Post-apocalypse drama movies

List of the best post-apocalypse drama movies selected by visitors to our site: The Road, The Book of Eli, 28 Days Later, The Divide, I Am Legend, A Quiet Place, Light of My Life, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Girl with All the Gifts, The Day After Tomorrow.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrefantastic, action, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

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.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:53

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:05

    After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:13

      In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also shepherding to safety his son, trapped in New York after the city is overwhelmed by the start of the new big freeze.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryIceland, Luxembourg, USA
      Duration02:28

      In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA

      A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantastic, drama
      CountryUSA

      On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, action, drama, cartoon
      CountrySouth Korea

      A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:24

      Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only comes out at nighttime.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, short
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:00

      In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, drama, detective
      CountryPoland, USA

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, drama
      CountrySouth Korea, Czech Republic
      Duration02:06

      In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountrySpain, Bulgaria
      Duration01:50

        Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada, New Zealand
        Duration02:01

        Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        After a comet releases a mysterious virus that begins to kill all of the women in the world, a young couple's relationship is severely tested. They hide out (from both the illness and the savages who hunt the remaining women) in their over-sterilized apartment. Ultimately the duo escapes their self-imposed quarantine to head to the wilderness.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:57

        In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.

        Markimdb: 4.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA

        When a nuclear strike causes an electromagnetic pulse that cuts off all power, water, and communication to the entire western United States, Reese finds herself plunged into an all-too-real fight to survive. As pandemonium grips her city, Reese and her father set out on a desperate journey in search of safety--a perilous trek through a world gone mad where every encounter with a stranger could be your last.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

          Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, drama
          CountryAustralia
          Duration02:19

          After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:26

          After a terrible virus ravages human civilization, Ann finds herself living alone in a forest, foraging for supplies, and accompanied only by a radio that broadcasts a single transmission in French. Few animals even remain; the only survivors seem to be the roving hordes of infected creatures with a taste for human flesh. One fateful day, Ann crosses paths with two more survivors, Chris and Olivia. But after surviving on her own for so long, she struggles to relate to them and and their desire to settle down and start a new community.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore
          Duration02:52

          A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
          CountrySpain, USA, Hungary, France
          Duration01:53

          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.

          Markimdb: 2.5
          Genrefantastic, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:23

          Set against the backdrop of a post-Apocalypse Earth, Population 2 is about a relationship that ends in tragedy forcing a woman to struggle in the aftermath.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance now the status quo, society is slowly putting its shattered pieces back together under a watchful eye. After a friend’s suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, a young computer prodigy and a shadowy hacker join together to decipher the clues that he’s left behind. The youthful creators of Jackrabbit have successfully constructed a world, which we haven’t previously seen on film. Mixing retro production design with slick storytelling, they deliver a cinematic dissonance that will result in a shock to the senses.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA

          During a pandemic lockdown, Nico, a young man with rare immunity, must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful family to reunite with his love, Sara.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrefantastic, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:32

          After the human race has been wiped out, Del lives in an empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until he meets young Grace, who wants to stay with him.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrefantastic, drama, crime
          CountryAustralia, USA
          Duration01:43

          10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.

          Markimdb: 3.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrethriller, drama, military
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:54

          A haunted Afghanistan war veteran attempts to come to terms with his past while searching for his family in a post-apocalyptic America.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          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.

          Markimdb: 3.9
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer chip useless. He must now keep his family alive, fight off would be thieves and a newly corrupted government and ultimately make the hardest decision of his life- to survive. Written by Patterson, Matt (V)

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrefantastic, drama, adventure, detective
          CountrySoviet Union
          Duration02:43

          Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded desires are granted.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:26

          Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour" of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) - a competition that could change Panem forever.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:24

          Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back roads of the American West to the pounding beat of a vacation soundtrack. Their aim is to retreat to secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico, where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic and survive the apocalyptic disease. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal the fate of each of them in an inexorable and horrifying voyage of hell through a western landscape populated by only the hideous dead or the twisted living.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genreaction, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:09

          In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrefantastic, drama
          CountryUSA

          A Man and a Woman wander through a hostile wilderness in a far-away world. One day, they stumble upon a mysterious set of Structures, which will complicate their lives both for good and ill.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:31

            Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.




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