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Plot Summary:
A brilliant meteorologist returns to his hometown in Oklahoma to try to stop the biggest tornado ever.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, disaster movie
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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
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Miami Magma (2011)
Plot Summary:
When an offshore-drilling rig in the Gulf bursts into flames and sinks, Antoinette Vitrini (Rachel Hunter) - a beautiful and insightful volcanologist - investigates the area with startling results. Confirming her theory that a long-dormant underground volcano exists in the region, Antoinette discovers that the illegal deep-sea drilling has awakened the beast. Now, catastrophic amounts of magma are about to be pumped out... right under the city of Miami. But as Antoinette and her team try to stop the impending disaster, they must also battle the corrupt company that caused the problem in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 992
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, serious, disaster movie
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Supervolcano (2005)
Plot Summary:
Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but they are ignored or dismissed as 'minor'. But when they learn an eruption will happen, panic breaks out through people of the USA and the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, educational, disturbing, apocalyptic, mockbuster, disaster movie
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Fire from Below (2009)
Plot Summary:
Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Tornado! (1996)
Plot Summary:
An accountant sent to produce an evaluation of a tornado research project, and the scientist running the project pursue tornadoes and each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, experimental, disaster movie
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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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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
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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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NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)
Plot Summary:
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 climatologist Dr. Cassie Lawrence's niece Lori. Mayor Leonardo of New York initially refuses to pay proper attention to the phenomenon, a 'reelection threat', so the alert status remains too low for long. Atypical lightning discovered inside tornadoes adds unprecedented dangers. The Lawrences and aeronautics renegade Dr. Lars Liggenhorn conceive a possible solution by launching rockets, but NASA's Dr. Quinn overrules them, imposing standard silver iodine.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, surprise ending, independent film, disaster movie
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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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Tornado Valley (2009)
Plot Summary:
Liz McAdams is haunted by the memories of a tornado that destroyed her home 25 years ago. Now a professional storm tracker, she and her family are in danger once again as another devastating twister rapidly gains momentum. Caught in the path of destruction, Liz and her estranged husband struggle to save those they love.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 551
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic, disaster movie
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Airplane vs Volcano (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a commercial airliner is trapped within a ring of erupting volcanoes, the passengers and crew must find a way to survive - without landing.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, mockbuster, exciting, 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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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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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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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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Absolute Zero (2006)
Plot Summary:
INTER SCI climatologist Dr. David Kotzman has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age...in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is blasted with snow and ice. Evacuation routes are jammed. The only chance David, his old flame Bryn, and a few other hopeful survivors have is to hole themselves up in a special chamber at INTER SCI. A desperate race for survival is ignited as nature's fury rages and the temperature plunges toward -459.67° F...ABSOLUTE ZERO!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, tense, 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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2012: Ice Age (2011)
Plot Summary:
A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it's path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, apocalyptic, hilarious, independent film, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense
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Arctic Blast (2010)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense, disaster movie, canadian science fiction
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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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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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Polar Storm (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a piece of the massive comet "Copernicus" collides with the Earth, it knocks the planet off of its axis and unleashes a disaster never before witnessed. Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) and his highly trained research team are the only ones who can re-align the axis. With his wife and teenage son in mortal danger, Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) calls on his crack research team to help realign the planet's axis before the effects of the catastrophe are irreversible.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, apocalyptic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, 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