Movies tagged as "disaster"

Airplane II: The Sequel [1982, USA ] starting from $1.99

For the ride of your life... All you need for Christmas are your two front seats!

Genres: Comedy, Sci-Fi Actors: David Paymer, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors, William Shatner, Raymond Burr, John Vernon, Stephen Stucker, Kent McCord, James A. Watson Jr., John Dehner, Rip Torn, Sonny Bono Directors: Ken Finkleman, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   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!

Airplane! [1980, USA ] starting from $1.99

What's slower than a speeding bullet, and able to hit tall buildings at a single bound?

Genres: Comedy, Romance Actors: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, Julie Hagerty, Robert Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Lorna Patterson, Robert Stack, Stephen Stucker, Otto, Jim Abrahams, Frank Ashmore, Jonathan Banks, Craig Berenson, Barbara Billingsley, Directors: Jim Abrahams Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   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.

Armageddon [1998, USA ] starting from $1.99

It's Closer Than You Think.

Genres: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler, Will Patton, Steve Buscemi, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan, Peter Stormare, Ken Hudson Campbell, Jessica Steen, Keith David, Chris Ellis, Jason Isaacs Directors: Michael Bay, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Due to a shuttle's unfortunate demise in outer space, NASA becomes aware of a doomsday asteroid that is on a collision course with Earth. It seems that the only way to knock it off course is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear weapon. But as NASA's under-funded yet resourceful team train the world's best drillers for the job, the social order of the world begins to break down as the information reaches the public and hysteria results. As high-ranking officials play politics with the effort, the drilling team all faces deep personal issues which may jeopardize humanity's last chance...

Core, The [2003, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99

Earth has a deadline

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Eileen Pedde, Rekha Sharma, Tom Scholte, Aaron Eckhart, Glenn Morshower, Anthony Harrison, Tchéky Karyo, Richard Jenkins, Bart Anderson, Nicole Leroux, Justin Callan, Chris Humphreys, Hilary Swank Directors: Jon Amiel, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   For reasons unknown, the earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet's electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. Instantly, life around the globe begins to change dramatically. In Boston, 32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius, suddenly drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London's Trafalgar Square, flocks of pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying into panicked crowds, slamming into windshields and causing drivers to lose control of their cars. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman Colosseum to rubble. Scrambling to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call upon geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes and a team of the world's most gifted scientists to travel into the earth's core in a subterranean craft piloted by "terranauts" Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs and Commander Robert Iverson. Their mission: Detonate a nuclear device that will reactivate the core and save the world from sure destruction.

Dante's Peak [1997, USA ] starting from $1.99

The pressure is building...

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Jamie Renée Smith, Jeremy Foley, Elizabeth Hoffman, Grant Heslov, Kirk Trutner, Arabella Field, Tzi Ma, Brian Reddy, Lee Garlington, Bill Bolender, Carole Androsky, Peter Jason Directors: Roger Donaldson, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   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.

Deep Impact [1998, USA ] starting from $1.99

Heaven and Earth are about to collide.

Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller Actors: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Morgan Freeman, Maximilian Schell, James Cromwell, Ron Eldard, Jon Favreau, Laura Innes, Mary McCormack, Richard Schiff, Leelee Sobieski, Blair Underwood, Dougray Scott Directors: Mimi Leder, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   As a comet is on a collision course with earth, humans have to prepare for their survival. They randomly select eight hundred thousand people to be saved in order to keep the human race alive.

Dinosaur [2000, USA ] starting from $1.99

You have never seen anything like this.

Genres: Adventure, Animation, Family Actors: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright, Della Reese, Matt Adler, Sandina Bailo-Lape, Edie Lehmann, Zachary Bostrom, Cathy Cavadini Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag, Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   Long before humans appeared on the planet, dinosaurs ruled the earth. On a little off-coast island, a clan of lemurs finds a dinosaur egg, hatching. Since there are no parents, the lemurs take care of the newborn, Aladar. Years later, a medium meteor goes down close to the island and the shockwave forces its inhabitants to flee to the continent. There, Aladar and his family meet other dinosaurs for the first time as well as real dangers. The destruction caused by the meteor here has also forced a herd of different herbivores to move to a remote valley that can provide food and protection against the carnivorous predators following after. Since Aladar grew up with a different understanding of the ways of the world, his way of helping others first isn't accepted within the herd, but soon it is proven that reason may be better than panic.

Fearless [1993, USA ] starting from $1.99

Some people are afraid of nothing.

Genres: Drama Actors: Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini, Rosie Perez, Tom Hulce, John Turturro, Benicio Del Toro, Deirdre O'Connell, John de Lancie, Spencer Vrooman, Daniel Cerny, Eve Roberts, Robin Pearson Rose, Debra Monk, Cynthia Mace, Randle Mell, Directors: Peter Weir Download: DVD   DivX   PDA   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.

Hard Rain [1998, USA, UK, Denmark, France, Japan, New Zealand ] starting from $1.99

In the worst storm in living memory, one guard stands between five men and three million dollars.

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller Actors: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Edward Asner, Michael A. Goorjian, Dann Florek, Ricky Harris, Mark Rolston, Peter Murnik, Wayne Duvall, Richard Dysart, Ray Baker, Jay Patterson, Michael Monks, Mackenzie Bryce