Film

Flood

Name: Flood
Genre: Drama, Action, Thriller
Released: 2007
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Tom Courtenay, Joanne Whalley, David Suchet

Other titles called Flood: the 1977 film.

Disaster
Thriller
Very dark
Relentless

A disaster film about catastrophic flooding in London, built on the tension between ordinary people trying to survive and officials scrambling to prevent the unthinkable. It's earnest and propulsive rather than subtle—the kind of film that respects the stakes without winking at them. For viewers who want spectacle with a conscience, and who don't mind a bit of British stoicism in their apocalypse.

TMDb rating

2.7

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