Apocalyptic movies and TV shows – page 4

List of apocalyptic movies

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The Blood of Heroes (1989)
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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The Hunger Games (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, teen, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, family outing, kids
Plot: survival, female protagonist, dystopian future, death, game of death, dystopia, distopia, competition, contests and competitions, youth, heroine, danger ...
Time: future, near future, year 2012, 2010s
Place: north america, seattle
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Land of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style: suspense, cult classic, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, violence, zombie attack, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, gory, virus, zombie outbreak, survival horror, cannibalism, infected ...
Time: future, year 2005, 90s, year 1995, 2000s
Place: pittsburgh
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 5.3
 49K
The Colony (2013)
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
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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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Isn't Anyone Alive? (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In a Japanese military hospital, a mysterious pandemic strikes and quickly kills seemingly at random. A group of unconnected individuals must come to terms with their own impending deaths, and the fragile absurdity of life.
Style: apocalyptic, existential, philosophical, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: death, mortality, pandemic, epidemic, absurdism, body horror, experimental narrative, nihilism, panic, claustrophobia, military hospital, isolation ...
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A Thief in the Night (1972)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future. As dramatic, earth shaking events begin to unfold around her, Patty realizes she is living in the end times spoken of in biblical prophecy.
Style: christian film, apocalyptic, independent film, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: christian, female protagonist, evangelist, post apocalypse, prophecy, religious, doomsday, salvation, young woman, chaos, evangelical christianity, catastrophe ...
Time: 70s
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Night of the Comet (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two girls from the Valley wake up to find that a passing comet has eradicated their world and left behind a mysterious red-dust and a pack of cannibal mutants. With the help of a friendly truck driver, the girls save the earth from a villainous ...
Style: scary, black comedy, parody, cult classic, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: post apocalypse, disaster, zombie, mad scientist, end of the world, survival, radio station, nightmare, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, teenager, dystopia ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style: grindhouse, classic horror, creepy, dark, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, infection, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, epidemic, virus, living dead, siege, shopping mall, gory, isolation ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, pittsburgh, bolivia, philadelphia, usa
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Independence Day (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, boys' night, family outing
Plot: alien invasion, extraterrestrial, invasion, end of the world, ufo, space and aliens, evil alien, first contact, survival, alien encounter, alien, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, future, year 1996, jurassic
Place: new york, washington d.c., usa, bombay india, london ...
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 ...
Style: futuristic, intense, sexy, suspense, saga ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, dystopia, time machine, apocalypse, terminator, chase, chaos, time traveler ...
Time: year 2003, future, 2000s, 2030s, near future ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, beverly hills
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style: scary, creepy, cult classic, sexy, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, living dead, post apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, infected, zombie outbreak, blood, zombie attack, terror ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, year 2000, year 2003 ...
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
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 6.4
 46K
Stake Land (2010)
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
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The Walking Dead (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 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, frightening, scary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, walking dead, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, peril, plague, fear ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, infected, female fighter, virus, tough girl, infection, zombie apocalypse, pandemic, chase, monster, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s
Place: washington d.c., tokyo, new york, moscow russia, canada ...
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Christmas Icetastrophe (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This Christmas, a super frozen object is going to slam into the Earth. In the middle of a small town, and very quickly, dreams of a "White Christmas" will turn into a FROZEN NIGHTMARE.
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: disaster, frozen, climate change, christmas, winter, frozen alive, evacuation, panic, snow, small town, xmas, apocalypse ...
Place: usa
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 7.8
 221K
Brazil (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time: future, year 1985, year 1984
Place: england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
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 5.4
 37K
Tank Girl (1995)
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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Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, retro, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, dystopia, nuclear bomb, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, survival horror, nuclear explosion, post-apocalyptic future, bombing, nuclear threat ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night
Style: gothic, grindhouse, scary, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, horror for children
Plot: post apocalypse, vampire, dystopia, virus, disease, zombie, cemetery, chase, dracula, distopia, monster, disaster ...
Time: future, distant future, year 1965, year 1968, 60s
Place: italy, rome italy
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 7.9
 61K
Jericho (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style: captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, disaster, small town, danger, chaos, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, conspiracy, distopia, leadership ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
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 7.5
 9K
Survivors (2008)
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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 7.1
 207K
Melancholia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, psychological, surreal, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: depression, wedding, end of the world, apocalypse, sister sister relationship, nihilism, collision, mental health, disaster, female nudity, mental disorder, human nature ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
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Raiga: The Monster from the Deep Sea (2009)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When the Earth's ecosystem is disrupted due to global warming, a plethora of prehistoric sea monsters wage war on Japan. Led by the powerful Raiga, the monsters ravage the city of Asakusa.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating
Plot: kaiju, global warming, giant monster, dinosaur, monster terrorizes city, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, monster, human versus monster, problem, destruction, man versus nature ...
Place: japan, tokyo
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Seoul Station (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Suk-gyu is desperately looking for his runaway daughter. He spares neither money nor effort and after a while his search leads to results. One of his contacts claims to have found the girl. But joy is replaced by shock when he finds out that she ...
Style: adult animation, anime, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, death, violence, murder, death threat, subway, danger, zombie, pimp, survival, zombie apocalypse, epidemic ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: seoul, asia, south korea, north korea
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 4.1
 1K
Asteroid (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An out of touch family man moves with his wife and daughter from the big city to his dream house on the outskirts of a small town just in time for the apocalypse.
Style: apocalyptic, satirical, disturbing, captivating, ironic ...
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, family relations, asteroid, father daughter relationship, meteor shower, changing lives, husband wife relationship, satire, lifestyle change, family drama, end of the world ...
Time: 21st century
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 5.2
 899
The Blackout (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: blackout, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, solar eclipse, white trash, student, fight, eclipse, human nature, fear ...
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Battlefield Earth (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
Style: futuristic, cult classic, dutch angle, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, violence, slavery, escape attempt, danger, escapades, survival, rat ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, distant future
Place: denver colorado, washington d.c.
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 7.1
 5K
Jeremiah (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, atmospheric, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virus, plague, worldwide chaos, apocalypse, chaos, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, chaos and mayhem, vestiges of humanity, distopia, dystopian future, partner ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: usa
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 5.0
 226K
The Happening (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style: tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
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