Seven years ago, I started compiling a clean list of post-apocalyptic movies. Today, I’m posting a refreshed list of movies set after global calamities.
Other lists of post-apocalyptic flicks are muddied with movies showing dystopian futures or an approaching apocalypse. Other lists also included crappy, super-low-budget movies.
For my list, I wanted to focus on noteworthy movies that showed the aftermath of an apocalypse and people trying to survive.
My original list included just theatrical movies that were significant enough to merit a Wikipedia entry and be reviewed on Rotten Tomatoes. I’ve since added movies made for streaming services, such as Netflix.
Here’s my list of major, live-action motion pictures that depict life on Earth after nuclear war, plagues, alien invasion, climate change or other devastation.
Updated June 23, 2024.
1951 Five
1952 Captive Women (also known as “1000 Years From Now” and “3000 A.D.”)
1953 The War of the Worlds
1955 Day the World Ended
1956 World Without End
1959 On the Beach
1959 The World, the Flesh and the Devil
1960 Beyond the Time Barrier
1960 Last Woman on Earth
1960 The Time Machine
1961 The Day the Earth Caught Fire
1962 Panic in Year Zero!
1963 The Day of the Triffids
1964 The Earth Dies Screaming
1964 Last Man on Earth
1964 The Time Travelers
1966 The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (Czechoslovakia)
1966 The War Game (U.K.)
1968 Planet of the Apes
1968 The Bed Sitting Room (U.K.)
1969 The Seed of Man (Italy)
1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970 Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It
1970 No Blade of Grass
1971 Glen and Randa
1971 The Omega Man
1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes
1973 Idaho Transfer
1974 Zardoz
1975 A Boy and His Dog
1975 The Noah
1975 The Ultimate Warrior
1977 Damnation Alley
1978 Dawn of the Dead
1978 Deathsport
1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1979 Quintet
1979 Ravagers
1979 The Shape of Things to Come
1980 Virus (Japan) aka Day of Resurrection or Fukkatsu no hi
1981 The Road Warrior
1982 The Aftermath
1982 She
1982 1990: The Bronx Warriors (Italy)
1983 2019: After the Fall of New York (Italy)
1983 The Day After
1983 Le Dernier Combat, aka The Last Battle (France)
1983 Stryker
1983 Testament
1984 Night of the Comet
1984 Warriors of the Wasteland, aka The New Barbarians (Italy)
1984 Threads (U.K.)
1985 City Limits
1985 Day of the Dead
1985 Def-Con 4
1985 Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
1985 The Quiet Earth
1985 Wheels of Fire
1985 Warrior of the Lost World (Italy)
1985 Exterminators of the Year 3000 (Italy)
1986 Radioactive Dreams
1987 Cherry 2000
1987 Creepozoids
1987 Hell Comes to Frogtown
1987 Steel Dawn
1988 World Gone Wild
1988 She-Wolves of the Wasteland
1989 The Blood of Heroes
1989 Cyborg
1989 Slipstream
1990 Hardware
1990 Robot Jox
1990 Aftershock
1991 Delicatessen (France)
1991 Neon City
1991 The Rapture
1992 Raiders of the Sun
1993 Body Snatchers
1994 American Cyborg: Steel Warrior
1995 Fist of the North Star
1995 The Postman
1995 Tank Girl
1995 Twelve Monkeys
1995 Waterworld
1997 Omega Doom
1998 Six-String Samurai
1999 The Matrix
2000 Battlefield Earth
2000 On the Beach
2001 Ever Since the World Ended
2001 Pulse (Japan)
2002 Reign of Fire
2002 The Time Machine
2003 The Matrix Reloaded
2003 The Matrix Revolutions
2003 Time of the Wolf (France)
2004 Dawn of the Dead
2004 The Day After Tomorrow
2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2005 Land of the Dead
2005 War of the Worlds
2007 I Am Legend
2007 Resident Evil: Extinction
2008 Babylon A.D.
2008 Blindness
2008 City of Ember
2008 Day of the Dead
2008 The Happening
2009 Carriers
2009 The Road
2009 Survival of the Dead
2009 Terminator Salvation
2009 Zombieland
2010 The Book of Eli
2010 Daybreakers
2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife
2010 Skyline
2010 Stake Land
2010 Vanishing on 7th Street
2010 Phase 7 (Argentina)
2010 Rammbock: Berlin Undead (Germany) aka Siege of the Dead
2011 The Darkest Hour
2011 The Divide
2011 Hell (Germany)
2011 Priest
2012 The Battery
2012 The Day
2012 Resident Evil: Retribution
2013 The Colony
2013 Oblivion
2013 Rapture-Palooza
2013 This Is the End
2013 Warm Bodies
2013 World War Z
2013 Goodbye World
2014 The Rover
2014 Snowpiercer
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 Left Behind
2014 The Maze Runner
2014 The Remaining
2014 The Last Days (Spain)
2014 The Last Survivors, aka The Well
2014 Plague (Australia)
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 Extinction
2015 Air
2015 Z for Zachariah
2015 Turbo Kid
2015 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
2015 Attack on Titan: Part 1 (Japan)
2015 Attack on Titan: Part 2 (Japan)
2015 Re-Kill
2015 Embers
2015 Jackrabbit
2015 Robot Overlords
2015 Astraea
2016 The 5th Wave
2016 10 Cloverfield Lane
2016 Pandemic
2016 Into the Forest
2016 The Tribe
2016 Diverge
2016 Daylight’s End
2016 The Worthy (United Arab Emirates)
2016 Stake Land 2: The Stakelander
2017 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2017 The Girl with All the Gifts
2017 Bokeh
2017 Here Alone
2017 War for the Planet of the Apes
2017 It Comes at Night
2017 The Bad Batch
2017 The Survivalist
2017 2307: Winter’s Dream
2017 Beyond Skyline
2017 Go North
2018 Maze Runner: The Death Cure
2018 Scorched Earth
2018 Ravenous, aka Les Affames (Quebec, Canada)
2018 Day of the Dead: Bloodline
2018 A Quiet Place
2018 Cargo
2018 Future World
2018 Genesis
2018 How It Ends
2018 The Domestics
2018 The Night Eats the World (France)
2018 I Think We’re Alone Now
2018 Patient Zero
2018 What Still Remains
2018 Bird Box
2018 Occupation (Australia)
2018 Hostile
2018 Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 A Breath Away, aka Dans la brume (France)
2019 Io
2019 The Wandering Earth (China)
2019 The Silence
2019 I Am Mother
2019 Light of My Life
2019 Ever After, aka Endzeit (Germany)
2019 Riot Girls
2019 Zombieland: Double Tap
2019 Radioflash
2019 The Blackout (Russia)
2020 Only
2020 Blood Quantum
2020 Bullets of Justice
2020 Love and Monsters
2020 2067
2020 Cadaver, aka Kadaver (Norway)
2020 Greenland
2020 The Midnight Sky
2020 Alone
2021 A Quiet Place Part 2
2021 Awake
2021 The Tomorrow War
2021 The Colony, aka Tides
2021 Occupation: Rainfall (Australia)
2021 Finch
2021 Mother/Android
2021 The Matrix Resurrections
2021 Last Man Down
2021 Night Raiders
2021 The Survivalist
2022 Moonfall
2022 Vesper
2022 The Pink Cloud (Brazil)
2023 The Wandering Earth 2 (China)
2023 Last Sentinel, aka Last Contact
2023 Bird Box Barcelona (Spain)
2023 Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (Japan)
2023 Leave the World Behind
2024 Badland Hunters (South Korea)
2024 Breathe
Let me know if you think I should make some additions or deletions.
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