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Plot Summary:
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, epic, mysterious, anthology, rough
Best tv shows and movies like Jericho (2006):
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The Last Train (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by Matthew Graham and produced for ITV by Granada Television. In the United States, the Fox Network purchased the rights to produce a new version of the series soon after its original UK transmission. Retitled The Ark, the idea did not progress beyond the pilot stage. As of May 2013, the series has not been released on DVD or any other format, and has never aired in the US.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, gloomy, bleak, serious, captivating, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, disaster movie
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Jeremiah (2002)
Plot Summary:
Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, exciting, atmospheric, tense, bleak, serious, scary, futuristic, disaster movie
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Sweet Tooth (2021)
Plot Summary:
On a perilous adventure across a post-apocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's half-human and half-deer searches for a new beginning with a gruff protector.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, captivating, disturbing, atmospheric, dark fantasy
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Wayward Pines (2015)
Plot Summary:
Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, mind bending, serious, captivating, psychological thriller, exciting, retro, surprise ending, thought provoking, mysterious
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The Last Man on Earth (2015)
Plot Summary:
The year is 2022, and after an unlikely event, only one man is left on earth: Phil Miller, who used to be just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank. Now, in his RV, Phil searches the country for other survivors.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, sitcom, not serious, exciting, entertaining, apocalyptic, funny, hilarious, cliffhanger
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Between (2015)
Plot Summary:
Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and left the inhabitants to fend for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak, apocalyptic, independent film
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Last Resort (2012)
Plot Summary:
Last Resort is an American military drama television series. When the crew of the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS Colorado, pick up a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the Colorado receives an order to launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, cliffhanger, apocalyptic, anime, nautical
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Salvation (2017)
Plot Summary:
An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, suspense, apocalyptic
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Meteor (2009)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere on the outskirts of our solar system, the unthinkable occurs. A giant asteroid collides with a smaller one and changes direction - headed directly toward The Earth. The burning meteor rain that beats down with devastating force, is only a foretaste of what is to come. Just a few days from reaching the atmosphere Kassandra, the meteor that is three times as big as Mount Everest and with power in an instant to destroy all life on planet Earth.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic, disaster movie
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The Day After (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear missile silos.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious, thought provoking, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, rough
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008)
Plot Summary:
The series picks up four years after the events of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with John and Sarah Connor trying to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, cyber, futuristic, bad ending, dark, saga
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Dark Angel (2000)
Plot Summary:
Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic, cyber, bleak, heroic, action thriller, action adventure
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The Boat (2011)
Plot Summary:
A global cataclysm, caused by a fatal accident in Geneva (Switzerland) during the implementation of the particle accelerator will lead to the crew and students of the school-ship Polar Star to live the greatest adventure of their lives. Isolated and aware that we only have each other, the ship will become their only home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending, tense, captivating, serious, apocalyptic, nautical, contemplative
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Flashforward (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to exist. Knowing their fate will alter each person's life, destinies will be changed.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: mind bending, suspenseful, stylized, surreal, apocalyptic, tense, thought provoking, captivating, futuristic, cliffhanger
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Designated Survivor (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, political, tense, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, political thriller, interesting, political drama
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Persons Unknown (2010)
Plot Summary:
Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the show to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday from its Monday time slot. It completed its run on August 28, 2010. The series was canceled shortly thereafter.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat, tense, psychological thriller, exciting, thrilling, psychological
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Colony (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with the authorities and benefit from the new order, others have rebelled — and suffer the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, atmospheric, spiritual
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Falling Skies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, stylized, heroic, epic, bleak, futuristic, saga, mind blowing
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Revolution (2012)
Plot Summary:
Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, apocalyptic, suspenseful, cliffhanger, atmospheric, stylized, epic, mind bending, interesting
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Survivors (2008)
Plot Summary:
Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, the series is not a remake of the 1970s BBC television series Survivors, created by Terry Nation, but is loosely based on the novel of the same name that Nation wrote following the first series of the 1970s series. Two series were produced of the new series. Series 1 ran on BBC One and BBC HD in November–December 2008, and series 2 ran in January–February 2010, ending with a cliffhanger. The BBC announced on 13 April 2010 that, due to poor viewing figures and other considerations, Survivors had been cancelled. The series had its premiere in South Africa on BBC Entertainment in September 2009, in France on DTTV channel NRJ 12 on 12 January 2010, and on BBC America in the United States on 13 February 2010. The series' Australian premiere was on Channel Nine, on 21 March 2010.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized, atmospheric, cliffhanger, clever, bleak, suspenseful
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Terra Nova (2011)
Plot Summary:
Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, epic, cliffhanger, sweet, mysterious, action adventure
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Zoo (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set amidst a wave of violent animal attacks sweeping across the planet, a young renegade scientist is thrust into a race to unlock the mystery behind this pandemic before time runs out for animals and humans alike.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, cliffhanger, exciting, apocalyptic, costume drama, realistic
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Under the Dome (2013)
Plot Summary:
Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of the world. With no Internet access, no mobile signals and limited radio communication, the people trapped inside must find their own ways to survive with diminishing resources and rising tensions. While military forces, the government and the media positioned outside of this surrounding barrier attempt to break it down, a small group of people inside attempt to figure out what the dome is, where it came from, and when (and if) it will go away.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, mind bending, surreal, teen, tense, atmospheric, sitcom, grindhouse, action packed, suspenseful
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The Society (2019)
Plot Summary:
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: suspense, ambiguous ending, mysterious, captivating, emotional, apocalyptic, sitcom, anime, teen, queer cinema
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The Last Ship (2014)
Plot Summary:
Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, exciting, thought provoking, nautical, disaster movie
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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 Happening (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister? John Leguizamo and Betty Buckley co-star in this thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 215000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending, apocalyptic, bleak
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The Book of Eli (2010)
Plot Summary:
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 334000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, twist ending, apocalyptic, rough, biblical, heroic, tense, christian film, atmospheric
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The 100 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized, intellectual, humorous, sitcom, juvenile, action packed
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I Am Legend (2007)
Plot Summary:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 799000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, rough, serious, suspense, bleak