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- Stalker. A guide (known as a "stalker") shepherds two curious men through a bizarre area known as "the Zone." Mysterious and forbidden, the Zone is a physics-defying land at the epicenter of an unspeakable extraterrestrial tragedy.
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang, but with miscommunication and politicians fighting in the war room.
- The Thing. The stir-crazy residents of an Antarctic research station find themselves in a Lovecraftian nightmare when the dog they rescued explodes into a fleshy mass of spider legs and bullwhip tentacles.
- Night of the Living Dead. For reasons unknown (though radiation from a disintegrating space probe may be to blame), the dead are rising from their graves.
100 titles. Sort by List order. 1. 2012. 2009 2h 38m PG-13. 5.8 (403K) Rate. 49 Metascore. A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind. Director Roland Emmerich Stars John Cusack Thandiwe Newton Chiwetel Ejiofor. 2. The Day After Tomorrow. 2004 2h 4m PG-13.
- Time of The Wolf
- The Last Wave
- Take Shelter
- Until The End of The World
- A Boy and His Dog
- On The Beach
- The Day The Earth Caught Fire
- Threads
- By Dawn's Early Light
- The Cabin in The Woods
Michael Haneke's abstract apocalypse is often slow and grueling to watch, but each scene is infused with enough dread and discomfort that the end of the world feels sewn into its very DNA. Time of the Wolffollows a bourgeois family led by Georges (Daniel Duval) and Anne (Isabelle Huppert) after an unspecified disaster contaminates the planet, makin...
The woefully underrated filmmaker Peter Weir followed up his masterpiece Picnic at Hanging Rock with this equally mysterious and unsettling film. The Last Waveis filled with disquieting imagery of natural disasters which flood the head of a lawyer representing four Aboriginal men accused of murder. As he builds his legal defense for them, their cos...
Like The Last Wave, Take Shelter is more ambiguous about the apocalypse; the ominous anticipation for the end of the world may just be a sign of psychosis in the lead character's head. Played to perfection by Michael Shannon, this small-town everyman is gradually overcome with the premonition that the apocalypse is coming in some way or another, le...
Recently released in its full, nearly five hour form by the Criterion Collection, Until the End of the Worldis a sprawling, messy masterpiece with one of the greatest soundtracks ever constructed. The film takes place on the eve of a disastrous accident, with a nuclear satellite losing orbit and hurtling toward Earth. Related: Why Until the End of ...
A very weird cult classic, A Boy and His Dogfeatures a young Don Johnson as Vic, a lonely kid in the post-apocalyptic wastelands of 2024 with only his dog as a companion. Except, his dog has telepathic skills. Based on Harlan Ellison's novella, you'd be excused for thinking that this was a kid-friendly film, but it's most certainly not. The dog is ...
The 60s and 70s were the peak of the Cold War era; many movies explored alternative scenarios about the fallout of civilization and the unique notions of survival that intrigued minds in the Western world. On the Beach is a bleak vision of the future, directed by Stanley Kramer and based on the novel by Nevil Shute. The casting features heavy hitte...
The Day the Earth Caught Fire could be labeled goofy in a sea of films that offer a more serious look at nuclear warfare. Still, it tells a great story, taking a shot at all the nuclear testing madeduring the Cold War era. In this film, directed by Val Guest, we get the talents of Edward Judd, Janet Munro, and Leo McKern as the trio figure out the ...
In the realm of apocalyptic films, it's hard to believe that some of the most impactful efforts were made for TV. The Day After was ABC's warning that sent the fear of God into American audiences. In Europe, it was BBC's Threads, which aired one year later. While both films have similar plotlines, Threadsis more gruesome and brutal. The movie was d...
Funnily enough, By Dawn's Early Lightis another made-for-TV movie with a more prestigious format, as it is an HBO original. The unique story, directed by Jack Sholder and written by Bruce Gilbert, sees the USA deal with the fallout of a Nuclear strike inflicted by a group of rogue operatives on Russian soil. The solid casting features the talents o...
What was once an idyllic location for a couple’s romantic retreat is now a destination marred by the imagery of horror, death, and brutality… quite the departure. That transition, is no small part, down to The Cabin in the Woodsand similar movies that came before it. The 2012 horror, follows a group of college students who head for a weekend in a l...
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- Mad Max: Fury Road. Director: George Miller. Writers: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nico Lathouris. Cast: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Whiteley.
- Snowpiercer. Director: Bong Joon Ho. Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Masterson. Cast: Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer.
- This Is the End. Writer/Directors: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg. Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson.
- 12 Monkeys. Director: Terry Gilliam. Writers: David Peoples and Janet Peoples. Cast: Bruce Willis Madeline Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer. To say Terry Gilliam’s vision of the future in 12 Monkeys is bleak is to say the sky is blue.
Aug 1, 2024 · Vote for your personal favorite end-of-the-world, doomsday or post-apocalyptic film. Latest additions: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Most divisive: Bird Box. Over 4.6K Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best "End of the World" Movies, Ranked.
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5 days ago · Vote for your personal favorite Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction films, regardless of how popular or successful they were at the box office. Latest additions: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Arcadian, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Most divisive: The Birds.
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