List of apocalyptic films
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This is a list of apocalyptic feature-length films. All films within this list feature either the end of the world, a prelude to such an end (such as a world taken over by a viral infection), and/or a post-apocalyptic setting.
Pre-1950[edit]
1950–1959[edit]
1960–1969[edit]
- Battle of the Worlds
- The Bed-Sitting Room
- Beyond the Time Barrier
- Crack in the World
- The Creation of the Humanoids
- Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire
- The Day of the Triffids
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- Fail-Safe
- Il seme dell'uomo
- In the Year 2889
- La Jetée
- The Last Man on Earth
- The Last War
- Last Woman on Earth
- Late August at the Hotel Ozone
- Night of the Living Dead
- Panic in Year Zero!
- Planet of the Apes
- This Is Not a Test
- The Time Machine
- The Time Travelers
- The War Game
1970–1979[edit]
- The Andromeda Strain
- Battle for the Planet of the Apes
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes
- Beware! The Blob
- Black Moon
- A Boy and His Dog
- Colossus: The Forbin Project
- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
- Damnation Alley
- Dawn of the Dead
- A Distant Thunder
- End of the World
- Escape from the Planet of the Apes
- The Final Programme (The Last Days of Man on Earth)
- Gas-s-s-s
- Genesis II
- Glen and Randa
- Holocaust 2000
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- The Last Wave
- The Late, Great Planet Earth
- Logan's Run
- Mad Max
- No Blade of Grass
- The Noah
- The Omega Man
- Phase IV
- Planet Earth
- Quintet
- Ravagers
- The Shape of Things to Come
- Silent Running
- Soylent Green
- Stalker
- A Thief in the Night
- The Ultimate Warrior
- Where Have All The People Gone?
- Wizards
- Zardoz
1980–1989[edit]
- Akira
- The Apple
- Das Arche Noah Prinzip
- Battletruck
- The Blood of Heroes (The Salute of the Jugger)
- Bunker Palace Hôtel
- Blade Runner
- Café Flesh
- Cherry 2000
- Cyborg
- The Day After
- Day of the Dead
- Dead Man's Letters
- Def-Con 4
- Le Dernier Combat
- Escape from New York
- Exterminators of the Year 3000
- Fist of the North Star (1986 film)
- Flash Gordon
- Hell Comes to Frogtown
- Image of the Beast
- Land of Doom
- Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)
- Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
- Malevil
- The Martian Chronicles
- Millennium
- Miracle Mile
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Night of the Comet
- The Prodigal Planet
- The Quiet Earth
- The Seventh Sign
- Radioactive Dreams
- Sexmission
- Steel Dawn
- Stryker (1983 film)
- The Terminator
- Testament
- The Thing
- Threads
- Virus
- A Visitor to a Museum
- When the Wind Blows
- World War III
1990–1999[edit]
- 12 Monkeys
- Armageddon
- The Arrival
- Body Snatchers
- By Dawn's Early Light
- Circuitry Man
- Deep Impact
- Delicatessen
- Dogma
- End of Days
- The End of Evangelion
- Escape from L.A.
- Future Fear
- The Handmaid's Tale
- Hardware
- In the Mouth of Madness
- Independence Day
- Invasion
- Judge Dredd
- Last Night
- The Matrix
- Neon City
- The Omega Code
- Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II
- The Postman
- The Prophecy
- The Prophecy 2
- The Rapture
- Sentinel 2099
- Six String Samurai
- Solar Crisis
- Split Second
- The Stand
- Tank Girl
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day
- Until the End of the World
- Waterworld
- Without Warning
2000–2009[edit]
- 9
- 20 Years After
- 28 Days Later
- 28 Weeks Later
- 2012
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
- Æon Flux
- The Animatrix
- Babylon A.D.
- Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
- Blindness
- Blue Gender
- Carriers
- Children of Men
- City of Ember
- The Dark Hour
- Dawn of the Dead
- The Day After Tomorrow
- The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Daybreakers
- Doomsday
- Dragon Head
- Dreamcatcher
- Earth 2100
- Fail Safe
- Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- The Happening
- Happy End
- I Am Legend
- Idiocracy
- The Invasion
- Knowing
- Land of the Dead
- Left Behind
- Lost Souls
- The Matrix Reloaded
- The Matrix Revolutions
- Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
- On the Beach
- Pandorum
- Planet Terror
- Pontypool
- The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
- The Prophecy: Forsaken
- Reign of Fire
- Resident Evil
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse
- Resident Evil: Extinction
- Returner
- Right at Your Door
- The Road
- Save the Green Planet!
- Shaun of the Dead
- Solar Attack
- Southland Tales
- Supervolcano
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Terminator Salvation
- The Time Machine
- Time of the Wolf
- Titan A.E.
- Tooth and Nail
- WALL-E
- War of the Worlds
- Watchmen
- Zombieland
2010–2019[edit]
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth
- 10 Cloverfield Lane
- Aftermath
- After the Dark
- After Earth
- Air
- Antisocial
- Arctic Blast
- Attack on Titan
- Avengers: Endgame
- Avengers: Infinity War
- Battle: Los Angeles
- Bird Box
- Blade Runner 2049
- Blue World Order
- Bokeh
- The Book of Eli
- Cargo
- Cell
- Cloud Atlas
- Cockneys vs Zombies
- The Colony
- The Darkest Hour
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- The Day
- Deadheads
- Deep
- Diverge
- The Divide
- The Domestics
- Dredd
- Edge of Tomorrow
- The End of the World and the Cat's Disappearance
- Extinction
- Geostorm
- Godzilla
- Goodbye World
- Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
- The Girl with All the Gifts
- Hell
- Hidden
- The Host
- How It Ends (film)
- The Hunger Games
- I Am a Hero
- I Think We're Alone Now
- Interstellar
- Into the Forest
- It Comes at Night
- It's a Disaster
- Jil Jung Juk
- Juan of the Dead
- The Last Survivors
- Legion
- Light of My Life
- Los Últimos Días
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Maximum Shame
- The Maze Runner
- Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
- Melancholia
- Monsters
- Noah
- The Northlander
- Oblivion
- Pacific Rim
- Patient Zero
- Perfect Sense
- A Quiet Place
- Rapture-Palooza
- Resident Evil: Afterlife
- Resident Evil: Retribution
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
- Rise of the Planet of the Apes
- The Rover
- Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
- Skyline
- Snowpiercer
- Stake Land
- Stephanie
- The Survivalist
- Take Shelter
- Terminator: Dark Fate
- Terminator Genisys
- These Final Hours
- This Is the End
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Train to Busan
- Turbo Kid
- Vanishing on 7th Street
- War for the Planet of the Apes
- War of the Dead
- Warm Bodies
- World War Z