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 6.
Action, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film
Five days after the assault on the Abnegation faction by the Erudite leader Jeanine and her mind-controlled Dauntless soldiers, Jeanine has declared martial law, insisting the Divergents and their allies are the enemies. Among the Abnegati…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, alternate history film, comedy drama, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, romantic comedy, science fiction film, thriller film
On July 4, 2005, El Paso and Abilene, Texas are destroyed and hundreds of thousands are killed by twin nuclear attacks, sending the United States into a state of a Third World War, with the government re-introducing the draft. The PATRIOT …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, adventure film, children's film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
When an unspecified global catastrophe looms, an underground city known as Ember is constructed to shelter a large group of survivors. In addition, a small metal box intended for a future generation of Emberites is timed to open after 200 …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, fantasy film, katastrophe, thriller film
University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele has flown home from college to New York to surprise her father, pilot Rayford Steele, for his birthday party. However, her mother, Irene, informs her that her father cannot make it. While…
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Horror comedy, Romantic Drama, Zombiefilm, comedy horror, post-apocalyptic film, romantic comedy film, teen film, zombie comedy
About eight years after a zombie apocalypse, R, a zombie who cannot recall his name but believes it began with an "R", spends his days wandering around an airport which is now filled with his fellow undead, including M, who is his best fri…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller
A woman protects her orphaned nieces from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence.
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Monster Film, Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film
In March 1975, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race. U.S. Army Col.
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the year 2293, the human population is divided into the immortal "Eternals" and mortal "Brutals". The Brutals live in an irradiated wasteland, growing food for the Eternals, who live apart in "the Vortex", leading a luxurious but aimles…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Musical, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, biopunk, comedy horror, dystopian film, horror film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet and wiped out 99% of the human population. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan. Clients who miss payments are hunted down by Repo…
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Action, Sci-Fi, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the year 2058, an anomalously expanding red giant Sun threatens to engulf the Earth within 100 years. Under a world government, humanity has constructed 10,000 enormous fusion-powered "Earth Engines" to thrust Earth out of the Solar Sys…
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Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, alien invasion, drama film, dystopian film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film
Small parasitic aliens called "Souls", who travel to planets inserting themselves into a host body of that planet's dominant species while suppressing the host's consciousness, have taken over the human race. Deeming humans too violent to …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Vampirfilm, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, vampire film
In the year 2019, a global plague caused by an infected vampire bat has transformed most of the world's human population into immortal vampires. As the population of uninfected humans decreases, vampires are faced with a severe blood short…
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film
O'Dessa is set in a post-apocalyptic future where plazma, a toxic, flammable substance similar to oil, has poisoned the landscape. Media mogul Plutonovich rules the airwaves from "Onederworld", a private island where dissenters are torture…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Zombiefilm, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie film
In the near future, humanity has been ravaged by a disease caused by a parasitic fungus transmitted by bodily fluids. Over the prior decade, most of humanity that was infected turned into fast mindless zombies called "hungries". The only r…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Scientific Documentary, Space Opera, Sword And Sorcery, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, sword and sorcery film
The entity known as the Beast and his army of Slayers travel the galaxy in a mountain-like spaceship called the Black Fortress, intent on enslaving the planet Krull, as he has done to many other worlds. Ynyr recites the prophecy that was g…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, Monster Film
On June 13, a weaponised strain of influenza known as Project Blue is accidentally released from a secret U.S. Army laboratory in California. A soldier, Charlie Campion, escapes the facility with his wife and child, unknowingly spreading t…
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Animalhorror, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, horror film, post-apocalyptic film
A cave research team accidentally unearths an unknown species of pterosaur-like creatures from a mine. The creatures, referred to as "Vesps", kill the researchers, escape the mine, and seek the noisiest areas. Ally Andrews, a teenage girl …
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, post-apocalyptic film
The Justice League and the Teen Titans devise a plan to defeat Darkseid, the ruler of the planet Apokolips, but are secretly being watched by Darkseid through Cyborg who sees their whole plan. After the Justice League arrive on Apokolips, …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 1996, an experimental military program selects and raises a group of orphaned infants to be trained as highly disciplined, ruthless, professional soldiers. Recruits considered physically or mentally underperforming are culled and the su…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Time Travel, apocalyptic film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In the year 2067, Earth has been devastated by climate change, deforestation and an ongoing nuclear war. Only one city in the ruins of Australia has been able to hold out against these catastrophic changes, thanks to synthetic oxygen; but …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 2008, the Reaper Virus ravages Scotland. Unable to contain the outbreak or cure the infected, the UK government erects a 30-foot wall isolating Scotland. The quarantine succeeds, but the extreme method turns the country into a pariah st…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
Years after the zombie apocalypse, the scattered remnants of human civilization have established a chain of protected city-states across North America. One such sanctuary is located in downtown Pittsburgh, ruled by a feudal-like government…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
After the "World Crash of '79", massive civil unrest and economic ruin occurred. The United States government is restructured into a totalitarian regime under martial law. To pacify the population, the government has created the Transconti…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller
After rising sea levels cause most of Earth's landmass to become submerged, only two small continents remain, locked in war. The southern continent controls Sentinel, a sea outpost between them. A four person crew consisting of Sergeant He…
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