Disaster movie movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant disaster movie movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious, apocalyptic, intense and tense films and TV shows about / with disaster, catastrophe, danger, natural disaster, survival, suspense, race against time, apocalypse, death and chaos plots mostly in Action, Thriller and Adventure genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as disaster movie: The Day After Tomorrow (2004), San Andreas (2015), Greenland (2020), Deepwater Horizon (2016), Geostorm (2017), The Impossible (2012), The Wave (2015), Chernobyl (2019), The Hurricane Heist (2018), The Towering Inferno (1974).
Best films
List of disaster movie movies
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, climate change, environmental, nature, scientist, stranded, global warming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., antarctica, california ...
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243K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, absurd, intense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, survival, forces of nature, earthquake, happy ending, tsunami, father daughter relationship, daring rescue, suspense, divorce ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, usa, nevada
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122K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
exciting, scenic, apocalyptic, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, suspense, comet, panic, race against time ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
greenland, canada, atlanta georgia, kentucky, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style:
exciting, inspirational, tense, emotional, compassionate ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, courage, sea, oil rig, oil, trapped, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
california, boston, usa, louisiana
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Plot:
apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, end of the world, storm, humanity in peril, tsunami, hurricane, climate change, space, tornado, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s, year 2019
Place:
hong kong, afghanistan, orlando florida, shanghai, new york ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style:
motivational, heartbreaking, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, courage, suspense, tsunami, forces of nature, destruction, hopes, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, asia
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40K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, intense, road movie, feel good ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, landslide, tsunami, hotel, geologist, paranoid, apocalypse, dysfunctional family, suspense ...
Time:
80s
Place:
norway
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778K
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 330 min.
TV show
Story:
A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style:
dark, thought provoking, atmospheric, realistic, harsh ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
nuclear power plant, radiation, radiation poisoning, nuclear reactor, nuclear holocaust, save the day, scientist, nuclear explosion, salvation, nuclear threat, disaster, abandoned city ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, ukraine, moscow russia, europe ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
natural disaster, hurricane, disaster, tornado, tsunami, heist, robbery, suspense, evacuation, betrayal, conspiracy, criminal ...
Time:
2010s, year 1992, 90s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa, alabama
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
At the opening party of a colossal - but poorly constructed - office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
catastrophe, disaster, survival, skyscraper, rescue, firefighter, natural disaster, elevator, race against time, fire, suspense, architect ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, california
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, campy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, survival, catastrophe, chaos, national guard, suspense, infidelity, love triangle, love affair, forces of nature ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 169 min.
TV show
Story:
It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a super storm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Beautiful scientist Faith Clavell, storm chaser Tommy ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, tornado, survival, forces of nature, natural disaster, save the day, save the world, rescue, chaos, demolished city, escapades ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, san antonio texas, south dakota, florida, chicago illinois ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, entertaining, apocalyptic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, nasa, astronaut, space travel, space, save the world, race against time, suspense ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., paris france, usa, france ...
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420K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style:
exciting, intense, suspenseful, psychotronic, epic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
monster, giant monster, dinosaur, disaster, godzilla, catastrophe, mutant, creature, kaiju, giant, military, deadly creature ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, 2010s, year 2014, year 1999 ...
Place:
japan, hawaii, san francisco, tokyo, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, ecological disaster, freezing, solar eclipse, ice age, save the world, survival, forces of nature, evacuation, obsessive quest, extinction, chaos ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
tasmania, australia, usa
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103K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with ...
Style:
intense, serious, entertaining, apocalyptic, ridiculous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, end of the world, disaster, survival, apocalypse, save the world, post apocalypse, catastrophe, hacker, worldwide chaos, space, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, rome italy, washington d.c., los angeles, london
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182K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
touching, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, suspense, nasa, apocalypse, extinction, save the world, president, survival, life & death ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., virginia, tucson arizona, langley virginia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style:
scenic, exciting, inspirational, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, starvation, shipwreck, man versus nature, dangerous animal, castaway ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, middle ages, georgian era ...
Place:
new england, ecuador, pacific ocean, south america, massachusetts
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to effect the local weather ultimately threatening the whole world.
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, family in danger, weather, storm, save the day, forces of nature, chaos, heroes, soldier, race against time, save the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington state, washington d.c.
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13K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A geologist races against time to save his estranged wife and two children when a devastating earthquake strikes Oslo, Norway.
Style:
breathtaking, disturbing, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
catastrophe, earthquake, disaster, geologist, suspense, natural disaster, destruction, demolished city, kids in trouble, saving a life, distopia, teenager ...
Place:
oslo norway
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
ship, natural disaster, disaster, ocean liner, survival, catastrophe, sea, sea disaster, ocean, cruise, new year's eve, suspense ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
israel, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
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383K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, race against time, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, destruction, human existence, vestiges of humanity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 2000s, year 2009 ...
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, mount everest, british columbia, london ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The town of Silverton is in one day destroyed by the unprecedented power of a series of tornadoes. The population is at the mercy of the unpredictable and deadly cyclones, while hunters warn that the worst is yet to come. Most people find shelter, ...
Style:
stylized, talky, exciting, campy, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, escapades, nature, catastrophe, survival, weather, death, redemption, high school, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, runaway train, train crash, race against time, chase, disaster, save the day, suspense, train engineer, train wreck, determination, partners ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, north america, pittsburgh, california
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201K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, tornado, divorce, twister, hurricane, weatherman, apocalypse, nature, peril ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Los Angeles is about to be hit by a devastating earthquake, and time is running out to save the city from imminent danger.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, earthquake, industry, chaos, chaos and mayhem, survival, scientist, science, death, problem ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
airplane, disaster, air disaster, aviation, terrorism, vietnam war, hijacking, catastrophe, survival, crash, space, abduction ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vietnam, russia, asia, ussr, moscow russia
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, race against time, survival, save the world, heroes, law enforcement, escapades, police detective, chaos, journalism, forces of nature, evacuation ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disaster, space travel, save the world, survival, technology gone awry, race against time, spouse in danger, chaos, space, escapades, heroes, sun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, save the world, heroes, forces of nature, catastrophe, global warming, survival, rescue, end of the world, humanity in peril ...
Time:
21st century
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