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When the pilot of a small aircraft has a heart attack and crashes his plane into the cockpit of a Boeing 747, several members of the flight crew are killed and the pilot is blinded. Miraculously, the 747 stays in the air on auto-pilot with flight attendant Nancy Prior at the controls. Ground control β¦lers, including her boyfriend Alan Murdock, try to teach her the basics but they soon realize they will have to get a trained pilot into the cockpit. Their first attempt fails and Murdock realizes he will have to do it. Meanwhile, various passengers have their own problems including a young girl who is destined to a life saving operation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | panicalcoholismcelebrityangerfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportbuslos angeles californiaairplanesnowhelicopterbar |
Characters: | teenage girllittle boyjewishactressphotographergirlsingerdoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | singing nunkidney transplantfuel leakplane crashco pilotacoustic guitaractress playing herselfairplane crashreference to carole lombardreference to cecil b. demilleradio frequencymid air transfermid air collisionnervesdelay β¦commanding officerneedlepointcoronaryhangerjetlagterminaljumbo jetturbulenceautopilotinstrumentexplosive decompressionair force baseseat beltgaugeboeing 747romeo and julietsalt lake city utahbullhornpanelfire enginekidneycockpittv cameracommunicationemergencyforkliftairlinerfuelcontrolradarmovie cameraensemblepassengerold ladyspeedstewardessescalatoralarmjewelryplaying cardsfiremanflightsirenlieutenantpet dogaviationco workerplaneanxietychaosrock starphone boothmovie starwatching a movieguitaristtape recorderhelmetinjurydestructionapplauseyear in titledisasterwashington d.c.heart attackflirtingscreampilotcigar smokingnunmapdinerambulancemountainreporteralcoholguitarprayersunglassestearsrescuesongcryingsingingbased on novelblooddogsequel (See All) |
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in a β¦n attempt to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | little boyjewishsingerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | radarensemblepassengeralarmchaosdestructiondisasterheart attackscreamtearsrescuesongsingingbased on novel |
The husband of aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has just died in Berlin. Now she is flying back to New York with his coffin and their six-year-old daughter Julia. Three hours into the flight Kyle awakens to find that Julia is gone! It's a big double-decker plane, so very concerned mother has a lot of te β¦rritory to cover in order to find her daughter. But as Kyle fights to discern the truth, she takes matters into her own hands. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportbusairplanesnowhelicopter |
Characters: | girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | co pilotfire enginecockpitflightaviationplaneanxietywatching a movieapplausepilotambulanceblood |
When his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for β¦ one wild expedition. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | little boysingerfather son relationship |
Story: | acoustic guitarairplane crashbullhornmovie cameraradaralarmplaying cardspet dogwatching a movietape recorderhelmetapplausepilotmapreporter β¦guitarrescuecryingsingingblood (See All) |
Annie Porter, the woman who was held on a bus with a bomb attached to it that will go off if it slows down. She dated the cop who saved her but broke up with him because he was constantly putting his life in danger. She would then date a guy named Alex who is also a cop but told her that he does a m β¦undane assignment. But she eventually learns that he works for the same unit that the other guy worked for and is also addicted to danger. She wants to break up with but he surprises her with a cruise. She agrees to go. And he's planning to propose to her. But when he notices another passenger act peculiar, he can't help but try to find out what's up with him. He's Geiger, a computer man who designed the ship's systems, who was fired. He then takes over the ship's systems and sets it on a course that will send it into a tanker. Alex tries to stop him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | buslos angeles californiabar |
Characters: | teenage girlphotographersingerboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | autopilotcontrolradarpassengerspeedalarmjewelryphone boothdestructiondisasterambulancesunglassesrescuesequeldog |
The President of the USA goes to Moscow and gives a stirring speech outlining the USA's new "Zero-tolerance" policy with respect to terrorism. On the flight home, terrorists take over Air Force One (the President's official plane) and take the passengers (including his wife and daughter) hostage. Th β¦e terrorists plan to execute one hostage every half-hour unless/until their demands are met. However, the President is a former Medal of Honor winner, so the terrorists may be in for a surprise... (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | angerfeardeath |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplane |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | plane crashco pilotmid air transferjumbo jetautopilotcockpitemergencyfuelalarmflightaviationplaneapplausedisasterpilot β¦ambulancecryingblood (See All) |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicfear |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplane |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | mid air collisioncockpitpassengerstewardessaviationchaosdisasterpilotambulancebased on noveldog |
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force β¦performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismcelebrityangerdeath |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplanebar |
Characters: | little boyphotographersingerboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | airlinermovie camerastewardesssirenpet dogrock starwatching a movieguitaristtape recorderheart attackreporteralcoholsunglassestearscrying β¦singingblood (See All) |
In San Andreas, California is experiencing a statewide earthquake that goes on record as easily the biggest earthquake in history. Dwayne Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a helicopter rescue pilot for the Los Angeles Fire Department, who is trying to find his daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who is in β¦ San Francisco amidst the chaos. Ray's estranged wife, Emma, is forced to turn to Ray for help, as he is her last resort. Together they journey to save their daughter. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplanehelicopter |
Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | airplane crashchaosdestructiondisasterpilotmapambulancereportersunglassesrescue |
Doug Roberts, Architect, returns from a long vacation to find work nearly completed on his skyscraper. He goes to the party that night concerned he's found that his wiring specifications have not been followed and that the building continues to develop short circuits. When the fire begins, Michael O β¦'Halleran is the chief on duty as a series of daring rescues punctuate the terror of a building too tall to have a fire successfully fought from the ground. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | paniccelebrityfeardeath |
Locations: | helicopterbar |
Characters: | girlsingerboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | fire enginetv cameramovie cameraensemblealarmfiremansireninjurydisasterpilotambulancereporterrescuebased on novel |
After the terrifying events in LA, John McClane (Willis) is about to go through it all again. A team of terrorists, led by Col. Stuart (Sadler) is holding the entire airport hostage. The terrorists are planning to rescue a drug lord from justice. In order to do so, they have seized control of all el β¦ectrical equipment affecting all planes. With no runway lights available, all aircraft have to remain in the air, with fuel running low, McClane will need to be fast. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplanesnowhelicopter |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | airplane crashfuelcontrolaviationplanechaoswashington d.c.pilotreporterrescuebased on novelbloodsequel |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | angerfear |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplane |
Characters: | photographerdoctormother daughter relationship |
Story: | airplane crashfire engineairlinerfiremansirenwashington d.c.pilotreportertearsdog |
SPOILER: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries β¦to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. (Read More)
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Locations: | bussnowhelicopterbar |
Characters: | teenage girlactressgirlmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | radio frequencyair force basemovie camerapet dogchaoswatching a movieinjurydestructionscreammapdinertearsrescuecryingsinging β¦blood (See All) |
While practicing motocross in Hawaii, Sean Jones witnesses the brutal murder of an important American prosecutor by the powerful mobster Eddie Kim. He is protected and persuaded by the FBI agent Neville Flynn to testify against Eddie in Los Angeles. They embark in the red-eye Flight 121 of Pacific A β¦ir, occupying the entire first-class. However, Eddie dispatches hundred of different species of snakes airborne with a time operated device in the luggage to release the snakes in the flight with the intent of crashing the plane. Neville and the passengers have to struggle with the snakes to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicdeath |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplanehelicopter |
Characters: | little boy |
Story: | co pilotautopilotboeing 747fire enginepassengerstewardessflightplaneflirtingheart attackpilotambulanceblooddog |
When a prisoner transport plane crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan, skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time. Deputy Sam Gerard and his team of U.S. Marshals pursue relentlessly, but Gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told. Mean β¦while, Sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own. Until the final scene, both Gerard and Sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Locations: | airplane accidentairporthelicopterbar |
Characters: | photographer |
Story: | fire engineairlinersirenplanetape recorderdisasterpilotcigar smokingmapdinerambulancereportersunglassessequelblood |
Bomber terrorist's elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer tries to unload any passengers off, Payne will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack's superior, and Jeff Dan β¦iels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicfear |
Locations: | airportbuslos angeles californiaairplanehelicopterbar |
Story: | airlinerspeedsirenaviationapplausedisastermapambulancereporterrescueblood |
In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the da β¦ys, the starved survivors decide to eat flesh from the bodies of their comrades to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | death |
Locations: | airplane accidentairplanesnowhelicopter |
Characters: | photographer |
Story: | airplane crashplaneguitaristdisasterpilotmountainguitarprayerbased on novelblood |
This is the story of a young resourceful heroine named Lisa Reisert who hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying! Upon boarding the plane, Lisa is trapped on a red-eye flight with a creepy villainous handsome and charming man b β¦y the name of Jackson Rippner, who's playing middle-man in the plot to assassinate a Homeland Security official. He's got her father pinned down by a would-be killer, using that advantage to coerce Lisa into phoning the luxury resort where she works and arranging to move the target into a pre-set position. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Locations: | airportairplanebar |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | turbulencecontrolpassengerstewardessflightplanedisasterflirtingpilotblood |
Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle β¦for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | los angeles californiahelicopter |
Characters: | girlsingermother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | plane crashairplane crashchaosdestructiondisasterreportertearsrescuesongcryingsingingblood |
Two decades after the freak alien invasion that nearly destroyed mankind a new threat emerges. This Alien mothership is more than twice the size as the last one and once again, the world's armies must band together to save the world. Do they have enough firepower or will this battle change and will β¦aliens take over? (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | teenage girllittle boydoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | plane crashradarlieutenantplanechaoshelmetdestructiondisasterwashington d.c.pilotmaprescuecryingdogsequel |
June has a garage in Boston. At an airport heading home, a man bumps into her a few times and tries to keep her off the plane. He's under FBI surveillance; they wonder if he and she are working together, so they let both on a flight full of armed men wanting to arrest the stranger. He's Roy, he shoo β¦ts his way out of trouble and tells her she's in danger. She's home the next day, miraculously, when agents pick her up; Roy saves her again, and a transcontinental chase ensues with Roy convincing her that he's the good guy, protecting an energy source that a rogue agent wants to sell on the black market. Can she trust Roy, and will trust matter when the bullets start flying? (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | airportbusairplanesnowhelicopterbar |
Story: | plane crashairplane crashcockpitfiremanflightplanechaoswashington d.c.flirtingpilotdinerambulancemountainsunglassesrescue β¦blood (See All) |
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Cres β¦t Trail, alone. Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthen, and ultimately heals her. (Read More)
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | bussnowbar |
Characters: | little boysingerdoctormother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | pet dogphone boothguitaristflirtingscreamdinermountainreporteralcoholprayertearscryingsingingblood |
In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while others run towards the vortex, testin β¦g how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | busairplanehelicopter |
Characters: | teenage girlmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | airplane crashboeing 747sirenchaosdestructiondisasterrescuedog |
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue β¦more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Locations: | snowbar |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | commanding officerradarphone boothdestructiondisastermapdinerrescuesinging |
Whip Whitaker is a commuter airline pilot. While on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta something goes wrong and the plane starts to fly erratically. With little choice Whip crashes the plane and saves almost all on board. When he wakes up in the hospital, his friend from the airline union introduces h β¦im to a lawyer who tells him there's a chance he could face criminal charges because his blood test reveals that he was intoxicated with alcohol and cocaine. He denies being impaired, so while an investigation is underway, he is told to keep his act together. However, letting go of his addiction is not as easy as it seems... (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholismdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplane |
Characters: | father son relationship |
Story: | plane crashairplane crashstewardessflightplanepilotalcoholprayerblood |
A group of air crash survivors are stranded in the Mongolian desert with no chance of rescue. Facing a brutal environment, dwindling resources, and an attack by desert smugglers, they realize their only hope is doing the impossible... building a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.
Themes: | death |
Locations: | airplane accidentairplane |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | cockpitfuelflightaviationplanepilotmapguitarprayerrescuebased on novelblood |
Bill Marks, a former cop dealing with his daughter's death by drinking, is now a federal air marshal. While on a flight from New York to London, Marks gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is transferred to an offshore account, someone will die every 20 minutes. Can he find the ter β¦rorist in time and save everyone? (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | feardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplanebar |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | airplane crashexplosive decompressioncockpitpassengerflightpilotambulance |
Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins the San Francisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
Themes: | celebrityangerdeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airporthelicopterbar |
Characters: | photographerdoctorfather son relationship |
Story: | airlinersirenpet dogtape recorderreportertearsrescuebased on noveldogblood |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca β¦tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | angerfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airportairplanehelicopter |
Characters: | little boydoctorhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | turbulenceseat beltinjurydestructiondisasterscreammapmountaintearsrescuecryingblood |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b β¦ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airportairplanehelicopter |
Characters: | singermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | jumbo jetseat beltboeing 747flighthelmetheart attackmapalcoholtearssongcryingsingingdog |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra β¦cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplanesnowbar |
Characters: | singerdoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | co pilotcockpitstewardessflightphone boothwatching a movietape recorderwashington d.c.pilotmapdinerprayersunglassessingingdog |
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Locations: | airportairplanebar |
Characters: | teenage girlboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | airplane crashterminalchaosdisasterdinerrescuebased on noveldogblood |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its ang β¦er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
Themes: | angerdeath |
Locations: | airportbusairplanesnowbar |
Characters: | girlsingermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | stewardessflightsirenphone boothguitaristguitarsongsingingbased on novelblood |
Biopic of billionaire 'Howard Hughes (I)' (qv), starting with his early filmmaking years as owner of RKO studios but mostly focusing on his role in designing and promoting new aircraft. Hughes was a risk-taker spending several fortunes on designing experimental aircraft and eventually founding TWA a β¦s a rival to Pan AM airlines owned by his great rival Juan Trippe. When Trippe's politico Senator Ralph 'Owen Brewster (I)' (qv) accuses Hughes of being a war profiteer, it's Hughes who gains the upper hand. Hughes also had many women in his life including a long relationship with actress 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv). From an early age however, Hughes was also germophobic and would have severe bouts of mental illness. (Read More)
Themes: | celebrityfear |
Locations: | airplane accidentlos angeles californiaairplane |
Characters: | actressphotographersingerdoctormother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | aviationmovie starwatching a movieinjurywashington d.c.flirtingpilotmountainsongsingingblooddog |
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol β¦business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | los angeles californiaairplanebar |
Characters: | actressgirldoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | plane crashreference to carole lombardjetlagfiremantape recorderapplausewashington d.c.heart attackpilotcigar smokingreporteralcoholbased on novel |
On Thursday, January 15th, 2009, the world witnessed the "Miracle on the Hudson" when Captain 'Chesley Sullenberger' (qv), nicknamed "Sully", glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the pub β¦lic and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career. (Read More)
Locations: | airplane accidentairplanehelicopterbar |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | co pilotcockpitairlineraviationplanepilotrescueblood |
Andrew Largeman is a semi-successful television actor who plays a intellectually disabled quarterback. His somewhat controlling and psychiatrist father has led Andrew ("Large") to believe that his mother's wheelchair bound life was his fault. Andrew decides to lay off the drugs that his father and h β¦is doctor made him believe that he needed, and began to see life for what it is. He began to feel the pain he had longed for, and began to have a genuine relationship with a girl who had some problems of her own. (Read More)
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiabar |
Characters: | jewishgirlsingerdoctorboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | acoustic guitarairplane crashairlinerescalatoranxietyphone boothhelmetalcoholguitarsongcryingsingingdog |
In the South American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death.
Themes: | feardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airportairplanebar |
Characters: | photographersingerdoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | sirenguitaristcigar smokingmountainguitarprayertearssongcryingsingingbased on noveldogblood |
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | buslos angeles californiasnowbar |
Characters: | teenage girllittle boysingerboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | acoustic guitarplaying cardssirenco workerapplausemapdinermountainguitarprayertearscryingsingingdogblood |
In April 2010, there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig with its size or sheer depth of its drilling. However, the project for the BP oil company is beset with technical difficulties to the point where the general operational superviso β¦r, Jimmy Harrell, and his Chief Electrical Engineer, Mike Williams, are concerned potentially dangerous trouble is brewing. Unfortunately, visiting BP executives, frustrated by the project's long delays, order curtailed site inspections and slanted system tests to make up for lost time even as Harrell, Williams and his team helplessly protest for the sake of proper safety. On April 20, the workers' fears are realized in the worst possible way when the rig's various structural and system flaws spark a catastrophic cascade of failures that would create a massive blowout and explosion that threatens them all, even as it also begins the worst environmental disaster in US history. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Locations: | airplanehelicopter |
Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | radarco workerchaosdestructiondisastermapsunglassesrescueblood |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicangerfeardeath |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airportbusairplanebar |
Characters: | little boygirldoctorhusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | pilotnunmapambulance |
Four waves of increasingly deadly attacks have left most of Earth in ruin. Against a backdrop of fear and distrust, Cassie is on the run, desperately trying to save her younger brother. As she prepares for the inevitable and lethal fifth wave, Cassie teams up with a young man who may become her fina β¦l hope - if she can only trust him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster filmsuspense |
Themes: | feardeath |
Locations: | busairplanehelicopter |
Characters: | teenage girlmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | airplane crashair force basechaoshelmetdestructiondisastermaprescuebased on novelblood |
American tourist Jesse and French student Celine meet by chance on the train from Budapest to Vienna. Sensing that they are developing a connection, Jesse asks Celine to spend the day with him in Vienna, and she agrees. So they pass the time before his scheduled flight the next morning together. How β¦ do two perfect strangers connect so intimately over the course of a single day? What is that special thing that bonds two people so strongly? As their bond turns to love, what will happen to them the next morning when Jesse flies away? (Read More)
Themes: | feardeath |
Locations: | los angeles californiaairplanebar |
Characters: | teenage girlactressphotographersingerboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship |
Story: | plane crashescalatorflightguitaristguitarsongsingingdog |
Terrorists take over a 747 bound from Athens to Washington D.C., supposedly to effect the release of their leader. Intelligence expert David Grant suspects another reason and convinces the military that the 'plane should not be allowed to enter U.S. airspace. An assault mission is devised, using a s β¦pecially equipped 'plane designed for mid-air crew transfers, and Grant finds himself aboard the 747 with a team of military anti-terrorists who have to defuse a bomb and overpower the terrorists. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | death |
Locations: | airplane accidentairplanehelicopter |
Story: | mid air transferexplosive decompressionboeing 747stewardessaviationplanewashington d.c.pilotrescueblood |
On September 11, 2001, two American Airlines and two United Airlines domestic U.S. flights are hijacked by terrorists. After the collision of two planes against the World Trade Center and one against the Pentagon, the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 decide to struggle against the four terror β¦ists to take back the control of the airplane. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplane |
Story: | airplane crashcockpitcontrolpassengerflightaviationplaneprayer |
Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | panicfear |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | los angeles californiahelicopter |
Characters: | teenage girldoctor |
Story: | lieutenantchaosdisasterambulancerescuedog |
Bad Blake is a broken-down, hard-living country music singer who's had way too many marriages, far too many years on the road and one too many drinks way too many times. And yet, Bad can't help but reach for salvation with the help of Jean, a journalist who discovers the real man behind the musician β¦. (Read More)
Themes: | alcoholism |
Locations: | busbar |
Characters: | little boyphotographersingerdoctormother son relationship |
Story: | phone boothguitaristtape recorderapplauseguitartearssongcryingsingingbased on novel |
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper pre β¦parations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world. (Read More)
Locations: | airportlos angeles californiaairplanesnowhelicopter |
Characters: | little boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship |
Story: | airplane crashjumbo jetchaosyear in titledisasterwashington d.c.pilotmapambulancemountainprayersingingdog |
Taking a romantic tropical island week off with her boyfriend, an ambitious, decisive New York girl agrees to help her magazine out by covering a story on a neighboring island. The only plane available is piloted by a laid-back heavy drinker with whom she shares a mutual dislike. But she has no choi β¦ce and he can't refuse the money. When the plane crash-lands on an uninhabited island with little chance of rescue they both wish they had made other arrangements - at least to start with. (Read More)
Locations: | airplane accidentairportairplanesnowhelicopterbar |
Characters: | girl |
Story: | plane crashairplane crashaviationplanepilotrescue |
Dr. Ryan Stone ('Sandra Bullock' (qv)) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski ('George Clooney' (qv)) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving S β¦tone and Kowalsky completely alone - tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | panicfeardeath |
Characters: | doctor |
Story: | explosive decompressionalarmflightchaoshelmetdisasterprayersingingdog |