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33 Great Disaster Movies That'll Have You Running for Cover (Timeout)

"Alongside the horror genre, disaster movies are cinema's way of reflecting our deepest fears back at us. And unlike horror, where the peril can be contained or is even existential, the threat in this oeuvre is often limitless – there's nothing like the future of the entire planet hanging in the balance to have you shifting uncomfortably in your easychair. Their heyday came in the '70s where audiences were hungry for a more escapist breed of catastrophe. Our appetite for destruction has hardly waned. In putting together this list, we stuck to the natural definition of 'disasters' – earthquakes and asteroids and, uh, geostorms, rather than rampaging kaiju and invading aliens. Here are 33 classics of the genre that register 11 on the cinematic Richter Scale." - timeout.com
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Gravity (2013)
Gravity (2013)
Rotten Tomatoes®   96%
2
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
Rotten Tomatoes®   80%
3
2012 (2009)
2012 (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes®   39%
4
Titanic (1997)
Titanic (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   89%
5
Airport (1970)
Airport (1970)
Rotten Tomatoes®   73%
6
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   70%
7
Twister (1996)
Twister (1996)
Rotten Tomatoes®   61%
8
Contagion (2011)
Contagion (2011)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
9
The Perfect Storm (2000)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Rotten Tomatoes®   47%
10
Airplane! (1980)
Airplane! (1980)
Rotten Tomatoes®   97%
11
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes®   45%
12
The Wave (2015)
The Wave (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
13
A Night to Remember (1958)
A Night to Remember (1958)
Rotten Tomatoes®   100%
14
Greenland (2020)
Greenland (2020)
Rotten Tomatoes®   78%
15
San Andreas (2015)
San Andreas (2015)
Rotten Tomatoes®   48%
16
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Rotten Tomatoes®   85%
17
Outbreak (1995)
Outbreak (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes®   59%
18
Earthquake (1974)
Earthquake (1974)
Rotten Tomatoes®   48%
19
Volcano (1997)
Volcano (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   49%
20
Armageddon (1998)
Armageddon (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes®   38%
21
The Impossible (2012)
The Impossible (2012)
Rotten Tomatoes®   81%
22
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
23
Dante's Peak (1997)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes®   28%
24
Deep Impact (1998)
Deep Impact (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes®   45%
25
The Core (2003)
The Core (2003)
Rotten Tomatoes®   40%
26
Hard Rain (1998)
Hard Rain (1998)
Rotten Tomatoes®   31%
27
Unstoppable (2010)
Unstoppable (2010)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
28
Virus (1980)
Virus (1980)
29
Only the Brave (2017)
Only the Brave (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes®   87%
30
Crawl (2019)
Crawl (2019)
Rotten Tomatoes®   83%
31
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)
32
Geostorm (2017)
Geostorm (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes®   17%
33
Knowing (2009)
Knowing (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes®   34%
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