Post-apocalyptic future movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant post-apocalyptic future movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting, bleak, psychotronic and futuristic films and TV shows about / with post-apocalyptic future, post apocalypse, heroes, apocalypse, danger, violence, distopia, escapades, chaos and fight plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Drama genres shot in USA, Japan, Italy and other countries.
post-apocalyptic future
TOP 10 movies tagged as post-apocalyptic future: A Quiet Place Part II (2020), Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019), Logan's Run (1976), Cyborg (1989), New Fist of the North Star (2003), The Bed Sitting Room (1969), The Walking Dead (2010), Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption (2011), The Earth Dies Screaming (1964), In the Year 2889 (1969).
Best films
List of post-apocalyptic future movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic, anamorphic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, suspense, alien, deaf, silence, survival, monster, survival horror, alien creature, deafness, creature, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
new york, usa, new york state, america
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Finland, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Twenty years after the events of Iron Sky, the former Nazi Moonbase has become the last refuge of mankind. Earth was devastated by a nuclear war, but buried deep under the wasteland lies a power that could save the last of humanity - or destroy it ...
Style:
exciting, ironic, not serious, absurd, parody ...
Plot:
hitler, alien race, space, moon, dinosaur, post apocalypse, exploitation, rescue, humanity, female protagonist, nazi, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, near future, 2040s
Place:
washington d.c., germany
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Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Fourth part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Toki's perspective, leading up to Toki's imprisonment in Cassandra and eventually his duel with Raoh.
Style:
anime, captivating, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Plot:
martial arts, friendship, one against many, fight, good versus evil, warrior, brother vs brother, disease, honor, battles, radiation, fight to the death ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The film's story is a prequel to the Fist of the North Star depicting the one year interval between Kenshiro's defeat at the hands of Shin and their later battle. Unlike the others in the series this film has a completely original ...
Style:
anime, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
martial arts, nuclear holocaust, warrior, good versus evil, heroes, battles, friendship, love, brother vs brother, post apocalypse, fight to the death, wrestler ...
Time:
future, 2000s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Style:
futuristic, psychotronic, apocalyptic, cerebral, allegory ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, cat, utopia, robot, space, end of the world, totalitarianism, artificial intelligence, biosphere, runaway, space opera ...
Time:
future, 70s, 23rd century
Place:
washington d.c., new york, usa
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Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Second part of the new Fist of the North Star movie pentalogy presenting the story from Yuria's perspective, spanning from her childhood, including the day she first met Kenshiro.
Style:
anime, captivating, exciting, serious, touching ...
Plot:
nuclear holocaust, one against many, warrior, good versus evil, supernatural power, fight, honor, friendship, love, kidnapping, rescue, wrestler ...
Time:
future, 2000s
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32K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Style:
stylized, homoerotic, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, cyborgs, martial arts, androids and robots, chase, cyberpunk, future dystopia, robot, one man army, apocalypse, chaos, violence ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, georgia, south carolina, atlanta georgia
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
In the 21st century, a nuclear war turned most of the Earth's surface into a desert wasteland, which also resulted in the contamination of the Earth's water supply. A man named Sanga has built the fortified haven of the "Last ...
Style:
anime, serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
good versus evil, rivalry, nuclear holocaust, chaos, escapades, heroic mission, murder, martial arts, fighter, post-apocalyptic future, master warrior, heroes ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, dystopian, psychotronic, twisted ...
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, satire, apocalypse, surrealism, cult, social satire, zeppelin, post-apocalyptic future, nuclear disaster, nuclear threat, absurdism ...
Time:
future
Place:
england, london
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Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A film adaptation of the Last Nanto General story arc from the manga, depicting the final battle between Kenshiro and Raoh that led to Kenshiro becoming the successor of Hokuto Shinken. Some events from the manga / anime have been excluded from the ...
Style:
anime, tense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
martial arts, nuclear holocaust, warrior, friendship, good versus evil, post apocalypse, fight to the death, fight, brother vs brother, battles, supernatural power, wrestler ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A film adaptation of the Holy Emperor story arc, which primarily depicted the conflict between Kenshiro and Souther. New characters Reina, one of Raoh's army officers who falls in love with him, and her brother Soga, Raoh's advisor, play ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
nuclear holocaust, supernatural power, heroes, battles, warrior, friendship, superhuman powers, emperor, brother vs brother, post apocalypse, fight, dark future ...
Time:
future, 2000s
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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, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, pandemic, supernatural, virus, zombie apocalypse, graphic violence, peril, fear, plague ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, atlanta, georgia
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Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
At the end of civilization, zombies greatly outnumber humans and everyday is a fight to see tomorrow. Just when he is about to give up that fight, rugged wanderer John Knox winds up being saved by a ragtag group of survivors lead by a man named ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense, serious
Plot:
zombie, survival, chaos, isolation, escapades, rescue, zombie apocalypse, revenge, good versus evil, human nature, moral dilemma, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A crack space pilot returns to earth to find the planet has been devastated by some unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Style:
psychotronic, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, alien, post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, robot, alien invasion, evil robot, kaiju, airplane, monster, distopia ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against an attack by a mutant cannibal.
Style:
apocalyptic, campy, scary, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, monster, distopia, mutant, murder, radiation, end of the world, survival, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, graphic violence, catastrophe ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the ...
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
space opera, space adventure, space, female nudity, spacecraft, robot dog, post-apocalyptic future, mad scientist, female soldier, scientist, laser gun, post nuclear ...
Time:
2000s, future
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their ...
Style:
art house, psychotronic, ambiguous ending, cult film, weird
Plot:
post apocalypse, distopia, apocalypse, hopes, surrealism, winter, underground, post-apocalyptic future, paranoia, balloon, frozen body, dungeon ...
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The world - devastated by the Great Epidemic - is governed by hordes of living dead. Three men - Igor and Alen, two hunters of dead and a scientist, Gyno - try to give an answer to what has happened to the human race. Alen and Igor leave for two ...
Style:
serious, scary, rough, brutal, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, zombie attack, walking dead, supernatural, survival, strong violent content, isolation, chaos, mad scientist, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
terminator, cyberpunk, cyborgs, exploitation, androids and robots, distopia, evil computer, buddies, monster, invasion, decapitation, fistfight ...
Time:
future, year 1987, near future
Place:
italy, manhattan new york city, guatemala, arizona, utah
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which could signal the end of the Cyborgs, and they inject it into a volunteer. When ...
Style:
futuristic, sexy, surreal, melancholic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
female bodybuilder, time travel, space and aliens, cyborgs, androids and robots, cyberpunk, alien, apocalypse, terminator, post apocalypse, brutality, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, year 1995, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
This consists of four short films by different directors. Rosselini's 'Chastity' ('Illibatezza') deals with an attractive air hostess who receives the unwelcome attentions of a middle aged American. Godard's 'New ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, surreal, anthology, contemplative ...
Plot:
thief, italian neorealism, religion, stewardess, satire, post-apocalyptic future, human nature, society, globalization, religions or cults, nuclear holocaust, remote control ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member ...
Style:
exciting, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, matriarchy, distopia, suspended animation, failed pilot, utopia, apocalypse, end of the world, sorority, post-apocalyptic future, heroes, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
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280K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Style:
futuristic, intense, neo noir, touching, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, judge, violent, drugs, brutality, police, lone hero, villain, gangsters, corruption ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
usa, america
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing ...
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, sword and sorcery, rescue, female protagonist, torture victim, arsonist, violence, exploitation, female fighter, female warrior, distopia, female exploitation ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
ice age, apocalypse, distopia, climate change, rivalry, isolation, future dystopia, obsession, survival, life is a bitch, society, chaos ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. ...
Style:
splatter, absurd, harsh, intense, campy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, survival, catastrophe, disaster, natural disaster, revenge, memory, first contact, finnish, fight scenes ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
russia
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been ...
Style:
futuristic, scenic, perverse, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, desert, bounty hunter, heroes, survival, life is a bitch, cyberpunk, distopia, soldier, post-apocalyptic future, chaos ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
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121K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is ...
Style:
dark fantasy, scary, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, post apocalypse, supernatural, distopia, good versus evil, apocalypse, future dystopia, monster, priest, vampire hunter, clergy, human versus monster ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller ...
Style:
serious, futuristic, stylized, captivating, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, orphan, apocalypse, survival, drought, future dystopia, teenager, save the world, teenage girl, escapades, life is a bitch, rescue ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the twinkling of an eye, a mass disappearance has occurred. Moments after the turmoil and confusion, the FBI is called in to investigate and locate the missing persons. For Agent Adam Riley (David White), it is personal. For Agent Charles Baker ...
Style:
christian film, biblical
Plot:
christian, christianity, faith, end of the world, distopia, religious, conspiracy, belief in god, flashback, miscarriage, apocalypse, religion ...
Time:
90s
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