Topic: Earthquakes
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Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (TV Series)
2009 · Series · 23 min. · Japan
Direction Masaki Tachibana · Daisuke Tokutsuchi · Fumiya Kitajou · Hideki Ito
Plot The premise of the project is the 70% or higher possibility that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake will occur in Tokyo in the next 30 years. The anime will depict what...
7.3
425 votes
7.3
425 votes
The Wind Rises
2013 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan
Direction Hayao Miyazaki
Plot Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a...
7.2
14K votes
7.2
14K votes
San Francisco
1936 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction W.S. Van Dyke
Cast Clark Gable · Jeanette MacDonald · Spencer Tracy · Jack Holt
Plot The MGM historical "spectacular" San Francisco was allegedly based on a three-sentence synopsis, submitted verbally to producer B.F. Zeidman by studio troubleshooter Bob Hopkins. The story begins on the Barbary...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Aftershock
2010 · Movie · 135 min. · China
Direction Feng Xiaogang
Cast Zhang Jingchu · Chen Daoming · Jerry Li · Xu Fan
Plot Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.
6.8
284 votes
6.8
284 votes
The Land of Hope
2012 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
Direction Sion Sono
Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Naoko Otani · Megumi Kagurazaka · Jun Murakami
Plot Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono departs from his usual style for this movingly restrained drama of a rural family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and...
6.5
199 votes
6.5
199 votes
Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake (TV Series)
2022 · Documentary · 149 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Olly Lambert
Plot 3 Episodes. Documentary that collects the testimonies of the survivors and the original images of the deadly earthquake 2015 that shook Nepal in April 2015, and that left almost 9,000...
6.4
362 votes
6.4
362 votes
Pigtails
2015 · Movie · 30 min. · Japan
Direction Yoshimi Itazu
Plot The earth shook. The sea roared. There’s a small house by the seaside. A girl with pigtails has been living there alone since that day. Mail is no longer delivered,...
6.3
28 votes
6.3
28 votes
El desastre en Oaxaca (La destrucción de Oaxaca) (S)
1931 · Documentary · 11 min. · Mexico
Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cast Félix Balderas · Martín Hernández · David Liceága · Julio Saldívar
Plot Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.
6.3
233 votes
6.3
233 votes
Concrete Utopia
2023 · Movie · 130 min. · South Korea
Direction Um Tae-hwa
Cast Lee Byung-hun · Park Bo-young · Park Seo-joon · Park Ji-hu
Plot A disaster thriller that tells the story of Seoul, which has been devastated by a massive earthquake, and begins with the gathering of the only remaining survivors from Hwang Goong...
6.2
726 votes
6.2
726 votes
¿Preparados para el tsunami? (TV)
2023 · Documentary · 60 min. · Spain
Direction Erik Martínez-Westley
5.8
54 votes
5.8
54 votes
Tokyo Shaking
2021 · Movie · 101 min. · France
Direction Olivier Peyon
Cast Karin Viard · Stéphane Bak · Yumi Narita · Philippe Uchan
Plot As a tsunami threatens Fukushima's power plant in Japan, a French bank employee is torn between following the company's directions and protecting her relatives, and is compelled, almost unwillingly, to...
5.6
284 votes
5.6
284 votes
Earthquake
1974 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Mark Robson
Cast Charlton Heston · Ava Gardner · George Kennedy · Geneviève Bujold
Plot Construction Engineer Stuart Graff is estranged from his jealously possessive wife, Remy, and has an affair with Denise Marshall, the widow of a co-worker. Meanwhile, Remy tries to persuade her...
5.5
3K votes
5.5
3K votes
59 secondes (S)
2017 · Movie · 15 min. · Switzerland
Direction Mauro Carraro
Plot Bruno and Tiziana’s love story, overtaken by the 59 seconds which were to write one of the most tragic pages in Italian history: the earthquake that devastated Friuli in May...
5.5
26 votes
5.5
26 votes
Japan Sinks: 2020 (TV Miniseries)
2020 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Masaaki Yuasa · Pyeon-Gang Ho
Plot TV Series (2020). 10 Episodes. Japan 2020, just after the Tokyo Olympics.The story centers on the Mutō family, and the siblings Ayumi and Takeshi. The four members of the Mutō...
5.5
550 votes
5.5
550 votes
The Quake
2018 · Movie · 106 min. · Norway
Direction John Andreas Andersen
Cast Kristoffer Joner · Hang Tran · Ane Dahl Torp · Jonas Hoff Oftebro
Plot In 1904 an earthquake of magnitude 5.4 on the Richter scale shook Oslo, with an epicenter in the "Oslo Graben" which runs under the Norwegian capital. There are now signs...
5.3
897 votes
5.3
897 votes
Chile 8.8 (TV)
2010 · Documentary · 41 min. · Chile
Direction Guillermo Galdós · Luis del Valle
5.3
31 votes
5.3
31 votes
Ashfall
2019 · Movie · 130 min. · South Korea
Direction Kim Byung-seo · Lee Hey-jun
Cast Lee Byung-hun · Ha Jung-woo · Jeon Hye-jin · Ma Dong-seok
Plot Stagnant since 1903, at an elevation of 9000', a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
5.2
751 votes
5.2
751 votes
Earthquake
2016 · Movie · 101 min. · Armenia
Direction Sarik Andreasyan
Cast Sebastien Sisak · Sabina Akhmedova · Konstantin Lavronenko · Mikael Aramyan
Plot Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, 1988. After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate...
5.2
43 votes
5.2
43 votes
7:19
2016 · Movie · 93 min. · Mexico
Direction Jorge Michel Grau
Cast Demian Bichir · Héctor Bonilla · Carmen Beato · Octavio Michel Grau
Plot At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico's City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting...
5.0
200 votes
5.0
200 votes
2012
2009 · Movie · 158 min. · United States
Direction Roland Emmerich
Cast John Cusack · Chiwetel Ejiofor · Amanda Peet · Oliver Platt
Plot Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that...
4.8
53K votes
4.8
53K votes