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Plot Summary:
Illegal experimentation accidentally rips open a previously unknown hidden magma reserve directly under Manhattan!.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, rough, exciting, tense, semi serious, bleak, 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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Post Impact (2004)
Plot Summary:
Meteor Bay-Leder 7 struck earth on October 18th, 2012. Causing earthquakes, tidal waves, and a dust cloud that soon covered most of the Northern hemisphere, it changed the face of our planet forever.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak, fast, disaster movie
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Apocalypse Pompeii (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a former Special Ops commando visits Pompeii, his wife and daughter are trapped as Mt. Vesuvius erupts with massive force. While his family fights to survive the deadly onslaught of heat and lava, he enlists his former teammates in a daring operation beneath the ruins of the city of Pompeii.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, mockbuster, tense, realistic, fast, disaster movie
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Sub Zero (2005)
Plot Summary:
A device that controls a powerful Russian-made satellite weapon is stolen by Russian terrorists, who try to escape by flying out but are shot down. The device is now on top of K2. The device is still active and where it will strike is indeterminable. The good guys have to get to the device and deactivate it. Only trouble, it's winter and it'll be difficult to climb K2. A few of the best mountain climbers in the world are recruited to take techs who can deactivate the device to the top of K2. However, before the climbing party leaves, a team member dies, and it might not be natural causes. The group who stole the device might have someone on the team. But they still go on.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, 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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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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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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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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Super Eruption (2011)
Plot Summary:
A Yellowstone National Park scientist and a thrill-seeking ranger join forces to plug-up a volatile super volcano that threatens to wipe out the entire United States.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak, apocalyptic, mockbuster, rough, 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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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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10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
Plot Summary:
A jolted West Coast deals with the deadly aftereffects of a massive tremor in this sequel to the disaster drama 10.5. Concerned that a widening fault line may set off two nuclear reactors, seismologist Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney) contacts the president (Beau Bridges). Assembling an expert rescue team, they search for the one man who can help them: Samantha's father (Frank Langella), a scientist who predicted this catastrophe. Dean Cain co-stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, suspense, futuristic, fast, disaster movie
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Descent (2005)
Plot Summary:
When cracks in the Earth's crust large enough to swallow a city block appear, a team of scientists must go deep into the Earth to find a way to stop the destruction.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, captivating, disaster movie
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Scorcher (2002)
Plot Summary:
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, 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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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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Fire Twister (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a mysterious orb of light strikes a deep water oil rig, the massive explosion erupts into a ball of flames creating a swirling mass of clouds and fire. As the twister begins to move.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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10.0 Earthquake (2014)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, and time is running out to save the city from imminent danger.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, 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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San Andreas Mega Quake (2019)
Plot Summary:
Scientists make a horrible discovery: The "Big One" is coming in two days, with it, California will sink to the ocean. Their only hope is to rupture a volcano that will displace the earthquake's energy and build a new crust on the surface. But as fore-shocks turn California into chaos, it's a race against time the scientists might not win.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Global Meltdown (2017)
Plot Summary:
A helicopter pilot and an environmental scientist lead a exodus of survivors in a search for a safe haven after a catastrophic tectonic event causes the crust of the earth to break apart.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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End of the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
As mass of solar storms causes tsunamis, volcanoes, and flooding, a city-dwelling family attempts to flee to the relative safety of a group of high-elevation caves several miles away.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, apocalyptic, exciting, suspense, intense, psychotronic, disaster movie
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100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)
Plot Summary:
After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, 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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Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
Plot Summary:
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 Tornado, and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, rough, apocalyptic, exciting, fast, 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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End of the World (2013)
Plot Summary:
In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways to save it!?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, apocalyptic, offbeat, humorous, 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