Disaster Movies
Kinora's catalogue lists 23 films about disaster, spanning 1974–2023. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
- 1980
Airplane!
dir. Jim Abrahams - 1993
Alive
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Frank Marshall - 2011
Contagion
Urbandir. Steven Soderbergh - 2019
Crawl
Suburbandir. Alexandre Aja - 1998
Deep Impact
Urban · Off Worlddir. Mimi Leder - 2016
Deepwater Horizon
Coastal Seadir. Peter Berg - 2021
Don't Look Up
Urbandir. Adam McKay - 2015
Everest
Mountain · Wildernessdir. Baltasar Kormákur - 1996
Independence Day
Urban · Desertdir. Roland Emmerich - 2011
Melancholia
Ruraldir. Lars von Trier - 2017
Only the Brave
Wilderness · Ruraldir. Joseph Kosinski - 2023
Society of the Snow
Mountain · Wildernessdir. J. A. Bayona - 2015
The 33
Underground · Ruraldir. Patricia Riggen - 2004
The Day After Tomorrow
Urban · Wildernessdir. Roland Emmerich - 2012
The Impossible
Coastal Seadir. J. A. Bayona - 2000
The Perfect Storm
Coastal Seadir. Wolfgang Petersen - 1974
The Towering Inferno
Urbandir. John Guillermin - 2019
The Wandering Earth
Off World · Underground · Urbandir. Frant Gwo - 2015
The Wave
Mountain · Coastal Seadir. Roar Uthaug - 1997
Titanic
Coastal Seadir. James Cameron - 2022
Triangle of Sadness
Coastal Sea · Islanddir. Ruben Östlund - 1996
Twister
Ruraldir. Jan de Bont - 2016
Your Name.
Urban · Ruraldir. Makoto Shinkai
Frequently asked
How many movies are about disaster?
Kinora's catalogue lists 23 films about disaster, spanning 1974–2023.
What are some movies about disaster?
Films about disaster in our catalogue include Airplane! (1980), Alive (1993), Contagion (2011), Crawl (2019), and Deep Impact (1998).
What is the oldest movie about disaster?
The Towering Inferno (1974) is the earliest film about disaster in our catalogue; the most recent is Society of the Snow (2023).