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 12.
Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
thumb|200px|left|The full film thumb|left|Drive-in advertisement from 1960 Harold Gern, a successful businessman from New York who constantly has legal problems, is spending a holiday in Puerto Rico with his wife, Evelyn, "between trials",…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, drama film, post-apocalyptic film
The film is set in London on the third or fourth anniversary of a nuclear war that killed 40 million, and lasted two minutes and 28 seconds, including the time taken to sign the peace treaty. It is not clear who dropped the bomb. Three (or…
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film
In the near future, the economy has collapsed and crime waves sweep the inner cities. The manufacturing industry has shrunk to the point where cars are a commodity and parts are fought over between salvage companies and roving gangs. Austr…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, science fiction film
In the not-too-distant future, the world is ravaged by brutal climate changes, colloquially known as the Cloud Fall. The combination of pollution and relentless mining of Earth's resources through industrialism has left the environment nea…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The story takes place in the year 2037, after the loss of the ozone layer has left most of the planet a desolate wasteland scattered with highly radioactive "Death Zones", except for several areas that still flourish. Much of the human pop…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the future, Earth is recovering from the devastating Robot Wars. Most of humanity lives on the Moon in a domed city called New Washington. They depend on the anti-radiation drug RADIC-Q-2 from the distant planet Delta 3.
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horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Set 225 years after a nuclear holocaust in 2015 in the modern day, the survivors are divided between those who live in comfortable underground cities and the "New Primitives" who live in the sunlight. A group of 11 of these people come acr…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie comedy
A zombie outbreak is caused by a sushi chef not washing his hands before preparing a meal, gloveless, for homeless dumpster-divers. 29 days later in a hospital, a zombie named Romeo thinks to himself how zombies are slowly regaining humani…
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Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Set in 1998, six years after an apocalyptic nuclear war, a group of five military deserters, including a soldier named Kate and her boyfriend, seek refuge from the toxic environment in an abandoned laboratory. They hope to find shelter and…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, post-apocalyptic film
Ten years after rain ceases to fall, Oregon has turned into a dry wasteland. Survivors spend their time desperately trying to locate enough water to stay alive and avoiding hostile scavengers. Kendal takes care of fellow orphan Dean, who i…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, action film, dystopian film
In a dystopic future London in 2015, society has fallen apart, gangs have taken over, and the economy is in complete anarchy. Junior and his older brother, Rager, are in charge of a local gang, "The Paper Chaserz". They try to stay out of …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, drama film, science fiction film
In a post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors are organised as a tribe, a primitive society without technology. They live in a small village in the former Grey Rock National Park where they hunt various animals, and try to avoid the "b…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Vampirfilm, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, vampire film
Martin, who had settled down with the woman he met at the climax of the first film, attempts to track down Mister after his wife and daughter are killed in an attack led by a scarred sentient female vampire. Martin eventually finds him aft…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Siblings Felix and Betty Crabtree live alone in a homestead on a treeless desert plain. Their solitary lives are interrupted by a fugitive with a mysterious past, who gives the name "Smith". Smith is fleeing to the north, a trio of siniste…
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Horror, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
Seven years into the invasion, and after Adam's Egyptian girlfriend Salwa got hit by an infection, causing her to commit suicide, humankind has fled the cities, where billions have died from a plague that is spread through the Internet. Ju…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The Rider arrives on his advanced motorcycle equipped with an artificial intelligence computer called Einstein. He crashes but manages to pass through the "wall of illusion" where he is brought back to health by the Enlightened Elders. The…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film
The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, which is overrun by zombie-like, cannibalistic humans who have degenerated into a feral subspecies as the result of a genetic infection. The film does not make clear if the virus has …
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the near future, Earth has been devastated by a series of wars referred to as "the Oil Wars" over depleting petroleum reserves. The regions around the oil producing Mesopotamia Basin are largely radioactive wastelands due to limited nuc…
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post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the near future a mysterious plague kills almost every adult and leaves behind "a world of orphans". Some fortunate few are raised by the surviving adults, including Lee (John Stockwell), who is taken in and raised by Albert (James Earl…
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Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Teenager Karen Braden (Kelley Bohanon) is a troubled mental hospital outpatient who is taken by her father George and sister Isa to a government facility near the Craters of the Moon lava fields in Idaho. The project there was commissioned…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, post-apocalyptic film
In the 2050s, extensive ecological damage has resulted in largely lawless areas that are controlled by mutant raiders. Harry Stark, an ex-cop who now works as a bounty hunter in the wastelands, saves a woman from mutant outlaws. After she …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, drama film, fantasy film
It's a week after the rapture and the millions of people who vanished into thin air are still missing. Chaos rules the world as panic and grief-stricken survivors continue to search for their lost loved-ones. Suicide rates are skyrocketing…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film
In the film, a couple, Will and Eva (played by Odom and Pinto), are forced to hide after ash from a comet containing a virus kills most of the women in the world. The film has a non-chronological structure, with scenes from earlier in the …
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action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to ensure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability." When a Unicom Synth robot inf…
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