Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Iko Uwais

Chelsea Islan

Sunny Pang

Julie Estelle

Headshot (2016)

6.4 489 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: Indonesia, Singapore

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

Style: gritty, intense

Plot: martial arts, amnesia, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), resistance, identity, redemption, gore, revenge, ...

Cast

John Travolta

Madeleine Stowe

James Cromwell

Timothy Hutton

The General's Daughter (1999)

6.4 1.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: When the body of Army Capt. Elisabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

Plot: rape, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, politics, homicide, police chief, georgia, cover-up, ...

Cast

Billy Burke

Tracy Spiridakos

Giancarlo Esposito

Zak Orth

Revolution (2012) TV Show

6.4 627 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 42

Audience: TV-14

Story: One day, electricity just stopped working and the world was suddenly thrust back into the dark ages. Now, 15 years later, a young woman's life is dramatically changed when a local militia arrives and kills her father, who mysteriously—and unbeknownst to her—had something to do with the blackout. An unlikely group sets out off on a daring journey to find answers about the past in the hopes of reclaiming the future.

Plot: blackout, nanotechnology, post-apocalyptic future, no electricity

Time: future

Cast

Martin Freeman

Simone Landers

Anthony Hayes

Susie Porter

Cargo (2017)

6.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: Australia, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: 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.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, woman director, pandemic, aboriginal, father daughter relationship

Place: australia

Cast

Tyler Perry

Rochelle Aytes

Lisa Arrindell

Lynn Whitfield

Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

6.4 220 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her 2 young children and Lisa is engaged to a controlling man that her mother set her up with. In addition, Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), arranged marriage, aunt niece relationship, bus driver, based on play or musical, family secrets, sequel, spanking, ...

Cast

Saoirse Ronan

Harry Treadaway

Bill Murray

David Ryall

City of Ember (2008)

6.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG

Story: For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.

Plot: underground world, dystopia, mayor, post-apocalyptic future, puzzle, steampunk, box, pipeworks

SABIKUI BISCO (2022) TV Show

6.3 56 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: Japan’s post-apocalyptic wasteland replete with dust can only be saved by one thing—fungus. Bisco Akaboshi, a wanted criminal and skilled archer, searches for a legendary mushroom, known as Sabikui, said to devour any and all rust. Joining him on this epic saga to save the country is a giant crab and a young doctor. Can this unlikely trio find the fabled fungi and save the land?

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, bromance, combat, shounen, anime, based on light novel, adventure

Cast

Taapsee Pannu

Vinodhini Vaidyanathan

Anish Kuruvilla

Sanchana Natarajan

Game Over (2019)

6.3 79 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 97 min.

Story: Swapna, a nyctophobic game designer on a turbulent road to recovery from an incident that scarred her deeply, has to fight her inner demons to stay alive in the game called life.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), fight, murder, time loop, psychological thriller

Cast

Milla Jovovich

Oded Fehr

Ali Larter

Iain Glen

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

6.3 4.6K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, France

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.

Plot: clone, dystopia, mutant, post-apocalyptic future, sequel, conspiracy, evil corporation, zombie, ...

Cast

Hera Hilmar

Robert Sheehan

Hugo Weaving

Jihae

Mortal Engines (2018)

6.2 5.2K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: New Zealand, United States of America

Duration: 128 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

Plot: based on novel or book, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, revenge, wasteland, steampunk, futuristic vehicle, based on young adult novel

Cast

Mel Gibson

Tina Turner

Helen Buday

Bruce Spence

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

6.2 3.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Australia

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.

Plot: arena, dwarf, dictator, dystopia, sandstorm, post-apocalyptic future, villain, camel, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Noomi Rapace

Jakob Oftebro

Dar Salim

Erik Enge

Black Crab (2022)

6.2 932 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: Sweden

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: To end an apocalyptic war and save her daughter, a reluctant soldier embarks on a desperate mission to cross a frozen sea carrying a top-secret cargo.

Plot: research, mission, civil war, based on novel or book, post-apocalyptic future, military, ice

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)

6.2 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.

Plot: dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, space travel, battle assignment, alien, downfall, soldier, scientist, ...

Time: future, 2060s

Cast

Dave Bautista

Olga Kurylenko

Kristofer Hivju

Samuel L. Jackson

Afterburn (2025)

6.2 315 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.

Style: philosophical

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, hilarious

Cast

Robbie Amell

Rachael Taylor

Gray Powell

Jacob Neayem

ARQ (2016)

6.1 1.3K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, time travel, deception, time loop, struggle for survival, paranoid, corporate espionage, mysterious events

Cast

Sid Lucero

Beauty Gonzalez

Marco Masa

Aiden Patdu

Outside (2024)

6.1 164 votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: Philippines

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: R

Story: A family retreats to an isolated farm during a zombie outbreak, but years of painful secrets take a toll as they navigate their desolate world.

Style: tense

Plot: village, post-apocalyptic future, abandoned house, survival, zombie, psychological thriller, family, survival horror, ...

Cast

Milla Jovovich

Iain Glen

Ali Larter

Shawn Roberts

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

6.1 3.5K votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, France

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

Plot: helicopter, monster, underground, dystopia, mutant, post-apocalyptic future, sequel, end of the world, ...

Cast

Christian Bale

Sam Worthington

Moon Bloodgood

Helena Bonham Carter

Terminator Salvation (2009)

6.1 7.1K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 115 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.

Plot: army, artificial intelligence (a.i.), saving the world, prophecy, san francisco, california, gas station, cyborg, ...

Cast

Nicolas Cage

Jaeden Martell

Maxwell Jenkins

Sadie Soverall

Arcadian (2024)

6.1 910 votes

Genre: Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Ireland, United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their father taught them to keep him alive.

Plot: monster, post-apocalyptic future, survival, fear, family, isolated farmhouse, calm, relaxed, ...

Cast

George Clooney

Matt Damon

Bill Murray

John Goodman

The Monuments Men (2014)

6.1 3.8K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on seven over-the-hill, out-of-shape museum directors, artists, architects, curators, and art historians who went to the front lines of WWII to rescue the world’s artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their rightful owners. With the art hidden behind enemy lines, how could these guys hope to succeed?

Plot: nazi, based on true story, art theft, post world war ii

Time: world war ii

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