| The Road (2009) | 7.2 | |
| San Andreas (2015) | 6.1 | |
| Poseidon (2006) | 5.7 | |
| Armageddon (1998) | 6.7 | |
| The Day After (1983) | 7.0 |
Catastrophe movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of catastrophe movies
344K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tricky, clever, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
time travel, time loop, twists and turns, investigation, deja vu, terrorism, time, danger, changing the past or future, police investigation, alternate timeline, parallel universe ...
Time:
near future, 2000s, year 2006, future, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
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12K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, harsh, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
parallel universe, experiment, trapped in space, astronaut, paranoia, nasa, destiny, spacecraft, catastrophe, isolation, space program, outer space ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
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: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, apocalyptic, visual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ufo, end of the world, alien encounter, alien, alien invasion, alien contact, evil alien, happy ending, first contact, robot, extraterrestrial, apocalypse ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 20th century, 1920s, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., virginia, new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
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462K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
monster, giant monster, godzilla, dinosaur, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, mutant, deadly creature, chaos ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place:
japan, hawaii, san francisco, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman ...
Style:
visually stunning, epic, philosophical, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, chick flick, kids, boys' night ...
Plot:
superhero, batman, superhuman powers, revenge, justice, vigilante, heroes, violence, good versus evil, superman, death, super powers ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 1981 ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., kansas, africa, tijuana mexico ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style:
futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, road movie, heroic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, lone hero, religion, protector, end of the world, dystopia, dystopic future, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2010, near future, distant future, 2040s ...
Place:
indiana, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, futuristic, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, monster, sea monster, creature feature, ship, ocean, tentacle, killer animal, creature, ghost ship, bermuda triangle, apocalypse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bolivia, asia, china, pacific ocean
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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:
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, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A strange and deadly mist envelops Paris. A group of survivors finds refuge on the upper floors of apartment blocks and on the roofs of the capital. With no information, electricity, food or water, a couple attempts to survive this disaster and save ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, sentimental, tricky
Plot:
natural disaster, oxygen, father daughter relationship, old couple, gas mask, death of wife, survival, disaster, catastrophe, survivor, struggle for survival, epidemic ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, border, alien monster, survival, danger, soldier, death, friendship, society, russian soldier, catastrophe, dystopia ...
Time:
future
Place:
eastern europe, phoenix arizona
Is relevant?
8K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, exciting, action thriller, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tunnel, subway, flood, disaster, panic, danger, survival, chaos, train, group of strangers, chaos and mayhem, asthma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
sniper, military, behind enemy lines, survival, courage, fighter pilot, combat, u.s. navy, reconnaissance, war crime, fighter plane, rescue ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
bosnia, balkan, serbia, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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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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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, saga, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, creature, human versus alien, technology, end of the world, independence day, ufo, president, psychic, apocalypse, chinawoman ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, minnesota, nevada, china ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A classical art professor and collector, who doubles as a professional assassin, is coerced out of retirement to avenge the murder of an old friend.
Style:
visually stunning, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, political thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mountain climbing, mountain, hitman, climbing, catastrophe, assassination, revenge, murder, mountaineering, desert, cold war, secret agent ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
alps, switzerland, europe, arizona, germany ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve at Tower Sky, an ultra-luxurious building complex, a White Christmas party is held to dazzle its equally high-end tenants and VIP guests. Dae-ho, the manager of the building and single father, is forced to cancel plans with his ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, christmas horror, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, skyscraper, catastrophe, firefighter, fire, tower, rescue, christmas, trapped, danger, survival, save the day ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea, korea, asia
Is relevant?
94K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight ...
Style:
suspense, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ufo, apocalypse, evil alien, alien invasion, alien, alien abduction, space and aliens, vestiges of humanity, alien encounter, fantasy world, creature, catastrophe ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, california, london ...
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223K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 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, apocalyptic, serious, dieselpunk ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, ocean, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, sailing, boat, dystopic future, water, sea, escapades, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1995, distant future, near future
Place:
arizona, canada
Is relevant?
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:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, action adventure ...
Plot:
natural disaster, catastrophe, disaster, humanity in peril, heroes, super weapon, survival, tsunami, vestiges of humanity, forces of nature, society, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
disaster, oil rig, sea, catastrophe, north sea, ocean, submarine, oil industry, natural disaster, trapped, mission, trap ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
Style:
psychological, touching, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, catastrophe, survival, rescue, demolished city, humanity in peril, society, chaos and mayhem, human existence, death ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
armenia, caucasus, soviet union, russia, ussr
Is relevant?
226K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, light, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
shark, giant monster, giant animal, underwater, sea monster, giant creature, killer shark, animal attack, ocean, professor, killer animal, survival ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, prehistory, 21st century
Place:
shanghai, usa, asia, pacific ocean, california ...
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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
Is relevant?
84K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and assistant Stephen, Charles devises a plan to help them reach civilization. However, his biggest obstacle ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, sexy, serious, clever ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, bear, danger, animal attack, grizzly bear, survivalist, bear attack, hunter, lost in the woods, billionaire, nature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
alaska, usa, california
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Style:
futuristic, saga, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, teenager, dystopia, utopia, female protagonist, chosen one, catastrophe, manipulation, brainwashing, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
chicago, north america
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the ...
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, investigation, wilderness, mountain, manhunt, hostage, chase, fbi, horse, kidnapping, conspiracy, police ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, seattle, san francisco, vancouver
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The vacationers at a winter wonderland struggle to survive after an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort. Their holiday then turns into a game of survival.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, avalanche, rescue, ski, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, ski resort, adaptation, winter, danger, skating ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
antarctic, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, exciting, inspirational, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopic future, postman, dystopian future, post apocalyptic, vestiges of humanity, post war, survival, drifter, leadership, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1997, 2010s, year 2013 ...
Place:
usa, oregon
Is relevant?
366
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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