, santa claus, imaginary ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012
Place:
new york, st. petersburg russia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
A man travels by foot in the snow with his dog.
Style:
suspenseful, grim, bleak, existential, period piece ...
Plot:
snow, dog, survival, man versus nature, isolation, cold, wilderness, minimalism, adaptation, arctic, desperation, morality ...
Place:
yukon
Is relevant?
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 ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they're left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, period piece, powerful ...
Plot:
survival, struggle for survival, cold, arctic, snow, island, winter, captain, crew, camp, ship, blaster ...
Time:
edwardian era, 2020s, 20th century, 1900s, 90s
Place:
greenland, denmark
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Genre: Documentary, History
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Serial Killer Earth brings together compelling footage and eyewitness accounts of recent natural disasters, including Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, in an attempt to understand and explain what happened ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, disturbing, informative ...
Plot:
natural disaster, earthquake, hurricane, hurricane katrina, tsunami, catastrophe, disaster, research, forces of nature, ordinary people, storytelling, tornado ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, bad weather, disaster, tornado, aftermath, gay relationship, rescue, race against time, small town, hiding place, survival, family relations ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Fugitives of the Federation for their daring rescue of Spock from the doomed Genesis Planet, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew begin their journey home to face justice for their actions. But as they near Earth, they find it at the mercy of ...
Style:
futuristic, action adventure, clever, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
time travel, star trek, space travel, space opera, spacecraft, teleportation, space, marine biologist, space adventure, planet earth, falling from height, beer ...
Time:
future, year 1986, 80s, 23rd century, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Netherlands, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyrant, Ming the Merciless, to save Earth.
Style:
cult classic, saga, psychotronic, visual, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
space opera, flash gordon, american football, weather manipulation, mad scientist, emperor, robot, canceled wedding, mind reading, eroticism, mind control, meteor shower ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, future, 1930s
Place:
new york, usa, space western
Is relevant?
132K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, ecological disaster, malfunction, climate change, hurricane, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place:
afghanistan, hong kong, orlando florida, rio de janeiro, new york ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The sharks take bite out of the East Coast when the sharknado hits Washington, D.C. and Orlando, Florida.
Style:
parody, bloody, absurd, surreal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
disaster, shark, shark attack, president, space shuttle, creature feature, catastrophe, amusement park, fish, animal attack, natural disaster, space ...
Place:
washington d.c., orlando florida, florida, north america, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Aliens attack Earth with deadly electrical tornadoes, and it’s up to a farmer, his smart high-school daughter and a tornado blogger to thwart the horrific invasion.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting
Audience:
teens
Plot:
weather, tornado, disaster, danger, alien, destruction, radio station, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, chaos, evil alien, space ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
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