Abandoned city movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant abandoned city movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspenseful, bleak, suspense, tense, dark and serious films and TV shows about / with abandoned city, survival, danger, death, isolation, blood, violence, murder, gun and distopia plots mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Horror genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
95
TOP 10 movies tagged as abandoned city: Vanishing on 7th Street (2010), Chernobyl (2019), The Big Game (2020), The Colony (2013), Arctic Void (2022), The Girl with All the Gifts (2016), Chernobyl Diaries (2012), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Persons Unknown (2010), WALL·E (2008).
Best films
New films
List of abandoned city movies
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, serious, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, disappearance, vestiges of humanity, group of strangers, supernatural, darkness, survival, hospital, danger, chaos, death ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Is relevant?
1.0M
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dramatization of the true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history, the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Style:
dark, atmospheric, harsh, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
radiation, nuclear power plant, nuclear holocaust, nuclear reactor, disaster, radiation poisoning, save the day, nuclear explosion, salvation, abandoned city, evacuation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
year 1986, 2010s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
chernobyl, ussr, soviet union, ukraine, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Sixteen contestants of a new survival show are taken to the Siberian taiga to compete for the price of one million euros. The rules are simple: no food, personal belongings, electricity, communications and civilization for hundreds of kilometers ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fictional reality show, survival, characters killed one by one, abandoned city, murder, camping, escape, forest, twists and turns, rape victim, abandoned house, graphic violence ...
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
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, dark, tense, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, starvation, epidemic, ice age, danger, survival horror, dystopia, cannibalism, underground bunker, distopia ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
antarctica
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When the power mysteriously fails, and almost everyone vanishes from a small tourist vessel in the Arctic, fear becomes the master for the three who remain. Forced ashore, the men deteriorate in body and mind until a dark truth emerges that compels ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, ambiguous ending, crying
Plot:
arctic, tourist, conspiracy, isolation, struggle for survival, secret, snow, ghost town, trap, occult, ship, trapped ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style:
dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, military, infection, zombie apocalypse, teacher, scientist, zombie child, children, abandoned city ...
Time:
future, year 2016
Place:
london
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, surprise ending, creepy ...
Plot:
radiation, tourist, nuclear power plant, death, survival, abandoned building, stranded, brutality, nuclear radiation, group of friends, virus, mutant ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, gothic, lovecraft ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
small town, insanity, supernatural horror, book, paranoia, ghost town, investigation, hallucination, gory, novelist, writers, american horror ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, distant future
Place:
new england, new hampshire, manhattan new york city, england, europe ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat ...
Plot:
group of strangers, trapped, mysterious place, confined, captivity, twists and turns, riddles and clues, mind game, experiment, isolation, manipulation, dark past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
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?
24K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, small town, military, hotel, gory, monster, good versus evil, creature feature, danger, eaten alive, disaster, sheriff ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, cockroach, post nuclear, nuclear holocaust, abandoned city, disaster, post apocalyptic, distopia, motorcycle, wasteland, nuclear explosion ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 70s, near future
Place:
las vegas, usa, new york, detroit, california ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
870K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style:
intense, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, post apocalyptic, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world ...
Time:
future, year 2007, near future, year 2013, jurassic ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
418K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
train, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, violence, social differences, class struggle, winter ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
east asia, britain, south korea
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Following the collapse of civilization, one storied hotel stands among the ruins of Tokyo’s Ginza district. Overrun by nature, this lone hotel continues to defy humanity’s collapse. Current guests: zero. Check-ins scheduled today: zero. ...
Style:
atmospheric, existential, melancholic, meditative, surreal ...
Plot:
hotel, post apocalyptic, survival, artificial intelligence, ruins, dystopia, isolation, urban, abandonment, abandoned city, loneliness, macabre ...
Time:
near future
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Valdivia is a notorious drunk in a Patagonian dead-end town. His current job is to deliver a golden sheep for the mysterios Sr. Ramenfort.
Style:
melancholic, art house, dark comedy, road movie
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, alcoholism, existentialism, abandoned city, character study, winter, hopelessness, bittersweet, moral ambiguity, small town life, absurdism ...
Place:
argentina, patagonia
Is relevant?
1K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A couple embarks on a weekend getaway only to find the island curiously deserted. After stumbling upon the town’s dark secret, they trigger a time loop, forcing them to relive a demented cycle of terror with seemingly no means of escape.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, psychological horror, mystical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time loop, night, island, rehearsal, dark secret, isolation, nightmare, supernatural horror, time warp, mysticism, driven mad, abandoned city ...
Is relevant?
302
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Many years after a great tragedy killed 90% of the people in Japan, three girls arrive in the ruins of Tokyo. In the devastated capital, their unusually clean clothes set them apart. But that's not the only strange thing about them - they also ...
Style:
anime, disturbing, captivating, entertaining, dark ...
Plot:
radiation, rescue mission, genetic engineering, mission, nuclear disaster, post apocalyptic, squad, post apocalypse, dystopian future, radioactivity, contamination, dystopia ...
Time:
near future
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the anomalous zone of Chernobyl, under the protective sarcophagus of the fourth power unit, the Global Kintek Corporation is carrying out illegal construction. A special interstate commission is trying to prevent these plans, but right during a ...
Style:
tense, captivating, intense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, friendship, powerful corporation, fantasy world, danger, supernatural ability, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, memory loss, rescue, demolished city, killing, radiation ...
Place:
chernobyl
Is relevant?
399
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Hungary
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Eckermann called Little Cloud, works in the Meteorological Office, but prefers to daydream in his bathtub. On his office computer he elaborates an absolute method for safe winning.
Style:
bleak, tragic ending
Plot:
melancholy, urban decay, loneliness, character study, working class, isolation, friendship, abandoned city, moral ambiguity, refugee, minimalism, hedonism ...
Place:
eastern europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ...
Style:
serious, tension, bleak, suspense, black and white
Plot:
post war, social justice, ethics, humanism, community, honor, social realism, solidarity, power struggle, lone hero, loot, resilience ...
Time:
1940s, year 1945
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freed Polish soldiers are trapped in a small town in Germany during the last days of World War II. After a doctor's daughter is raped by a concentration camp worker, the Poles allow her and her father to stay in the house that is their ...
Style:
tension, bleak, intense, dramatic, psychological ...
Plot:
world war two, post war, trauma, violence, moral dilemma, pow, moral ambiguity, mistrust, conflict, revenge, survival, occupation ...
Place:
germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
retro, exciting, tech noir, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, cyberpunk, dystopia, escape, post apocalyptic, race against time, rescue, post apocalypse, hostage, lone hero, taxi, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 1997, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set in the south Texas town of Sucio Sangre near the vicious Mexican border, BLOOD SOMBRERO stars Billy Blair as a nameless thief hired by the ruthless crime lord Lucifer (Nick Gomez) to find a strange box with unknown contents. Meanwhile a ...
Style:
neo noir, bleak, tense, suspenseful, neo western ...
Plot:
violent, crime boss, female fight, woman fights a man, criminal underworld, mexican border, hunting, anti hero, bounty hunter, showdown, abandoned city, loot ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After WWIII has devastated America, a small band of female warriors attempt to survive long enough to make it to the last city left. The problem is dictator Rollins doesn't want her city overpopulating so she sends out her team of mercenaries ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, surprise ending
Plot:
post apocalypse, guts, post-apocalyptic future, killing, nudity, chase, violence, blood, death, female nudity, abandoned city, danger ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
There’s a claw-fisted, genocidal maniac terrorizing the planet of endless illusion, and only Van, a tight-lipped loner in a jet black tuxedo, can bring the scoundrel to justice. Armed with his shape-shifting sword and a mechanized suit of armor, ...
Style:
anime, mecha, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
desert, unlikely partners, adventurer, rivalry, danger, vengeance, escapades, revenge, anti hero, vigilante justice, pursuit, swordplay ...
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A busload of tourists stops in to visit a small European town. What they don't know is that the town is completely inhabited by vampires.
Style:
classic horror, grindhouse, gothic, suspense, psychotronic
Plot:
vampire, female nudity, supernatural, deadly creature, porn, 666, occult, cemetery, cannibal, abandoned city, peeping tom, poker ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style:
bloody, cult classic, tense, splatter, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, living dead, virus, survival, violence, post apocalypse, mad scientist, gory, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, pittsburgh, usa
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five kids wake up in a world where everybody has disappeared.
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, death, alone, teenage girl, disappearance, survival, teenage boy, elevator, fight, fictional city, church, fear ...
Place:
france
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Bad things happen when innocent blood is shed. In the early 1700s, Lord Sodom Ichibei is happily celebrating his wedding day when his wife-to-be suddenly dies. In his search for an explanation, he kills any and every suspect he comes across. When ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
murder, burned alive, supernatural, vengeance, rivalry, gory, afterlife, life is a bitch, danger, curses spells and rituals, husband wife relationship, vengeful ghost ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
japan, asia
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
