Most Entertaining Disaster Movies
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These are the most entertaining, the most fun, the greatest disaster movies ever made, ranked by movie experts and film fans alike. There is a long history of these kinds of movies in cinema - never to be taken too seriously, always slightly histrionic - for moviegoers who love to watch cities leveled and populations run screaming for their lives. This list includes films that center around a natural disaster, like a storm, as well as other kinds of catastrophe that might cause an apocalypse.
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Independence Day
1996, in 8 top lists Check -
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The Day After Tomorrow
2004, in 3 top lists Check -
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Armageddon
1998, in 4 top lists Check -
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Twister
1996, in 2 top lists Check -
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Deep Impact
1998, in 2 top lists Check -
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2012
2009, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Poseidon Adventure
1972, in 4 top lists Check -
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Dante's Peak
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
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Titanic
1997, in 25 top lists Check -
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War of the Worlds
2005, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Perfect Storm
2000, in 2 top lists Check -
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Outbreak
1995, in 2 top lists Check -
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I Am Legend
2007, in 5 top lists Check -
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Volcano
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Towering Inferno
1974, in 5 top lists Check -
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1991, in 27 top lists Check -
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Cloverfield
2008, in 3 top lists Check -
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Earthquake
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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Alive
1993, in 0 top lists Check -
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San Andreas
2015, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Andromeda Strain
1971, in 3 top lists Check -
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Poseidon
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Core
2003, in 0 top lists Check -
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Knowing
2009, in 0 top lists Check -
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WALL·E
2008, in 26 top lists Check -
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The Day After
1983, in 0 top lists Check -
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Pacific Rim
2013, in 1 top list Check -
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Airport
1970, in 2 top lists Check -
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Daylight
1996, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Mist
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Stand
1994, in 1 top list Check -
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Contagion
2011, in 1 top list Check -
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Lo imposible
2012 — a.k.a. The Impossible, in 1 top list Check -
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The Omega Man
1971, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Poseidon Adventure
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
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The China Syndrome
1979, in 3 top lists Check -
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Red Dawn
1984, in 3 top lists Check -
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Jurassic Park
1993, in 23 top lists Check -
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Airplane!
1980, in 14 top lists Check -
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Mars Attacks!
1996, in 1 top list Check -
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The Cabin in the Woods
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
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Soylent Green
1973, in 3 top lists Check -
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Backdraft
1991, in 1 top list Check -
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Quarantine
2008, in 1 top list Check -
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Gravity
2013, in 12 top lists Check -
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Mad Max 2
1981 — a.k.a. The Road Warrior, in 14 top lists Check -
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Signs
2002, in 5 top lists Check -
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Air Force One
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Happening
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
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Hard Rain
1998, in 0 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 29, 2019; source