The 10 Best Non-Hollywood Disaster Movies of the Past 10 Years

Over the past decade, disaster movies have won the love of audiences all over the world, but Hollywood is not the only center of their production. In different parts of the world, directors are making no less impressive and dramatic films, in which one or the other catastrophe is central.

From thrilling rescue scenes to massive disasters, filmmakers from Europe and Asia are breaking new ground in the disaster genre, and let’s be honest, Hollywood filmmakers could use a lesson from them. In this collection, we’ll be looking at the 10 best disaster movies to come out outside of Hollywood in the past 10 years.

The real leader of our selection is South Korea. You’ve probably heard of the film “Train to Busan” – a cult zombie apocalypse that is adored all over the world and around which its own cinematic universe is already being formed. But this 2016 film is far from the only representative of the disaster film genre from South Korea.

“Pandora” looks no less impressive, where it is not even the earthquake that turns into a real disaster, but its consequences; and “Virus,” which seemed to somewhat predict the panic surrounding the coronavirus pandemic a decade ago; and even “Eruption,” which ponders whether a volcanic eruption can be prevented with nuclear weapons.

So if you weren’t impressed with “Tornado 2,” and you still don’t feel like reviewing old classics like “The Day After Tomorrow,” it’s time to expand your cinematic – and geographical! – horizons.