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 9.
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Erotic Film, drama film, fantasy film, mystery film
Sharon, a young Los Angeles woman, engages in a swinging, libidinous lifestyle. She comes into contact with an unnamed Christian sect that advises her that the Rapture is imminent based on their interpretations of strange dreams experience…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, body horror film, comedy film, comedy horror film, dystopian film, experimental film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Set in 1997, the film follows Adrian Tripod, an occasional director of the House of Skin, a dermatological clinic. He embarks on a quest to find his mentor, the insane dermatologist Antoine Rouge. Rouge has vanished after a devastating pla…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the year 2017, the United States has fragmented into post-apocalyptic wastelands with a few civilized areas. An ongoing economic crisis has led to the recycling of aging 20th-century mechanical and technological equipment. Society has a…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
On Christmas Eve in the future, Georgia Olsen finds out that she is pregnant. The child's father, her boyfriend, Sam Hoth, asks her to marry him, but Georgia is uncertain about the relationship and her desire to be a mother. She decides no…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror
In a post-apocalyptic New Zealand, a zombie epidemic has led the Government to confine the surviving population into various camps. Zombies known as Howlers roam the countryside, hunting for humans. Rory buries her daughter Matty, who was …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Christmas film, Horror comedy, Musical, Zombiefilm, musical film, zombie film
It is Christmastime in Little Haven, Scotland, and Anna Shepherd is about to finish school. She plans to travel for a year before going to university, much to the displeasure of her widower father, Tony. Her friends are dealing with their …
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Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, mecha, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Fifty years after a nuclear holocaust, mankind is decimated and the surviving nations—the American western-influenced Market and the Soviet-Russian-influenced Confederation—have agreed to outlaw traditional open war. In their place, disput…
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Action, Fantasy, action film, drama film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A castle-like outpost comes under attack by a creature named Grendel on a nightly basis. However, it refuses to attack the border lord Hrothgar. One of the outpost's residents, Pendra, escapes the following morning but is captured by a riv…
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action film, fantasy film, post-apocalyptic film, sword and sorcery
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sitcom, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
At a corporation's base on the Neptunian moon Triton, mercenaries are setting up a defense perimeter to try to hold off an unstoppable cyborg warrior. The company's CEO E.J. Saggs and chief scientist Dr.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, horror film
The film opens with a montage of videos depicting Skylar "Sky" and Dan's happy moments together. In the present, Skylar and Dan are celebrating their wedding. Tommy Covington is shooting a documentary as a favor for Dan.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Black mine inspector Ralph Burton becomes trapped in a cave-in at a Pennsylvania coal mine. He can hear rescuers digging towards him, but after five days they slow down and then stop completely, along with the drainage pumps keeping the sh…
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Drama, Zombiefilm, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, zombie film
A plague called the Maze Virus has previously swept through Europe, transforming its victims into a homicidal, zombie-like state. Ireland was particularly badly affected. A cure was later discovered, and 75% of those infected who could be …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, drama film, science fiction film
The film is set in a post-apocalyptic present, where Earth's atmosphere has become toxic. Most humans have fled the planet, to live on a space station near Io, a moon of Jupiter. Sam Walden is one of the few humans remaining on Earth.
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Drama, Thriller, War Film, drama film, dystopian film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, war film
The story transpires in a non-linear fashion, following U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer in training, in battle in Afghanistan, in counseling in Afghanistan, while searching for his family after returning to a devastated United States, and in h…
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Sex Film, Utopia & Dystopia, comedy film, drama film, horror film, pornographic film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the aftermath of nuclear apocalypse, 99% of the survivors are sex Negatives – they become violently ill if they attempt to have sex. The minority sex Positives are forced to engage in carnal theater for the entertainment of the Negative…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, science fiction film
The opening scenes of The Plan occur just prior to the destruction of the Twelve Colonies in the televised miniseries Battlestar Galactica. Humanoid Cylon John Cavil is shown leading the planning for the genocidal attack on the human race.…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In 1982, a shady transaction is occurring between an East German scientist, Dr. Krause, and a group of Americans involving a substance known as MM88. MM88 is a deadly virus, created accidentally by an American geneticist, that amplifies th…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, post-apocalyptic film
A biochemical weapons-catastrophe has wiped out most of mankind and rendered the air unbreathable. The U.S. government hastily built a few makeshift underground bunkers in which a few scientists are kept in cryogenic sleep until the air is…
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Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction action film
A voiceover sets the scene: the time is after the Harmonic Convergence, when drastic climate change has swept away civilization as we know it. A vast wind current, the Slipstream, encircles the globe, and a few scattered settlements of sur…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
Mankind's technological breakthroughs in the development of artificial intelligence and robotics eventually lead to a global war. Afterward, the remnants of humanity struggle to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland while the surviving m…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film
Paul, a projectionist in a Detroit theater, is reading about the 16th-century disappearance of the Roanoke Colony when the lights suddenly go out. He finds that all the staff and patrons have vanished, leaving only their clothes behind. He…
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Computeranimation
9 is a sentient rag doll who appears to be the last of his kind, living in the ruins of a decaying, post-apocalyptic Earth. Hunting 9 relentlessly is the Cat Beast, a mechanical monster with a cat's skull for its head. It appears to be gui…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In a crumbling United States, experiencing severe drought, people kill for water. Ernest Holm lives with his son, Jerome, and daughter, Mary, in a small house, next to a field. His wife, Katherine, is permanently hospitalized, after an acc…
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