Movies like 2012
If 2012's mix of race against time, maya civilization and civilization stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what 2012's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Day After Tomorrow
2004 · Directed by Roland Emmerich · 124 min6.6
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Roland Emmerich · Shares: end of the world, disaster, disaster movie · Also science fiction and adventure · From the same decade (2000s)
After paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by UN officials when presenting his environmental concerns about the beginning of a new Ice Age, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off…
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Independence Day
1996 · Directed by Roland Emmerich · 145 min6.9
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Roland Emmerich · Shares: disaster, dramatic · Also action and adventure
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has…
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Armageddon
1998 · Directed by Michael Bay · 151 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: race against time, natural disaster, end of the world · Also action and science fiction
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb.
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Underwater
2020 · Directed by William Eubank · 95 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: earthquake, disaster · Also science fiction and action
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
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Deep Impact
1998 · Directed by Mimi Leder · 122 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: natural disaster, disaster movie · Also action and science fiction
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world.
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The Fifth Element
1997 · Directed by Luc Besson · 126 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: race against time, end of the world · Also science fiction and action
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
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World War Z
2013 · Directed by Marc Forster · 116 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: end of the world, apocalypse · Also action and science fiction
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies.
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Your Name.
2016 · Directed by Makoto Shinkai · 106 min8.5
Why you'll like itShares: race against time, natural disaster
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers.
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One
2024 · Directed by Jeff Wamester · 93 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: end of the world · Also science fiction and action
Death is coming. Worse than death: oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere, in every universe! Against this ultimate destruction, the mysterious Monitor has gathered the greatest team of Super…
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Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part Three
2024 · Directed by Jeff Wamester · 99 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: end of the world · Also science fiction and action
Now fully revealed as the ultimate threat to existence, the Anti-Monitor wages an unrelenting attack on the surviving Earths that struggle for survival in a pocket universe.
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Godzilla
2014 · Directed by Gareth Edwards · 123 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: disaster movie · Also action and science fiction
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe.
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Greenland 2: Migration
2026 · Directed by Ric Roman Waugh · 98 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: natural disaster · Also adventure and science fiction
Having found the safety of the Greenland bunker after the comet Clarke decimated the Earth, the Garrity family must now risk everything to embark on a perilous journey across the wasteland of Europe to find a new home.