Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Joseph Cotten

Alida Valli

Trevor Howard

Orson Welles

The Third Man (1949)

7.9 2.1K votes

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: staged death, black market, cemetery, investigation, soviet military, prater, british army, cover-up, ...

Place: austria

Cast

Lauren Cohan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Aimee Garcia

Jimmi Simpson

The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023) TV Show

7.9 743 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Maggie and Negan travel to post-apocalyptic Manhattan - long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made it a world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, survival, zombie, spin off, based on graphic novel, manhattan, new york city

Cast

Eliza Taylor

Bob Morley

Lindsey Morgan

Marie Avgeropoulos

The 100 (2014) TV Show

7.9 8.7K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 100

Audience: TV-14

Story: 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.

Plot: based on novel or book, self-discovery, space colony, space travel, post-apocalyptic future, space, survival, apocalypse, ...

Cast

Jean Nu00e9groni

Hu00e9lu00e8ne Chatelain

Davos Hanich

Jacques Ledoux

La Jetée (1962)

7.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: France

Duration: 29 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.

Plot: paris, france, nuclear war, post-apocalyptic future, paris orly airport, time travel, radioactivity, black and white, ...

Cast

Yoko Hikasa

Ai Kayano

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Kazuyuki Okitsu

No Game No Life: Zero (2017)

7.8 445 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: Six thousand years before Sora and Shiro were even a blink in the history of Disboard, war consumed the land, tearing apart the heavens, destroying stars, and even threatening to wipe out the human race. Amid the chaos and destruction, a young man named Riku leads humanity toward the tomorrow his heart believes in. One day, in the ruins of an Elf city, he meets Schwi, a female exiled "Ex Machina" android who asks him to teach her what it means to have a human heart.

Plot: magic, anti hero, post-apocalyptic future, prequel, end of the world, survival, tragedy, disaster, ...

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009)

7.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 112 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo-3: the mysterious Makinami Mari Illustrous and the intense Asuka Langley Shikinami. Meanwhile, Gendo Ikari and SEELE proceed with a secret project that involves both Rei and Shinji.

Style: philosophical

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, alien, anthropomorphism, tragedy, mecha, giant robot, piloted robot, apocalypse, ...

Cast

Tom Hanks

Caleb Landry Jones

Oscar Avila

Lora Martinez-Cunningham

Finch (2021)

7.8 4.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, India

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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.

Style: provocative, witty, whimsical

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, survival, robot, taunting, questioning, journey, speculative, humanity, ...

Cast

Roland Mu00f8ller

Louis Hofmann

Mikkel Boe Fu00f8lsgaard

Joel Basman

Land of Mine (2015)

7.8 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, History, War

Country: Germany, Denmark

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the days following the surrender of Germany in May 1945, a group of young German prisoners of war is handed over to the Danish authorities and subsequently sent to the West Coast, where they are ordered to remove the more than two million mines that the Germans had placed in the sand along the coast. With their bare hands, crawling around in the sand, the boys are forced to perform the dangerous work under the leadership of a Danish sergeant.

Plot: beach, prisoner of war, post world war ii, land mine, minefield, sudden death, boy soldier, meager rations

Time: 1940s

Cast

Ivana Baquero

Sergi Lu00f3pez

Maribel Verdu00fa

Doug Jones

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

7.8 11.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War

Country: Mexico, Spain

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: In post–civil war Spain, 10-year-old Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to live under the control of her cruel stepfather. Drawn into a mysterious labyrinth, she meets a faun who reveals that she may be a lost princess from an underground kingdom. To return to her true father, she must complete a series of surreal and perilous tasks that blur the line between reality and fantasy.

Plot: princess, army, fairy tale, resistance, servant, anti hero, franco regime (francoism), woods, ...

Cast

Nonso Anozie

Christian Convery

Adeel Akhtar

Stefania LaVie Owen

Sweet Tooth (2021) TV Show

7.8 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: 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.

Plot: cataclysm, post-apocalyptic future, deer, hybrid, based on comic, armageddon, virus, pandemic, ...

Knights of Sidonia (2014) TV Show

7.7 141 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: An alien race called Gauna has destroyed Earth. leaving humanity struggling to survive aboard the spaceship Sidonia. Even though it’s been a century since the last encounter with the Gauna, military service is mandatory. For Nagate Tanikaze, whose grandfather secretly hid him in the forgotten bowels of Sidonia, it’s a strange new world as he’s forced to come to the surface. Yet his recruitment comes just in time, for the Gauna have suddenly reappeared.

Plot: space battle, space travel, post-apocalyptic future, space, alien, mecha, piloted robot, based on manga, ...

Cast

Erland Josephson

Susan Fleetwood

Allan Edwall

Guu00f0ru00fan Gu00edsladu00f3ttir

The Sacrifice (1986)

7.7 620 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Sweden

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

Style: philosophical

Plot: nuclear war, philosopher, world war iii, reflective, father son relationship, enchant

Cast

Andrew Philpot

John Rafter Lee

Pamela Adlon

Wendee Lee

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)

7.7 814 votes

Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Legendary dhampir D competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman seemingly abducted by undead nobleman Meier Link.

Plot: bounty hunter, based on novel or book, chase, vampire, katana, post-apocalyptic future, gore, betrayal, ...

Time: future

Twisted Metal (2023) TV Show

7.7 543 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A motor-mouthed outsider with no memory of his past is offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.

Plot: amnesia, post-apocalyptic future, gore, tournament, based on video game, delivery service, cars, comedy

Cast

Stanislav Lyubshin

Evgeni Leonov

Yuriy Yakovlev

Levan Gabriadze

Kin-dza-dza! (1986)

7.7 292 votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: Soviet Union

Duration: 135 min.

Story: Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.

Plot: spacecraft, soviet union, post-apocalyptic future, universe, totalitarianism, cosmos

Cast

Anna Sawai

Kiersey Clemons

Ren Watabe

Mari Yamamoto

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (2023) TV Show

7.7 1.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-14

Story: After surviving Godzilla's attack on San Francisco, Cate is shaken yet again by a shocking secret. Amid monstrous threats, she embarks on a globetrotting adventure to learn the truth about her family—and the mysterious organization known as Monarch.

Style: tense

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), secret organization, family secrets, family drama, spin off, kaiju, based on movie, search for father, ...

Time: 1950s, 2010s

Cast

Rie Saitou

Koji Yusa

Akiko Yajima

Ergo Proxy (2006) TV Show

7.6 400 votes

Genre: Animation, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Thousands of years after Earth’s atmosphere was destroyed, adventure blooms in the strangest of places. The domed city of Romdo is supposed to be perfect, but Re-l Mayer, a young female inspector from the Civilian Intelligence Office, knows better. In this place where humans and robots coexist, she receives a strange message: something is awakening!

Style: philosophical, psychological

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), android, europe, amnesia, greek mythology, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, mecha, ...

Time: future

Cast

Tom Hardy

Charlize Theron

Nicholas Hoult

Hugh Keays-Byrne

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

7.6 24.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

Style: intense

Plot: rescue, dystopia, sandstorm, post-apocalyptic future, sequel, survival, on the run, peak oil, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Elle Fanning

Justice Smith

Alexandra Shipp

Kelli O'Hara

All the Bright Places (2020)

7.6 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two teens facing personal struggles form a powerful bond as they embark on a cathartic journey chronicling the wonders of Indiana.

Plot: depression, suicide, indiana, usa, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, loss, coming of age, ...

Into the Badlands (2015) TV Show

7.6 829 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-14

Story: 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.

Plot: martial arts, post-apocalyptic future, enlightenment, warrior, feudal japan, grand

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