Last Breath (2018), Fail-Safe (1964), Oxygen (1999), Salyut 7 (2017), Sunshine (2007), Operation Disaster (1951), The Burning Train (1980), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Technical Failure movies.
Storyline: Stranded at the bottom of the North Sea with only five minutes of oxygen remaining and no chance of rescue, a diver struggles to survive.
Plot Keywords: documentary, thriller, true story, deep sea, diving, survival, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A series of human and computer errors sends a squadron of American 'Vindicator' bombers to nuke Moscow. The President, in order to convince the Soviets that this is a mistake, orders the Strategic Air Command to help the Soviets stop them.
Plot Keywords: cold war, nuclear war, military, political thriller, crisis, soviet union, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A police detective (Maura Tierney) has 24 hours to find a man (Adrien Brody) who has kidnapped a tycoon's wife and buried her alive.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, space, disaster, survival, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The year is 1985. The unmanned Soviet space station Salyut 7, which is in low Earth orbit, suddenly stops responding to commands from the Control Center. If the space station - the pride of Soviet space engineering - falls from the sky, not only will it damage the image of the country, it could also be a disaster bringing untold casualties. To investigate the failure and prevent the catastrophe, people must be sent to the station. Yet no one in history has ever attempted to dock an uncontrolled vehicle in space. To this day, this mission is considered to be the most technically challenging in the history of space exploration.—CTB.ru
Plot Keywords: space, astronaut, soviet union, rescue mission, true story, cold war, heroism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: 50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind's last hope.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, space, disaster, psychological thriller, survival, astronauts, mission ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Plot Keywords: war film, action film, drama, british film, black and white film, 1950s, based on true events ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Vinod Verma always dreams of creating the perfect and fastest train running in India. He will find his dream shaping up when he became an employee of Indian Railways and his plan is being executed; it took him years of hard work and dedication, in-and-out at night and day. After six years the train is finally completed and is called, 'Super Express'. The inaugural of the train will be from Delhi to Bombay with a record speed of 14 hours. In view of the progress Vinod had made during the past six years he had developed many enemies - one of whom is the son of the chair of the railway board Randhir who had a bomb planted in the train risking the lives of about 500 passengers.—gavin (racktoo@hotmail.com)
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, thriller, disaster, drama, indian cinema, bollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of USSR's first nuclear ballistic submarine, which suffered a malfunction in its nuclear reactor on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic in 1961. The submarine's crew, led by the unyielding Captain Alexi Vostrikov, races against time to prevent a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster which threatens not only the lives of his crew, but has the potential to ignite a world war between the super powers.
Plot Keywords: war, history, submarine, cold war, soviet union, nuclear weapons, crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This precursor to later "epic" 70's disaster films illustrates 12 hours in the lives of the personnel and passengers at the "Lincoln Airport." Endless problems, professional and personal, are thrown at the various personnel responsible for the safe and proper administration of air traffic, airline management and aviation at a major US airport. Take one severe snowstorm, add multiple schedules gone awry, one elderly Trans Global Airlines stowaway, shortages, an aging, meretricious pilot, unreasonable, peevish spouses, manpower issues, fuel problems, frozen runways and equipment malfunctions and you get just a sample of the obstacles faced by weary, disgruntled personnel and passengers at the Lincoln Airport. Toss in one long-suffering pilot's wife, several stubborn men, office politics and romance and one passenger with a bomb and you have the film "Airport" from 1970.
Plot Keywords: disaster, thriller, action, drama, suspense, adventure, aviation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Years have passed since Ted Striker heroically saved many lives by avoiding a plane crash. Working as a test pilot for a new Lunar Shuttle, he gets innocently sent into a mental ward after a crash of the badly constructed, computer-navigated spaceship. When he hears that the exactly same type of shuttle is scheduled for a moon flight soon, he breaks out to hinder the launch. Aboard, Ted finds his ex-ex Elaine Dickinson working as stewardess again and her fiancé Simon, a member of the committee that wants the Mayflower I to be launched. In flight, the ship's computer ROK 9000 takes control, killing the crew. Ted and Elaine manage to switch it off, and now it is up to Ted again to save the passengers' lives - if there only wouldn't be these flashbacks to the war and these people who know Ted and have no faith in his abilities at all.
Plot Keywords: comedy, parody, science fiction, disaster, sequel, slapstick, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than ten hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, mystery, film noir, british film, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a hurricane headed towards the launch site and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts capsule.—KC Hunt <khunt@eng.morgan.edu>
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, space, astronauts, survival, rescue mission, disaster, suspense ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The ultimate disaster movie parody. A nuclear powered bus is going non-stop from New York City, New York to Denver, Colorado, and is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. When the driver is injured, a washed up, down on his luck, but used to be great type, who as it happens, used to be engaged to the inventor's daughter is brought in to drive the giant bus which includes a one lane swimming pool and a one lane bowling alley.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: comedy, disaster, action, adventure, road movie, satire, parody ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awake to find earth has suffered an extinction level event.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, space, disaster, survival, psychological, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Aboard the R/V Triton, the Project Neptune team is doing oceanographic research. Director Andrews is trying to keep the research going in spite of opposition from Foundation Head Sheppard. Below on the ocean floor, in the Sealab, the team led by Hamilton is about to return to the surface when the Sealab is ripped loose from it's moorings and sent careening into a trench. Trapped too deep for divers, the only chance is rescue by a new US Navy mini-sub, piloted by the arrogant Cdr Blake USN. Blake, Chief Diver MacKay, Diver Cousins & Dr. Jansen (Hamilton's fiance) dive in the mini sub to attempt the rescue of the trapped Hamilton & crew.—Robb Mavins <rmavins@mb.sympatico.ca>
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, adventure, disaster, submarine, rescue mission, marine life, scientists ...
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