The disaster here is pure nautical nightmare, and the set design sells every claustrophobic, water-logged corridor.
The plot unfolds as they struggle toevacuate the nearby children’s leper colony before the cataclysm.
Amid escalating danger, personal conflicts arise, testing the characters' courage and morality.
As the clock ticks toward disaster, they confront their pasts and find redemption through selflessness and sacrifice.
Known for seamlessly combining world-ending stakes with romance and drama,Armageddonis a foundational film in the disaster genre.
To this day, it remains one of the best movies by blockbuster director Michael Bay.
Its bleak, intense, and one of the more sobering takes on an extinction-level event.
Despite its mixed reviews,2012’sambitiously encompassing narrative deftly tacklessocioeconomic dynamics and class struggle amid global disasters.
Greenland is a 2020 thriller directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling. Starring Gerard Butler, Scott Glenn, Morena Baccarin, and Roger Dale Floyd, the film focuses on one family as they fight to survive an “extinction-level” comet that is set to strike Earth.
Starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as helicopter-rescue pilot Ray Gaines, the 2015 disaster movie San Andreas explores the catastrophic effects of a series of earthquakes caused by a shift in the real-life San Andreas Fault. Set in San Francisco, the film’s cast also includes Carla Gugino as Ray’s ex-wife Emma, Alexandra Daddario as their daughter Blake, Ioan Gruffudd as Emma’s boyfriend Daniel Riddick, and Paul Giamatti as seismologist Dr. Lawrence Hayes.
Don’t Look Up follows two astronomers (Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence) desperately trying to warn humanity about an approaching comet that they believe could wipe out all life on Earth. When the President (Meryl Streep) and her son (Jonah Hill) ignore their warnings, they embark on a media tour to enlighten the public, earning the ire of the global populace who refuse to believe in the danger. Meanwhile, an eccentric billionaire (Mark Rylance) begins to fund an emergency colonization mission to take humanity out among the stars.
Roland Emmerich’s 2012 is a disaster movie inspired by the idea that the end of the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world. Starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, and Woody Harrelson, the 2009 movie plays up the possible effects of natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and polar shifts.
