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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, captivating, apocalyptic, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with ecological disaster, survival, catastrophe, disaster, danger, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalyptic, investigation and ecology plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as ecological disaster: Geostorm (2017), The Swarm (2023), Ice (2011), Elysium (2013), Arctic Blast (2010), The Bay (2012), The Pink Cloud (2021), The Red Tide Massacre (2022), Seeds of Destruction (2011), WALL·E (2008).
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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: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, France, Japan
Duration: 46 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. ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
marine biologist, ecological disaster, monster, ocean, environment, earth, environmentalism, nature, man versus nature, planet earth, survival, isolation ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
2K
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?
489K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa, Mexico
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, breathtaking, cyber, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, space station, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, politics, robot, dark future, ecological disaster, utopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place:
los angeles, seattle, peru, 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, 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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32K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 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:
mockumentary, frightening, suspenseful, horrifying, medical horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
parasite, infection, found footage, disaster, water, virus, ecological disaster, disease, plague, infected, epidemic, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maryland, california
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Giovana and Yago are strangers who share a spark after meeting at a party. When a deadly cloud mysteriously takes over their city, they are forced to seek shelter with only each other for company. As months pass and the planet settles into an ...
Style:
captivating, dramatic, informative, harsh, lyrical ...
Plot:
social isolation, isolation, trapped in a building, relationships, male female relationship, living together, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, ecological disaster, couples, couple relations, social experiment, confined space ...
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A television reporter is attacked by a monster while investigating an environmental disaster in Florida.
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
monster, ecological disaster, investigation, creature feature, tv reporter, reporter, escaped prisoner, investigative reporter, threat, journalist, journalism, private investigation ...
Place:
florida
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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
Is relevant?
1.3M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
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:
futuristic, touching, feel good, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
loneliness, robot, space travel, outer space, post apocalypse, technology, love, artificial intelligence, ecology, dystopia, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
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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:
mockbuster, hilarious, apocalyptic, independent film, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ice age, disaster, natural disaster, glacier, winter, ecological disaster, snow, climate change, frozen, volcano, blizzard, catastrophe ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
BERMUDA-TRIANGLE NORTH SEA takes the audience into the dramatic world of Global Warming caused by Carbon dioxide emissions and its dumping under the North Sea seabed which is, in times of climate change, trend-setting and in terms of money, a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
ecological disaster, disaster, ecology, global warming, puzzle, sea adventure, humanity, greed, fate of humanity, catastrophe, isolation, investigation ...
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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:
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
Is relevant?
418K
Genre: Action, 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:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
train, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, violence, social differences, class struggle, winter ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
east asia, britain, south korea
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspenseful, crying, emotional
Plot:
flood, mother, newborn baby, ecological disaster, flooding, dystopia, dystopian future, female protagonist, struggle for survival, problem, baby, woman ...
Time:
future
Place:
london
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Five quirky teenagers become dinosaurs to fight crime.
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, captivating, humorous
Plot:
dinosaur, heroes, supernatural, friendship, save the planet, imaginary, escapades, rivalry, danger, ecological disaster, youth, environmentalism ...
Is relevant?
282
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Mégantic is inspired by the events that occurred during the Lac-Mégantic rail tragedy in 2013. This fiction follows the destinies of Méganticois marked by bereavement and trauma, but also by solidarity, courage and heroism.
Style:
poignant, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
heroism, small town, train, ecological disaster, tragedy, courage, loss, grief, trauma, train wreck, aftermath, real life ...
Place:
quebec
Is relevant?
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:
tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
catastrophe, dangerous mission, ecological disaster, survival, earth, mission, rescue mission, experiment gone awry, save the world, struggle for survival, post apocalypse, genetic mutation ...
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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, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
mars, space, spacecraft, space travel, robot, astronaut, survival, space opera, catastrophe, ecological disaster, space exploration, stranded ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, near future, 2020s ...
Place:
antarctica
Is relevant?
10K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
In the near future, Norway is occupied by Russia on behalf of the European Union, due to the fact that the newly elected environmental friendly Norwegian government has stopped the all important oil- and gas-production in the North Sea.
Style:
political, serious, disturbing, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
occupation, oil, alternate reality, infiltration, resistance, anxiety, danger, greed, invasion, save the world, spy, nordic ...
Place:
europe, russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Style:
political, tense, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ecological disaster, environmental, environmentalism, oil company, legal battle, bureaucracy, investigation, political conflict, activism, ethical dilemma, remorse, ecology ...
Time:
year 1989
Place:
alaska
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Plot:
dystopia, conspiracy, food, cannibalism, death, murder, overpopulation, distopia, police detective, investigation, law enforcement, consciousness ...
Time:
future, distant future, near future, 2020s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
54K
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, 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:
suspenseful, political, cerebral, intense, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
terrorism, fighting the system, terrorist, environmentalism, espionage, anarchist, lost in the woods, undercover, working undercover, fbi, secret organization, anti capitalism ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but things get increasingly bizarre the more they investigate.
Style:
suspenseful, tension, dark, psychological horror, grim ...
Plot:
ecological disaster, contamination, survival, isolation, government conspiracy, rescue mission, haunting, post apocalyptic, claustrophobia, special ops, secret experiment, slow burn ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A millionaire's irresponsible decision to dump millions of gallons of toxic waste into public waters comes back to haunt him.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending
Plot:
corporate greed, toxic waste, cautionary tale, ecological disaster, contamination, whistleblower, protest, activism, investigative journalism, corruption, family drama, courtroom drama ...
Place:
houston texas
Is relevant?
615
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Iceland, Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon – a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor – he ...
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, metafiction, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
climate change, ecological disaster, ocean, adventure hero, problem, regret, lost love, obsession, haunting, earthquake, slow burn, seafaring ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Lebanon, France, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Qatar
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
mountain, waste, junkyard, family drama, ecological disaster, contamination, environmental, village life, problem, couples, changing lives, ecology ...
Time:
near future
Place:
middle east, lebanon
Is relevant?
321
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a climate change ravaged world in 2012, after 240 days without rain Sydney has only two weeks of water left. When the city is then ringed by severe bushfires, the question becomes, how do you fight fire when you have no water?
Style:
serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, journalism, fire, medical examination, forces of nature, danger, investigation, politics, global warming, life is a bitch, dystopian future, media ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
The story of a young woman fighting for her survival in a real "urban jungle." Only 18 years old, Kuniko Hojo finds herself at the heart of the battle for humanity's future when she discovers that the government which rules Atlas ...
Style:
anime, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, political thriller ...
Plot:
social inequality, class conflict, dystopia, dystopian future, ecological disaster, ecology, distopia, technology, intrigue, apocalypse, environmental, save the world ...
Time:
future, distant future
Place:
tokyo
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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, mecha, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, giant robot, save the world, ecological disaster, dystopian future, technology gone awry, love and romance, heroes, chaos, romancing partners, heroic mission, master villain ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
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