Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "post-thermonuclear-war"

1. The Terminator (1984)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield

Votes: 927,738 | Gross: $38.40M

2. Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)

G | 93 min | Action, Sci-Fi

Ten years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden

Votes: 34,718 | Gross: $8.84M

3. Akira (1988)

R | 124 min | Animation, Action, Drama

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.

Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo | Stars: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda

Votes: 206,202 | Gross: $0.55M

4. Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

PG-13 | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton

Votes: 132,348 | Gross: $92.00M

5. On the Beach (1959)

Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.

Director: Stanley Kramer | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins

Votes: 14,471 | Gross: $11.00M

6. Fallout 2: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (1998 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a post-nuclear future, the descendant of an ancient exiled hero must leave his tribe in search of the Garden of Eden Creation Kit, the last chance of survival for his people.

Director: Feargus Urquhart | Stars: Charlie Adler, Ron Perlman, Dwight Schultz, Jason Marsden

Votes: 4,232

7. Creepozoids (1987)

R | 72 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of survivors try to avoid the battles of World War III. When they try to escape to the quiet lands, they encounter something much more deadly.

Director: David DeCoteau | Stars: Linnea Quigley, Ken Abraham, Michael Aranda, Richard L. Hawkins

Votes: 2,989 | Gross: $0.01M

8. Day the World Ended (1955)

Approved | 79 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In a post-Apocalyptic world after an atomic war seven disparate people find themselves in a protected valley in the home of a survivalist and his beautiful daughter.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Richard Denning, Lori Nelson, Adele Jergens, Mike Connors

Votes: 2,635

9. Parasite (1982)

R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic USA, a doctor/scientist infected with a new strain of parasite ends up in a small desert town, trying to find a cure.

Director: Charles Band | Stars: Robert Glaudini, Demi Moore, Luca Bercovici, James Davidson

Votes: 3,083 | Gross: $7.00M

10. The Time Travelers (1964)

Approved | 84 min | Sci-Fi

In 1964, a group of scientists create a portal that takes them to a barren, mutant inhabited, Earth in the year 2071.

Director: Ib Melchior | Stars: Preston Foster, Philip Carey, Merry Anders, John Hoyt

Votes: 3,223

11. Radioactive Dreams (1984)

R | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

After a nuclear war, Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent fifteen years on their own in a bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, nineteen-years-old,... See full summary »

Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: John Stockwell, Michael Dudikoff, Michele Little, Lisa Blount

Votes: 1,958 | Gross: $0.22M

12. The War Game (1966)

48 min | Drama, War

A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.

Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham, Dave Baldwin, Kathy Staff

Votes: 7,346

13. World Without End (1956)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi

Astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are propelled into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants.

Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor

Votes: 2,395

14. Rats: Night of Terror (1984)

Unrated | 97 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

In a post-apocalyptic earth, where most of humanity lives underground, a group of surface people stumble upon an abandoned lab that was trying to bring life back to the earth's surface, but the place is run over by vicious rats.

Directors: Bruno Mattei, Claudio Fragasso | Stars: Ottaviano Dell'Acqua, Geretta Geretta, Massimo Vanni, Gianni Franco

Votes: 3,196

15. Equalizer 2000 (1987)

R | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A ruthless vehicular gang rules the post-apocalyptic wasteland. That's until a muscled hero named Slade builds the ultimate machine gun - Equalizer 2000, and declares a one man war on the gang's "piece of garbage" leader.

Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Richard Norton, Corinne Wahl, William Steis, Robert Patrick

Votes: 733

16. American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)

R | 94 min | Action, Sci-Fi

After a devastating nuclear war, the last fertile woman on Earth joins forces with a tough renegade warrior to fight a team of deadly cyborgs and save the human race from extinction.

Director: Boaz Davidson | Stars: Joe Lara, Nicole Hansen, John Saint Ryan, Yosef Shiloach

Votes: 1,653 | Gross: $0.45M

17. America 3000 (1986)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a tribe of women rule and all men are either ferals or slaves, one men rises up to free the men. Can they coexist in peace or will they die in war?

Director: David Engelbach | Stars: Chuck Wagner, Laurene Landon, William Wallace, Sue Giosa

Votes: 1,578

18. Mindwarp (1991)

R | 96 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In post-apocalyptic 2037, Judy rebels against the AI-ruled utopia where people live in a happy VR simulation. She's exiled to a post-nuclear wasteland where she meets drifter Stover. Mutated cannibals capture them for their leader Seer.

Director: Steve Barnett | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Angus Scrimm, Marta Martin, Elizabeth Kent

Votes: 2,920

19. Teenage Cave Man (1958)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

A young man defies tribal laws and searches for answers. The result of his quest yields knowledge of past generations.

Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Darah Marshall, Leslie Bradley, Frank DeKova

Votes: 1,733

20. O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985)

88 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man searches for survival after nuclear war forces people into an underground bunker. The inhabitants await rescue while their refuge decays around them.

Director: Piotr Szulkin | Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Krystyna Janda, Kalina Jedrusik, Mariusz Dmochowski

Votes: 1,714

21. The People Who Own the Dark (1976)

R | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search ... See full summary »

Director: León Klimovsky | Stars: Nadiuska, Alberto de Mendoza, Teresa Gimpera, Emiliano Redondo

Votes: 509

22. The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

Approved | 75 min | Sci-Fi

In a post holocaust society, robots take it on their own to help the dying human race by giving them android bodies.

Director: Wesley Barry | Stars: Don Megowan, Erica Elliott, Frances McCann, Don Doolittle

Votes: 1,529

23. Fallout Tactics (2001 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Brotherhood of Steel, a faction of technologically advanced pro-human soldiers who survived the nuclear holocaust, becomes engaged in a desperate war.

Stars: Dee Bradley Baker, Michael Bell, Gregg Berger, Earl Boen

Votes: 862

24. In the Year 2889 (1969 TV Movie)

Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a post nuclear Earth, survivors are stuck in a valley and have to protect themselves from mutant human beings, and each other in some cases.

Director: Larry Buchanan | Stars: Paul Petersen, Quinn O'Hara, Charla Doherty, Neil Fletcher

Votes: 1,188

25. Dragon Flyz (1996–1997)

21 min | Action, Animation, Sci-Fi

In a future decimated by war, only a small band of humans survive. The radiation from the war has created many new species, including huge, semi-intelligent dragons and evil mutants. The ... See full summary »

Stars: T.J. Benjamin, Saul Bernstein, Thomas Cannizzaro, Donna Daley

Votes: 189

26. Memoirs of a Survivor (1981)

115 min | Sci-Fi

Set in a bleak future where roving gangs of children terrorize city streets, and reality is often an illusion.

Director: David Gladwell | Stars: Julie Christie, Christopher Guard, Leonie Mellinger, Debbie Hutchings

Votes: 367

27. Malevil (1981)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A group of ordinary French survived a nuclear war and found themselves in the face of what was left of civilization.

Director: Christian de Chalonge | Stars: Michel Serrault, Jacques Dutronc, Jacques Villeret, Robert Dhéry

Votes: 973

28. Ultra Warrior (1990)

R | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After the nuclear holocaust, one man rises from the ashes to become the leader of a ragged gang of survivors. They soon discover that their greatest challenge is yet to come; they must ... See full summary »

Directors: Augusto Tamayo San Román, Kevin Tent | Stars: Dack Rambo, Clare Beresford, Meshach Taylor, Mark Bringelson

Votes: 869 | Gross: $0.41M

29. Shredder Orpheus (1990)

Not Rated | 88 min | Horror

Skateboarder named Orpheus and friends go to Hell to stop television signals that are brainwashing America.

Director: Robert McGinley | Stars: Robert McGinley, Megan Murphy, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Linda Severt

Votes: 194

30. Rush (1983)

77 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a post-nuclear holocaust world, a survivor roams the desert, fighting bandits and the forces of an evil warlord.

Director: Tonino Ricci | Stars: Bruno Minniti, Gordon Mitchell, Laura Trotter, Rate Furlan

Votes: 188

31. Sins of the Fleshapoids (1966)

Not Rated | 43 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi

The survivors of a nuclear war are taken care of by robots called "fleshapoids." One day one of the fleshapoids runs wild, kills its "mistress," and hides in the home of a human female, for whom it begins to develop feelings.

Director: Mike Kuchar | Stars: Bob Cowan, George Kuchar, Donna Kerness, Maren Thomas

Votes: 359

32. Valiant (II) (2014)

29 min | Short, Action, Adventure

Three wanted Air Pirates embark on a risky gamble after discovering a lost child princess who may hold the ticket to their freedom.

Director: Robin Phillips | Stars: Gil Darnell, Jason Hice, Andrew Varenhorst, Danielle Parker

Votes: 49

33. The Gunslinger Grifter Logan (2022)

90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

A world once kept peaceful and beautiful by the benevolent forces of Magic, now lies in ruins with but one exception: The Federation. This totalitarian State run by a ruthless Overlord, is ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Rubac | Stars: Steve Polites, Vincent Alcarese, Frank Bliss, Michael Brecher

Votes: 22

34. Creation of the Damned (1974)

96 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

North America, in the near future. Two married couples live in a strange apartment that is actually an anti-atomic shelter. The world has been devastated by a nuclear war and the group waits for the radioactivity to disappear.

Director: José Ulloa | Stars: Craig Hill, Patty Shepard, Teresa Gimpera, Fernando Hilbeck

Votes: 81

35. Det frusna Atlantis (1980)

60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

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Director: Björn Kullander | Stars: Claes af Geijerstam, Åke Lagergren, M.A. Numminen, Anders Nyström

Votes: 20

36. Zordax II: La guerre du métal (2006)

12 min | Short, Sci-Fi

After the nuclear holocaust a survivor struggles against Zordax and his barbarians.

Director: Syl Disjonk | Stars: Mike Waters, Tolga Karaer, Christo Lepovsky, Carnior

Votes: 19

37. Space Patrol (1950–1955)
Episode: The Wild Men of Procyon (1955)

Action, Adventure, Family

Commander Corry and his crew investigate a mysterious burst of radiation from outside the Solar System. They trace the source to the surface of a planet whose once great civilization has ... See full summary »

Director: Dick Darley | Stars: Ed Kemmer, Lyn Osborn, Ken Mayer, Virginia Hewitt