The 55 Best Apocalypse Movies to Watch Right Now

This year, with the widespread pandemic, the apocalypse seems right around the corner. To elevate your experience, you need to turn to the multitudes of iconic best apocalypse movies. Filmmakers have left no stone unturned, from zombie outbreaks to gory cannibalism, invisible suicide monsters to nuclear war.

So, it’s about time to dive into the cinematic world of war-torn, desolate, or invaded world submerged in the catastrophic debacle. Here’s a curated list of the best apocalyptic films for you to feast on while simultaneously surviving a real-life pandemic.

55. Doomsday (2008)

• Director: Neil Marshall
• Writers: Neil Marshall
• Cast: Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester, David O’Hara, Malcolm McDowell

The movie Doomsday released in 2008 is an adrenaline filled roller coaster. The movie is set in a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by a deadly virus. One should definitely watch this movie during a tough time as it provides a very different energy. It’s a wild and bold journey of action, survival, and chaos.

Rhona Mitra plays her role perfectly as a badass heroine on a mission to save humanity. The plot is a bit over-the-top, but that plays part of the fun. It’s an intriguing ride through a devastated world that keeps your heart racing.

54. Into The Forest

• Director: Patricia Rozema
• Writers: Patricia Rozema
• Cast: Elliot Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella, Callum Keith Rennie, Michael Eklund, Wendy Crewson

Into The Forest is a haunting exploration of sisterhood and survival in the middle of an apocalyptic world. The movie is set in a remote, lush forest. The plot follows the gripping story of two sisters, Nell and Eva, as they struggle with a sudden power outage that puts society into chaos. Deprived of modern comforts, the sisters survive together and discover a world without technology and order. “Into The Forest” Makes viewers experience a post-apocalyptic landscape where the human spirit prevails.

53. Embers

• Director: Claire Carré
• Writers: Charles Spano, Claire Carré
• Cast: Jason Ritter, Iva Gocheva

Embers (2015) is an eerie and beautiful post-apocalyptic film that plays in your thoughts long after the credits roll. This movie dwells In a world where a mysterious global epidemic erased people’s ability to make new memories. This brilliant movie explores the raw essence of human existence. This incredible tale blends together numerous storylines, each unveiling fragments of the characters’ lives. Embers effortlessly manages to find pieces of hope in between bleakness. 

52. The Silence (2019) 

• Director: John R. Leonetti
• Writers: Carey Van Dyke, Shane Van Dyke
• Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, Miranda Otto, John Corbett

In the apocalyptic thriller The Silence (2019), suspense crosses path survival in a world dominated by deadly and furious creatures. This film is a captivating journey that starts when a family finds out a sinister cult’s existence and the creatures they pray to. To survive, they shall surely navigate a silent world, as the relentless creatures are triggered by even the slightest noise. “The Silence” Beautifully manages to keep the audience stuck to their seat with its suspenseful plot and a race against sound. 

51. Knock at the Cabin

• Director:  M. Night Shyamalan
• Writers: M. Night Shyamalan, Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman
• Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn, Rupert Grint

“Knock at the Cabin” Is a brilliantly directed apocalyptic movie released in 2023. The story follows Andrew, Eric and their adopted daughter, Wen. Young Wen’s ideal vacation takes a drastic turn when a stranger named Leonard asks for their help to prevent global catastrophe.

The family is soon tied up by others driven by apocalyptic visions, including Sabrina, Adriane, and Redmond. They start to believe that sacrificing one of the family members is going to prevent the impending disaster. The family is then left with a harrowing choice. “Knock at the Cabin” Perfectly sketches a suspenseful and heart-pounding exploration of sacrifice and survival in the face of doom.

50. Zombieland

• Director: Ruben Fleischer
• Writers: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
• Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin

I’ll never forget seeing Zombieland for the first time. I recently learned that I didn’t get the job I so desperately wanted, and I was beyond disappointed. I mustered up the strength to make it to the theater, and I’m glad I did because the film instantly lifts my spirits.

Since years ago, the market has been overrun with grim, depressing tales of the zombie apocalypse. Zombieland, however, is joyful.

49. Delicatessen

48. Evangelion

47. The Rover

Early A24 entry The Rover stars Robert Pattinson and Guy Pearce as two survivors in the post-apocalyptic wasteland that was once Australia, where lawless disorder and murder for survival are the order of the day. The Rover was released right when Robert Pattison was starting to establish his post-Twilight knack for choosing stellar scripts from great filmmakers.

46. 28 Days Later

• Director: Danny Boyle
• Writer: Alex Garland
• Cast: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston

28 Days Later, an epic chase movie set in a post-apocalyptic London, has always made me feel extremely nervous because it looks and feels so real. With a script by Alex Garland (Ex Machina), one of our best directors, Danny Boyle excels in this uncommon genre project.

It’s not really a zombie movie, but it’s about a virus called Rage that transforms those who contract it into zombie-like creatures that don’t act like zombies typically do in films.

45. Waterworld

• Director: Kevin Reynolds
• Writers: Peter Rader, David Twohy
• Cast: Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Dennis Hopper, Jack Black in an airplane

Action-adventure epic from 1995 Despite being a well-known failure, the movie Waterworld with Kevin Costner as a grumpy human amphibian with an absurd hairline is a blast to watch.

It’s basically Mad Max on the water, with Earth’s survivors living in extravagant floating cities or driving crazy-assed boats centuries after the polar ice caps melted and flooded the planet.

44. A Boy and His Dog

A Boy and His Dog by L.Q. Jones is a unique apocalypse story set in the post-nuclear world brought on by World War IV, and it is based on the same-named novella by Harlan Ellison. Vic, played by Don Johnson, is a young man who is alone in the post-apocalyptic wasteland with his telepathic dog. Blood for business

43. World War Z

• Director: Marc Forster
• Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof
• Cast: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, James Badge Dale, Peter Capaldi, Ruth Negga, Matthew Fox, David Morse, Pierfrancesco Favino, Moritz Bleibtreu, Fana Mokoena, Daniella Kertesz

I’ve recently spoke at length about why I adore the 2013 zombie apocalypse film World War Z, but dangnabbit, I still have more to say. World War Z is an emotional and timely film that was adapted from Max Brooks’s novel of the same name and is finally available in theaters after a long production process.

42. Fist of the North Star

Not for the faint of heart is Toei’s 1986 animated feature film adaptation of Buronson and Tetsuo Hara’s manga. The fights and action sequences in Fist of the North Star are some of the most brutal ever seen on screen; this film literally pulls no punches, even if the TV series did, relatively speaking.

Therefore, even though the anime series may be more true to the original story, the anime film still tells a compelling story about what it takes to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world.

41. Warm Bodies

• Director/Writer: Jonathan Levine
• Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Rob Corddry, Dave Franco, Analeigh Tipton, Cory Hardrict, John Malkovich

Jonathan Levine (50/50, Long Shot) is an underappreciated contemporary auteur, distinguished more by his dedication to emotional vulnerability and beautiful, sensitive performances than by his signature visual stylistics. Watch out when he brings that sensibility to the YA zombie genre!

Nicholas Hoult plays a zombie Romeo, Teresa Palmer plays a human Juliet, and John Malkovich plays Palmer’s aggressively untrusting father in the zombie apocalypse adaptation Warm Bodies.

40. Pontypool

• Director: Bruce McDonald
• Writer: Tony Burgess
• Cast: Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle, Georgina Reilly, Hrant Alianak, Rick Roberts, Daniel Fathers

It’s a Canadian movie One of my all-time favorite horror films, and more specifically one with an apocalyptic setting, is Pontypool. Pontypool is what I would refer to as the “thinking man’s zombie movie,” and to help it stand out in the zombie film genre, the plot takes some really interesting and novel turns.

39. Tank Girl

38. Night of the Comet (1984)

37. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

36. Dawn of the Dead (2004)

• Director: Zack Snyder
• Writer: James Gunn
• Cast: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer

Many factors are working against this movie. They have quick zombies. Zack “I’m Grim And Hate Fun” Snyder is the film’s director. It’s an attempt to recreate a revered zombie classic from George Romero, the master of the genre. And yet, it succeeds despite all odds.

Ty Burrell gives one of my favorites “sarcastic comic relief” performances in recent memory, and Mekhi Phifer and Inna Korobkina give a genuinely invested, touching, and menacing take on what can happen to a family experiencing the zombie apocalypse. It manages to have both a sense of humor and a sense of genuine emotional stakes.

35. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Possibly the person who has contributed the most to post-apocalyptic film is George R. Romero, The Godfather of Zombies, who with his groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead introduced American audiences to their obsession with the undead.

Although that film, which depicts how humanity can crumble as monsters pounce on us, is stunning and a cinematic game-changer in and of itself, it was his 1978 follow-up Dawn of the Dead that really leaned into the post-apocalyptic fantasy and further nailed down his social commentary.

34. Perfect Sense

David Mackenzie has a fascinating career as a director in which he effortlessly transitions from one genre to another. Mackenzie has an understated, enigmatic style that slowly draws you into his films, from the erotic thriller Young Adam to the outstanding Neo-western Hell or High Water.

The all-too-often forgotten apocalypse drama Perfect Sense, starring Eva Green and Ewan McGregor as two lost souls who meet just before losing everything, comes in first place.

33. Avengers: Endgame

• Directors: Joe Russo and Anthony Russo
• Writers: Stephen McFeely and Christpher Markus
• Cast: Too many to name but like Robert Downey Jr. and all those other people. You know.

David Mackenzie has a fascinating career as a director in which he effortlessly transitions from one genre to another. Mackenzie has an understated, enigmatic style that slowly draws you into his films, from the erotic thriller Young Adam to the outstanding Neo-western Hell or High Water.

The all-too-often forgotten apocalypse drama Perfect Sense, starring Eva Green and Ewan McGregor as two lost souls who meet just before losing everything, comes in first place.

32. Independence Day

• Director: Roland Emmerich
• Writers: Deann Devlin, Roland Emmerich
• Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, Brent Spiner

Independence Day helped me establish my personal standards for apocalypse and alien invasion films as a child of the 1990s. Is that a big, really strange-looking cloud off in the distance?

I assume right away that the ID aliens are about to enter the atmosphere of Earth. Is it July Fourth? I better do my part and share Bill Pullman’s portrayal of President Whitmore’s famous speech at least ten times on social media!

31. War for the Planet of the Apes

• Director: Matt Reeves
• Writers: Mark Bomback, Matt Reeves
• Cast: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn

We exchanged glances as my girlfriend, and I exited the theater after seeing War for the Planet of the Apes with tears rolling down our cheeks. evaluated one another’s emotional states. My girlfriend then said something that will always stick in my movie appreciation memory: “They’re monkeys!”

She explained in a very silly voice why we were so taken aback by this magnificent film, which served as the epilogue to the Planet of the Apes reboot trilogy and the ideal continuation of Matt Reeves’ earlier flawless, darker-than-dark middle chapter Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

30. Escape from L.A.

• Director: John Carpenter
• Writers: John Carpenter, Debra Hill, Kurt Russell
• Cast: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Stacey Keach, Peter Fonda, Pam Grier, Bruce Campbell

The pulp action thriller Escape from New York from 1981 is a classic. Escape from L.A., the 1996 follow-up, is none of those things. Even so, it is unquestionably worth seeing as a fascinating artifact of 1990s cinema and a reminder of the decade’s arrogance regarding the potential of digital effects.

I want the scene where Kurt Russell’s Snake Plissken surfs a doomsday wave alternated on weekends and holidays with the scene where Snake shoots hoops for his freedom holographically projected on my tombstone for all eternity.

29. Escape from New York

• Director: John Carpenter
• Writers: John Carpenter, Nick Castle
• Cast: Kurt Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, Donald Pleasance, Adrienne Barbeau, Ernest Borgnine

Right now, this might seem a little obvious. Escape from New York, a dark sci-fi masterpiece by John Carpenter, serves as a cautionary tale and a reminder that things could always be worse.

Kurt Russell playing a jacked renegade with an eye-patch named Snake Plissken gives this movie a fun edge—and it is fun, and somehow even weirder than anyone ever remembers—but it’s also super bleak, with a screenplay Carpenter wrote pissed-off as hell in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

28. This Is the End

• Writer/Directors: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg
• Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill, James Franco, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson 

Are you still genuinely irritated by the notion of famous people “helping” during a pandemic by singing John Lennon’s “Imagine” while lounging in their opulent mansions?

The remedy you require is This Is the End, the flawless horror-comedy directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg that parodies how the biggest names in Hollywood would respond to the literal end of the world. The response is, “Very Poorly,” just like in real life.

27. Snowpiercer

• Director: Bong Joon Ho
• Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Kelly Masterson
• Cast: Chris Evans, Song Kang Ho, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer

The fact that Snowpiercer was directed by Bong Joon Ho should be enough to push it to the top of your must-watch list at this point. Snowpiercer earned a spot on my personal top ten list in 2014, much like Parasite was a favorite movie of mine in 2019.

The film, a 2031 setting on a train with no fixed destination, is an adaptation of the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige. It just circles the globe, shielding survivors from the results of a disastrous attempt to stop global warming.

26.The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021)

• Director: Michael Rianda
• Writer: Chris Miller, Danny McBride, Phil Lord and others.
• Starring: Alex Hirsch, Abbi Jacobson, Michael Rianda and others.
• IMDb Rating: 7.7
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 97%
• Platforms Available: Netflix

The Mitchells vs. the Machines is a Netflix original movie with a combination of 2D and 3D animation. The film tells a unique tale of a time when the over-intelligent mobile phones decide to put a full stop to humankind.

It also tells a hilarious story of a family (in which the mom is a first-grade teacher and her daughter). The family is the last hope for humanity on planet Earth. So, this is a new take on the end of the world movies that involve technology.

25. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

• Director: Matt Reeves
• Writer: Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Scott Z. Burns.
• Starring: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Keri Russell and others.
• IMDb Rating: 7.6
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 90%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Instant Video, Google play, Vudu, iTunes.

Planet of the Apes is a franchise that shows many apocalyptic scenes. The story is set ten years after the event when the simian flu caused the death of most human beings on Earth. Caesar, the genetically modified chimpanzee, and his followers live in a colony outside San Francisco.

A small band of human survivors left, forcing Caesar to do two main things. First, to protect his people and second, to redevelop a good relationship with the human race. Caesar also secretly wished that he should do the second thing.

24. Shaun of the Dead

• Director: Edgar Wright
• Writer: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg.
• Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, and Lucy Davis.
• IMDb Rating: 7.9
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%
• Platforms Available: Hulu

The iconic duo of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright team up for the zombie’s apocalypse Shaun of the Dead (2004). Shaun might be feeling bleak as his world is crashing, but he will no more. Starring Pegg as Shaun and Nick Frost as Ed, this is what you can call a zom-rom-com.

Fancy, isn’t it? He now fights the zombies in London to find the meaning of his life and to win back his girlfriend. Shaun of the Dead is definitely a top-ranking parody of zombies movies.

23. Mad Max: Fury Road

• Director: George Miller
• Writer: George Miller
• Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron.
• IMDb Rating: 8.1
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 97%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.

The original Mad-Max director George Miller returns to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). This Mad-Max sequel sets you on a dangerous high-octane ride in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

The fourth part of the Mad Max film series is full of jaw-dropping cinematic moments. Tom Hardy’s Max Rockatansky, Charlize Theron as Furiosa, and Nicholas Hoults’ Nux steal the show with their intense power-packed acting.

22. Stalker (1979)

• Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
• Writer: Arkadiy Strugatskiy, Boris Strugatskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky
• Starring: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn
• IMDb Rating: 8.1
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 100%
• Platforms Available: HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video

In a little, anonymous nation there’s a region called the Zone. It’s an uncommon region, and inside it’s a spot known as the Room, where its accepted wishes are conceded.

The public authority proclaimed The Zone an off-limits region and has fixed it. This hasn’t prevented individuals from entering the Zone. An essayist, and a teacher, need to arrive at the Zone. Their aide – a man known as a stalker, has an extraordinary connection with the Zone.

21. The Matrix 

•  Director: Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski.
• Writers: Lilly Wachowski and Lana Wachowski.
• Starring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, and Carrie-Anne Moss.
• IMDb Rating: 8.7
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Prime Video

Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski’s movie, The Matrix (1999), is a pioneering, entertaining, and philosophical science fiction classic. Starring the iconic Keanu Reeves as Neo, this movie is an example of cyberpunk film. Humans are trapped in a simulated reality in a dystopic future created by the Matrix system.

20. Legion (2010)

• Director: Scott Stewart
• Writer: Scott Stewart, Peter Schink
• Starring: Dennis Quaid, Paul Bettany, Lucas Black and others.
• IMDb Rating: 5.3
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 18%
• Platforms Available: Hulu

Legion is another one about the end of the world movies. In this, the end of the world is shown in Biblical terms. Apocalyptic visions are seen in Legion. Paul Bettany is seen playing the role of Archangel Michael, and his duty is to stop the evil from bringing out an apocalypse.

19. The Wandering Earth

• Director: Frant Gwo
• Writers: Gong Geer, Junce Ye.
• Starring: Jing Wu, Chuxiao Qu, Guangjie Li.
• IMDb Rating: 6.0
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71%
• Platforms Available: Netflix

One of the most fantastic end of the world movies, the most noteworthy earning films of 2019, is this apocalypse film that a couple of individuals has known about. It follows the fiasco film shape, chronicling a gathering of researchers who look to truly move the Earth to move it away from the always extending sun while evading crash with Jupiter.

18. Right At Your Door (2006)

• Director: Chris Gorak
• Writer: Chris Gorak
• Starring: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane, Will McCormack, Scotty Noyd Jr., Tony Perez, and others.
• IMDb Rating: 6.1
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Prime Video

A man is sitting at his home when he hears that the dirty bombs located in Los Angeles might have been detonated. The government officials advised the citizens of the entire city that they stay at their home, lock their doors and windows, and go into a quarantine.

The man listens to all this, but his wife was outside and just returned. Should he allow the young woman to enter? Should he risk contamination?

17. Daybreakers (2009)

• Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig.
• Writer: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig.
• Starring: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and others.
• IMDb Rating: 6.4
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 69%
• Platforms Available: NA

In Daybreakers, a plaque is seen converting humans into Vampires. Humans have become blood-thirsty vampires, and the plaque has been spread so vastly that now only a few survivors are left for these vampires to feed off. There are still changes in a cure, but it is only possible if anyone can stay alive for that long.

16. The Day After Tomorrow

• Director: Roland Emmerich
• Writer: Roland Emmerich
• Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ian Holm.
• IMDb Rating: 6.4
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 45%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Disney Plus.

Roland Emmerich’s movie apocalyptic action film he Day After Tomorrow (2004) highlights catastrophic natural disasters.

Distributed by 20th Century Fox, the premise highlights the consequences of years of unabated global warming. The disaster is now wreaking havoc, and there is a sudden worldwide storm.

15. War of the Worlds

• Director: Steven Spielberg
• Writer: Josh Friedman and David Koepp.
• Starring: Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning
• IMDb Rating: 6.5
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 75%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.

Cruise stars as Ray Ferrier, a dockworker who is ready to spend a leisurely weekend with his children. But, as alien tripod land on Earth, an unforeseen disaster ensues. The end of the world is near as the aliens threaten to wipe off humanity from the Earth.

14. These Final Hours

• Director: Zak Hilditch
• Writer: Zak Hilditch
• Starring: Jessica De Gouw, Nathan Phillips, David Field.
• IMDb Rating: 6.7
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 84%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Prime, Microsoft Store.

In this one, a comet prevails regarding crashing into Earth, as it’s taken steps to do so often previously (see likewise: Armageddon and Deep Impact). The film happens 10 minutes after effect when Australia has around 12 hours before the firestorm arrives at the nation.

It follows James, who needs to invest his leftover energy at the “gathering to shame all other gatherings,” but winds up being pulled in different ways.

13. On the Beach

• Director: Russell Mulcahy
• Writer: John Paxton
• Starring: Armand Assante, Bryan Brown, and Rachel Ward.
• IMDb Rating: 7.0
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix.

On the Beach (1959), Stanley Kramer’s award-winning movie, is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi that will stay with you forever. With Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins, the movie depicts the aftermath of nuclear war. It features gory visuals of global destruction

12. The Road

• Director: John Hillcoat
• Writer: Joe Penhall
• Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, and Robert Duvall.
• IMDb Rating: 7.2
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 74%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video.

Helmed by John Hillcoat, The Road (2009) is an epic movie set in a post-apocalyptic world. It presents an absorbing, mysterious, and completely harrowing tale of the survival of a father and his young son. Cannibals are roaming free on the streets of barren America.

The duo weighs in on their chance of survival. It is destroyed in a mysterious cataclysmic event. They travel down south to reduce the risks in their lives.

11. Cloverfield Lane

• Director: Dan Trachtenberg
• Writers: Josh Campbell and Matthew Stuecken.
• Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and John Gallagher Jr.
• IMDb Rating: 7.2
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 90%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Amazon Prime.

Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Michelle, her performance is absolutely delightful in the movie. It evokes both emphatic sensibility and intensity with equal ease. It is a clever, entertaining, and downright fun movie.

10. Melancholia (2011)

• Director: Lars von Trier
• Writer: Lars von Trier
• Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alexander Skarsgård and others.
• IMDb Rating: 7.2
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80%
• Platforms Available: Hulu

After this, the plot is similar to the end of the world movies. Kirsten Dunst is seen playing the role of a bride whose wedding reception was interrupted due to the discovery of Melancholia, a new planet.

This planet is going to collide soon with Earth. The movie also sheds some light on chronic depression.

9. Sunshine (2007)

• Director: Danny Boyle
• Writer: Alex Garland
• Starring: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada and others.
• IMDb Rating: 7.2
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76%
• Platforms Available: Hulu Plus

Sunshine is another movie in which the Sun is shown to be the main culprit, and it would be it who will be bringing the world to its end.

The movie shows that the sun is dying, and a group of scientists try to bring it back by re-igniting it with the help of a bomb. If you think that they might succeed, watch the movie as many things can possibly go wrong.

8. Take Shelter

• Director: Jeff Nichols
• Writer: Jeff Nichols
• Starring: Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.
• IMDb Rating: 7.4
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Prime Video, Microsoft store.

With a screenplay and a directorial initiative by Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter (2011) is a psychologically intriguing drama. Curtis LaForche, played by Michael Shannon, begins to have nightmares that develop into hallucinations. Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics, the movie is set in Ohio.

7. A Quiet Place

• Director: John Krasinski
• Writer: Bryan Woods, Scott Beck and Krasinski.
• Starring: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski.
• IMDb Rating: 7.5
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96%
• Platforms Available: NOW TV

This list of curated apocalypse movies is incomplete without John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place (2018). It is aggressively scary, and this modern horror thriller stars Krasinski and Emily Blunt in the lead. The Abbott family lives in an isolated, cut-off region in the movie.

The Abbotts communicate in sign language to ward off the aliens. They need to remain silent, for any noise will attract the terrifying alien creatures.

6. Edge of Tomorrow

• Director: Doug Liman
• Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
• Starring: Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt.
• IMDb Rating: 7.9
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 91%
• Platforms Available: NOW TV

The American sci-fi movie helmed by Doug Liman, Edge of Tomorrow (2014) stars Tom Cruise in the lead. Set in a dystopic future, it takes place in Europe, invaded by aliens.

Cruise plays the United States Major William Cage, a military man, alongside Emily Blunt’s warrior woman, Rita Vrataski. They navigate through continuous-time loops in this quest for survival.

5. Night of the Living Dead

• Director: George A. Romero
• Writer: John Russo
• Starring: Duane Jones and Judith O’Dea
• IMDb Rating: 7.9
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 96%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Prime George

A. Romero is no doubt the father of zombie apocalypse movies. It follows the plot of seven people trapped on a farm in Pennsylvania.

The radiation from a fallen satellite has created a terrifying situation as the cannibalistic undead corpses are rising from their graves. Now they seek to feed on the living beings of this world as food.

4. Children of Men

• Director: Alfonso Cuarón
• Writer: Alfonso Cuarón
• Starring: Clive Owen and Julianne Moore.
• IMDb Rating: 7.9
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 92%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Disney Plus.

The 2006 Venice International Film Festival featured Children of Men (2006) is a cinematic masterpiece. The earth brinks towards its end, as 18 years of human infertility is creating a phase of abandonment of humans from the earth.

But when a woman gets pregnant, Theo is tasked with transporting her to safety as she is the last ray of hope for the infertile human species.

3. 12 Monkeys

• Director: Terry Gilliam
• Writers: Chris Marker
• Starring: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, and Brad Pitt.
• IMDb Rating: 8.0
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 88%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Disney Plus, Amazon Prime.

The Golden Globe award-winning movie 12 Monkeys (1995) is one of the best science fiction thriller movies. Few directors have a vision as rich and ambitious as Terry Gilliam.

With a sharp plot and a stellar cast, you cannot miss this one from this movies list. The movie stars Brad Pitt, Madeliene Stowe, Bruce Willis, and Christopher Stowe in the lead.

 2. Wall-E  

• Director: Andrew Stanton
• Writer: Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon.
• Starring: Bem Burtt, Elissa Knight.
• IMDb Rating: 8.4
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 95%
• Platforms Available: Amazon Prime Video, Disney Plus.

Next on the list is Wall-E (2008), which is an incredibly touching movie. Andrew Stanton’s movie Wall-E is a phenomenally thought-provoking futuristic parable.

It revolves around a machine that is responsible for cleaning the waste scattered on abandoned earth. On this journey of purging the waste, Wall-E finds his soulmate in the advanced robot, EVE.

1. Dr. Strangelove

• Director: Stanley Kubrick
• Writers: Stanley Kubrick and Terry Southern.
• Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, and Sterling Hayden.
• IMDb Rating: 8.4
• Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 98%
• Platforms Available: Netflix, Disney Plus.

Stanley Kubrick’s BAFTA and Hugo award-winning movie Dr. Strangelove (1964) is a cold war satire with contemporary relevance. Strangelove is a character you fall in love with. His improbable hilarity in finding uncanny humor in every unimaginable scene makes him our favorite.

This movie is full of commendable comic performances. Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb stars George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, and Slim Pickens.

What Movies are About the World Ending?

Several movies have been made when the world ends or about impending doom. Such movies have been included in the list mentioned above. Several world-ending movies have been made till now, and the best ones have been included.