These top 20 disaster films are impressive in their scope and variety. Among them are true epic tragedies, as well as more intimate stories of overcoming and surviving. Despite the similarities, each plot is unique, so you will not be able to do without impressions!
1. Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Mike Williams (Mark Wahlberg) and his colleagues are on a long shift at an oil platform. It soon turns out that no one performed an important but very expensive test for the equipment's health. This becomes the cause of a fire and a series of explosions ...
2. The day after tomorrow (2004)
One of the most famous disaster films is the story of global warming and mass cataclysms around 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 a zone that cannot be evacuated.
3. Survive (1993)
A plane carrying 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 1972 wreck 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 for artificial weather control. The project is being commissioned, although its architect Jake Lawson (Gerard Butler) is opposed. And then after three years the first problems begin ...
5. 2012 (2009)
Geologist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) meets in India with his astrophysicist friend. There they discover that the Earth's core is heating up at an abnormal rate, which threatens a worldwide catastrophe. What does the president and the occasional science fiction writer have to do with it?
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6. The Adventures of Poseidon (1972)
The Poseidon liner crashes in the middle of the ocean and rolls up keel, killing most of the passengers. A group of survivors are 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 fights dire wildfires in Arizona in 2013. Erik Marsh's (Josh Brolin) squad includes new McDonagh (Miles Teller) who just got out of jail.
8. Melancholy (2011)
Perhaps the most atypical disaster film by Lars von Trier. The planet Melancholy is heading towards Earth, and a collision is inevitable. The chamber story tells how two sisters Justin (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) relive the news.
9. And the storm burst (2016)
Bernard Webber (Chris Pine) works in the Coast Guard and dreams of marrying Miriam (Holliday Granger), but needs the commander's permission. Only 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 discovered a giant asteroid 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 1976 Tangshan earthquake. Due to the disaster, she loses her husband and is forced to choose which of the children to save: the youngest son or the eldest daughter.
12. Impossible (2012)
The 2004 film about the terrible tsunami 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. Infection (2011)
The earth is attacked by a deadly virus of unknown origin, which is almost impossible to track and cure.Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and Laurence Fishburne deal with the threat in their own way.
14. 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 same “perfect storm” awaits them - the real Halloween storm of 1991.
15. Volcano (1997)
Mike Rourke (Tommy Lee Jones) runs the Department of Emergency Situations, so he is the one who is called urgently from vacation after a strange earthquake. Mike suspects something is wrong, and not strange. The first thing he encounters underground is the release of hot gases.
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16.K-19 (2002)
During the tests of a submarine with a nuclear reactor, an accident occurs in the cooling system. Captain Alexei Vostrikov (Harrison Ford) and assistant Mikhail Polenin (Liam Neeson) are trying to cope with the radiation leak and internal rebellion.
17. Tornado (1996)
Joe's father (Helen Hunt) was killed by a tornado, and already in adulthood she is trying to develop an algorithm for predicting catastrophes. Together with her husband Bill (Bill Paxton), they are working on the Dorothy device, which is supposed to get into the very heart of the tornado and take readings. It remains to find a suitable hurricane.
18. 9/11 (2017)
A group of people were stuck in the elevator of the World Trade Center tower on September 11. A security officer (Whoopi Goldberg) tries to help them get out.
19. San Andreas Fault (2015)
Raymond Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) pilots a fire brigade helicopter and is grieving over the death of his daughter and the breakup with his wife. Seismologist Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti) records tremors and reports an impending earthquake in the San Andreas Fault.
20. Dante's Peak (1997)
Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) studies volcanoes and travels to a small town to investigate seismic conditions. There are suspicions that the dormant volcano is waking up, but the local government is ignoring all warnings.
