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Plot Summary:
The residents of an isolated mountain town must band together to survive during a devastating heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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In Search Of America (1971)
Plot Summary:
The producers of In Search of America never declared outright that the made-for-TV film was intended as a series pilot, but there sure are plenty of loose plot ends. Carl Betz and Vera Miles play the parents of shaggy-haired college dropout Jeff Bridges. At the boy's suggestion, Betz and Miles pack their family--including grandma Ruth McDevitt--into a 1928 Greyhound bus and hit the road, in search of you-know-where. The picaresque plotline brings the family in contact with a variety of colorful characters. Written by Lewis John Carlino, a name that would mean a lot more to filmgoers after The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976), In Search of America was first telecast March 23, 1971.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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A Brand New Life (1973)
Plot Summary:
After 18 years of marriage, a middle-aged couple has to face the prospect of having their first child.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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The Day the Earth Moved (1974)
Plot Summary:
An aerial photography team tries to alert a small town about an impending earthquake, but no one believes the duo until the tremors start and the walls begin to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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Panic in Echo Park (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: tv series pilot
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Who's Child Am I? (1976)
Plot Summary:
Paul Freeman (of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK fame) and Kate O'Mara plays a couple who can't have a baby, so they go to the doctor to have an artificial insemination...blackmail, dark secrets and drama ensue.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Having Babies III (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Julie Farr presides over three impending births and cannot help but get involved in the lives of her troubled patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Having Babies II (1977)
Plot Summary:
The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
Plot Summary:
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, corny, disaster movie
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The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? (1993)
Plot Summary:
In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones (1971)
Plot Summary:
It's 1956 in the beach town of Trilby. After asking the questions pertaining to the situation, sixteen year old working class Robert Joseph Jones - who prefers to be called Bo Jo - asks his same aged girlfriend, upper middle class Julie Greher, to marry him in doing what he believes to be the right thing after she tells him that she is ten weeks pregnant from their one and only sexual encounter, the secret wedding which happens the following day. These are only the first steps in both Bo Jo and Julie doing and saying what they believe are the right things under the circumstance regardless of what they may actually feel. Their life inexperience is shown in the process, which includes each finding out what little he/she really knows of the other. They both to some extent realize that being married means the loss of their innocence and the loss of their individual planned futures - which for both was college and Bo Jo working toward a football scholarship on the hopes of becoming All.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Born and Missing (2017)
Plot Summary:
A week after she gives birth, Ashley dies in a car crash and her newborn goes missing. Her husband Brian fears that there is something more devious behind the accident.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
Plot Summary:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and spent all the money, and wants to find out all he can about her. Even more friction develops between the two while they are in the apartment together.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, talky
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Fire and Rain (1989)
Plot Summary:
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Plot Summary:
A disaster movie opening with an enormous multi-vehicle crash on a Californian highway. After the opening stunt-filled action, a flashback of the crash victims' lives prior to and leading up to the accident. The closing replays the entire "smash up" from various angles and in slow motion, depicting much carnage and indifference to the victims.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Miracle Landing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Cracks are noticed in the ceiling of an aircraft. They widen & a large portion of the fuselage tears off & an emergency landing attempted. Based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: disaster movie
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Krakatoa: The Last Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
A historical drama documentary depicting the eruption of Krakatoa volcano in 1883. The volcano was located in the Sunda strait in Indonesia and its eruption resulted in tsunami, rains of coals and ash, and ended with a very hot tsunami. The eruption killed more than 36,000 people and those survived were left with burns.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing, epic, nature documentary, disaster movie
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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
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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! (1977)
Plot Summary:
The sheer terror and unearthly beauty of a raging forest fire is breathlessly captured in this compelling Irwin Allen production boasting a big-name cast and enough blazing special effects to turn night into day. Involved are a lumber mill owner (Ernest Borgnine), the widowed operator of a forest lodge (Vera Miles), a teacher on a class outing (Donna Mills), a country doctor (Lloyd Nolan), a couple (Patty Duke Astin and Alex Cord) whose shaky marriage is healed when battling the blaze brings out their better natures, and escaping convicts (Neville Brand and Erik Estrada) who use the conflagration to cover their tracks. Like Allen’s crowd-pleasers The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, Fire sizzles with suspense and excitement. Turn up the heat!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 341
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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Baby Snatcher (1992)
Plot Summary:
A woman is delighted to have given birth to a baby girl but her life is turned into a nightmare when she goes missing. The police mount a frantic search but to the woman's horror she finds out that it's herself who is the main suspect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
Plot Summary:
A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tragic ending, mockumentary, disaster movie
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Someone I Touched (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Switched Before Birth (2021)
Plot Summary:
Switched Before Birth follows Olivia Crawford and her husband Brian, who after multiple miscarriages, numerous failed IVF trials and stretching themselves to the limit financially, finally receive the joyous news that she’s pregnant with twins. While going through her latest round of IVF, Oliva meets and becomes fast friends with Anna Ramirez, who is struggling to have a child after years of focusing on her successful restaurants. When Anna becomes pregnant as well, the ladies celebrate and begin to prepare for their babies. Olivia is also there for Anna when she suffers a devastating miscarriage and struggles to move forward while her marriage to restaurateur Gabe Ramirez crumbles. When Olivia and Brian finally welcome their twins Olivia’s life feels complete, but the happy couple’s world is turned upside down when they discover that not only are the babies not twins, but one of the babies is also biologically Anna and Gabe’s that was implanted into Olivia by mistake.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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The River (1984)
Plot Summary:
Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: emotional, sincere, serious, realistic, gloomy, sentimental, inspirational, romantic, feel good, unusual plot structure
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The Last Survivors (1975)
Plot Summary:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Hurricane (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two hurricane hunters track a huge, violent hurricane that is bearing down on a Gulf Coast town.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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Waterborne (2005)
Plot Summary:
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has made up his mind. Then the lives of all Californians are turned upside down when one morning eight people are dead after drinking contaminated tap water.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, captivating, intercultural, inter cultural
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Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story (1994)
Plot Summary:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young couple struggles to keep themselves and their infant son alive in a frozen shelter while awaiting rescue. Realizing they won't be found, Jim ultimately strikes out on a courageous 50-mile mission, determined to reach help and return to save his loved ones in this exciting and moving true story. Written by Anonymous.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Earthquake (2016)
Plot Summary:
After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Armenia, Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, suspense, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Of Mice and Men (1981)
Plot Summary:
George and Lenny travel through the Depression-era west working at odd jobs, hoping to make enough money to buy their own farm. George must always watch over his intellectually disabled friend, and keep him out of danger, both to himself and to others. After they take a new job at a ranch, Lenny gets into far more trouble than George can talk his way out of, leaving George to decide whether to help him, or leave him to his fate.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy