Showing posts with label Genre: disaster/survival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genre: disaster/survival. Show all posts

The Grey (2011)

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Liam Neeson stars as the survivor of a plane crash in Alaska. He and his remaining oil industry colleagues attempt to walk to safety, battli...

All Is Lost (2013)

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Intensely powerful and watchable drama, brilliantly written and directed by J. C. Chandor.  Damaged by a large container that fell from a ca...

Adrift (2018)

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Disaster/survival film based on the true story Red Sky in Mourning by Tami Oldham Ashcraft – an account of events relating to Hurricane Ray...

The Edge (1997)

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Extremely flawed disaster/survival thriller written by David Mamet.  Anthony Hopkins is the only good thing about the film, and thankfully h...

Geostorm (2017)

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Disaster film.  The world has been saved from environmental disaster by a hi-tech space station (the actual science isn’t explained), but wh...

The Road (2009)

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Brilliantly bleak disaster/survival story adapted from the novel by Cormac McCarthy.  An unnamed man and his son (Viggo Mortensen and Kodi S...

Deliverance (1972)

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A masterpiece. This is a survival thriller directed by John Boorman, and adapted by James Dickey from his 1970 novel.  It stars Jon Voight, ...

Outbreak (1995)

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Disaster film detailing the outbreak of a deadly virus brought from Zaire to the USA by an infected monkey. Army virologist Dustin Hoffman ...

The Happening (2008)

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Comically bad disaster film starring Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel as a couple on the run from a mysterious airborne virus that has so...

Contagion (2011)

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A pandemic thriller made fascinating by the real-world events in the era of Covid 19.  Matt Damon ’s wife (played by Gwyneth Paltrow ) contr...

Flood (2007)

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Disaster film.  A storm surge causes flooding and mass destruction in London. Robert Carlyle has to save the city with the help of his estr...

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

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It’s 1961 and the Soviet Union sends a new nuclear submarine on a test mission. Mikhail Polenin ( Liam Neeson ) has been demoted from the ro...

Apollo 13 (1995)

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Ron Howard ’s version of the events of April 1970 in which a planned Moon mission goes horribly wrong after an explosion loses vital fuel an...

Earthquake (1974)

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When Los Angeles is hit by a major earthquake, it’s up to a few brave heroes to save as many lives as possible. This film performs the stan...

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

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The SS Poseidon is sailing from New York to Athens when an underwater earthquake creates a huge wave that turns the ship over. A small gro...

The Towering Inferno (1974)

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A big Hollywood blockbuster disaster film about a fire breaking out in a state-of-the-art skyscraper. Paul Newman (the architect) and Stev...

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

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Disaster film depicting the true-life events of the 2010 BP oil-rig explosion leading to 11 deaths and one of the world’s worst environment...

Touching the Void (2003)

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Documentary film version of Joe Simpson’s 1988 memoir detailing Simpson and Simon Yates's 1985 climb of the 6,344-m (20,813-ft) Siula ...

The Revenant (2015)

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Unrelentingly grim and bloody tale of North American frontiersman Hugh Glass ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) trying to survive against all the odds. ...

The Perfect Storm (2000)

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Based on the true story written by Sebastian Junger , The Perfect Storm details the drama of the Andrea Gail , a fishing boat from the sma...