| Silo (2023) | 8.1 | |
| My Daemon (2023) | 7.9 | |
| Pandorum (2009) | 6.7 | |
| I Am Legend (2007) | 7.2 | |
| Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) | 7.6 |
Post apocalyptic movies and TV shows – page 5
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
The year is 2022, and after an unlikely event, only one man is left on earth: Phil Miller, who used to be just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank. Now, in his RV, Phil searches the country for other survivors.
Style:
humorous, not serious, sitcom, offbeat, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
alone in the world, survival, post apocalypse, chaos, danger, survivor, save the world, virus, distopia, isolation, partner, deadly virus ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
tucson arizona, usa, arizona
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, psychotronic, futuristic, intense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
post apocalypse, ape, gorilla, talking animal, planet of the apes, future war, chimpanzee, revenge, near death experience, journey, animal, killer animal ...
Time:
2010s, near future, future, 2040s, year 2017
Place:
north america
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
TV show
Story:
2017: The greenhouse effect and global warming take their toll as droughts, floods, and hurricanes wreak mass destruction in a world gone mad, one family struggles to survive against all odds...
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, realistic, grim ...
Plot:
survival, global warming, post apocalyptic, natural disaster, climate change, ecological disaster, cautionary tale, dystopia, environmentalism, heat wave, warning, family bonds ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, future
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Within a couple of hours, a new disease wipes out almost all of mankind. Trying to avoid infection, people flee to remote locations, but they start seeing mysterious black figures, carrying away the dead and experimenting on them. Now, Lance and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
infection, apocalypse, post apocalypse, mutation, disease, nightmare, creature, death, post apocalyptic, pandemic, survival, medieval ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
Style:
apocalyptic, sinister, period piece, psychotronic
Plot:
suspended animation, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, exploration, eternal life, snake, survival, advanced technology, lost civilization, social commentary ...
Time:
future, 70s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior - a towering fighting machine.
Style:
futuristic, mecha, heroic, thrilling, grim ...
Plot:
giant robot, post apocalyptic, dystopia, monster, robot, battles, apocalypse, invasion, technology, survival, alien technology, military ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
apocalypse, natural disaster, sex, little girl, end of the world, on the road, post apocalyptic, redemption, orgy, survival, party, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand
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329K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, medical horror, bleak, clever ...
Plot:
virus, pandemic, epidemic, deadly virus, infected, infection, death, quarantine, plague, survival, disaster, medical ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2000, distant future, future ...
Place:
hong kong, minnesota, san francisco, california, bay area ...
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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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
100 years ago, titans suddenly appeared on Earth. Soon, human civilization veered on collapse due to the titans. Humans then built a giant wall to defend themselves. Within the giant walls, humans lived in peace, but, 100 years later, the giant wall ...
Style:
stylized, talky, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, monster, macabre, vengeance, violent, justice, female warrior, giant monster, visceral, adaptation, storytelling, kaiju ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo
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156K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Luxembourg, UK, Russia
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their ...
Style:
adult animation, surreal, apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
steampunk, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, survival, technology gone awry, vestiges of humanity, robot, fate of humanity, heroes, distopia, danger ...
Time:
future, 1940s, year 2009
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After a devastating toxic snowfall kills millions, Juan Salvo and a group of survivors in Buenos Aires must resist an invisible threat from another world.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, heroic
Plot:
snow, alien invasion, survival, post apocalyptic, reluctant hero, alien, resistance, desperation, snowstorm, isolation, claustrophobia, dystopia ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style:
apocalyptic, depressing, poetic, spiritual, twisted ...
Plot:
nuclear war, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, underground, disaster ...
Time:
distant future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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17K
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A posse of crooked cops, malevolent gangsters and a horde of walking dead are the centre point of this gruesome, tight, action packed, claustrophobic tale of retribution and escape. Penned like animals, on the top floor of a deserted high-rise ...
Style:
exciting, scary, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, female warrior, infected, infection, police brutality, murder, violence spree, gang, danger, wrong place wrong time, gory ...
Time:
turn of the century, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, isolation, infection, survivor, genetic mutation, death, chaos, danger, on the road, post apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In 2012, the world allegedly comes to an end at the hands of a human-made virus, ravaging the global populace and leaving only children untouched. It is at this time that vampires emerge from the recesses of the earth, likely followed by age-old ...
Style:
anime, captivating, exciting, disturbing, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
vampire, vampirism, battles, friendship, weapons, sword, post apocalypse, demon, vengeance, supernatural power, supernatural, fight ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, space and aliens, changing the past or future, evil alien, soldier, repeated event, foreknowledge ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2014, 2020s, 2010s ...
Place:
united kingdom, france, paris france, europe, big ben london ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak ...
Plot:
survival horror, post apocalypse, cannibalism, supermarket, survival, dystopian future, gang, cannibal, chaos and mayhem, social decay, danger, violence ...
Time:
future
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The year is 2043. A military occupation controls disenfranchised cities in post-war North America. Children are property of the State. A desperate Cree woman joins an underground band of vigilantes to infiltrate a State children’s academy and get ...
Style:
bleak, political, suspense, intense, tense ...
Plot:
distopia, post apocalyptic, rescue, mother daughter relationship, dystopia, brutality, gang, resilience, mother and daughter, totalitarian regime, female protagonist, colonialism ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, north america
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Genre: Short, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
Story:
In a war-torn land of man vs. robot, a young runaway slave searching for his father must ally with a broken and battle-scarred war-robot or be hunted down by his brutal overseers.
Style:
bleak, emotional, mecha
Plot:
robot, post apocalyptic, coming of age, survival, dystopia, slave, pursuit, runaway, desperation, wasteland, androids, moral dilemma ...
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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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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" ...
Style:
suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, infection, zombie apocalypse, survival, cannibalism, zombie attack, basement, gory, monster, supernatural, post apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
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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 ...
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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
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
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story:
It's an up-to-date setting of the 1951 sci-fi thriller. With the world blinded and the Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered, sighted survivors to fight this carnivorous plant invasion. With a brave new world of maniacs, warring ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, apocalyptic, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
apocalypse, deadly creature, survival horror, survival, supernatural, chaos, heroic mission, escapades, post apocalypse, monster, post apocalyptic, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london
Is relevant?
14K
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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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death ...
Style:
brutal, tense, horrifying, sexy, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, post apocalypse, vampire hunter, apocalypse, monster, survival, coming of age, religious fanaticism, blood, infected, vengeance, depression ...
Time:
future, 2010s, distant future
Place:
canada, usa
Is relevant?
29K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
virus, post apocalypse, twists and turns, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, epidemic, nightmare, infected, plot twist, isolation ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" ...
Style:
black and white, bleak, apocalyptic, experimental, stylized ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, wasteland, dystopic future, survival, isolation, dystopian future, minimal dialogue, post-apocalyptic future, battles, post apocalyptic, loneliness ...
Time:
future, year 1983, near future
Place:
japan, france, california, paris france
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