Top Post Nuclear Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Sandra Bullock

Trevante Rhodes

John Malkovich

Sarah Paulson

Bird Box (2018)

6.8 10.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Plot: based on novel or book, post-apocalyptic future, blindfold, doomsday, survival horror, woman director, white water rafting, depressing, ...

Earth 2 (1994) TV Show

6.8 92 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 22

Story: Two centuries in the future, when pollution has forced humans to abandon Earth in favor of cramped space stations, scientist Devon Adair hijacks a spacecraft and sets out with a band of followers in search of another planet that will offer a brighter, more normal future to children like her son, Ulysses. Joining Devon and Ulysses are mechanic John Danziger and his daughter, True; team physician Julia Heller, who has her own secret agenda; Alonzo Solace, a pilot; Yale, a cyborg; and Morgan, a craven government agent, and his wife, Bess. The voyagers find their planet, but their ship crash-lands on the wrong side of the globe, forcing them to attempt an arduous and dangerous trek to their ultimate destination, New Pacifica.

Plot: space colony, post-apocalyptic future, space, alien planet

Time: future

Cast

Paul Mercier

Alyson Court

Laura Bailey

Roger Craig Smith

Resident Evil: Degeneration (2008)

6.8 1.2K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield must battle a rogue warrior seeking revenge after unleashing the deadly G-Virus, whilst a mutated monster goes on a rampage.

Plot: biological weapon, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, infection, zombie, based on video game, adult animation, anime, ...

Cast

Denzel Washington

Gary Oldman

Mila Kunis

Ray Stevenson

The Book of Eli (2010)

6.8 6.7K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

Plot: faith, chaos, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, bible, survival, gunfight, blind, ...

Time: 2040s

Cast

Jeff Bridges

Cynthia Erivo

Lewis Pullman

Dakota Johnson

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

6.8 3.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 141 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), casino, hippie, audio tape, motel, jukebox, concierge, richard nixon, ...

Time: vietnam war, 1960s

Cast

Jennifer Lawrence

Josh Hutcherson

Liam Hemsworth

Woody Harrelson

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)

6.8 16.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, where the rebellion against the Capitol is gaining momentum. Struggling with the weight of becoming the symbol of resistance, she must navigate fragile alliances while trying to protect those she loves. As propaganda battles rage and Panem moves closer to full-scale war, Katniss is forced to confront the true cost of revolution.

Plot: based on novel or book, resistance, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, sequel, female protagonist, bow and arrow, game, ...

Cast

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Milena Smit

Israel Elejalde

Aitana Su00e1nchez-Giju00f3n

Parallel Mothers (2021)

6.8 1.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Spain

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two unmarried women who have become pregnant by accident and are about to give birth meet in a hospital room: Janis, in her late-thirties, unrepentant and happy; Ana, a teenager, remorseful and frightened.

Plot: mother, photographer, pregnancy, spanish civil war (1936-39), memory, single mother, motherhood, dna testing, ...

Cast

Lauren LaVera

David Howard Thornton

Samantha Scaffidi

Elliott Fullam

Terrifier 3 (2024)

6.8 2.0K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. But just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare. The festive season quickly unravels as Art unleashes his twisted brand of terror, proving that no holiday is safe.

Plot: monster, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), angel, shower, child murder, santa claus, college, clown, ...

Cast

Grant Bowler

Julie Benz

Stephanie Leonidas

Tony Curran

Defiance (2013) TV Show

6.8 557 votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 38

Audience: TV-14

Story: In the near future, planet Earth is permanently altered following the sudden—and tumultuous—arrival of seven unique alien races. In the boom-town of Defiance, the newly-formed civilization of humans and aliens must learn to co-exist peacefully.

Plot: killer robot, post-apocalyptic future, alien, alien invasion, planet invasion

Time: future

Cast

Saskia Rosendahl

Kai-Peter Malina

Nele Trebs

Ursina Lardi

Lore (2012)

6.8 317 votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller, War

Country: Australia, Germany

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.

Plot: sibling relationship, nazi, post world war ii, woman director, nazism, mother daughter relationship, children in wartime, nazi war criminal, ...

Time: world war ii, 1940s

Place: germany

Cast

John Abraham

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Serena Walia

Rakul Preet Singh

Prakash Raj

Attack (2022)

6.8 218 votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 123 min.

Audience: 15

Story: With the Parliament under siege, India’s first super soldier Arjun Shergill is tasked to get hold of the terrorists in time, save the Prime Minister from their clutches and stop a dirty bomb from exploding and destroying Delhi.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), delhi, india, prime minister, hostage-taking, parliament, memory loss, ...

Time: 2010s, 2020s

Place: mumbai

Cast

Yuka Komatsu

Junichi Suwabe

Aoi Yuuki

Hiroki Takahashi

Appleseed Alpha (2014)

6.7 420 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: The Third World War (2099–2126) devastated part of the Earth. Former nations are reforming while new powers emerge, and groups of humans struggle to survive in ruined cities. The story follows Deunan Knute and her partner Briareos as they search for the legendary city of Olympus.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, mecha, cyberpunk, adult animation, anime

Cast

Don Lee

Lee Jun-young

Lee Hee-jun

Roh Jeong-eui

Badland Hunters (2024)

6.7 819 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror

Country: South Korea

Duration: 107 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.

Plot: post-apocalyptic future, earthquake, badlands, based on webcomic or webtoon, seoul, south korea

Cast

Dylan O'Brien

Kaya Scodelario

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Giancarlo Esposito

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

6.7 11.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, resistance, dystopia, maze, post-apocalyptic future, infection, on the run, ...

Cast

Clara Rugaard

Rose Byrne

Hilary Swank

Luke Hawker

I Am Mother (2019)

6.7 2.9K votes

Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), bunker, post-apocalyptic future, robot, human extinction, baffled

Cast

Rachel Sennott

Olga Petsa

Jason Jones

Sabrina Jalees

I Used to Be Funny (2024)

6.7 64 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Canada

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Sam, an aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD, weighs whether to join the search for Brooke, a missing teenage girl she used to nanny. As she fights to recover from her trauma and return to the stage, memories of her deep bond with Brooke rush back—making it impossible to ignore her disappearance.

Style: melancholy, intimate

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), toronto, canada, nanny, comedian, female protagonist, woman director, sexual assault, ...

Cast

Ai Kobayashi

Asumi Miwa

Jurota Kosugi

Yuki Matsuoka

Appleseed (2004)

6.7 396 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a utopian society created at the end of World War III, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this community have planned for the rest of humankind?

Plot: metropolis, man vs machine, cyborg, post-apocalyptic future, mecha, cyberpunk, terrorism, based on manga, ...

Time: future

Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

6.7 159 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Zamperini returns to California where he wound up marrying Cynthia Applewhite while wrestling with untreated PTSD, suffering constant nightmares, angry, bitter and deeply depressed, his wife convinces Zamperini to attend the 1949 Billy Graham Crusade.

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), based on novel or book, faith, biography, based on true story, sequel

Cast

Gregory Peck

Ava Gardner

Fred Astaire

Anthony Perkins

On the Beach (1959)

6.7 241 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?

Plot: based on novel or book, nuclear war, submarine, san francisco, california, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, nuclear radiation, ...

Place: australia

Cast

Tom Cruise

Morgan Freeman

Olga Kurylenko

Andrea Riseborough

Oblivion (2013)

6.7 11.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

Plot: spacecraft, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, based on comic, space, drone, surveillance, human vs alien

Time: 2070s

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