Movies by Lists - 50 Best End of the World Movies (50 [50]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 12 MonkeysIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. | 1995 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.0 (603.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| 28 Days LaterFour weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary. | 2002 | Danny Boyle (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (399.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| 28 Weeks LaterSix months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan. | 2007 | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.9 (269.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| 2012A frustrated writer struggles to keep his family alive when a series of global catastrophes threatens to annihilate mankind. | 2009 | Roland Emmerich (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 5.8 (368.5K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| BattleshipA fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals. | 2012 | Peter Berg | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (243.5K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Birds, TheA wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 7.7 (182.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Boy and His Dog, AA young man and his telepathic dog wander a post-apocalyptic wasteland. | 1975 | L.Q. Jones | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (17.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Cabin in the WoodsFive friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods. | 2011 | Drew Goddard | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (401.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Children of MenIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. | 2006 | Alfonso Cuarón | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.9 (487.1K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Cockneys Vs ZombiesA gang of bank robbers fight their way out of a zombie-infested London. | 2012 | Matthias Hoene | Action, Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 5.9 (19.2K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Crazies, TheAfter a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people. | 2010 | Breck Eisner | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (117.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Dawn of the DeadA nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall. | 2004 | Zack Snyder | Action, Horror | 7.3 (249.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Day After Tomorrow, TheJack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age. | 2004 | Roland Emmerich (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (435.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Day After, TheThe effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of eastern Kansas. | 1983 | Nicholas Meyer | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (15.4K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Day the Earth Stood Still, TheA remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth. | 2008 | Scott Derrickson | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.5 (168.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Day, TheA group of five people working to stay alive in a post-apocalyptic future discover what they think is a safe, abandoned farmhouse, but they soon find themselves fighting to stay alive as a gang of bloodthirsty predators attack. | 2011 | Douglas Aarniokoski | Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.2 (13.2K votes) | 87 | 20231017 |
| DaybreakersIn the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to | 2009 | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (126.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| DogmaAn abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven. | 1999 | Kevin Smith (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.3 (214.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Fantastic 4A group of astronauts gain superpowers after a cosmic radiation exposure and must use them to oppose the plans of their enemy, Doctor Victor Von Doom. | 2005 | Tim Story | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 5.7 (322.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Fifth Element, TheIn the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay. | 1997 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (457.6K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Green LanternReckless test pilot Hal Jordan is granted an alien ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers that inducts him into an intergalactic police force, the Green Lantern Corps. | 2011 | Martin Campbell | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (279K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Happening. TheA science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide. | 2008 | M. Night Shyamalan (*) | Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.0 (203.6K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, TheMere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, journeyman Arthur Dent is swept off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher penning a new edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." | 2005 | Garth Jennings | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (194K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| ImmortalsTheseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity. | 2011 | Tarsem Singh | Action, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.0 (166.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| In The Mouth of MadnessAn insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational. | 1994 | John Carpenter (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (67K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Invasion of the Body SnatchersWhen strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time. | 1978 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (58.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| JumanjiWhen two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game. | 1995 | Joe Johnston | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.0 (331.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| KnowingM.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe. | 2009 | Alex Proyas | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.2 (229.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Last Wave, TheA Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions. | 1977 | Peter Weir (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (9.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| LegionWhen a group of strangers at a dusty roadside diner come under attack by demonic forces, their only chance for survival lies with an archangel named Michael, who informs a pregnant waitress that her unborn child is humanity's last ho | 2010 | Scott Stewart | Action, Fantasy, Horror | 5.3 (103.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Matrix, TheWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. | 1999 | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.7 (1.8M votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| MelancholiaTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. | 2011 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (177.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Miracle MileA young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in 70 minutes. | 1988 | Steve De Jarnatt | Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.0 (10.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Mist, TheA freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. | 2007 | Frank Darabont (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.1 (296.1K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Night of the Living DeadA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States. | 1968 | George A. Romero (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.9 (124.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| On the BeachAfter a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months. | 1959 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (12.8K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Planet of the ApesAn astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. | 1968 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (175K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Rapture, TheA telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again. | 1991 | Michael Tolkin (*) | Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (5.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Reaping, TheA former Christian missionary, who specializes in debunking religious phenomena, investigates a small town which seems to be suffering from the 10 biblical plagues. | 2007 | Stephen Hopkins | Horror, Thriller | 5.6 (43K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Reign of FireA brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet. | 2002 | Rob Bowman | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller | 6.2 (132.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Rise Of The Planet Of The ApesA substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising. | 2011 | Rupert Wyatt | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.5 (514.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Road, TheIn a dangerous post-apocalyptic world, an ailing father defends his son as they slowly travel to the sea. | 2009 | John Hillcoat | Adventure, Drama | 7.2 (233.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Seeking a Friend for the End of the WorldAs an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his | 2012 | Lorene Scafaria | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (112.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| SunshineA team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057. | 2007 | Danny Boyle (*) | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (244.3K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Terminator II - Judgement DayA cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from a more advanced and powerful cyborg. | 1991 | James Cameron (*) | Action, Sci-Fi | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Time of the WolfWhen Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process. | 2003 | Michael Haneke (*) | Drama | 6.6 (10.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Wall-EIn the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. | 2008 | Andrew Stanton | Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 8.4 (1.1M votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| War of the Worlds, TheAn alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival. | 2005 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (434.9K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| ZombielandA shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting bruiser in search of the last Twinkie and a pair of sisters striving to get to an amusement park join forces in a trek across a zombie-filled America. | 2009 | Ruben Fleischer | Action, Comedy, Horror | 7.6 (552.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |