Last Updated on 26 July 2025

The following list is a snapshot of society’s current opinions of the 100 best movies of all time about storms and severe weather or where weather played an important role in the movie.

I found 24 different ranked lists online of “best weather or storm or severe weather movies of all time” and pulled them all into Excel and merged them all to get this definitive compilation.  See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 24 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you can print to track which ones you’ve seen, followed by the ranked list with links to IMDb.

Best Severe Weather Movies – Viewing ChecklistDownload
  1. The Perfect Storm (2000)
  2. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
  3. Twister (1996)
  4. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
  5. Sharknado (2013)
  6. Snowpiercer (2013)
  7. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  8. Hard Rain (1998)
  9. Key Largo (1948)
  10. Into the Storm (2014)
  11. Greenland (2020)
  12. The Impossible (2012)
  13. 2012 (2009)
  14. The Mist (2007)
  15. Crawl (2019)
  16. The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
  17. The Wave (2015)
  18. Melancholia (2011)
  19. Deep Impact (1998)
  20. Dante’s Peak (1997)
  21. Everest (2015)
  22. Twisters (2024)
  23. The Fog (1980)
  24. A Night to Remember (1958)
  25. The Thing (1982)
  26. Noah (2014)
  27. The Shining (1980)
  28. Geostorm (2017)
  29. Deluge (1933)
  30. Airplane! (1980)
  31. Volcano (1997)
  32. An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
  33. Earthquake (1974)
  34. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
  35. The Ice Storm (1997)
  36. Night of the Twisters (1996)
  37. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
  38. Identity (2003)
  39. San Andreas (2015)
  40. The Core (2003)
  41. The Hurricane (1937)
  42. Frozen (2013)
  43. Typhoon (1940)
  44. White Squall (1996)
  45. Airport (1970)
  46. Only the Brave (2017)
  47. Waterworld (1995)
  48. Groundhog Day (1993)
  49. Storm of the Century (1999)
  50. 30 Days of Night (2007)
  51. Hours (2013)
  52. Noah’s Ark (1928)
  53. Where Was God? (2014)
  54. Pompeii (2014)
  55. Take Shelter (2011)
  56. Do the Right Thing (1989)
  57. After the Storm (2016)
  58. Adrift (2018)
  59. Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
  60. In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
  61. Misery (1990)
  62. Whiteout (2009)
  63. Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
  64. The Hurricane Heist (2018)
  65. All Is Lost (2013)
  66. The Last Wave (1977)
  67. Three Colors: Red (1994)
  68. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
  69. The Finest Hours (2016)
  70. Ordeal in the Arctic (1993)
  71. The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
  72. Alive (1993)
  73. Magnolia (1999)
  74. Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
  75. The Biggest Little Farm (2018)
  76. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  77. Poseidon (2006)
  78. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
  79. Trouble the Water (2008)
  80. 13 Minutes (2021)
  81. Grumpy Old Men (1993)
  82. Hurricane (2015)
  83. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
  84. My Best Fiend (1999)
  85. Supervolcano (2005)
  86. Snow Day (2000)
  87. Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
  88. Frozen (2010)
  89. The Official Story (1985)
  90. Cast Away (2000)
  91. Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
  92. Frequency (2000)
  93. The Fog (2005)
  94. Tornado Warning (2012)
  95. Infinite Storm (2022)
  96. Atomic Twister (2002)
  97. Don’t Look Up (2021)
  98. Dune: Part One (2021)
  99. Life on the Line (2015)
  100. Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

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