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Plot Summary:
When a breakthrough in global defense malfunctions, the result is a fireball four times the size of Earth streaking toward the planet. As fires blaze and panic spreads, a renegade scientist comes to the world’s rescue.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
Best tv shows and movies like CAT. 8 (2013):
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Eve of Destruction (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two scientists attempt to discover a new unlimited energy resource, but their experiment is sabotaged by eco-terrorists. A black hole is then formed and could destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, serious, 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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Supercollider (2013)
Plot Summary:
A scientist working on an energy project discovers his family have undergone strange changes in their personalities, while a series of natural disasters are happening across the globe. He realises that his work has accidentally pushed the planet forward in time seven seconds - and the loss of those few moments has had devastating effects on the world and the human race.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disaster movie
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Impact (2009)
Plot Summary:
While the entire world watches the largest meteor shower in 10,000 years, a rogue asteroid, hidden by the meteor field, smashes into the moon in a tremendous explosion of rock and debris. Fragments from the asteroid, and even from the moon itself, penetrate Earth's atmosphere and make impact. Even though the initial damage is minimal, nerves are frayed throughout the planet. There is significant physical damage to the lunar surface, but experts quickly conclude there will be no lasting ramifications. Then strange anomalies begin to manifest themselves on Earth. It starts small - cell phone disruptions, unusual static charges and odd tidal behavior. The world's leading scientists, including Alex Kittner, Maddie Rhodes and Roland Emerson, begin piecing together evidence that suggests the moon's properties, and its orbit, may have been permanently altered. Their fears are realized.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Ring of Fire (2012)
Plot Summary:
When an oil rig causes an eruption in a small town, it's just the first in a series that could affect the dangerous Ring of Fire that contains most of the world's volcanoes. If these cataclysmic eruptions cannot be stopped, the Earth could be headed for an extinction level event.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, 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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San Andreas Quake (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a discredited L.A. Seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake, no one takes her seriously. Now on her own, she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockbuster, intense, exciting, serious, suspense, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Exploding Sun (2013)
Plot Summary:
The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. Among those on board: First Lady Simone Mathany, space-exploration entrepreneur Steve Roebling, Dr. Denise Balaban, pilot Fiona Henslaw, and a very lucky lottery winner. But while en route, a massive solar flare sparks a cosmic-ray burst that accelerates Aurora’s engine and blows the ship away from Earth’s orbit. Now out of control, it’s hurtling straight for the sun.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, 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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Arctic Apocalypse (2019)
Plot Summary:
A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, compassionate, apocalyptic
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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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Impact Earth (2015)
Plot Summary:
A former NASA asteroid tracker discovers a looming asteroid collision that could send it on a collision-course with Earth. Because he made a wrong call ten years earlier that cost him his career, nobody at NASA will listen to him when he starts raising the waning flags. Desperate to alert the public, and now certain of a collision, he and his student assistant publish a video telling the world about this looming danger. He gathers his family and his student assistant and they begin a journey towards a fall-out shelter owned by his old mentor over 100 miles away. When meteors tear up the highway they're driving on and nearly get them killed, they have to take the rest of the journey by foot through a dark forest filled with unexpected dangers. The journey will bring this family closer than ever as they try to get to safety before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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40 Days and Nights (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, independent film, 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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LA Apocalypse (2015)
Plot Summary:
For 5 billion years the Earth's core has operated like a giant, nuclear reactor. Now it's overheated, melting down like a bomb that's about to explode. The earth is being ripped apart at the seams and beneath LA, pressure is building. After a mass evacuation, Calvin Crawford is one of few left, desperately searching for his fiancée, Ashley Pace, who unbeknownst to him, has been kidnapped and is being held hostage. With LA becoming more unstable by the minute, Calvin, must find a way to save Ashley and get them both to safety before the city is completely annihilated.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Collision Earth (2020)
Plot Summary:
A large meteor shower unexpectedly bombards planet Earth. Scientists rush to the scene of the first impact and the race is on to find a solution to save humanity.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Category 5 (2014)
Plot Summary:
After a family survives Hurricane Katrina, there is another storm but this one is much worse.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, disaster movie
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Oceans Rising (2017)
Plot Summary:
A scientist builds a massive ark after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. But when it's evident the disaster will occur, those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, boarding the ark and seeking his answers before the world drowns in a never ending sea.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, mockbuster, 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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Meteor (2009)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere on the outskirts of our solar system, the unthinkable occurs. A giant asteroid collides with a smaller one and changes direction - headed directly toward The Earth. The burning meteor rain that beats down with devastating force, is only a foretaste of what is to come. Just a few days from reaching the atmosphere Kassandra, the meteor that is three times as big as Mount Everest and with power in an instant to destroy all life on planet Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Mega Cyclone (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jupiter’s famous blemish, the Great Red Spot, has vanished. When massive storms are reported in North America, it quickly becomes apparent that the huge, high storm that has been swirling around Jupiter for hundreds of years has landed on Earth. Swallowing up everything in its path, the Great Red Spot threatens to transform Earth into another Jupiter-like gas giant in just a matter of days! aka Mega Cyclone.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody, 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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Metal Tornado (2011)
Plot Summary:
The HELIOS PROJECT is a high tech facility tasked with storing and converting solar rays into an endless supply of renewable energy. After years of research and millions of dollars, it is now time to test the system out.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, unusual plot structure, 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
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Stormageddon (2015)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, Echelon, takes over America's entire online system, our country is threatened to be brought to its knees. Hacking into DARPA, Echelon gains the ability to manipulate the weather, create earthquakes, and cause a level of destruction unlike anything the country could ever imagine. But how do you stop a computer program when it has control over any and every defense you have?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster (2017)
Plot Summary:
A stolen seismic weapon is activated in Yemen. A hostage freed there tries in vain to warn against its global effect. It starts seismic activity at the Californian fault line where her daughter and ex are monitoring it. Can they stop it?.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, action adventure, disaster movie