Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Emily Blunt

John Krasinski

Millicent Simmonds

Noah Jupe

A Quiet Place (2018)

7.4 15.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG-13

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

Plot: pregnancy, fireworks, deaf, post-apocalyptic future, alien life-form, child in peril, creature, alien invasion, ...

Cast

Catherine Deneuve

Ian Hendry

John Fraser

Yvonne Furneaux

Repulsion (1965)

7.4 1.1K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

Plot: london, england, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), hallucination, rent, loneliness, black and white, ...

Cast

Ryoma Takeuchi

Marie Iitoyo

Love You as the World Ends (2021) TV Show

7.4 46 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 32

Story: 26-year-old car mechanic Hibiki Mamiya lives with his high school sweetheart of the same age, Kurumi Ogasawara. Life together feels so natural and filled with the warmth of each other's love. It was a happiness they expected would last a lifetime.Hibiki is secretly preparing his proposal to Kurumi when misfortune strikes. A tunnel collapses, trapping him for four days. Barely making it out alive, he discovers a world completely changed. There is absolutely no one around, communication signals are dead, the transportation network is a wreck, and the only information available is the emergency evacuation order being repeated on the radio. Everywhere Hibiki goes, he sees bloodstains.Just what happened to this town?!

Plot: shelter, survival, zombie, zombie apocalypse

Time: post-apocalyptic

Cast

Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

Sakura Ando

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Chika Ayamori

TRIGUN STAMPEDE (2023) TV Show

7.4 89 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-14

Story: Vash the Stampede's a joyful gunslinging pacifist, so why does he have a $$6 million bounty on his head?That's what's puzzling rookie reporter Meryl Stryfe and her jaded veteran partner when looking into the vigilante only to find someone who hates blood.

Plot: bounty hunter, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, based on manga, reboot, gunman, gun violence, anime, ...

Cast

Carey Mulligan

Jason Clarke

Jason Mitchell

Mary J. Blige

Mudbound (2017)

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 135 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.

Plot: farm, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, war veteran, ku klux klan, mississippi river, air force, alcoholism, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Malin u00c5kerman

Patrick Wilson

Billy Crudup

Matthew Goode

Watchmen (2009)

7.4 10.1K votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 163 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

Style: melancholy, cynical, intense

Plot: usa president, nuclear war, mass murder, secret identity, narration, soviet union, retirement, based on comic, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Daveed Diggs

Mickey Sumner

Alison Wright

Iddo Goldberg

Snowpiercer (2020) TV Show

7.4 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea, United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 40

Audience: TV-MA

Story: More than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe as class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out.

Style: shocking

Plot: winter, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, rebellion, train, based on graphic novel, caste system, grim, ...

Cast

Troy Baker

Adrienne Barbeau

Michael Cerveris

Zehra Fazal

Watchmen: Chapter II (2024)

7.3 178 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: Suspicious of the events ensnaring their former colleagues, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are spurred out of retirement to investigate. As they grapple with personal ethics, inner demons and a society turned against them, they race the clock to uncover a deepening plot that might trigger global nuclear war.

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

Time: 1980s

Cast

Andy Serkis

Jason Clarke

Toby Kebbell

Gary Oldman

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

7.3 12.3K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

Style: shocking

Plot: san francisco, california, peace, solidarity, gorilla, intelligence, dystopia, chimpanzee, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Aliyah Royale

Alexa Mansour

Hal Cumpston

Nicolas Cantu

The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) TV Show

7.3 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 20

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who can possibly save the world.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, gore, undead, survival, zombie, spin off, based on graphic novel, horror

Trinity Blood (2005) TV Show

7.3 82 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Many centuries ago, man's Armageddon gave birth to the vampires' wrath. As man and immortal clash, a reality-shattering threat looms. Hope resides solely in a new breed of hunter operating under the Vatican's authority. The true battle between holiness and evil has begun.

Plot: vampire, post-apocalyptic future, supernatural, seinen, anime

Cast

Dominique Pinon

Marie-Laure Dougnac

Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Karin Viard

Delicatessen (1991)

7.3 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction

Country: France

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.

Plot: underground, suicide attempt, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dark comedy, clown, butcher, butcher's shop, ...

Time: post-apocalyptic

Cast

Robert Hays

Julie Hagerty

Leslie Nielsen

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Airplane! (1980)

7.3 5.1K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Plot: chicago, illinois, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), airplane, cataclysm, nun, guitar, alcohol, ...

Cast

James McAvoy

Michael Fassbender

Jennifer Lawrence

Rose Byrne

X-Men: First Class (2011)

7.3 13.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 132 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were arch-enemies, they were closest of friends, working together with other mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat the world has ever known.

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), nuclear war, superhero, mutant, mine, based on comic, prequel, superhuman, ...

Time: 1960s

Cast

Jean-Marc Barr

Barbara Sukowa

Udo Kier

Ernst-Hugo Ju00e4regu00e5rd

Europa (1991)

7.3 362 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Denmark, France

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Plot: chess, allies, munich, germany, hypnosis, bridge, employee, frankfurt am main, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Dylan O'Brien

Jessica Henwick

Michael Rooker

Dan Ewing

Love and Monsters (2020)

7.3 4.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

Style: psychotronic

Plot: monster, bunker, post-apocalyptic future, coming of age, love, mutant animal, inspirational, teenager

Cast

Spencer Tracy

Robert Ryan

Walter Brennan

Lee Marvin

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

7.3 421 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 81 min.

Audience: NR

Story: One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

Plot: film noir, murder, racism, desert, based on short story, post world war ii, southwestern u.s., one armed man, ...

Time: 1940s

Cast

Jun Shison

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Alice Hirose

Mamoru Miyano

Bubble (2022)

7.3 483 votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In an abandoned Tokyo overrun by bubbles and gravitational abnormalities, one gifted young man has a fateful meeting with a mysterious girl.

Plot: adolescence, parkour, romance, disaster, tokyo, japan, battle, gravity, ...

Time: post-apocalyptic

Cast

Jesse Eisenberg

Woody Harrelson

Emma Stone

Abigail Breslin

Zombieland (2009)

7.3 13.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

Style: satirical, absurd

Plot: washington dc, usa, sibling relationship, saving the world, circus, post-apocalyptic future, gore, parody, ...

Cast

Keith Allan

Kellita Smith

Anastasia Baranova

Nat Zang

Z Nation (2014) TV Show

7.3 963 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 68

Audience: TV-14

Story: Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, survival, apocalypse, zombie, virus

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