Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Jack Black

Angelina Jolie

Dustin Hoffman

Gary Oldman

Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

7.1 8.0K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Po is finally living the dream as the Dragon Warrior—until a shadow from his past comes roaring back. When the ruthless peacock Lord Shen unleashes a devastating new weapon used to wipe out kung fu masters across the land, Po and the Furious Five race across China to put an end to his plans. But if Po is to have any hope of stopping him, he must first confront the truth of his origins—and find inner peace before his past tears him apart.

Style: inspiring, whimsical

Plot: mission, martial arts, kung fu, fortune teller, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), prophecy, hope, villain, ...

Cast

Mackenzie Davis

Himesh Patel

Matilda Lawler

David Wilmot

Station Eleven (2021) TV Show

7.1 425 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The survivors of a devastating flu attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew – while holding on to the best of what’s been lost.

Plot: based on novel or book, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, hard, depressed, depressing, harsh, sincere

Cast

Sayaka Senbongi

Tasuku Hatanaka

Yuki Kaji

Toshiki Masuda

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress (2016) TV Show

7.1 219 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, known as Kabane, using powerful armored trains.

Plot: samurai, post-apocalyptic future, steampunk, survival, zombie, train, zombification, zombie apocalypse, ...

Cast

Owen Teague

Freya Allan

Kevin Durand

Peter Macon

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

7.1 4.3K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Several generations following Caesar's reign, apes – now the dominant species – live harmoniously while humans have been reduced to living in the shadows. As a new tyrannical ape leader builds his empire, one young ape undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all he's known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Plot: empire, kingdom, gorilla, dystopia, chimpanzee, post-apocalyptic future, eagle, sequel, ...

Cast

Kurt Russell

Lee Van Cleef

Ernest Borgnine

Donald Pleasence

Escape from New York (1981)

7.1 3.6K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, Germany

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: new york city, taxi, martial arts, street gang, usa president, war veteran, kidnapping, hostage, ...

Cast

Kelly Overton

Rukiya Bernard

Aleks Paunovic

Van Helsing (2016) TV Show

7.0 936 votes

Genre: Action, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Canada

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 65

Audience: TV-14

Story: Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.

Plot: vampire, post-apocalyptic future, vampire hunter (slayer), based on movie

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun

Cast

Benicio del Toro

Adrien Brody

Tilda Swinton

Lu00e9a Seydoux

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

7.0 3.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: The staff of an American magazine based in France puts out its last issue, with stories featuring an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.

Style: lighthearted, whimsical

Plot: art collector, journalist, small town, poison, journalism, editor-in-chief, artist, imprisonment, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: france

Cast

Mark Fischbach

Caroline Kaplan

Troy Baker

Elsie Lovelock

Iron Lung (2026)

7.0 333 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as "The Quiet Rapture" caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon, using a small submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung".

Style: claustrophobic, slow burn, intimate, suspenseful, tense, ...

Plot: moon, submarine, expedition, post-apocalyptic future, hallucination, gore, space, underwater, ...

Time: future

Bubblegum Crisis (1987) TV Show

7.0 55 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-14

Story: MegaTokyo 2033: Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake.A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo.When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined.Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.

Plot: killer robot, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, robot as menace, mecha, singer, cyberpunk, tokyo, ...

Time: 2030s

Place: japan

Cast

Colin Ford

Alyvia Alyn Lind

Austin Crute

Krysta Rodriguez

Daybreak (2019) TV Show

7.0 482 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 10

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Living his best life in post-apocalyptic LA, a slacker strives to find the girl of his dreams while outwitting mindless ghouls and cliquish gangs.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, high school, based on comic, bully, los angeles, california

Cast

Elijah Wood

Christopher Plummer

Martin Landau

John C. Reilly

9 (2009)

7.0 3.9K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 79 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good.

Plot: friendship, man vs machine, hope, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, steampunk, coward, end of world, ...

Cast

Adrien Brody

Felicity Jones

Guy Pearce

Joe Alwyn

The Brutalist (2024)

7.0 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 215 min.

Audience: R

Story: When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his wife joins him, and their lives are forever changed by a demanding, wealthy patron.

Style: exploitation, slow burn

Plot: new york city, immigrant, husband wife relationship, philadelphia, pennsylvania, venice, italy, capitalism, ...

Time: 1940s, 1980s, 1950s

Cast

Lee Byung-hun

Park Seo-jun

Park Bo-young

Kim Sun-young

Concrete Utopia (2023)

6.9 307 votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 130 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.

Plot: dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, based on comic, survival, apocalypse, apartment building, apartment, based on webcomic or webtoon, ...

Cast

Julia Roberts

Kirsten Dunst

Julia Stiles

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

6.9 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront the outdated mores of society and the institution that embraces them, Katherine inspires her traditional students, including Betty and Joan, to challenge the lives they are expected to lead.

Plot: massachusetts, art school, inspiration, feminist, conservative, lgbt, post war, post world war ii, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Song Kang-ho

6.9 10.5K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

Plot: new year's eve, rebellion, cold, parent child relationship, winter, brothel, child labour, pregnancy, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Will Forte

Kristen Schaal

Cleopatra Coleman

January Jones

The Last Man on Earth (2015) TV Show

6.9 980 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 67

Audience: TV-14

Story: The year is 2022, and after an unlikely event, only one man is left on earth: Phil Miller, who used to be just an average guy who loved his family and hated his job at the bank. Now, in his RV, Phil searches the country for other survivors.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, lethal virus, last human

Time: future

Deepwater Horizon (2016)

6.9 5.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

Style: intense

Plot: rescue, sea, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on true story, disaster, explosion, oil spill, trapped, ...

Cast

Eric Dane

Adam Baldwin

Charles Parnell

Travis Van Winkle

The Last Ship (2014) TV Show

6.9 1.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 56

Audience: TV-14

Story: Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.

Plot: navy, post-apocalyptic future, survival, battleship, military, virus, pandemic

Cast

Karl Urban

Olivia Thirlby

Lena Headey

Wood Harris

Dredd (2012)

6.9 5.6K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: South Africa, United Kingdom

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called Judges, who combine the duties of judge, jury and executioner to deliver a brutal brand of swift justice. But even the top-ranking Judge, Dredd, discovers that taking down Ma-Ma isn’t as easy as it seems in this explosive adaptation of the hugely popular comic series.

Plot: metropolis, corruption, police, judge, gangster, crime fighter, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, ...

Cast

Kirsten Dunst

Wagner Moura

Cailee Spaeny

Stephen McKinley Henderson

Civil War (2024)

6.9 4.4K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, War

Country: Finland, United Kingdom

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.

Plot: sniper, new york city, race against time, usa president, washington dc, usa, the white house, civil war, ...

Time: near future

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