Evacuation movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant evacuation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, realistic and apocalyptic films and TV shows about / with evacuation, catastrophe, disaster, danger, survival, natural disaster, race against time, rescue, death and apocalypse plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as evacuation: Only the Brave (2017), Dunkirk (2017), 2012 (2009), Chernobyl (2019), Hours (2013), Ice (2011), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Wave (2015), Post Impact (2004), The Fool (2014).

List of evacuation movies

 7.6
 90K
Only the Brave (2017)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
Style: exciting, emotional, tense, dramatic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: natural disaster, forest fire, firefighter, heroism, tragedy, rescue, danger, friends, mentor, firefighting, fire department, male camaraderie ...
Time: year 2007, year 2017, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013 ...
Place: arizona, usa
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 7.8
 799K
Dunkirk (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style: atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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 5.9
 419K
2012 (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, destruction, human existence, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, year 2010, year 2012 ...
Place: los angeles, las vegas, british columbia, london, pasadena california ...
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 9.3
 1.0M
Chernobyl (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style: dark, atmospheric, harsh, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: radiation, nuclear power plant, nuclear holocaust, nuclear reactor, disaster, radiation poisoning, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, abandoned city, evacuation, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place: chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, europe ...
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 6.3
 32K
Hours (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: natural disaster, father, hurricane katrina, hurricane, newborn baby, hospital, evacuation, race against time, exhaustion, childbirth, danger, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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 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
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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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 6.6
 46K
The Wave (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, road movie, feel good, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, landslide, geologist, hotel, destiny, stupidity, flood, evacuation ...
Time: 80s, year 2015
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 3.3
 3K
Post Impact (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust cloud that soon covered most of the Northern hemisphere, it changed the face of our planet forever.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ice age, disaster, evacuation, satellite, insubordination, rescue, heroic mission, chaos, danger, save the day, forces of nature, post apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: europe, germany, berlin germany
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 8.0
 18K
The Fool (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Style: harsh, atmospheric, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot: fighting the system, apartment building, courage, injustice, society, tragedy, moral dilemma, dishonesty, violence, small town, lone hero, plumber ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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 5.9
 39K
Hard Rain (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Get swept up in the action as an armored car driver (Christian Slater) tries to elude a gang of thieves (led by Morgan Freeman) while a flood ravages the countryside. Hard Rain is "a wild, thrilling, chilling action ride" filled with close ...
Style: suspense, intense, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, evacuation, rain, small town, heist, flood, money, chase, redemption, justice, armored car ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: indiana, new orleans, california
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The Land of Hope (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, Taiwan, UK, Germany
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that causes a nearby nuclear station to explode. The residents must evacuate, but the family lives on a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, road movie ...
Plot: evacuation, elderly, family relations, life is a bitch, family life, forceful separation, moral dilemma, danger, couple relations, couples, nuclear threat, parents and children ...
Place: japan, asia
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Style: captivating, cerebral, breathtaking, atmospheric, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult ...
Plot: ufo, alien, first contact, alien abduction, technology, alien contact, space and aliens, contact, flying saucer, extraterrestrial, chase, airplane ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977, near future, future
Place: wyoming, indiana, india, ohio, north america ...
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 7.0
 442K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style: spooky, mysterious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, giant monster, alien, survival, fear, survival horror, danger, creature, kaiju, deadly creature ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa ...
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Style: suspense, sexy, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: disaster, catastrophe, skyscraper, rescue, natural disaster, race against time, survival, firefighter, evacuation, trapped in a building, trapped, fire ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, california
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The Killing Fields (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four ...
Style: disturbing, tense, rough, political, heartbreaking ...
Plot: genocide, journalism, vietnam war, civil war, photographer, war, violence, reporter, photograph, brutality, khmer rouge, mass murder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1973, 80s, year 1984 ...
Place: cambodia, vietnam, east asia, asia, new york ...
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 7.0
 379K
Super 8 (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. In the midst of filming, the friends witness a horrifying train derailment and are lucky to escape with their lives. They soon discover that the catastrophe was no ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, entertaining, retro ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, small town, monster, ufo, creature, alien, friendship, coming of age, train crash, young heroes, investigation, youth ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, year 1979, future, year 2011 ...
Place: ohio, usa
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Tears of the Sun (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their ...
Style: touching, serious, suspense, factual, compassionate ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: military, war, jungle, combat, civil war, soldier, sniper, refugee, special forces, escapades, rescue mission, army ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: africa, nigeria, iran, iraq, hawaii
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 6.8
 46K
The Lost Bus (2025)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.
Style: tension, suspense, intense, realistic, fast paced ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: fire, disaster, evacuation, natural disaster, search and rescue, forest fire, survival, children, rescue, chaos, heroism, smoking ...
Time: 2010s
Place: california
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 7.1
 388K
Superman (2025)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The next installment in the Superman series. This will be WB's ninth live-action Superman film. The plot is unknown at this time.
Style: surprise ending, inspirational, emotional, epic, psychotronic ...
Plot: superhero, urban setting, heroism, villain, alien, superhero team, dog, clone, lex luthor character, superheroine, robot, showdown ...
Time: 2020s
Place: kansas, north america, antarctica, pentagon
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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
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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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 6.1
 200K
Rampage (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, the extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla who has been in his care since birth. But a rogue genetic experiment gone awry mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching, action adventure ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: monster, gorilla, kaiju, giant monster, animal attack, creature, giant animal, animal human communication, rescue, giant lizard, rage, mutant animal ...
Time: 2010s, jurassic, 21st century
Place: everglades, los angeles, illinois, missouri, colorado ...
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Futureshock: Comet (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Story: A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: comet, chaos, nasa, catastrophe, disaster, evacuation, astronomer, danger, forces of nature, escapades, save the day, natural disaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, ireland, usa
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Last «Dear Bulgaria» (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 1943 year. Alma-Ata. The hero of the film is a young Michurin fruit grower who revives a medicinal apple variety and investigates a strange crime. The script was written based on the book by Mikhail Zoshchenko "Before the Sunrise".
Style: psychological, philosophical, surreal, tricky, thought provoking ...
Plot: evacuation, director, childhood trauma, mysterious disappearance, uncover truth, society, scientist, young girl, flashback, russian history, literary, murder mystery ...
Time: year 1943
Place: ussr, soviet union, kazakhstan
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Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami (2013)
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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 6.1
 107K
Dante's Peak (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, ...
Style: breathtaking, suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: natural disaster, catastrophe, disaster, volcano, volcanic eruption, apocalypse, survival, mayor, small town, mountain, coffee, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, year 1993, 20th century
Place: washington state
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 6.4
 33K
How I Live Now (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An American girl on holiday in the English countryside with her family finds herself in hiding and fighting for her survival as war breaks out.
Style: suspenseful, teen, romantic, sweet, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: survival, longing, danger, teenage life, young adult, post apocalypse, love and romance, coming of age, cousin cousin relationship, youth, countryside, teenager ...
Time: year 2013, future, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, scotland, london
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 5.9
 107K
Underwater (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, creature, giant monster, monster, sea monster, animal attack, creature feature, water, cthulhu, ocean, earthquake, giant creature ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
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 5.8
 144K
Skyscraper (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
Style: tense, suspense, psychotronic, anamorphic, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family outing, kids
Plot: skyscraper, heroism, penthouse, terrorism, protective parent, disaster, ex soldier, fire, panic, courage, terrorist, survival ...
Time: 2010s
Place: hong kong, china, asia, minnesota
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