23 Natural Disaster Movies, Ranked
From tornadoes and tsunamis to asteroids and volcanoes, there is no shortage of movies about humans fighting Mother Nature to survive.
Just in time for Geostorm, here is our ranking of natural disaster movies in the past 25 years. We’re not talking about man-made disasters, pandemics, or monster movies that happen to feature destruction … this list is just nature at its meanest.
Grab your umbrella and your go bag, because things are about to get real.
A writer (John Cusack) must save his family from cataclysmic geological events. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Thandie Newton, and Woody Harrelson round out the cast. This epic disaster movie was one of 2009's highest-grossing films.
“Doomsday views are a knockout, but the script is a real disaster.” —Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News