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 2.
Zombiefilm, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film, zombie film
Former United Nations investigator Gerald "Gerry" Lane, his wife, Karin, and their two daughters, Rachel and Connie, are caught in traffic in downtown Philadelphia when a zombie outbreak hits. Escaping the ensuing chaos, they travel to New…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Monster Film, horror film
Sam, a terminally ill cancer patient, lives at a hospice outside New York City with her cat, Frodo. Reuben, a nurse, convinces a reluctant Sam to join a group outing to a marionette show in Manhattan. While in the city, the group notices m…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, adventure film, science fiction action film
Generations after Caesar's death, apes have become the dominant species on Earth, while surviving humans have become feral. Noa, a young chimpanzee from a falconry-practicing clan, prepares for a coming-of-age ceremony by collecting eagle …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Computeranimation, Romance Film, adventure film, adventure science fiction, children's film, comedy film, dystopian film, flashback film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, romantic comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the year 2805, Earth is an inhospitable, garbage-strewn wasteland due to an ecocide caused by rampant consumerism, corporate greed, and environmental neglect. Humanity was evacuated to space by the megacorporation Buy n Large on giant s…
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Accident, Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Natural Disaster, disaster film, science fiction film
In 2009, American geologist Adrian Helmsley visits astrophysicist Satnam Tsurutani in Jharkhand, India, and learns that a previously undiscovered type of neutrino from a solar flare is heating the Earth's core. Returning to Washington, D.C…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic fiction, science fiction film
In the year 2563, 300 years after Earth was devastated in a catastrophic war against the United Republic of Mars (URM), scientist Dr. Dyson Ido salvages a disembodied female cyborg with an intact human brain in the Iron City scrapyard. He …
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Action, Sci-Fi, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2055, an artificial intelligence created by the U.S. government detonates a nuclear warhead over Los Angeles, California. In response, most of the Western world pledges to eradicate AI to prevent humanity's extinction.
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, superhero film, survival film
In 2029, no mutants have been born in 25 years, and an aging Logan suffers as his healing ability is failing, slowly poisoned by his adamantium skeletal grafts. Working as a limousine driver in El Paso, Texas, he and the mutant tracker Cal…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Destiny, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, neo-noir, post-apocalyptic film
In 2035, twenty-nine years after a virus killed 99 percent of the global human population, James Cole is a prisoner in a compound underneath the ruins of Philadelphia. He is selected by scientists for a mission to travel to 1996 and collec…
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Natural Disaster, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In New York City's Central Park, people begin committing mass suicide. The event is believed to be caused by a bio-terrorist attack using an airborne neurotoxin. The behavior quickly spreads across the Northeastern United States.
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LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, action film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Seven-year-old Wen is vacationing with her parents, Eric and Andrew, in a remote cabin in rural Pennsylvania. She is approached by a stranger named Leonard who explains that he needs Wen and her parents' help to save the world. Leonard and…
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In 2019, Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta live with others in an isolated compound. This dystopian community is governed by a strict set of rules. The residents are told that the outside world has become too contaminated to support li…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Hard Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, katastrophe
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist for the NOAA, drills for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf with his colleagues Frank and Jason. A large portion of the ice shelf splits away, but they manage to escape. At a United Nations conference …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2017, aliens known as Scavengers attack Earth and destroy the Moon, triggering global natural disasters. Although humanity wins the war using nuclear weapons, Earth is left uninhabitable. Sixty years later, the remnants of humanity have…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2500, rising sea levels have put every continent on Earth underwater. The remains of human civilization live on makeshift floating communities built out of scavenged materials known as atolls, having long forgotten about living on land.…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, chase film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, techno-thriller, thriller film, war film
In 2003, Dr. Serena Kogan of Cyberdyne Systems convinces death row inmate Marcus Wright to sign over his body for medical research following his execution. Sometime later, the automated Skynet system is activated, becomes self-aware, and p…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, apocalyptic film, chase film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, suspense film, techno-thriller, thriller film, time-travel film
In the years since destroying Cyberdyne Systems, John Connor has been living as a nomad following the death of his mother, Sarah. He fears the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet is still hunting him despite the foretold war between …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
In a post-apocalyptic world, Malorie Hayes informs two young children that they are going down the river in a rowboat. She sternly instructs them not to remove their blindfolds, or they will die. The film then cuts between the events of th…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Time Travel, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
thumb|thumbtime=103|upright=1.5|Teaser of the film Astronauts Taylor, Landon, and Dodge awaken from deep hibernation when their spacecraft crashes into a lake on an unknown planet after a near-light-speed space voyage. Before they abandon …
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Fantasy, Western film, action film, fantasy film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Eleven-year-old Jake Chambers experiences visions of a mysterious warlock, the "Man in Black", who seeks to destroy a "Tower" and bring ruin to the "Universe" while a lone "Gunslinger" opposes him. Jake's visions are dismissed by his mothe…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, disaster film, drama fiction, post-apocalyptic film
thumb|left|Soviet troop movements into Iran as shown in a clipping from The Observer early in the film (with occupied Afghanistan in red)In the English city of Sheffield, Ruth Beckett and Jimmy Kemp, who are young adults, plan to marry aft…
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LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The story jumps between eras, spanning hundreds of years, until each storyline eventually resolves. Communications from characters in prior storylines are found in some of the future storylines, connecting a few of them. Characters appear …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, martial arts film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
Six months after escaping the Matrix, Neo and Trinity are now romantically involved. Morpheus receives a message from Captain Niobe of the Logos calling an emergency meeting of all ships of Zion. An army of Sentinels is tunneling towards Z…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1988, amidst war between the United States and an alliance of China and the USSR, Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison to address a 400% increase in crime. In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace su…
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