Global warming movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant global warming movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting, apocalyptic, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with global warming, danger, catastrophe, survival, disaster, escapades, climate change, post apocalyptic, apocalypse and post apocalypse plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as global warming: The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Ice (2011), Lost City Raiders (2008), Geostorm (2017), Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), The Colony (2013), Pete Winning and the Pirates (2013), Split Second (1992), Christmas, Inc. (2008), NYC: Tornado Terror (2008).

List of global warming movies

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, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place: new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
Is relevant?
 4.6
 2K
Ice (2011)
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?
Lost City Raiders (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings when they are given an important assignment by the New Vatican.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, mysterious
Plot: ancient mystery, global warming, adventurer, treasure hunt, sunken treasure, heroic mission, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, society, escapades, parents and children ...
Time: distant future, future, 21st century
Place: new york
Is relevant?
 5.4
 132K
Geostorm (2017)
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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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no ...
Style: emotional, independent film, sad, surreal, harsh ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: poverty, climate change, children, global warming, magic realism, father daughter relationship, childhood, coming of age, flood, single father, crab, child protagonist ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa, tokyo ...
Is relevant?
 5.3
 49K
The Colony (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style: suspenseful, dark, tense, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, starvation, epidemic, ice age, danger, survival horror, dystopia, cannibalism, underground bunker, distopia ...
Time: future, near future
Place: antarctica
Is relevant?
Pete Winning and the Pirates (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Armed with laser guns and wit, Pete Winning and his rag-tag crew navigate a global-warming flooded Canada in the not-too-distant future, in search of the self-crowned evil Queen's coveted maps of the new world.
Style: semi serious, humorous, futuristic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: global warming, pirate, post apocalypse, danger, escapades, imaginary, ship, adventure hero, swashbuckler, pirate ship, dystopia, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, near future
Place: canada
Is relevant?
 6.0
 18K
Split Second (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Style: futuristic, suspense, independent film, black comedy, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cyberpunk, creature, post apocalypse, brutality, strip club, murder, police detective, global warming, female nudity, police investigation, supernatural ...
Time: future, year 2008, 2000s, 90s, year 1992 ...
Place: england, london, europe, big ben london
Is relevant?
Christmas, Inc. (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.
Style: feel good, humorous, family comedy, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, global warming, saving christmas, north pole, christmas spirit, holiday, magic, wizard, family values, elf, climate change ...
Is relevant?
Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
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. ...
Is relevant?
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)
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?
Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova (2013)
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: By 2039, global warming had caused sea levels to rise and large amount of territory to be lost. As though in response, a mysterious group of warships clad in mist, “the Fleet of Mist,” appeared in every corner of the ocean, and began attacking ...
Style: anime, tense, exciting, captivating, mecha ...
Plot: sea battle, global warming, artificial intelligence, survival, submarine, blockade, ocean, military, battles, fight, ship, against humanity ...
Time: near future, future
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Raiga: The Monster from the Deep Sea (2009)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When the Earth's ecosystem is disrupted due to global warming, a plethora of prehistoric sea monsters wage war on Japan. Led by the powerful Raiga, the monsters ravage the city of Asakusa.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot: kaiju, global warming, giant monster, dinosaur, monster terrorizes city, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, monster, human versus monster, problem, destruction, man versus nature ...
Place: japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
 6.2
 41K
The Arrival (1996)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, conspiracy, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, disguise, investigation, ufo, alien, black hole, elevator, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996
Place: mexico, latin america, central america
Is relevant?
 7.2
 6K
Incorporated (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a near future where corporations have unlimited power, a young executive conceals his true identity to infiltrate a dangerous corporate world to save the woman he loves.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: paranoia, secret past, business, megacorporation, cyberpunk, global warming, corporation, corporate greed, climate change, dystopian future, corporate world, corporate conspiracy ...
Time: future
Place: milwaukee wisconsin
Is relevant?
 7.1
 418K
Snowpiercer (2013)
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
Is relevant?
 3.9
 4K
Arctic Blast (2010)
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
Is relevant?
The Fire Next Time (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
TV show
Story: 2017: The greenhouse effect and global warming take their toll as droughts, floods, and hurricanes wreak mass destruction in a world gone mad, one family struggles to survive against all odds...
Style: tense, intense, bleak, realistic, grim ...
Plot: survival, global warming, post apocalyptic, natural disaster, climate change, ecological disaster, cautionary tale, dystopia, environmentalism, heat wave, warning, family bonds ...
Time: near future, 2010s, future
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Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth (2009)
Genre: Animation
Country: France
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Teenagers, the internationally-recognized characters of the series, will be the heroes of adventures in which they will play an active role. They will be a force for change, faced with situations and problems they need to resolve. The series will be ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, light, informative ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing
Plot: environmentalism, contamination, global warming, wisdom of life, wise man, save the planet, imaginary, environmental health, society, escapades, environment, climate change ...
Time: 2000s
Is relevant?
 6.1
 83K
The Postman (1997)
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?
 5.8
 51K
Happy Feet Two (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to brings together the penguin nations ...
Style: computer animated, visually appealing, exciting, touching, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: couples, escapades, heroes, couple relations, bird, animal, kids and family, friendship, natural disaster, parents and children, friends, music ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: antarctica, antarctic, tokyo, hawaii
Is relevant?
 5.2
 321
Scorched (2008)
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?
 5.8
 131
2030 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: moral dilemma, uncover truth, dystopian future, global warming, life is a bitch, murder, environmentalism, society, climate change, social commentary, female protagonist, dystopia ...
Time: near future, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: vietnam, asia
Is relevant?
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The Steam Experiment (2009)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A deranged scientist locks 6 people in a steam room and threatens to turn up the heat if the local paper doesn't publish his story about global warming.
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, mind game, human nature, danger, psychopath, race against time, mad scientist, trapped, law enforcement, kidnapped, survival, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: michigan
Is relevant?
 6.7
 565
Burn Up (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
TV show
Story: An oil industrialist, an environmental activist and a politician are in conflict in this drama set around a summit on climate change.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot: climate change, corporate greed, environment, global warming, evil corporation, environmental activist, oil, greed, lobbyist, conflict of interest, oil industry, conflict ...
Time: 2000s
Is relevant?
Viper's Creed (2009)
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Viper's Creed is a Mecha action anime series created by Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan with animation by AIC Spirits and Digital Frontier. Though Hiroyuki Kanbe is the main director of the show, Shinji Aramaki is solely responsible for the ...
Style: anime, exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: save the day, rivalry, heroes, man versus machine, military base, life is a bitch, save the planet, dystopian future, apocalypse, danger, escapades, technology gone awry ...
Time: future
Is relevant?
 5.2
 220
Dino Squad (2007)
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?
 3.2
 3K
Dinoshark (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film opens with a baby dinoshark swimming away from a broken chunk of Arctic glacier that calved due to global warming. Three years later, the dinoshark is a ferocious predatory adult and kills tourists and locals offshore from Puerto Vallarta, ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized ...
Plot: killer shark, shark, shark attack, creature feature, dangerous animal, eaten alive, underwater, monster, dinosaur, danger, gory, giant monster ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
Is relevant?
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
Style: serious, apocalyptic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: couples, end of the world, couple relations, introspection, chaos, danger, disaster, global warming, post apocalypse, painter, friendship, artist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Is relevant?
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style: suspense, melancholic, talky, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark, danger ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1961, 1950s, 50s
Place: new york
Is relevant?