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Neon City (1991)
, 1h39Directed by Monte Markham
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Disaster films
Actors Michael Ironside, Vanity, Juliet Landau, Richard Sanders, Monte Markham, Creed Bratton
In the 2050s, extensive ecological damage has resulted in largely lawless areas that are controlled by mutant raiders. Harry Stark, an ex-cop who now works as a bounty hunter in the wastelands, saves a woman from mutant outlaws. After she pulls a knife on him, he knocks her unconscious and brings her back to town for her bounty. Captain Raymond, Stark's former commanding officer, tells him that the woman, Reno, must be brought to Neon City to collect his payment. Raymond requests that Stark ride shotgun on a transport that is going to Neon City, but he refuses. When Stark's truck blows up, Raymond claims it to be an act of terrorism by mutants. Stark attacks Raymond, only to be knocked unconscious and placed on the transport with Reno.
Range 15 (2016)
Directed by Ross Patterson
Genres Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Disaster films
Actors Sean Astin, Keith David, Danny Trejo, William Shatner, Mindy Robinson, Bryan Callen
The Sky Has Fallen (2009)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
An Ebola-like plague decimates the world's population. Attempting to escape infection, people flee to rural locations but strange demonic figures appear, transforming the dead into their army. The two main characters, Lance and Rachel, try to hunt down the leader of these creatures before humanity gets wiped out. Bella Blitz of The Horror Honeys pointed out that the film has "elements of revenge, monsters, slasher, and splatter genres combined."
Pulse 3 (2008)
, 1h31Directed by Joel Soisson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Ghost films, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Noureen DeWulf, Brittany Finamore, Karley Scott Collins, Rider Strong, Brittany Finamore, Diane Ayala Goldner
Seven years into the invasion, humankind has fled the cities where billions have died from a plague spread through the internet. Justine dreams of a life beyond her squalid refugee camp where all technology is taboo. She discovers the last working laptop and opens it like Pandora's box. Someone is waiting for her online. And that someone wants desperately to meet her. The only catch, she must return to the city. With a longing that surpasses fear, Justine embarks on a terrifying journey back to the heart of where it all began. What waits there is something she could not possibly have imagined.
Six Reasons Why (2008)
, 1h29Directed by Matt Campagna, Jeffrey Michael Campagna
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Western
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Colm Feore, Jeffrey Michael Campagna, Matt Campagna
Four men stand staring one another down before a shootout. In a flashback one of the gunslingers, The Nomad, shows he shot a man in the Badlands named Milton while he is describing a vision of paradise just beyond the dunes. The Nomad loots through Milton's remains before camping for the night. That night the Nomad dreams of the preacher who sent him into the desert to protect a mysterious city, reminding him to make sure the horse is looked after. The Nomad wakes up realizing that the horse is more important to the mission than he is, and that he was never to see his home again. Rather than kill the next desert intruder, The Nomad conspires with him in faking his own death, which causes the horse to head home, tracked and followed by the Nomad. After the deal is struck, the Nomad goes to stop two more intruders entering the badlands. Now knowing his horse is actually an enemy, The Nomad takes a liking to the two strangers, The Entrepreneur and The Sherpa and chooses to stay with them. After a day of travel and a congenial dinner, they fall sleep around the fire. The Nomad again dreams of the preacher and his warnings. When the Nomad wakes up he finds his horse has vanished. Believing the two new strangers are responsible, he attacks them and ties them up for questioning. He finally realizes the culprit must have been the shady stranger from the day before.
, 1h25Directed by C. Thomas Howell
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Mars in film, Films based on science fiction novels, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Disaster films
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Christopher "Kid" Reid, Fred Griffith, Dashiell "Dash" Howell, Sanaa Lathan, Darren Dalton
George Herbert explains that despite years of searching for extraterrestrial life, mankind never expected the invasion which devastated human civilization into anarchy, and that the aliens were killed by a lack of immunity to the bacteria in the human blood they consumed. Two years later, a town is seen, populated with silent refugees including characters Shackleford and Sissy. Suddenly, three Tripods land in the city. People are struck by a Heat-Ray. Shackleford takes a sample of Sissy's blood, with which he injects himself.
Plague (2015)
, 1h26Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Society breaks down after a virus causes the infected to turn into cannibalistic killers. When Evie's husband John becomes separated from the rest of the group during an attack, the survivors fall back to their emergency shelter. Gary and Evie want to wait for John, as they all agreed they would do in such a circumstance, but Bob becomes increasingly impatient. Citing the realities of the situation, Bob says they must assume John is dead and leave for a more permanent shelter. Although Bob backs down, he later takes the group's car, rifle, and supplies by force. When Gary objects, Bob kills him. Sammy, the group's mechanic, and Marge, Bob's wife, leave with him; Evie stays behind by herself to wait for John.
5 Shells (2012)
, 1h33Genres Drama, Science fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Following a global economic collapse resulting in a post apocalyptic world, Matti (Kelsey Hutton) and her older sister Joslyn (Eve Kozikowski) are hiding beneath the floor as an armed intruder searches their house. After finding their parents killed, Matti plans on traveling to their grandmother's house, taking a shotgun and five shells she found scattered near her father's body. Maddi uses one shell for target practice before leaving the home. The sisters travel, staying in abandoned places and almost drown crossing a river. Maddi begins having recurrent dreams involving a yellow brick road and other imagery from The Wizard of Oz, whose original book she often reads to her sister.
Go North (2017)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure, Romance
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films set in the future, Disaster films
Actors Jacob Lofland, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Patrick Schwarzenegger, James Bloor, Joshua Close
Un voyage post-apocalyptique de deux jeunes gens pour retrouver leurs familles.
Directed by Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Origin France
Genres Science fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films
Actors Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Une équipe de militaires à l'air dérangé est confinée dans un bunker. Lorsque l'un d'eux découvre un compteur qui défile à rebours, tous sont affolés. Que se passera-t-il à la fin du décompte ? C'est dans cette ambiance lourde de tension qu'ils sombreront tous peu à peu dans la plus profonde folie.
Cargo (2009)
, 1h48Directed by Ivan Engler
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Post-apocalyptic films, Dans l'espace, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Space opera
Actors Yangzom Brauen, Gilles Tschudi, Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Pierre Semmler
It is the year 2267. After the earth has become uninhabitable due to an ecological collapse, the remaining people live on overcrowded space stations in Earth's orbit. The young doctor Laura Portmann (Anna-Katharina Schwabroh) is one of them. She hopes for a better future alongside her sister on the distant planet Rhea, but to get there, she needs money. She signs up with Kuiper Enterprises for a job on the decrepit cargo ship Kassandra, heading for an eight-year flight to unmanned Station #42 and back.
Edges of Darkness (2008)
, 1h27Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Lee Perkins
Edges of Darkness tells the tales of three groups of survivors held up in an apartment complex during a zombie apocalypse. With their food supply dwindling, a vampire couple kidnaps a young girl. They intend to bleed her slowly to survive, but things don't go exactly as planned. Dean, an obsessed horror writer is holed up with his neglected wife, Dana. Dean keeps his sanity by burying himself in his writing. He installs a new processor to run his computer on their limited generator power, but soon finds out there's a high price to pay. Heather, a survival nut, rescues a young mother and her son from a horde of zombies. She takes them back to the complex. However, she soon discovers the mother and son are on the run from a group of renegade priests hellbent on destroying the boy.
Humanity's End (2009)
, 1h20Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Pregnancy films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Marc Scott Zicree
Several hundred years into the future, mankind has been relegated to the position of a minority species being replaced by a clone-race called "Homo technis" or "Konstrukts" which is itself being supplanted by the genetically engineered race "Homo superior". The Homo superior have enhanced themselves with DNA from a race of hostile extraterrestrials called Nephilim who are known for their superior military skills, to wipe out all the Homo sapiens and Homo technis "lesser" races from the galaxy. In order to save the "lower" races, Homo technis develops a genus of sapiens called "breeders", with an ability to bring multiple births to term quickly.
One Hundred Mornings (2009)
, 1h23Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Ciarán McMenamin, Alex Reid, Paul Ronan
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As resources run low and external threats increase, they forge an uneasy alliance with their self-sufficient hippie neighbour. With no news from the outside world they can’t know how long they must endure living in such close quarters, and with such limited supplies.
Helldriver (2010)
, 1h57Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Eihi Shiina, Kazuki Namioka, Takahito Iguchi, Kanji Tsuda, Asami Sugiura, Honoka
A schoolgirl named Kika and her father are living in a condemned set of houses where they are ultimately found by her mother, Rikka, and her uncle, Yasushi, both serial killers who murder and cannibalize their victims. Once the father is burned to death, Kika attempts to escape, but is caught by the homicidal siblings. Seconds later, a meteorite seen falling from space crashes into Rikka's back, leaving a large-sized hole in her body where her heart once was, forcing her to rip out Kika's as a replacement. After the two are then left in a cocoon-like state, a large blast of black toxic ash makes it way from Rikka and begins to cover the northern half of Japan. Thirty-six hours later, the ash had dissipated, but those who have inhaled it have been turned into bloodthirsty zombies. Days later, the country is then divided into two by a large wall, keeping the zombies north while most of Japan's uninfected population remain south.