Disaster Flicks
Ever have one of those days? Well chances are it never got as bad as it did for these people. Dodging meteors, tornados, floods, earthquakes, molten lava, deadly viruses and killer bees. Peaking in the 70s with the Irwin Allen school of filmmaking ("The Poseidon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno", "The Swarm", "When Time Ran Out...", "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure"), the disaster movie still rears its head from time to time and made something of a strong comeback in the mid-90s ("Dante's Peak", "Volcano", "Daylight", "Twister", "Armageddon", "Deep Impact" and so on). Head for the hills...
Earthquake (1974)
5.8/10
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston, Barry Sullivan, Victoria Principal, Genevieve Bujo...
When the most catastrophic earthquake of all time rips through Southern California, it levels Los Angeles and sends shockwaves through the lives of al... Read more
Twister (1996)
6.3/10
Director: Jan De Bont
Starring: Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman
In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most dest... Read more
Krakatoa - East Of Java (1969)
5.5/10
Director: Bernard L Kowalski
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle
In the year 1882, a disparate group of treasure seekers races against time to locate a sunken ship loaded with pearls off the Indonesian coast before... Read more
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (Blu-Ray) (2018)
6.4/10
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: B D Wong, Geraldine Chaplin, James Cromwell, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Jason, Ted Lev...
Three years after the destruction of the Jurassic World theme park, Owen Grady and Claire Dearing return to the island of Isla Nublar to save the rema... Read more
When Worlds Collide (1951)
6.7/10
Director: Rudolph Mate
Starring: Barbara Rush, John Hoyt, Richard Deer
George Pal's science fiction classic that set the precedent for today's spectaculars. Human colonists race against time to build an escape rocket befo... Read more
Apollo 13 ( Blu-ray ) (1995)
7.6/10
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Kathleen Quinlan, Kevin Bacon, Tom Hanks
It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another routine s... Read more
Haeundae ( Tidal Wave ) (2009)
6.4/10
Director: Je-gyun Yun
Starring: Jeong-hwa Eom, Ji-won Ha, Kyung-gu Sol, Joong-Hoon Park
During the summer, the beach resort of Haeundae is packed with up to one million vacationing Koreans. On one such day, marine geologist Kim Hwi (Joong... Read more
Right at Your Door (2006)
6.2/10
Director: Chris Gorak
Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane, Tony Perez, Max Kasch, Jon Huertas
A tense and topical drama that sees L.A. reeling in the wake of a 'dirty bomb' that sends a toxic cloud throughout the city. The event becomes tragica... Read more
The Wave (2016)
7.6/10
Director: Roar Uthaug
Starring: Thomas Bo Larsen, Kristoffer Joner, Fridtjov Saheim, Ane Dahl Torp
Kristian, an experienced geologist has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move with his family, when he and his colleagues measu... Read more
World Trade Center (2006)
6/10
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maria Bello, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Stephen Dorff, Jay H...
Oliver Stone's unusually apolitical memorial to 9/11 is the true story of two New York policemen (Nic Cage and Michael Pena) sent in to find survivors... Read more