Genre: Disaster
Disaster stories drop ordinary people into catastrophe — the quake, the storm, the wave — and find their drama in survival and what it costs.
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Earthquake (1974)
Earthquake is the second-best disaster film of 1974. The Towering Inferno is the best. Both films defined what the disaster genre would be for the next... -
The Towering Inferno (1974)
The Towering Inferno is the best disaster film of the 1970s and the model against which every subsequent disaster film has been measured. John Guillermin... -
The Impossible (2012)
The Impossible is the best disaster film of the twenty-first century. J.A. Bayona directed it. Naomi Watts plays Maria Bennett, a doctor on Christmas... -
San Andreas (2015)
San Andreas is a Dwayne Johnson disaster movie. That sentence describes most of what it is. Brad Peyton directed it. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a Los... -
Poseidon Adventure (2006)— Review
Wolfgang Petersen modernized the 1972 disaster classic. Same story, leaner runtime, no religion, upgraded effects. Poseidon (2006) reviewed at 7/10. -
Poseidon Adventure (1972)— Review
Gene Hackman, Shelley Winters, and the founding document of 1970s disaster cinema. The Poseidon Adventure reviewed at 7/10 after a dozen viewings.