Post-apocalyptic science fiction films

[Athlon]

1
* 1984 (1956 film)
2
* 2019, After the Fall of New York
* 28 Days Later
* 28 Weeks Later
A
* Æon Flux (film)
* Akira (film)
* Alien Apocalypse
B
* Battlefield Earth (film)
* The Blood of Heroes
* A Boy and His Dog
* Brave New World (film)
* Buck Rogers
C
* Café Flesh
* Casshern
* Cherry 2000
* Children of Men
* City Limits (film)
* Crack in the World
* Crash and Burn (film)
* Creepozoids
* Crimes of the Future
* Cube 2: Hypercube
* Cube Zero
* Cyborg (film)
* Cyborg 3: The Recycler
D
* Damnation Alley (film)
* The Day After
* The Day After Tomorrow
* Dead Man's Letters
* Deathlands: Homeward Bound
* Def-Con 4
D cont.
* Deluge (film)
* Le Dernier Combat
E
* Encrypt (film)
* Equilibrium (2002 film)
* Escape from L.A.
* Escape from New York
* Untitled Evangelion Project
F
* Final Fantasy VII Advent Children
* Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
* Freejack
H
* H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come
* The Handmaid's Tale (film)
* Hardware (1990 film)
* Hell Comes to Frogtown
I
* I Am Legend (film)
* In the Country of Last Things
* In the Year 2889
* The Island (2005 film)
* It's Great to Be Alive
J
* La Jetée
L
* The Last Man on Earth (1924 film)
* The Last Man on Earth
* Last Woman on Earth
* Logan's Run (1976 film)
M
* Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
* Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
* Maximum Overdrive
* Me and the Big Guy
N
* Natural City
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
O
* The Omega Man
P
* Panic in Year Zero!


P cont.
* The Postman (film)
Q
* The Quiet Earth (film)
* Quintet (film)
R
* Reign of Fire (film)
* Robot Jox
* Robot Monster
* Rock & Rule
S
* Screamers (1995 film)
* Sexmission
* Six-String Samurai
* Slipstream (1989 film)
* Solarbabies
* Southland Tales
* Stalker (film)
* The Stand (TV miniseries)
* Star Trek: First Contact
* Steel Dawn
* Surf Nazis Must Die
T
* Tank Girl (film)
* Teenage Cave Man
* Things to Come
* Twelve Monkeys
U
* Ultraviolet (film)
W
* Warrior of the Lost World
* Warriors of the Wasteland (film)
* Waterworld
* Wizards (film)
* World Without End
* The World, the Flesh and the Devil
Y
* Yor, the Hunter from the Future
Z
* ZardozP

[Wilcoy]

Thanks for the list Athlon. What is your favorite PA movie?

[quietearth]

Mine's Dawn of the dead, just in case anyone was wondering..

[Athlon]

Stil doesn't have a +fav
Matrix, planet od apes (movie and series), 28 Days Later, Dawn of death, Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (with John Travolta nice one )...

[Wilcoy]

Hey Athlon i just wanted to welcome you here to Quiet Earth and its really good to have a perspective from someone from Europe. Hopefully will share alot of discussions and information about upcoming PA movies and animations.

[Athlon]

TNX Wilcoy
and sharing old movies and other to
I love PA that's our future...

[quietearth]

I found a new "eco disaster" type movie based on the ozone being gone called Encrypt (2003)

Synopsis:
"By the year 2068, the Earth's ozone is gone, violent and uncontrollable storms are razing it's surface as a result. A small group of military survivors are the defenders of the last of human kind and when Captain John Garth is approached to do a job by a former brother-in-arms Lapierre, who is now employed by Reich, an eco-profiteer, in order to save his father & a few other survivors Garth agrees. He & a small group of mercenaries are to break into the near-impenetrable Vincent Estate & retrieve priceless works of "art" that were stored there before the apocalypse. But there is a deadly computer controlled defense system called "Encrypt" that they must circumvent, along with a killer robot called the Rook & the human-like holographic security chief Diana, who holds the key to Earth's total destruction---or it's complete salvation."

Here's the IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338963/

I'll have to do a review on it some time..

[allen_idaho]

Wikipedia strikes again. I have a few problems with that list.

1. 1984 - This is a dystopian film, but in no way post-apocalyptic. The entire concept is about the government gaining totalitarian control over it's people, always watching, and telling them what to think.

2. The Cube Series - Cube, Cube 2: Hypercube, and Cube: Zero are in no way post-apocalyptic.

3. Freejack - This movie is a mix of a dystopian, time travel, and cyberpunk film. But it's not post-apocalyptic.

4. The Island - This is a film about clones being harvested for their organs to extend the lives of the rich and powerful in the near future. In no way is it post-apocalyptic. The story told to the clones was just to keep them from wanting to leave.

5. Mad Max - Why was the first film left off the list? It takes place shortly after the world ended due to full scale nuclear war. In post-apocalyptic Australia, Max Rockatansky is a police officer trying to keep order in an increasingly de-stabilizing world.

6. 28 Days Later / 28 Weeks Later - These were both great films but I'm not sure if they should be considered post-apocalyptic films. Both were centered around a viral outbreak which was contained in one area. The rest of the world was unaffected until the end of the second film.

[agentorange]

28 Days Later is definitely PA in my book. It may not be a global apocalypse but the environment is a post-apocalyptic one all the same.

You could argue that 28 Weeks Later is apocalyptic, leading into a post-apocalypse (note the ending).

The series is a gray area though.

[allen_idaho]

Yeah, I'm really not sure what to classify 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, or Doomsday as.

For example, in your average zombie film, it is usually an unexplained global phenomena which quickly wipes out life as we know it. See the Night of the living dead series, Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, etc.

Or you have a film about ecological disasters which bring the entire planet to the verge of collapse. Or aliens attack globally. Or full scale nuclear war breaks out. Or so on and so forth.

But in the films in question, you have a localized virus which is relatively contained to one location. It has the possibility of becoming a full scale apocalyptic scenario but never quite reaches that point. I would put them akin to a scenario similar to films like "Outbreak".

Because to me, you can't have a post-apocalyptic story unless the entire world is in some way affected and we are seeing the aftermath of that event.

Perhaps they would best be described as apocalyptic films, in which we are presented with a scenario which has the potential to destroy all life as we know it.