List of apocalyptic films

Not to be confused with List of disaster films or List of dystopian films.

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-1960

• The End of the World (1916)
• End of the World (1931)
• Deluge (1933)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Five (1951)
• When Worlds Collide (1951)
• Captive Women (1952)
• Robot Monster (1953)
• Day the World Ended (1955)
• World Without End (1956)
• The Lost Missile (1958)
• Teenage Caveman (1958)
• On the Beach (1959)
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

1960–1969

• Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
• Last Woman on Earth (1960)
• Battle of the Worlds (1961)
• The Last War (1961)
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
• The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
• Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
• The Day of the Triffids (1962)
• This Is Not a Test (1962)
• La Jetée (1962)
• Ladybug Ladybug (1963)
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• The Time Travelers (1964)
• Fail-Safe (1964)
• The Last Man on Earth (1964)
• Crack in the World (1965)
• Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
• In the Year 2889 (1967)
• Late August at the Hotel Ozone (1967)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• The Seed of Man (1969)
• The Bed-Sitting Room (1969)

1970–1979

• Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
• No Blade of Grass (1970)
• Gas-s-s-s (1970)
• The Andromeda Strain (1971)
• Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971)
• The Omega Man (1971)
• Glen and Randa (1971)
• A Clockwork Orange (1972)
• Beware! The Blob (1972)
• A Thief in the Night (1972)
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
• A Distant Thunder (1972)
• Silent Running (1972)
• Soylent Green (1973)
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
• Genesis II (1973)
• The Final Programme (The Last Days of Man on Earth) (1973)
• Zardoz (1974)
• Phase IV (1974)
• Planet Earth (1974)
• Where Have All The People Gone? (1974)
• Black Moon (1975)
• The Noah (1975)
• Death Race 2000 (1975)
• The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
• A Boy and His Dog (1975)
• The Late, Great Planet Earth (1976)
• Logan's Run (1976)
• The People Who Own the Dark (1976)
• Damnation Alley (1977)
• End of the World (1977)
• Holocaust 2000 (1977)
• Wizards (1977)
• The Last Wave (1977)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• Mad Max (1979)
• Quintet (1979)
• Ravagers (1979)
• The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
• Stalker (1979)

1980–1989

• Virus (1980)
• Phoenix 2772 (1980)
• Image of the Beast (1981)
• Escape from New York (1981)
• Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) (1981)
• Malevil (1981)
• Battletruck (1982)
• World War III (1982)
• Café Flesh (1982)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982) ^[1]
• The Day After (1983)
• Le Dernier Combat (1983)
• The New Barbarians (1983)
• Stryker (1983)
• Testament (1983)
• The Prodigal Planet (1983)
• Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
• 2020 Texas Gladiators (1983) ^[2]
• 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983) ^[3]
• Das Arche Noah Prinzip (1984)
• When the Wind Blows (1984)
• Sexmission (1984)
• Threads (1984)
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
• Night of the Comet (1984)
• The Terminator (1984)
• Day of the Dead (1985)
• The Quiet Earth (1985)
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
• Radioactive Dreams (1985)
• Def-Con 4 (1985)
• Wheels of Fire (1985)
• America 3000 (1986)
• Dead Man's Letters (1986)
• Fist of the North Star (1986)
• Land of Doom (1986)
• Solarbabies (1986)
• Steel Dawn (1987)
• Cherry 2000 (1987)
• The Seventh Sign (1988)
• Akira (1988)
• Miracle Mile (1988)
• Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
• A Visitor to a Museum (1989)
• The Blood of Heroes (The Salute of the Jugger) (1989)
• Bunker Palace Hôtel (1989)
• Cyborg (1989)
• Millennium (1989)

1990–1999

• Aftershock (1990)
• By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
• Solar Crisis (1990)
• The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
• Hardware (1990)
• Circuitry Man (1990)
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
• Until the End of the World (1991)
• The Rapture (1991)
• Neon City (1991)
• Delicatessen (1991)
• Split Second (1992)
• American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
• Body Snatchers (1993)
• The Last Border (1993)
• Without Warning (1994)
• Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
• In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
• 12 Monkeys (1995)
• Sentinel 2099 (1995)
• Steel Frontier (1995)
• Tank Girl (1995)
• Judge Dredd (1995)
• Waterworld (1995)
• The Prophecy (1995)
• The Arrival (1996)
• Omega Doom (1996)
• Escape from L.A. (1996)
• The End of Evangelion (1997)
• The Postman (1997)
• Future Fear (1997)
• Last Night (1998)
• The Prophecy 2 (1998)
• Six String Samurai (1998)
• Beowulf (1999)
• Dogma (1999)
• End of Days (1999)
• The Matrix (1999)
• The Omega Code (1999)

How are the movies Armageddon 1998) & Deep Impact (1998) not on this list??? Both movies center around an asteroid that is big enough to destroy all life on earth & is on a path w/ earth. Clearly 2 apocalyptic movies

2000–2009

• Fail Safe (2000)
• The Last Warrior (2000)
• Left Behind (2000)
• Lost Souls (2000)
• The Prophecy 3: The Ascent (2000)
• On the Beach (2000)
• Titan A.E. (2000)
• Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
• Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Blue Gender:The Warrior (2002)
• 28 Days Later (2002)
• The Time Machine (2002)
• Reign of Fire (2002)
• Resident Evil (2002)
• Returner (2002)
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
• Dragon Head (2003)
• Dreamcatcher (2003)
• Save the Green Planet! (2003)
• Time of the Wolf (2003)
• The Animatrix (2003)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• Dawn of the Dead (2004)
• The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
• Æon Flux (2005)
• The Prophecy: Forsaken (2005)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• Land of the Dead (2005)
• Supervolcano (2005)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Idiocracy (2006)
• Right at Your Door (2006)
• Solar Attack (2006)
• Southland Tales (2006)
• Planet Terror (2007)
• Tooth and Nail (2007)
• The Signal (2007)
• The Invasion (2007)
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
• 20 Years After (2007)
• The Dark Hour (2007)
• Diary of the Dead (2007)
• 28 Weeks Later (2007)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• 2012: Doomsday (2008)
• Babylon A.D. (2008)
• Blindness (2008)
• Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)
• WALL-E (2008)
• Daybreakers (2008)
• Aftermath: Population Zero (2008)
• Doomsday (2008)
• City of Ember (2008)
• The Happening (2008)
• Pontypool (2008)
• The Road (2009)
• Pandorum (2009)
• Watchmen (2009)
• 9 (2009)
• Knowing (2009)
• Survival of the Dead (2009)
• Zombieland (2009)
• 2012 (2009)
• Terminator Salvation (2009)
• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009)
• Happy End (2009)
• Carriers (2009)
• Earth 2100 (2009)

2010–2019

• Juan of the Dead (2010)
• Monsters (2010)
• Stake Land (2010)
• Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)
• Legion (2010)
• Maximum Shame (2010)
• The Book of Eli (2010)
• Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
• 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
• Deadheads (2011)
• Perfect Sense (2011)
• The Darkest Hour (2011)
• The Day (2011)
• The Divide (2011)
• Melancholia (2011)
• Hell (2011)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
• The Hunger Games (2012)
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
• 5 Shells (2012)
• Dredd (2012)
• It's a Disaster (2012)
• Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
• Resident Evil: Damnation (2012)
• Cloud Atlas (2012)
• Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
• The Battery (2012)
• Rapture-Palooza (2013)
• The Colony (2013)
• These Final Hours (2013)
• This Is the End (2013)
• After the Dark (2013)
• After Earth (2013)
• Los Últimos Días (2013)
• Antisocial (2013)
• Snowpiercer (2013)
• Oblivion (2013)
• Warm Bodies (2013)
• World War Z (2013)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2013)
• Forever's End (2013)
• The World's End (2013)
• The Host (2013)
• Goodbye World (2013)
• Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl (2014)
• Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014)
• The Rover (2014)
• Zodiac: Signs of the Apocalypse (2014)
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
• Young Ones (2014)
• Aftermath (2014)
• The Maze Runner (2014)
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
• Interstellar (2014)
• The Last Survivors (2014)
• Noah (2014)
• Autómata (2014)
• Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
• Crumbs (2015)
• Turbo Kid (2015)
• Z for Zachariah (2015)
• The End of the World and the Cat's Disappearance (2015)
• The Walking Deceased (2015)
• Extinction (2015)
• Hidden (2015)
• Air (2015)
• Into the Forest (2015)
• JeruZalem (2015)
• The Survivalist (2015)
• Attack on Titan (2015)
• Terminator Genisys (2015)
• Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Maggie (2015)
• 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
• Train to Busan (2016)
• Seoul Station (2016)
• I Am a Hero (2016)
• The Fifth Wave (2016)
• Cell (2016)
• Day of Reckoning (2016)
• The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
• Diverge (2016)
• The Northlander (2016)
• Stephanie (2017)
• It Comes at Night (2017)
• Junk Head (2017)
• War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
• Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2017)
• Resident Evil: Vendetta (2017)
• Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017)
• Bokeh (2017)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Cargo (2017)
• Here Alone (2017)
• After The End (2017)
• Deep (2017)
• Bird Box (2018)
• Blue World Order (2018)
• The Domestics (2018)
• Future World (2018)
• How It Ends (2018)
• I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
• In My Room (2018)
• Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
• Mortal Engines (2018)
• The Night Eats the World (2018)
• Patient Zero (2018)
• A Quiet Place (2018)
• Scorched Earth (2018)
• What Still Remains (2018)
• This World Alone (2018)
• Blood Quantum (2019)
• Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
• The Wandering Earth (2019)
• The Silence (2019)
• Io (2019)
• Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
• Light of My Life (2019)
• The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
• 3022 (2019)

2020-2029

• 2067 (2020)
• #Alive (2020)
• Alone (2020)
• Friend of the World (2020)
• Greenland (2020)
• Love and Monsters (2020)
• Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)
• The Midnight Sky (2020)
• Songbird (2020)
• How It Ends (2021)
• Quarantine (2021)
• Silent Night (2021)
• Army of the Dead (2021)
• Awake (2021)
• Don't Look Up (2021)
• The Tomorrow War (2021)
• Finch (2021)
• Mother/Android (2021)
• The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)
• The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
• A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
• Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
• Vesper (2022)
• Polaris (2022)
• Resident Evil: Death Island (2023)
• The Wandering Earth 2 (2023)
• Bird Box Barcelona (2023)
• Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (2023)
• The Creator (2023)
• Foe (2023)
• Leave the World Behind (2023)
• Arcadian (2024)
• Breathe (2024)
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
• A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
• Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024)
• Elevation (2024)
• 2073 (2024)
• Love Me (2024)
• Flow (2024)
• Párvulos: Children of the Apocalypse (2024)
• In the Lost Lands (2025)
• The Electric State (2025)
• 28 Years Later (2025)
• The Great Flood (2025)
• Afterburn (2025)
• Greenland 2: Migration (2026)
• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
• The Dog Stars (2026)

See also

• List of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
• List of disaster films
• List of dystopian films

References

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