Every disaster movie streaming on Stan in Australia right now — 18 films ranked by rating, checked against Stan’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Stan AU
Directed by Ang Lee
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAng Lee transforms maritime catastrophe into philosophical meditation through staggering visual effects and the tiger's unflinching animal presence.
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
Directed by J. A. Bayona
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRaw human vulnerability dominates the 2004 tsunami's aftermath—grounded emotional devastation outweighs spectacle.
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
Directed by Peter Berg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMasterful real-time tension: an explosion that keeps giving, with no pause button for human error.
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Directed by Christopher Miller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbsurdist disaster premise escalates with escalating food weaponization; comedic chaos proves genre elasticity.
Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?
Directed by John Erick Dowdle
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCoup-triggered chaos substitutes geopolitical collapse for natural disaster; urban survival becomes claustrophobic nightmare.
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
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.
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.
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeComet-extinction countdown weaponizes societal collapse; class stratification becomes deadlier than celestial impact.
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.
Directed by Scott Mann
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFall transforms altitude into protagonist—the 2,000-foot tower becomes an inescapable pressure cooker where gravity itself becomes the antagonist.
For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter's expert climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies, and vertigo-inducing heights.
Directed by Alex Proyas
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNumerological apocalypse framework transforms disaster from external force into inevitable, predetermined cosmic reckoning.
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Directed by Brad Peyton
✦ MovieMuse AI takePost-earthquake rescue mission foregrounds human agency within geological catastrophe; character-driven survival narrative.
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Directed by Roland Emmerich
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMultifront global destruction montage expands disaster scope across continents; Emmerich perfects maximum-chaos spectacle.
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
Directed by Steven Quale
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTornado supercells weaponized as character antagonists; storm-chasing cinematography treats meteorology as relentless adversary.
As a new day begins in the town of Silverton, its residents have little reason to believe it will be anything other than ordinary. Mother Nature, however has other plans. In the span of just a few hours, an unprecedented onslaught of powerful tornadoes ravages Silverton. Storm trackers predict that the worst is still to come, as terrified residents seek shelter, and professional storm-chasers run toward the danger, hoping to study the phenomenon close up and get a once-in-a-lifetime shot.
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVesuvius as impassive clockwork—love scenes pointless against geology's schedule.
In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.
Directed by Dan Bradley
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInvading paratroopers reframe disaster as political aggression; geopolitical catastrophe displaces natural forces.
A city in Washington state awakens to the surreal sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky—shockingly, the U.S. has been invaded and their hometown is the initial target. Quickly and without warning, the citizens find themselves prisoners and their town under enemy occupation. Determined to fight back, a group of young patriots seek refuge in the surrounding woods, training and reorganizing themselves into a guerrilla group of fighters.
Directed by Roland Emmerich
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMoon-collision premise weaponizes celestial mechanics; extinction-level stakes dwarf character drama intentionally.
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
Directed by Liliana Cavani
✦ MovieMuse AI takeExistential dread replaces spectacle; apocalypse becomes intimate, psychological rather than visual catastrophe.
A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience.
Directed by Jason Friedberg
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.
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