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50 Best 'End of the World' Movies. by jdfree_bird • Created 11 years ago • Modified 9 years ago. Enjoy your end of the world :D. (P.S. 'End of the World', both as in the end of earth and the end of mankind.)
Jun 29, 2024 · 1. 49 VOTES. Interstellar. Photo: Paramount Pictures. What Kind Of Apocalypse Is It? Earth is facing environmental collapse. NASA pilot Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) must leave his kids behind and go on a journey to find a new planet via a newly discovered wormhole.
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Seeking A Friend For The End of The World
- Invasion of The Body Snatchers
- Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Deep Impact
- Children of Men
- Take Shelter
- Melancholia
- The Day After
The dystopian future has never been more thrilling than it is in George Miller’s gorgeously shot action film. Set in a desert wasteland where survivors fight for water and gasoline in monstrous customized vehicles, it’s by far the best installment of the Mad Max saga, with a series of dazzling set pieces anchored by Charlize Theron’s towering perfo...
The directorial debut of Hustlers writer-director Lorene Scafaria begins with the news that a meteor will destroy all life on Earth in three weeks. Inspired by her own experiences after Sept. 11, Scafaria uses the imminent end of the world to explore the way people think about love and relationships, through the eyes of two strangers who are thrown...
Maybe the first sign of the end times is that your partner isn’t acting like themselves. Philip Kaufman’s effectively chilling remake of the 1956 “pod people” classic proposes a very different kind of pandemic: one in which people are slowly replaced by their identical doubles while they sleep, making it impossible to tell friends and loved ones fr...
Frank Oz’s musical-comedy classic premiered in theaters with a happy ending…after test audiences revolted against the original ending, in which the puppet plant Audrey II brings about the literal destruction of the world. The apocalyptic version (officially remastered and released as The Director’s Cutin 2019) was arguably the better one all along,...
Directed in a dazzling style that combines 2D and 3D animation, this Netflix original film takes a singularly terrifying concept—the moment when our increasingly-intelligent phones decide to destroy humankind—and delivers a heartwarming, hilarious story about the mostly functional family (including Maya Rudolph as a first-grade-teacher mom and Abbi...
Released the same summer as Michael Bay’s cheesy mega-blockbuster Armageddon, Mimi Leder’s disaster film has essentially the same plot: a meteor is hurtling towards Earth and threatens to knock out the entire human race unless a group of heroic astronauts can save it. Bay’s film is big, goofy, popcorn-eating fun, and has that Aerosmith song. But if...
Alfonso Cuarón’s tense and elegant thriller, a critical darling and triple Oscar nominee brought prestige to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi genre. In the hellscape that London has become after a worldwide infertility crisis, a jaded former activist (Clive Owen) must protect the first pregnant woman in 18 years (Clare-Hope Ashitey) as she attempts to f...
At what point does preparing for the worst become a psychosis? Michael Shannongives one of his most haunting performances as a blue-collar dad who becomes obsessed with building the perfect storm shelter after experiencing dreams and hallucinations about a coming climate catastrophe. Whether you’re a doomsday prepper or an optimist, the ending will...
For people suffering from depression, the world can feel like it’s always on the verge of ending—and worse, everyone else seems oblivious. Kirsten Dunst gives a barnburner of a performance as a young bride battling depression while a planet called Melancholia threatens to collide with Earth in Lars Von Trier’s lush, operatic drama.
As the Cold War ramped up during the Reagan era, several films tried to realistically portray the worst-case scenario of an imminent nuclear attack. Among the films that traumatized a generation are the horrific Threads (1984) and the emotional family drama Testament (1983). But the most impactful, far and away, was this made-for-television drama f...
These thrilling and campy end-of-the-world movies give us a glimpse into comet collisions, nuclear wars, epidemics, and other catastrophes.
- Children of Men. Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón. Written by: Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Otsby. Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Clare-Hope Ashitey, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam.
- The Road. Directed by: John Hillcoat. Written by: Joe Penhall. Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron. Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, The Road stars Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as an unnamed Father and Son trying to survive after an unspecified apocalyptic event.
- Shaun of the Dead. Directed by: Edgar Wright. Written by: Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright. Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis. Alright, let's take a break from the super serious stuff and lighten things up.
- The World's End. Directed by: Edgar Wright. Written by: Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright. Starring: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, Pierce Brosnan.
Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop a zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatens to destroy humanity itself.
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Dec 31, 2023 · Moviegoers have long been captivated by the idea of the world's demise, finding a morbid fascination with the end of civilization. Some of the best movies on this topic have allowed audiences to explore and satisfy their curiosity as they witness unimaginable events unfold on the screen.
