Meteor

Meteor

1979 · 107 min · EN · PG · 5.2 (170 votes)
Dir. Ronald Neame · Starring Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau, Trevor Howard · Music Laurence Rosenthal

It's five miles wide... it's coming at 30,000 m.p.h... there's no place on Earth to hide!

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After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?

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A race against time as humanity faces extinction. This 70s disaster epic blends global political tension with large-scale destruction, creating a tense, urgent spectacle of survival.

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