The 35 Best Disaster Movies

Planes fall, ships go down, natural disasters destroy cities and even subway tunnels are troubled. If the enumeration of these terrible events you have adrenaline and you can not tear yourself away from the screen, then this selection is for you. Especially for fans of tickling nerves – the best movies about disasters and cataclysms in our list, many of them are based on real events.

Moonfall

• IMDB Rating – 5.1
• Genre: Fantasy, Action
• Production: USA, China, Canada/2022
• Budget: $150,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $67,294,611
• Director: Roland Emmerich
• Starring: Patrick Wilson, Halle Berry, John Bradley, Michael Peña, Charlie Plummer, Yu Wenwen, Donald Sutherland, Aimée Ikwuakor, Caroline Bartczak, Maxime Roy.

“Moonfall” – another scenario of the destruction of our planet from director Roland Emmerich (“The Day After Tomorrow”, “Independence Day”, “2012”). This time the Earth’s satellite begins to gradually descend from orbit, looming over humanity as an omen of a monstrous catastrophe that could destroy all life.

While governments are in shock, and highbrow scientists helplessly admit that nothing can be done, the weirdo and conspiracy theorist KC Houseman, who was not even hired by NASA as a janitor, recruits a team of outsiders. A trio of desperate heroes are sent to the moon to eliminate the threat hanging over humanity.

Emmerich got the idea for the movie while filming Independence Day: Resurgence.

Only the Brave

This story is about a team of firefighters who have to face one of the biggest disasters in American history. One day, in the forest zone of Arizona after a severe drought, a fire starts, sweeping away everything in its path.

The head of the fire station, Eric Marsh, assembles a team of twenty of the toughest and bravest firefighters, who will have to enter the battle with the elements.

The biographical picture “Only the Brave” is based on real events, and is on the list of the best disaster movies.

The Finest Hours

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, History
• Production: USA/2016
• Budget: $80,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $52,099,090
• Director: Craig Gillespie
• Starring: Ben Foster, Chris Pine, Kyle Gallner, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, Rachel Brosnahan, Casey Affleck, Keiynan Lonsdale

A team of brave volunteers led by lifeguard Bernard Webber sets out to rescue the sailors of a wrecked oil tanker. In the midst of a storm, the rescuers try to swim to the crew using wooden motorboats.

The script is based on real events that took place in 1952 on the New England coast. On February 18, a violent hurricane occurred, which flooded towns along the entire east coast and destroyed ships caught in the open sea.

Deepwater Horizon

• IMDB Rating – 7.1
• Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, History
• Production: USA, Hong Kong/2016
• Budget: $110,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $121,790,373
• Director: Peter Berg
• Starring: Dylan O’Brien, Mark Wahlberg, Kate Hudson, Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez, Ethan Sapley, John Malkovich, Sue-Lynn Ansari

As they left for their three-week shift and said goodbye to their loved ones, none of those involved in those terrible events could have imagined that not everyone would return home. 11 crew members died and 17 others were injured in the spring 2010 oil rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico.

A chronicle of incredible courage and overcoming inhuman trials during one of the most powerful man-made disasters in human history.

The oil spill, which lasted 152 days, reached an incredible size and exceeded more than 75 thousand square kilometers, which was the reason to consider the disaster one of the largest in terms of negative impact on the ecological situation. An oil derrick was designed and built especially for the movie shooting.

Greenland

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Action
• Production: USA, UK/2020
• Budget: $35,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $52,300,000
• Directed by: Rick Roman Waugh
• Starring: Morena Baccarin, Gary Weeks, David Denman, Scott Glenn, Gerard Butler, Brandon Quinn, Rick Pasqualone, Scott Poythress, Claire Bronson, Alan Petruszewski, Joshua Mikel, Hayes Mercure, Nicola Lambo, Andrew Bacheloret, Randall Gonzalez, Kate Jones, Roger Dale Floyd, Madison Johnson.

The new disaster movie Greenland is director Rick Roman’s fresh take on a long-standing genre. The whole world is abuzz with news of a comet approaching Earth. But civil engineer John Garrity’s head is wracked with other thoughts – how to save his crumbling marriage.

While grocery shopping at the supermarket, he unexpectedly receives a government message that he and his family have been selected for rescue in a secret bunker. Returning home, John learns that the Clark comet has turned out to be more dangerous than scientists had assumed and could destroy most of the planet. Will the heroes have enough time to get to the closed base to save themselves from imminent doom?

Lo imposible

• IMDB Rating – 7.6
• Genre: Drama
• Production: Spain, Thailand, USA/2012
• Budget: $45,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $198,087,212
• Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
• Starring: Schenke Moehring, Samuel Joslin, Oakley Pendergast, Martha Etura, Oak Kirati, Ploy Hindachote, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin, Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor.

The plot reflects the real events that took place during the devastating tsunami in December 2004 in Indonesia. In the center of the picture is the story of Henry, Maria and their three sons, who decided to go on vacation to warm Thailand.

The family trip promised the heroes a wonderful time: incredible nature, white sand and calm ocean with clear water. But what will happen to them next will change their lives forever. A tsunami will soon flood the paradise and turn the coast into ruins.

According to the UN the huge wave caused by the earthquake killed more than three hundred thousand people.

Flight Crew 

• IMDB Rating – 7.6
• Genre: Drama, Thriller, Adventure
• Production: Russia/2016
• Budget: ₽ 650,000,000,000
• Director: Nikolai Lebedev
• Starring: Vladimir Mashkov, Sergei Gazarov, Sergei Shakurov, Elena Yakovleva, Alyona Babenko, Danila Kozlovsky, Katerina Shpitsa, Sergei Kempo, Sergei Romanovich, Agne Grudete

Talented pilot Alexei Gushchin, unwilling to cross his personal code of honor, refuses to obey a ridiculous order, because of which the road to military aviation for him remains closed forever. Gushchin begins to build his career from the very beginning and miraculously gets a chance to fly on civilian airplanes.

His commander – principled and strict Leonid Zinchenko. His colleague – unapproachable beauty Alexandra. At first Alexei’s relations with his colleagues do not go well at all, but it is with this crew that Gushchin will have to go on a feat and save the lives of hundreds of people.

The movie was such a resounding success at the Russian box office that Paramount Pictures bought the rights to show it in America.

Tunnel

• IMDB Rating – 6.9
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Production: South Korea/2016
• Worldwide Box Office: $52,444,295
• Directed by Kim Sung-hoon
• Starring: Bae Doo-na, Ha Jong-oo, Oh Dal-soo, Ye Soo-jeong, Choi Gwi-hwa, Kim Jong-soo

Lee Jong-su, who works at a car sales company, is on his way home in high spirits: he has successfully closed a deal and his daughter’s birthday party is ahead of him. All he has with him is a birthday cake, a couple of bottles of water and a phone that is more than half charged.

Suddenly, the tunnel Lee is traveling through collapses, leaving him trapped underground. Buried under tons of concrete and rock, the hero hopes that his freedom is a matter of hours, but he is very wrong.

Unstoppable

• IMDB Rating – 6.8
• Genre: Thriller, Action
• Production: USA/2010
• Budget: $100,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $167,805,466
• Director: Tony Scott
• Starring: Rosario Dawson, T.J. Miller, Jesse Shram, Kevin Dunn, Kevin Chapman, Denzel Washington, Lew Temple, Kevin Corrigan, Chris Pine, Ethan Sapley

Will Colson, a rookie machinist, who has just arrived from training school, gets his first job as part of a locomotive crew. Together with his partner – an experienced machinist Frank Barnes, they need to deliver a small train to the destination, and return back.

A trifling task threatens to turn into a real tragedy: an unmanned locomotive with toxic cargo gets in the way of the heroes. If it goes off the rails – a new chemical disaster cannot be avoided.

Aftershock

• Rating – 7.9
• Genre: Drama, History
• Production: China, Hong Kong/2010
• Budget: $25,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $100,293,273
• Directed by: Feng Xiaogang
• Starring: Xu Fan, Zhang Jingchu, Yang Lixin, Chen Daoming, Chen Jin, Li Chen, Zhang Zifeng, Jiajun Zhang.

The movie tells the story of a natural disaster, the victims of which were hundreds of thousands of people. On July 28, 1976, in the Chinese city of Tangshan, there is an earthquake of such force that from the first shock in the ruins turns about 90% of all buildings.

The destructive element was enough less than half a minute to forever go down in history as one of the largest disasters of the XX century. It was these seconds that put the mother of two children Li Yuan before a terrible choice: to save her son or her daughter. These circumstances turned into a burden of guilt for the heroine for decades to come.

The Wandering Earth

• IMDB Rating – 6.0
• Genre: Fantasy, Action, Drama
• Production: China/2019
• Budget: $50,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $699,856,699
• Directed by: Frant Gwo
• Starring: Jackie Wu, Qiu Chuxiao, Li Guangjie, Ng Man-Tat, Zhao Jinmai, Qiu Jingjing, Zhang Yichi, Yang Haoyu, Arkady Sharogradsky, Li Hongchen

The year is 2061. Scientists predict the imminent destruction of the solar system due to the Sun, which is about to turn into a red giant. To avoid imminent doom, mankind comes up with a global project called “Wandering Earth”, the purpose of which is to use plasma engines installed on all continents to shift the Earth and fly to find a new place to live.

After 12 years, the planet finds itself at the closest possible distance from Jupiter, whose gravity causes global natural disasters and jeopardizes the extinction of all life on the planet.

The plot of the movie is based on the Hugo Award-winning novel of the same name by Cixin Liu.

The Quake

• IMDB Rating – 6.2
• Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
• Production: Norway/2018
• Budget: NOK 52,100,000
• Worldwide box office: $13,837,294
• Director: Jon Andreas Andersen
• Starring: Kristoffer Joner, Eni Dahl Torp, Hang Tran, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Edith Hogenrud-Sand, Kathrine Thorborg Johansen, Ravdeep Singh Bajwa, Tina Schei, Stig R. Amdam, Ingvild Haugstad

The 1904 earthquake in Oslo caused a lot of damage. Nevertheless, none of the Norwegian city’s inhabitants were injured.

One hundred years later, the natural disaster threatens to repeat itself, only this time with even more destructive force. Experienced geologist Christian Aykord, who a few years ago managed to survive the strongest tsunami, will again have to enter into battle with a dangerous element to save his family.

“The Quake” is a sequel to the Norwegian disaster movie “The Wave”

2012

• IMDB Rating – 5.8
• Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action
• Production: USA/2009
• Budget: $200,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $769,679,473
• Director: Roland Emmerich
• Starring: Morgan Lily, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Thomas McCarthy, John Cusack, Liam James, Oliver Platt.

According to the ancient calendars of the Mayan civilization, the year 2012 will bring imminent doom to mankind. By this time all planets of the solar system will converge on one line, which will lead to the strongest natural cataclysms.

On the Earth will fall incredible force waves, turning cities into ruins, volcanic eruptions, burying all life under the hot lava and earthquakes that can split apart entire continents. In the course of recent research, it turns out that there is more truth to the predictions than people would like.

Spitak

• IMDB Rating – 5.1
• Genre: Drama
• Production: Russia, Armenia/2018
• Worldwide box office: $51,018
• Director: Alexander Kott
• Starring: Lernik Harutyunyan, Hermine Stepanyan, Alexandra Politik, Oleg Vasilkov, Alexander Kuznetsov, Martun Ghevondyan, Olivier Pagès, Josephine Japie, Konstantin Poyarkin, Dmitry Mulyar

On December 7, 1988, the largest and most destructive earthquake in Armenia’s history struck. Gor, a successful Armenian, moved to Moscow many years ago in search of a better life.

His ex-wife Gohar, who still has feelings for Gor, lives in the small town of Spitak and raises their common daughter Anush. Gore learns terrible news from the news: his hometown has become the epicenter of the strongest earthquake. The man leaves everything and goes to Armenia to find his home, his family….

“Spitak” has been nominated for the 2019 Oscars from Armenia in the Best Foreign Language Film category

Deep Impact

• IMDB Rating – 5.8
• Genre: Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Drama
• Production: USA/1998
• Budget: $75,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $349,464,664
• Directed by: Mimi Leder
• Starring: Jon Favreau, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman, Thea Leoni, James Cromwell, Elijah Wood, Maximilian Schell, Ron Eldard.

A comet capable of destroying all life is hurtling towards Earth. The President of America declares that the world catastrophe is only a year away. To avoid a collision, a group of astronauts are sent into space to blow up the comet with nuclear charges.

The plan to save mankind fails: during the explosion, the comet splits into two parts, which not only do not change their direction, but also fly to Earth at an even greater speed.

At the initial stage of the picture, the creators did not want to approve the role of the head of the country Morgan Freeman, because they believed that the African-American president – this is beyond fiction.

Geostorm

• IMDB Rating – 5.3
• Genre: Fantasy, Action, Thriller
• Production: USA, Hong Kong/2017
• Budget: $120,000,000
• Worldwide box office: $221,600,160
• Director: Dean Devlin
• Starring: Daniel Wu, Ed Harris, Andy Garcia, Gerard Butler, Abbie Cornish, Eugenio Derbez, Jim Sturgess, Alexandra Maria Lara, Amr Waqed, Edepero Oduyeh

After a series of natural disasters brought catastrophic destruction to the planet, scientists from 17 countries developed a network of orbiting climate control satellites.

But for unknown reasons, the system designed to protect earthlings now threatens to destroy them all. Every minute counts: the protagonist has to find the cause of the malfunction before a worldwide geostorm turns the continents into ruins.

In the movie the audience will be able to see the real NASA complex in New Orleans. After the movie was released, a game of the same name was released on the Apple store platform.

The Day After Tomorrow

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
• Production: USA/2004
• Budget: $125,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $542,771,772
• Directed by: Roland Emmerich
• Starring: Tamlyn Tomita, Austin Nichols, Emmy Rossum, Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jay O. Sanders, Sasha Roiz, RJ Smith, Sela Ward, Dash Mayock

Mankind is rapidly and inevitably moving towards its end: in one part of the world all living things are dying from drought, in another – huge waves are turning cities into ruins. The strongest natural disasters force a climate scientist to embark on a dangerous expedition to New York to save his son, who together with his friends is trapped in a deadly ice trap.

Before filming the movie, director and screenwriter Roland Emmerich read the science fiction book “The Coming Global Superstorm”. The shot in which the crashed airplane lies is actually a photo of a real airplane crash.

Twister

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure
• Production: USA/1996
• Budget: $92,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $494,471,524
• Directed by: Jan de Bont
• Starring: Scott Thomson, Sean Whalen, Todd Field, Jamie Gertz, Lois Smith, Cary Elwes, Alan Ruck, Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Philip Seymour Hoffman

The plot centers on a married couple of meteorologists, Joe and Bill Garding, whose marriage is falling apart before their eyes. Jo has a personal score with tornadoes – in her childhood, during a terrible hurricane, her father died.

Together with her husband, the girl is working on a method that allows to predict the occurrence of tornadoes. However, the turmoil in their relationship seems petty and insignificant in the face of the raging elements. Joe and Bill enter into a battle with a formidable and merciless natural phenomenon.

A slow motion recording of the sound produced by a camel was used as the sound of the tornado. In order to get sufficient wind power, the engine of a Boeing 707 was used in some scenes.

Tunnelen

• IMDB Rating – 6.1
• Genre: Thriller, Drama
• Production: Norway/2019
• Worldwide Box Office: $2,964,640
• Directed by: Paul Oye
• Starring: Per Egil Aske, Jan Gunnar Røise, Torbjorn Harr, Mikkel Bratt Silseth, Joistein Martinsen, Thor Christian Blakely, Silje Breivik, Ingvild Holte Bigdnes, Peter Forde, Henrik Holm, Ylva Füglegood, William Osknevad

Every time you drive into a tunnel, do you think about the fact that there is no emergency exit? In Norway, on Christmas Eve, thousands of motorists are returning home to celebrate the holiday.

Suddenly, a huge gas tanker truck has an accident in a nine-kilometer tunnel and catches fire. People are trapped in a death trap of raging flames in which they suffocate. The hostages of the disaster can only hope for themselves.

Earthquake

• IMDB Rating – 6.5
• Genre: Drama
• Production: Russia, Armenia/2016
• Budget: ₽ 200,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $3,910,254
• Director: Sarik Andreasyan
• Starring: Maria Mironova, Konstantin Lavronenko, Mikael Poghosyan, Mikael Janibekyan, Hrant Tokhatyan, Sos Janibekyan, Arsen Grigoryan, Viktor Stepanyan, Daniil Muravyev-Izotov, Tatev Hovakimyan

The movie-catastrophe tells the real story of the terrible tragedy that took place in Armenia on December 7, 1988. On that day more than 300 settlements suffered from the most powerful earthquake in the history of the country.

Some time ago, through Konstantin’s fault, Robert Melkonyan’s parents died in a car crash. Many years later, the heroes are to meet again. They find themselves in the same team, participating in the rescue of people after a devastating earthquake, but recognize each other not immediately.

The Wave

• IMDB Rating – 6.7
• Genre: Thriller, Drama
• Production: Norway, Sweden/2015
• Budget: NOK 50,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $12,975,143
• Director: Roar Uthaug
• Starring: Thomas Bo Larsen, Kristoffer Joner, Eni Dahl Torp, Fridtjov Soheim, Jonas Hoff Oftebro, Lado Hadzic, Arthur Berning, Edith Hogenrud-Sande

Experienced geologist Christian Eikjord and a team of scientists discover a fault in the rock. The geologists predict a massive collapse of the mountain massif, which will lead to a gigantic tsunami that could cause hundreds of human casualties. Christian and his family find themselves at the epicenter of the disaster.

The plot of the movie is about a real-life mountain in Norway, which according to scientists is really in constant motion and sooner or later will collapse.

San Andreas

• IMDB Rating – 6.1
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Disaster
• Production: USA/2015
• Budget: $110,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $473,990,832
• Directed by: Brad Peyton
• Starring: Hugo Johnston-Barth, Colton Haynes, Kylie Minogue, Will Yun Lee, Art Parkinson, Paul Giamatti, Archie Panjabi, Joan Griffith, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Guccino, Dwayne Johnson

A tectonic plate shift is rapidly changing the landscape of California that is causing hundreds of deaths. Rescue helicopter pilot Ray receives a call from his daughter, stuck in San Francisco in a collapsed underground parking lot inside a car. In the general chaos, the hero goes across the state to the very epicenter of the disaster to save his daughter from mortal danger.

Earthquake Center Director Thomas Jordan advised the screenwriters to make the film as authentic as possible.

Dans la brume

• IMDB Rating – 5.9
• Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Adventure
• Production: France, Canada/2018
• Worldwide box office receipts: $2,842,040
• Directed by: Daniel Roby
• Starring: Romain Duris, Olga Kurylenko, Fantine Ardouin, Michel Robin, Anne Gaylor, Heria Malatier, Réphaël Ghrenassia, Alexis Manenti, Robin Bard, Christopher Ramon

Due to a sudden earthquake, a mysterious thick fog envelops Paris, killing all life in its path. The survivors climb to the roofs of skyscrapers for fresh air.

Trapped in a death trap with no food, no electricity and no communication, they still hope for help. To save the life of their 11-year-old daughter Sara, who is suffering from a terminal illness, Mathieu and Anne must descend into the thick of the dangerous darkness.

The Perfect Storm

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Action, Drama, Melodrama, Adventure, Thriller, Disaster
• Production: USA/2000
• Budget: $140,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $328,718,434
• Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
• Starring: Allen Payne, Karen Allen, Diane Lane, William Fichtner, George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Cherry Jones, John Hawkes.

In the small port town of Gloucester, the crew of a fishing boat with Captain Billy Tyne goes on another voyage. The ship reaches the right place, collects a good catch of fish, but, unexpectedly, right in the middle of the ocean they are caught in a violent storm.

At first, the crew of sailors, who have been caught in storms many times, underestimate the scale of the catastrophe. Soon, however, before their eyes, the waters of the Atlantic rise to 30 meters high, and the wind of unprecedented force blows away everything in its path. The chances of salvation are slim to none….

The story is based on Sebastian Junger’s book of the same name about the true story of the crew of the fishing boat Andrea Gale

Poseidon

• IMDB Rating – 5.7
• Genre: Action, Thriller, Adventure
• Production: USA/2006
• Budget: $160,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $181,674,817
• Director: Wolfgang Petersen
• Starring: Stacy Ferguson, Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Mike Vogel, Andre Broger, Jimmy Bennett.

In the Oscar-nominated disaster movie, the luxury cruise ship Poseidon crashes on New Year’s Eve. All the survivors stay in the main dance hall of the ship, which has been overturned by a giant wave.

According to the captain of the ship, it is there that the passengers can keep themselves alive and wait for the help of rescuers. However, professional gambler Dylan Jones, along with several other passengers who followed him, sets out to find their way to salvation.

Into the Storm

• IMDB Rating – 5.8
• Genre: Adventure, Action, Thriller
• Production: USA/2014
• Budget: $50,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $161,502,194
• Director: Steven Quayle
• Starring: Kyle Davis, Scott Lawrence, Stephanie Koenig, Arlene Escarpeta, London Elise Moore, Matt Walsh, Nathan Kress, Jeremy Sumpter, Richard Armitage, Sarah Wayne Callies

A series of devastating and deadly tornadoes turn the town of Silverston into lifeless ruins in just one day. Most residents die in the raging storm, and meteorologists say the worst is yet to come.

According to scientists, the tornado, which is about to gain its power, will have a radius of more than three kilometers. While some are seeking shelter, others are heading out to face the elements. Some of the so-called “tornado hunters” are ready to risk their lives for the sake of a single photo.

Armageddon

• IMDB Rating – 6.7
• Genre: Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Thriller
• Production: USA/1998
• Budget: $140,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $553,709,788
• Directed by: Michael Bay
• Starring: Ben Affleck, Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Steve Buscemi, Will Patton, Liv Tyler, William Fichtner, Owen Wilson.

NASA scientists are sounding the alarm – a meteorite is flying at a great speed to Earth, after the collision with which there will be no living creatures left on the planet. Before the fateful event are just days away.

Mankind is preparing for the tragic finale of its history. Only a miracle can prevent a world catastrophe, or the combined efforts of the best of the best together with the technological power of everything that has ever been created by humans.

The movie was nominated for the Oscar-1999 in four categories, but did not win a statuette in any of them. Despite all the bloopers, inaccuracies, and criticism from experts involved in the study of outer space, Armageddon is one of the top disaster films in cinematic history.

Noah

• IMDB Rating – 5.7
• Genre: Drama, Adventure, Fantasy
• Production: USA/2014
• Budget: $125,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $359,200,044
• Director: Darren Aronofsky
• Starring: Dakota Goyo, Ray Winston, Marton Czokasz, Douglas Booth, Kevin Durand, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Russell Crowe

A new interpretation of one of the most famous biblical stories about the Great Flood. Noah, the godly father of the family, was the only man on earth who kept God’s law. It was to him that visions began to come to him that the sinful world must be destroyed.

Realizing that mankind cannot escape destruction, Noah begins to build an ark that can save him and his family from the impending heavenly punishment. However, Noah has to struggle not only with the deadly elements, but also with very real human evil.

World Trade Center

• IMDB Rating – 5.9
• Genre: Thriller, Drama, History
• Production: USA/2006
• Budget: $65,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $162,970,240
• Director: Oliver Stone
• Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, William Mapother, Nick Damici, Michael Peña, Brad William Henke, Nicolas Cage, Jay Hernandez, Nicholas Turturro, Maria Bello

After receiving information about the collision of planes with the Twin Towers, a group of police officers goes to the epicenter of events to help the victims. But at one point they themselves become trapped in one of the buildings as it collapses. John McLoughin and Will Jimeno are the only police officers to survive the collapse of the World Trade Center.

The plot centers on the true story of saving the lives of two New York and New Jersey Port Authority police officers during the horrific events of September 11, 2001.

These Final Hours

• IMDB Rating – 6.4
• Genre: Thriller, Drama, Fantasy
• Production: Australia/2013
• Budget: A$2,500,000
• Worldwide box office receipts: $360,234
• Directed by: Zach Hilditch
• Starring: Amir Arison, Claudia McLain, Ken Leung, Henry Kelemen, Mikael Nyquist, Jacinda Barrett, Addison Timlin, Scott Michael Foster, Carmen Ejogo, Anthony Edwards.

Humanity is imminently approaching its end. In 12 hours, a global cataclysm will kill all life on the planet. James, an irresponsible pro-lifer, sets off through a city plunged into chaos to spend the allotted time with his buddies and have a blast

On his way to the last party he rescues a little girl, Rose, who is trapped in her own bathtub. The girl’s only wish before the planet falls into darkness is to find her missing father.

Pompeii

• IMDB Rating – 5.5
• Genre: Action, Drama, Melodrama, Adventure, Disaster
• Production: USA, Canada, Germany, UK/2014
• Budget: $100,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $117,831,631
• Directed by: Paul W. S. Anderson
• Starring: Joe Ping, Carrie Graham, Paz Vega, Sasha Roiz, Jessica Lucas, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jared Harris, Adewale Akinnoye-Agbaje, Kiefer Sutherland, Emily Browning, Kit Harington

During the Roman suppression of a rebellion of nomadic tribes, Milo’s parents are killed, and the young man is enslaved and becomes a gladiator, risking his life for the entertainment of the imperial elite.

A chance encounter with Cassia from a noble family, promised as a wife to a Roman senator, turns Milo’s life upside down forever. The love story of two heroes from different worlds against the backdrop of the eruption of Vesuvius, which forever wiped out one of the largest cities of the Roman Empire – Pompeii.

Most of the ancient Roman city was recreated with the help of grandiose scenery. The creators of the picture preserved the entire sequence of historical events as far as possible.

Bait

• IMDB Rating – 5.2
• Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure
• Production: Australia, Singapore/2011
• Budget: A$30,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $25,830,380
• Director: Kimble Randall
• Starring: Richard Brancatisano, Daniel Willey, Alice Parkinson, Lincoln Lewis, Kariba Hain, Alex Russell, Zavier Samuel, Phoebe Tonkin, Sharni Vinson, Julian McMahon

A tsunami of unprecedented force hits the coast of Australia, sweeping away everything in its path. The city is plunged into chaos. Along with the incredibly powerful waves, bloodthirsty tiger sharks burst onto the streets.

A group of random people find themselves trapped in a supermarket with an armed masked killer. They will not only have to neutralize the criminal, but also try to save their lives from the hungry sharks that have come in search of prey.

Metro

• IMDB Rating – 6.5
• Genre: Thriller, Drama
• Production: Russia/2012
• Budget: $9,000,000
• Worldwide gross: $15,080,000
• Director: Anton Megerdichev
• Starring: Yaroslav Zhalnin, Sergei Sosnovsky, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Stanislav Duzhnikov, Elena Panova, Katerina Shpitsa, Alexei Bardukov, Anfisa Vistinghausen, Anatoly Bely, Sergei Puskepalis

Due to the subsidence of the ground from the active construction of residential buildings, a crack appears in the subway tunnel, which leads to catastrophic consequences. Passengers find themselves at the mercy of a frenzied stream of water rushing from the Moscow River into the subway.

Andrei Garin, a doctor at the city hospital, takes up the task of saving people, but he has to do it in the company of his wife’s lover… Putting aside personal grudges, anger and fear, he has to fight for his own life in order to regain his love and family.

The plot is based on the novel of the same name by Dmitry Safonov. Because of the refusal to give permission to film in the capital’s subway, the director had to shoot the movie in the Samara subway.

Volcano

• IMDB Rating – 5.5
• Genre: Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Drama
• Production: USA/1997
• Budget: $90,000,000
• Worldwide Box Office: $122,823,468
• Directed by: Mick Jackson
• Starring: Marcello Tedford, John Carroll Lynch, Michael Rispoli, John Corbett, Kate David, Jacqueline Kim, Don Cheadle, Gaby Hoffmann, Anne Hatch, Tommy Lee Jones.

During its existence, Los Angeles has experienced many natural disasters: earthquakes, fires, floods. This time, however, Los Angeles is about to come face to face with perhaps the most devastating catastrophe in its history.

The awakened volcano, spouting red-hot lava, threatens to wipe out the City of Angels. But the metropolis has a chance for salvation. In the fight against the elements enters the rescue officer, who together with his team goes to the epicenter of events.

How It Ends

• IMDB Rating – 5.0
• Genre: Fantasy, Action, Thriller, Drama, Detective
• Production: USA/2018
• Director: David M. Rosenthal
• Starring: Theo James, Katerina Graham, Kerry Bishé, Forest Whitaker, Grace Dove, Lanie McAuley, Mark O’Brien, Nancy Sorel, RJ Featherstonhoe, Josh Cruddas

The highly rated disaster movie tells the story of a married couple against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic world. Happy couple Will and Samantha are waiting for a new addition to the family. However, Will can not get along with Samantha’s father, who is angry about his daughter’s move to another city.

Clarification of relations go to the background, when the West Coast catches up with a mysterious catastrophe. The town is plunged into chaos: there is no power, flights are down and Samantha clearly needs help. Will and Tom rush to the other side of the country to save her.