List of apocalyptic 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, and/or a post-apocalyptic wasteland setting, or a world taken over by a viral infection.

Before 1950 (4)

• Deluge
• End of the World
• The End of the World
• Things to Come

1950-1959 (11)

• Day the World Ended
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Five
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The Lost Missile
• On the Beach
• Robot Monster
• The War of the Worlds
• When Worlds Collide
• The World, the Flesh and the Devil
• World Without End

1960-1969 (20)

• Battle of the Worlds
• The Bed-Sitting Room
• Beyond the Time Barrier
• Crack in the World
• The Creation of the Humanoids
• The Day the Earth Caught Fire
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
• Fail-Safe
• In the Year 2889
• La Jetée
• Last Woman on Earth
• The Last Man on Earth
• The Last War
• Night of the Living Dead
• Panic in Year Zero!
• Planet of the Apes
• The Time Machine
• The Time Travelers
• The War Game
• This Is Not a Test

1970-1979 (32)

• A Boy and His Dog
• The Andromeda Strain
• Battle for the Planet of the Apes
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes
• Beware! The Blob
• Black Moon
• Colossus: The Forbin Project
• Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
• Damnation Alley
• Dawn of the Dead
• 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
• Holocaust 2000
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• The Last Wave
• The Late, Great Planet Earth
• Logan's Run
• Mad Max
• The Noah
• No Blade of Grass
• Omega Man
• Phase IV
• Quintet
• Ravagers
• Silent Running
• Soylent Green
• The Shape of Things to Come
• The Ultimate Warrior
• Where Have All The People Gone?
• Wizards
• Zardoz

1980-1989 (33)

• The Apple
• Das Arche Noah Prinzip
• The Blood of Heroes
• Bunker Palace Hôtel
• Cherry 2000
• Cyborg
• The Day After
• The Dead Zone
• Le Dernier Combat
• Def-Con 4
• Escape from New York
• Exterminators of the Year 3000
• Flash Gordon
• Land of Doom
• Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Malevil
• The Martian Chronicles (TV miniseries)
• Millennium
• Miracle Mile
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• Night of the Comet
• The Quiet Earth
• The Seventh Sign
• The Terminator
• Testament
• The Thing
• Threads
• Virus
• Battletruck
• When the Wind Blows
• World War III

1990-1999 (31)

• 12 Monkeys
• Armageddon
• The Arrival
• By Dawn's Early Light
• 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 (film)
• Last Night
• The Matrix
• Neon City
• The Omega Code
• The Postman
• The Prophecy
• The Prophecy 2
• The Rapture
• Six String Samurai
• Sentinel 2099
• Solar Crisis
• Split Second
• The Stand
• Tank Girl
• Terminator 2
• Until the End of the World
• Waterworld
• Without Warning

2000-2009 (59)

• 2012
• 28 Days Later
• 28 Weeks Later
• 9
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Æon Flux (film)
• Babylon A.D.
• Blue Gender
• Blindness
• Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
• Carriers
• Children of Men
• The Core
• The Dark Hour
• Dawn of the Dead
• Daybreakers
• The Day After Tomorrow
• The Day the Earth Stood Still
• 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
• Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
• On the Beach
• Pandorum
• Planet Terror
• 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
• Titan A.E.
• Tooth and Nail
• WALL-E
• War of the Worlds
• Watchmen
• Time of the Wolf
• Zombieland

2010-2019 (43)

• 4:44 Last Day on Earth
• Cockneys vs Zombies
• After Earth
• After the Dark
• Arctic Blast
• Battle: Los Angeles
• The Book of Eli
• Cloud Atlas
• The Colony
• Contagion
• The Darkest Hour
• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
• The Day
• The Divide
• Dredd
• Deadheads
• Edge of Tomorrow
• Goodbye World
• Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
• Hell
• The Host
• How I Live Now
• Interstellar
• Juan of the Dead
• Legion
• Maximum Shame
• The Maze Runner (film)
• Melancholia
• Monsters
• Noah
• Oblivion
• Pacific Rim
• Rapture-Palooza
• Resident Evil: Afterlife
• Resident Evil: Retribution
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
• Skyline
• Snowpiercer
• Stake Land
• Take Shelter
• These Final Hours
• This Is the End
• Tomorrow, When the War Began
• Vanishing on 7th Street
• War of the Dead
• Warm Bodies
• World War Z
• The World's End
• Zombieworld

See also

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