The Day of the Triffids (1963), On the Beach (1959), Deepwater Horizon (2016), Testament (1983), The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953), Bølgen (2015), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957), The Quake (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Disaster Film movies.
Storyline: 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 the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Plot Keywords: disaster, apocalypse, science fiction, action, adventure, family, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A large city is ordered to be completely evacuated as an army of robots, believed to be from the planet Venus, attack it. Left behind are Nora King and Frank Brooks, strangers until their chance meeting in the deserted streets. They meet a celebrating couple at a café, Vicki Harris and Jim Wilson. The quartet escape the robot patrol and take refuge in a large hotel. There, they encounter a new danger in Davis, a psychopathic killer. Venus robots or not, Davis practices his profession.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, alien invasion, b-movie, cold war era, film noir, apocalyptic, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is New Year's Eve, and over 2,000 passengers & crew are ringing in the New Year aboard the huge cruise ship 'Poseidon' when it capsizes on the open sea in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean! A small group of survivors find themselves unlikely allies in a battle for their lives. Preferring to test the odds alone, career gambler Dylan Johns ignores captain's orders to wait below for possible rescue and sets out to find his own way to safety. What begins as a solo mission soon draws others, as Dylan is followed by a desperate father searching for his daughter and her fiancée--a young couple who hours before couldn't summon the courage to tell him they were engaged and now face much graver challenges. Along the way they are joined by a single mother and her wise-beyond-his-years son, an anxious stowaway and a despondent fellow passenger who boarded the ship not sure he wanted to live but now knows he doesn't want to die. Determined to fight their way to the surface, the group sets ...
Plot Keywords: disaster, shipwreck, survival, thriller, action, adventure, escape ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Dutch East Indies, in the late 19th century. Capt. Hanson of the "Batavia Queen" is preparing to embark on a salvage expedition. His mistress, Laura, knows the location of a ship belonging to her late husband, a shipwreck concealing a cargo of rare pearls. A diver and a diving bell are aboard ship. But a government agent coerces Hanson into accepting a shipment of convicts for the ship's hold. The wreck lies dangerously close to the erupting volcano on the island of Krakatoa, where Laura's young son attends the convent school...—David Woodfield
Plot Keywords: adventure, disaster, historical, drama, volcano, survival, epic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!
Plot Keywords: disaster, volcano, action, thriller, los angeles, survival, rescue ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Flood sees Lena Headey alongside Game of Thrones co-star Iain Glen take on one of the most explosive topics in modern politics. See why critics are gripped by it and are calling it "soul scraping", a "must see", with a "clever twist in the end".
Plot Keywords: action, adventure, disaster, survival, flood, rescue, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a collision with a comet, a nearly five mile (eight kilometer) wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading toward Earth. If it hits, it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor, N.A.S.A. wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules", but soon discovers that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the U.S.S.R., which has also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Plot Keywords: disaster, science fiction, apocalypse, action, thriller, american, special effects ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After an earthquake erupts in Chile, tourist discover that a neighboring prison in the area collapsed in the event, and all surviving criminals managed to break free. Soon they learn that the most terrifying thing, more threatening that Mother Nature, is what she created.
Plot Keywords: disaster, survival, family, humanity, tragedy, rescue, suffering ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After The Poseidon Adventure (1972), in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While there are passengers still on-board waiting to be rescued, two rivalling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold, and a small amount of plutonium.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: disaster, adventure, action, thriller, shipwreck, rescue, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Cole Hillman's Arizona ranch is plagued with 'mongrel' rabbits, and he wants to employ an ecologically sound control method. As a favor to college benefactor Hillman, college president Elgin Clark calls in zoologist Roy Bennett to help. Bennett immediately begins injecting rabbits with hormones and genetically mutated blood in an effort to develop a method of disrupting rabbit reproduction. One of the test subjects escapes, resulting in a race of bloodthirsty, wolf-sized, man-, horse-, and cow-eating bunnies. Eventually the National Guard is called in for a final showdown with the terrorizing rabbits.—Jeff Hole <jeffhole@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, sci-fi, b-movie, cult film, animal attack, 1970s, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and only by the pilot's perseverance is the wife saved. Two years later, the wife takes on a corporation which wants to extend an oil pipeline across the tundra above Juneau. She is convinced that this will cause an avalanche on the town. Of course, she is rejected by the corporation executives. She recruits the pilot to try to aid her, but with no success.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: disaster, avalanche, thriller, adventure, action, survival, natural disaster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pulpy, action monster movie, inspired by Cinemaware's cult 1980s video game "It Came from the Desert". A nostalgic tribute to creature features from the 1950's, It Came From The Desert features rival motocross heroes and heroines, kegger parties in the desert, secret underground military bases, romantic insecurities...and of course giant ants.—RB
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, horror, monster, b-movie, retro, survival, desert ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mayhem and death follow when an earthquake traps a group of tourists (Eli Roth, Andrea Osvárt) in a Chilean town.
Plot Keywords: disaster, family, survival, tragedy, based on true events, china, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A monstrous tornado unleashes ravenous sharks from Washington, D.C., all the way down to Orlando, Fla.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, horror, comedy, b-movie, action, absurd, parody ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A catastrophic volcanic eruption releases ancient dragon-like creatures on the surrounding areas. Scientists believe this could start a chain reaction of volcanic eruptions giving way to a global Dragon Apocalypse.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, disaster, action, adventure, volcano, monster, survival ...
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