Apocalypse movies and TV shows – page 2

List of apocalypse movies

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 4.5
 33K
Cell (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style: surreal, suspense, ambiguous ending, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virus, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, stephen king, life & death, post apocalypse, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, survival, paranoia, on the road ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: boston, new england, maine
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 6.1
 10K
The Last Days (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 2013; A mysterious epidemic spreads across the planet. Humanity develops an irrational fear of open spaces that causes instant death. Soon, the world population is trapped inside buildings. As Barcelona descends into chaos, Marc sets off on a quest ...
Style: serious, rough, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: epidemic, apocalypse, sewer, panic, subway, post apocalypse, agoraphobia, chaos and mayhem, pregnancy, plague, danger, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: barcelona, spain
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 6.7
 42K
Z Nation (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Style: suspenseful, scary, tense, absurd, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, gory, zombie apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, supernatural, chaos, graphic violence, on the road, danger ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 64K
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, mysterious ...
Plot: small town, small town life, apocalypse, investigation, danger, society, missing person, cryogenics, post-apocalyptic future, beast, sheriff, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, idaho
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 7.9
 61K
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, mysterious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, disaster, small town, danger, chaos, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, conspiracy, distopia, leadership ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
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 7.5
 662K
Zombieland (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to ...
Style: humorous, funny, absurd, parody, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, manly ...
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, virus, survival, road trip, amusement park, living dead, dark humor, chaos and mayhem, danger ...
Time: year 2009, near future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., los angeles, columbus ohio, ohio, usa ...
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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 ...
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 5.2
 111K
Moonfall (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, UK, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, cult classic, apocalyptic ...
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, end of the world, moon, space exploration, outer space, space and aliens, catastrophe, youth, survival, mountain, space travel ...
Time: 2020s, year 2012, 2010s, year 1969, year 2011
Place: usa, colorado, new york, houston texas, los angeles ...
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 6.3
 54K
#Alive (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, psychological, splatter ...
Plot: zombie, survival, isolation, walking dead, infection, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, virus, zombie outbreak, zombie survival ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seoul, south korea
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 5.4
 55K
The Silence (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: creature, post apocalypse, apocalypse, silence, survival, deadly creature, saving a life, danger, farmhouse, deaf, macabre, deafness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: appalachia
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.
Style: romantic, road movie, sad, melancholic, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: road trip, end of the world, apocalypse, bittersweet, love story, loneliness, asteroid, love, existentialism, catastrophe, destiny, riot ...
Time: year 2012, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, england, new jersey
Is relevant?
 7.1
 97K
Falling Skies (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, saga, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, ufo, post apocalypse, apocalypse, military, alien encounter, evil alien, resistance, human spirit, chaos and mayhem, space and aliens ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.5
 9K
Survivors (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: apocalypse, virus, survival, deadly virus, politician, pandemic, disaster, post apocalypse, danger, group of strangers, distopia, plague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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 8.3
 128K
The Leftovers (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't ...
Style: mind bending, touching, stylized, offbeat, spooky ...
Audience: adult
Plot: disappearance, haunted by the past, missing person, apocalypse, life turned upside down, society, hopes, post apocalypse, depression, small town, small town sheriff, chief of police ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, syria, new york state, new york
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Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put ...
Style: funny, horror comedy, humorous, not serious, scary ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: zombie, teenager, gory, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, friendship, zombie attack, foul language, dark humor, strip club, survival, youth ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: california, usa
Is relevant?
 6.9
 74K
Snowpiercer (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting ...
Style: apocalyptic, unusual plot structure, captivating, depressing, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: train, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, rebellion, class system, inequality, disaster, distopia, humanity, forces of nature, caste system ...
Time: future, 2020s
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Love and Monsters (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson, along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, who is now 80 ...
Style: entertaining, horror comedy, suspense, fairy tale, apocalyptic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen fantasy, adult
Plot: monster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, friendship, loner, overcoming fear, lifestyle change, giant monster, mutant, jungle, giant crab, dog ...
Time: 2020s
Place: california
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The Book of Life (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 63 min.
Story: The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus ...
Style: humorous, enigmatic, surreal, futuristic, philosophical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, hopes, society, introspection, dialogue, moral dilemma, rivalry, destiny, legends and myths, religions or cults, save the world, dark humor ...
Time: year 1999, year 2000
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, jerusalem
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 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
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It Comes at Night (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Style: suspense, brutal, sexy, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: pandemic, infection, fear, post apocalypse, murder, interracial couple, dog, desperation, disease, paranoia, apocalypse, infected ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Is relevant?
 7.1
 41K
The Stand (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The human race is wiped out by a government invented super flu. The remaining survivors take sides in the forces of good and evil. A mysterious old woman who is a servant of God and a powerful and deadly man who might be the devil himself. A gas ...
Style: scary, apocalyptic, satanic, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, virus, disaster, end of the world, stephen king, post apocalypse, pandemic, supernatural, plague, good versus evil, cursed object, deadly virus ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, maine, nebraska, usa, oregon ...
Is relevant?
 5.9
 82K
Doomsday (2008)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, cannibalism, virus, rescue, infected, danger, distopia, epidemic, female fighter, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 2030s, year 2008, 2010s, 80s ...
Place: scotland, britain, london, england, europe ...
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Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Style: futuristic, sexy, exciting, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, outer space, space and aliens, space wars, space battle, artificial intelligence, human in outer space, heroes, androids and robots, military, cyborgs ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: space western
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 6.9
 25K
Salvation (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, apocalyptic, political drama
Audience: adult
Plot: asteroid, save the planet, apocalypse, end of the world, comet, conspiracy, escape, atheism, betrayal, investigation, disaster, tragedy ...
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 5.3
 8K
Hostile (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only comes out at nighttime.
Style: suspense, tense, bad ending, twist ending, brutal ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, end of the world, survivor, mutant, humanity, danger, infected, loneliness, human nature, monster, demolished city ...
Place: new york
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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: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, evil alien, alien encounter, survival, battlefield, invasion, military, heroic mission, chaos, alien attack, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, mojave desert, america, santa monica california ...
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 6.3
 223K
Waterworld (1995)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, dieselpunk ...
Audience: date night, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, ocean, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, sailing, boat, dystopic future, water, sea, escapades, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1995, distant future, near future
Place: arizona, canada
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 5.8
 121K
The Host (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free ...
Style: romantic, futuristic, exciting, teen, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: interspecies romance, alien invasion, teenage girl, apocalypse, dystopia, true love, youth, evil alien, self sacrifice, teenage love, alien, love and romance ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013
Place: usa, paris france
Is relevant?
 7.7
 53K
12 Monkeys (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time travel, epidemic, dystopian future, changing the past or future, sent to the past, existence paradox, time machine, post apocalypse, virus, paradox, apocalypse, plague ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 5.8
 122K
End of Days (1999)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride, a ...
Style: satanic, suspenseful, demonic, apocalyptic, biblical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: devil, supernatural, apocalypse, deal with the devil, satanic ritual, good versus evil, supernatural horror, demon, nightmare, temptation, heroic mission, end of the world ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 70s, year 1979, year 2000 ...
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
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