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Best Disaster Movies on Hulu

Every disaster movie streaming on Hulu in the US right now — 10 films ranked by rating, checked against Hulu’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Hulu US

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Manjummel Boys (2024)

IMDb 8.2 Letterboxd 4.0 2h 15m

Directed by Chidambaram

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrounded survival thriller that finds disaster in intimate human desperation rather than spectacle—a rope rescue becomes unbearable psychological endurance test.

Manjummel Boys, based on a real story, is about a bunch of friends who set out on a trip to Kodaikanal and the events that occur there.

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Independence Day (1996)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 69% 2h 25m

Directed by Roland Emmerich

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEmory's procedural tension and the iconic mothership scale establish the gold standard for extraterrestrial invasion spectacle and human coordination.

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 arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.

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Adrift (2018)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 69% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 36m

Directed by Baltasar Kormákur

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHurricane cinematography captures oceanic violence's pitiless indifference; minimal cast amplifies isolation's brutality.

Tami Oldham and Richard Sharp couldn't anticipate that they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope of rescue, Tami must now find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.

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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 45% 2h 3m

Directed by Roland Emmerich

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCGI superstorms visualize climate-science warnings as kinetic action setpieces; Emmerich's signature world-ending scale.

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 catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world. Trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York City with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel to get to Sam before it's too late.

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Twisters (2024)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 75% Letterboxd 3.2 2h 3m

Directed by Lee Isaac Chung

✦ MovieMuse AI takeModern tornado-chasing spectacle weaponizes social media culture as disaster catalyst, updating the genre's obsession with storm-front voyeurism for the influencer age.

As storm season intensifies, the paths of former storm chaser Kate Carter and reckless social-media superstar Tyler Owens collide when terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed. The pair and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

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The End We Start From (2023)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 41m

Directed by Mahalia Belo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFlood catastrophe filtered through maternal vulnerability transforms environmental apocalypse into intimate human crisis—the newborn becomes the disaster film's emotional core.

As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.

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13 Minutes (2021)

IMDb 4.7 🍅 24% Letterboxd 1.9 1h 49m

Directed by Lindsay Gossling

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTornado precision-strikes small-town Americana with meteorological specificity, grounding the disaster in hyperlocal devastation rather than citywide spectacle.

As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving them struggling to protect their loved ones and fighting for their lives. Left to deal with the aftermath, four families must overcome their differences and find strength in each other in order to survive.

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No Way Up (2024)

IMDb 4.6 🍅 36% Letterboxd 1.8 1h 30m

Directed by Claudio Fäh

✦ MovieMuse AI takePlane-crash survival at sea eliminates rescue possibility, forcing the genre's traditional escape narrative into claustrophobic, no-exit horror.

Characters from different backgrounds are thrown together when the plane they're travelling on crashes into the Pacific Ocean. A nightmare fight for survival ensues with the air supply running out and dangers creeping in from all sides.

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Supercell (2023)

IMDb 4.4 🍅 44% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 40m

Directed by Herbert James Winterstern

✦ MovieMuse AI takeSupercell literalizes coming-of-age as meteorological violence—a teenager chases his father's storm legacy while nature demonstrates indifference to inheritance and legacy.

Good-hearted teenager William always lived in hope of following in his late father’s footsteps and becoming a storm chaser. His father’s legacy has now been turned into a storm-chasing tourist business, managed by the greedy and reckless Zane Rogers, who is now using William as the main attraction to lead a group of unsuspecting adventurers deep into the eye of the most dangerous supercell ever seen.

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97 Minutes (2023)

IMDb 3.8 🍅 43% Letterboxd 1.9 1h 33m

Directed by Timo Vuorensola

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHigh-concept countdown mechanism—fuel depletion as ticking clock—transforms aviation disaster into pure temporal pressure rather than physical catastrophe.

A hijacked 767 will crash in just 97 minutes when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of NSA Deputy Toyin, NSA Director Hawkins prepares to have the plane shot down before it does any catastrophic damage on the ground, leaving the fate of the innocent passengers in the hands of Tyler, one of the alleged hijackers on board who is an undercover Interpol agent - or is he?

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