Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories set after disasters that transform civilisation.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 431 films · Page 10.
Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
During a second ice age, two people walk through a blank, frozen tundra, the seal hunter Essex and his pregnant companion Vivia, the daughter of one of Essex's late hunting partners. They are traveling north, where Essex hopes to reunite w…
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Action Comedy, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, post-apocalyptic film
In a post-apocalyptic version of 1997, a society lives in a land nicknamed "The Wasteland" that is littered with trash and ruled by a sadistic and tyrannical overlord named Zeus, who uses a device to grind captives into water. The Kid, a t…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, science fiction film
In a post-nuclear-war society, blue-skinned, silver-eyed human-like robots have become a common sight as the surviving population suffers from a decreasing birth rate and has grown dependent on their assistance. A fanatical organization tr…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In a bleak post-apocalyptic future, most of Earth's water has been placed under containment by the Eco Protectorate, a paramilitary organization, who governs the planet's new order. Orphan children, mostly teenagers, live in orphanages cre…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, post-apocalyptic film
In the aftermath of World War III, the world has plunged into anarchy and chaos. Water is scarce and what is left of the human race scrounges for survival. Two opposing martial arts schools, North Star and Southern Cross, both devoted to b…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, disaster film, flashback film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
thumb|left|upright=1.4|Edward Judd walks through a devastated and deserted London in the film's orange-infused opening sequence. A lone man walks through the deserted streets of an abandoned, sweltering London. The film then goes back seve…
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Sci-Fi, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film
The movie loosely follows the plot of Huxley's novel, but adds a twist to the end. Just as Bernard Marx is about to take over the job of Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning, replacing the disgraced previous director, Lenina informs him…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Steampunk, action film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The story is set in the year 2707. The world is loosely based on that of the Mutant Chronicles role-playing game, in which many technologies are steam powered and mankind has exhausted Earth's natural resources. The protagonists must battl…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Road Movie, Vampirfilm, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, vampire film
When a pandemic of vampirism strikes, humans find themselves on the run from vicious, feral beasts. Large cities are left as tombs and survivors cling together in rural pockets, fearing nightfall. When his family is slaughtered, young Mart…
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post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 1979, NASA scientist Dylan Hunt is working on "Project Ganymede", a suspended animation system for astronauts on long-duration spaceflights. As chief of the project he volunteers for the first multi-day test. He places himself in chemic…
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Action, action film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Nomad (Patrick Swayze), a swordsman, wanders through the desert in a post-World War III world. He searches for his mentor's killer, the assassin Sho (Christopher Neame). In the past, Nomad had a position of privilege as a soldier of the el…
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martial arts film, post-apocalyptic film
A global nuclear war has turned most of Earth into a contaminated wasteland, with humanity's survivors now fighting over the few uncontaminated food and water supplies still remaining. Kenshiro, a master of the deadly martial art Hokuto Sh…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film
In the future, war, climate and political agendas have robbed America of its resources. An agency called "the Humanity Bureau" ensures citizens are efficient. Inefficient citizens are deported to a city called New Eden.
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, comedy film, dystopian film, katastrophe, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Ro-Man Extension XJ-2, referred to as just Ro-Man (a creature with an ape-like body and an antenna-equipped helmet covering its head and emitting electric flashes), has destroyed all human life on Earth with a Calcinator death ray to preve…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Dark Comedy, Dramedy, Gross Out Film, Horror, Horror comedy, Komödie, Mysterie, Satire, Satire On War, Sci-Fi, Silly Movie, Splatter Film, Thriller, Zombiefilm, absurdist fiction, art film, black comedy film, body horror film, comedy drama, comedy horror, experimental film, horror film, katastrophe, post-apocalyptic film, psychedelic film, satirical film, science fiction film, surrealist film, thriller film, zombie film
Diane (Alexandra Slade) awakens in a bunker surrounded by dead bodies after a brutal massacre. After attempting to escape the structure, she eventually passes out at the bottom of an elevator shaft where she is rescued by a mysterious man …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Thriller, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, neo-noir, science fiction film, vigilante film
In a comic book-like world, Jonathan Preest is the masked vigilante of Meanwhile City, where everyone is legally enforced to adopt a religion. Preest, the only atheist in town, learns that his nemesis, The Individual, has kidnapped a girl.…
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Accident, Family Drama, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Harry Baldwin, his wife Ann, their son Rick, and daughter Karen leave suburban Los Angeles at sunrise to go on a fishing trip to the southern Sierra Nevada wilderness, bringing with them a small camping trailer. After a couple of hours on …
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Action, Sport, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, sport film
In a barren world caused by wars waged in the 20th century and now forgotten, most live from hand to mouth in enclaves known as "market-towns" or "dog-towns", scrounging out a bare subsistence harvesting hardy crops, raising dogs as food, …
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Sci-Fi, drama film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In March 1957, commander Dr. Eldon Galbraithe, engineer Henry Jaffe, radioman Herbert Ellis and scientist John Borden, are returning to Earth from the first spaceflight, a reconnaissance trip around Mars. Suddenly, their spaceship is someh…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film
A virus turns most of humanity into vicious vampires that cannot survive in sunlight, and civilization has been devastated, as the infected house within dark places. Thomas Rourke heads into a small town, where a woman named Sam Sheridan a…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi
Part one In an alternate version of contemporary Great Britain, triffids are large carnivorous plants capable of vicious and intelligent behaviour, equipped with venomous stingers that they use to stun their prey before feeding on them. Bi…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the near future, an atomic disaster has reduced the world to poverty. Instead of a government, America is run by an organization called the Merchants, who exploit the degenerate remains of society. In order to keep control of the popula…
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Action, Horror comedy, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, post-apocalyptic film, zombie film
Mechanic Barry lives in urban Australia with his wife Annie and daughter Meganne. Barry's sister, Brooke, is working on a photo shoot in her Bulla, Victoria studio. During a meteor shower, Brooke and her assistant are attacked by her model…
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Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse
As WALL-E travels through space clinging to the ship carrying EVE back to the Axiom starliner, he runs his hand through the Rings of Saturn in passing, and dislodges a tiny rock. It gains enough momentum to become a meteor and crashes into…
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