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 5.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Zombiefilm
A zombie outbreak overwhelms South Korea, prompting international evacuations before the peninsula is quarantined in Busan. ROKMC officer Jung-seok drives his sister, her husband Chul-min, and their young son Dong-hwan to an evacuation shi…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Girls with Guns, Western film, Zombiefilm, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, girls with guns, horror film, horror western, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
A cloned Alice wakes up in a mansion, wanders through its halls, and is forced to escape several security traps. However, she is eventually killed by a bounding mine hidden on the floor. Her body is dumped into a pit filled with dozens of …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, monster film, post-apocalyptic film
In 2002, young Quinn Abercromby is visiting a London Underground construction project. Construction workers penetrate a cave and a dragon emerges from hibernation, incinerating the workers with its fire breath. The only survivor is Quinn, …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the future year of 1964, World War III has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, killing all humans there. The cobalt bomb's fallout is elevated compared to that of atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs. Air currents are slowly carrying the fal…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film
Evelyn re-closes Chicago's wall, and puts Jeanine's supporters on trial for plotting a coup. Johanna turns her back on this and is followed by many newly christened Allegiants. Tris and Four free Caleb and escape over the wall with Tori, C…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, action film, biopunk, girls with guns, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film, zombie film
Alice and her clones lead the assault on Umbrella HQ in Tokyo, slaying the entire branch except for Albert Wesker, who escapes in a tiltrotor plane and detonates a bomb that leaves a massive sinkhole. The real Alice boarded beforehand and …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The world is a post-apocalyptic wasteland caused by ecocide and a nuclear war over resources. In Mainland Australia, Max Rockatansky crosses the desert in a carriage pulled by a team of camels. The airborne bandit Jedediah and his young so…
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Adventure, Animalhorror, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Komödie, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
The destruction of a large Earth-bound asteroid releases unknown chemicals. As a result, cold-blooded animals on Earth mutate into large monsters and kill off most of humanity. During the evacuation of Fairfield, Joel Dawson is separated f…
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Animation, Anti-War Film, Cartoon, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Political Satire, Sword And Sorcery, adventure film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, technofantasy
Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war. It takes 2 million years for the radioactive clouds to allow sunlight in. The humans who survived the apocalypse have been transformed into mutants, while humanity's true ancestors – trolls, fair…
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Fantasy, Komödie, action comedy film, action film, dystopian film, girls with guns, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the year 2033, after a decade-long global drought in the wake of a comet striking the Earth, the little remaining water is controlled by Kesslee (Malcolm McDowell) and his Water & Power (W&P) corporation, which subdues the population by…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, road movie, science fiction film
Fifteen years have passed since a massive solar flare destroyed the ozone layer, turning the planet Earth into a largely uninhabitable wasteland ravaged by extreme weather events while being scorched by the sun's ultraviolet rays, increasi…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Hard Science Fiction, Sci-Fi, Space Opera, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In the 24th century, Captain Jean-Luc Picard awakens from a nightmare in which he relives his assimilation by the cybernetic Borg six years earlier. He is contacted by Starfleet, who inform him of a new Borg threat against Earth. Concerned…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Daffy Comedy, Gross Out Film, Satire, alien invasion, biopunk, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Late one night, a large meteor crashes in the Arizona desert, witnessed by aspiring firefighter Wayne Grey. The next morning, college professors Ira Kane and Harry Block investigate the crash site, discovering that the meteor has landed in…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Slasher Horror, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, slasher film
In 2008, mass murderer Jason Voorhees is captured by the United States government and held at the Crystal Lake Research Facility. By 2010, after numerous failed attempts to kill him, Rowan LaFontaine, the head of the facility, suggests pla…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, superhero film
Buckaroo Banzai and his mentor Dr. Tohichi Hikita perfect the "oscillation overthruster", a device that allows an object to pass through solid matter. Banzai tests it by driving his Jet Car through a mountain.
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Sci-Fi, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Reclusive academic Augustine Lofthouse has devoted his life to finding habitable planets so that humanity can expand. He meets Jean Sullivan after giving a presentation at a gala and they form a romantic relationship. After a pregnancy sca…
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Horror, Mysterie, apocalyptic film, post-apocalyptic film, splatter film, thriller film
A contagious disease ravages the planet. Paul, Sarah and their teenage son Travis live a secluded lifestyle in their home, deep in the woods in an undisclosed location. After Sarah's father Bud contracts the disease, they euthanise him and…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Girls with Guns, action film, biopunk, dystopian film, girls with guns, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, spy film
In 2011, a deadly pathogenic virus has killed 99 percent of the Earth's population, forcing the survivors to regroup and scatter across the Earth. Four centuries later, in 2415, the remaining five million humans inhabit Bregna, a dystopian…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, drama film, post-apocalyptic film
Almost a decade after a mysterious pandemic wiped out most of the female population, Dad and his daughter Rag journey through British Columbia. Rag is one of the very few females of the human species left on Earth. Dad must protect her by …
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Time-displaced astronaut Taylor and the mute Nova travel through the desert of the Forbidden Zone in search of a new life away from Ape City. Without warning, fire shoots up from the ground and chasms open. Confused by this, Taylor investi…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Political Satire, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie film
Seven years after the events of Dawn of the Dead, the zombie apocalypse has ravaged the entire world. The societal structures that used to safeguard civilization have mostly vanished, leaving the scattered remnants of human survivors vastl…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, neo-noir, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In the future, the Earth has become a deadly wasteland called the Cursed Earth. The few survivors live in overcrowded "Mega-Cities" plagued by rampant crime. To combat this, a new order of law enforcement has emerged: Judges, officers who …
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Action, Computeranimation, Sci-Fi, action film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2065, Earth is infested by alien life forms known as Phantoms. By physical contact Phantoms consume the Gaia spirit of living beings, killing them instantly, although minor contact may only result in an infection. The surviving humans l…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the early 21st century following a sterility plague caused by global warming, war rages across the Republic of Gilead (formerly the United States of America, which collapsed after a civil war between Fascists and Radical Feminists), and…
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