Apocaliptic Movies
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1. War of the Worlds (2005)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Tim Robbins, Miranda Otto
Votes: 475,111 | Gross: $234.28M
2. Contagion (2011)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Thriller
Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a pandemic as the CDC works to find a cure.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow
Votes: 315,893 | Gross: $75.66M
3. Escape from New York (1981)
R | 99 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1997, when the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 157,449 | Gross: $25.24M
4. The Fog (1980)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman
Votes: 82,965 | Gross: $21.38M
5. Prince of Darkness (1987)
R | 102 min | Horror
A group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
Votes: 49,947 | Gross: $14.18M
6. They Live (1988)
R | 94 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, George 'Buck' Flower
Votes: 145,426 | Gross: $13.01M
7. The Thing (1982)
R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, Richard Masur
Votes: 466,466 | Gross: $13.78M
8. The Thing (I) (2011)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
At an Antarctica research site, the discovery of an alien craft leads to a confrontation between graduate student Kate Lloyd and scientist Dr. Sander Halvorson.
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. | Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen
Votes: 145,512 | Gross: $16.93M
9. The Mist (2007)
R | 126 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher
Votes: 340,243 | Gross: $25.59M
10. 28 Days Later (2002)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Alex Palmer
Votes: 445,531 | Gross: $45.06M
11. 28 Weeks Later (2007)
R | 100 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Harold Perrineau
Votes: 293,730 | Gross: $28.64M
12. The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
R | 107 min | Horror, Thriller
A traveling family falls victim to a group of mutated cannibals in a desert far away from civilization.
Director: Alexandre Aja | Stars: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin
Votes: 183,221 | Gross: $41.78M
13. Cloverfield (2008)
PG-13 | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A group of friends venture deep into the streets of New York on a rescue mission during a rampaging monster attack.
Director: Matt Reeves | Stars: Mike Vogel, Jessica Lucas, Lizzy Caplan, T.J. Miller
Votes: 420,580 | Gross: $80.05M
14. Project X (2012)
R | 88 min | Comedy
Three high-school seniors throw a birthday party to make a name for themselves. As the night progresses, things spiral out of control as word of the party spreads.
Director: Nima Nourizadeh | Stars: Thomas Mann, Oliver Cooper, Jonathan Daniel Brown, Dax Flame
Votes: 233,338 | Gross: $54.73M
15. Super 8 (2011)
PG-13 | 112 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Elle Fanning, AJ Michalka, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney
Votes: 367,476 | Gross: $127.00M
16. Signs (2002)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Votes: 385,619 | Gross: $227.97M
17. The Shining (1980)
R | 146 min | Drama, Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 1,106,316 | Gross: $44.02M
18. Halloween (1978)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran, Nancy Kyes
Votes: 306,727 | Gross: $47.00M
19. Independence Daysaster (2013 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
Director: W.D. Hogan | Stars: Ryan Merriman, Andrea Brooks, Emily Holmes, Keenan Tracey
Votes: 1,395
20. The 12 Disasters of Christmas (2012 TV Movie)
R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The ultimate countdown to holiday mayhem. A global cataclysm of tornadoes, volcanoes, and killer twinkle lights threaten a small mountain town during Christmas.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Ed Quinn, Magda Apanowicz, Holly Elissa, Roark Critchlow
Votes: 1,280
21. End of the World (2013 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of Apocalyptic fanatics must use their knowledge of apocalyptic movies to save the world from a devastating solar flare.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Greg Grunberg, Neil Grayston, Caroline Cave, Mark Hildreth
Votes: 1,754
22. Mega Cyclone (2011 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Epic storms triggered by a space phenomenon obliterate cities, and the only answer to escaping complete annihilation rests on a small-town teen's extraordinary science project.
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: David Sutcliffe, Mitch Pileggi, Erica Cerra, Jon Mack
Votes: 622
23. Snowmageddon (2011 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
An Alaskan town is in danger of destruction by a mystical snow globe that appears on a family's doorstep, wrapped like a Christmas gift, and causes deadly "natural" disasters in the real world, while simultaneously occurring in the globe.
Director: Sheldon Wilson | Stars: David Cubitt, Laura Harris, Dylan Matzke, Magda Apanowicz
Votes: 1,371
24. Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997 TV Movie)
91 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
When brutal tidal waves suddenly destroy many coastal communities in a short period of time, John Wahl, a nobel prize winner, is brought out of his lazy retirement and back into service as ... See full summary »
Director: George Miller | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Julianne Phillips, Gregg Henry, Larry Brandenburg
Votes: 605
25. Meteor Storm (2010 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
San Francisco becomes a target for waves of destructive meteors after a rogue comet orbits around the earth... For astronomer, Michelle Young, what was meant to be a once-in-a-lifetime ... See full summary »
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: Michael Trucco, Kari Matchett, Kirsten Zien, Brett Dier
Votes: 1,403
26. Ice Twisters (2009 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation's weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.
Director: Steven R. Monroe | Stars: Mark Moses, Camille Sullivan, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Alex Zahara
Votes: 1,912
27. Seattle Superstorm (2012 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When an unidentified object is shot down by the military and crashes into Puget Sound, it sets off a series of strange weather phenomena: earthquakes, tornadoes, lightning storms - and they're spreading.
Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Esai Morales, Ona Grauer, Jared Abrahamson, MacKenzie Porter
Votes: 1,027
28. Ice Quake (2010 TV Movie)
PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A massive crack in the earth's crust threatens the world with deadly gas from the planet's core. It's up to a geologist and his family to battle ice geysers and avalanches to save mankind.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Brendan Fehr, Holly Elissa, Jodelle Ferland, Ryan Grantham
Votes: 1,707
29. Earth's Final Hours (2011 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 84 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
After dense matter from an imploded white hole hits Earth, the planet's rotation is devastated. A group of government agents must locate a lost satellite network that is the world's only hope for survival.
Director: W.D. Hogan | Stars: Robert Knepper, Julia Benson, Cameron Bright, Julia Maxwell
Votes: 2,554
30. Doomsday Prophecy (2011 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 92 min | Sci-Fi
Based on the 2012 end-of-world prophesy where two unlikely characters team up to solve a mystery that just might save the world.
Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: A.J. Buckley, Jewel Staite, Alan Dale, Bruce Ramsay
Votes: 1,687
31. Collision Earth (2011 TV Movie)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the sun converts to a magnetar for a short time, the planet Mercury is thrown out of orbit and set on a collision course for Earth. It's up to a disgraced scientist to save our planet.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Diane Farr, Chad Krowchuk, Jessica Parker Kennedy
Votes: 1,588
32. Aftershock (2012)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare.
Director: Nicolás López | Stars: Eli Roth, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Martínez, Andrea Osvárt
Votes: 12,439 | Gross: $0.04M
33. Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)
Unrated | 170 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A devastating earthquake hits New York City, with survivors left fighting for their lives amongst the ruins.
Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sharon Lawrence, Charles S. Dutton, Lisa Nicole Carson
Votes: 2,032
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