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Mad Max (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Style: road movie, futuristic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, stylized ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, chase, dystopia, vengeance, post apocalypse, revenge, biker, car chase, dystopic future, chaos, car, violence spree ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, year 1979, distant future ...
Place: australia, oceania
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 7.2
 594K
Don't Look Up (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Style: apocalyptic, feel good, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: disaster, end of the world, asteroid, social satire, meteorite, apocalypse, danger, save the world, astronaut, chaos, comet, politics ...
Time: future, 2020s, year 1994, distant future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, london, america, illinois ...
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Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, grindhouse, retro, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, survival, dystopia, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, survival horror, distopia, end of the world, nuclear threat, redneck ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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Day of Resurrection (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Style: retro, cult classic, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pandemic, apocalypse, disaster, epidemic, virus, submarine, post apocalypse, deadly virus, biohazard, nuclear holocaust, infection, dystopian future ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, year 1988, year 1982, year 1983 ...
Place: antarctica, new york, london, tokyo, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style: grindhouse, scary, suspenseful, splatter, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, monster, epidemic, end of the world, survival, living dead, siege, shopping mall, undead ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, philadelphia, bolivia, usa
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Diary of the Dead (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of young film students run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.
Style: scary, tense, apocalyptic, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, found footage, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, chase, danger, gory, filmmaker, virus, transformation, supernatural, creature feature ...
Time: year 2000, year 2007, 2000s
Place: bolivia
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style: scary, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, living dead, post apocalypse, infected, plague, terror, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2000, future, year 2003 ...
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
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Genesis II (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, epidemic, loner, end of the world, post apocalyptic, wasteland, distopia, suspended animation, cave, rebellion ...
Time: near future, future, 70s, 22nd century
Place: arizona, new mexico
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 5.1
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How It Ends (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
Style: apocalyptic, road movie, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Plot: end of the world, disaster, journey, volcano, father in law son in law relationship, murder, road trip, post apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, survival, apocalypse ...
Time: 2010s
Place: seattle, chicago, minnesota
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Zombie (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, bloody, scary, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, island, virus, zombie apocalypse, gory, apocalypse, shark, living dead, zombie outbreak, zombie attack, violence, monster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, italy, caribbean
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Hell of the Living Dead (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A tough female reporter and her cameraman boyfriend team up with a four-man commando unit in the New Guinea jungle whom are fighting flesh-eating zombies. NB: Not to be confused with the 1981 American-made film with the same title.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, gory, female nudity, virus, pandemic, zombie violence, danger, living dead, race against time, survival, zombie child ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: papua new guinea, barcelona, europe, italy, spain
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Nightmare City (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, airplane, zombie apocalypse, infected, zombie attack, danger, countryside, apocalypse, rescue, virus, survival, chaos ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: southern italy, rome italy, europe, italy
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Day of the Dead (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, virus, apocalypse, gory, mad scientist, violence, insanity, macabre, survival, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, pittsburgh, usa
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Night of the Animated Dead (2021)
Genre: Animation, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: An animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zombies.
Style: adult animation, anime, suspense, surprise ending, psychotronic ...
Plot: mutation, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, mutant, blonde, radiation, house, car theft, dead body, rural setting, bare butt ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, creepy, psychological ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, supernatural, dystopia, female nudity, body horror, end of the world, monster, parasite, evil wins, epidemic, great ending ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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The Day After (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
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Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In this remake of the original classic film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food.
Style: scary, creepy, splatter, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: zombie, living dead, end of the world, gory, cemetery, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, survival, chaos, danger, cannibalism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, america
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Invasion Planet Earth (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After the death of his young daughter, Thomas Dunn is a man who has lost his faith. His life has crumbled and his confidence is shattered. Yet, on this day he wakes to discover that Mandy, his loving wife is finally pregnant again. Maybe this is ...
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, intense, disturbing ...
Plot: alien invasion, mental illness, disaster, schizophrenic, haunted by the past, little boy, soldier, chaos, hallucination, alien contact, brother brother relationship, child in peril ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: manhattan new york city, big ben london, britain, london, new york
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Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, black comedy, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: truck, supernatural, crazy, gas station, carsploitation, monster, car, hostage, danger, animate object, heroic mission, disaster ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min.
Story: The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly ...
Style: parody, spoof, detective, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: monty python, assassination, villainess, private detective, murder, conspiracy, satire, goofy hero, dishonesty, misfit partners, rivalry, hidden identity ...
Time: 70s
Place: scotland yard, scotland, europe, washington d.c., london
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Forever Yours (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two intertwining stories of a group of people dealing with their loved ones being attacked by zombies. One won't accept the loss, while the other seeks revenge on every undead creature she can hunt. Josh plans to propose to his girlfriend, ...
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, rough, surprise ending ...
Plot: survival, loss of loved one, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, violence, zombie violence, plague, eaten alive, infection, news report, siege, machete, anarchy ...
Place: pennsylvania
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Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire (2008)
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A thirteen hour series which focuses on the Germanic, Britannic and other barbarian tribal wars with Rome which ultimately led to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. This series is centered on the campaigns and battles with the barbarian ...
Style: epic, realistic, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Plot: roman soldier, ancient rome, julius caesar, barbarian, rebellion, emperor, invasion, corruption, murder, betrayal, historian, war ...
Place: rome italy, england
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The Time Machine (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, psychotronic
Audience: family outing
Plot: time machine, time traveler, salem witch trial, cave, social commentary, aftermath, time travel, cannibal, dystopian future, mutant, disorder, chaos ...
Time: future, 20th century, distant future
Place: salem massachusetts
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The Last Man (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Apocalyptic comedy finds a socially-challenged grad school student as one of the last two men on Earth with a beautiful woman.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, apocalyptic, sex comedy ...
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, danger, contests and competitions, dystopian future, end of the world, post apocalypse, absurdism, farce, epidemic, distopia, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style: apocalyptic, controversial, disturbing, depressing, offbeat ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, distopia, post apocalyptic, disaster, wasteland, epidemic, railway, quarantine, natural disaster ...
Time: future
Place: england, northern england, london
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The Last Train (1999)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by ...
Style: apocalyptic, gloomy, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, top secret, distopia, dystopia, end of the world, epidemic, wasteland, tribe, train ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, england
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Time of the Wolf (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style: disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, intense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, society, end of the world, post apocalyptic, brutality, catastrophe, survival, chaos, danger, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, year 2003
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Teens in the Universe (1975)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Interstellar expedition equipped by "pioneers"(soviet scouts) reached Alpha Kassiopea and found that smart robots took control on hole planet. Their only goal - to make happy , as they understand, their masters. Happines was, actually, ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: psychedelia, coming of age, artificial intelligence, planet, end of civilization, robot, space travel, alien planet, alien civilization, outer space
Place: soviet union
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The Last of England (1987)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
Style: cult classic, mind bending, political, experimental, independent film ...
Plot: surrealism, erotica, art, lgbt, taboo, underground, minimal dialogue, apocalypse, dystopia, bride and groom, stream of consciousness, political corruption ...
Time: 80s, future
Place: england, europe, london, manhattan new york city, india ...
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The Last Battle (1983)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" ...
Style: black and white, bleak, apocalyptic, experimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, distopia, end of the world, wasteland, survival, isolation, dystopian future, minimal dialogue, battles, loneliness ...
Time: future, year 1983, near future
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