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Genre "Disaster Film" Movies (showing 1 to 22 from 22 total)
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British sci-fi author John Wyndham's classic horror piece Day of the Triffids was first filmed as a 95-minute theatrical feature in 1963. Though more thoughtful than most alien-invasion pictures, this tale of a meteor shower that results in huge, mutated, ambulatory maneating plants had to be compressed a bit for the feature version. A more in-depth adaptation of Triffids showed up as a British TV ...
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It's always a risky venture to give a film a title like Disaster (certain critics, like certain vultures, just can't wait to pounce), but the Pine-Thomas unit at Paramount seldom lost money. The unit's favorite leading man Richard Arlen isn't around this time, so another Richard, Denning by name, is cast as the hero. A fugitive from justice, Denning takes a dangerous job at a construction site. He ...
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Earthquake (1974)
Genre:
Action,
Disaster Film,
Ensemble Film.
Director:
Mark Robson.
Actors:
Charlton Heston,
Ava Gardner,
George Kennedy,
Lorne Greene,
Geneviève Bujold,
Richard Roundtree,
Pedro Armendariz, Jr.,
Alexander Brown,
Bob Cunningham,
Gabriel Dell,
John Dennis,
Gene Dynarski,
John Elerick,
Marjoe Gortner,
Lloyd Gough,
Robert Gravage,
H.B. Haggerty,
Tim Herbert,
Scott Hylands,
Monica Lewis,
Walter Matthau,
Matuschanskayasky,
Donald Moffat,
Dave Morick,
George Murdock,
Kip Niven,
Lloyd Nolan,
Inez Pedroza,
Victoria Principal,
John S. Ragin,
John Randolph,
Michael Richardson,
Debra Scott,
Barry Sullivan,
Alan Vint,
Jesse Vint,
Tiger Williams.
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Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ongoing vignettes which include cameos from numerous celebrities and stars are tied together by the ongoing efforts of architect Graff (Charleton Heston) to rescue his estranged spoiled-rich-girl wife (Ava Gardner), while ...
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Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Genre:
Adventure,
Action,
Adventure Drama,
Disaster Film.
Director:
John Moore.
Actors:
Dennis Quaid,
Tyrese Gibson,
Giovanni Ribisi,
Miranda Otto,
Tony Curran,
Derek Barton,
Bobby Brown,
Scott Michael Campbell,
Paul Ditchfield,
Martin "Mako" Hindy,
Kirk "Sticky" Jones,
Kee-Yick Cheng,
Jim Lau,
Hugh Laurie,
Vernon Lehmann,
Kevork Malikyan,
Jared Padalecki,
Jacob Vargas,
Anthony Wong,
Yi-Ding Wang.
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Based on a novel by Elleston Trevor, director John Moore's The Flight of the Phoenix is a remake of a 1965 film of the same name starring film icon James Stewart. The story revolves around the plight of Captain Frank Towns (Dennis Quaid), a pilot whose C-119 cargo plane full of oil workers could not withstand the violent winds of a desert sandstorm. Stranded in the harsh terrain of Mongolia's Gobi ...
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The citizens of London must grapple with one of the greatest environmental crises in British history, and the possible obliteration of the city itself, in Flood, a natural disaster opus from director Tony Mitchell (Supervolcano). In present day England, a colossal storm hits the North Atlantic Ocean just outside of the UK and moves toward the Scotch mainland, laying waste to the town of Wick. Some ...
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Ground Control (1999)
Genre:
Thriller,
Psychological Drama,
Disaster Film.
Director:
Richard Howard.
Actors:
Kiefer Sutherland,
Robert Sean Leonard,
Kelly McGillis,
Kristy Swanson,
Karl Bury,
Margaret Cho,
Charles Fleischer,
Farrah Forke,
Michael Gross,
Bruce McGill,
Henry Winkler.
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Ground Control follows the reluctant return to work of Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland), a retired air traffic controller who is still haunted by his role in a probably unavoidable plane crash that has left him guilt-ridden and professionally gun shy. When a Phoenix airport fighting budget cutbacks calls him in for emergency duty, he begins experiencing flashbacks to the night of the disaster, all ...
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Hard Rain (1998)
Genre:
Action,
Disaster Film,
Action Thriller.
Director:
Mikael Salomon.
Actors:
Morgan Freeman,
Christian Slater,
Randy Quaid,
Minnie Driver,
Ed Asner,
Richard Dysart,
Betty White,
Mark Rolston,
Peter Murnik,
Michael A. Goorjian,
Dann Florek,
Ricky Harris,
Wayne Duvall.
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A natural disaster breeds man-made treachery in this suspense thriller. Severe flooding threatens an Indiana town after a massive rainstorm taxes dams to the breaking point. As part of an emergency evacuation effort, armored car driver Tom (Christian Slater) and his uncle Charlie (Edward Asner) are recruited to collect cash from the town's banks and drive it to safety. However, a gang of thieves l ...
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Pandemic (2007)
Genre:
Drama,
Medical Drama,
Disaster Film.
Director:
Armand Mastroianni.
Actors:
Tiffani-Amber Thiessen,
French Stewart,
Faye Dunaway,
Vincent Spano,
Eric Roberts,
Bob Gunton,
Michael Massee,
Bruce Boxleitner,
Jo Champa,
Shashawnee Hall,
Stephen Ramsey.
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Armand Mastroianni, the gifted director of the legendary 1980 horror sleeper He Knows You're Alone, returns to helm the three-hour, all-star medical miniseries Pandemic. The program explores the lethal consequences that can unfurl when a deadly plague, with an unknown cure and an even more mysterious source, worms its way through the denizens of a terror-stricken metropolis. 90210's Tiffani-Amber ...
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Poseidon (2006)
Genre:
Action,
Disaster Film,
Sea Adventure.
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen.
Actors:
Josh Lucas,
Kurt Russell,
Jacinda Barrett,
Richard Dreyfuss,
Emmy Rossum,
Mía Maestro,
Mike Vogel,
Kevin Dillon,
Freddy Rodriguez,
Jimmy Bennett,
Stacy Ferguson,
Andre Braugher,
Kirk B.R. Woller,
Kelly McNair,
Gabe Jarret,
David Reivers,
Gordon Thomson,
Jan Munroe,
Caroline Lagerfelt,
Jess G. Henecke,
Kimberly Patterson,
D. Anthony Boone,
David Dittmer,
Andy Deal,
Valerie Azlynn,
Carrie Frymer,
Beverly Overstreet,
Vincent DePaul,
Rachel Vander Woude.
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Set adrift in the vast waters of the North Atlantic for a luxury New Year's Eve party staged in the ship's magnificent ballroom, the massive ocean-liner Poseidon receives an unexpected jolt when a rogue, 100-foot wave rolls it completely upside down, forcing the surviving passengers to fight their way to safety in Das Boot director Wolfgang Petersen's waterlogged blockbuster. Trapped beneath the w ...
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San Francisco (1936)
Genre:
Drama,
Period Film,
Disaster Film,
Romantic Drama.
Director:
W.S. Van Dyke.
Actors:
Clark Gable,
Jeanette MacDonald,
Spencer Tracy,
Jack Holt,
Jessie Ralph,
Ted Healy,
Shirley Ross,
Margaret Irving,
Harold Huber,
Al Shean,
William Ricciardi,
Kenneth Harlan,
Roger Imhof,
Charles Judels,
Russell Simpson,
Bert Roach,
Warren Hymer,
Jean Acker,
Maude Allen,
Oscar Apfel,
Sam Ash,
Gertrude Astor,
Irving Bacon,
King Baggot,
Jane Barnes,
Vince Barnett,
Jack Baxley,
Nyas Berry,
Sidney Bracey,
James Brewster,
Fritzi Brunette,
Tommy Bupp,
Orrin Burke,
Richard Carle,
Helene Chadwick,
Naomi Childers,
George Pat Collins,
Adrienne D'Ambricourt,
Nigel de Brulier,
Vernon Dent,
Tom Dugan,
Edward Earle,
Jim Farley,
Flora Finch,
Chester Gan,
Bud Geary,
Ruth Gillette,
George Guhl,
Sherry Hall,
Edward Hearn,
John Kelly,
Cy Kendall,
Edgar Kennedy,
Jack Kennedy,
Ralph Lewis,
Wilbur Mack,
James Macklin,
George Magrill,
Frank Mayo,
Tom McGuire,
Bob McKenzie,
John Miller,
Belle Mitchell,
Bruce Mitchell,
Harry Myers,
William Newell,
Bill O'Brien,
Spec O'Donnell,
Dennis O'Keefe,
Pat O'Malley,
John Pearson,
Jason Robards, Sr.,
Beatrice Roberts,
Henry Roquemore,
Don Rowan,
Frank Sheridan,
Helen Shipman,
Carl Stockdale,
Harry Strang,
Charles Sullivan,
Ben Taggart,
Rosemary Thebv,
David Thursby,
Tudor Williams,
Otho Wright.
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The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary Coast on New Year's Eve, 1906, as rakish but likeable political boss Blackie Norton (Clark Gable) hires demure young singer Mary Blake (Jeanette MacDonald) to perform at his rowdy ...
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The China Syndrome (1979)
Genre:
Thriller,
Disaster Film.
Director:
James Bridges.
Actors:
Jane Fonda,
Jack Lemmon,
Michael Douglas,
Scott Brady,
James Hampton,
Peter Donat,
Wilford Brimley,
Richard Herd,
Daniel Valdez,
Stan Bohrman,
James Karen,
Michael Alaimo,
Lewis Arquette,
E. Hampton Beagle,
Alan Beckwith,
Donald Bishop,
Frank Cavestani,
James Hall,
Betty Harford,
Clay Hodges,
Donald Hotton,
James Kline,
Paul Larson,
Darrell Larson,
Dan Lewk,
Ron Lombard,
Joe Lowry,
Michael Mann,
Dennis McMullen,
Roger Pancake,
Nick Pellegrino,
Rita Taggart.
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This gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power carried an extra jolt when a real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania occurred just weeks after the film opened. Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) is a TV reporter trying to advance from fluff pieces to harder news. Wells and cameraman Richard Adams (Michael Douglas, who also produced) are doing a story on energ ...
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The Day After (1983)
Genre:
Science Fiction,
Drama,
Sci-Fi Disaster Film,
Disaster Film,
Ensemble Film.
Director:
Nicholas Meyer.
Actors:
Jason Robards, Jr.,
JoBeth Williams,
Steve Guttenberg,
John Cullum,
John Lithgow,
Amy Madigan,
Bibi Besch,
Clayton Day,
Jeff East,
Georgann Johnson,
Calvin Jung,
Lori Lethin,
Dennis Lipscomb,
Lin McCarthy,
William Allen Young.
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A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that annihilation was a justifiable means of attaining power and control. The Day After originally aired on network television. At the end of the broadcast, many stations offered teams of counselors staffin ...
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Genre:
Action,
Science Fiction,
Disaster Film.
Director:
Roland Emmerich.
Actors:
Dennis Quaid,
Jake Gyllenhaal,
Ian Holm,
Emmy Rossum,
Sela Ward,
Dash Mihok,
Kenneth Welsh,
Jay O. Sanders,
Austin Nichols,
Perry King,
Nestor Serrano,
Adrian Lester,
Sheila McCarthy,
Arjay Smith,
Glenn Plummer,
Tamlyn Tomita,
Joe Cobden,
Jared Harris,
Rick Hoffman,
Kenny Moskow.
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Directed by Roland Emmerich, this mega-budget, special-effects-laden epic revolves around the onset of an international series of crises brought on by the long-term results of the greenhouse effect. At the eye of the storm is paleoclimatologist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns throughout the ages) Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), who voluntarily takes on the preservation of the wor ...
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The Delta Force (1986)
Genre:
Action,
Action Thriller,
Disaster Film.
Director:
Menahem Golan.
Actors:
Chuck Norris,
Lee Marvin,
Martin Balsam,
Joey Bishop,
Robert Forster,
Lainie Kazan,
George Kennedy,
Hanna Schygulla,
Susan Strasberg,
Bo Svenson,
Robert Vaughn,
Shelley Winters,
William Wallace,
Kim Delaney,
David Menahem,
Assaf Dayan,
Steve James,
Eugene Kline.
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Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the crisis — an American serviceman is beaten to death, a terrorist holds a gun to the pilot's head ...
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The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
Genre:
Action,
Adventure,
Adventure Drama,
Disaster Film.
Director:
Robert Aldrich.
Actors:
James Stewart,
Richard Attenborough,
Peter Finch,
Hardy Kruger,
Ernest Borgnine,
Ian Bannen,
Ronald Fraser,
Christian Marquand,
Dan Duryea,
George Kennedy,
Gabriele Tinti,
Alex Montoya,
Peter Bravos,
William Aldrich,
Barrie Chase,
Stanley Ralph Ross.
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Based on Elleston Trevor's novel, The Flight of the Phoenix opens with a well-staged plane crash in the middle of the Sahara desert. The pilot (James Stewart) and the navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to maintain order among the survivors, a group of oil men not well-suited for survival in the desert wastes. Some of those who appear to be the most resourceful reveal themselves to be i ...
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The Perfect Storm (2000)
Genre:
Drama,
Adventure,
Disaster Film,
Sea Adventure,
Adventure Drama.
Director:
Wolfgang Petersen.
Actors:
George Clooney,
Mark Wahlberg,
John C. Reilly,
Diane Lane,
William Fichtner,
John Hawkes,
Allen Payne,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,
Karen Allen,
Cherry Jones,
Bob Gunton,
Christopher McDonald,
Dash Mihok,
Josh Hopkins,
Michael Ironside,
Rusty Schwimmer,
Janet Wright,
Billy Mayo.
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In October 1991, a dying tropical hurricane from Bermuda collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes, resulting in a "perfect storm" of previously unknown destructive impact that resulted in 100-foot waves; tragically, the crew of a fishing boat was lost in the midst of the fearsome storm. Based on the best-selling book by Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm tells the story of the sh ...
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The Towering Inferno (1974)
Genre:
Action,
Disaster Film,
Ensemble Film.
Director:
Irwin Allen,
John Guillermin.
Actors:
Steve McQueen,
Paul Newman,
William Holden,
Faye Dunaway,
Fred Astaire,
Richard Chamberlain,
Malcolm Atterbury,
Susan Blakely,
Norman Burton,
Dabney Coleman,
Jack Collins,
John Crawford,
Susan Flannery,
Don Gordon,
Jennifer Jones,
Mike Lookinland,
Sheila Mathews,
Maureen McGovern,
Ernie Orsatti,
Felton Perry,
Gregory Sierra,
O.J. Simpson,
Olan Soule,
Robert Vaughn,
Robert Wagner,
Carlena Gower,
Carol McEvoy.
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A skyscraper and an all-star cast go up in flames in Irwin Allen's classic disaster movie. To celebrate the construction of the Glass Tower, the world's tallest building, architect Doug Roberts (Paul Newman) and builder James Duncan (William Holden) hold a gala bash on the highest floors. Trouble is, Duncan's son-in-law and electrical subcontractor Roger Simmons (Richard Chamberlain) installed fau ...
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Volcano (1997)
Genre:
Action,
Disaster Film,
Action Thriller.
Director:
Mick Jackson.
Actors:
Tommy Lee Jones,
Anne Heche,
Gaby Hoffmann,
Don Cheadle,
Jacqueline Kim,
Keith David,
John Corbett,
John Carroll Lynch,
Michael Rispoli.
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Disaster visits jaded L.A. in the form of an underground volcano, not the big earthquake all the citizens expect. Shot on the largest set ever constructed in the U.S., in nearby Torrance, California, Volcano is a big-budget, special-effects-laden disaster movie with a standard plot. Tommy Lee Jones plays Mike Roark, a by-the-book emergency management director who is spending the weekend with his d ...
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Airline pilot-turned-whistleblower-turned-actor Enrique Pineyro makes his debut as a writer/director with the autobiographical docudrama Whisky Romeo Zulu. Pineyro essentially plays himself, a principled pilot at LAPA, the Argentinean airline, increasingly dismayed over the company's disregard of basic safety regulations. When he complains, he's labeled a troublemaker, and when things get so bad t ...
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World Trade Center (2006)
Genre:
Drama,
Disaster Film,
Docudrama.
Director:
Oliver Stone.
Actors:
Nicolas Cage,
Michael Peña,
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
Maria Bello,
Stephen Dorff,
Jay Hernandez,
Michael Shannon,
Jon Bernthal,
Nick Damici,
Viola Davis,
Morgan Flynn,
William Mapother,
Frank Whaley.
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Director Oliver Stone once again offers a powerful and provocative story based on real-life events in this drama. Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Michael Peña) were two officers assigned to New York City's Port Authority who were working their beats on a quiet day in early fall when they received an emergency call. The day was September 11, 2001, and McLoughlin and J ...
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