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1980s Disaster Movies

Public list by WPS with 29 movies or TV shows/series

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Airplane!(1980)

PG
| 1h 28min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 1,992 votes)

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Virus(1980)

3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.

Runaway Train(1985)

R
| 1h 51min | Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
3.5/5 (with 229 votes)

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

The Day After(1983)

3.3/5 (with 161 votes)

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

Airplane II: The Sequel(1982)

PG
| 1h 25min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 455 votes)

A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past, Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.

Threads(1984)

3.8/5 (with 112 votes)

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

The Quiet Earth(1985)

R
| 1h 31min | Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 229 votes)

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

Miracle Mile(1988)

3.5/5 (with 95 votes)

After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour!

Steel Dawn(1987)

2.6/5 (with 44 votes)

In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.

Condominium(1980)

NR
| 1h 37min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An impending hurricane threatens to destroy the Silver Sands Condominium in Fiddler Key, Florida.

Directed by Sidney Hayers - With Barbara Eden

When Time Ran Out...(1980)

PG
| 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 27 votes)

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

Testament(1983)

PG
| 1h 30min | Drama, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 49 votes)

It is just another day in the small town of Hamlin until something disastrous happens. Suddenly, news breaks that a series of nuclear warheads has been dropped along the Eastern Seaboard and, more locally, in California. As people begin coping with the devastating aftermath of the attacks — many suffer radiation poisoning — the Wetherly family tries to survive.

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The Chain Reaction(1980)

2.8/5 (with 21 votes)

Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.

Def-Con 4(1985)

2.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the the satellite but is soon caught by evil punks who have taken power.

Starflight One(1983)

2.3/5 (with 8 votes)

Starflight One, a commercial aircraft that can whisk passengers around the globe in a matter of hours, embarks on its maiden voyage. The trip goes horribly awry, however, when the aircraft is forced out of the atmosphere and into outer space. As it is too dangerous to attempt reentry, Captain Cody Briggs, his passengers and his crew brave declining levels of oxygen while NASA scientists scramble to launch a rescue mission in a race against time.

Impulse(1984)

2.5/5 (with 17 votes)

After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior...

High Ice(1980)

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share command of an operation to rescue several stranded weekend climbers from a mountain ledge.

Air Crew(1979)

2h 24min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

Story of the lives of three Soviet pilots who are united by disaster in a small town in the mountains.

Special Bulletin(1983)

1h 43min | TV Movie, Drama
3.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to detonate a nuclear device of their own of their demand isnt met.

Directed by Edward Zwick - With Ed Flanders

Countdown to Looking Glass(1984)

1h 30min | Drama, TV Movie
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the perspective of an on-going news broadcast.

Directed by Fred Barzyk - With Scott Glenn

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac(1984)

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follows the main players throughout the day, with a lot of care taken to re-create what actually went wrong, who died, and who survived. There is a lot of actual footage from the day, as well as accurate representations of aircraft type and airline.

Kolilakkam(1981)

2h 47min | Drama, Crime

Kolilakkam followed the "lost and found" formula. Three brothers are separated in their childhood and how they reunite forms the story. Jayan, Sukumaran and M.G. Soman played the brothers, while Madhu and K. R. Vijaya, played their parents.

Directed by P. N. Sundaram - With Jayan, Madhu, Sukumaran

Fire and Rain(1990)

1h 29min | Drama, TV Movie
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.

Directed by Jerry Jameson - With Charles Haid

34th Express(1981)

1h 23min | Action, Drama
4.0/5 (with 6 votes)

Fast train N34 went exactly on schedule. The passengers were quietly getting ready for bed when the empty compartment from the outstanding cigarette lit up the curtain. Soon the wagon caught fire. Disaster is imminent. Railwaymen and passengers are working together to prevent misfortune and save hundreds of people….

Cave-In!(1980)

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are trapped deep inside the caverns of an unnamed national park, rescued briefly, and then caught in a second cave-in. This Irwin Allen mini-disaster film made in 1979 was shelved for a number of TV seasons, as was his "The Night the Bridge Fell Down", made back-to-back with this one by the same director and much of the same crew.

Directed by Georg Fenady - With Dennis Cole

St. Helens(1982)

PG
| 1h 32min | Action, Thriller, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Centers on the events leading up to the cataclysmic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington, with the story beginning on the day volcanic activity started on March 20, 1980, and ending on the day of the eruption, May 18, 1980.

Directed by Ernest Pintoff - With Art Carney, David Huffman, Cassie Yates, Albert Salmi

Fateful Sunday(1983)

1h 26min | Drama, Action
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A fire starts on the tanker which is docked in a port. A small group of a workers is trapped inside the burning ship.

The Night the Bridge Fell Down(1983)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...

Directed by Georg Fenady - With James MacArthur

Train out of schedule(1986)

1h 20min | Drama, Adventure
2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Train driver suddenly felt sick and train itself is not quite fine. Without a driver it runs unstoppable and now it's passengers are who should save a train and their own lives.

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