Ecological disaster movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant ecological disaster movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic and entertaining films and TV shows about / with ecological disaster, catastrophe, danger, apocalypse, disaster, survival, suspense, chaos, post apocalypse and distopia plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
ecological disaster
TOP 10 movies tagged as ecological disaster: Ice (2011), Geostorm (2017), Elysium (2013), Arctic Blast (2010), The Bay (2012), WALL·E (2008), Seeds of Destruction (2011), Cold Zone (2017), NYC: Tornado Terror (2008), Red Planet (2000).
Best films
List of ecological disaster movies
1K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 184 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
Plot:
climate change, disaster, ecological disaster, forces of nature, evacuation, survival, iceberg, escapades, storm, chaos and mayhem, chaos, ecology ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, greenland
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111K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 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, futuristic ...
Plot:
apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, end of the world, storm, humanity in peril, tsunami, hurricane, climate change, space, tornado, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s, year 2019
Place:
hong kong, afghanistan, orlando florida, shanghai, new york ...
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454K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, space station, distopia, future dystopia, space, class conflict, space and aliens, dystopic future, dark future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Place:
los angeles, south africa, africa, usa
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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, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, ecological disaster, freezing, solar eclipse, ice age, save the world, survival, forces of nature, evacuation, obsessive quest, extinction, chaos ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
tasmania, australia, usa
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28K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
infection, parasite, found footage, monster, disaster, suspense, plague, virus, apocalypse, ecological disaster, infected, small town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
maryland, california, usa
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1.1M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style:
feel good, futuristic, touching, emotional, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
loneliness, robot, distopia, space travel, love, post apocalypse, ecology, space, happy ending, technology, society, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future
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Genre: Action, 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:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, ecological disaster, suspense, save the world, forces of nature, chaos, escapades, inventions and discoveries, experiment gone awry, environmentalist, heroes, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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909
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A storm is coming. No one could predict it. No one can measure it. Now one family must survive it. You can't come in from the cold.
Style:
serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, ice age, ecological disaster, freeze to death, snow, rescue, scientist, environmental, research, environment, winter, laboratory ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
alaska, usa
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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:
captivating, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
weatherman, disaster, global warming, chaos and mayhem, forces of nature, save the day, heroes, race against time, evacuation, couple relations, escapades, twister ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mars, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, catastrophe, robot, spacecraft, save the world, ecological disaster, desert, stranded ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it's path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ice age, glacier, natural disaster, disaster, winter, ecological disaster, snow, catastrophe, climate change, apocalypse, volcano, blizzard ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Animation
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Five quirky teenagers become dinosaurs to fight crime.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, humorous, entertaining
Plot:
dinosaur, supernatural, heroes, friendship, escapades, youth, ecological disaster, master villain, mutant, rivalry, environmentalism, save the planet ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, apocalyptic, suspenseful
Plot:
catastrophe, ecological disaster, dangerous mission, fight, earth, survival, threat, post apocalypse, experiment gone awry, wasteland, humanity, characters in danger ...
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51K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, political, tricky, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, suspense, spy, anarchist, environmentalism, espionage, fbi, revenge, radical, undercover, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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368K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
thought provoking, allegory, tense, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
post apocalypse, train, distopia, survival, future dystopia, revolution, rebellion, social differences, winter, class struggle, society, snow ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2014, 2010s ...
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103K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with ...
Style:
intense, serious, entertaining, apocalyptic, ridiculous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, end of the world, disaster, survival, apocalypse, save the world, post apocalypse, catastrophe, hacker, worldwide chaos, space, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, rome italy, washington d.c., los angeles, london
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The year is 2148. Two years have passed since the world was defended from the mysterious Festum, leaving the world in peace. Soushi promised Kazuki that he would one day return to Tatsumiya Island but instead he still keeps himself hidden, living ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, light, captivating, mecha
Plot:
save the world, ecological disaster, future dystopia, master villain, technology gone awry, love and romance, heroic mission, rivalry, suspense, chaos, heroes, romancing partners ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama gathers young and talented ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, anime
Plot:
disaster, media manipulation, corrupt official, journalist, corruption, investigative journalism, political corruption, private investigation, corrupt politician, ecological disaster, secret, political conspiracy ...
Time:
near future
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A fighter pilot travels back in time to save the future world from environmental disaster, but a side-effect turns her young again and no-one takes her seriously.
Style:
captivating, futuristic, disturbing, entertaining
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time travel, time traveler, sent to the past, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, time jump, time warp, save the world, teenager, teamwork, heroine ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A fertilizer used in a rich gated community becomes the source of a genetic mutation that transforms its residents into zombies. Can a teenager and his baby sister break free from the quarantined island before turning into grass?
Style:
psychotronic, tense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
zombie apocalypse, zombie, mutant, walking dead, plague, deadly virus, vestiges of humanity, murder, evil, peril, survival, security ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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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:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, climate change, environmental, nature, scientist, stranded, global warming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., antarctica, california ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of ...
Style:
psychological, exciting, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, touching
Plot:
future dystopia, distopia, mortality, terminal illness, virtual reality, clones, family relations, ecological disaster, father child relationship, suspense, catastrophe, virtual world ...
Time:
near future, future
Is relevant ?
200K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, ocean, sailing, boat, distopia, water, rescue, dystopic future, sea, future dystopia ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A seemingly-harmless snow globe unleashes a devastating winter storm on a peaceful mountainside community, prompting one family on a race to save their town from certain destruction. As night falls on Christmas Eve, the Miller family finds a ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
christmas, disaster, small town, snow, forces of nature, chaos, save the day, heroes, winter, natural disaster, weather, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alaska
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Set in empty junkyards of Winnipeg, Sabu works in a pornography store and we view him as he approaches the end of his quest to sleep with 2000 men (which is eased by the fact that he works at a porno store). For his final conquest, he desires ...
Style:
semi serious, surreal, humorous, sexy, campy ...
Plot:
surrealism, apocalypse, catastrophe, friends, couples, satire, strong sexual content, sexual relations, future dystopia, social misfits, gays and lesbians, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2000, near future
Place:
canada
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255K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style:
futuristic, psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot:
space travel, suspense, end of the world, space, sun, astronaut, spacecraft, heroic mission, self sacrifice, survival, expedition, trapped in space ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, chaos, society, scientist, mutant, bounty hunter, utopia, cyberpunk, distopia, prostitute ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Is relevant ?
584
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, France, Japan
Duration: 138 min.
TV show
Story:
Mysterious events are piling up in the oceans around the world: whales destroy boats, deep-sea crabs attack beaches, mussels paralyze container ships. A previously unknown ice worm destabilizes continental slopes in the oceans and triggers tsunamis. ...
Plot:
monster, ecology, ecological disaster, marine biologist, environment, scientist, ocean, human animal relationship, nature
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
E.A.R.T.H. Force is an American action adventure television series starring Gil Gerard. The series aired 3 episodes on CBS from September 16, 1990, to September 29, 1990, before being canceled due to low ratings. The show is about an elite group, ...
Plot:
environment, ecological disaster, scientist, team, millionaire, environmentalism, environmental, rescue team, nuclear power plant, short lived
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An poorly-educated house-wife fights companies polluting her hometown's water-table in up-state New York during the 1970's
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
animals, suburbs, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, fighting the system, society, rebellion, family in crisis, breakup, suburban life, unemployment, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
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