Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore stories set after disasters that transform civilisation.
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse
In a world decimated by the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus, Sarah Street is relentlessly hunted by religious fanatic Aaron Ramsey who miraculously survived the virus. Aaron seeks Sarah because she is supposed to be immune to the virus…
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post-apocalyptic film
It is the year 2133, and Earth was devastated by a nuclear war decades earlier. PAX, a science-based society dedicated to restoring civilization and peace to the world, sends a team to conduct a survey of central California. Returning to P…
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Action, Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, flashback film, neo-noir, science fiction film
In a future Paris, 22-year-old scientist Ilona Tasuiev, who works for the megacorporation Avalon, is kidnapped. Meanwhile, police captain Barthélémy Karas defuses a hostage situation by killing the hostage-takers. Afterwards Karas is given…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, buddy film, comedy film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In 1957, the Soviet Union attacks the United States with nuclear weapons, rendering most of the nation uninhabitable. The American government has collapsed with the exception of the haven known as Lost Vegas, ruled by King Elvis. The Red A…
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Drama, comedy drama, post-apocalyptic film
The film begins with James' recitation of a Henry David Thoreau quote, after which he states that he saw the oncoming societal collapse and moved his free-spirited wife Lily and young daughter Hannah off the grid. A montage shows his colle…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
During an 1864 battle of the American Civil War, a lone Union soldier, Captain Lee Briggs (Bradley Horne), is dispatched on a mission to investigate a mysterious object reported to Union forces. He leaves to venture on the mission. Fast fo…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, science fiction film
Scientists Dr. Erik von Steiner, Dr. Steve Connors, and Carol White are testing their time-viewing device which is drawing enormous amounts of power.
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Thriller, Zombiefilm, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie film
A man wakes up in a large pit full of dead bodies and does not remember how he got there. A mute woman helps him escape, and he follows her to a house with four other occupants—a German man and three Americans. Like him, the others do not …
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post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The film opens with the text: It is the day after tomorrow. The ultimate nuclear defense system has been perfected. Security has been achieved.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, adventure film, comedy film, horror film, zombie film
Sci-Fi, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
An atomic war has seemingly destroyed most of human civilization, leaving the Earth contaminated with radioactive fallout. One exception is an isolated box canyon, surrounded by lead-bearing cliffs, in which former U.S. Navy Commander Jim …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, apocalyptic film, disaster film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The film opens with a montage of pollution, which, as implied by the narrator, is the cause of a virulent new disease arising in Asia, a virus that strikes all members of the grass family, including wheat, rice, and maize. It spreads to Af…
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post-apocalyptic film, zombie comedy
After a night of debauchery, five military comrades (Mat Best, Nick Palmisciano, Jarred Taylor, Jack Mandaville, and Vincent “Rocco” Vargas) wake up in a drunk tank after assaulting a transgender woman, only to find out that while they wer…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The Day follows a group of five survivors in a post-apocalyptic world as they travel through a bleak environment in an attempt to find food, shelter, and a safe place to stop running from tribes of savage cannibals that roam the country-si…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action comedy film, parody film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
A nuclear war breaks out, expending the world's entire nuclear arsenal, except for one missile. Two children, Philip Chandler (John Stockwell) and Marlowe Hammer (Michael Dudikoff), are left in a fallout shelter cut into the side of a wood…
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action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The film is set in an apocalyptic future where large swaths of North America have been turned into inhospitable desert and the United States has been assimilated into a Western bloc called the North Hemi. In order to survive North Hemi has…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to the Moon. Halfway there, after surviving their jettisoned and runaway first stag…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In Dallas, at Southern Methodist University, news comes in about a gas which has escaped from a military facility. It starts killing everyone over 25. Hippie Coel meets and falls in love with Cilla.
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action film, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
The film is set in a desolate post-apocalyptic world where a once–thriving age of man and cyborgs has come to an end. Cyborgs are now hunted for their parts. Cash (Haje), a female cyborg learns from Doc Edford (Margaret Avery) that she is …
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action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Set some years after the events of the first movie, Captain Delano (Charles Napier) sends Sam Hell to infiltrate Frog Town again to rescue Texas Rocket Ranger John Jones (played by Lou Ferrigno) who crash landed. In what may be a direct re…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Zombiefilm, zombie film
Sometime after a zombie-like infection decimates the world's population, Ann (Lucy Walters) struggles to survive in the woods. There are few resources and she is forced to live off the land, as abandoned houses attract dangerous, infected …
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action film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Yor, a roving hunter and barbarian, jogs through a seemingly prehistoric desert landscape past the stone towers of Cappadocia, Turkey. Kalaa, a seemingly primitive cavewoman, and her mentor and protector Pag are hunting in a nearby village…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, adventure film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The film, set in a land of warring tribes 23 years after a nuclear war, follows Tom and his friend Dick, whose sister Hari has been captured by a powerful tribe called the Norks. Tom and Dick set out to find and rescue Hari, attempting to …
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Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
thumb|upright=1.2|James Anderson, Charles Lampkin and Susan Douglas Rubeš in Five Roseanne Rogers trudges from place to place, searching for another living human being. A newspaper headline reports a scientist's warning that detonating a n…
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