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05/28/04
The following movie list is NOT strictly post apocalyptic. Some apocalyptic events are local
or regional and not world wide, some movies/shows have merely a post apocalyptic ‘feel’.
Also included are Animated Movies, Animated Series, TV movies and TV Series. Please
contact me if you see information you know to be in error or that you wish to add.
Genre Notes:
PA – Post Apocalyptic in the strictest sense
PA regional – for a small region, the world has ended as they know it
PA historical – Post Apocalyptic once upon a time, but now society is rebuilding
PA feel – NOT a Post Apocalyptic movie/show, but has that roasted PA smell and feel
PA fanciful – while strictly speaking is PA, it has either strange elements to its story or is
intended as satire or humor and has little to do with traditional PA themes.
PA adult – adult themes and images not suited for the kiddies.
PA ? – I haven’t seen it, and can’t tell from it’s description how to sort this one, so your
guess is as good as mine. Please do let me know for sure.
Deliberate Omissions: These are ‘marginal’ movies I felt just didn’t quite cut the mustard,
either in feel or in more substantive ways, like plot direction. You are more than welcome
to harbor your own standards of ‘acceptable’ material, as I know my decisions are arbitrary
Night of the Living Dead - The story follows a small group of survivors barricaded in a
home for one night. The civil authorities show up the following morning. There is no
general breakdown of society and it only affects a very small regional area.
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes – simply put, absolutely nothing PA about this movie,
except it sets the background for the other Planet of the Apes movies and series.
Escape from the Planet of the Apes – Set in contemporary, but alternate timeline, nothing
to do with PA, but it does set some more of the background for the other Planet of the
Apes movies and series.
When Worlds Collide – deals with the apocalyptic events, not the ‘after effects’. There is a
book After Worlds Collide that is the direct sequel and is quite an interesting read.
Resident Evil – One giant underground facility gone bad does not seem ‘apocalyptic’
enough for me. It is more thriller/horror genre than anything else. PA elements too few.
The PA Related Movies List
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12 Monkeys
Category : Drama/PA
Starring : Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt
Director : Terry Gilliam
Year : 1996
Description
Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetée (which is included on the DVD
Short 2: Dreams), 12 Monkeys combines intricate, intelligent storytelling with the uniquely
imaginative vision of director Terry Gilliam. The story opens in the wintry wasteland of the
year 2035, where a virulent plague has forced humans to live in a squalid, oppressively
regimented underground. Bruce Willis plays a societal outcast who is given the opportunity
to erase his criminal record by "volunteering" to time-travel into the past to obtain a pure
sample of the deadly virus that will help future scientists to develop a cure. But in bouncing
from 1918 to the early and mid-1990s, he undergoes an ordeal that forces him to question
his own perceptions of reality. Caught between the dangers of the past and the
devastation of the future, he encounters a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) who is initially
convinced he's insane, and a wacky mental patient (Brad Pitt in a twitchy Oscar-nominated
role) with links to a radical group that may have unleashed the deadly virus. Equal parts
mystery, tragedy, psychological thriller, and apocalyptic drama, 12 Monkeys ranks as one
of the best science fiction films of the '90s, boosted by Gilliam's visual ingenuity and one of
the finest performances of Willis's career.
28 Days Later
Category : Sci-Fi / Horror/PA regional
Starring : Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris,
Director : Danny Boyle
Year : 2002
Description
A powerful virus escapes from a British research facility. Transmitted in a drop of blood
and devastating within seconds, the virus locks those infected into a permanent state of
murderous rage. Within 28 days the country is overwhelmed and a handful of survivors
begin their attempts to salvage a future, little realizing that the deadly virus is not the only
thing that threatens them.
2020 Texas Gladiators
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Harrison Muller, Al Cliver
Director : Kevin Mancusco
Year : 1982
Description
The year is 2020 and the setting is post-nuclear holocaust Texas. It's a dusty, nasty world
now as can be seen in the opening scenes when a gang of outlaws rape and murder
innocent nuns at a mission. They then crucify the priest. Their debauched reveling is
interrupted by roving rangers who engage the villains in a blood-soaked, bone crunching
fight. The rangers manage to save a terrified young woman from the melee, and the heroic
leader and she fall in love and head for the peaceful land she describes to him. Years
pass. The hero and the girl are married and she is pregnant. Trouble erupts when a
megalomaniacal Neo-Nazi dictator and his cruel minions attack the heavily fortified refinery
and begin trying to convert the hapless workers to his insane idea of the New Order.
A Boy and His Dog
Category : Black Comedy/PA
Starring : Don Johnson, Jason Robards
Director : L.Q. Jones
Year : 1975
Description
Closely adapted from the acclaimed novella by Harlan Ellison, this postapocalyptic black
comedy has emerged as a cult favorite since its release in 1975, when Don Johnson was
a relative unknown and still years away from TV stardom on Miami Vice. Here Johnson
plays a young, libidinous loner named Vic who roams the postnuclear wasteland with his
loyal dog, Blood, a remarkable hound with keen intelligence and the ability to telepathically
communicate with his less-intelligent master. It's survival of the fittest, so food and sex are
Vic's highest priorities, and he gets plenty of both when recruited into a mysterious
underground society in desperate need of young fertile males. While Blood must fend for
himself on the unfriendly surface, Vic realizes that he's an exploited prisoner and must
escape to return to the canine friend he left behind. Thanks in large part to the sly wit of
Blood (whose sarcastic voice is splendidly provided by Tim McIntire), this clever and
disturbing film readily earns its lasting reputation as a low-budget classic, and features a
funny yet chilling supporting role for Jason Robards Jr. The DVD includes a full-length
commentary by director L.Q. Jones, cinematographer John Morrill, and film critic Charles
Champlin.
After the Fall of New York
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Valentine Monnier, Michael Sopkiw, Edmund Purdom
Director : Martin Dolman
Year : 1983
Description
After a nuclear war, society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks and the rebel
Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York
City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
Andromeda
Category: TV Series/Space Genre/PA historical
Starring: Kevin Sorbo
Director: Jorge Montesi
Year: 2000
Description
The Glorious Commonwealth:
More than 3000 years ago, aliens from a planet called Tarn Vedra in the Andromeda
galaxy invented a way to travel across the stars almost instantaneously. They called it
Slipstream, and they used it to build a vast commonwealth of planets across six galaxies.
When Earth was ready, we were welcomed into it.
It was a vast, diverse group of cultures working together in peace, striving to spread
civilization across the Universe. Unfortunately, some factions came to disagree with the
Commonwealth's methods.
The Fall:
The Nietzscheans - a group of genetically engineered humans who follow a strict
interpretation of Nietzsche - felt that the Commonwealth was weak because it made
treaties with its greatest enemies - the Magog. So they formed a rebellion and attacked the
Commonwealth of which they were a part. The result was a civil war that plunged the
Universe into a new Dark Age.
One of the first casualties of that war was a Glorious Heritage Class starship called the
Andromeda Ascendant. Most of her crew abandoned ship, but her captain - Dylan Hunt -
remained on board as the ship fell dangerously close to a black hole.
The Long Night:
Three hundred years of darkness passed. The Commonwealth was gone. Interstellar
communication became undependable. Slipstream routes fell into disuse. Some still
traveled the stars, but the journey was full of piracy, unmarked dangers and people fighting
for their lives. Technology stopped developing and even reverted in some ways. A few
local governments held together, but most of them were brutal and fascist. The remnants
of the old Commonwealth decayed.
Andromeda Rescued:
A salvage vessel called the Eureka Maru then found the Andromeda Ascendant and pulled
her free. When they boarded the High Guard relic, they found that Dylan Hunt had
survived - the whole ship had been caught in severe time dilatation. From Dylan's
perspective, only a few moments had passed since his crew escaped. But outside the
black hole, darkness had fallen across his beloved Commonwealth.
Time to Rebuild:
Dylan once protected civilization, he now felt an obligation to rebuild what had been lost.
As someone who knew what it was like to live in a Universe that was for the most part safe
and at peace, he felt he and his ship could bring back the Commonwealth. He recruited
the crew of the Eureka Maru, and ever since they have been searching the galaxies for
worlds who are willing to join the New Commonwealth.
Army of Darkness
Category : Action/Comedy, Horror/PA feel
Starring : Bruce Campbell
Director : Sam Raimi
Year : 1993
Description
The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with The
Evil Dead (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword and sorcery-style
action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a
supermarket employee ("Shop Smart. . .Shop S-Mart") who is transported by the powers
of a mysterious book back in time with his Oldsmobile '88 to the 14th century medieval era.
armed only with a shotgun, his high school chemistry textbook and a chainsaw that
mounts where his missing appendage once resided, the square-jawed, brutally competent
Ash quickly establishes himself as a besieged kingdom's best hope against an "army of
darkness" currently plaguing the land. Since the skeleton warriors have been resurrected
with the aid of the Necronomicon (the same tome that can send Ash back to his own time)
he agrees to face the enemy in battle. Ash also finds romance of a sort along the way with
a beautiful damsel in distress, Sheila (Embeth Davidtz) and contends with his own
doppelganger after mangling an important incantation. This movie also has its original
apocalyptic ending.
Bridge of Dragons
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Dolph Lundgren, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Director : Isaac Florentine
Year : 1999
Description
In this action-oriented sci-fi adventure, a military leader who is drunk with power takes
control of a rival kingdom in a post-apocalyptic world of the future. The young princess
who helps guide the nation flees for her life, and a champion warrior (Dolph Lundgren) is
set out by the crazed general to capture her. But before his assignment is completed, the
warrior finds his loyalties are severely tested.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins
Director : J. Lee Thompson
Year : 1973
Description
The fifth and last of the series beginning with Planet of the Apes (to which this is a
"prequel") and the most disappointing. Established in their own Ape City after the near
destruction of mankind in WWIII, the social-democrat chimpanzee people, still led by
Caesar (from Escape from the Planet of the Apes), become involved in a three-way
struggle with a community of radiation-scarred human survivors and the militant gorilla
people. There is a feeling of pointlessness about this simplistic film's attempt to squeeze a
few more dollars from the series.
Battle Queen 2020
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Julie Strain, Jeff Wincott
Director : Daniel D'or
Year : 2000
Description
Noted Penthouse Pet stars as the Battle Queen of post Apocalyptic Earth where
civilization is struggling to survive after an asteroid has destroyed life as we know it. The
only thing that remains constant is the control that the powerful exert over the not so
powerful. One person rises to the challenge of restoring equality and freedom to the
people of Earth, and that is the BATTLE QUEEN 2020.
The Bed Sitting Room
Category : British Humor/PA fanciful
Starring : Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Rita Tushingham
Director : Richard Lester
Year : 1969
Description:
It is four years after World War III, which was over in 2 minutes and 28 seconds. The
dazed survivors wander the ruins. A new government has been created and a Prime
Minister and a monarch established, but order is threatened as radiation causes people to
start mutating into pets and items of furniture.
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Category : Action/PA
Starring : James Franciscus, Roddy McDowall
Director : Ted Post
Year : 1970
Description:
In this first and best of four sequels to Planet of the Apes another time-warped astronaut
(Franciscus) crashlands on the ape world. Like his predecessor he is captured, befriended
by the sympathetic chimpanzee Zira (Hunter), and meets the girl savage (Harrison). But
when he escapes with her underground and discovers the remains of New York City the
film goes off in a blacker direction: he finds a race of deformed, telepathic mutants who
worship a nuclear Doomsday Bomb, and meets the astronaut hero (Heston) of the
previous film, now half-crazed and venomous, who ultimately detonates the bomb and
bring about a holocaust, wiping out apes, mutants and human alike. In its replacement of
whimsical satire by an altogether harsher judgment about the prospects for intelligent life
on Earth, this film is arguably stronger than its original.
Beowulf
Category : PA
Starring :
Director :
Year : 1999
Description:
Christoper Lambert stars in this post-apocalyptic future story based on the 8th century
Saxon epic poem about the knight who battled a monster in a medieval castle. In this
story, Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel which
comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by
Hrothgar (Oliver Cotton). He has a daughter (Patricia Velasquez), whose husband may
have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms (Goetz Otto).
Blood of Heroes
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen
Director : David Webb Peoples
Year : 1989
Description
Set in the post-nuclear war world, a group of battle-torn men and women challenge rival
townships to a brutal game of strength and skill. It is their hope to defeat all their
challengers and earn the right to play against the great and blood-thirsty teams in the
'League'.
Cherry 2000
Category : Action/PA feel
Starring : Melanie Griffith, David Andrews, Pamela Gidley
Director : Steve De Jarnatt
Year : 1988
Description
At long last, one of the seminal films of the Melanie Griffith oeuvre is now available. Cherry
2000 is the heartwarming tale of Sam Treadwell (David Andrews), who will stop at nothing
to find another model of his broken sex android. Griffith plays E. Johnson, the tough-as-
nails tracker who helps him track her down. As deliriously chowderheaded as the premise
of the movie sounds, it's actually not half bad and immensely fun to watch. The surprisingly
mature plot (nobody gets naked!) involves Treadwell's gradual discovery that there's more
to a good woman than a beautiful body and perfect subservience. Don't worry, there are
plenty of explosions to keep you from getting bored. Griffith absolutely owns the movie--
she looks like a complete badass handling surface-to-air missiles, though of course she
still sounds like she picked up diction tips from early Shirley Temple movies. The DVD
version includes the invaluable documentary "The Making of Cherry 2000" and the option
of watching the entire film dubbed into French.
Cybercity
Category : Action/PA
Starring : C. Thomas Howell, Roddy Piper, Heidi Von Palleske
Director : Peter Hayman
Year : 1999
Description
In 2017, the survivors of a worldwide apocalypse do battle for supremacy in this sci-fi
adventure. Most of the Earth has been reduced to ruins, and the pitiful few who have
survived have moved underground and organized themselves into religious cults who
wage war among themselves for dominion over what's left of the planet. A self-ordained
holy man (Roddy Piper) kills the family of a roving mercenary (C. Thomas Howell), and the
warrior swears revenge. He joins forces with a beautiful female killer-for-hire (Heidi Von
Palleke) and they set out to win back the world for the forces of good. Cybercity also
features David Carradine
Crystalis (possibly spanish language only)
Category : Drama/Sci-Fi/PA fanciful
Starring :
Director : K.Kono?
Year : 1990
Description :
October 31 1997, global warfare erupts that destroys most of the earth. To put an end to
the warlike ways, a group of scientists build a tower in the sky operated by a computer.
People try to rebuild, and society reconstructed resembled a blend of fallen technocracy,
classical mythology, and medieval tales of knights, while outside the walled or otherwise
guarded towns are strange mutations like anthropoid tigers, and machines sent by an out-
of-control computer in the tower.
Cyborg
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter
Director : Albert Pyun
Year : 1989
Description
Jean-Claude Van Damme, a.k.a. "the Muscles from Brussels," had only a few movies to
his credit when he played the hero in this lame post apocalyptic action flick from 1989. It's
really just another martial-arts movie, dressed down with near-future trash and dirty sets
that have "low budget" written all over them. Van Damme plays the protective escort for a
half-human, half-cyborg woman whose programming contains a possible cure for a plague
that's threatening to wipe out the entire population of Earth. But the woman is kidnapped
by Van Damme's evil nemesis (is there any other kind?) while they are en route to her
Atlanta headquarters. That leads Van Damme right into a lion's den of sadomasochistic
torture and torment. If you've made it this far (and if you have, why?), you're probably a
founding member of the Jean-Claude Van Damme fan club. To everyone else: Don't say
you weren't warned--this is the kind of movie in which naming characters after electric
guitars (Van Damme's character is named "Gibson Rickenbacker") qualifies as clever
screenwriting.
Cyborg 2
Category : Action/PA ?
Starring : Jack Palance, Elias Koteas, Billy Drago
Director : Michael Schroeder
Year : 1993
Description
In the year 2074, when the manufacture of cyborgs is big business , one manufacturer
injects a liquid explosive into a female cyborg in order to blow up his rival's headquarters.
When she escapes, two lethal pursuers are soon on her trail.
Cyborg 3 - Recycler
Category : Action/PA ?
Starring : Zach Galligan, Khrystyne Haje
Director : Michael Schroeder
Year : 1995
Description
The latest cyborg creation represents a dangerous step in man's evolution--she has been
programmed to become a creator. Can mankind compete against its own creations?
Damnation Alley
Category : Action/PA
Starring : Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard
Director : Jack Smight
Year : 1977
Description
Based on the classic sci-fi novel by Roger Zelany, a small but hardy band of survivors
traverses a post-apocalypse American landscape in this sci-fi thriller. After a nuclear
holocaust leaves only three survivors (Jan-Michael Vincent, George Peppard, and Paul
Winfield) at an underground military facility, they load up a special all-terrain land cruiser
and head for Albany (for some reason, the only American city not nuked). As they travel
through the wastelands in between, they pick up a couple hitch-hikers as they battle huge
mutant insects, roving bands of radiation-maddened survivors, and brutal electrical storms.
Dark Angel
Category : TV/Sci-Fi/PA feel
Starring : Jessica Alba / Michael Weatherly
Director : Created by -James Cameron/Charles H. Eglee
Year : 2000
Description :
With a marginalized and devastated America as backdrop an escaped genetic experiment
tries to get her life back together and find her past while being hunted by the secretive
agency which initiated the genetic experiments that created her and others like her.
Dark Vengeance
Category : Action/Sci-Fi/PA
Starring : Jay Roberts Jr/Denice Duff
Director : Faruque Ahmed
Year : 1992
Description :
Set in a distant post-apocalyptic future when the environment has been blasted into a
poisoned wasteland and society has degenerated to rule by competing hordes of
marauding gangs. There is one warrior, though, who fights to bring some semblance of
peace and order to the land. When his family is brutally murdered, however, he becomes
obsessed with seeking out their killer and taking his revenge.
Dawn of the Dead
Category : Horror/PA
Starring : Gaylen Ross, David Emge, Scott Reiniger, Ken Foree
Director : George Romero
Year : 1978
Description :
Four of the few surviving humans escape the city in a helicopter. Running low on fuel they
land on the roof of a shopping mall in search of refuge. Tempted by the supplies they
venture into the shops they can see below. Although the living dead are at large they are
few in numbers and the four manage to clear the mall and baracade themselves in from
the ever increasing number of living dead outside.
Dawn of the Dead (Remake)
Category : Horror/PA
Starring : Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer, Ty Burrell
Director : Zack Snyder
Year : 2004
Description :
Whatever happened, however it started, overnight, the world has become a living
nightmare of surreal proportions, with the planet’s population hit by an inexplicable,
unfathomable and lethal plague and the dead aren’t staying dead. Corpses yearning for
their next meal are now stalking the few remaining survivors, driven by their insatiable
hunger to feed upon the flesh of the living.
Day After, The
Category : Drama/PA
Starring : Jason Robards, John Lithgow
Director : Nicholas Meyer
Year : 1983
Description
Lawrence, Kansas is the very center of the United States, a small-town community of good
people whose daily lives embody the same hopes, dreams and fears of us all. Then comes
the day that the unthinkable happens: War is declared, and a full-scale exchange of
nuclear missiles rains an atomic hell upon our very way of life. Devastation is global, with
America reduced to a ravaged wasteland of sickness, violence and death. But for the
survivors, the man-made apocalypse has only just begun. Humanity's true horror starts on
The Day After. The Day After is an astonishing glimpse into mankind's greatest nightmare
and widely considered to be the most horrific depiction ever of nuclear holocaust. Jason
Robards, John Lithgow, JoBeth Williams, Amy Madigan and Steve Guttenberg lead a
remarkable cast in the Emmy Award winning television landmark that continues to be one
of the most disturbing and important films of our time.
Day of the Dead
Category : Horror/PA
Starring : Lori Cardille, Terry Alexander, Josef Pilanto, Jarlath Conroy
Director : George Romero
Year : 1985
Description :
The story follows a small group of survivors in an underground missile complex trying to
find a cure or solution for the "disease". Above them the world lies in ruins, occupied by
the armies of the walking dead.
Day of the Triffids
Category : Action/PA fanciful
Starring : Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey
Director : Steve Sekely
Year : 1963
Description
A new species of predatory plants, called Triffids, roam civilization's ruins after most of the
world's population is blinded, the after effects of a strange meteor shower. A few survivors
must fight to survive evading the Triffids which have taken advantage of humanity's
misfortune and have begun feasting on human flesh. The movie manages to maintain
some level of credulity until the end with its preposterous conclusion and its revelation of a
solution to the Triffid infestation.
Day the World Ended
Category : Horror/PA
Starring : Richard Denning, Mike Connors
Director : Roger Corman
Year : 1956
Description
After a nuclear holocaust, survivors hole up in a mountain valley away from the destroyed
civilization. Exposure to the radiation outside turns an old boyfriend into a corny telepathic
monster roaming the countryside seeking to hook up with his old girlfriend, also being
pursued by a gangster type hood who doesn't seem to mind that he already has a
girlfriend.
Dead or Alive-Final
Category : PA
Starring : Dominique Pinon/Bernard Montiel
Directory : Paulo Machline
Year : 2002
Description :
Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a
half crazed mayor, Riki Takeuchi is a hard boiled cop and Show Aikawa a mellowed out
drifter that hooks up with a gang of rebels. When the gang kidnap Takeuchi's son, the
wheels are set in motion that leads to an inevitable showdown.
Description:Category: TV Series/Space Genre/PA historical Starring: Kevin Sorbo Director: Jorge Montesi Year: 2000 Description The Glorious Commonwealth: More than
