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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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Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol (1972)
Plot Summary:
An American soldier manages to endure his captivity in a Vietnamese POW camp by keeping alive the memories of life in his home town. When he is finally released from the camp, and is discharged from the military, he goes back to his town - but he can find no trace whatsoever of it.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Meteorites! (1998)
Plot Summary:
A meteor shower threatens a small American town.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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Heatwave! (1974)
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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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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Flood! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, disaster movie
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The Night That Panicked America (1975)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Locusts (1974)
Plot Summary:
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town, and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects devour the area's valuable crops.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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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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Promised Land (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to leave their small town behind and realize big dreams, but their idealistic plans collide with life's harsh realities.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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Americana (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771 (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lost somewhere over the Pacific in a single-engine Cessna with low fuel, a pilot (Scott Bakula) awaits rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 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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The Astronaut (1972)
Plot Summary:
To avoid having the space program cancelled, officials substitute a lookalike for an astronaut who died on a Mars mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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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 (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a dormant volcano suddenly erupts into activity beneath Laach Lake in the Eiffel mountains, panic breaks out among the 500.000 residents.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, disaster movie
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Shelter (2008)
Plot Summary:
With a catastrophic event rapidly approaching, 18 people vie for 10 spots in the small town's only bomb shelter.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, epic, independent film, bleak, futuristic
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SST: Death Flight (1977)
Plot Summary:
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, 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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City on Fire (1979)
Plot Summary:
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film, disaster movie
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Where Have All the People Gone (1974)
Plot Summary:
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, spooky, atmospheric, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, corny
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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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Innocent Saturday (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and bandmates look to escape from the Chernobyl disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Ukraine
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, captivating, realistic, gloomy
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Freefall: Flight 174 (1995)
Plot Summary:
True story of a brand-new Canadian airliner running out of fuel in-flight and forced to glide to the nearest airfield.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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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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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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Just a Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic