Apocalypse movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant apocalypse movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, suspense, exciting and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, epidemic, disaster, post apocalyptic, danger, dystopia, chaos and death plots mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Action genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
apocalypse
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apocalypse movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as apocalypse: Train to Busan (2016), The Mist (2007), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Colony (2013), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Legion (2010), Revolution (2012), The Happening (2008), Greenland (2020), The Road (2009).

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 7.6
 255K
Train to Busan (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, emotional, tense, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, epidemic, apocalypse, pandemic, train, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, undead, living dead ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, busan, east asia, china ...
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 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, climate, cataclysm, survival, stranded ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place: new york, los angeles, washington d.c., california, antarctic ...
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 5.3
 47K
The Colony (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, dark, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, epidemic, starvation, ice age, distopia, dehumanization, danger, dystopia, cannibalism, survival horror ...
Time: future, near future
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, minimal cast, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, bunker, ufo, strong female character, survivalist, end of the world, bomb shelter, conspiracy theory ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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 5.3
 111K
Legion (2010)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Style: scary, suspenseful, demonic, absurd, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: angel, apocalypse, supernatural, religion, desert, demon, end of the world, good versus evil, prophecy, survival, save the world, extinction ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, los angeles, north america
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 6.6
 86K
Revolution (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.
Style: exciting, serious, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cliffhanger ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, fate of humanity, post apocalypse, worldwide chaos, society, chases and races, parents and children, chaos and mayhem, chaos, nanotechnology, twists and turns ...
Time: near future, 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, north america
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 5.0
 216K
The Happening (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style: gloomy, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: virus, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, catastrophe, chaos, graphic violence, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, philadelphia, boston, usa, france ...
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 6.4
 132K
Greenland (2020)
Genre: Action, 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, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, diabetic, comet, panic, mass destruction ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: greenland, canada, kentucky, atlanta georgia, beirut lebanon ...
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 7.2
 253K
The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
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 7.0
 551K
Oblivion (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, captivating, suspense, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian future, alien invasion, survival, space travel, space and aliens, catastrophe, danger, fate of humanity, alien encounter, resistance ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, distant future ...
Place: peru, seattle, new york, washington d.c., pentagon ...
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 7.5
 442K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
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 6.8
 504K
The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot: survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
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These Final Hours (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: apocalypse, natural disaster, end of the world, disaster, on the road, post apocalyptic, redemption, survival, little girl, party, life is a bitch, chaos ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: australia
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Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic ...
Style: atmospheric, harsh, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, vestiges of humanity, survival, darkness, supernatural, group of strangers, disappearance, natural disaster, hospital, church, danger ...
Time: year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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 7.0
 715K
World War Z (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, scary, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, epidemic, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, deadly virus, survival, infected, end of the world, post apocalyptic, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, jurassic ...
Place: new jersey, new york, israel, philadelphia, seattle ...
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 6.8
 338K
The Book of Eli (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style: futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, twist ending, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, end of the world, desert, faith, religion, danger, dystopia, lone hero ...
Time: future, year 2010, near future, 2010s, distant future ...
Place: indiana, usa, san francisco
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style: road movie, exciting, visually stunning, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, desert, dystopian future, chase, car chase, distopia, car, dystopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future ...
Place: australia, los angeles
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 6.2
 145K
Reign of Fire (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit -- leading a clan of survivors to ...
Style: exciting, suspense, entertaining, apocalyptic, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: dragon, apocalypse, monster, creature, post apocalypse, end of the world, extinction, chaos, dystopia, destruction, deadly creature, heroes ...
Time: future, year 2002, near future, jurassic, 2000s ...
Place: ireland, europe, britain, edinburgh scotland, united kingdom ...
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 6.2
 247K
Knowing (2009)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Plot: end of the world, disaster, apocalypse, supernatural, catastrophe, prophecy, foreknowledge, code, cataclysm, scientist, professor, prediction ...
Time: year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place: massachusetts, new york, boston, usa
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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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The Walking Dead (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, supernatural, pandemic, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, plague, undead, fear ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
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 8.0
 644K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
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 5.3
 117K
Geostorm (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 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, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, climate change, hurricane, ecological disaster, malfunction, natural disaster ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, year 2019
Place: miami, shanghai, new york, rio de janeiro, hong kong ...
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Battle Los Angeles (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a ...
Style: serious, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien encounter, survival, evil alien, military, invasion, save the world, battlefield, heroic mission, extraterrestrial, ufo ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, mojave desert, america ...
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 7.9
 527K
Children of Men (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, bleak, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, end of the world, chaos, redemption, heroic mission, pandemic, post apocalyptic, fertility, dying ...
Time: future, year 2006, distant future, near future, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
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Edge of Extinction (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: 15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying ...
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, survivalist, end of the world, survivor, survival horror, characters in danger, survival, dystopian future, virus, society, panic ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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 7.9
 59K
Jericho (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style: captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, post nuclear, small town, disaster, danger, nuclear holocaust, leadership, distopia, courage ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
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 7.3
 60K
Wayward Pines (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be ...
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot: apocalypse, society, small town, investigation, small town life, beast, danger, missing person, murder, cryogenics, confined, suspended animation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, idaho
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