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1. Godzilla Minus One (2023)

PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Sakura Andô, Minami Hamabe, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yuki Yamada

Votes: 54,093

2. Godzilla (2014)

PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The world is beset by the appearance of monstrous creatures, but one of them may be the only one who can save humanity.

Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Ken Watanabe

Votes: 441,107 | Gross: $200.68M

3. 2012 (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: John Cusack, Thandiwe Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet

Votes: 398,001 | Gross: $166.11M

4. Pacific Rim (2013)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day

Votes: 531,089 | Gross: $101.80M

5. Godzilla (I) (1998)

PG-13 | 139 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that heads off to New York City. The American military must chase the monster across the city to stop it before it reproduces.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

Votes: 203,673 | Gross: $136.31M

6. Metropolis (1927)

Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Votes: 185,609 | Gross: $1.24M

7. Godzilla (1954)

Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

American nuclear weapons testing results in the creation of a seemingly unstoppable dinosaur-like beast.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi

Votes: 39,725 | Gross: $2.42M

8. G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

PG-13 | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

Director: Jon M. Chu | Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, Adrianne Palicki, Lee Byung-hun

Votes: 187,370 | Gross: $122.52M

9. The Divide (2011)

R | 112 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Director: Xavier Gens | Stars: Lauren German, Michael Biehn, Milo Ventimiglia, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 38,590 | Gross: $0.02M

10. The War of the Worlds (1953)

G | 85 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite

Votes: 38,557 | Gross: $4.36M

11. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

R | 122 min | Documentary, Drama, War

Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder

Votes: 132,406 | Gross: $119.19M

12. Barefoot Gen (1983)

TV-PG | 83 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

Director: Mori Masaki | Stars: Issei Miyazaki, Catherine Battistone, Yoshie Shimamura, Iona Morris

Votes: 9,213

13. Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (1989)

Not Rated | 108 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

The relative coexistence of the human world, demon world and beast world is soon to be disrupted by The Overfiend, an immensely powerful demon who'll be reborn after 3000 years to remake the world to his own liking.

Director: Hideki Takayama | Stars: Christopher Courage, Rebel Joy, Sonny Weil, Bick Balse

Votes: 3,667

14. Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)

PG | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Family

A manga artist becomes suspicious of his employers when a garbled message is discovered on tape. As he forms a team to investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus set out to help defeat the invaders.

Directors: Jun Fukuda, Yoshimitsu Banno, Ishirô Honda, Shûe Matsubayashi | Stars: Hiroshi Ishikawa, Yuriko Hishimi, Minoru Takashima, Tomoko Umeda

Votes: 5,737

15. Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)

Unrated | 83 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Extraterrestrials traveling in high-tech flying saucers contact a scientist as part of a plan to enslave the inhabitants of Earth.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum

Votes: 9,117

16. Doomsday Prophecy (2011 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 92 min | Sci-Fi

Based on the 2012 end-of-world prophesy where two unlikely characters team up to solve a mystery that just might save the world.

Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: A.J. Buckley, Jewel Staite, Alan Dale, Bruce Ramsay

Votes: 1,692

17. Rodan (1956)

Approved | 74 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow coworkers and discovers prehistoric nymphs emerging from the mines. As he heads deeper into the mines, he makes a more horrifying discovery in the form a prehistoric flying creature.

Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Akihiko Hirata, Akio Kobori

Votes: 5,991 | Gross: $0.50M

18. Genocyber (1994)

Unrated | 46 min | Animation, Action, Horror

A combination of cybernetics and psychic potential. At its core: the tortured souls of 2 human beings. Many wish to control this monstrosity, but can their hatred be contained?

Stars: William Roberts, Rosemary Elliot, Keith Howard, Rachel Nanstad

Votes: 1,330

19. Deluge (1933)

70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Peggy Shannon, Lois Wilson, Sidney Blackmer, Matt Moore

Votes: 707

20. Le Chat (1971)

86 min | Drama

In 1971 Courbevoie (France), former typographist Julien Bouin and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, which is soon to be ... See full summary »

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre | Stars: Jean Gabin, Simone Signoret, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal

Votes: 2,410

21. Earthquake (2016)

101 min | Drama

Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR, 1988. After the devastating Spitak earthquake of December 7th, Konstantin Berezhnoy, a 50-year-old Russian, and Robert Melkonyan, a 28-year-old Armenian, work together to rescue the desperate survivors.

Director: Sarik Andreasyan | Stars: Konstantin Lavronenko, Mariya Mironova, Viktor Stepanyan, Tatev Hovakimyan

Votes: 2,402

22. Hiroshima (1995 TV Movie)

PG | 190 min | Drama, War

The grisly events leading to the first attack with a nuclear weapon.

Directors: Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Lynne Adams, Wesley Addy, Allen Altman, Bernard Behrens

Votes: 985

23. Star Fox 64 (1997 Video Game)

K-A | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Mad scientist Andross arises as the emperor of Venom and declares war on the entire Lylat System, starting with Corneria. General Pepper sends in the Star Fox team to protect the key planets of the Lylat System and stop Dr. Andross.

Director: Takao Shimizu | Stars: Daisuke Gôri, Kyôko Tongû, Tomohisa Asô, Hisao Egawa

Votes: 1,802

24. Stalingrad (2003– )

165 min | Documentary, History, War

The World War 2 Battle of Stalingrad from the initial attack to the repatriation of the survivors after the war.

Stars: Bob van Tol, Albrecht Appelt, Hans Rostewitz, Gerhard Dengler

Votes: 1,021

25. Diplomacy (2014)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama, History, War

A historical drama that depicts the relationship between Dietrich von Choltitz, the German military governor of occupied Paris, and Swedish consul-general Raoul Nordling.

Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: André Dussollier, Niels Arestrup, Burghart Klaußner, Robert Stadlober

Votes: 5,861 | Gross: $0.23M

26. The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama

In the doomed Roman city, a gentle blacksmith becomes a corrupt gladiator, while his son leans toward Christianity.

Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper | Stars: Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone, David Holt, Alan Hale

Votes: 1,205

27. Gammera the Invincible (1966)

Unrated | 86 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi

An atomic explosion awakens Gammera--a giant, fire-breathing turtle monster--from his millions of years of hibernation. Enraged at being roused from such a sound sleep, he takes it out on Tokyo.

Directors: Sandy Howard, Noriaki Yuasa | Stars: Albert Dekker, Brian Donlevy, Diane J. Findlay, John Baragrey

Votes: 1,344

28. The War of the Worlds (2005 Video)

Unrated | 179 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In one of the most faithful adaptations of HG Wells' science fiction masterpiece, Martians launch a ruthless assault on an unsuspecting Victorian England, in an attempt to escape their dying planet.

Director: Timothy Hines | Stars: Anthony Piana, Jack Clay, James Lathrop, Darlene Sellers

Votes: 2,266

29. Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Drama

Twenty years after Deus Ex (2000). Alex D is evacuated from Chicago to Seattle following a terrorist attack, and soon becomes embroiled in a network of plots as the world's factions fight for control of the world.

Director: Harvey Smith | Stars: Abigail Windham, Alexander Brandon, Bernadette Nason, Timeca M. Seretti

Votes: 854

30. Yu Yu Hakusho: Fight for the Netherworld (1994)

Not Rated | 91 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

Yusuke Urameshi, a Spirit Detective and his friends must find five Elemental Sites to save the Earth from Lord Yakumo and restore the Spirit World.

Director: Masakatsu Iijima | Stars: Nozomu Sasaki, Shigeru Chiba, Megumi Ogata, Nobuyuki Hiyama

Votes: 793

31. The End of the World (1916)

77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world.

Director: August Blom | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Carl Lauritzen, Ebba Thomsen, Johanne Fritz-Petersen

Votes: 418

32. The Fall of Berlin (1945)

PG-13 | 70 min | Documentary, History, War

Over 40 Army cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts contributed footage of this remarkable documentary of the fall of Berlin, including captured German footage.

Director: Yuli Raizman | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Rudolf Boettger, Vasiliy Chuikov, Hermann Göring

Votes: 154

33. Zarkorr! The Invader (1996)

PG | 80 min | Sci-Fi

An "average" postal worker is informed by a tiny alien hologram which looks like a teenage girl that he is the "choosen one" to destroy a giant reptile to save the Earth.

Directors: Aaron Osborne, Michael Deak | Stars: Franklin A. Vallette, Don Yanan, Peter Looney, Billy Mchenry

Votes: 414

34. Superman: Electric Earthquake (1942)

Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Action

Superman versus a fanatical extortionist with an earthquake machine.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Steve Muffati | Stars: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Julian Noa

Votes: 966

35. Anak ng bulkan (1959)

117 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy

A monstrous giant bird soars high across Manila and suburbs. Anak ng Bulkan was set in a remote volcanic island, tells of the friendship between a little boy named Bentoy (Ace York) and a giant bird named Goliat.

Director: Emmanuel I. Rojas | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Edna Luna, Ronald Remy, Miriam Jurado

Votes: 29

36. Ctulhu. Rise from the sea (2021)

6 min | Short, Action, Comedy

April 2021. Cthulhu rose from the sea near the city of Sochi, but a hero was found on a huge robot. An epic confrontation is inevitable.

Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Evgeniy Mishukhin, Sergey Newnoir

Votes: 425

37. San Francisco: Aftermath of Earthquake (1906)

1 min | Documentary, Short, History

Footage shot not long after the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco is edited together so that more than one scene and more than one vantage are included. We see fire raging. We see burned-out... See full summary »

Director: Robert K. Bonine

Votes: 597

38. San Francisco Disaster (1906)

3 min | Documentary, Short

This pseudo-newsreel uses special effects to illustrate the fire caused by the San Francisco earthquake. A miniature model of downtown San Francisco is set ablaze and filmed.

Votes: 57

39. Warszawa 1956 (1956)

7 min | Documentary, Short

Over a decade after the almost total wartime destruction, Warsaw still looks bruised and battered. Ruined houses are nevertheless inhabited which can be dangerous for the local population.

Directors: Jerzy Bossak, Jaroslaw Brzozowski | Star: Andrzej Lapicki

Votes: 180

40. Der Hamburger Feuersturm 1943 - Brandnarben (2009 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary, History

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Director: Andreas Fischer

Votes: 7

41. Pokémon (1997–2023)
Episode: Menokurage dokukurage (1997)

TV-Y | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

When a town is terrorized by a school of Tentacool and one giant Tentacruel, it's up to our heroes to bring balance between humans and Pokémon.

Director: Masamitsu Hidaka | Stars: Rikako Aikawa, Inuko Inuyama, Unshô Ishizuka, Mayumi Izuka

Votes: 677

42. Harley Quinn (2019– )
Episode: The Final Joke (2020)

TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Ivy is dead, Harley's crew is captured, and Batman is his captive. Joker has everything he's ever wanted - but is it enough without Harley at his side?

Directors: Brandon McKinney, Cecilia Aranovich | Stars: Kaley Cuoco, Jason Alexander, Diedrich Bader, Lake Bell

Votes: 1,550