Apocalyptic movies and TV shows – page 5
Best films
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the USS Pennsylvania as Riley and crew survive the apocalypse in the submarine.
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
submarine, zombie, apocalypse, infected, walking dead, post apocalyptic, isolation, fear, survival horror, catastrophe, struggle for survival, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, Romania
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A visually spectacular dystopian take on an Arab world torn apart by social disorder.
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, struggle for survival, life is a bitch, humanity, fate of humanity, cat versus mouse, city life, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Place:
indiana
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While a virus that causes the dead to reanimate brings the world to its knees, the scientist responsible entrusts his cataclysmic findings to Katya Nevin, a troubled ex-war correspondent turned anchor-woman at W.W News. While she and the rest of her ...
Style:
apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot:
zombie, post apocalyptic, epidemic, post apocalypse, survival horror, monster, mutation, crisis, mythical creature, infected, plague, quarantine ...
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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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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Style:
surreal, cult classic, visually stunning, gothic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
steampunk, dystopia, children, childhood, friendship, good versus evil, surrealism, cloning, flea, trippy, escape, mad scientist ...
Time:
future
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of teenagers wake up to a world where the adults have mysteriously disappeared and all technology has ceased to function.
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, disappearance, group of teenagers, mysterious event, young adult, teenage protagonist, teenager, adolescence, teenage boy, coming of age, friendship ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, two young women cling to life in an abandoned resort. They must survive in silence, in mortal fear of attracting the hordes of undead that roam the Earth. When their compound runs out of fuel, they are forced into the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
post-apocalyptic future, monster, disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, murder, resort, zombie, sex, zombie apocalypse, flashback, drowning ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, saga, psychotronic, classic horror, space horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, gorilla, revolution, monkey, post-apocalyptic future, survival, rebellion, time dilation ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 70s
Place:
tokyo
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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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137K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany, Brazil, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, action packed, apocalyptic, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female protagonist, strong female character, dystopia, woman with a gun, secret movement, cyberpunk, strong female lead, rebelliousness, superheroine, dystopian future, female killer, kick-butt women ...
Time:
future, near future, 2000s
Place:
berlin germany
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Astronaut Brent is sent to rescue Taylor but crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor did in the original film. Taylor has disappeared into the Forbidden Zone so Brent and Nova try to follow and find him. He discovers a cult of humans ...
Style:
apocalyptic, saga, futuristic, depressing, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, ape, astronaut, planet of the apes, apocalypse, dystopia, space and aliens, time travel, desert, gorilla, monkey, outer space ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, tokyo
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has ...
Style:
futuristic, saga, philosophical, reflective, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick, kids, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, virtual reality, dystopia, post apocalypse, prophecy, chosen one, distopia, man versus machine, robot, alternate reality, existentialism ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, virtual reality, distopia, robot, post apocalyptic, alternate reality, chosen one, dystopia, resistance, prophecy, one against many ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 23rd century, 2000s, distant future ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style:
bleak, intense, atmospheric, apocalyptic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, boy, hopes, sex scene, dysfunctional society, survival, chaos, danger, social differences, life is a bitch, countryside ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s
Place:
tokyo
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140K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vampire, dystopian future, virus, vampirism, epidemic, supernatural, distopia, pandemic, cure, apocalypse, dystopia, female vampire ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 2019, near future, 2010s ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, suspense, dramatic, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, epidemic, wilderness, end of the world, father daughter relationship, virus, survival, infection ...
Time:
future, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by ...
Style:
apocalyptic, gloomy, serious, captivating, futuristic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, end of the world, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, top secret, train, distopia, epidemic, dystopia, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, apocalyptic, visual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ufo, end of the world, alien encounter, alien, alien invasion, alien contact, evil alien, happy ending, first contact, robot, extraterrestrial, apocalypse ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 20th century, 1920s, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., virginia, new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, eye, epidemic, sole survivor, child in peril, child, humanity in peril, struggle for survival, humanity, vestiges of humanity, human existence ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
distopia, memory loss, dystopian future, epidemic, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, memory lapse, fate of humanity, humanity, struggle for survival, vestiges of humanity, memory ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own ...
Style:
road movie, suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
insomnia, little girl, sleep deprivation, female protagonist, meditation, young widow, brother sister relationship, daughter, police officer killed, ex soldier, worldwide chaos, dystopia ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When zombies overrun San Francisco, a desperate group survives by locking themselves inside Alcatraz Prison. When the undead breach the island, our heros are forced to return to the mainland overrun with the undead.
Style:
apocalyptic, scary, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie attack, undead, zombie, on the run, survival, gory, danger, supernatural, prison, walking dead, zombie survival, struggle for survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
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552
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival horror, dystopia, escapades, quarantine, corporation, death, post apocalypse, plague, powerful corporation, bio weapon, laboratory, survival ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set in the future, the city of Shanghai battle to defend itself against an ongoing attack by an alien force that has attacked and laid siege to numerous cities around the globe in it's quest to harvest a hidden energy only found on earth.
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, tense, captivating
Plot:
air battle, fantasy world, courage, dystopian future, gunfight, protection, friendship, doom, danger, heroes, war, land grab ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future
Place:
shanghai
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Action - When a shower of massive meteors threatens an extinction level on Earth, the world's greatest minds devise a dangerous plan that will take the planet off its axis in order to avoid the impact. - Tia Carrere, Jason Brooks, Robert Davi
Style:
apocalyptic, tension, suspense, grim, dark
Plot:
disaster, asteroid, natural disaster, earth, mass destruction, catastrophe, chaos, survival, countdown, sacrifice, panic, rescue mission ...
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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: 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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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, tense, apocalyptic, serious ...
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, cold war, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place:
california, usa, bay area, san francisco
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to ...
Style:
futuristic, cyber, stylized, tech noir, cult classic ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, dystopia, dystopian future, heroic mission, danger, computers and web, computer cracker, artificial intelligence, yakuza, hacking ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s ...
Place:
japan, arizona, beijing china, canada
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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
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