Catastrophe Movies, a list by dave Miller

6.5

/76887/

67

/2245/

65

/1330/

3.2

/28606/

44

/159/

47

/3642/

45

/31/

age 18+

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

62

6.9

/41445/

71

/2784/

64

/968/

3.1

/15226/

49

/153/

59

/320/

55

/31/

3.0

age 12+

Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.

54

6.4

/118428/

67

/3008/

64

/1594/

3.0

/35312/

36

/131/

62

/5219/

49

/29/

1.5

age 15+

While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.

69

7.0

/440774/

69

/14650/

67

/7557/

3.4

/412552/

78

/214/

68

/59399/

64

/37/

3.0

age 14+

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

65

6.6

/20043/

66

/1222/

65

/593/

3.4

/9277/

84

/56/

65

/215/

61

/9/

2.0

What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.

66

6.6

/144496/

70

/4931/

65

/2406/

3.2

/58639/

60

/62/

56

/1892/

64

/21/

3.5

age 15+

A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.

63

6.7

/122747/

69

/4307/

66

/2198/

3.3

/92785/

55

/174/

53

/2624/

59

/36/

3.0

age 17+

As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

50

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5.0

/495/

50

/12/

52

/14/

A comet hits Ireland, and a bigger one is on its way towards the U.S. where 900 million people have to be evacuated.

44

5.7

/189503/

61

/7081/

58

/3630/

2.4

/60462/

37

/211/

48

/10780/

37

/35/

0.5

age 15+

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they must take it upon themselves to defeat an unknown enemy and protect what remains of Los Angeles.

63

6.8

/358283/

71

/14580/

67

/6491/

3.3

/186063/

46

/206/

65

/15241/

53

/33/

3.0

age 17+

A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

59

57

6.0

/11937/

62

/1337/

64

/549/

2.6

/2697/

57

/7/

61

/33/

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

47

5.8

/40897/

64

/1532/

61

/963/

2.6

/13906/

19

/31/

35

/1683/

40

/8/

After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened -- Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers.

56

7.0

/59378/

73

/3797/

72

/1957/

3.3

/37000/

29

/49/

61

/191/

33

/15/

2.0

age 17+

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.

61

51

6.4

/8386/

64

/371/

67

/362/

2.9

/3119/

52

/6/

Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

42

5.2

/198021/

63

/23931/

53

/6312/

2.1

/130182/

28

/232/

30

/3719/

32

/40/

1.5

age 12+

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

55

5.9

/52791/

61

/2190/

60

/1463/

2.6

/23778/

62

/37/

39

/1822/

age 15+

A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. Four friends race through the back roads of the American West on their way to a secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal their fates.

59

6.3

/8971/

67

/773/

65

/284/

3.0

/5257/

71

/35/

45

/16/

46

/9/

2.5

An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.

54

6.4

/786024/

65

/45831/

60

/18676/

2.5

/882795/

28

/436/

63

/26613/

44

/51/

2.5

age 13+

Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.

70

7.2

/867090/

74

/29950/

72

/16472/

3.4

/758384/

68

/213/

68

/92159/

65

/37/

3.0

age 14+

Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.

61

6.4

/5661/

67

/163/

63

/153/

3.1

/1558/

62

/46/

2.0

Inter-tribal rivalry leads to a competition to erect a huge Maoi statue in record time before Make can take part in the race to retrieve the egg of a Sooty Tern. The reward for winning this race is to rule the island for one year.

58

6.3

/222442/

65

/7570/

62

/3932/

2.9

/110135/

60

/136/

44

/7286/

56

/17/

2.5

In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.

59

58

6.5

/7254/

69

/378/

70

/305/

3.2

/5850/

29

/7/

60

/63/

Tower Sky, a luxurious building complex, has organised a lavish Christmas party for its VIP guests. However, things go awry when a fire breaks out and thousands of lives are endangered.

67

32

6.6

/3099/

62

/78/

66

/72/

3.2

/560/

80

/1/

After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.

59

5.7

/85066/

63

/2915/

58

/1542/

3.0

/75542/

56

/59/

39

/1928/

54

/21/

3.5

age 16+

Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

58

6.4

/256542/

66

/7888/

64

/5732/

3.2

/269541/

55

/87/

53

/11314/

52

/19/

2.0

age 13+

A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.

62

6.4

/72030/

67

/4387/

65

/2669/

3.0

/140338/

65

/121/

48

/1506/

56

/32/

3.0

age 6+

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

52

5.3

/4763/

61

/504/

63

/293/

2.5

/3062/

57

/23/

31

/23/

52

/5/

2.0

age 13+

Tianhuo Island is as beautiful as a paradise. It almost makes people forget that it is located in the "Ring of Fire" the world-famous Pacific Rim volcanic belt. The volcano erupts, and the fates of the people on the island are entangled.

65

38

5.8

/715/

56

/36/

65

/54/

3.2

/878/

100

/10/

50

/9/

At 7:19 a.m., on September 19th of 1985, the most destructive earthquake hit Mexico City. Inside what's left of a building, a group of survivors fight for their lives waiting for rescue.

40

5.4

/104758/

61

/11971/

55

/4523/

2.0

/106578/

16

/147/

21

/1107/

43

/32/

1.5

age 13+

A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.

50

6.5

/49051/

74

/3398/

72

/1935/

2.9

/41395/

11

/83/

61

/344/

26

/23/

1.5

age 13+

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

55

6.0

/72048/

62

/4276/

60

/2078/

2.6

/184222/

57

/7/

43

/322/

In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.

65

7.0

/53582/

69

/2189/

67

/1026/

3.3

/41871/

73

/119/

66

/346/

65

/29/

2.0

age 13+

During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.

75

7.9

/122323/

79

/1554/

80

/1396/

3.7

/42063/

86

/29/

83

/1580/

50

/7/

Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.

59

48

6.0

/4628/

60

/115/

61

/80/

3.0

/1054/

67

/6/

48

/131/

Struggling actor John Person agrees to drive a blue suitcase from Los Angeles to the small town of Baker, Calif., and hand it over to a mysterious cowboy in return for having his credit card debt of $27,000 paid off. Upon his arrival, John can't find the cowboy but receives an ominously head-shaped package he's supposed to hang onto. While waiting, John gets close to Ruthie, whose psychotic boyfriend, Randy, keeps threatening to kill him.

63

6.2

/2109/

74

/302/

62

/17/

3.1

/376/

73

/11/

36

/32/

3.0

Story of the early life of genius and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman.

44

5.5

/40483/

57

/1989/

55

/880/

2.6

/9865/

18

/60/

25

/400/

46

/21/

2.0

age 16+

On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.

72

6.6

/8899/

66

/775/

69

/272/

3.4

/27968/

100

/63/

75

/34/

73

/16/

2.5

age 15+

The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.

66

42

6.9

/1473/

71

/42/

69

/46/

3.1

/1330/

61

/44/

The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. Seeing as the soldiers beat defenceless people, mainly students, to death, the citizens are in for retaliation and form a militia.

82

7.3

/33753/

77

/2133/

76

/1104/

3.9

/163796/

93

/170/

84

/114/

82

/27/

4.0

Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.

39

5.1

/36599/

54

/1154/

57

/796/

2.6

/19272/

22

/18/

31

/579/

24

/8/

1.0

A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.

55

6.3

/31435/

65

/981/

62

/581/

3.0

/12126/

29

/34/

45

/440/

2.5

SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.

68

6.8

/352556/

68

/13219/

66

/5255/

2.9

/558574/

73

/200/

66

/41707/

78

/34/

age 18+

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

63

7.3

/359950/

74

/10794/

70

/4853/

3.3

/137855/

39

/87/

81

/18144/

33

/22/

3.0

age 16+

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

71

6.8

/15931/

71

/382/

65

/256/

3.4

/5552/

100

/15/

65

/164/

56

/11/

3.0

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!

56

6.0

/68406/

63

/1890/

59

/1101/

2.8

/24893/

49

/111/

41

/1233/

48

/29/

3.0

age 15+

Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives.

61

6.6

/187349/

69

/6160/

65

/2686/

3.2

/154234/

59

/124/

61

/3074/

45

/12/

2.5

age 16+

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

48

5.7

/79213/

63

/2650/

59

/1519/

2.8

/33449/

23

/112/

30

/1441/

34

/36/

2.5

age 10+

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.

45

6.1

/117729/

65

/3877/

61

/1749/

2.8

/39005/

13

/55/

38

/1898/

35

/21/