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1. Ground Control (1998)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A disgraced former air traffic controller is called back into service when the airport's traffic control system malfunctions.
Director: Richard Howard | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Bruce McGill, Kristy Swanson
Votes: 2,717
Damaged plane coming in, damaged air traffic controller directing traffic
2. 2012: Ice Age (2011 Video)
PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it's path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
Director: Travis Fort | Stars: Patrick Labyorteaux, Julie McCullough, Katie Wilson, Nick Afanasiev
Votes: 6,326
3. V for Vendetta (2005)
R | 132 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
Director: James McTeigue | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea
Votes: 1,178,955 | Gross: $70.51M
Wow!
4. The Pact (2002)
Not Rated | 94 min | Action, Thriller
A teen Pact riding on top of trains breeds hell to pay 15 years later when one comes back from the dead.
Director: Strathford Hamilton | Stars: Sigrid Thornton, Robert Mammone, Peter O'Brien, Basia A'Hern
Votes: 253
5. The Avengers (2012)
PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Sci-Fi
Earth's mightiest heroes must come together and learn to fight as a team if they are going to stop the mischievous Loki and his alien army from enslaving humanity.
Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner
Votes: 1,458,909 | Gross: $623.28M
6. Memento (2000)
R | 113 min | Mystery, Thriller
A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Votes: 1,322,349 | Gross: $25.54M
7. Ablaze (2001)
R | 97 min | Drama, Action, Thriller
An oil refinery blows up, causing a firestorm that threatens a hospital and everyone inside.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: John Bradley, Tom Arnold, Ice-T, Amanda Pays
Votes: 737
8. Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus (2010 Video)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A megalodon battles with a crocosaurus causing massive destruction. The US Army has to try and destroy the havoc creating monsters.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Gary Stretch, Jaleel White, Sarah Lieving, Robert Picardo
Votes: 5,618
9. Malibu Shark Attack (2009 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A tsunami floods Malibu and unleashes a hunting pack of deep-water prehistoric goblin sharks, targeting a group of lifeguards trapped in their half-submerged station on stilts and a team of construction workers stranded in a flooded house.
Director: David Lister | Stars: Renee Bowen, Remi Broadway, Joel Amos Byrnes, Warren Christie
Votes: 2,625
10. Lake Placid 2 (2007 TV Movie)
Unrated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Man-eating crocodiles return to the lake, as two males and one aggressive female crocodile protecting their nest wreak havoc on the locals.
Director: David Flores | Stars: John Schneider, Sarah Lafleur, Sam McMurray, Chad Michael Collins
Votes: 7,402
11. Super Shark (2011)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
An offshore drilling accident releases a giant primordial shark, threatening to turn a bikini contest into a bloodbath.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Tim Abell, Catherine Annette, Ashley Carr, Rick Cramer
Votes: 2,477
12. Sharktopus (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A half-shark and half-octopus creature created for the military creates a whole lot of terror in Mexico, while the scientist who helped to create it tries to either capture or kill it.
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Eric Roberts, Kerem Bürsin, Sara Malakul Lane, Héctor Jiménez
Votes: 10,521
13. Push (2009)
PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Two young Americans with special abilities must race to find a girl in Hong Kong before a shadowy government organization called Division does.
Director: Paul McGuigan | Stars: Camilla Belle, Dakota Fanning, Chris Evans, Colin Ford
Votes: 115,561 | Gross: $31.81M
14. A Man Escaped (1956)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
Director: Robert Bresson | Stars: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod
Votes: 24,974
French resistance fighter imprisoned by Germans plans a way to escape before his appt. with the firing squad. I was a nervous wreck!
15. Disaster on the Coastliner (1979 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful employee of a computer-controlled railway arranges a head-on collision of passenger trains. Can it be stopped?
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Raymond Burr, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle
Votes: 597
16. Agent Red (2000)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Captain Matt Hendricks and Dr. Linda Christian are locked in a submarine with Russian terrorists that threaten to launch a chemical virus on US territory.
Directors: Damian Lee, Jim Wynorski | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Meilani Paul, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Natalie Radford
Votes: 1,314
17. Mindhunters (2004)
R | 106 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A group of FBI trainees are taken to a remote island for simulation training. However, once there, they realize that they are being hunted by a serial killer, who might be someone amidst them.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Val Kilmer, LL Cool J, Christian Slater, Eion Bailey
Votes: 64,185 | Gross: $4.48M
18. Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004 TV Movie)
Unrated | 175 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.
Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Thomas Gibson, Nancy McKeon, Chandra West, Brian Markinson
Votes: 2,695
tornadoes!
19. DNA (1996 Video)
R | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A mad scientist's DNA experiment on the bones of a mysterious jungle creature brings the carnivorous beast to life, and only his former assistant Ash Mattley and CIA operative Claire Sommers can stop it.
Director: William Mesa | Stars: Mark Dacascos, Jürgen Prochnow, Robin McKee, Tom Taus
Votes: 2,493
20. Category 7: The End of the World (2005)
TV-PG | 169 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A deadly category 7 storm wreaks havoc on the world. Meanwhile, kidnappers threaten to make matters even worse.
Stars: Cameron Daddo, Gina Gershon, Shannen Doherty, Randy Quaid
Votes: 2,955
21. 500 MPH Storm (2013)
TV-PG | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A scientist must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe America off the map.
Director: Daniel Lusko | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Michael Beach, Sarah Lieving, Bryan Head
Votes: 2,362
22. 40 Days and Nights (2012)
TV-PG | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.
Director: Peter Geiger | Stars: Alex Carter, Monica Keena, Alex Arleo, Alex Ball
Votes: 2,455
23. Turbulent Skies (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A new airplane that's equipped with a new computer that can fly the plane on its own is about to have its first flight. But a virus shuts down the plane mid-flight and the pilots are incapacitated so there's no one who can fly the plane.
Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Brad Dourif, Nicole Eggert, Patrick Muldoon
Votes: 757
24. Killer Mountain (2011 TV Movie)
85 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A group of mountain climbers disappears while climbing the Himalayas in the 1950s. In the present, another group takes the same route and also disappears. A shady rich man hires a professional mountaineer and some scientists to find them.
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: Emmanuelle Vaugier, Aaron Douglas, Paul Campbell, Andrew Airlie
Votes: 951
25. New Blood (1999)
R | 98 min | Action, Thriller
A shot criminal son comes to his dad for the first time in years to offer him a deal. Before the night is over, bodies are scattered everywhere. The hospitalized dad tells two cops what happened.
Director: Michael Hurst | Stars: John Hurt, Nick Moran, Carrie-Anne Moss, Shawn Wayans
Votes: 807
26. Tracks of a Killer (1996 Video)
R | 99 min | Drama, Thriller
A couple and their guests spend quality time at an isolated chalet. When one of the guests dies, the other becomes really upset. He spends most of the movie torturing the hostess while sending the host off in the snow to die.
Director: Harvey Frost | Stars: Kelly LeBrock, Wolf Larson, James Brolin, Courtney Taylor
Votes: 240
27. Ghost Rider (2007)
PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller
When motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze sells his soul to the Devil to save his father's life, he is transformed into the Ghost Rider, the Devil's own bounty hunter, and is sent to hunt down sinners.
Director: Mark Steven Johnson | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott, Matt Long
Votes: 252,176 | Gross: $115.80M
28. Solomon Kane (2009)
R | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: James Purefoy, Max von Sydow, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Pete Postlethwaite
Votes: 76,382
29. Beneath Loch Ness (2001)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
The legendary Loch Ness Monster, terrorizes a lake in Scotland and Patrick Bergin comes out to kill it.
Director: Chuck Comisky | Stars: Patrick Bergin, Lysette Anthony, Brian Wimmer, Lysa Apostle
Votes: 1,391
30. Romancing the Stone (1984)
PG | 106 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman
Votes: 103,260 | Gross: $76.57M
31. Red Dawn (2012)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Drama, War
A group of teenagers look to save their town from an invasion of North Korean soldiers.
Director: Dan Bradley | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Josh Hutcherson, Josh Peck
Votes: 80,544 | Gross: $44.81M
32. Titanic (1943)
TV-PG | 85 min | Action, Drama, History
Third Reich's Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down.
Directors: Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler | Stars: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg, Ernst Fritz Fürbringer
Votes: 1,798
33. Exploding Sun (2013 TV Movie)
174 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A historic space launch triggers a solar-storm event that could have cataclysmic repercussions for the planet if it isn't stopped in time - and time is running out.
Director: Michael Robison | Stars: David James Elliott, Anthony Lemke, Natalie Brown, Alex Weiner
Votes: 1,435
34. Bermuda Tentacles (2014 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When Air Force One goes down over the Bermuda Triangle, the Navy sends its best rescue team. But in saving the president, the team awakens a monster which threatens America's entire Eastern Seaboard and, ultimately, the world.
Director: Nick Lyon | Stars: Trevor Donovan, Linda Hamilton, Mya, John Savage
Votes: 2,985
35. Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of ... See full summary »
Director: J.P. Howell | Stars: Casper Van Dien, Vincent Gale, Stefanie von Pfetten, Venus Terzo
Votes: 975
36. Supernatural (2005–2020)
TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two brothers follow their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth.
Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Misha Collins
Votes: 482,869
37. CAT. 8 (2013– )
TV-14 | 180 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An untested global defence system triggers a swarm of devastating solar flares, resulting in catastrophic earthquakes and ferocious magnetic storms; an unprecedented CAT. 8 Armageddon. Can we stop the annihilation of the human race?
Stars: Matthew Modine, Maxim Roy, Ted Whittall, Trevor Hayes
Votes: 1,390
38. Supervolcano (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
A volcano in Yellowstone Park suddenly erupts.
Director: Tony Mitchell | Stars: Michael Riley, Gary Lewis, Shaun Johnston, Adrian Holmes
Votes: 2,520
39. Jurassic Park (1993)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 1,066,585 | Gross: $402.45M
40. Dracula III: Legacy (2005 Video)
R | 86 min | Horror
In the near future, Uffizi and Luke travel to the remote reaches of war torn Romania to rescue Elizabeth and finish the vampire once and for all. Along the way, they encounter TV news journalist and a corps of rebels trying to fight the vampire uprising which plagues their country.
Director: Patrick Lussier | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, Stephen Billington, Diane Neal, Jason London
Votes: 3,341
41. Christmas Icetastrophe (2014 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A meteorite brings ice and freezing temperatures, which threatens to harm the residents of a small town at Christmas.
Director: Jonathan Winfrey | Stars: Victor Webster, Jennifer Spence, Richard Harmon, Tiera Skovbye
Votes: 1,639
42. Jinn (2014)
PG-13 | 97 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
A man turns to a mysterious pair and a shackled mental patient for help in combating an ancient family curse.
Director: Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad | Stars: Dominic Rains, Ray Park, William Atherton, Faran Tahir
Votes: 4,818 | Gross: $0.15M
43. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)
PG-13 | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
A scientific expedition sets out for Borneo to seek a flower called the Blood Orchid, which could grant longer life. Meanwhile, they run afoul of snakes and each other.
Director: Dwight H. Little | Stars: Morris Chestnut, KaDee Strickland, Eugene Byrd, Johnny Messner
Votes: 33,857 | Gross: $32.24M
44. Frankenstein's Army (2013)
R | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the dying days of WWII, a battalion of Russian soldiers is lured into the secret lab of a deranged scientist and forced to face off against an army of horrific flesh-and-metal war machines.
Director: Richard Raaphorst | Stars: Robert Gwilym, Hon Ping Tang, Alexander Terentyev, Luke Newberry
Votes: 9,197
45. Asteroid vs Earth (2014 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When a shower of massive meteors threatens an extinction level event on Earth, the world's greatest minds devise a dangerous plan that will take the planet off its axis in order to avoid the impact.
Director: Christopher Ray | Stars: Tia Carrere, Jason Brooks, Tim Russ, Darin Cooper
Votes: 1,099
46. Dead Cold (1995 Video)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Horror
When a carjacking leaves L.A. screenwriter Eric recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, wife Alicia nurses him back to health. Four months later, the two depart for a second ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Anderson | Stars: Lysette Anthony, Michael Champion, Peter Dobson, Apache Moon
Votes: 268
47. Raze (2013)
R | 92 min | Action, Drama, Horror
50 abducted women are forced to fight each other using their bare hands.
Director: Josh C. Waller | Stars: Zoë Bell, Rachel Nichols, Tracie Thoms, Bruce Thomas
Votes: 6,419 | Gross: $0.00M
48. Noah (2014)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Noah is chosen by God to undertake a momentous mission before an apocalyptic flood cleanses the world.
Director: Darren Aronofsky | Stars: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Watson
Votes: 266,995 | Gross: $101.20M
49. San Andreas Quake (2015)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When a discredited L.A. seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake, no one takes her seriously. Now on her own, she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.
Director: John Baumgartner | Stars: Jhey Castles, Jason Woods, Grace Van Dien, Elaine Partnow
Votes: 6,806
50. Underworld (2003)
R | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Selene, a vampire warrior, is entrenched in a conflict between vampires and werewolves, while falling in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons.
Director: Len Wiseman | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly, Michael Sheen
Votes: 285,097 | Gross: $51.97M
51. Final Destination 3 (2006)
R | 93 min | Horror, Thriller
Wendy Christensen and a group of teens who escaped a fatal roller-coaster crash face a bloody date with Death.
Director: James Wong | Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson
Votes: 153,676 | Gross: $54.10M
52. The Reef (2010)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Director: Andrew Traucki | Stars: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley, Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor
Votes: 20,930
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
True story
53. Last Passenger (2013)
R | 97 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
A small group of everyday passengers on a speeding London commuter train battle their warped driver who has a dark plan for everyone on-board.
Directors: Omid Nooshin, Ridoin El Aissati | Stars: Dougray Scott, Kara Tointon, Iddo Goldberg, David Schofield
Votes: 7,399 | Gross: $0.01M
Exciting!! Passengers on a runaway train have to work together to try to stop it before it crashes.
54. Satanic (2016)
R | 85 min | Horror
Four friends on their way to Coachella stop off in Los Angeles to tour true-crime occult sites, only to encounter a mysterious young runaway who puts them on a terrifying path to ultimate horror.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt | Stars: Sarah Hyland, Steven Krueger, Justin Chon, Clara Mamet
Votes: 7,091 | Gross: $0.00M
Four college kids visit some satanic and suicide sites in L.A. and "accidently" find the real thing Then comes the stark terror and disasters. Well done.
55. 12 Days of Terror (2004 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 87 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
For twelve days in July, 1916, a shark patrolled the waterways of northern New Jersey. This docudrama is based on Richard Fernicola's account of those days.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Colin Egglesfield, Mark Dexter, Jenna Harrison, John Rhys-Davies
Votes: 1,845
True story; In 1916 a juvenile white shark entered a bay in northern New Jersey and terrorized the bathers, until it was caught. It never happened again.
56. Shark Lake (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror
A local sheriff, Meredith Hendricks, makes it her mission to capture the "animal" and bring the exotic animal collector to justice.
Director: Jerry Dugan | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane, Lily Brooks O'Briant, Michael Aaron Milligan
Votes: 2,632
2x 11/28/16 DOLPH LUNDGREN
57. Age of Ice (2014 Video)
TV-14 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When sudden and massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, the result is unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach ... See full summary »
Director: Emile Edwin Smith | Stars: Barton Bund, Bailey Spry, Jules Hartley, Owais Ahmed
Votes: 2,507
When sudden and massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, the result is unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing American family in Egypt, the Jones', must battle the rapidly cooling temperatures that usher in a new Ice Age, covering the Sphinx, Pyramids, and Sahara Desert with mountains of snow.
- Written by The Asylum
58. The Impossible (2012)
PG-13 | 114 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Director: J.A. Bayona | Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast
Votes: 243,968 | Gross: $19.02M
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. True story.
59. Shark Lake (2015)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror
A local sheriff, Meredith Hendricks, makes it her mission to capture the "animal" and bring the exotic animal collector to justice.
Director: Jerry Dugan | Stars: Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane, Lily Brooks O'Briant, Michael Aaron Milligan
Votes: 2,632
Pretty good, Dolph Lundgren is good as a ex-con who helps a lady and her little girl - I won't tell you who they are to him!!! I'm a sucker for happy endings.
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