Tsunami movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant tsunami movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious, exciting, apocalyptic and tense films and TV shows about / with tsunami, disaster, natural disaster, danger, survival, catastrophe, race against time, apocalypse, end of the world and forces of nature plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as tsunami: Tidal Wave (2009), The Impossible (2012), Geostorm (2017), 2012 (2009), The Wave (2015), 2022 Tsunami (2009), Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006), Deep Impact (1998).

List of tsunami movies

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 5.5
 5K
Tidal Wave (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, 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: disaster, tsunami, lifeguard, forces of nature, natural disaster, demolished city, race against time, danger, giant wave, post apocalypse, death of mother, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, busan, south korea, asia
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 7.5
 242K
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: emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
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 5.3
 117K
Geostorm (2017)
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 ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, climate change, hurricane, ecological disaster, malfunction, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, year 2019
Place: miami, shanghai, new york, rio de janeiro, hong kong ...
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 5.8
 396K
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: exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, destruction, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, human existence, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: las vegas, los angeles, british columbia, mount everest, pasadena california ...
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 6.6
 42K
The Wave (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on the fact that mountain party Ã…kneset, 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, intense, road movie, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, tsunami, landslide, hotel, geologist, dysfunctional family, apocalypse, family drama, paranoid ...
Time: 80s, year 2015
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 3.0
 272
2022 Tsunami (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 18 years on from the devastating impact of 2004's tsunami, the world still fights to come to terms with this devastating environmental disaster. Little does humanity know that it is about to face the ultimate peril; a monumental death wave ...
Style: intense, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: tsunami, natural disaster, disaster, environmental, forces of nature, apocalypse, chaos, save the world, evacuation, demolished city, rescue, warning ...
Time: future
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
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Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by true accounts, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the harrowing aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand two years ago.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, tsunami, danger, journalism, society, forces of nature, ocean, weather, climate, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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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, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, climate, cataclysm, survival, stranded ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place: new york, los angeles, washington d.c., california, antarctic ...
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Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its eruption resulted in tsunami, rains of coals and ash, and ended with a very hot tsunami. The eruption ...
Style: disturbing, tense, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: volcano, tsunami, volcanic eruption, natural disaster, disaster, cataclysm, tragic event, historical event, nature, catastrophe
Time: 1880s
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 6.2
 189K
Deep Impact (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style: suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, president, tsunami, save the world, destruction, life & death, self sacrifice ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, washington d.c., virginia, tucson arizona, philadelphia ...
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 6.1
 255K
San Andreas (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
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: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, tsunami, earthquake, father daughter relationship, happy ending, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
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 5.6
 2K
Japan Sinks (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Japan sinks! Proving once again that Japan will never cease to find inventive ways to destroy itself on screen, this summer's blockbuster Sinking of Japan brings apocalypse through tectonics. Based on Sakyo Komatsu's best-selling novel, ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller
Plot: disaster, tsunami, race against time, rescue, chaos, love affair, leadership, head of state, escapades, danger, demolished city, negotiation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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 5.2
 19K
Bait (2012)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia, Singapore, China
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a 12-foot great white shark.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: shark, shark attack, flood, tsunami, killer shark, supermarket, killer animal, great white shark, water, creature, animal attack, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (2022)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Luxembourg, Canada, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
Style: anime, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: tsunami, introspection, saving a life, self discovery, marital problem, meaning of life, changing lives, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, lifestyle change, cat, schizophrenia ...
Time: year 2011
Place: tokyo
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 2.8
 1K
Super Tanker (2011)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A meteorite brings a powerful element to the Earth during the Cold War, too powerful to ever be used it's contained until a decision is made to dispose of it in the depths of the ocean. During transit on the worlds largest and most secure Super ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, captivating
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chaos, save the world, soldier, danger, military, government facility, escapades, ship, tsunami, giant monster, disaster, ocean ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, canada, alaska
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The Calm Beyond (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman lives, hidden in plain sight in a ruined Hong Kong building after a tsunami destroyed the city - A castaway on a concrete island. Her concealed existence is changed forever when a small child literally floats into her life.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: survival, female protagonist, guardian, recluse, disaster, responsibility, life is a bitch, motherhood, catastrophe, child custody, tsunami, woman ...
Place: hong kong
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Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must ...
Style: thrilling, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: home invasion, moral dilemma, vacation gone wrong, father daughter relationship, adopted daughter, tsunami, prediction, self sacrifice, prophecy, sacrifice, race against time, premonition ...
Time: 2020s
Place: philadelphia, nashville tennessee, hawaii, china, oregon ...
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 1.6
 13K
Titanic II (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, mockbuster, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ship, titanic, ocean liner, disaster, sea, survival, forces of nature, iceberg, race against time, escapades, danger, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A stolen seismic weapon is activated in Yemen. A hostage freed there tries in vain to warn against its global effect. It starts seismic activity at the Californian fault line where her daughter and ex are monitoring it. Can they stop it?
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, heroes, super weapon, humanity in peril, family relations, demolished city, society, flood, destruction, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.7
 88
And, Live (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Toko Ikuta lost her parents in a car accident at the age of 3. Afterwards, her uncle, who ran a barbershop in Morioka, raised her and she had a happy childhood. Toko Ikuta was active as a local idol and she dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age ...
Style: suspense, touching, sentimental, suspenseful
Plot: volunteer, tsunami, earthquake, natural disaster, japanese girl, tragic past, audition, singer, young love, male female relationship, love and romance, couple relations ...
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 6.0
 573
Tokyo Shaking (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story: March 11, 2011. The biggest tsunami Japan has ever experienced triggers the Fukushima disaster. Risks are being downplayed but the foreign community in Tokyo is terrified by this tragic event and the fact that no one is capable of assessing its ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: tsunami, earthquake, nuclear threat, nuclear holocaust, moral dilemma, female protagonist, choice, threat, problem, power, catastrophe
Place: tokyo
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 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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End of the World (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: As mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.
Style: captivating, tense, apocalyptic, exciting, intense ...
Plot: disaster, end of the world, flood, survival, evacuation, danger, rescue, chaos, forces of nature, destruction, escapades, demolished city ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Hurricane Heist (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, action thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: natural disaster, hurricane, disaster, tornado, robbery, heist, evacuation, betrayal, conspiracy, destruction, criminal, danger ...
Time: year 1992, 2010s, year 2015, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, alabama
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 5.7
 601
End Day (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
Story: An exploration into the various ways in which, within the circumstances of one day, civilisation could be brought to an abrupt end..
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
Plot: end of the world, volcano, disaster, natural disaster, epidemic, experiment, scientific experiment, virus, tsunami, black hole, meteorite, foreknowledge ...
Time: future
Place: usa, europe
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 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
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 5.0
 488
Comet Impact (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: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot: comet, astronomer, danger, nasa, chaos, escapades, forces of nature, catastrophe, save the day, disaster, evacuation, tsunami ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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 7.5
 38K
The Red Turtle (2016)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
Style: atmospheric, anime, bleak, stylized, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: isolation, nature, island, raft, sea turtle, loneliness, beach, desert island, swimming, sea, transformation, solitude ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
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Krakatoa: East of Java (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.
Style: epic, independent film, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ocean, volcano, natural disaster, tsunami, diver, exotic locale, boat, climate, sunken treasure, ship, rescue, female sexual predator ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1880s
Place: southeast asia, indonesia, oceania, pacific ocean, asia
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 5.5
 116K
Pompeii (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a ...
Style: exciting, epic, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, roman empire, ancient history, volcanic eruption, arena, chaos, slave, roman, gladiator, save the lady, volcano ...
Time: 1st century, year 2014, ancient times, middle ages, 2010s ...
Place: pompeii, italy, britain, london
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