Power outage movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant power outage movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, serious and realistic films and TV shows about / with power outage, survival, danger, murder, fear, death, pistol, corpse, police officer and supernatural plots mostly in Thriller, Action and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as power outage: The Trigger Effect (1996), Survival Family (2016), How It Ends (2018), Vanishing on 7th Street (2010), Into the Forest (2015), Lights Out (2016), Coherence (2013), Captain Phillips (2013), Clue (1985), Nope (2022).
Best films
New films
Moonfall (2022) | 5.1 | |
The Creator (2023) | 6.8 | |
Memory (2022) | 5.7 | |
The Equalizer 3 (2023) | 6.8 | |
Five Days at Memorial (2022) | 7.7 |
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, bleak, cult classic ...
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, nudity, bare breasts, female nudity, suburbs, disaster, dystopian future, neighbor, paranoia, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki (Fumiyo Kohinata) decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Style:
road movie, humorous, feel good, psychological, light ...
Plot:
blackout, food shortage, japanese school, japanese teenager, parent child relationship, hunger, water shortage, countryside, animal cruelty, japanese military, soldier, apocalypse ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
Style:
apocalyptic, road movie, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
end of the world, disaster, journey, volcano, father in law son in law relationship, murder, road trip, post apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, survival, apocalypse ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seattle, chicago, minnesota
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic ...
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, vestiges of humanity, survival, darkness, supernatural, group of strangers, disappearance, natural disaster, hospital, church, danger ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, melancholic, futuristic, erotic ...
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, forest, distopia, post apocalyptic, dystopia, isolation, sisters, father daughter relationship, rape, sister sister relationship, family bonds ...
Time:
future
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141K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style:
dark, scary, creepy, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, ghost, supernatural, paranormal, macabre, darkness, child in peril, brother sister relationship, depression, violence, monster, sibling relationship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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144K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Style:
mind bending, psychological, suspenseful, mind blowing, confusing ...
Plot:
alternate reality, twists and turns, parallel universe, parallel world, time loop, quantum physics, disorder, paranoia, dinner party, comet, couples, asteroids and comets ...
Time:
2010s, near future, distant future, year 2013, future ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Style:
realistic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hostage, ship, kidnapping, terrorism, survival, rescue, ocean, pirate, u.s. navy, ship captain, piracy, ransom ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
somalia, africa, america, middle east, usa ...
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108K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style:
parody, funny, surprise ending, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
whodunit, butler, multiple suspects, murder mystery, murder, mansion, investigation, twists and turns, old dark house, mystery killer, blackmail, dark and stormy night ...
Time:
year 1954, 90s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place:
new england
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261K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Plot unknown.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, scary, splatter ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
alien, massacre, horse, chimpanzee, ufo, alien invasion, brother sister relationship, death of father, eaten alive, loss of father, alien monster, ranch ...
Time:
2020s, future, year 1998, 90s, year 1996
Place:
california
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
boston, persia, iran, america
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the ...
Style:
touching, humorous, realistic, funny, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, pregnancy, father daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, single mother, teenage girl, little girl, husband wife relationship, birthday party ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
missouri, st. louis missouri
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, dystopian future, apocalypse, earthquake, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, one man army, danger ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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940K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
NYPD cop, John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking ...
Style:
intense, christmas special, exciting, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, date night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot:
hostage, gunfight, one man army, heist, tough guy, christmas, terrorist, terrorism, police, shootout, robbery, skyscraper ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 2016
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style:
grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, monster, epidemic, end of the world, survival, living dead, siege, shopping mall, undead ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, philadelphia, bolivia, usa
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372K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of ...
Style:
dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, satanic, stylized ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, demon, occult, devil, angel, exorcism, good versus evil, demonic possession, heaven and hell, hell, superhero, suicide ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, mexico
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438K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 1455 min.
TV show
Story:
A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style:
mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, investigation, time loop, time machine, mysterious past, cave, time portal, missing child, repeated event, changing the future, deja vu, small town ...
Time:
year 1986, year 2019, year 1953, 50s, 80s ...
Place:
germany, chernobyl
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, skyscraper, firefighter, rescue, survival, natural disaster, race against time, trapped, fire, trapped in a building, architect ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california
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649K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he's working for Homeland Security. He calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, realistic, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
gunfight, hacking, one man army, terrorism, hacker, computer hacker, tough cop, conspiracy, car chase, fbi, lone hero, surveillance ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, maryland, baltimore, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real ...
Style:
horror comedy, slasher, suspense, dark, minimal cast ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mansion, party, rain, whodunit, paranoia, drug addict, infidelity, sword, contest, jealousy, handgun, cocaine ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A crew of men who do the high-wire work of fixing the electrical grid are hit by a sudden deadly storm.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
electrician, electricity, heroism, disaster, storm, workplace problem, life risking, workplace situations, worker, man versus nature, courage, danger ...
Time:
year 1999, 2010s, 90s
Place:
texas
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148K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who ...
Style:
futuristic, epic, tension, psychotronic, light ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, ex special forces, space station, interracial marriage, u.s. army, future war, husband wife relationship, technology, human versus robot, secret laboratory, space shuttle ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 21st century
Place:
asia, tokyo, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A long lucky streak makes a nice guy the target of opportunists like his brother, his girlfriend, and some guys from New Jersey.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, neo noir
Plot:
casino, hitman, brother brother relationship, death of father, loss of loved one, shootout, blonde, femme fatale, debt, gambling, seduction, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Spain, UK, Iran
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
hotel, murder, vigilante, characters killed one by one, paranoia, serial killer, isolation, whodunit, who done it, psychopath, serial murder, doctor ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
iran, middle east
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
marital reconciliation, talk show host, marriage, actress, psychiatrist, farce, voice over narration, husband wife relationship, interview, embezzlement, suspicion of adultery, nepotism ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s
Place:
connecticut, new york
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81K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, survival, volcano, catastrophe, end of the world, firefighter, forces of nature, race against time, lava, panic, fire ...
Time:
year 1997, future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, iceland
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41K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style:
dark, lovecraft, creepy, stylized, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, hospital, monster, cosmic horror, another dimension, insanity, macabre, murder, mutation, small town, isolation, human experiment ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, airplane, zombie apocalypse, infected, zombie attack, danger, countryside, apocalypse, rescue, virus, survival, chaos ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
southern italy, rome italy, europe, italy
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
Style:
suspense, grindhouse, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, survival, police station, siege, claustrophobia, ambush, street gang, prison, gang, convict, revenge, gangster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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