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1) Airplane!
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In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as the crew and many passengers get seriously ill due to a...
2) Titanic
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Jack and Rose, the young lovers find one another on the maiden voyage of the ₁unsinkable₂ R.M.S. Titanic. But when the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a thrilling race for survival. From acclaimed filmmaker James Cameron comes a tale of forbidden love and courage in the face of disaster that triumphs as a true cinematic masterpiece. Eleven Academy Awards including...
3) Apollo 13
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It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but to the American public, Apollo 13 was just another 'routine' space flight. That is until these words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director...
5) Airplane!
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The passengers and crew of an airplane suffer every catastrophe in the book in this spoof of disaster movies.
6) Buried alive
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In an instant, the Earth breaks open, swallowing hikers, trees, and electrical towers, and turns an entire mountainside into a rolling avalanche of soil, timber, and rock - destroying everything in its path.
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Thanks to biological warfare, human life on Earth has just about been decimated. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville drives his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. He makes certain that he gets undercover before sundown, when other "inhabitants" emerge. Robert has to fend off attacks by The Family, sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa, another uninfected...
8) Earthquake
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"When the most catastrophic earthquake in history rips through Southern California, it levels Los Angeles and sends shockwaves through the lives of all who live there. Now strangers must become heroes as the city struggles to get to its feet before the next terrifying afterschock hits"--Container.
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In the heart of San Francisco, the finishing touches have just been made to the Glass Tower, a 138-story skyscraper. A huge celebratory gala, complete with VIP guests, has been planned to celebrate the dedication of what has been promoted as the world's tallest building. But Doug Roberts, the building's architect, suspects all is not right with the building. He discovers that the contractors have used shoddy wiring, not the heavy-duty wiring he had...
10) Meteor
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Science fiction drama about a five-mile-wide meteor on a collision course with Earth. A scientist is summoned to Washington by NASA and is informed that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. There is one slim chance to divert disaster, but it means cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and neither side trusts the other.
11) Collision Earth
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When a massive comet strikes the Sun, it knocks Mercury out of orbit and sends it hurtling towards Earth. But each day the now magnetized planet gets closer, it triggers gravitational chaos around the world: Flaming meteors crash into the ground. Automobiles are sucked into the sky. And the worst is still to come.
13) Juggernaut
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The ocean liner Britannic is halfway across the Atlantic when an man calling himself 'Juggernaut' telephones the shipping company with threats to blow up the ship unless he receives £500,000.
14) Skyjacked
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"Hank O'Hara is as good a pilot as they come. He knows how to handle an airliner in turbulent skies. How to settle the big bird down like a baby put to bed. But now he faces the unexpected. He's been skyjacked. A story about a deranged war vet who demands that a Minneapolis-bound flight makes a slight detour -- to Moscow. All that stands between the terrified passengers and doom is the steely resolve of Captain O'Hara"--Container.