Best Disaster Movies
Compiled 2026-10-30. All 50 films. The page was published 2025-05-28. Titanic is No. 1.

Compiled 2026-10-30. The main table copies the disaster list published on 2025-05-28 and modified on 2025-05-28, 50 films in all. No. 1 is James Cameron’s Titanic (1997). No. 50 is Ronald Neame’s Meteor (1979). The publish date, the modified date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.

The 50 films
All 50 rows follow the page. Years and directors are copied from the page.
| # | Title | Director | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 |
| 2 | Contagion | Steven Soderbergh | 2011 |
| 3 | The Wave | Roar Uthaug | 2015 |
| 4 | Deepwater Horizon | Peter Berg | 2016 |
| 5 | The Impossible | J. A. Bayona | 2012 |
| 6 | Black Sea | Kevin Macdonald | 2014 |
| 7 | Greenland | Ric Roman Waugh | 2020 |
| 8 | Twisters | Lee Isaac Chung | 2024 |
| 9 | A Night to Remember | Roy Ward Baker | 1958 |
| 10 | Threads | Mick Jackson | 1984 |
| 11 | The Day After | Nicholas Meyer | 1983 |
| 12 | The Poseidon Adventure | Ronald Neame, Irwin Allen | 1972 |
| 13 | Sharknado | Anthony C. Ferrante | 2013 |
| 14 | Airport | George Seaton | 1970 |
| 15 | The Burning Sea | John Andreas Andersen | 2021 |
| 16 | Snakes on a Plane | David R. Ellis | 2006 |
| 17 | The Towering Inferno | John Guillermin, Irwin Allen | 1974 |
| 18 | Twister | Jan de Bont | 1996 |
| 19 | The Last Voyage | Andrew L. Stone | 1960 |
| 20 | Outbreak | Wolfgang Petersen | 1995 |
| 21 | White Squall | Ridley Scott | 1996 |
| 22 | Noah's Ark | Michael Curtiz | 1928 |
| 23 | Don't Look Up | Adam McKay | 2021 |
| 24 | Volcano | Mick Jackson | 1997 |
| 25 | San Andreas | Brad Peyton | 2015 |
| 26 | The 33 | Patricia Riggen | 2015 |
| 27 | The Hurricane Heist | Rob Cohen | 2018 |
| 28 | The Perfect Storm | Wolfgang Petersen | 2000 |
| 29 | The High and the Mighty | William A. Wellman | 1954 |
| 30 | The Day After Tomorrow | Roland Emmerich | 2004 |
| 31 | Deep Impact | Mimi Leder | 1998 |
| 32 | Earthquake | Mark Robson | 1974 |
| 33 | Armageddon | Michael Bay | 1998 |
| 34 | Aftershock | Nicolás López | 2012 |
| 35 | The Cassandra Crossing | George P. Cosmatos | 1977 |
| 36 | 2012 | Roland Emmerich | 2009 |
| 37 | The Core | Jon Amiel | 2003 |
| 38 | Raise the Titanic | Jerry Jameson | 1980 |
| 39 | Hurricane | Jan Troell | 1979 |
| 40 | Moonfall | Roland Emmerich | 2022 |
| 41 | Hard Rain | Mikael Salomon | 1998 |
| 42 | Poseidon | Wolfgang Petersen | 2006 |
| 43 | The Hindenburg | Robert Wise | 1975 |
| 44 | Dante's Peak | Roger Donaldson | 1997 |
| 45 | Pompeii | Paul W.S. Anderson | 2014 |
| 46 | Daylight | Rob Cohen | 1996 |
| 47 | Into the Storm | Steven Quale | 2014 |
| 48 | Geostorm | Dean Devlin | 2017 |
| 49 | The Swarm | Irwin Allen | 1978 |
| 50 | Meteor | Ronald Neame | 1979 |
How this ranking was built
Compiled 2026-10-30. The list was published 2025-05-28 and modified 2025-05-28. Rotten Tomatoes posted it. Alex Vo is the byline. The page title is 50 Disaster Movies (San Andreas), Ranked by Tomatometer. The page runs from No. 1 to No. 50, and this table follows that order. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.
This was read from the live page on 2026-10-30, and all 50 titles are there. Director names are the Directed By lines. The page ranks disaster movies by Tomatometer, covering Certified Fresh, Fresh, and Rotten titles.
Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels where available. Chinese labels are simplified. A few common release titles were checked against usual mainland names. 2012 keeps the same title in Chinese.
Action titles: best action movies. Thrillers: best thriller movies.
| Source | Snapshot | Scope | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 Disaster Movies Ranked by Tomatometer (guide) | Published 2025-05-28, modified 2025-05-28, read 2026-10-30 | Disaster movies by Tomatometer, including Fresh and Rotten. No. 1 is Titanic, 1997, James Cameron. No. 50 is Meteor, 1979, Ronald Neame | Primary |
The picture
Rows S through D hold all 50 films, 10 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 50 films.
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