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As Paleoclimatologist named Jack Hall is in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has sheared off. But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York to attend an event. Tβ¦here they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past 3 days, and after a series of weather-related disasters begin to occur over the world, everybody realizes the world is entering a new Ice Age and the world population begins trying to evacuate to the warmer climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York and who have managed to survive not only a massive wave but also freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice environment panic nature military death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | los angeles california space station earth museum mexico outer space ship taxi airplane snow helicopter new york city hospital |
Characters: | professor bible police officer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | u.s. mexico border freezing to death climate crisis severe weather climate change mexican border wolf pack natural disaster u.s. vice president vice president american president cargo ship u.s. president woman scientist hollywood california β¦helicopter crash national air and space administration father searches missing son academic contest air turbulance blood poisoning woman heroine climatologist greenhouse effect climatology new delhi india frost turbulence hail asian american woman u.s. embassy buoy lookalike reference to friedrich nietzsche hailstorm soccer game twister fear of flying mammoth vagrant meteorologist ice age mass destruction typhoon book burning tidal wave nova scotia human in outer space vortex climate freezing devastation power failure conference refugee camp protestor catastrophe antarctica vending machine sick child tsunami altered version of studio logo statue of liberty new york city hollywood sign united states of america blizzard traffic jam hurricane tornado librarian arctic shipwreck physician satellite global warming atheist weather border astronaut thunderstorm environmental evacuation zoo scotland ecology u.s. army tokyo japan watching television flood whiskey end of the world blockbuster medicine fireplace wolf disaster washington d.c. president speech pay phone pilot library news report map axe california flashlight manhattan new york city scientist falling from height computer dog (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⦠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 film |
Themes: | panic death |
Locations: | los angeles california airplane helicopter |
Characters: | professor police officer husband wife relationship |
Story: | natural disaster cargo ship helicopter crash tidal wave catastrophe tsunami hollywood sign shipwreck evacuation flood blockbuster disaster pilot news report map β¦california flashlight scientist falling from height (See All) |
Journalist Jenny Lerner is assigned to look into the background of Secretary Alan Rittenhouse who abruptly resigned from government citing his wife's ill health. She learns from his secretary that Rittenhouse was having an affair with someone named Ellie but when she confronts him, his strange reactβ¦ion leads her to reconsider her story. In fact, a comet, discovered the previous year by high school student Leo Biederman and astronomer Dr. Marcus Wolf, is on a collision course with the Earth, an Extinction Level Event. A joint US-Russian team is sent to destroy the comet but should it fail, special measures are to be put in place to secure the future of mankind. As the space mission progresses, many individuals deal with their fears and ponder their future. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Locations: | earth outer space helicopter new york city |
Story: | natural disaster american president u.s. president tidal wave human in outer space statue of liberty new york city traffic jam astronaut flood end of the world blockbuster wolf disaster washington d.c. president β¦news report manhattan new york city computer (See All) |
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 preβ¦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)
Themes: | self sacrifice military |
Locations: | los angeles california earth museum ship airplane snow helicopter |
Characters: | father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | american president u.s. president mass destruction tidal wave catastrophe tsunami evacuation u.s. army flood end of the world blockbuster disaster washington d.c. president pilot β¦map california flashlight scientist falling from height dog (See All) |
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 film |
Themes: | self sacrifice panic military death |
Locations: | earth outer space ship taxi helicopter hospital |
Characters: | mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | american president cargo ship u.s. president devastation shipwreck satellite evacuation flood end of the world blockbuster disaster washington d.c. president pilot news report β¦map flashlight scientist falling from height computer dog (See All) |
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, testinβ¦g how far a storm chaser will go for that once-in-a-lifetime shot. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice panic death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplane helicopter |
Characters: | father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | natural disaster hail hailstorm meteorologist vortex devastation tornado weather thunderstorm flood disaster library news report falling from height dog |
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, pilotβ¦ed by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles and Washington, as well as Paris, London, Houston and Moscow. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day... (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Locations: | los angeles california earth outer space helicopter new york city hospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | american president u.s. president mass destruction human in outer space statue of liberty new york city united states of america traffic jam u.s. army end of the world blockbuster disaster washington d.c. president pilot news report β¦scientist manhattan new york city dog (See All) |
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they β¦attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados. (Read More)
Themes: | nature death |
Locations: | earth |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | natural disaster woman scientist hail hailstorm twister vortex hurricane tornado weather disaster map scientist dog |
reviewed by: max crawford "the eventual climactic monster showdown is everything a godzilla fan could hope for." if you're a film in 2014 and you're still relegating female characters to tragic backstory or hero's moping wife roles, you need to sit down and have a word with yourself. the only female⦠character with any real agency in gareth edwards' godzilla is a 300-foot monster that eats nuclear submarines. it's a shame, because it's the sort of film you want to be shouting about from the rooftops, and adding niggling little caveats somewhat ruin the effect. not only is it an astounding spectacle, it's a proper godzilla movie, spitting atomic fire in the face of roland emmerich's misbegotten 1998 atrocity. the opening titles set the tone: over a montage of 1950s atomic bomb tests, the credits appear alongside tantalising snippets of information which are quickly whited out as if by a censor. the sequence was designed by kyle cooper, the man behind the main titles for se7en and every other film with a decent main title sequence, and it neatly reflects the teasing approach taken to revealing big g himself. that's right, there's plenty of trivial human nonsense to be gotten out of the way before we encounter any monsters at all, let alone their king. if you simply must have humans in your film, bryan cranston and juliette binoche are two pretty solid picks. their early scenes in a nuclear power plant in tokyo lend the film a grounding and emotional heft that's rare in a summer ⦠(Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice panic military death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | ship airplane helicopter hospital |
Characters: | professor husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | helicopter crash tidal wave devastation tsunami traffic jam evacuation u.s. army tokyo japan flood blockbuster disaster news report axe california flashlight β¦scientist falling from height dog (See All) |
It is just another day at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a few astronauts were repairing a satellite until, out of nowhere, a series of asteroids came crashing into the shuttle, destroying it. These asteroids also decimated New York soon thereafter. Then, NASA discovered tβ¦hat there is an asteroid roughly the size of Texas heading towards the Earth, and when it does hit the Earth, the planet itself and all of its inhabitants will be obliterated, worse, the asteroid will hit the Earth in 18 days. Unfortunately, NASA's plans to destroy the asteroid are irrelevant. That is when the U.S. military decides to use a nuclear warhead to blow the asteroid to pieces. Then, scientists decide to blow the asteroid with the warhead inside the asteroid itself. The only man to do it, is an oil driller named Harry Stamper and his group of misfit drillers and geologists. As he and his drill team prepare for space excavation, the asteroid is still heading towards the Earth. When the crew are launched into outer space, they are determined to destroy this asteroid. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Locations: | space station earth outer space taxi helicopter new york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | natural disaster american president u.s. president human in outer space traffic jam satellite astronaut blockbuster disaster washington d.c. president manhattan new york city dog |
It is a normal day for everyone, until the President of the United States announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged, but not everything goes to plan, and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do tβ¦hey really want to destroy all of humanity? (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | military death |
Locations: | earth outer space new york city |
Story: | american president u.s. president mass destruction u.s. army end of the world disaster washington d.c. president scientist falling from height computer dog |
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 film |
Themes: | panic military death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | los angeles california outer space ship helicopter new york city |
Characters: | mother son relationship father son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | mass destruction freezing power failure refugee camp traffic jam evacuation u.s. army blockbuster disaster axe flashlight |
Dr. Helen Benson is summoned to a military facility with several other scientists when an alien spacecraft of sorts arrives in New York City. Aboard is a human-like alien and a giant robot of immense size and power. The alien identifies himself as Klaatu and says he has come to save the Earth. The Uβ¦S military and political authorities see him as a threat however and decide to use so-called intensive interrogation techniques on him but Dr. Benson decides to facilitate his escape. When she learns exactly what he means when he says he is there to save the Earth, she tries to convince him to change his intentions. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice environment panic military death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | earth outer space helicopter new york city |
Characters: | professor police officer |
Story: | helicopter crash evacuation ecology end of the world disaster manhattan new york city scientist |
The Earth's core has stopped spinning. Disasters are appearing all over the world: Birds acting crazy, powerful thunderstorms, 32 people die within seconds of each other when their pacemakers quit working. Dr. Josh Keyes and his crew of five (total members: 6) go down to the center of the Earth to sβ¦et off a nuclear device to make the Earth's core start spinning again or Mankind will perish. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | death |
Locations: | los angeles california earth helicopter |
Story: | natural disaster vending machine altered version of studio logo astronaut end of the world disaster washington d.c. scientist computer |
H.G. Wells' classic novel is brought to life in this tale of alien invasion. The residents of a small town in California are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills. Their joy is tempered somewhat when they discover that it has passengers who are not very friendly.
Themes: | panic military |
Locations: | los angeles california outer space new york city |
Characters: | professor police officer |
Story: | new delhi india mass destruction power failure statue of liberty new york city librarian evacuation u.s. army washington d.c. pay phone map california scientist |
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 finaβ¦l hope - if she can only trust him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Locations: | earth airplane helicopter new york city |
Characters: | police officer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | natural disaster tidal wave refugee camp tsunami evacuation u.s. army flood end of the world disaster news report map axe |
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 aβ¦n attempt to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice panic death |
Locations: | ship helicopter |
Characters: | husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | natural disaster tidal wave weather flood blockbuster disaster flashlight falling from height |
Volcanologist Harry Dalton and mayor Rachel Wando of Dante's Peak try to convince the city council and the other volcanologists that the volcano right above Dante's peak is indeed dangerous. People's safety is being set against economical interests.
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | death |
Locations: | helicopter |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | natural disaster helicopter crash catastrophe evacuation ecology whiskey disaster speech flashlight scientist computer dog |
After the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances, all leaders of the Western world must attend his funeral. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders and unleash a terrifying vision of tβ¦he future. The President of the United States, his formidable secret service head and a British MI-6 agent who trusts no one are the only people that have any hope of stopping it. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice panic military death |
Locations: | earth helicopter |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | u.s. vice president vice president american president u.s. president helicopter crash altered version of studio logo traffic jam satellite tokyo japan fireplace washington d.c. president news report map |
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: | panic death |
Locations: | ship snow |
Characters: | mother son relationship |
Story: | tidal wave altered version of studio logo blizzard shipwreck weather flood disaster pay phone map axe flashlight |
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the weβ¦ather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | ship airplane helicopter |
Characters: | mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | natural disaster cargo ship meteorologist tidal wave hurricane weather thunderstorm blockbuster disaster |
1914: Milo Thatch, grandson of the great Thaddeus Thatch works in the boiler room of a museum. He knows that Atlantis was real, and he can get there if he has the mysterious Shephards journal, which can guide him to Atlantis. But he needs someone to fund a voyage. His employer thinks he's dotty, and⦠refuses to fund any crazy idea. He returns home to his apartment and finds a woman there. She takes him to Preston B. Whitmore, an old friend of his Grandfathers. He gives him the shepherds journal, a submarine and a 5 star crew. They travel through the Atlantic ocean, face a large lobster called the Leviathan, and finally get to Atlantis. But does the Atlantis crew have a lust for discovery, or something else? (Read More)
Themes: | panic death |
Locations: | museum ship |
Characters: | professor |
Story: | tidal wave tsunami shipwreck physician thunderstorm fireplace disaster washington d.c. map axe flashlight scientist |
A long time ago, far away on the planet of Cybertron, a war is being waged between the noble Autobots (led by the wise Optimus Prime) and the devious Decepticons (commanded by the dreaded Megatron) for control over the Allspark, a mystical talisman that would grant unlimited power to whoever possessβ¦es it. The Autobots managed to smuggle the Allspark off the planet, but Megatron blasts off in search of it. He eventually tracks it to the planet of Earth (circa 1850), but his reckless desire for power sends him right into the Arctic Ocean, and the sheer cold forces him into a paralyzed state. His body is later found by Captain Archibald Witwicky, but before going into a comatose state Megatron uses the last of his energy to engrave into the Captain's glasses a map showing the location of the Allspark, and to send a transmission to Cybertron. Megatron is then carried away aboard the Captain's ship. A century later, Captain Witwicky's grandson Sam Witwicky (nicknamed Spike by his friends) buys his first car. To his shock, he discovers it to be Bumblebee, an Autobot in disguise who is to protect Spike, who possesses the Captain's glasses and the map engraved on them. But Bumblebee is not the only Transformer to have arrived on Earth - in the desert of Qatar, the Decepticons Blackout and Scorponok attack a U.S. military base, causing the Pentagon to send their special Sector Seven agents to capture all "specimens of this alien race." Spike and his girlfriend Mikaela find themselves β¦ (Read More)
Themes: | military |
Locations: | los angeles california earth outer space ship taxi helicopter |
Characters: | husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | u.s. president power failure arctic u.s. army end of the world blockbuster washington d.c. news report map axe scientist falling from height computer dog |
When catastrophic climate change endangers Earth's very survival, world governments unite and create the Dutch Boy Program: a world wide net of satellites, surrounding the planet, that are armed with geoengineering technologies designed to stave off the natural disasters. After successfully protectiβ¦ng the planet for two years, something is starting to go wrong. Two estranged brothers are tasked with solving the program's malfunction before a world wide Geostorm can engulf the planet. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Story: | climate change u.s. president mass destruction climate catastrophe tsunami hurricane satellite weather disaster |
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disβ¦ease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice panic military death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | ship airplane helicopter new york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | helicopter crash mass destruction nova scotia vending machine evacuation end of the world pilot news report axe scientist falling from height dog |
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 vacaβ¦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 film |
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | airplane helicopter hospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | natural disaster turbulence fear of flying tidal wave devastation catastrophe tsunami shipwreck watching television flood disaster map |
The general public is concerned over having Superman on their planet and letting the "Dark Knight" - Batman - pursue the streets of Gotham. While this is happening, a power-phobic Batman tries to attack Superman.,Meanwhile Superman tries to settle on a decision, and Lex Luthor, the criminal mastermiβ¦nd and millionaire, tries to use his own advantages to fight the "Man of Steel". (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice panic military death |
Locations: | museum outer space airplane snow helicopter |
Characters: | police officer father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | cargo ship u.s. president helicopter crash devastation satellite evacuation u.s. army flood blockbuster fireplace disaster washington d.c. news report scientist falling from height |
A youth chooses manhood. The week Sam Witwicky starts college, the Decepticons make trouble in Shanghai. A presidential envoy believes it's because the Autobots are around; he wants them gone. He's wrong: the Decepticons need access to Sam's mind to see some glyphs imprinted there that will lead theβ¦m to a fragile object that, when inserted in an alien machine hidden in Egypt for centuries, will give them the power to blow out the sun. Sam, his girlfriend Mikaela Banes, and Sam's parents are in danger. Optimus Prime and Bumblebee are Sam's principal protectors. If one of them goes down, what becomes of Sam? (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Locations: | los angeles california museum outer space airplane helicopter |
Characters: | professor husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | vending machine satellite u.s. army end of the world blockbuster washington d.c. library news report flashlight falling from height computer dog |
When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential Secret Service Agent Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced tβ¦o rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster. (Read More)
Themes: | military death |
Locations: | snow helicopter hospital |
Characters: | husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | u.s. vice president vice president american president u.s. president helicopter crash u.s. army disaster washington d.c. president news report falling from height |
A washed up monster chaser convinces the U.S. Government to fund a trip to an unexplored island in the South Pacific. Under the guise of geological research, the team travels to "Skull Island". Upon arrival, the group discover that their mission may be complicated by the wildlife which inhabits the β¦island. The beautiful vistas and deadly creatures create a visually stunning experience that is sure to keep your attention. (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | self sacrifice panic military death |
Locations: | ship taxi helicopter |
Story: | helicopter crash altered version of studio logo hurricane shipwreck satellite u.s. army blockbuster washington d.c. pilot news report map scientist falling from height |
Everything seems to be going great for the Fantastic Four. Reed and Sue are finally getting married, and things couldn't seem better. However, when the mysterious Silver Surfer crashes things, they learn that they will have to deal with an old foe, and the powerful planet eating Galactus.
Themes: | military |
Locations: | los angeles california outer space airplane helicopter new york city |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | statue of liberty new york city satellite u.s. army washington d.c. news report scientist falling from height |
In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Kennedy and his advisorβ¦s must come up with a plan of action against the Soviets. Kennedy is determined to show that he is strong enough to stand up to the threat, and the Pentagon advises U.S. military strikes against Cuba--which could lead the way to another U.S. invasion of the island. However, Kennedy is reluctant to follow through, because a U.S. invasion could cause the Soviets to retaliate in Europe. A nuclear showdown appears to be almost inevitable. Can it be prevented? (Read More)
Themes: | military |
Locations: | helicopter new york city |
Characters: | mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | u.s. vice president vice president american president u.s. president statue of liberty new york city washington d.c. president manhattan new york city |
Following the French atomic bomb tests in the South Pacific, an unknown creature is spotted passing eastward through the Panama Canal. Scientist Niko Tatopolous is called in to investigate the matter, and he quickly arrives at the conclusion that a giant, irradiated lizard has been created by the exβ¦plosions. Godzilla then makes its way north, landing at Manhattan to begin wreaking havoc in the big city. Even with the combined forces of the U.S. military to fight the monster, will it be enough to save the people of New York? (Read More)
Subgenre: | disaster film |
Themes: | panic military |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | taxi helicopter new york city |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | helicopter crash mass destruction evacuation u.s. army blockbuster disaster news report flashlight scientist manhattan new york city |
Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds β¦it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto, to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven with the help of Professor X must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice panic military death |
Locations: | earth outer space taxi airplane snow helicopter new york city |
Characters: | professor husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | cargo ship shipwreck evacuation end of the world blockbuster news report map flashlight scientist falling from height dog |
On September, 11th 2001, after the terrorist attack to the World Trade Center, the building collapses over the rescue team from the Port Authority Police Department. Will Jimeno and his sergeant John McLoughlin are found alive trapped under the wreckage while the rescue teams fight to save them.
Themes: | self sacrifice death |
Locations: | airplane new york city hospital |
Characters: | bible police officer husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | statue of liberty new york city united states of america satellite evacuation disaster flashlight manhattan new york city |
Linguistics professor Louise Banks leads an elite team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touchdown in 12 locations around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must race against time to find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors. Hoping⦠to unravel the mystery, she takes a chance that could threaten her life and quite possibly all of mankind. (Read More)
Themes: | panic military death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | helicopter hospital |
Characters: | professor husband wife relationship |
Story: | u.s. president satellite evacuation u.s. army library news report map flashlight scientist computer |
Following the events in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", Cornelius and Zira flee back through time to 20th Century Los Angeles, where they face fear and persecution similar to what Taylor and Brent suffered in the future, and discover the origins of the stream of events that will shape their world.
Locations: | los angeles california museum outer space |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | american president u.s. president astronaut zoo end of the world president california scientist falling from height |
Several months have passed since The X-Men defeated Magneto and imprisoned him in a seemingly impregnable plastic chamber. One day, a mutant by the name of Nightcrawler infiltrates the White House and attempts to assassinate the president, setting off a chain reaction of anti-mutant measures by the β¦government. Meanwhile, Logan is trying to discover his past. As scientist named William Stryker discovers Professor X's secret school and Cerebro, Magneto's partner, Mystique, is planning to break her leader out of prison. But when Professor X's school is attacked by Stryker's forces, Logan, Rogue, Iceman and a few are lucky to escape. Those who remain meet in Boston, where they form an uneasy alliance with Magneto to stop Stryker and rescue Professor X. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice |
Locations: | museum snow helicopter |
Characters: | professor police officer husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | u.s. president tornado blockbuster washington d.c. president speech scientist falling from height |
A US research station, Antarctica, early-winter 1982. The base is suddenly buzzed by a helicopter from the nearby Norwegian research station. They are trying to kill a dog that has escaped from their base. After the destruction of the Norwegian chopper the members of the US team fly to the Norwegian⦠base, only to discover them all dead or missing. They do find the remains of a strange creature the Norwegians burned. The Americans take it to their base and deduce that it is an alien life form. After a while it is apparent that the alien can take over and assimilate into other life forms, including humans, and can spread like a virus. This means that anyone at the base could be inhabited by The Thing, and tensions escalate. (Read More)
Themes: | panic death |
Locations: | earth outer space snow helicopter |
Story: | power failure antarctica blizzard physician weather pilot map axe flashlight scientist computer dog |
50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind's last hope.
Themes: | self sacrifice death |
Locations: | earth outer space |
Story: | freezing to death natural disaster atheist astronaut end of the world disaster scientist |
Alice awakes at home with her daughter Becky and her husband. But soon she realizes that she is actually in an Umbrella Corporation's underground facility. Out of the blue, the computer security system shuts-down and Alice flees to the central control room of the facility. She meets Ada Wong, who woβ¦rks with Albert Wesker, and she learns that a five-man team has been sent by Wesker to rescue them. However, the Red Queen sends Jill Valentine and Rain to hunt them down. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | ship taxi airplane snow helicopter |
Story: | helicopter crash tokyo japan flood end of the world washington d.c. map axe falling from height computer |
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. "In the Hβ¦eart of the Sea" reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice panic death |
Locations: | ship |
Characters: | husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | mammoth tidal wave hurricane shipwreck evacuation flood whiskey disaster map axe falling from height |
Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent and highly respected by all, including her boss, Ted Winter. Out of the blue, a Russian spy walks into their offices and offers a vital piece of information: the President of Russia will be assassinated during his forthcoming visit to New York City to attend the funeral of⦠the recently deceased U.S. Vice President. The name of the assassin: Evelyn Salt. Concerned about the safety of her husband, who she cannot contact, she goes on the run. Winter refuses to accept that she is a mole or a double agent but her actions begin to raise doubts. Just who is Evelyn Salt and what is she planning? (Read More)
Locations: | taxi airplane snow helicopter new york city hospital |
Characters: | police officer husband wife relationship |
Story: | vice president u.s. president statue of liberty new york city traffic jam washington d.c. president news report flashlight manhattan new york city falling from height computer dog |
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: | panic |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | los angeles california helicopter hospital |
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | natural disaster evacuation disaster news report california dog |
Los Angeles and other cities around the world are being bombarded by meteors that seem to be slowing down once they hit the earth's atmosphere. The earth is suddenly being invaded by space aliens that have landed off the shore of LA, and who begin killing everybody along the beach. The military is oβ¦rdered into action. Marine Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart), who was about to retire, is reassigned to a new platoon. The platoon, flown by chopper to the forward operating base at Santa Monica Airport, is being led by a new 2nd Lt. Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez). They are sent on a mission to rescue some civilians who are trapped at the police station within alien territory. They only have 3 hours to complete their mission and get out before the Air Force bombs that zone. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Locations: | los angeles california earth helicopter |
Characters: | police officer husband wife relationship father son relationship |
Story: | hollywood california helicopter crash evacuation u.s. army news report map flashlight falling from height computer dog |
Back when the Earth was being overrun by glaciers, and animals were scurrying to save themselves from the upcoming Ice Age, a sloth named Sid, a woolly mammoth named Manny, and a saber-toothed tiger named Diego are forced to become unlikely heroes. The three reluctantly come together when they have β¦to return a human child to its father while braving the deadly elements of the impending Ice Age. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | earth snow |
Story: | hail mammoth ice age global warming blockbuster wolf falling from height dog |
Themes: | military |
Locations: | los angeles california earth outer space airplane |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | hollywood california washington d.c. pilot california flashlight |
Autobots Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide, Mirage (aka Dino), Wheeljack (aka Que) and Sideswipe led by Optimus Prime, are back in action taking on the evil Decepticons, who are eager to avenge their recent defeat. The Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the United Sβ¦tates and Russia to reach a hidden Cybertronian spacecraft on the moon and learn its secrets, and once again Sam Witwicky has to go to the aid of his robot friends. The new villain Shockwave is on the scene while the Autobots and Decepticons continue to battle it out on Earth. (Read More)
Themes: | military death |
Locations: | earth outer space airplane snow helicopter |
Characters: | husband wife relationship father son relationship mother son relationship |
Story: | u.s. president mass destruction satellite astronaut u.s. army blockbuster washington d.c. news report axe flashlight scientist falling from height computer dog |
A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.
Themes: | self sacrifice military death |
Locations: | earth outer space airplane snow helicopter |
Characters: | professor husband wife relationship mother son relationship father son relationship |
Story: | helicopter crash altered version of studio logo tornado satellite u.s. army end of the world blockbuster news report scientist falling from height dog |
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 supervisoβ¦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: | self sacrifice panic death |
Locations: | mexico ship airplane helicopter |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | satellite environmental evacuation flood disaster map flashlight falling from height |