| Emergency! (1972) | 7.9 | |
| Bones (2005) | 7.8 | |
| Criminal Minds (2005) | 8.1 | |
| 72 Meters (2004) | 6.5 | |
| 9-1-1 (2018) | 7.9 |
Emergency movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant emergency movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, exciting and serious films and TV shows about / with emergency, rescue, disaster, danger, survival, teamwork, friendship, firefighter, catastrophe and workplace situations plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, UK, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as emergency: 9-1-1 (2018), Chicago Fire (2012), The Rescue (2020), Emergency Declaration (2021), Airplane! (1980), The First Responders (2022), The Tower (2012), 72 Meters (2004), Critical (2015), Fireman Sam: Set for Action! (2018).
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62K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Explore the high-pressure experiences of police officers, paramedics and firefighters who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations. These emergency responders must try to balance saving those who are at their most ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
search and rescue, medicine, fire brigade, emergency, 911, firefighter, saving a life, misadventure, medical, daring rescue, ambulance, chore ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, los angeles, california
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
An edge-of-your-seat view into the lives of everyday heroes committed to one of America's noblest professions. For the firefighters, rescue squad and paramedics of Chicago Firehouse 51, no occupation is more stressful or dangerous, yet so ...
Style:
exciting, serious, sincere, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
firefighter, fire brigade, fire department, rescue, emergency, paramedic, danger, responsibility, lifesaver, chief, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rescue team ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A rescue unit within the Chinese Coast Guard are forced to overcome their personal differences to resolve a crisis.
Style:
disturbing, exciting, tense, suspense
Plot:
fire brigade, emergency, daring rescue, disaster, rescue, teamwork, friendship, chore, environmental health, danger, workplace situations, survival ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
airplane hijack, aviation, hijacking, passenger, airplane, crash landing, airport, terrorist, flying, terrorism, investigation, terror ...
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285K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Alcoholic pilot, Ted Striker has developed a fear of flying due to wartime trauma, but nevertheless boards a passenger jet in an attempt to woo back his stewardess girlfriend. Food poisoning decimates the passengers and crew, leaving it up to ...
Style:
parody, spoof, absurd, slapstick, funny ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids
Plot:
airplane, airport, satire, pilot, food poisoning, absurd humor, aviation, stewardess, passenger, disaster, flight attendant, deadpan ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
los angeles, chicago
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
TV show
Story:
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, emergency, apocalypse, natural disaster, tornado, survival, forces of nature, chaos, rescue, save the world, imaginary, save the day ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, chicago, south dakota, san antonio texas, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A police station and a fire station adjoining each other cooperate in combating crime and fire in the most brutal and tragic cases.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense, detective
Plot:
police detective, emergency, fire department, firefighter, police, paramedic, daring rescue, workplace, fire brigade, risk, police officer, intelligence agency ...
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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?
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film begins in the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov and Muravyev, are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fall in love with one beautiful girl Nelly, and their friendship suffers a first blow. Because she ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot:
submarine, underwater, warship, emergency, shipwreck, unrequited love, military, accident, friendship, danger, rescue, disaster ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Major Trauma Centre is a state-of-the-art unit which treats only the most gravely ill or seriously injured. Whether that patient lives or dies is determined by knife-edge decisions and procedures, but can the diverse team of medical ...
Style:
medical drama, realistic, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, realism, doctors and patients, emergency, nurse, power relations, workplace, emergency room, reanimation, intensive care, teamwork ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The alarm has sounded and the Pontypandy crew is off to rescue their friends and others in need. From engine sparks and wild fireworks to water rescue and more, you won't want to miss these adventures with your favorite hero, Fireman Sam!
Style:
exciting, captivating, disturbing
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
firefighting, emergency, rescue, teamwork, firefighter, lifeguard, rescue team, fire brigade, fire department, rescue attempt, workplace, team ...
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Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When there’s a power outage at a safari reserve, Bear Grylls is called and he needs your help. The situation is dire: an escaped lion is headed for a nearby village; a baboon has broken free and is going towards the sea cliffs, and the power must ...
Style:
captivating, heroic, thrilling, educational, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
wildlife, nature, emergency, animal, wild animal, man versus nature, lion, survival, dangerous animal, adventure hero, problem solving, rescue ...
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76K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Style:
medical drama, sincere, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, medical, emergency room, surgical operation, intern, doctors and patients, workplace situations, workplace romance, suffering, surgery, coworker ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
John Ellis, a disillusioned suburban ER doctor, who finds his existence transformed when he intervenes in a drive-by shooting, saving a young boy's life and killing one of his attackers. When he learns the boy is still marked for death he finds ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
emergency, medical, doctor, danger, self discovery, assassination attempt, doctors and patients, life turned upside down, gang, suburbs, workplace situations, saving a life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER ...
Style:
tense, suspense, medical drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
teamwork, mission, emergency, crew, rescue, saving a life, physician, medical, ambulance, workplace, medical profession, workplace situations ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Two Americans and their allies form a scrappy rescue operation in 1940 Marseilles to help artists, writers and other refugees fleeing Europe during WWII.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, period piece, exciting ...
Plot:
nazi occupied france, rescue mission, refugee, british secret service, french resistance, social issues, holocaust, emergency, relationships, social problems, male female relationship, help ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, 20th century, year 1940
Place:
france, marseille, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Mexico, Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a distant emergency disrupts a vacation in Acapulco, simmering tensions rise to the fore between scions of a wealthy British family.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, existential, cult classic ...
Plot:
brother and sister, vacation, rich man, male female relationship, emergency, family relations, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, family problems, relationships, marital problem, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
mexico, acapulco mexico
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, dramatic ...
Plot:
world war two, politics, nazi, nazi germany, government conspiracy, emergency, political conspiracy, conspiracy, political unrest, political intrigue, espionage, civil war ...
Time:
1930s, year 1938, 20th century
Place:
germany, munich germany, europe
Is relevant?
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A spaceship is sent to Mars after a alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, bleak, space horror ...
Plot:
vampire, alien, spacecraft, mars, rescue, supernatural, space, space travel, survival, danger, save the world, space and aliens ...
Time:
year 1966, 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Finland, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA ...
Style:
art house, depressing, disturbing, melancholic, sad ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, paramedic, doctor, drinking, hospital, nurse, male objectification, married couple, ambulance, male pubic hair, unhappy wife, humanity ...
Place:
russia, soviet union
Is relevant?
4K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the murky depths of Los Angeles' world-famous La Brea Tar Pits there lies an ancient secret - a creature that, awakened by underground construction, turns a night of somber packing for Barry Greenwood and his co-workers into a desperate ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot:
creature, creature feature, survival horror, survival, construction, evil, underground, submarine, sea monster, ship, giant, water ...
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It takes him suddenly at 40 years: Frédéric wants a baby, Claire never wanted one and they agreed on that. He commits the unforgivable and makes a child behind her back. Claire turns into a whale and Frédéric becomes a doting father.
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, captivating, entertaining, light
Plot:
pregnancy, pregnant woman, infertility, family relations, silly humor, love and romance, lifestyle, emergency, couple relations, pianist, women, childbirth ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
Style:
noir, suspense, tense, intense, detective ...
Plot:
bomb, race against time, child abduction, kidnapping, investigation, emergency, police procedural, deadline, hostage, doll, suspect, wealthy family ...
Time:
year 1963
Place:
london
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Genre: Family
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
Fireman Sam and his team are on a mission to save Pontypandy! When a hurricane threatens the town, emergencies pop up everywhere... from saving the Wildmen of Pontypandy to rescuing a group from the flooding mines to protecting their new fire ...
Style:
entertaining, captivating, uplifting, educational, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
teamwork, fire department, storm, children, rescue, firefighting, firefighter, heroes, daring rescue, fire brigade, hotshot hero, salvation ...
Is relevant?
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Genre: Animation
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The small plane Tinny dreams of becoming a hero, but in a friendly team of inveterate planes he does not get recognition. One day, despite the captain Ben's ban, he sets off to save people from fire, but his life gets in danger, and the captain ...
Style:
scenic, sweet, exciting, stylized, light ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
rescue, heroism, airplane, friendship, aviation, teamwork, chases and races, sacrifice, redemption, mentor, competition, fighter jet ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a race against the clock, Alexandra will be forced to choose how to spend the next hours: facing a critic family drama or trying to bring an answer to one of humanity's most important questions.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, serious ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, family relations, time, race against time, problem, family problems, dysfunctional family, time travel, life is a bitch, isolation, space station ...
Place:
spain
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The city's mobile networks are down due to a solar flare, and Vasanth, an inventive youngster, tries to restore it. Mukil can save his lover only if he can get through to her over phone. Meanwhile, a terrorist will be able to activate the bomb ...
Style:
tension, suspense, satirical, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
bomb, satire, mobile phone, threat, race against time, catastrophe, problem, survival, rescue mission, communication, emergency, terrorism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A disastrous great flood sweeps the planet. On what may be the last day on Earth, a desperate fight ensues to save a child from a flooding apartment.
Style:
tension, suspense, emotional, intense, grim ...
Plot:
flood, time loop, disaster, natural disaster, survival, parent child relationship, child in peril, rescue, emergency, parenthood, chaos, end of the world ...
Time:
near future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the ...
Style:
sad, factual, touching, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, disaster, firefighter, twin towers, 9/11, terrorist, war on terror, natural disaster, medieval, rescue, al qaeda, heroes ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2001, year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, north america, middle east, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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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