Best tv shows like Eve of Destruction
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Plot Summary:
Two scientists attempt to discover a new unlimited energy resource, but their experiment is sabotaged by eco-terrorists. A black hole is then formed and could destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, serious, disaster movie
Best tv shows and movies like Eve of Destruction (2013):
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Super Tanker (2011)
Plot Summary:
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 Tanker a rogue wave damages the ship and releases the element which triggers a chain reaction in the environment and the political arena.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, disaster movie
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2012: Damnation (2011)
Plot Summary:
A UFO is shot down over Russia in the 1970s and the wreckage is taken to a secret research facility. When the Soviet Union collapses, the alien technology falls into the hands of a mysterious terrorist organisation, which uses it to create a devastating doomsday weapon. A team of secret agents is sent to stop the carnage.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful
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Megastorm (2009)
Plot Summary:
Through his Atmospheric Research Institute, Robert Terrell (Treat Williams) has finally fulfilled his lifelong dream of completing "weather creation" technology, which has been a landmark event. However, during a test run, a team composed of Dr. Jonathan Kirk, Carly Meyers and Dr. Jack Hoffman send a blast of energy into the ionosphere, driving the planet into unexpected natural disasters. The experiment also causes a damage of the weather control laboratory which causes the police led by the detective Devon Williams to begin the investigation.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, political, disaster movie
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Path of Destruction (2005)
Plot Summary:
The movie opens with a faulty nanotechnology experiment that results in a massive, deadly explosion. The company's CEO manages to sidestep blame by framing a meddling young reporter (Katherine), who now holds the only surviving evidence needed to expose the truth. All the while, the dangerous nanoparticles - having escaped from the explosion into the stratosphere - threaten to destroy nearby cities with wildly destructive weather patterns. Among the chaos of the storms, and on the run from the authorities, Katherine must - with the help of a young scientist - get the evidence to the government to enlist their help before it's too late...and the deadly disaster turns worldwide.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Alien Dawn (2012)
Plot Summary:
2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, independent film
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Killer Wave (2007)
Plot Summary:
Suddenly the US east coast is hit by a type of natural disaster formerly reserved, except after a major earthquake, for the Pacific and Indian ocean rims: tidal waves of the destructive tsunami type. Scientist and fiction author John McAdams attends a national emergency conference which concludes the phenomenon must be man-made, quite possibly abusing the findings of John's secret former Sea Lion project, but who wants to and has the means? Indeed John soon finds himself set-up for a murder and chased. Major destructions mean major contracts for construction and coastal defenses, so building tycoons like Victor Bannister certainly have a considerable interest.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 909
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, serious, exciting, captivating, disaster movie
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Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Plot Summary:
New York, the city that never sleeps, is trapped in a nightmare of horror and destruction when a massive earthquake rocks the unsuspecting city. Countless lives are lost, families are torn apart, and chaos runs rampant as the mayor and former Fire Chief race to enact a city-wide emergency plan. An incredible story of undying courage in the face of unimaginable human tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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9-1-1 (2018)
Plot Summary:
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 vulnerable with solving the problems in their own lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, thought provoking, medical drama, detective, queer cinema
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Fall of Hyperion (2008)
Plot Summary:
A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Ice Twisters (2009)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation's weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, apocalyptic, christmas horror, disaster movie, canadian science fiction
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Atomic Twister (2002)
Plot Summary:
When tornadoes hit a nuclear power plant, critically damaging the plant's cooling system, the results could be catastrophic. Atomic Twister, a countdown to disaster, traces an extraordinary day in the lives of small town citizens who unexpectedly find themselves facing the possibility of mass destruction.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, disaster movie
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Supercollider (2013)
Plot Summary:
A scientist working on an energy project discovers his family have undergone strange changes in their personalities, while a series of natural disasters are happening across the globe. He realises that his work has accidentally pushed the planet forward in time seven seconds - and the loss of those few moments has had devastating effects on the world and the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disaster movie
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Storm Cell (2008)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister are torn apart when their parents die tragically in a tornado. While he moves to Seattle to be away from the memory, she devotes her life to studying storms and weather patterns. When she discovers the threat of a powerful series of tornadoes are heading for Seattle, she must convince her brother and the entire city that she is not crazy; and they are in grave danger.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Seattle Superstorm (2012)
Plot Summary:
An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to effect the local weather ultimately threatening the whole world.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, apocalyptic, captivating, disaster movie
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Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Plot Summary:
When the seeds from the original Garden of Eden are carelessly released into today's toxic climate, the plant is transformed by our contaminated environment into a writhing mass of foliage that wreaks havoc over earth.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Storm War (2011)
Plot Summary:
A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that all of their father's enemies are dead - victims of freak weather accidents. Soon their suspicions are confirmed as their father hijacks radio and TV transmissions to relay the message that unless a certain Senator whom canceled his Defense Department contracts is handed over, the city of Washington D.C will suffer the consequences. As the brothers race to form a plan that can defeat their father, he lets loose a variety of diabolical weather weapons on the Smithsonian, Jefferson and Lincoln Memorials, and National Mall!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, humorous, captivating, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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The 12 Disasters of Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
Just in time for the joyous holiday season, this film connects the ancient Mayan prophecy of worldwide destruction at the end of 2012, and the iconic holiday song, The 12 Days of Christmas. But there is hope: a father learns that his daughter is really the "Chosen One" who, alone, can stop further catastrophe - if he can stave off the lunatic townspeople blaming her for the community's destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, christmas horror, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Maximum Velocity (2003)
Plot Summary:
After a comet passes the Earth it causes a cataclysmic storm. Only a disbanded government unit with a secret weather-manipulating weapon can try to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, rough, independent film, disaster movie
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Exploding Sun (2013)
Plot Summary:
The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. Among those on board: First Lady Simone Mathany, space-exploration entrepreneur Steve Roebling, Dr. Denise Balaban, pilot Fiona Henslaw, and a very lucky lottery winner. But while en route, a massive solar flare sparks a cosmic-ray burst that accelerates Aurora’s engine and blows the ship away from Earth’s orbit. Now out of control, it’s hurtling straight for the sun.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, disaster movie
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10.5 (2004)
Plot Summary:
An earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by aftershocks and tsunami.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Quantum Apocalypse (2010)
Plot Summary:
A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town heroes fail to find a solution.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, rough, apocalyptic, grindhouse, disaster movie
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MegaFault (2009)
Plot Summary:
A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, serious, tense, suspense, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, independent film, disaster movie
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CAT. 8 (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a breakthrough in global defense malfunctions, the result is a fireball four times the size of Earth streaking toward the planet. As fires blaze and panic spreads, a renegade scientist comes to the world’s rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Meteor (2009)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere on the outskirts of our solar system, the unthinkable occurs. A giant asteroid collides with a smaller one and changes direction - headed directly toward The Earth. The burning meteor rain that beats down with devastating force, is only a foretaste of what is to come. Just a few days from reaching the atmosphere Kassandra, the meteor that is three times as big as Mount Everest and with power in an instant to destroy all life on planet Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Delete (2013)
Plot Summary:
Delete imagines a disaster in our all-too-fragile digital world where all computers could become dangerously self-aware with one systematic purpose–to destroy mankind. Faced with possible extinction, there is only one way out–create a second artificial intelligence, just as alive, just as intelligent and just as dangerous.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating, disaster movie
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Firequake (2014)
Plot Summary:
Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the highly-explosive product begins to seep deep below the Earth's crust, producing giant blasts of fire and violent earthquakes above the surface. As cities shake and oceans boil, Eve Adams, creator of the Helios technology, rushes to investigate the subterranean phenomenon. As the situation becomes ever more dire, she is the only one who can save mankind, not to mention reputation.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 520
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Earth's Final Hours (2011)
Plot Summary:
After dense matter from an imploded white hole hits Earth, the planet's rotation is devastated. A group of government agents must locate a lost satellite network that is the world's only hope for survival.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Plot Summary:
A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, biblical, disaster movie
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Stormageddon (2015)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, Echelon, takes over America's entire online system, our country is threatened to be brought to its knees. Hacking into DARPA, Echelon gains the ability to manipulate the weather, create earthquakes, and cause a level of destruction unlike anything the country could ever imagine. But how do you stop a computer program when it has control over any and every defense you have?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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The Apocalypse (2007)
Plot Summary:
In this epic disaster film of faith, a mother and father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth triggers a series of apocalyptic events.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, mockbuster, psychological, suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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