The Definitive Post-Apocalyptic List
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- DirectorKevin CostnerStarsKevin CostnerWill PattonLarenz TateA nameless drifter dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America.We never actually know what the nature of the apocalypse is, though there is a hint at the beginning that there may be chemical or radioactive residue for which water sources must be tested. Whatever the nature of teh disaster, this life-after-the-apocalypse film is set in the northwestern former United States and follows a drifter who becomes an unlikely hero as he reconnects communities by restoring the mail system.
- DirectorFranklin J. SchaffnerStarsCharlton HestonRoddy McDowallKim HunterAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.Three astronauts land on a planet run by apes. Befriended by two chimpanzees (researchers and scientists), the lead astronaut survives an ordeal at the hand of the Orangutans (Politicians) and the Gorillas (The Military) only to discover that he has actually landed on Earth in the future. After a devastating nuclear exchange, the apes rose to dominance on the planet and man was reduced to a mute primitive.
- DirectorGeorge MillerStarsMel GibsonBruce SpenceMichael PrestonIn the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits.After an unspecified apocalypse, a former Policeman roams the outback trying to survive in the wilderness. He comes across a small community that has control over a refinery where they are still making gasoline- a precious commodity. He helps them make a stand against a brutal band of marauders.
- DirectorJohn HillcoatStarsViggo MortensenCharlize TheronKodi Smit-McPheeIn a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea.This harsh and brutal film follows an un-named man and his son as they journey through a cannibal-infested territory on there way to a rumored safe haven on the shore. Again, we're not sure what caused the apocalypse, but the outcome is bleak. Hard to watch.
- DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael BiehnA human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.While much of the story takes place in the present, everything is driven by events that take place in a post-apocalyptic future where the machines that had taken over are finally defeated. The machines make one last strategic move to go into the past and execute the mother of their nemesis before he is born.
- CreatorStephen ChboskyJosh SchaerJonathan E. SteinbergStarsSkeet UlrichLennie JamesAshley ScottA small town in Kansas is literally left in the dark after seeing a mushroom cloud over nearby Denver, Colorado. The townspeople struggle to find answers about the blast and solutions on how to survive.A small town comes to grip with the after-effects of a nuclear exchange. They have to deal with panic, shortage of resources, militias, and more.
- DirectorNicholas MeyerStarsJason RobardsJoBeth WilliamsSteve GuttenbergThe effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas.A dark and bleak look at those who survive a nuclear exchange with Russia.
- DirectorLynne LittmanStarsJane AlexanderWilliam DevaneRossie HarrisThe life of a suburban American family is scarred after a nuclear attack.A family deals with the effects of radioactive fall-out after a nuclear blast has devastated the nearby city.
- DirectorAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsDenzel WashingtonMila KunisRay StevensonA drifter fights his way across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic America while protecting a sacred book that holds the secrets to humanity's salvation.A blind man walks the earth after a nuclear holocaust. He encounters a frontier-like town and a madman trying to control all of the existing resources.
- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.In a world where the machines have taken over and driven humanity underground, one man wakes from their control and leads the revolution against them.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRoddy McDowallClaude AkinsNatalie TrundyTen years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.After a devastating nuclear war, society is split into two groups: the Apes and humans who dwell in the countryside and try to live in harmony, and the mutant humans who remain in the devastated ruins of the city, slowly changed by the background radiation all around them. Only one group can survive.
- DirectorTed PostStarsJames FranciscusKim HunterMaurice EvansThe sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission searches for the only survivor of the previous expedition. He discovers a planet ruled by apes and an underground city run by telepathic humans.A fourth astronaut finds himself in Earth's future where the apes have become the dominant species. This astronaut, Brent, finds himself in the nuclear devastation that was once New York City. Now, however, NYC is inhabited by a race of telepathic mutants.
- DirectorKevin ReynoldsStarsKevin CostnerJeanne TripplehornDennis HopperIn a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw "smokers," and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.The mariner is a man transformed by his environment: a world covered in water. After helping a woman and a young girl, they are pursued by pirates and madmen in search of a secret map to dry land.
- DirectorUbaldo RagonaSidney SalkowStarsVincent PriceFranca BettoiaEmma DanieliWhen a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.Vincent Price is a scientist who has survived a zombie-like apocalypse. He spends his time hunting and destroying the infected and searching for a cure.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsCharlton HestonAnthony ZerbeRosalind CashDr Robert Neville has developed an experimental vaccine which makes him the only immune survivor of a biological catastrophe. A gang of homicidal mutants blame science for their condition and attempt to kill him.In this remake of "The Last Man on Earth," Charleton Heston is a scientist who has survived a zombie-like apocalypse. He spends his time hunting and destroying the infected and searching for a cure.
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsWill SmithAlice BragaCharlie TahanYears after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.In this remake of "The Last Man on Earth," Will Smith is a scientist who has survived a zombie-like apocalypse. He spends his time hunting and destroying the infected and searching for a cure.
- DirectorTerry GilliamStarsBruce WillisMadeleine StoweBrad PittIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.A man returns to the past to investigate the cause of a plague that nearly wipes out the earth.
- DirectorAlfonso CuarónStarsJulianne MooreClive OwenChiwetel EjioforIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.In the future, mankind has become infertile. Suddenly, after many years a woman is pregnant. A man must help her escape to a safe haven through a war-torn urban setting.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsCillian MurphyNaomie HarrisChristopher EcclestonFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.A young man awakes from a coma to find the world as-he-knew-it is gone and that a devastating plague has created flesh-eating monsters.
- DirectorJuan Carlos FresnadilloStarsJeremy RennerRose ByrneRobert CarlyleSix months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.The sequel to the successful 28 Days Later, this film follows a family hoping to return to their home after the plague has thought to have been contained.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsGregory PeckAva GardnerFred AstaireAfter a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.The crew of a US submarine lingers in a small Australian coast town as they await a cloud of radiation to descend on them after a global nuclear war.
- DirectorAndrew MartonStarsDana AndrewsJanette ScottKieron MooreA dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.After a mishap with a deep-core drilling project, a crack in the world develops, threatening the world's population.
- DirectorL.Q. JonesStarsDon JohnsonJason RobardsSusanne BentonA young man and his telepathic dog wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland.A teenage boy and his speaking dog avoid hazards and pitfalls in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPeter GravesGeorge O'Hanlon Jr.Kathleen QuinlanAfter a catastrophic solar flare decimates almost all life, reducing people to powdery substance, a group of survivors treks across the devastated Earth.While camping and spelunking, a family is shielded from a cosmic event that kills everyone who was exposed to it.
- DirectorJohn BoormanStarsSean ConneryCharlotte RamplingSara KestelmanIn the late 23rd century, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.In the distant future, a more advanced group of people try to control a savage warlord.