Continuing on with our Quarantine activities, this week we bring you Disaster Movies! From zombies to natural disasters, and engineering failures to viruses, we have you covered on this list. While there is a good amount of movies on here to simply entertain you while you kill a couple hours, there are also some tearjerkers, comedies, and critically acclaimed movies. In no particular order, here are some of our favorites!
Zombie Movies
28 Days Later
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Streaming on Hulu
Train to Busan
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
Streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime
Shaun of the Dead
A man’s uneventful life is disrupted by the zombie apocalypse.
Streaming on Hulu or Starz
Zombieland
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.
Streaming on Hulu and Amazon Prime
Little Monsters
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
Streaming on Hulu
Natural Disaster Movies
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Streaming on Hulu and Starz
Day After Tomorrow
Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Streaming on Hulu and HBO
Twister
Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
Rent on Amazon Prime
The Impossible
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
Streaming on Hulu or Showtime
Engineering Disaster Movies
Titanic
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Available to rent on Amazon
Towering Inferno
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Streaming on Hulu or Cinemax
Airplane!
A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.
Streaming on Tubi
Viral Disaster Movies
Outbreak
Army doctors struggle to find a cure for a deadly virus spreading throughout a California town that was brought to America by an African monkey.
Streaming on Netflix
Contagion
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Streaming on Hulu or Cinemax
Flu
Chaos ensues when a lethal, airborne virus infects the population of a South Korean city less than 20 kilometers from Seoul.
Streaming on Amazon Prime
Hopefully you enjoy some of the movies on this list! We will be back next week with another great list to help you stay entertained at home. If you have something specific you’d like us to cover let us know! You can also check out all the other lists we have do so far Here. Have a great day!