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Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, psychotronic, suspense, independent film, road movie, sexy, humorous
Best tv shows and movies like Avalanche (1978):
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Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)
Plot Summary:
An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Lithuania, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
Similar in 88%
Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
Plot Summary:
A USGS scientist attempts to convince his boss and the residents of Angel Falls, California that a nearby volcano is about to erupt.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
Similar in 83%
Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)
Plot Summary:
A rescue goes terribly wrong for a sheriff when trying to save four dirt bikers when they are trapped by growing forest fires. Desperate, they seek shelter in an abandoned mine, never realizing they are headed straight for evil from the sheriff's past.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Romania, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, fast, disaster movie
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Escape from Alaska (1999)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two years later, the wife takes on a corporation which wants to extend an oil pipeline across the tundra above Juneau. She is convinced that this will cause an avalanche on the town. Of course, she is rejected by the corporation executives. She recruits the pilot to try to aid her, but with no success.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 86%
Airport 1975 (1974)
Plot Summary:
"Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the nerve chilling sequel to the greatest disaster movie ever made.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, fast, crying, black comedy
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Airport '77 (1977)
Plot Summary:
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle while taking VIPs and valuable art to Philip Stevens new museum. But when hijackers take off the plane and knock everyone out with sleeping gas the plane crashes in the sea. The passengers survive but a small hole at the front is flooding the plane and 2 daring rescues must be put into action because everyone is trapped 200 feet underwater.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, psychological, cult classic, rough, bleak, fast
Similar in 79%
Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)
Plot Summary:
It begins on a glacier nestled on a frozen peak high in the wild Ural Mountains of Russia, kissed by clouds, the top of the world. A lonely, forbidding place, it's home to THOM CUSSLER and brother, JOCK, a pair of transplanted westerners seeking their fortune in Russia's new capitalist economy. They run a hard-luck snowmobile tour business that takes adventurous winter tourists up the mountains to experience the ultimate extreme winter thrill. During one such excursion, a massive ledge of snow at the top of the ridge suddenly collapses and an avalanche crashes down! Only the quick thinking and expert driving of Thom and Jock saves them. The tiny village of Dubroz, nestled far below, is not so lucky. Avalanche sirens wail, but the panicked villagers barely have time to act as the avalanche crashes down! A wall of snow smashes into one end of the village, blasting-in windows, collapsing and burying buildings... Written by GFT Entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
Plot Summary:
The last of the 'Airport' series again stars George Kennedy as aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni, this time having to contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, fast, suspense, crying, psychotronic
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When Time Ran Out... (1980)
Plot Summary:
An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie, cult film
Similar in 87%
Air Crew (1980)
Plot Summary:
Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, rough, serious, crying, disaster movie
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Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Plot Summary:
The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to remain 'for the rest of the day'. Nature doesn't wait till after business hours, so the crystallized wave rushes down and crushes everything on its path, including a brand new hotel; among the guests is the architect Michael Cooper's own family, which now tries to remember the plans well enough to find the way out, as he tries to instruct the rescue operation above, where a second, even larger avalanche is expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
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Frozen Impact (2003)
Plot Summary:
In Rutland, Vermont, Forestry Service supervisor Dan Blanchard and his wife Dr. Christy Blanchard hope life will return to normal now a transplant liver is expected for their brave son Jason (12). Daughter Marie was ordered to bring Jason to perform magic on Pete Crane's big car auction, but she sneaks off to go mountaineering with friends. The violent hail storm Medusa causes the small jet to crash in the forest. When Dan gets there, the brave paramedic, who unlike pilot Tom survived, urges him to take the liver and rush back, it's only good for a few more hours, but the storm rages on.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disaster movie
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Heat Wave (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert, one scientist must put her theories to the test in a desperate effort to prevent the catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the dam in the town of Rutland starts to show signs of wear. David Powell, the architect who originally worked on the dam but was removed and who left town after he was black balled by Walker, the man who only cares about making a profit; returns. He insists that the dam be drained and inspected but Walker claims it would take too long and would be too costly. David goes to the dam and notices a few anomalies. He then tries to warn the deputy mayor who happens to be his estranged wife but out of anger she refuses to listen. Also David tries to reconnect with his son who resents his desertion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, disaster movie
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Landslide (2005)
Plot Summary:
Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart Hancock, who dreams of his own firm, has been cutting too many corners, at the expense of safety, causing a landslide. Mark gets trapped with Steven and the new concierge Harold, who knows everything about an additional danger: rattlesnakes awoken early from hibernation. Now Mark discovers artistic, nerdy Steven only did 'manly' stuff in the city because dad-son time is so rare. While they soldier on, landscape architect Emma discovers the truth and counters Stewart's plan B to literally cover it up.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, disaster movie
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Counterstrike (2002)
Plot Summary:
A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on board with the aim to steal China's nuclear codes to arm China's ICBM missiles to use as bargaining chips for their personal crusade against China.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Superfire (2002)
Plot Summary:
A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, disaster movie
Similar in 84%
Tornado (2006)
Plot Summary:
The hottest summer in years: Meteorologist Jan returns from Oklahoma, where he has studied twisters up close, after faring a traumatic catastrophe during his dangerous research. Back in Berlin, he comes to face with his past and his ex-girlfriend Eva, who he had left behind. He clashes with his father, head of the local weather institute, and only his blind sister Sophie still seems to trust him. But no longer is Jan in town that an unusual cold front approaches the city. Immediately Jan recognizes the familiar warning signs of impending doom. He tries to alert the officials, but is ignored by both his father and the government. He is later proven right, and a tornado devastates Berlin. Jan tries to save the people he loves so dearly, even if it means sacrificing his own life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, realistic, computer animated, disaster movie
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Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)
Plot Summary:
A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the problem?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 550
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Ice Quake (2010)
Plot Summary:
As the permafrost melts in Alaska, underground rivers of volatile liquid methane form which sets off a series of devastating earthquakes. Forced apart by this violent occurrence, one family must find each other during the holidays and work to stop the deadly rivers that could cause a worldwide catastrophy.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, christmas horror, suspenseful, exciting, disaster movie
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Flood (2007)
Plot Summary:
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, talky, captivating, apocalyptic, exciting, suspense, action thriller, rough, independent film
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Airport (1970)
Plot Summary:
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, psychotronic, erotic, psychological, cult classic, rough
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, epic, sexy, breathtaking, sad
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Earthquake (1974)
Plot Summary:
Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for survival after a catastrophic earthquake destroys most of the city of Los Angeles, California.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough, bad ending, psychotronic, sad, cult classic, serious, realistic
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Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Vertical Limit (2000)
Plot Summary:
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, intense, serious, realistic, entertaining, action adventure
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Daylight (1996)
Plot Summary:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who survived the explosion are now in peril. Kit Latura is the only man with the skill and knowledge to lead the band of survivors out of the tunnel before the structure collapses.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting, breathtaking, cult classic, surprise ending
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The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
Plot Summary:
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious, realistic, psychotronic, sexy, bad ending, bloody
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Plot Summary:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious, psychological, psychotronic, cult classic, erotic