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1. 2012 (I) (2009) PG-13 | 158 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. 5.8. 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, Amanda Peet. Votes: 397,895 | Gross: $166.11M. 2.
These thrilling and campy end-of-the-world movies give us a glimpse into comet collisions, nuclear wars, epidemics, and other catastrophes.
Apr 1, 2024 · The 18 Best End-Of-The-World Movies That Have Us Prepping For The Apocalypse, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Interstellar, The Day After Tomorrow, 28 ...
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Seeking A Friend For The End of The World
- Invasion of The Body Snatchers
- Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Deep Impact
- Children of Men
- Take Shelter
- Melancholia
- The Day After
The dystopian future has never been more thrilling than it is in George Miller’s gorgeously shot action film. Set in a desert wasteland where survivors fight for water and gasoline in monstrous customized vehicles, it’s by far the best installment of the Mad Max saga, with a series of dazzling set pieces anchored by Charlize Theron’s towering perfo...
The directorial debut of Hustlers writer-director Lorene Scafaria begins with the news that a meteor will destroy all life on Earth in three weeks. Inspired by her own experiences after Sept. 11, Scafaria uses the imminent end of the world to explore the way people think about love and relationships, through the eyes of two strangers who are thrown...
Maybe the first sign of the end times is that your partner isn’t acting like themselves. Philip Kaufman’s effectively chilling remake of the 1956 “pod people” classic proposes a very different kind of pandemic: one in which people are slowly replaced by their identical doubles while they sleep, making it impossible to tell friends and loved ones fr...
Frank Oz’s musical-comedy classic premiered in theaters with a happy ending…after test audiences revolted against the original ending, in which the puppet plant Audrey II brings about the literal destruction of the world. The apocalyptic version (officially remastered and released as The Director’s Cutin 2019) was arguably the better one all along,...
Directed in a dazzling style that combines 2D and 3D animation, this Netflix original film takes a singularly terrifying concept—the moment when our increasingly-intelligent phones decide to destroy humankind—and delivers a heartwarming, hilarious story about the mostly functional family (including Maya Rudolph as a first-grade-teacher mom and Abbi...
Released the same summer as Michael Bay’s cheesy mega-blockbuster Armageddon, Mimi Leder’s disaster film has essentially the same plot: a meteor is hurtling towards Earth and threatens to knock out the entire human race unless a group of heroic astronauts can save it. Bay’s film is big, goofy, popcorn-eating fun, and has that Aerosmith song. But if...
Alfonso Cuarón’s tense and elegant thriller, a critical darling and triple Oscar nominee brought prestige to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi genre. In the hellscape that London has become after a worldwide infertility crisis, a jaded former activist (Clive Owen) must protect the first pregnant woman in 18 years (Clare-Hope Ashitey) as she attempts to f...
At what point does preparing for the worst become a psychosis? Michael Shannongives one of his most haunting performances as a blue-collar dad who becomes obsessed with building the perfect storm shelter after experiencing dreams and hallucinations about a coming climate catastrophe. Whether you’re a doomsday prepper or an optimist, the ending will...
For people suffering from depression, the world can feel like it’s always on the verge of ending—and worse, everyone else seems oblivious. Kirsten Dunst gives a barnburner of a performance as a young bride battling depression while a planet called Melancholia threatens to collide with Earth in Lars Von Trier’s lush, operatic drama.
As the Cold War ramped up during the Reagan era, several films tried to realistically portray the worst-case scenario of an imminent nuclear attack. Among the films that traumatized a generation are the horrific Threads (1984) and the emotional family drama Testament (1983). But the most impactful, far and away, was this made-for-television drama f...
Apr 1, 2020 · From pandemic movies like Contagion to apocalypse movies like Melancholia and Dr. Strangelove, here are the best movies about the end of the world to stream now.
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1. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. 6.5. Rate. 47 Metascore. Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
Dec 27, 2019 · Movies Lists apocalypse. “This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a whimper.” Then again, what does T.S. Eliot know? As far as the movies go, the possibilities for destroying our...
