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 3.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film
Thomas, Newt, and Frypan, the last of the free "Gladers", join with the Right Arm resistance to retrieve other Immunes from a carriage of a train operated by WCKD, the organization responsible for capturing and experimenting on immune chil…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, thriller film
In a futuristic dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions: Abnegation (the selfless), Amity (the kind), Candor (the honest), Dauntless (the brave), and Erudite (the intelligent). The remaining population, the Factionless, ho…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Japanese Animation Film
One thousand years have passed since the Seven Days of Fire, an apocalyptic war that destroyed civilization and caused an ecocide, creating the vast Toxic Jungle, a poisonous forest swarming with giant mutant insects. In the kingdom of the…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, post-apocalyptic film
A man and his young son struggle to survive after an unspecified catastrophe results in an extinction event, which causes the death of all plant life and virtually all animal life. The man and boy travel on a road to the coast in hope that…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, science fiction film, splatter film, zombie film
After completing a nursing shift in the Milwaukee area, Ana returns home to her husband, Luis. Because they are distracted during the evening, they miss emergency news reports. The next morning, a zombified neighbor girl enters their bedro…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film
In a flashback, a woman leaves her son, Thomas, with the scientist Ava Paige and armed operatives from the World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD) to ensure his survival. Thomas, along with other children, is eventually placed in a co…
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Action Comedy, Sci-Fi, action film, alien invasion, apocalyptic film, post-apocalyptic film, romantic comedy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Gary King, an immature 40-year-old alcoholic, decides to recapture his youth by inviting boyhood friends Oliver Chamberlain, Peter Page, Steven Prince, and Andrew Knightley to complete the "Golden Mile", a pub crawl encompassing 12 pubs in…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction action film, science fiction film, superhero film, wuxia film
Having been rescued by the crew of the Mjolnir in the real world, Neo's body lies in the ship's medical bay. His consciousness is trapped in a subway station named Mobil Ave, a transition zone between the Matrix and the machine world. He m…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, buddy cop film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the east coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 serious crimes reported daily. The only force for order…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, action film, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film
Thirty years after a nuclear holocaust, Eli travels on foot across the wasteland of the continental land of the former U.S. nation in search of water. He arrives in a ramshackle town ruled by a warlord named Carnegie, who seeks to control …
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Action, Time Travel, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, time-travel film
In 2029, aboard the United States Air Force space station Oberon, Leo Davidson works closely with apes who are trained for space missions. His favorite is a chimpanzee named Pericles. With a deadly electromagnetic storm approaching the sta…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Monster Film, action film, horror film, thriller film
The film opens with Paul scavenging for supplies in a storehouse and then fleeing through deserted back alleys, with the pandemonium of an apocalyptic event in the background, sirens blaring, sounds of distant explosions, and people scream…
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Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller
A scientist is commissioned by his government to create a highly intelligent robot in the name of peaceful progress, which the government then seizes and turns into the Fabrication Machine, an automaton that can construct an army of war ma…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia
A dystopian near-future Australia is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily owing to widespread oil shortages and ecocide. The berserk motorbike gang member Crawford "Nightrider" Montazano kills a rookie officer of the poorly funded M…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
In 2028, two years after the Battle of San Francisco, an American battalion known as "Alpha-Omega" aided by apes derogatorily called "donkeys", searches for Caesar's ape colony. A platoon assaults an ape outpost, but the apes repel the att…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, action film, apocalyptic film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, zombie film
The Archangel Michael falls to Earth in Los Angeles and cuts off his wings. After looting a weapons warehouse and stealing a police car from a possessed police officer, Michael travels to the Paradise Falls Diner, near the edge of the Moja…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film, zombie film
Dr. James Marcus, the founder of the Umbrella Corporation, had a daughter, Alicia, who was dying of progeria. Desperate to save her, Marcus confiscates an untested embryonic Umbrella project—the T-virus—created by his colleague Dr.
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Cyberpunk, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, space Western, speculative fiction film
In the 26th century, humanity has colonized a new solar system. The central planets formed the Alliance and won a war against the outer planet Independents who resisted joining the Alliance. Child genius River Tam is conditioned by Allianc…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, speculative fiction film, steampunk
Set more than a thousand years in the future following a cataclysmic conflict known as the Sixty Minute War, the remnants of humankind regroup and form mobile cities, called "Traction Cities". Under a philosophy known as "Municipal Darwini…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, science fiction film
In 2026, ten years after a "Simian Flu" pandemic, humans are nearly extinct, with only about 1 in 500 (0.2%) genetically immune. Human civilization was destroyed after societal collapse. The apes, all bestowed with genetically enhanced int…
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Komödie, Zombiefilm, comedy horror, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie comedy, zombie film
Two months since a strain of mad cow disease mutated to become infectious to humans and turn them into zombies, survivors of the epidemic are advised to use their city of origin as nicknames when meeting other survivors, to not get too att…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, post-apocalyptic film
Six years after the Earth is devastated by a solar flare, Jake works for August Valentine, the self-proclaimed King of England, retrieving valuable pre-flare objects. In return, August funds Jake's dream of repairing a boat that he wishes …
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Aliens, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
A Yautja ship leaves Earth carrying captured Xenomorph facehuggers and Scar's body before a chestburster emerges, with characteristic traits of both species. The chestburster quickly matures into an adult Predalien, and starts slaughtering…
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Drama, Fantasy, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by a computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrous…
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