The Great Flood
As a planet-swallowing flood turns a South Korean apartment complex into a vertical survival trap, strangers race to protect a child while civilization slips beneath the water.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- meditative
- foreboding
- oppressive
- apocalyptic movie night
- rainy day viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly admired the film’s striking flood imagery and Kim Da-mi’s performance while finding its ambitious disaster and philosophical ideas underdeveloped and narratively convoluted.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The planet-spanning flood is explicitly linked to climate change and global warming.
The central rescue struggle unfolds inside a flooding apartment while giant waves overwhelm South Korean high-rises.
The film combines blockbuster-scale flooding with meditative, thoughtful concerns including transhumanism.
The desperate fight is specifically organized around saving a child on what may be Earth’s final day.
Films like The Great Flood, and why
The Wave
shares large-scale natural catastrophe, claustrophobic survival stakes, and emotionally direct disaster-film spectacle
The Impossible
combines intimate family-centered survival drama with escalating flood disaster and apocalyptic visual scale
2012
shares climate catastrophe, survival tension, and a philosophical concern with humanity’s future
Snowpiercer
pairs enclosed survival logistics with existential science fiction and morally pressured human relationships
Movie Details
- Director
- Kim Byung-woo
- Release Date
- 2025-09-18
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 (782)
Cast
- Kim Da-mi
- Park Hae-soo
- Kwon Eun-seong
- Jeon Hye-jin
- Park Byung-eun
- Lee Hak-ju
- Yuna
- Park Mi-hyeon
- Lee Dong-chan
- Kwon Min-kyung
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is The Great Flood about?
- As a planet-swallowing flood turns a South Korean apartment complex into a vertical survival trap, strangers race to protect a child while civilization slips beneath the water.
- What is The Great Flood like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of The Great Flood as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is The Great Flood violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in The Great Flood as mild.
- What did critics think of The Great Flood?
- Critics broadly admired the film’s striking flood imagery and Kim Da-mi’s performance while finding its ambitious disaster and philosophical ideas underdeveloped and narratively convoluted.
- Which films are like The Great Flood?
- Films with a similar feel include The Wave, The Impossible, 2012, and Snowpiercer.
- How long is The Great Flood?
- The Great Flood runs 107 minutes.
- Where can I watch The Great Flood?
- In United States, The Great Flood streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.
