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This is a list of apocalyptic feature-length films. All films within this list feature either the end of the world, a prelude to such an end (such as a world taken over by a viral infection), and/or a post-apocalyptic setting.
- Army of The Dead
- Black Crab
- Resident Evil
- Rim of The World
- Jung_E
- White Noise
- #alive
- I Am Mother
- Arq
- Awake
Directed by Zack Snyder, ‘Army of the Dead‘ is a post-apocalyptic zombie heist film set in a quarantined Las Vegas after a zombie outbreak. When casino owner Bly Tanaka approaches Scott Ward (Dave Bautista) with a risky mission to retrieve $200 million from a vault before the city is nuked, he assembles a diverse team including his former allies, a...
Directed by Adam Berg, ‘Black Crab’ is a Swedish action-thriller film distributed by Netflix. Noomi Rapace portrays a speed skater named Edh, who’s drafted into a dangerous mission: skating across sea ice behind enemy lines to deliver a mysterious package that could end a war. The narrative oscillates between thrilling chases, intense combat, and t...
A film that kickstarted an entire franchise and achieved cult status, ‘Resident Evil’ is based on a popular video game of the same name. Featuring Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, and Eric Mabius, it shows how an underground facility owned by the Umbrella Corporation gets contaminated with the T-virus, a virus the staff has been exp...
This science-fiction adventure film, directed by Joseph McGinty Nichol (McG), is based on a script penned by Zack Stentz. At a southern Californian summer camp named ‘Rim of the World,’ socially reclusive Alex forms an unlikely alliance with fellow campers Zhen Zhen, Dariush, and Gabriel. Their ordinary camp experience darkens when alien ships inva...
Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, this South Korean sci-fi film is set in a post-apocalyptic 22nd-century Earth, when humans inhabit man-made shelters in space. A civil war ensues when three shelters form the Adrian Republic, challenging the Allied Forces. Captain Yun Jung-yi, a renowned mercenary, fights for the Allied Forces to fund her daughter’s medica...
Based on the 1985 novel by Don DeLillo, ‘White Noise‘ is an absurdist comedy-drama film directed by Noah Baumbach. Featuring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle, the film is set in the 1980s, capturing the life of an academic named Jack Gladney, a professor of “Hitler studies,” his fourth wife Babette, and their blended family. Their lives, ...
This South Korean zombie film might just be the most relatable movie on quarantine you will see in 2020. ‘#Alive’ is the story of a video game live streamer, Joon-woo (Yoo Ah-in), and how he survives a zombie apocalypse when he is forced to live alone in his apartment. What makes this film even more relatable is not just the quarantining protocol b...
‘I Am Mother’ is yet another science thriller set in a post-apocalyptic world. A girl, Daughter (Clara Rugaard), lives in a bunker and has been brought up by a robot called Mother (Rose Byrne’s voice) who is helping to repopulate the Earth and instilling the appropriate skills and values that a person must have to exist on the planet. The world of ...
A couple gets stuck in a time loop inside a lab where they get attacked by a bunch of mask raiders at the beginning of each day. They have to adapt and learn to fight off these raiders and, at the same time, develop a technology that can act as a power source to save the world from its Judgement Day. Every time the couple wakes up to find themselve...
Awake takes place in a world where a global catastrophe wipes out any and every electronic device available to humankind. Along with that, people also lose their ability to sleep and stay awake for days on end, which automatically leads to death. Amid such a crisis, mother of two Jill Adams discovers that her youngest child, Matilda, is still able ...
The End. DIRECTOR: Joshua Oppenheimer. CAST: Tilda Swinton, George MacKay & Michael Shannon. The final days of the human race take on a musical finale. All of humanity comes to a screeching halt thanks to the absurd choices of the rich and powerful. The elites flee to their bunkers while all of civilization crumbles.
- Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) The dystopian future has never been more thrilling than it is in George Miller’s gorgeously shot action film. Set in a desert wasteland where survivors fight for water and gasoline in monstrous customized vehicles, it’s by far the best installment of the Mad Max saga, with a series of dazzling set pieces anchored by Charlize Theron’s towering performance as heroine Imperator Furiosa.
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) The directorial debut of Hustlers writer-director Lorene Scafaria begins with the news that a meteor will destroy all life on Earth in three weeks.
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Maybe the first sign of the end times is that your partner isn’t acting like themselves. Philip Kaufman’s effectively chilling remake of the 1956 “pod people” classic proposes a very different kind of pandemic: one in which people are slowly replaced by their identical doubles while they sleep, making it impossible to tell friends and loved ones from invaders.
- Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut (1986) Frank Oz’s musical-comedy classic premiered in theaters with a happy ending…after test audiences revolted against the original ending, in which the puppet plant Audrey II brings about the literal destruction of the world.
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