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 14.
action film, post-apocalyptic film
In a post-apocalyptic future, the only semblance of order is an organized militia called "The Ownership" which seeks to peacefully convert scattered settlements to stable governments loyal to them, Trace is a wanderer who once worked for T…
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Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2010, during a party at the US embassy in Berlin, Germany, scientist Gregor Starndorf is told that the comet he discovered, designated Bay-Leder 7, is headed toward Earth. It is large enough to cause an extinction level event and is onl…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Vampirfilm, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film, vampire film
The year is 2210. Humans have moved out into space. In doing so, they have encountered several alien races—like the Leatherfaces and the Vorhees—all of them vampiric.
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crime film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film
In the futuristic police state of Soleil, the government sets up a criminal, Hector, who walks into a police trap. Hector is captured alive at the behest of the police chief and is executed live on television after a brief show trial. Bone…
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Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy horror, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
A group of protesters who call themselves "mutants" have taken over the inner city streets of a large city. They dress weirdly to try to show the effects of toxic poisoning. One of the mutants, Splatter, has really been affected.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film
Sam is a young college student that has recently been dumped by her boyfriend via video chat. To lift her spirits Sam decides to take her friend Mark up on his offer to attend a small New Year's Eve pre-party. Once there, things seem to be…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Three astronauts return to Earth after a nuclear holocaust (that also saw biological weapons used), although one dies in a crash landing. The two survivors, Newman and Matthews, encounter some mutants before discovering that Los Angeles ha…
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children's film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The story concerns a group of children in a post-apocalyptic world searching for the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. However, the Doom Troopers (DTs), led by Dr. Kao (Tim Curry), want to get there first and will do anything to st…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, slasher film
After an apocalypse, mankind has depleted all fossil fuel reserves, and civilization has collapsed. A group of survivors called "Foragers" take cover in an abandoned hospital where the group attempt to rebuild civilization. After saving a …
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, High School Comedy Film, action film, post-apocalyptic film
After World War III, people are sterile and ruled by the artificial intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a fetus has to take it through the dangerous city of Charleston, South Caroli…
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post-apocalyptic film
On a camping trip in the Sierra Nevada mountains in central California, Steven Anders and his two teenage children, Deborah and David, are exploring a cave when they experience an earthquake. After emerging, they hear from a ranch-hand who…
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action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, speculative fiction film
After an event which appears to have been World War III (the cause is not explained in the movie) Commander Eastern becomes the leader of a futuristic society in a post-apocalyptic world. The society is fascist and the citizens have a bar …
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic film
In a post-apocalyptic world, the leader of a rebel group (Richard Norton) fights a warlord to retrieve the mystical Spear of Destiny from a derelict temple. The spear's powers enable him to travel back in time. 39 years earlier, he saves t…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, animal-like creatures known as "the ravagers" roam the earth and kill all survivors. A man named Falk (Richard Harris) witnesses his wife's murder by the creatures. Seeking vengeance, Falk becomes a…
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Mysterie, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Set in an eerie post-apocalyptic London, the film tells the story of seven people who are the only remaining survivors after an unspecified cataclysmic event has wiped out the Earth's entire population. As they struggle to understand what …
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Action, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film
An increase in sunspot activity causes disastrous, long-term consequences for the Earth. Los Angeles is, just as the rest of the world, covered with a layer of ice and snow. The government has collapsed and everyone is on their own.
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Crime, crime film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 1999, Berlin is struck by a mysterious wave of suicides. While some individuals take their own lives in isolation, others die in ways that cause multiple casualties, creating widespread panic on both sides of the Berlin Wall. Lieutenant…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A group of refugees from Earth land on a planet inhabited by ruthless aliens and fight for their survival. The film opens on a scene of battle and retreat as spaceship 'arks' are loading civilians for transplant to other worlds. Lt.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Long after a nuclear war, the last human survivors are divided into three tribes. Robert and Ruth are about to be married in the ruins of a post-apocalyptic New York City during a brief interlude in ongoing hostilities between their tribe,…
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post-apocalyptic film
A supernaturally gifted monk, "Panasonic" (Kiro Wehara), is sent on a mission by his dying master, "General Electric," to protect the Interzone, the last fertile region left on a post-apocalyptic Earth, against an invading gang of wastelan…
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action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2073, Nicholas Sinclair is a scientist on a time travel project. An accident introduces a deadly virus to 1973, which activates the project's automatic countermeasures. Attack robots are sent to the past in an effort to eliminate the vi…
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cyberpunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
National boundaries have been broken, two giant super-states remain—a bleak, decaying Hemisphere, and the sprawling media state Megaville. Travel between the states is restricted. The "CKS" governs daily life in the Hemisphere.
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