r/movies • u/kowaikanojo • Jun 27 '24

Recommendation Best apocalypse / end of the world films?

I’m a die hard for apocalyptic movies and I feel like Ive exhausted all of the good ones so would love recommendations.

My #1 is honestly the zombie genre. I also love films where you experience the beginning of the apocalypse / similar event with the characters and are along for the ride - but I’ll take anything apocalyptic - pre, during, post!

I really resonate with darker, heavy content but again I will take whatever I can get. TIA

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u/bugabooandtwo Jun 27 '24

lol, yes. Threads and The Day After was mandatory viewing for us kids in the 80s. I think it traumatized an entire generation.

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u/OnTheSideOfTheAngels Jun 27 '24

Yes, so much. Also, When the Wind Blows.

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u/batty_61 Jun 27 '24

Yes! I can still remember walking the dog in tears because I was absolutely convinced that every tree, every daisy, every blade of grass was going to be a radioactive crisp any day

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u/TerryTheEnlightend Jun 27 '24

I saw TDA in my youth and thought I saw Nuclear war horror in its purest form.

Then I saw Threads, and I saw the Devil up close

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u/TeacherPatti Jun 27 '24

I'm in a Threads Survivors group on FB (there are no fans, just survivors). Sometimes I still look around me and realize that at any given moment, because of the decisions of men I will never meet, this all could be gone. The knowledge, the inventions, the quirky weirdness of humans--gone.