Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Stanley Tucci

Kiernan Shipka

Miranda Otto

Kate Trotter

The Silence (2019)

6.0 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Country: Canada, Germany

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.

Plot: based on novel or book, deaf, post-apocalyptic future, survival, creature, religious cult, sign languages, deadly creature, ...

Cast

Joe Alwyn

Kristen Stewart

Chris Tucker

Garrett Hedlund

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016)

6.0 640 votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: China, United Kingdom

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: 19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, war veteran, american football, thanksgiving, cheerleader, soldier, iraq war, ...

Cast

Aria Bedmar

Maru Valdivielso

Luisa Merelas

Almudena Amor

Sister Death (2023)

6.0 371 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: Spain

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Spain, 1949. Narcisa, a novice, arrives at an old convent, converted into a girls' school, to work as a teacher.

Plot: nun, prequel, evil nun, convent (nunnery), novice, nunhood, post spanish civil war, girls' school

Cast

Sharlto Copley

Joseph Morgan

Thomas Kretschmann

Erin Richards

Open Grave (2013)

6.0 779 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Norway, United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man awakes -- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.

Plot: experiment, paranoia, post-apocalyptic future, suspicion, pit, infection, woods, flashlight, ...

Hardware (1990)

5.9 350 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a bizarre Christmas present from her boyfriend. Once inside its new home, the cyborg promptly reconstructs the rest of its body using a variety of household utensils and proceeds to go on a murderous rampage.

Plot: cyborg, killer robot, disc jockey, dystopia, artist, post-apocalyptic future, nuclear radiation, sculpture, ...

Cast

Paul Bettany

Karl Urban

Lily Collins

Maggie Q

Priest (2011)

5.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.

Style: intense

Plot: vampire, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, crucifixion, vampire hunter (slayer), disobey, niece, dark hero, ...

Cast

Joel Edgerton

Christopher Abbott

Carmen Ejogo

Riley Keough

It Comes at Night (2017)

5.9 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: fire, nightmare, nihilism, darkness, homicide, door, paranoia, post-apocalyptic future, ...

Cast

Kurt Russell

Stacy Keach

Steve Buscemi

A. J. Langer

Escape from L.A. (1996)

5.9 1.6K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Plot: prison, martial arts, showdown, usa president, war veteran, dystopia, anti hero, post-apocalyptic future, ...

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Diane Lane

Armand Assante

Rob Schneider

Judge Dredd (1995)

5.9 2.8K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a dystopian future where Judges maintain law and order by acting as judge, jury, and executioner, Dredd fights to prove his innocence after being falsely accused of murder.

Plot: corruption, judge, dystopia, superhero, post-apocalyptic future, villain, trial, based on comic, ...

Cast

Olga Kurylenko

Marilyn Lima

Michel Nabokoff

Martin Swabey

Sentinelle (2021)

5.8 635 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 80 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Transferred home after a traumatizing combat mission, a highly trained French soldier uses her lethal skills to hunt down the man who hurt her sister.

Plot: army, rape, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), marseille, france, revenge, sibling, rape and revenge

Cast

Yul Brynner

Max von Sydow

Joanna Miles

William Smith

The Ultimate Warrior (1975)

5.8 67 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: Only a few people still live in New York in 2012. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.

Plot: new york city, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, zombie, post nuclear

Cast

Hannah Herzsprung

Lars Eidinger

Stipe Erceg

Lisa Vicari

Hell (2011)

5.7 307 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Germany, Switzerland

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.

Plot: ambush, chase, dystopia, heat, post-apocalyptic future, survival, fear, locked in, ...

Cast

Nora Arnezeder

Iain Glen

Sarah-Sofie Boussnina

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The Colony (2021)

5.7 360 votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Germany, Switzerland

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.

Plot: dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, space travel, space, apocalypse, father daughter reunion, future earth, father daughter relationship

Cast

George Clooney

Felicity Jones

David Oyelowo

Caoilinn Springall

The Midnight Sky (2020)

5.7 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

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

Plot: based on novel or book, post-apocalyptic future, nuclear radiation, space travel, arctic polar circle region, end of the world, cancer, astronaut, ...

Time: 2040s

Cast

Cate Blanchett

Kevin Hart

Edgar Ramu00edrez

Jamie Lee Curtis

Borderlands (2024)

5.6 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Luxembourg

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Returning to her home planet, an infamous bounty hunter forms an unexpected alliance with a team of unlikely heroes. Together, they battle monsters and dangerous bandits to protect a young girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.

Plot: outlaw, based on video game, unlikely friendship, talking robot, missing girl, band of misfits, mysterious power, dangerous quest, ...

Cast

Ella Balinska

Tamara Smart

Siena Agudong

Adeline Rudolph

Resident Evil (2022) TV Show

5.6 619 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Germany

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Nearly three decades after the discovery of the T-virus, an outbreak reveals the Umbrella Corporation's dark secrets. Based on the horror franchise.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, outbreak, survival, evil corporation, zombie, based on video game, virus, blood, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Barbie Ferreira

Dacre Montgomery

Josie Totah

Aaron Holliday

Faces of Death (2026)

5.5 102 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman, employed as a website content moderator, comes across a series of violent videos reproducing death scenes from a film.

Style: tense

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), kidnapping, beheading, trauma, sequel, murder, serial killer, internet, ...

Cast

Lucy Walters

Gina Piersanti

Adam David Thompson

Shane West

Here Alone (2016)

5.4 250 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Story: A woman struggles to survive on her own in the wake of a mysterious epidemic, which has decimated society and forced her deep into the unforgiving wild.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, infection, grief, survival, survivalist, female protagonist, zombie, infected, ...

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Abigail Breslin

Joely Richardson

Douglas M. Griffin

Maggie (2015)

5.4 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: Switzerland, United Kingdom

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to eradicate those with the virus, Wade is pushed to the limits in an effort to protect her. Joely Richardson co-stars in this post-apocalyptic thriller.

Plot: dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, zombie

Halloween II (2009)

5.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), nurse, therapist, loss of loved one, shotgun, insanity, trauma, pentagram, ...

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