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After the apocalypse movies

Explore stories set after disasters that transform civilisation.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 431 films · Page 7.

Banpaia hantâ D (2000)

Animation, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, fantasy film, horror anime and manga, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction anime and manga, vampire anime and manga, vampire film

In the middle of the night, Charlotte Elbourne, a young human woman, is abducted by Baron Meier Link, a vampire nobleman. Charlotte's wealthy father, John, hires D, a dhampir, to rescue her, dead or alive. At the same time, Charlotte's old…

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Z for Zachariah (2015)

Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

Ann Burden, the seemingly sole survivor of a recent nuclear apocalypse, lives an agrarian life on her family's valley farmstead with her dog. She is sheltered from radioactive contaminants outside the valley by rocky hillsides, favorable w…

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Cargo (2017)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film, zombie film

In a world recently overtaken by a virus that turns people rabid within 48 hours, Andy Rose, his wife Kay, and their baby Rosie are traveling down a river on a houseboat in rural Australia. Short on food, Kay suggests going ashore and scav…

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A Boy and His Dog (1975)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, arthouse science fiction film, comedy drama, comedy thriller, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

In the post-nuclear United States of 2024, Vic is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex; having lost his parents, he has no for…

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The last Man on Earth (1964)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Horror, drama film, dystopian film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, vampire film in Italy, zombie film

thumb|The Last Man on Earth (full movie) It is 1968, and Dr. Robert Morgan lives in a world where everyone else has been infected by a plague that has turned them into undead, vampiric creatures that cannot stand sunlight, fear mirrors, an…

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Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

The orangutan Lawgiver, in "North America – 2670 A.D.", explains to an unseen audience some key events of ape and human events in the late 20th century, then moves forward to the story of the chimpanzee Caesar in the early 21st century, ye…

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Them! (1954)

Animalhorror, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, B movie, action film, horror film, monster film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film

In 1954, New Mexico State Police Sergeant Ben Peterson and his partner, Ed Blackburn, discover a little girl wandering the desert in a catatonic state near Alamogordo, and the ravaged and abandoned travel trailer she came from a few miles …

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40 Acres (2024)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Mysterie, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film

Carriers (2009)

End Times Road Movie, Horror, Thriller, horror film, post-apocalyptic film

A highly infectious virus, known as "The World Ender Virus", has spread worldwide, killing most of the population. Brothers Brian and Danny, along with Brian's girlfriend Bobby and Danny's friend Kate, plot a trip to take shelter at Turtle…

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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film

Following a North American pandemic from a space-borne disease that wiped out all dogs and cats in 1983, the government has become a series of Schutzstaffel-patterned police states that took chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans as pets be…

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Pulse (2006)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Ghost-Movie, Horror, Mysterie, supernatural horror film, techno-horror film

When Josh Ockmann enters a dark university library hoping to find a man named Douglas Ziegler, he is attacked by a humanoid spirit that sucks the life force out of him. Some days later, Josh's girlfriend, Mattie Webber, visits his apartmen…

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Skyline (2010)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film, war film

Jarrod and his girlfriend Elaine arrive in Los Angeles, California, for Jarrod's best friend Terry's birthday party. They celebrate with Terry's girlfriend, Candice, and his assistant, Denise. During a private argument about whether or not…

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Cyborg (1989)

Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

A plague known as the living death cripples civilization. A small group of surviving scientists and doctors — located in Atlanta, home of the CDC — work on a cure to save what remains of humanity. To complete their work they need informati…

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Rim of the World (2019)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, adventure film, science fiction film, teen film

Alex, a socially reclusive boy whose father recently died in a fire, reluctantly attends the southern Californian summer camp "Rim of the World". He meets two other "misfits" - Zhen Zhen, a non-verbal orphan girl from China, and the wealth…

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Rock & Rule (1983)

Cartoon, cyberpunk, fantasy film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

Mok Swagger, a legendary rock musician, is on the search for a special voice whose frequencies can unleash a powerful demon from another dimension, his dwindling popularity driving him to destroy the world in vengeance and immortalize hims…

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Automata (2014)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

About 20 years before the story takes place, solar flares irradiate the Earth, killing over 99% of the world's population. The survivors gather in a network of safe cities and build primitive humanoid robots, called Pilgrims, to help rebui…

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Cell (2016)

Horror, Mysterie, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film

Artist Clay Riddell abandons his wife Sharon and son Johnny to fulfill his dream of publishing a graphic novel. A year later, at Boston International Airport, Clay calls his family on his cell phone with good news about his new career. His…

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Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991)

Drama, End Times Road Movie, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

Act 1 In 1999, panic ensues when an orbiting Indian nuclear satellite begins to spiral toward Earth. Claire Tourneur, who has been traveling around Europe trying unsuccessfully to distract herself after discovering that her boyfriend Eugen…

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The Divide (2011)

Mysterie, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

As nuclear explosions ravage New York City, residents of an apartment block rush downstairs to escape from the building, only to be forced into the basement by further explosions. Only eight of the residents – Eva and her boyfriend Sam, Jo…

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The End (2024)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Musical, drama film, musical film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film

Set two decades after an environmental catastrophe renders Earth's surface uninhabitable, the story centers on a wealthy family—Mother, Father, and their 20-year-old Son—who have isolated themselves in a luxurious bunker deep within a conv…

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I Think We're Alone Now (2018)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, drama film, science fiction film

Del lives alone in a small town after an unspecified but sudden (people died where they sat) apocalyptic event has killed off the human population "on a Tuesday afternoon". Believing he is the last man on Earth, Del has set about leading a…

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The Rover (2014)

Drama, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film

Ten years after a global economic collapse that caused worldwide turmoil, the Australian outback is a lawless wasteland, crime and poverty are common and small military units patrol the outback attempting to maintain what little law and or…

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Screamers (1995)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, fantasy film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film, war film

In the year 2078, the planet Sirius 6B, once a thriving mining hub, has been reduced to a toxic wasteland by a war between the mining company the New Economic Block (N.E.B.) and "The Alliance", a group of former mining and science personne…

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Night of the Comet (1984)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Parodie, Satire, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, zombie film

The Earth is passing through the tail of a comet, an event which has not occurred in 65 million years and coincided with the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs. On the night of the comet's passage, eleven days before Christmas, …

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