The plot of some disaster films is based on real events, and not just the limitless imagination of filmmakers and screenwriters. Many of them leave the audience with the strongest impressions.
In our article, you can find a list of 10 disastrous movies creeping to shivering, after which you can love life again.
10. 2012 | 2009
The film was directed by Roland Emmerich and was released in 2009.
In his story, an American geologist named Adrian Helmsley is sent to India to his friend, an astrophysicist scientist. He conducts research in one of the mines and finds there a stream of neutrinos. The geologist talks about this head of the US presidential administration, since the stream can lead to global cataclysms.
At the same time, it becomes known that the heads of many states began the construction of giant ships, on which a rich population can be saved from the catastrophe.
In 2012, according to the Mayan calendar, the end of the world should happen. Residents of the Earth observe how earthquakes, explosions, go under the water of Los Angeles.
During natural disasters, many people die, including some heads of state. People try to get to the arks to be saved. Some succeed, after the flooding of the planet, survivors can see how it has changed.
9. Tornado | 1996
The film was shot in 1996 by director Jan de Bont. Twice the film was nominated for an Academy Award. According to the plot of the film, the main character - Joe has her own accounts with the tornado, since the natural element claimed the lives of her parents.
The girl began to work as a meteorologist, is developing a methodology by which it will be possible to predict the occurrence of a tornado.
Her husband, Bill, is also a scientist in this field, together they come up with a device, call it "Dorothy." It is necessary for the tornado to suck it in, this will help scientists get the necessary evidence.
In the pursuit of obtaining detailed information about the nature of the tornado, other scientists die, Bill and Joe hardly manage to survive.
8. Independence Day | 1996
The film was shot in 1996, its director was Roland Emmerich.
According to the plot of the film, an alien ship flies to Earth, the US president urges people not to worry and not to attack him. However, the intentions of the aliens are by no means peaceful; they begin to destroy large cities.
The Earth’s military hardly succeeds in capturing an alien, from whom they learn that the goal of the conquerors is simple. They want to destroy people and pump out all the natural resources from the planet, and then attack the next.
It is almost impossible to defeat the alien invaders, but the American pilot came up with the idea of approaching the spacecraft’s cannon and detonating it, the same thing is being done in other countries, destroying alien ships one after another.
7. War of the worlds | 2005
The film was shot based on the Herbert Wells novel by Stephen Spielberg in 2005. The plot was based on the author’s thoughts that people are too busy with themselves and do not notice at all that they are being watched by aliens.
The main character of the film is Ray Ferrier, he is a crane operator, his ex-wife leaves him a son and daughter for the weekend. It’s difficult for Ray to find a common language with the children, they don’t get along too well.
At night, his son Robbie steals a car and hides from home. Waking up at night and finding the absence of his son, Ray goes to look for him and notices a strange thundercloud in the sky.
Soon, giant alien machines with three legs began to appear everywhere, trying to destroy everything.
Ray and the children are forced to flee the city. With difficulty, having endured many misadventures, they manage to get to Boston, where they are waiting for Mary Ann - Ray's ex-wife.
6. The earthquake | 2016
The film was shot in 2016, its plot was based on an earthquake that occurred in 1988 in the territory of the Armenian SSR.
The film tells about the four days of the disaster, which claimed the lives of more than 25,000 people. The film shows how people feel and worry when their loved ones die.
The film concludes with episodes that are recreated from photographs of that terrible time.
5. Metro | 2013
The plot of the disaster film was based on the novel of Dmitry Safonov.
A leak occurs in the Moscow metro, the train crashes, some passengers die, and survivors get out of the wagons. The following main characters of the film remain in the survivors: Vlad Konstantinov (businessman), Andrey Garin (surgeon), his daughter Ksyusha, Galina, Mikhail (courier), Denis and Alisa.
Meanwhile, rescue operations are unfolding on the surface, but getting people out of the subway is not so simple. The atmosphere of the film is very tense, not only because a catastrophe is unfolding and people are dying, but also because it tells about the Garins family drama.
4. Clash with the abyss | 1998
The sci-fi movie was released on television in 1998. Events in it unfold in the United States.
One of the teenagers studying in the astronomy circle sees a strange comet in the telescope, he reports this to his teacher, he conducts research and realizes that in a couple of years the celestial body will collide with the Earth, which will cause a global catastrophe.
To save the planet, people are sent into space to blow up a comet. They do not succeed, and the comet, having split into parts, is again approaching the Earth.
At this time, the authorities are trying to evacuate the most valuable people (scientists, doctors, etc.). Part of the comet hits the Earth, causing a powerful tsunami, due to which people die.
In the end, the comet is still destroyed by the team of the Messiah spacecraft.
3. And the storm struck | 2016
The film is based on a real event in 1952, when an oil tanker crashed in a storm off the coast of Chatham.
The main character, Bernard Webber, is launching a rescue operation to rescue his crew from a sinking tanker.
He does not have enough seats for the rescued, the boat accommodates only 12 people, and a storm is raging around, but he still saves 32 tanker crew members.
2. The peak of Dante | 1997
The film was shot in 1997 by director Roger Donaldson.
In the story, a scientist named Harry Dalton goes to Dante's Peak to do research work. Here he discovers that a sleeping volcano can wake up, it threatens a terrible catastrophe.
However, the authorities do not listen to his fears. Only the mayor of Dante's Peak himself, Rachel Wendo, listens to the words of the scientist. However, they fail to convince residents of the town to evacuate immediately.
But then a terrible eruption begins, which takes many lives. Harry and Rachel barely manage to escape.
1. The day after tomorrow | 2004
The plot of the film tells about global warming on Earth, a sharp change in its climate. But soon, scientist Jack Hall warns of a terrible impending disaster, a new ice age, however, US authorities do not listen to him.
The air temperature begins to decline rapidly, a severe cold sets in, people die. Operations to rescue survivors are unfolding, the disaster is gradually receding.