Humanity in peril movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant humanity in peril movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic, futuristic and apocalyptic films and TV shows about / with humanity in peril, apocalypse, post apocalypse, danger, survival, end of the world, alien, space, catastrophe and post apocalyptic plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
humanity in peril movies
186
TOP 10 movies tagged as humanity in peril: Aftermath (2016), Greenland (2020), The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), War of the Worlds (2005), Independence Day (1996), The Dark Tower (2017), 2012 (2009), The 5th Wave (2016), Childhood's End (2015), Geostorm (2017).

List of humanity in peril movies

 4.9
 5K
Aftermath (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Copeland family battle for survival when civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes, a plague - and the rise of supernatural creatures.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, humanity in peril, danger, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, apocalypse, survival, husband wife relationship, end of the world, distopia, epidemic ...
Place: washington state, idaho, seattle, usa
Is relevant?
 6.4
 163K
Greenland (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style: suspense, exciting, scenic, unusual plot structure, psychotronic ...
Plot: natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, panic, husband wife relationship, diabetic, comet, kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: greenland, atlanta georgia, canada, kentucky, moscow russia ...
Is relevant?
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, apocalyptic, visual, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, end of the world, alien encounter, alien, alien invasion, alien contact, evil alien, happy ending, first contact, robot, extraterrestrial, apocalypse ...
Time: year 2008, future, 20th century, 1920s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia, new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, alien, invasion, space and aliens, evil alien, extraterrestrial, catastrophe, humanity in peril ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, boston, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Independence Day (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, boys' night, family outing
Plot: alien invasion, extraterrestrial, invasion, end of the world, ufo, space and aliens, evil alien, first contact, survival, alien encounter, alien, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, future, year 1996, jurassic
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa, bombay india, london ...
Is relevant?
 5.6
 155K
The Dark Tower (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at ...
Style: suspense, horrifying, disturbing, exciting, epic ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: one against many, stephen king, humanity in peril, gunslinger, alternate dimension, literary, gun fu, brutality, murder, boy, supernatural, portal ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, future
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
 5.9
 419K
2012 (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, destruction, human existence, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, year 2010, year 2012 ...
Place: los angeles, las vegas, british columbia, london, pasadena california ...
Is relevant?
 5.2
 126K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, teen, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, end of the world, alien, invasion, post apocalypse, danger, survival, virus, obsessive quest, escapades, humanity in peril ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, london, tower bridge london ...
Is relevant?
Childhood's End (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
TV show
Story: After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
Style: philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, science, demon, space travel, humanity, religion, alien, technology, space and aliens, adaptation, world domination, life philosophy ...
Time: near future, future, 21st century
Place: usa, israel
Is relevant?
 5.4
 132K
Geostorm (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, ecological disaster, malfunction, climate change, hurricane, natural disaster ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place: afghanistan, hong kong, orlando florida, rio de janeiro, new york ...
Is relevant?
 5.5
 11K
Viral (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Following the outbreak of a virus that wipes out the majority of the human population, a young woman documents her family's new life in quarantine and tries to protect her infected sister.
Style: suspense, bloody, suspenseful, brutal, bleak ...
Plot: infected, virus, infection, disease, parasite, quarantine, fate of humanity, pandemic, survival, mutation, humanity in peril, alien parasite ...
Is relevant?
 6.1
 21K
Cargo (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, spacecraft, space and aliens, dystopia, twists and turns, post apocalypse, uncover truth, danger, dystopian future, parallel world ...
Time: future, 23rd century, near future
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
COVID-21: Lethal Virus (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The climate change has released an ancient rabies virus trapped in the Antarctica ice. A female scientist tries to get to the laboratory to create a cure to save the world, protected by an eccentric and two members of the special forces.
Style: apocalyptic, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: walking dead, infection, virus, deadly virus, apocalypse, fate of humanity, humanity in peril, undead, pandemic, humanity, death threat, vestiges of humanity ...
Is relevant?
 5.6
 177K
Pixels (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, USA, Canada, France, Greece, Australia, UK, Germany, Ukraine, Japan, Vietnam, Portugal, Morocco, Thailand, Egypt, Netherlands, Cyprus, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Russia, South Korea, Serbia, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Qatar, Norway, Philippines, Finland, Austria, Iceland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Romania, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Israel, Colombia, India, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Albania, Estonia, South Africa, Chile, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Iran, Croatia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, exciting, cute ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing, girls' night
Plot: video game, geek, alien invasion, humanity in peril, chase, transformation, video arcade, alien, escapades, computer cracker, danger, alien attack ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 80s, future, 20th century ...
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa, india, london ...
Is relevant?
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos' actions and ...
Style: epic, saga, exciting, sad, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: superhero, time travel, heroes, alternate timeline, invasion, superhuman powers, alien, superhero team, tony stark character, alien superhero, final battle, humanity in peril ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, year 1970, year 2012, year 2014 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, japan, missouri, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
The Wandering Earth (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to ...
Style: exciting, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: end of the world, survival, underground city, danger, society, collision, space, jupiter, disaster, space station, astronaut, outer space ...
Time: future
Place: china, asia, russia, france
Is relevant?
The Fifth Element (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
Style: futuristic, breathtaking, visually stunning, colorful, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, boys' night, teens
Plot: alien, space opera, dystopia, cyberpunk, space and aliens, good versus evil, dystopian future, space travel, save the world, end of the world, space adventure, heroic mission ...
Time: future, year 1997, 90s, 1910s, 23rd century ...
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, egypt, new york
Is relevant?
 6.5
 278K
Ad Astra (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, touching, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space exploration, astronaut, outer space, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, spacecraft, zero gravity, secret mission, trapped in space ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, future, near future
Place: space western
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
 5.6
 7K
Invasion (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 134 min.
Story: After the fall of the alien ship, it took three years. The catastrophe turned the girl's life from Chertanovo and forever changed our view of the universe. It seems that this was the biggest test for all of us. But mankind does not yet know ...
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: alien space craft, alien encounter, fighter jet, alien invasion, boyfriend, martial law, struggle for survival, threat, quarantine, hopes, human versus alien, immortality ...
Time: 2020s
Place: moscow russia, russia
Is relevant?
 8.7
 2.5M
Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot: space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
Is relevant?
 3.6
 4K
Doors (2021)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Without warning, millions of mysterious alien “doors” suddenly appear around the globe. In a rush to determine the reason for their arrival, mankind must work together to understand the purpose of these cosmic anomalies.
Style: anthology, futuristic, enigmatic, intellectual, suspense ...
Plot: alien, humanity in peril, space program, technology, supernatural power, philosophical conversation, scientist, humanity, alien invasion, exploration, distopia, post apocalyptic ...
Is relevant?
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, action packed, saga, exciting ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing, boys' night ...
Plot: superhuman powers, superhero, heroic mission, save the world, transformation, superheroine, heroes, vigilante, wedding, apocalypse, humanity in peril, supernatural ability ...
Time: future, 20th century, 2000s, year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, shanghai, greenland, los angeles, london ...
Is relevant?
 6.4
 462K
Godzilla (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, kids, boys' night
Plot: monster, giant monster, godzilla, dinosaur, disaster, creature, kaiju, catastrophe, military, mutant, deadly creature, chaos ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 2014, 2010s, year 1999 ...
Place: japan, hawaii, san francisco, tokyo, honolulu hawaii ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Style: futuristic, exciting, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, virtual reality, distopia, robot, post apocalyptic, alternate reality, chosen one, dystopia, resistance, prophecy, one against many ...
Time: future, year 2003, 23rd century, 2000s, distant future ...
Is relevant?
Record of Ragnarok (2021)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Before eradicating humankind from the world, the gods give them one last chance to prove themselves worthy of survival. Let the Ragnarok battles begin.
Style: anime, exciting, captivating, tense, manga ...
Plot: fight, fight to the death, humanity, mythology, goddess, battles, legendary hero, fate of humanity, mortal combat, against humanity, humanity in peril, struggle for survival ...
Is relevant?
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the ...
Style: captivating, action adventure, saga, perverse, psychotronic ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: godzilla, giant monster, monster, giant animal, creature, giant lizard, rescue, giant bird, giant creature, destruction, creature feature, humanity in peril ...
Time: year 2019, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: boston, japan, antarctica, tokyo, san francisco ...
Is relevant?
Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: With no means for defeating Godzilla Earth, mankind watches as King Ghidorah, clad in a golden light, descends on the planet. The heavens and earth shake once again as the war moves to a higher dimension.
Style: anime, adult animation, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Plot: godzilla, kaiju, mutant, giant monster, spaceship, humanity in peril, good versus evil, monster, self sacrifice, danger, captain, race against time ...
Place: japan, tokyo
Is relevant?
 5.3
 25K
Beyond Skyline (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing, smart ...
Plot: alien, rescue, alien technology, spaceship, brutality, alien invasion, invasion, evil alien, monster, abduction, police officer, alien creature ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: laos, southeast asia, los angeles
Is relevant?
The Day of the Triffids (1963)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the ...
Style: scary, suspense, enigmatic, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blindness, space and aliens, creature feature, post apocalyptic, monster, mutant, distopia, apocalypse, survival, humanity, post apocalypse, save the world ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, england, united kingdom, london, france ...
Is relevant?
 7.9
 636K
Star Trek (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, visually stunning, epic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: space travel, star trek, space opera, spacecraft, time travel, heroic mission, heroes, space and aliens, teamwork, alien, space wars, human versus alien ...
Time: future, year 2009, 24th century, 23rd century, 2000s
Place: san francisco, iowa, bay area, space western
Is relevant?