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Plot Summary:
15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying away from others has been key to his survival. But this self-imposed isolation comes to an abrupt end when he crosses paths with another group of survivors and faces an enemy far more savage than any of them could imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: disturbing, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, splatter
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Tear Me Apart (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the wastelands of post-apocalyptic England, two young brothers turn to cannibalism to survive, only to fall for their prey, a teenage girl... and possibly the last female left alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, suspense, psychological, tense
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Atomic Apocalypse (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two years after the nuclear bombs dropped and welcome to the future, where there’s no fuel or power, and society is a barbaric mess. Survivors Kate, husband Sam, and daughter Suzi are searching for a rumoured bunker that people say is full of food and medicine. En route, they meet the solitary Joe, who may not have the group’s best interests at heart. Kate will have to do everything possible to protect her family.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sincere, suspense, suspenseful
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Dystopia (2018)
Plot Summary:
It is the year 2037. Our world is dying, slowly, from a virus that has rendered mankind infertile. Not a single child has been born in 25 years. Governments are now powerless puppets for the biggest corporations and Biocorp, the world's biggest, keeps promising a cure that never comes.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, atmospheric, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intense, exciting
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Postscript (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Postscript" is a series of short stories set in a nightmarish post-apocalyptic not-too-distant future. The film follows a handful of desperate survivors scattered around the globe as they endeavour to survive life-or-death struggles through harsh yet beautiful dystopian landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anthology, scary, psychological, tense, suspense, psychotronic
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Glen and Randa (1971)
Plot Summary:
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books. He and Randa set out to find this city.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 669
Genere: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, contemplative, psychotronic
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The Humanity Bureau (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, road movie, serious, captivating, political
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Armageddon Tales (2021)
Plot Summary:
After surviving a worldwide pandemic, two men with different agendas, two women from a survival colony, and young girl and a man each form alliances as they cross post-apocalyptic landscapes.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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I Am Toxic (2018)
Plot Summary:
Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2101. The world has been ravaged by a biological warfare. A man wakes up in the desert, unable to remember anything of his previous life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Lost In Apocalypse (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of seemingly unrelated individuals fight their way out of a virus-infested hotel, only to find themselves at a worse place than before.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Carrier (2015)
Plot Summary:
England has been overrun by a pandemic with no apparent cure. As the infection continues to spread, safety - for a lucky few - looms in the form of a damaged 747 set to seek solace abroad. It's only once the plane is airborne that the survivors discover the infection made it onto the flight with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, exciting, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
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The Last Hope (2020)
Plot Summary:
The world has been devastated by the virus that has reanimated the dead to consume the living. Australia has so far remained unscathed through a brutal border protection policy and internment facilities. Derek Jones and the High Risk Response Unit restore order to the internment facilities when law and order breaks down. When the arrival of a mysterious girl collides with the uprising at the Briar's Hill Detention Centre, will Australia, the last hope for many, finally fall?.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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Road Wars (2015)
Plot Summary:
After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges, the survivors must contend with a whole new threat to their existence.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 792
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, mockbuster, disaster movie
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G - Zombie (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sara is a research student who wants to make an immunity booster to save humanity. Her experiment however turns people into zombies and in comes Dhruva to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Beyond the Call to Duty (2016)
Plot Summary:
Five Spec Ops, Alpha Squad, head a simple Recon Mission that turns into an all out war for survival against a wave of undead experiments. Alpha Squad must fight, not just for the sake of their own survival, but the fate of the world.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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The Dead Inside (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bad night out just got a fair bit worse, it's the end of the world! Something terrible has happened, the undead are out in force; roaming the streets and devouring all who get in their way. A group of soldiers, civilians and teenagers take shelter in a local school for protection from the undead hordes outside, but no rescue is coming. Food is running low - morale doubly so, tensions are high and things are looking bad when a stranger arrives outside the gate. Then they get a whole lot worse.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tension
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Zombie Resurrection (2014)
Plot Summary:
15 months after the apocalypse, a group of survivors are forced to take refuge in an abandoned school, where they encounter a mysterious zombie with the power to bring the undead back to life.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Absolon (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the near future, a virus has infected everyone on the planet, and Absolon is a drug that everyone must take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug. Murchison is the leader of this firm. A scientist who was researching the virus is found murdered, and Norman Scott is the policeman who investigates the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tech noir
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Earthtastrophe (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a white hot flash of light, and with no warning, one minute our moon is there, the next it's gone. Then, a second flash. And that's the last thing anyone on Earth can remember. 11 months later, it's not post- apocalyptic; it's apocalyptic as Earth has been sucked through a wormhole, literally ripping our planet from the inside out. With bizarre disasters and civilization collapsing, our heroes must find a way to survive and get to "safe ground" before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, bleak, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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Drone Wars (2016)
Plot Summary:
When drones arrive in a flash, slaughtering humanity and stripping the Earth of its resources, a small team of scientists hiding in Los Angeles works to expel the drone menace once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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LA Apocalypse (2015)
Plot Summary:
For 5 billion years the Earth's core has operated like a giant, nuclear reactor. Now it's overheated, melting down like a bomb that's about to explode. The earth is being ripped apart at the seams and beneath LA, pressure is building. After a mass evacuation, Calvin Crawford is one of few left, desperately searching for his fiancée, Ashley Pace, who unbeknownst to him, has been kidnapped and is being held hostage. With LA becoming more unstable by the minute, Calvin, must find a way to save Ashley and get them both to safety before the city is completely annihilated.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, disaster movie
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2084 (2009)
Plot Summary:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the government collapsed. Chaos... on a global scale.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, bleak
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The Collapsed (2011)
Plot Summary:
In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away from civilization as possible, they take to the forest, soon to discover the danger posed by other survivors may be the least of their worries.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, psychotronic, dark, bleak, serious
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Deadland (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of an eye, America has been plunged back into the Stone Age. Money is worthless, food is scarce, and those who once thought they were fortunate to survive the initial attack are now slowly being consumed from the inside out, the victims of an all-consuming nuclear scourge. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
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The Domestics (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, scary
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The Day (2011)
Plot Summary:
Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, depressing, suspense, disturbing, brutal, perverse
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The Last of Us (2023)
Plot Summary:
Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 475000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological, epic, slasher, crying, spectacular, neo western
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Extinction (2015)
Plot Summary:
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: scary, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, retro, intense, bad ending, bloody, entertaining, dramatic
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Doomsday (2008)
Plot Summary:
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three decades later, the Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse, serious, road movie, splatter, cult classic
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The Rain (2018)
Plot Summary:
After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, atmospheric, exciting, apocalyptic, tense, bleak, suspenseful, stylized, compassionate, sitcom
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The Colony (2013)
Plot Summary:
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, tense, dark, suspense, apocalyptic, harsh, intense, scary, futuristic