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This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre. Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature. The films typically feature large casts and multiple storylines and focus on the protagonists attempts to avert, escape, or cope with the disaster ...
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film [2] conceived, co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.
Once the disaster begins in the film, the characters are usually confronted with human weaknesses, perhaps falling in love or finding a villain to blame. The films usually feature a persevering hero or heroine ( Charlton Heston , Steve McQueen , etc.) called upon to lead the struggle against the threat; in many cases, the "evil" or "selfish ...
Adam McKay got his start with comedies like Anchorman and Step Brothers before moving into drama with movies like The Big Short and Vice. Don’t Look Up (2021), a warning about climate change ...
James Cameron's mega blockbuster (and Oscar best-picture winner) checks all the appropriate disaster-movie boxes, from soap opera to big names. (And Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were the ...
Disaster Movie is a 2008 American parody film written and directed by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer and produced by Peter Safran, Friedberg, and Seltzer. It stars Matt Lanter , Vanessa Minnillo , Gary "G Thang" Johnson, Crista Flanagan , Nicole Parker , Ike Barinholtz , Carmen Electra , Tony Cox , and Kim Kardashian in her feature film debut.
Geostorm is a 2017 American science-fiction disaster film directed, cowritten, and coproduced by Dean Devlin (in his feature directorial debut). The film stars Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Ed Harris, and Andy García.
Tidal Wave (Korean: 해운대; RR: Haeundae) is a 2009 South Korean disaster film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon and starring Sul Kyung-gu, Ha Ji-won, Park Joong-hoon and Uhm Jung-hwa. Billed as South Korea's first disaster film, [ 1 ] the film released theatrically on 22 July 2009 and received more than 11 million admissions nationwide.