Top 20 Highly Rated Disaster Movies

1. 1. Deepwater Horizon (2016)
2. 2. Day after tomorrow (2004)
3. 3. Survive (1993)
4. 4. Geostorm (2017)
5. 5. 2012 (2009)
6. 6. Adventures of Poseidon (1972)
7. 7. Case of the brave (2017)
8. 8. Melancholy (2011)
9. 9. And the storm came (2016)
10. 10. Armageddon (1998)
11. 11. Earthquake (2010)
12. 12. Impossible (2012)
13. 13. Contagion (2011)
14. 14. The Perfect Storm (2000)
15. 15. Volcano (1997)
16. 16. K-19 (2002)
17. 17. Tornado (1996)
18. 18. 9/11 (2017)
19. 19. San Andreas Fault (2015)
20. 20. Dante's Peak (1997)
21. Things to know (Q&A)

These top 20 disaster films impress with their scope and variety. Among them are real epic tragedies, as well as more intimate stories about overcoming and surviving. Despite the common features, each plot is unique, so you can’t do without impressions!

1. Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) and his colleagues are serving a long shift on an oil platform. It soon turns out that no one has carried out an important, but very expensive test for the health of the equipment. This causes a fire and a series of explosions ...

2. Day after tomorrow (2004)

One of the most famous disaster films is the story of global warming and massive cataclysms all over the planet. Scientist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) tries in vain to warn the government of an impending disaster while his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is in an unevacuable zone.

3. Survive (1993)

A plane with a student rugby team crashes in the Andes, but thanks to the snow cover, half of the passengers miraculously survived. This is a restoration of a real-life wreck from 1972 and stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano and John Malkovich.

4. Geostorm (2017)

The Earth's climate is getting worse, and to protect against the elements, world leaders are developing the Dutchman project to artificially control the weather. The project is put into operation, although its architect Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) is opposed. And after three years, the first problems begin ...

5. 2012 (2009)

Geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chivetel Ejiofor) meets his astrophysicist friend in India. There, they discover that the core of the Earth is heating up at an abnormal rate, which threatens a worldwide catastrophe. And what about the president and the occasional science fiction writer?

6. Adventures of Poseidon (1972)

The Poseidon liner crashes in the middle of the ocean and flips upside down, killing most of the passengers. A group of survivors is trying to escape and get to the surface. Starring Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons and others.

7. Case of the brave (2017)

A team of firefighters battle the terrible wildfires in Arizona in 2013. Eric Marsh's (Josh Brolin) troop is recruited by newcomer McDonagh (Miles Teller) who has just been released from prison.

8. Melancholy (2011)

Perhaps the most atypical disaster film by Lars von Trier. The planet Melancholia is heading towards Earth, and a collision cannot be avoided. The chamber story tells how two sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) deal with the news.

9. And the storm came (2016)

Bernard Webber (Chris Pine) is in the Coast Guard and dreams of marrying Miriam (Holiday Granger), but he needs permission from his commander. But on the most important day, he is sent on a mission to rescue the crew of the Pendleton tanker, and the operation looks like a real suicide.

10. Armageddon (1998)

A meteor shower attacks the Earth and destroys part of New York. While the government believes it was a terrorist attack, an amateur astronomer has discovered a giant asteroid that is approaching the planet. And now Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck and Liv Tyler have to save humanity.

11. Earthquake (2010)

Feng Xiaogang's Chinese drama tells the story of Li Yuanni's life after the Tangshan earthquake in 1976. Because of the disaster, she loses her husband and is forced to choose which of the children to save: her youngest son or eldest daughter.

12. Impossible (2012)

The 2004 tsunami film tells the story of Henry (Ewan McGregor) and Maria (Naomi Watts). After a terrible tragedy, they, having lost each other, are forced to save themselves and save their children separately.

13. Contagion (2011)

The Earth is attacked by a deadly virus of unknown origin, which is almost impossible to track down and cure. Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Laurence Fishburne each deal with the threat in their own way.

14. The Perfect Storm (2000)

The crew of a fishing boat with Captain Billy Tyne (George Clooney) returns to their hometown of Gloucester. But soon they again go out into the ocean, where the very “perfect storm” awaits them - the real Halloween storm of 1991.

15. Volcano (1997)

Mike Rourke (Tommy Lee Jones) runs the Department of Emergency Management, so he's the one who gets called back from vacation after a strange earthquake. Mike suspects something is wrong, and it's not strange. The first thing he encounters underground is the release of hot gases.

16. K-19 (2002)

During tests of a submarine with a nuclear reactor, an accident occurs in the cooling system. Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) and aide Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson) struggle to deal with a radiation leak and internal rebellion.

17. Tornado (1996)

Jo's (Helen Hunt) father was killed by a tornado, and as an adult she is trying to develop a catastrophe prediction algorithm. Together with her husband Bill (Bill Paxton), they are working on the device "Dorothy", which should get into the heart of the tornado and take readings. It remains to find a suitable hurricane.

18. 9/11 (2017)

A group of people got stuck in the elevator of the World Trade Center tower on 9/11. A security officer (Whoopi Goldberg) tries to help them get out.

19. San Andreas Fault (2015)

Raymond Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) is piloting a fire department helicopter and is struggling with the death of his daughter and the breakup with his wife. Seismologist Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti) captures tremors and reports an upcoming earthquake in the San Andreas Fault.

20. Dante's Peak (1997)

Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) studies volcanoes and travels to a small town to study seismic conditions. There are suspicions that the dormant volcano is waking up, but the local government ignores all warnings.

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