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Plot Summary:
A post apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines telling the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 507 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, spiritual, anthology, iconic
Best tv shows and movies like Station Eleven (2021):
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Diverge (2016)
Plot Summary:
The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Day 5 (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a fortuitous drug bender saves his life, addict Jake ventures out into the quiet streets… unaware that most of the world already died in their beds. Now, battling sleepless fatigue and encroaching delirium, Jake teams with a scrappy teenager, overnight doctor and red-eye pilot to search for answers… and just maybe find a way to sleep again.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, intense, apocalyptic
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The Blackout (2014)
Plot Summary:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Invasion (2021)
Plot Summary:
Aliens who threaten humanity reach Earth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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Embers (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, social, realistic
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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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The Fire Next Time (1993)
Plot Summary:
2017: The greenhouse effect and global warming take their toll as droughts, floods, and hurricanes wreak mass destruction in a world gone mad, one family struggles to survive against all odds.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic
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Blue World Order (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an attempt to rebuild civilization, a self appointed government called 'The ORDER' distributed an immunization to the bacteria, via a massive Electro-Macnetic Pulse (EMP). Secretly, the Order also delivered a bio-tech virus through the EMP, giving them the power to control the population. One man remains immune to the Order's virus - Jake Slater. Now Jake scavenges the wasteland searching for a way to keep his unconscious daughter alive, unaware she is the last child on Earth, and the key to the survival of mankind.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, captivating, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing
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An Undersea Story (2022)
Plot Summary:
After disaster strikes the Earth, a marine biologist on a research mission in a submarine must fight to advance the process into a conspiracy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, nautical, apocalyptic
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DMZ (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the near future after a bitter civil war leaves Manhattan a demilitarized zone (DMZ), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world, fierce medic Alma Ortega sets out on a harrowing journey to find the son she lost in the evacuation of New York City at the onset of the conflict. Standing in her way are gangs, militias, demagogues and warlords, including Parco Delgado, the popular — and deadly — leader of one of the most powerful gangs in the DMZ.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 235 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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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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Extinct (2017)
Plot Summary:
400 years after the extinction of the human race, a small group of humans are revived by an alien civilization. The colony of revived humans encounter struggles with the aliens who extinguished humankind centuries before, while trying to understand and get along with the mysterious aliens who revived them.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, apocalyptic
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The Last Scout (2017)
Plot Summary:
In 2065, the crew of the Pegasus are searching for a new home for humanity. As they approach their potential new world, the discovery of another ship could be the key to their salvation, or doom them and the rest of humanity to extinction.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Domain (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and slowly become a motley family of sorts. But their fragile social ecosystem is shattered when, one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing from their bunkers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, psychological thriller, surprise ending
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Into the Night (2020)
Plot Summary:
When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, futuristic, intellectual, twisted
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The Island (2020)
Plot Summary:
A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic
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V-Wars (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a mysterious disease begins transforming people into vampires, Dr. Luther Swann is pitted against his best friend, now a powerful vampire leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
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Snowpiercer (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting series.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, unusual plot structure, captivating, brutal, depressing, suspenseful, intellectual, interesting, disaster movie
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Deranged (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jae-hyuk is a pharmaceutical worker for a medical supplies company. When a series of dead bodies are found floating in the Han River. The public is shocked to discovered that the deaths are related to a fatal outbreak of virus-infected mutant parasitic horsehair worms, called 'Yeongasi', that can control the human brain. Those infected shows symptoms of hunger and thirst, hence jumps into the river to combat dehydration. Whilst the authorities work to find a cure, Jae-hyuk struggles to save his family when they also exhibits similar symptoms.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, action thriller, twisted, disaster movie
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Light of My Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, tense, touching, captivating, suspenseful, road movie, offbeat, suspense
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Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462 (2015)
Plot Summary:
The web series tells the story of a group of passengers aboard a commercial airplane during the earliest moments of the outbreak. Over the course of the series, the plane and the lives of its passengers are put in jeopardy once they discover an infected traveler.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, epic
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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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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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12 Monkeys (2015)
Plot Summary:
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mindfuck, intense, suspense, exciting, spiritual
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See (2019)
Plot Summary:
A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, apocalyptic, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, tense, futuristic, scenic, psychological thriller, sad
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Y: The Last Man (2021)
Plot Summary:
Traverse a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. Follow the survivors in this new world as they struggle with their efforts to restore what was lost and the opportunity to build something better.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, political thriller, anime, dark, apocalyptic
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All of Us Are Dead (2022)
Plot Summary:
A high school becomes ground zero for a zombie virus outbreak. Trapped students must fight their way out — or turn into one of the rabid infected.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dorama, dark fantasy, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, scenic
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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 Walking Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic, serious, epic, bloody, psychological, exciting
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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