| Fallout (2024) | 8.3 | |
| Badlands (1973) | 7.7 | |
| Tank Girl (1995) | 5.4 | |
| Children of Men (2006) | 7.9 | |
| Stampede (2022) | 6.5 |
Wasteland movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant wasteland movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful, serious, bleak and exciting films and TV shows about / with wasteland, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, violence, survival, apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, post apocalyptic and escapades plots mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres shot in USA, Australia, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as wasteland: Phoenix the Warrior (1988), Badland Hunters (2024), The Blood of Heroes (1989), Red Canyon (2008), Hardware (1990), Fallout (2024), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), A Boy and His Dog (1975), Tank Girl (1995), Sanctified (2022).
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List of wasteland movies
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to the imagination as they battle each other in various ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, sexploitation, post apocalypse, female nudity, battles, save the world, survival, matriarchy, chaos, lone wolves, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
wasteland, post apocalypse, earthquake, reptile, disaster, violence, apocalypse, problem, outlaw gang, lawlessness, gang, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
seoul, asia, korea
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, intense, serious, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopian future, martial arts, post apocalyptic, violence, blood, revenge, contests and competitions, escapades, athlete's life, life is a bitch, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, year 1989, near future
Place:
new jersey, australia
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In Red Canyon, Regina and Devon return to their family home in the badlands of Utah to face the memory of a brutal attack - and put it behind them. But in coming home they awaken a killing rage in a town where everyone has ties that bind.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot:
meth lab, sheriff, wasteland, held captive, cave, small town sheriff, haunted by the past, drug dealing, violence spree, getting home, pervert, perversion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
utah
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style:
bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, apocalypse, post apocalypse, cyborgs, killer robot, robot, androids, dystopia, man versus machine, desert, artificial intelligence, wasteland ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new york
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374K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind ...
Style:
captivating, spaghetti western, dark comedy, psychotronic, biting ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, nuclear, arizona desert, mutation, desert, destruction, capitalism, wasteland, bandit, underground bunker, ruins, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, north america
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Style:
apocalyptic, road movie, perverse, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, desert, loner, car chase, planet, chase, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, oil ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future, year 1982, near future ...
Place:
australia, oceania, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the ...
Style:
cult classic, surreal, humorous, futuristic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dog, post apocalypse, dystopia, desert, distopia, nuclear holocaust, wedding, survival, wasteland, dystopian future, violent, escape ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
phoenix arizona, oklahoma
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37K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
Style:
slapstick, exciting, futuristic, offbeat, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female protagonist, desert, punk, post apocalypse, female warrior, strong female lead, kickass women, wasteland, tank, cyberpunk, female fighter, comic book ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
australia, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An outlaw is rescued from death by a nun who is traveling through the Badlands. She nurses him back to health in exchange for him guiding her to a Church in Williston. A deep friendship develops between these two unlikely people as they learn to ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
wasteland, nun, church, outlaw, western hero, travel, shooting, gunfight, fight, relationships, problem, road trip ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
north dakota, south dakota
Is relevant?
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a difficult separation, Serge Jr. takes his daughter Lily, 9, on a truck ride across Canada. They head to Alberta and its legendary Badlands World’s Best Truck Rodeo, a race Lily and him have been dreaming about. On the road, under his ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
wasteland, father daughter relationship, fatherhood, truck, father and daughter, father, daughter, family drama, road trip, relationships, family relations, parent child relationship ...
Place:
poetic realism
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A motor-mouthed outsider with no memory of his past is offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll ...
Style:
satirical, apocalyptic, captivating, psychological, dark comedy ...
Plot:
delivery man, post apocalypse, wasteland, road trip, game of death, driver, car, delivery, satire, money problems, escapades, male star appears nude ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The Rapture has come and gone, in its wake is a famished wasteland filled with desperate looters, marauders and scavengers. In this third installment of The Revelation Road Saga, Josh McManus finds himself in a dangerous border-town at the edge of ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, christian film ...
Plot:
wasteland, post apocalypse, christian, desert, prophet, drifter, manhunt, gang, prophecy, survival, mission, christianity ...
Time:
future
Is relevant?
27K
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Style:
surreal, philosophical, apocalyptic, political, esoteric ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, artificial intelligence, immortality, satire, medieval, rebellion, surrealism, death, commune, old woman, old man ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, 20th century
Place:
arizona
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two ...
Style:
visually stunning, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, female protagonist, mad max, distopia, mother daughter relationship, chase, wasteland, kidnapped girl, warrior, revenge, loss of mother ...
Time:
future
Place:
oceania, australia
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, slasher, psychotronic, grindhouse ...
Plot:
wasteland, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, woman with a gun, distopia, exploitation, motorcycle gang, desert, machine gun ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
alaska
Is relevant?
37K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, stylized, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyborgs, martial arts, post apocalypse, violence, chase, vengeance, androids and robots, one man army, chaos, tough heroes, female robot ...
Time:
future, year 1989, year 2019, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, georgia, usa, charleston south carolina, south carolina ...
Is relevant?
2K
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:
apocalyptic, independent film, fantasy adventure, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, sword and sorcery, wasteland, female protagonist, violence, arsonist, torture victim, rescue, sorcery, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, female warrior ...
Is relevant?
1.3M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style:
futuristic, touching, feel good, sweet, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
loneliness, robot, space travel, outer space, post apocalypse, technology, love, artificial intelligence, ecology, dystopia, happy ending, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 2008, 2000s
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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 ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A paleontologist gets a tip from an oil worker in the Badlands that may set her career back on track.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
redemption, wasteland, rivalry, life is a bitch, paleontology, parents and children, money, escapades, danger, family relations, brutality, addiction ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.
Style:
apocalyptic, fantasy adventure, dieselpunk, action adventure, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gay rape, rape, post apocalypse, wasteland, post apocalyptic, desert, barbarian, post-apocalyptic future, woman with a gun, motorcycle, bare butt, decapitation ...
Time:
year 2019, future, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the ...
Style:
cult classic, apocalyptic, exciting, grindhouse, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids, dystopia, robot, cyberpunk, sexy woman, female robot, heroic mission, post apocalyptic, androids and robots, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1987, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place:
nevada, las vegas, reno nevada
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffeur Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, action packed, bleak ...
Plot:
plague, kidnapping, wasteland, post apocalypse, mercenary, pandemic, biohazard, infected, rescue mission, violence, survival, chase ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
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, apocalyptic, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, orphan, apocalypse, teenage girl, drought, dystopian future, teenager, escapades, danger, rescue, life is a bitch, chaos ...
Time:
future, 20th century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, neo western, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, cyborgs, distopia, cyberpunk, wasteland, androids, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future ...
Time:
near future, future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lucía and her son live isolated from society in a flat place where there’s practically no life. The small family unit formed by mother and son hardly ever receives visitors, and their goal is to lead a quiet existence. At first they succeed, but ...
Style:
atmospheric, powerful, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
wasteland, mental disorder, families, society, family relations, violence, violent, evil, creature, terror, beast, threat ...
Time:
19th century
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile ...
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, rough, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, murder, post apocalyptic, danger, race against time, rivalry, life is a bitch, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2016, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
new york, colorado, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
"Mad Max" clone set in the not-too-distant future about a group of people trying to escape to a safe haven called Neon City after a solar disaster that has decimated the Earth.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, strong sexual content, bounty hunter, scientist, chaos, society, danger, post apocalyptic, dystopia, wasteland, mutant ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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