Airport 1970
A bomber on a plane threatens the lives of the passengers and crew during a snowstorm.
6.4/10
Battle of the Worlds 1970
A rogue planet threatens Earth, and scientists must find a way to save humanity.
Dir. Unknown · Italy
Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1970
Astronauts discover a subterranean society of mutant humans in the dystopian ape-ruled Earth.
Dir. Ted Post · United States · 6.2/10
Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970
A supercomputer takes control of nuclear weapons and threatens global destruction.
Dir. Joseph Sargent · United States · 6.9/10
Gas-s-s-s 1970
A gas leak kills everyone over 25 leaving the world to be rebuilt by the younger generation.
Dir. Robert Altman · United States · 4.3/10
Lost Flight 1970
The captain of a downed airliner must help his crew and passengers survive on a deserted jungle island in the midst of a power struggle - an adult version of "Lord of the Flies.
United States · 3.7/10
No Blade of Grass 1970
A family struggles to survive as a grass-killing virus causes global famine and societal collapse.
Dir. Cornel Wilde · United Kingdom · 5.3/10
Duel 1971
Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · United States · 7.4/10
Escape from the Planet of the Apes 1971
Three intelligent apes travel back in time to 20th-century Earth causing fear and controversy.
Dir. Don Taylor · United States · 6.4/10
Glen and Randa 1971
Two young survivors explore a post-apocalyptic world searching for a mythical city.
Dir. Jim McBride · United States · 3.8/10
The Andromeda Strain 1971
Scientists race to contain a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that causes rapid blood clotting.
Dir. Robert Wise · United States · 7/10
The Omega Man 1971
A survivor of a global pandemic battles against nocturnal mutants in a deserted Los Angeles.
Dir. Boris Sagal · United States · 6.2/10
A Distant Thunder 1972
Sequel to A Thief in the Night: those left behind after the Rapture face persecution under a totalitarian world government.
Dir. Donald W. Thompson · United States · 5.1/10
A Thief in the Night 1972
A young woman faces the aftermath of the Rapture and the beginning of the Great Tribulation.
Dir. Donald W. Thompson · United States · 5.6/10
Beware! The Blob 1972
A frozen sample of the man-eating Blob is thawed and begins consuming an American town all over again.
Carry On Abroad 1972
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff—they all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.
United Kingdom · 6.4/10
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 1972
Intelligent apes rise up against their human oppressors in a near-future society.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · United States · 6.2/10
Silent Running 1972
A botanist aboard a space freighter fights to preserve the last remnants of Earth's plant life.
Dir. Douglas Trumbull · United States · 6.4/10
Skyjacked 1972
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 and demands to be taken to Russia.
United States · 6.2/10
The Poseidon Adventure 1972
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
United States · 7.1/10 · $125 million
Battle for the Planet of the Apes 1973
In an irradiated post-nuclear-war landscape, Caesar's ape colony and a community of mutated human survivors edge toward all-out war.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · United States · 5.4/10
Genesis II 1973
A scientist wakes from suspended animation 150 years after a global catastrophe, into a fractured, tribalized world.
Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey · 5.9/10
Nihon Chinbotsu (1973 Japan) AKA Tidal Wave 1973
Soylent Green 1973
In an overpopulated future a detective investigates a murder that leads to a disturbing secret about the food supply.
Dir. Richard Fleischer · United States · 6.9/10
The Final Programme (The Last Days of Man on Earth) 1973
A scientist races a rogue collective to build a computer capable of ending -- or resetting -- human civilization.
Dir. Robert Fuest · United Kingdom · 5.4/10
Tidal Wave 1973
A coastal town in Maine faces destruction from a massive tidal wave.
Japan · 6.7/10
Earthquake 1974
Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.
United States · 6.1/10 · $80 million
Heatwave! 1974
A severe heatwave strikes Los Angeles, causing widespread chaos.
United States · 5.9/10
Houston, We've Got a Problem 1974
NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
United States · 6/10
Locusts 1974
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects devour the area's valuable crops
United States · 4.7/10
Phase IV 1974
Desert ants develop a hive-level intelligence after a cosmic event and begin coordinating against the humans studying them.
Dir. Saul Bass · 6.4/10
Planet Earth 1974
An astronaut wakes centuries after a global collapse into a society where women rule and most men are enslaved.
Dir. Marc Daniels · 5.7/10
Terror on the 40th Floor 1974
A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · United States · 4.3/10
The Island at the Top of the World 1974
A Victorian gentleman hopes to find his long-lost son, who vanished while searching for a mysterious Viking community in a volcanic valley somewhere in uncharted Arctic regions. The gentleman puts together an expedition team to go on the search, but when they reach their destination they must escape from some Viking descendants who will kill to keep their existence a secret.
Dir. Robert Stevenson · United States · 6.4/10
The Time Travelers 1974
Scientists accidentally travel to a post-apocalyptic future and try to prevent it from happening.
Dir. Unknown · United States
The Towering Inferno 1974
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
United States · 7/10 · $140 million
Where Have All The People Gone? 1974
A family searches for survivors after a strange phenomenon wipes out most of humanity.
Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey · United States · 6/10
Zardoz 1974
A savage warrior infiltrates an elite society of immortals in a post-apocalyptic world.
Dir. John Boorman · Ireland · 6/10
A Boy and His Dog 1975
A young man and his telepathic dog navigate a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of food and companionship.
Dir. L.Q. Jones · United States · 6.3/10
Airport 1975 1975
A flight attendant must pilot a 747 after it collides with a small plane.
5.7/10
Black Moon 1975
A young woman flees a surreal war between men and women and takes refuge in a farmhouse where nothing behaves as it should.
Dir. Louis Malle · 6.1/10
Bug 1975
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.
United States · 5.4/10
Space 1999 (Spazio 1999) 1975
A moonbase crew fights for survival in the aftermath of a massive explosion that shifts the moon from its orbit into space.
United Kingdom · 7.4/10
The Hindenburg 1975
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
United States · 6.3/10
The Noah 1975
A shipwrecked soldier, alone on a life raft, re-enacts the story of Noah as an allegory for surviving apocalyptic solitude.
Dir. Daniel Bourla · United Kingdom · 6.2/10
The Ultimate Warrior 1975
In a plague- and famine-ravaged future Manhattan, rival gangs fight over the last scraps of food and territory.
Dir. Robert Clouse · United States · 5.6/10
Flood! 1976
Two helicopter pilots rush aid to a small town devastated by a flood following the collapse of an aging dam.
United States · 4.9/10
Logan's Run 1976
In a future society where people are killed at age 30 a man tries to escape his fate.
Dir. Michael Anderson · United States · 6.6/10
Mayday at 40,000 Feet (Mayday at 40,000 Feet!) 1976
The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.
United States · 6.5/10
Smash-Up on Interstate 5 1976
In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively after they're involved in a 39-car pile-up on California's Interstate 5 over 4th of July weekend.
Dir. John Llewellyn Moxey · United States · 5.4/10
The Big Bus 1976
The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driver, with a reputation for eating his passengers, be able to complete the journey?
United States · 5.2/10
The Cassandra Crossing 1976
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · Germany · 6.3/10
The Late, Great Planet Earth 1976
A documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, arguing that current events fulfill biblical End Times prophecy.
Dir. Robert Amram · United States · 3.7/10
The People Who Own the Dark 1976
Guests at a remote chateau survive a nuclear war only to discover the blast has left most of the outside world permanently blind.
Dir. León Klimovsky · Spain · 5.6/10
Airport '77 1977
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
United States · 5.6/10
Breaker! Breaker! 1977
Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.
Dir. Don Hulette · United States · 4.8/10
Catastrophe 1977
A film cataloguing some of the world's largest catastrophes.
United States · 6/10
Damnation Alley 1977
Survivors of a nuclear war travel across a mutant-infested America in an armored vehicle.
Dir. Jack Smight · 5.1/10
End of the World 1977
Aliens disguised as Catholic priests infiltrate a small town while plotting to destroy Earth.
Dir. John Hayes · United States · 3.1/10
Fire! 1977
A convict firefighting team battles a massive forest fire in California.
6.1/10
Fire! 2 1977
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Dir. Alberto De Martino · Italy · 5.9/10
Holocaust 2000 1977
An industrialist building a nuclear plant in the Middle East comes to suspect his own son is the Antichrist of biblical prophecy.
Dir. Alberto De Martino · United Kingdom · 5.5/10
Rollercoaster 1977
A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.
United States · 6/10
Shimana Periye (সীমানা পেরিয়ে) 1977
A disastrous cyclone strands a rich girl and a poor man on a secluded island.
Bangladesh · 0.5/10
SST: Death Flight 1977
On its maiden flight, the crew of America's first supersonic transport learns that it may not be able to land, due to an act of sabotage and a deadly flu onboard.
Dir. David Lowell Rich · United States · 5.3/10
The Last Wave 1977
Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of Aboriginal people charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. Burton, plagued by apocalyptic visions of water, slowly realizes danger may come from his own involvement with the Aboriginal people and their prophecies.
Dir. Peter Weir · Australia · 6.7/10
Wizards 1977
Millennia after nuclear war mutates the survivors, a wizard and his tyrannical brother wage war using magic and salvaged technology.
Dir. Ralph Bakshi · United States · 6.3/10
World Without End 1977
Astronauts accidentally travel to a future Earth devastated by nuclear war.
United States
Dawn of the Dead 1978
A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall during a zombie apocalypse.
Dir. George A. Romero · United States · 7.5/10
Dziadowski's Blues Non Camera, ie Legs Forward (Dziadowski blues non camera, czyli nogami do przodu) 1978
An animated film made without the use of a camera using the technique of drawing and painting directly on a film strip, illustrating a grandfather's ballad, the protagonist of which seeks an explanation for the cruel phenomena of the world around him. Rockets thrown to the ground and bombs exploding, a car falling off a cliff, a driver driving a man on the street or a policeman firing a gun at an opponent - images of this type of catastrophic behavior are intertwined with the recurring image of a man running somewhere.
Poland · 9/10
Gray Lady Down 1978
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
United States · 6.4/10
Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978
Alien pods gradually replace humans with emotionless duplicates in San Francisco.
Dir. Philip Kaufman · United States · 7.2/10
Plague 1978
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
Dir. Felipe Cazals · Mexico · 5.1/10
The Ghost of Flight 401 1978
An aircraft crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing 103 passengers. After the wreckage is removed, salvageable parts from the plane are used to repair other aircraft. Soon passengers and crew on those aircraft report seeing what they believe to be the ghost of the wrecked airplane's flight engineer.
United States · 5.7/10
The Swarm 1978
Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains spectacular special effects, including a train crash caused by the eponymous swarm.
United States · 4.9/10
The Year of the Plague (El año de la peste) 1978
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
Mexico · 5.1/10
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 1979
After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are still on board waiting to be rescued, two rivaling salvage parties enter the ship on search for money, gold and a small amount of plutonium.
United States · 5.1/10
City on Fire 1979
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Canada · 5/10
Cyclone 1979
An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve to death in the hot sun with barely any food or clean water. With no place to turn, the boat survivors resort to cannibalism to stay alive...that is ..until the rescue planes come to pick them up and the man eating sharks decide its time to eat as well.
Italy · 5/10
Disaster on the Coastliner 1979
A deranged engineer, bent on revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, sets two passenger trains on a collision course, and con-man William Shatner puts his life on the line to ward off the crash.
United States · 5.3/10
Hurricane 1979
A small town in Hawaii faces destruction from a powerful hurricane.
United States · 4.7/10
Mad Max 1979
In a dystopian Australia a highway patrolman seeks revenge against a violent motorcycle gang.
Dir. Unknown · Australia · 7.6/10
Meteor 1979
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
United States · 5.1/10
Quintet 1979
In a world entering a new ice age survivors play a mysterious and deadly game for survival.
Dir. Robert Altman · United States · 5.1/10
Ravagers 1979
Survivors of a devastating war roam a lawless wasteland, hunted by marauders, in search of a rumored safe haven.
Dir. Richard Compton · United States · 4.6/10
S.O.S. Titanic 1979
A dramatization of the Titanic disaster focusing on different passenger classes.
United Kingdom · 5.9/10
Stalker 1979
A guide leads two men through a mysterious and dangerous area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky · Soviet Union · 8.2/10
The Concorde ... Airport '79 1979
Concorde pilots must save the passengers when the plane is attacked by a wealthy industrialist.
United States · 4.7/10
The Ominous House (Surja Dighal Bari) 1979
A poor family returns to their village from Dhaka after The Great Bengal Femine 1943. This movie centers on their struggling life during the World War II period.
Bangladesh · 6.5/10
The Shape of Things to Come 1979
Colonists on the Moon must save Earth from a robot dictatorship in this loose adaptation of H.G. Wells' work.
Dir. George McCowan · Canada · 4/10