Post-apocalyptic future movies and TV shows – page 3

List of post-apocalyptic future movies

 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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A Wind Named Amnesia (1990)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A wind has swept the Earth taking all the memories from everyone. No one knows who they are, how to speak, or how to use the tools of modern civilization. Two years later a young man who has been re-educated travels across America on a mysterious ...
Style: anime, adult animation, apocalyptic, manga, esoteric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nude beach, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, cyberpunk, memory loss, experiment, father daughter relationship, beach, violence, travel, amnesia ...
Place: new york, japan, usa, san francisco, los angeles
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 7.0
 583K
Oblivion (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Iceland
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, visually appealing, visually stunning, suspense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian future, alien invasion, survival, cloning, danger, space travel, dystopia, resistance, mysterious character, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2013, near future, year 2000, distant future ...
Place: peru, seattle, empire state building manhattan new york city, new york, washington d.c. ...
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalyptic, dystopia, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, escape, dystopian future, one man army, earthquake, apocalypse, catastrophe, lone wolves ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, latin america ...
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Style: road movie, cult classic, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, dystopia, lone hero, end of the world, post apocalyptic, desert, mad max, camel, car chase, group of children, australian outback, wasteland ...
Time: future, 20th century, 80s
Place: australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
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 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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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Style: breathtaking, thought provoking, suspense, saga, powerful ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, dystopia, colony, planet of the apes, gorilla, monkey, animal attack, deadly virus, experiment gone awry, dystopian future, betrayal ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2020s, 2010s, near future ...
Place: san francisco, california, usa, north america
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 3.7
 883
Land of Doom (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, wasteland, post apocalyptic, distopia, desert, female warrior, biker, renegade, woman fights a man, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1986, near future
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 5.2
 14K
The Day (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.
Style: apocalyptic, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, survival horror, dystopia, trapped, countryside, dystopian future, danger, post apocalyptic, life is a bitch, epidemic ...
Time: future, 2010s
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The Moment After II: The Awakening (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In The New World Order, who can you trust? Religious "fanatics"? The government? Ragtag militia? Religious "fanatics"?After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley (David A.R. White) reunites with his friend ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, christian film, apocalyptic ...
Plot: religious persecution, faith, christian, special agent, undercover, religions or cults, chases and races, danger, society, rivalry, escapades, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: 21st century
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The Lost Future (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to ...
Style: stylized, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, melancholic ...
Plot: jungle, post apocalypse, survival, virus, medieval, plague, deadly virus, post apocalyptic, isolation, dystopian future, wilderness, distopia ...
Time: distant future, future
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Radioactive Dreams (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and ...
Style: parody, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, mutant, apocalypse, chaos, dystopian future, dark humor, danger, wasteland, post-apocalyptic future, survivor, private detective ...
Time: future, year 1985, 1940s, year 1986, 80s ...
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The Aftermath (1982)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts (Steve Barkett and Larry Latham) return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutants rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two pretty women and a couple of kids in a growing ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, retro ...
Plot: post apocalypse, biker, gang, astronaut, survival, mutant, battles, chaos, danger, rivalry, civilization, one against many ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
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 5.2
 705
Glen and Randa (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in ...
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious ...
Plot: post apocalypse, coming of age, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, acid, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, male nudity, distopia, nuclear disaster, dystopia, epidemic ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
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 3.3
 3K
I Am Omega (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead. [An Asylum film.]
Style: mockbuster, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virus, rescue, survival, post apocalypse, life is a bitch, rivalry, danger, supernatural, chaos, plague, dystopian future, society ...
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 5.2
 2K
Endgame (1983)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the year 2025, a nuclear holocaust has left New York City an irradiated, but not abandoned, wasteland. The ruined city is inhabited now by scavenger packs and telepathic mutants, who are persecuted by the elite survivors. Keeping the people ...
Style: apocalyptic, cult classic, action adventure, retro, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, world war three, post apocalyptic, wasteland, post-apocalyptic future, mutant, manhunt, telepathy, distopia, survival, rock, sexual content ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 5.1
 6K
Steel Dawn (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: post apocalypse, desert, survival, sword and sorcery, martial arts, sorcery, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, heroes, vengeance, wasteland, disaster ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, future
Place: california
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 7.8
 15K
Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, offbeat, enigmatic, humorous ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, alien, absurdism, satire, distopia, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism, transformation, time travel, totalitarianism ...
Time: future
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia, poland
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 5.5
 8K
Robot Jox (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, retro, stylized, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: robot, androids and robots, post apocalypse, man versus machine, piloted giant robot, survival, cyborgs, stop motion, post apocalyptic, androids, giant robot, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future, near future, year 2016, 80s
Place: usa, tucson arizona, alaska
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20 Years After (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!
Style: apocalyptic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, life is a bitch, pregnancy, escapades, danger, society, dystopian future, babies and infants, post nuclear, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future, 21st century
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Teenage Caveman (2002)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, caveman, bare chested male, lesbianism, decapitation, plague, teenage life, youth, dystopian future, apocalypse ...
Time: future, stone age
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 6.4
 36K
The Omega Man (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, scary, bad ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, plague, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, pandemic, virus, dystopia, transformation, loneliness, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1971, year 1975, near future ...
Place: los angeles, usa, china, woodstock, california ...
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 5.6
 131K
Judge Dredd (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, police, dystopic future, dystopian future, dystopia, apocalypse, post apocalypse, good versus evil, brutality, superhero, law enforcement, judge ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: new york, usa
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Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, intense, serious, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, time travel, man versus machine, post apocalypse, dystopian future, terminator, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, san francisco, california
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The Lawless Land (1988)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Action-adventure set in a world of the near-future, where young love is forbidden among the lower classes. Nevertheless, one couple defies their police-state world to fight and hold on to whatever love they can find.
Style: action adventure, tense, independent film, apocalyptic
Plot: forbidden love, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, police station, class struggle, dystopia, forbidden romance, totalitarianism, surveillance, young love, chase, escape ...
Time: near future, future
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Zombie Hunter (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Zombie Hunter is set in a post-apocalyptic Zombie wasteland caused by the mysterious street drug "Natas". We follow one man who has nothing left other than a beat up Camaro and a trunk full of guns and booze. He runs down Flesh Eaters, ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, bleak, retro ...
Plot: gory, apocalypse, survival, infected, epidemic, lone wolves, heroes, zombie, mutant, plague, chaos, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive ...
Style: satanic, saga, apocalyptic, exciting, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, pandemic, post apocalyptic, epidemic, end of the world, chaos, female warrior, virus, one woman army, monster, supernatural ...
Time: future, year 2017, year 2016
Place: washington d.c., usa
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Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Jordan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to ...
Style: suspense, serious, stylized, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: creature, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, alien contact, military, giant monster, giant creature, evil alien, fictional war, missile, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: usa, detroit
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 4.7
 625
Ravagers (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Plot: post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, dystopia, post nuclear, post apocalyptic, distopia, wasteland, epidemic, survival, atomic bomb ...
Time: year 1979, 90s, future
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 3.7
 238
Empire of Ash (1989)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, action adventure, fast paced, bleak ...
Plot: post apocalypse, wasteland, post-apocalyptic future, survival, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, dystopia, post nuclear, mad max, plague, rescue mission, violent ...
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