Disaster Movies, a list by dave Miller

7.8

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78

/18402/

76

/11981/

3.9

/755987/

88

/156/

84

/24963/

74

/32/

3.0

age 13+

Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.

61

6.3

/434121/

66

/14063/

61

/7050/

2.7

/217628/

70

/203/

46

/13698/

66

/41/

2.5

age 15+

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

54

5.5

/106974/

66

/14369/

61

/3383/

2.2

/90141/

38

/102/

47

/979/

49

/19/

3.0

age 18+

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

74

7.5

/207006/

76

/7860/

73

/3292/

3.7

/145806/

76

/178/

83

/3765/

62

/14/

age 13+

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

57

5.8

/143816/

66

/13200/

63

/5236/

2.3

/150814/

48

/291/

67

/1189/

51

/43/

2.5

age 12+

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

85

7.9

/560147/

78

/17316/

76

/7599/

4.3

/722386/

92

/253/

85

/39082/

84

/38/

4.0

age 15+

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

47

5.7

/59263/

62

/2081/

57

/1163/

2.7

/25120/

18

/33/

27

/750/

43

/22/

2.5

At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.

77

68

7.4

/6839/

73

/132/

69

/85/

3.5

/1674/

100

/5/

78

/70/

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.

50

5.7

/114806/

62

/3593/

58

/2237/

2.7

/58799/

33

/204/

43

/11377/

50

/36/

2.0

age 13+

A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for 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.

57

6.4

/88689/

65

/2164/

62

/1208/

3.0

/41922/

52

/141/

56

/2124/

52

/32/

2.0

age 15+

Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.

45

5.9

/85611/

62

/2950/

63

/1829/

2.6

/53832/

18

/114/

41

/5620/

34

/27/

1.5

age 15+

Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.

69

6.6

/45890/

66

/2576/

67

/1359/

3.2

/32132/

83

/109/

65

/245/

68

/26/

3.0

Although theorised, no one is really ready when a mountain pass above the scenic and narrow Geiranger fjord in Norway collapses and creates a tsunami over 300 feet high. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.

68

6.5

/80063/

67

/2615/

64

/1476/

3.2

/57412/

93

/45/

55

/5064/

67

/22/

3.0

age 12+

A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidentally transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks.

51

6.1

/58564/

65

/1408/

59

/910/

2.9

/14218/

30

/117/

40

/1456/

47

/28/

2.0

age 14+

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

62

6.5

/136448/

66

/4186/

63

/2185/

3.0

/93464/

72

/156/

57

/7493/

56

/31/

2.5

age 18+

Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.

61

6.0

/91375/

64

/2388/

61

/1755/

2.8

/47321/

66

/231/

60

/9945/

66

/40/

2.5

age 14+

Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

48

5.8

/186063/

63

/9126/

60

/4080/

2.5

/106691/

21

/107/

48

/7611/

37

/14/

age 18+

In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some unexpected help from an old friend. A new lead that promises a safe haven from the Undead takes them to Los Angeles, but when they arrive the city is overrun by thousands of Undead - and Alice and her comrades are about to step into a deadly trap.

62

6.5

/83629/

66

/3257/

66

/2125/

3.1

/112553/

67

/72/

60

/1561/

52

/13/

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

50

5.7

/240662/

61

/7293/

57

/4296/

2.3

/147011/

42

/201/

27

/10338/

50

/34/

2.5

age 12+

After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

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.

78

7.6

/89531/

78

/5546/

74

/1767/

3.9

/86439/

87

/163/

91

/577/

72

/35/

3.0

age 13+

Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.

57

56

6.0

/10151/

61

/342/

69

/291/

3.1

/18597/

57

/68/

54

/520/

41

/23/

An independent group of researchers called the Godzilla Prediction Network (GPN) actively track Godzilla as he makes landfall in Nemuro. Matters are further complicated when a giant meteor is discovered in the Ibaragi Prefecture. The mysterious rock begins to levitate as it's true intentions for the world and Godzilla are revealed.

78

63

7.6

/120659/

77

/4067/

74

/3512/

3.6

/144562/

91

/7/

A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily the masses can become manipulated.

65

6.6

/14317/

66

/236/

63

/171/

3.2

/4436/

50

/117/

67

/676/

59

/34/

3.5

age 18+

Three friends form a bond over the year, Johnathan is gay, Clare is straight and Bobby is neither, instead he loves the people he loves. As their lives go on there is tension and tears which culminate in a strong yet fragile friendship between the three.

65

6.4

/11956/

64

/585/

62

/232/

3.3

/8893/

79

/48/

59

/332/

57

/17/

3.0

age 17+

Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.

64

6.7

/71464/

70

/2252/

65

/1120/

3.2

/23267/

60

/171/

53

/994/

58

/35/

3.0

age 15+

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

50

6.2

/151594/

65

/4711/

61

/2383/

3.0

/63765/

41

/172/

49

/4248/

39

/30/

1.0

age 12+

In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit -- leading a clan of survivors to hunt down the King of the Dragons -- has much at stake: His mother was killed by a dragon, but his love is still alive.

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.

53

5.6

/52839/

62

/1817/

58

/980/

2.6

/20753/

35

/31/

38

/989/

52

/21/

3.0

A passenger train has been hijacked by an electronics expert and turned into an untraceable command center for a weapons satellite. He has planned to blow up Washington DC and only one man can stop him, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback.

65

6.1

/101476/

64

/7105/

63

/3290/

2.9

/187155/

84

/213/

75

/1442/

60

/32/

2.5

age 15+

When a huge hurricane hits her hometown in Florida, Haley ignores evacuation orders to look for her father. After finding him badly wounded, both are trapped by the flood. With virtually no time to escape the storm, they discover that rising water levels are the least of their problems.

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.

64

6.5

/60866/

67

/1295/

64

/830/

3.0

/13084/

41

/160/

81

/9099/

47

/32/

3.5

age 14+

Under the watchful eye of his mentor, Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. However, Jack has reached a crossroads as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted his relationship with his wife and kids.

66

6.4

/45580/

65

/1426/

61

/845/

3.1

/15329/

75

/65/

62

/914/

66

/15/

3.0

Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.

41

5.5

/211702/

59

/6910/

56

/4118/

2.3

/150110/

20

/148/

28

/8793/

32

/23/

1.5

age 11+

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

54

5.9

/82032/

62

/2673/

59

/1355/

2.8

/22152/

50

/74/

44

/8146/

51

/14/

age 18+

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.

71

7.0

/20040/

71

/894/

67

/424/

3.4

/10435/

86

/14/

69

/475/

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

49

6.2

/200480/

68

/20635/

60

/6501/

2.7

/154363/

23

/251/

36

/1002/

42

/47/

2.0

age 15+

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

56

6.8

/69802/

69

/1626/

68

/1103/

3.3

/28012/

51

/51/

75

/1674/

46

/26/

0.5

age 16+

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

63

6.6

/26954/

68

/601/

62

/387/

3.2

/10556/

57

/37/

65

/448/

53

/21/

3.0

In 1960, a hardy group of prep school students boards an old-fashioned sailing ship. With Capt. Christopher Sheldon at the helm, the oceangoing voyage is intended to teach the boys fortitude and discipline. But the youthful crew are about to get some unexpected instruction in survival when they get caught in the clutches of a white squall storm.

70

66

6.7

/9454/

69

/676/

75

/498/

3.4

/11971/

71

/27/

When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.

79

67

7.6

/3076/

74

/60/

74

/65/

3.8

/1663/

95

/40/

86

/59/

78

/15/

Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.

60

6.4

/2938/

61

/41/

61

/36/

3.2

/535/

46

/39/

60

/45/

50

/24/

3.0

age 15+

The President of the United States must deal with an international military crisis while confined to a Colorado diner during a freak snowstorm.

62

6.0

/225843/

66

/16091/

66

/6522/

2.9

/405699/

42

/351/

83

/5846/

48

/47/

3.0

age 12+

Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.

63

6.7

/74130/

73

/6337/

65

/1691/

3.1

/28403/

64

/200/

66

/769/

58

/39/

2.0

age 12+

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

82

7.6

/114949/

72

/2740/

71

/1579/

3.7

/57844/

90

/209/

83

/6639/

90

/40/

4.0

age 16+

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

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.

59

6.0

/14847/

60

/464/

58

/247/

3.1

/3682/

68

/57/

54

/1074/