Posts Tagged ‘disaster’

Hard Rain (1998)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Denmark | France | Japan | New Zealand | UK | USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Slater, Christian | Quaid, Randy | Asner, Edward | Goorjian, Michael A. | Florek, Dann | Harris, Ricky | Rolston, Mark | Murnik, Peter | Duvall, Wayne | Dysart, Richard | Baker, Ray | Patterson, Jay | Monks, Michael | Bryce, Mackenzie
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Heavy Rainfall causes a Indiana river to swell and flood the town. All inhabitants are forced by public services to leave instantly. Tom and his uncle Charlie work for a money transport firm and their assignment is to evacuate all cash from the banks along the flooding river. So, their truck is loaded with about three million Dollars. Hank tries to prevent further flooding, as he’s the guy responsible for the dam up the river, but he has to open one gate in order to save the old dam from breaking. Only the police under the Sheriff’s leadership stay in town to prevent looting. As the water level rises, Tom and Charlie’s Truck gets stuck in the flooded road. This is the moment, Jim, an elderly thief, and his gang have been waiting for. In an attempt to get the money from the truck, Charlie gets shot and Tom swims off to save the cash bags. While trying to hide, he meets Karen, who resisted to leave the old church she has been restoring for eight months. She thinks he is a looter, and calls the cops to bring him in. But as the Sheriff finds out about that much cash in a situation like this, he radios his old pal Hank, up at the dam…

Testament (1983)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander, Jane | Devane, William | Harris, Rossie | Zal, Roxana | Haas, Lukas | Anglim, Philip | Skala, Lilia | Ames, Leon | Tuttle, Lurene | De Mornay, Rebecca | Costner, Kevin | Mako | Olmos, Mico | Murillo, Gerry | Smith, J. Brennan
Directors: Littman, Lynne
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Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.

Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hackman, Gene | Borgnine, Ernest | Red Buttons | Lynley, Carol | McDowall, Roddy | Stevens, Stella | Winters, Shelley | Albertson, Jack | Martin, Pamela Sue | O'Connell, Arthur | Shea, Eric | Sadoff, Fred | Allen, Sheila | Arvan, Jan | Webster, Byron
Directors: Neame, Ronald
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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90′ tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.

Fearless (1993)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridges, Jeff | Rossellini, Isabella | Perez, Rosie | Hulce, Tom | Turturro, John | Del Toro, Benicio | O'Connell, Deirdre | de Lancie, John | Vrooman, Spencer | Cerny, Daniel | Roberts, Eve | Rose, Robin Pearson | Monk, Debra | Mace, Cynthia | Mell, Randle
Directors: Weir, Peter
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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.

Sunshine (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Curtis, Cliff | Evans, Chris | Garity, Troy | Macdonald, Archie | Murphy, Cillian | Sanada, Hiroyuki | Strong, Mark | Wong, Benedict | Baeza, Paloma | Byrne, Rose | Macdonald, Sylvia | Yeoh, Michelle
Directors: Boyle, Danny
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50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts are sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team are sent to finish the mission as they are Earth’s last hope.

Airplane! (1980)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem | Bridges, Lloyd | Graves, Peter | Hagerty, Julie | Hays, Robert | Nielsen, Leslie | Patterson, Lorna | Robert Stack | Stucker, Stephen | Otto | Ashmore, Frank | Banks, Jonathan | Berenson, Craig | Billingsley, Barbara
Directors: Abrahams, Jim
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Ted Striker just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess at Trans American Airlines. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard the plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to contact her again and again, but as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a bad fish meal, he has no chance to get to her. In fact, Ted Striker seems to be the only healthy person aboard that has piloting experience. Now, it is up to him to get the bird down in Chicago safely, before the poisoning starts causing casualties. But Ted Striker’s aversion really is a serious psychosis, which breaks open and needs to be cured - right now.

World Trade Center (2006)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Bello, Maria | Paolo, Connor | Piccininni, Anthony | Gerasimovich, Alexa | Flynn, Morgan | Pena, Michael | Riesco, Armando | Hernandez, Jay | Starr, Joe | Bernthal, Jon | Jimeno, William | Damici, Nick | Ciccolella, Jude | Pfefferkorn, Martin
Directors: Stone, Oliver
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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.

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Paymer, David | Hays, Robert | Hagerty, Julie | Bridges, Lloyd | Everett, Chad | Graves, Peter | Connors, Chuck | Shatner, William | Burr, Raymond | Vernon, John | Stucker, Stephen | McCord, Kent | Watson Jr., James A. | Dehner, John | Torn, Rip | Bono, Sonny
Directors: Finkleman, Ken
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The hero of an unlikely airplane disaster must overcome his own inadequacies, improbable accidents and his former girlfriend in order to save a space shuttle from destruction in this spoof sequel of the disaster parody Airplane!

Dante’s Peak (1997)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brosnan, Pierce | Hamilton, Linda | Hallahan, Charles | Smith, Jamie Renée | Foley, Jeremy | Hoffman, Elizabeth | Heslov, Grant | Trutner, Kirk | Field, Arabella | Ma, Tzi | Reddy, Brian | Garlington, Lee | Bolender, Bill | Androsky, Carole | Jason, Peter
Directors: Donaldson, Roger
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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.

Independence Day (1996)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pullman, Bill | McDonnell, Mary | Goldblum, Jeff | Hirsch, Judd | Colin, Margaret | Smith, Will | Fox, Vivica A. | Quaid, Randy | Loggia, Robert | Rebhorn, James | Fierstein, Harvey | Baldwin, Adam | Spiner, Brent | Duval, James | Jakub, Lisa
Directors: Emmerich, Roland
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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, piloted 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. 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…