Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Lennie James

Kim Dickens

Colman Domingo

Danay Garcu00eda

Fear the Walking Dead (2015) TV Show

7.6 5.2K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 8

Episodes: 113

Audience: TV-MA

Story: What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer that question.

Style: surreal

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, survival, spin off, based on graphic novel, death, zombie apocalypse, survive, horror

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)

7.6 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji’s objective is to fight the Angels by piloting one of the mysterious Evangelion mecha units. A remake of the first six episodes of GAINAX’s famous 1996 anime series. The film was retitled “Evangelion: 1.01” for its DVD release and “Evangelion: 1.11” for a release with additional scenes.

Style: philosophical

Plot: parent child relationship, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, remake, mecha, giant robot, alien invasion, military, ...

Cast

Rami Malek

Russell Crowe

Michael Shannon

Leo Woodall

Nuremberg (2025)

7.6 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: United States of America, Hungary

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

Plot: based on novel or book, nuremberg trials, based on true story, nuremberg, germany, post world war ii, historical drama, hermann göring

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Cast

Rachael Stirling

Julie Graham

Sophie Rundle

Nick Blood

The Bletchley Circle (2012) TV Show

7.6 144 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-14

Story: The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.

Style: shocking, tense

Plot: rape, violent husband, strong woman, british army, human trafficking, code breaking, rape and murder, period drama, ...

Time: world war ii, 1950s

Place: england

Cast

Romi Park

Kana Hanazawa

Deadman Wonderland (2011) TV Show

7.5 491 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Ganta is the only survivor after a mysterious man in red slaughters a classroom full of teenagers. He's framed for the carnage, sentenced to die, and locked away in the most twisted prison ever built: Deadman Wonderland. And then it gets worse.

Plot: prison, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, supernatural, revenge, gore, survival, conspiracy, ...

Dark Angel (2000) TV Show

7.5 510 votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 42

Audience: TV-14

Story: Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters who have dispersed after escape.

Plot: washington dc, usa, martial arts, strong woman, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, secret government organization, superhuman, ...

Cast

Alexa Davalos

Rufus Sewell

Joel de la Fuente

Jason O'Mara

The Man in the High Castle (2015) TV Show

7.5 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Explore what it would be like if the Allied Powers had lost WWII, and Japan and Germany ruled the United States. Based on Philip K. Dick's award-winning novel.

Plot: based on novel or book, resistance, nazi, dystopia, alternate history, post world war ii, alternative reality, antagonistic

Cast

Sterling K. Brown

Julianne Nicholson

Sarah Shahi

Nicole Brydon Bloom

Paradise (2025) TV Show

7.5 488 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The tranquility in a serene, wealthy community inhabited by some of the world's most prominent individuals explodes when a shocking murder occurs and a high stakes investigation unfolds.

Style: intense

Plot: usa president, post-apocalyptic future, murder, flashback, u.s. secret service agent, isolated community, science fiction, thriller

Cast

Amanda Collin

Abubakar Salim

Winta McGrath

Niamh Algar

Raised by Wolves (2020) TV Show

7.5 1.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Africa, United Kingdom

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.

Plot: android, space colony, post-apocalyptic future, distant future

Cast

Yuki Kaji

Marina Inoue

Yui Ishikawa

Hiro Shimono

Attack on Titan: Chronicle (2020)

7.5 199 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Japan

Duration: 122 min.

Story: In the fourth recap movie, episodes 1 to 59 of the anime are retold, compiling the first Three seasons of Attack on Titan into a two-hour event.

Plot: dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, giant monster, gore, survival, steampunk, compilation, based on manga, ...

Man on Fire (2026) TV Show

7.5 195 votes

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 7

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Haunted by his past and hunted by his enemies, a Special Forces veteran fights to keep a teenage girl alive on the deadly streets of Rio de Janeiro.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, redemption

Place: rio de janeiro

Cast

Yo Oizumi

Kasumi Arimura

Masami Nagasawa

Hisashi Yoshizawa

I Am a Hero (2016)

7.5 514 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: R

Story: A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed on impact. A moment later, when the corpse stands up and walks away, it could be a hallucination or something far more extraordinary.

Plot: zombie, based on manga, epidemic, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, comic strip artist, manga artist

Time: post-apocalyptic

Place: japan

Cast

Anya Taylor-Joy

Chris Hemsworth

Tom Burke

Alyla Browne

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

7.4 5.0K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 149 min.

Audience: R

Story: As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the wasteland, they encounter the citadel presided over by Immortan Joe. The two tyrants wage war for dominance, and Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home.

Plot: chase, post-apocalyptic future, warlord, prequel, wasteland, spin off, struggle for survival, desert, ...

Cast

Emily Blunt

John Krasinski

Millicent Simmonds

Noah Jupe

A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

7.4 7.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

Style: suspenseful, tense

Plot: new york city, island, post-apocalyptic future, radio transmission, alien life-form, death of father, child in peril, sequel, ...

Cast

Aaron Stanford

Amanda Schull

Barbara Sukowa

Emily Hampshire

12 Monkeys (2015) TV Show

7.4 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 47

Audience: TV-14

Story: The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will all but annihilate the human race.

Plot: time travel, post-apocalyptic future, based on movie, plague

Cast

Kim Woo-bin

Kang You-seok

Esom

Song Seung-heon

Black Knight (2023) TV Show

7.4 309 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In a dystopian 2071 devastated by air pollution, the survival of humanity depends on the Black Knights — and they’re far from your average delivery men.

Style: dark, gritty

Plot: competition, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, miniseries, social injustice, class conflict, discrimination, mysterious, ...

Time: 2070s

Cast

Skeet Ulrich

Lennie James

Ashley Scott

Kenneth Mitchell

Jericho (2006) TV Show

7.4 553 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-14

Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

Plot: small town, kansas, usa, survival, conspiracy, family drama, post nuclear, no electricity, ...

Cast

Mel Gibson

Bruce Spence

Michael Preston

Max Phipps

Mad Max 2 (1981)

7.4 4.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

Style: exploitation

Plot: mask, chase, explosive, dystopia, boomerang, deal, post-apocalyptic future, pilot, ...

Place: australia

Watchmen: Chapter I (2024)

7.4 235 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 84 min.

Audience: R

Story: In 1985, the murder of a government-sponsored superhero draws his outlawed colleagues out of retirement and into a mystery that threatens to upend their personal lives and the world itself.

Plot: nuclear war, secret identity, retirement, conspiracy, alternate history, based on graphic novel, masked vigilante, doomsday clock

Time: 1980s

Cast

Brad Pitt

Anthony Hopkins

Aidan Quinn

Julia Ormond

Legends of the Fall (1994)

7.4 2.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.

Plot: sibling relationship, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, journey around the world, montana, loyalty, ranch, affectation, ...

Time: world war i, 1910s, 1900s

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