ScreenHead's "Disaster Zone" Watchlist Suggestions



Watchlist Suggestions for those who love disaster movies!
All genres, all subjects dealing with disasters and surviving them.
Both Stand alone films and film sets.

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Stand-Alone Disaster Movies

13 Minutes (2021)
500 Mph Storm (2013)
2020 aka Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster (2017)

Ablaze (2001)
After the Shock (1990)
Aftershock (2008)
Aftershock (2010)
Aftershock (2012)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) ~ miniseries
Age of Ice (2014)
Air Collision (2012)
Airline Disaster (2010)
Airplane vs. Volcano (2014)
Airspeed (1998)
Alien Tornado aka Tornado Warning (2012)
Alive (1993)
Annihilation Earth (2009)
Apocalypse of Ice (2020)
Arctic Apocalypse (2019)
Armageddon (1998)
Ashfall (2019)
Asteroid (1997)
Asteroid-a-geddon (2020)
Asteroid vs. Earth (2014)
Atomic Train (1999) ~ miniseries
Atomic Twister (2002)
Avalanche (1978)

Ba'al: The Storm God (2008)
Black Hole (2006)

CAT. 8 (2013) ~ miniseries
Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004) ~ miniseries
Category 7: The End of the World (2005) ~ miniseries
Christmas Twister (2012)
City on Fire (1979)
Contagion (2011)
Control (1987)
Crack in the World (1965)
Cyclone (1978)

Dante's Inferno (1935)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Daylight (1996)
Deep Freeze (2001)
Deep Impact (1998)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Deluge (1933)
Descent (2005)
Devil Winds (2003)
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York (2006)
Doomsday (2008)
Doomsday Prophecy (2011)
Dystopia aka Mad World (2018)

Earthfall (2015)
Earthquake (1974)
Earthquake in New York (1998)
End of the World (2013)
End of the World (2018)

Faultline (2004)
Fire (1977)
Fire and Rain (1989)
Fire Twister (2015)
Firestorm (1998)
Flood (2007)
Flood! (1976)
Flood: A River's Rampage (1997)
Force of Impact aka Deadly Skies (2006)
Friend of the World (2020)
Fukushima 50 (2020)

Geo-Disaster (2017)
Geostorm (2017)
Global Meltdown (2017)
Gray Lady Down (1978)

Hard Rain (1998)
Heat Wave aka City on Fire (2009)
Heatwave! (1974)
Hours (2013)

Impact (2009) ~ miniseries
In Old Chicago (1937)
Inferno aka California Firestorm (2002)
Into the Storm (2014)

Jet Stream (2013)

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)
Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Krakatoa, East of Java (1969)

Ladder 49 (2004)
Lava Storm aka Magma (2008)

Magma: Volcanic Disaster (2006)
Mega Lightning (2023)
Megafault (2009)
Metal Tornado (2011)
Meteor (1979)
Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Meteor Storm (2010)
Miami Magma aka Swamp Volcano (2011)
Miracle Mile (1988)
Moon Crash (2022)
Moonfall (2022)

Night of the Twisters (1996)
Nuclear Hurricane (2007)
NYC: Tornado Terror (2008)

Oceans Rising (2017)
On Hostile Ground (2000)
On the Beach (1959)

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Path of Destruction (2005)
Perfect Sense (2011)
Plague (1979)
Polar Opposites aka Ground Zero: The Deadly Shift (2008)
Polar Storm (2009)
Pompeii (2014)
Post Impact (2004)

Red Skies of Montana (1952)

San Francisco (1936)
Seattle Superstorm (2012)
Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Shockwaves (2022)
Skyscraper (2018)
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Snakes on a Plane (2006)
Snowmageddon (2011)
Solar Strike aka Solar Attack (2006)
Solar Flare aka Solar Destruction (2008)
St. Helens (1981)
Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)
Storm Cell (2008)
Storm Seekers (2009)
Super Cyclone (2012)
Super Eruption (2011)
Supervolcano (2005)
Storm (1999)
Survive (1976)

The Apocalypse (2007)
The Big One: Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
The Burning Sea (2021)
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
The Core (2003)
The Day After (1983)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Doomsday Flight (1966)
The Finest Hours (2016)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
The Impossible (2012)
The Last Voyage (1960)
The Night the World Exploded (1957)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
The Rescue of Flight 232 aka Crash Landing (1992)
The Tower (2012)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Tidal Wave aka Haeundae (2009)
Tornado! (1996)
Tornado Warning (2002)
Trapped (2001)
Turbulence (1997)
Twister (1996)
Tycus (1998)

Volcano: Fire on the Mountain (1997)
Volcano (1997)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

Warning (2021)
Warning Sign (1985)
When Time Ran Out (1980)
Without Warning (1994)
World Trade Center (2006)

Zero Hour! (1957)
Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse (2014)



Disaster Movie Sets

10.5 Set
10.0: Earthquake (2014) j jones
10.5 P1: Adiós California (2004) f ward k delaney
10.5 P2: Apocolypse (2006) k delaney d cain

100 Degrees Below Zero Set
100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)
Apocalypse Pompeii (2014)

2012 Set
2012: Doomsday (2008)
2012 (2009) j cusack t newton c ejiofor
2012: Supernova (2009)
2012: Ice Age (2011)


Airport Set
Airport (1970) b lancaster d martin g kennedy
Airport 1975 (1974) c heston k black g kennedy
Airport '77 (1977) j lemmon l grant j cotten
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979) a delon s blakely r wagner

Andromeda Strain Set
Andromeda Strain (1971) j olsen a hill d wayne
Andromeda Strain (2008) ~ miniseries b bratt c miller

Backdraft Set
Backdraft 1: Rookie Brother (1991) k russell w baldwin r deniro
Backdraft 2: Arms Dealer (2019) w baldwin d sutherland


Flight of the Phoenix Set
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) j stewart r attenborough p finch
Flight of the Phoenix (2004) d quaid m otto r ribisi


Greenland Set
Greenland: Apocalypse (2020) g butler
Greenland: Migration (TBA) g butler

Hindenburg Set
The Hindenburg (1975) gc scott a bancroft w atherton
Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2011) ~ miniseries h jaenicke m simonischek ll smith

Hurricane Set
The Hurricane (1937) d lamour j hall m astor
Hurricane (1979) j robards m farrow mv sydow

Killer Wave Set
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997) c bernsen j phillips g henry
Killer Wave (2007) ~ miniseries a macfadyen k vanasse lp dandenault


Nature Unleashed Set
Nature Unleashed: Avalanche (2004)
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)
Nature Unleashed: Fire (2004)
Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005)
Nature Unleashed: Volcano (2005)

Norwegian Disaster Set
The Wave aka Bølgen (2015) k joner ad torp jh oftebro
The Quake aka Skjelvet (2018) k joner ad torp e haagenrud-sande

Poseidon Adventure Set
PA1: The Poseidon Adventure (1972) g hackman e borgnine s winters
PA2: Beyond The Poseidon Adventure (1979) m caine s field t savalas
The Poseidon Adventure (2005) ~ miniseries a baldwin r hauer s guttenberg
Poseidon (2006) r dreyfuss k russell e rossum


San Andreas Set
San Andreas 1 (2015) d johnson e gugino a dadario
San Andreas 2 (TBA) d johnson p giamatti

San Andreas Quake Set
San Andreas Quake (2015)
San Andreas Mega Quake (2019)

Sinking of Japan Set
Submersion of Japan aka Tidal Wave (1973) l greene k kobayashi r hopkins
Doomsday: The Sinking of Japan (2006) t kusanagi k shibasaki e toyokawa

The Rains of Ranchipur Set
The Rains Came (1939) m loy t power g brent
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) l turner r burton f macmurray

The Stand Set
The Stand 1: The Plague (1994) g sinise m ringwald r dee
The Stand 2: The Dreams (1994) g sinise m ringwald r dee
The Stand 3: The Betrayal (1994) g sinise m ringwald r dee
The Stand 4: The Stand (1994) g sinise m ringwald r dee


Titanic Set
A Night To Remember (1958) k more r allen r ayres
Britannic (2000) e atterton
Dr. Goebbel's Titanic (1943) [german] s schmitz
Raise The Titanic (1980) j robards
Saved from the Titanic (1912) ~ silent d gibson
Titanic (1953) c webb b stanwyck r wagner
Titanic (1996) ~ miniseries gc scott c zetajones p gallagher
Titanic (1997) l dicaprio k winslet b zane
Titanic 2 Return Of Jack (2023) l dicaprio
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) d janssen, i holm

Titanic II Set
Titanic II (2010)
Titanic 666 (2022)

Virus Set
Virus (1995) n sheridan w devane s caffery
Outbreak (1995) d hoffman r ruso m freeman
Virus (1980) m kusakari g ford c connors

War of the Worlds Set
The War of the Worlds (1953) g barry a robinson l tremayne
War of the Worlds (2005) t cruise d fanning t robbins

H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds Set
War of the Worlds 1: Herbert's Quest (2005) ct howell r giles a lauer
War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008) ct howell c reid k little
War of the Worlds: Annihilation (2021) w baldwin a thompson n gugliemi
2021: War of the Worlds aka Alien Conquest (2021) t sizemore e killian a jensen

When Worlds Collide Set
When Worlds Collide (1951) r derr b rush p hansen
When Worlds Collide (TBA) in development

I came across a channel on YouTube that has all Mayday episodes, so (near) airplane disasters/crashes.
I'd never heard of that program, but quite fascinating and often shocking to watch. Makes me wonder how safe flying really is. It's beginning to look like it being more potluck if all goes well.

I believe the channel is called Wonder.

I love disaster movies btw, unfortunately most aren't even B movies. Now I'm not too fussy but if it's really bad it's too much even for me.

Two good ones, Norwegian movies, a sequel:

- The Wave (2008) - 6,6 IMDB rating
The Wave is based on the true story of a huge tsunami that hit Norway 80 years ago. The disaster was triggered when a mountainside collapsed, causing huge damage and casualties in a number of villages along Norway's fjords. Geologists believe Norway may be overdue for another such natural catastrophe.


- The Quake (2018) - 6,2 IMDB rating
Yet this movie is also based on a real-life scenario. Just as The Wave was based on a very real threat of an unstable mountain crashing into the fjord causing a tidal wave, The Quake take inspiration from the 1904 Oslo earthquake.

Also known as Air Crash Investigation.
Another similar is Seconds From Disaster which investigates disasters but is not limited to air disasters.


Really good ones!

There are also two movies not currently listed focusing on the recent cave rescue of the soccer team done by Ron Howard. Its called Thirteen Lives (2022) Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton.

The 33 (2015) is about when a gold and copper mine collapses and it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days. Stars: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche.

I agree, many disaster movies are "Bad" movies but there are a few "Bad" ones which are entertaining.

A few I liked (Not necessarily "Bad" movies):

Atomic Train (1999) ~ miniseries
Atomic Twister (2002)
Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) ~ miniseries

Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004) ~ miniseries
Category 7: The End of the World (2005) ~ miniseries
CAT. 8 (2013) ~ miniseries

Dante's Peak (1997)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)

Firestorm (1998)

Gray Lady Down (1978)

Hours (2013)

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Ladder 49 (2004)

Meteor (1979)

Night of the Twisters (1996)

Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Supervolcano (2005)

The Core (2003)
The Day After (1983)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Finest Hours (2016)
The Towering Inferno (1974)
Tidal Wave aka Haeundae (2009)
Twister (1996)

10.5 Set
10.0: Earthquake (2014) j jones
10.5 P1: Adiós California (2004) f ward k delaney
10.5 P2: Apocolypse (2006) k delaney d cain

Backdraft Set
Backdraft 1: Rookie Brother (1991) k russell w baldwin r deniro
Backdraft 2: Arms Dealer (2019) w baldwin d sutherland

Virus Set
Virus (1995) n sheridan w devane s caffery
Outbreak (1995) d hoffman r ruso m freeman
Virus (1980) m kusakari g ford c connors

Noah is a very good movie!
With Russell Crow - 2014
Might not be a typical disaster movie, but nonetheless it is one.