Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "end-of-the-world-scenario"

1. Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.

Stars: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Jamie Bamber, James Callis

Votes: 176,286

2. The Dead Don't Die (2019)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Two pioneers fight for their lives and their love on the American frontier during the Civil War.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits

Votes: 86,499 | Gross: $6.56M

3. Heroes (II) (2006–2010)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Common people discover that they have super powers. Their lives intertwine as a devastating event must be prevented.

Stars: Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka

Votes: 252,084

4. The Tomorrow War (2021)

PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A family man is drafted to fight in a future war where the fate of humanity relies on his ability to confront the past.

Director: Chris McKay | Stars: Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski, J.K. Simmons, Betty Gilpin

Votes: 229,120

5. Armageddon (1998)

PG-13 | 151 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck, Liv Tyler

Votes: 452,023 | Gross: $201.57M

6. Knock at the Cabin (2023)

R | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

While vacationing, a girl and her parents are taken hostage by armed strangers who demand that the family make a choice to avert the apocalypse.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird

Votes: 116,791

7. Pacific Rim (2013)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Director: Guillermo del Toro | Stars: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day

Votes: 532,476 | Gross: $101.80M

8. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel

Votes: 433,192 | Gross: $352.39M

9. Battleship (2012)

PG-13 | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson, Rihanna

Votes: 257,825 | Gross: $65.42M

10. Deep Impact (1998)

PG-13 | 120 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A comet is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. As doomsday nears, the human race prepares for the worst.

Director: Mimi Leder | Stars: Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman

Votes: 190,974 | Gross: $140.46M

11. Knowing (2009)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.

Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson

Votes: 248,118 | Gross: $79.96M

12. Dinosaur (2000)

PG | 82 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Directors: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag | Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Samuel E. Wright, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 67,446 | Gross: $137.75M

13. Battle Los Angeles (2011)

PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A squad of U.S. Marines becomes the last line of defense against a global invasion.

Director: Jonathan Liebesman | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridget Moynahan, Ramón Rodríguez

Votes: 185,408 | Gross: $83.55M

14. 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: 14,468 | Gross: $11.00M

15. Skyline (2010)

PG-13 | 92 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, drawing people outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth.

Directors: Colin Strause, Greg Strause | Stars: Eric Balfour, Donald Faison, Scottie Thompson, Brittany Daniel

Votes: 92,254 | Gross: $21.37M

16. Maggie (I) (2015)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into cannibalistic zombies. During her transformation, her loving father stays by her side.

Director: Henry Hobson | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigail Breslin, Joely Richardson, Laura Cayouette

Votes: 46,815 | Gross: $0.19M

17. Space Sweepers (2021)

TV-MA | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Set in the year 2092 and follows the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory. When they discover a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal.

Director: Sung-hee Jo | Stars: Song Joong-ki, Kim Tae-ri, Jin Seon-kyu, Yoo Hae-jin

Votes: 28,802

18. The Last Man (I) (2019)

R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

Kurt, combat veteran with PTSD and hallucinations, fortifies his home and builds a secret underground shelter due to doomsday like weather changes. He gets a security job to pay for it and his boss' cute daughter for company.

Director: Rodrigo H. Vila | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Harvey Keitel, Marco Leonardi, Liz Solari

Votes: 1,695

19. You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015–2022)

TV-PG | 43 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

When a group of ordinary people learn that an eight-mile-wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, they hunker beneath the town of Slough to watch the end of the world on television.

Stars: Mathew Baynton, Jenna Fischer, Joel Fry, Gaia Scodellaro

Votes: 8,041

20. The Last Wave (1977)

PG | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.

Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow

Votes: 11,071

21. Robot Monster (1953)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

The monstrous Ro-Man attempts to annihilate the last family alive on Earth, but finds himself falling for their beautiful daughter.

Director: Phil Tucker | Stars: George Nader, Gregory Moffett, Claudia Barrett, Selena Royle

Votes: 5,468 | Gross: $1.00M

22. Crack in the World (1965)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Dana Andrews, Janette Scott, Kieron Moore, Alexander Knox

Votes: 2,882

23. The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A miner trapped in a cave-in resurfaces, and upon discovering mankind has been wiped out in a nuclear holocaust, sets out to find other survivors.

Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Inger Stevens, Mel Ferrer

Votes: 3,564

24. Earthstorm (2006 TV Movie)

PG | 90 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

A massive asteroid impact on the moon begins causing storms on Earth due to the sudden changes in ocean tides. Scientists conclude the only solution is to set nuclear charges on the Moon to implode it and keep it whole.

Director: Terry Cunningham | Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Amy Price-Francis, John Ralston, Dirk Benedict

Votes: 2,181

25. The Dead (2010)

R | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

An American mercenary, the sole survivor of a plane crash, has to run the gauntlet across Africa, battling with the living dead.

Directors: Howard J. Ford, Jonathan Ford | Stars: Rob Freeman, Prince David Osei, David Dontoh, Ben Crowe

Votes: 9,652

26. X (1996)

R | 100 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

In 1999, a battle takes place between two factions of divine warriors for the fate of the world.

Director: Rintarô | Stars: Tomokazu Seki, Junko Iwao, Ken Narita, Tôru Furusawa

Votes: 2,821 | Gross: $0.14M

27. Last Words (II) (2020)

126 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

It is 2085. A young man, one of the few survivors of the human community of old, embarks on a long voyage to find others.

Director: Jonathan Nossiter | Stars: Nick Nolte, Kalipha Touray, Charlotte Rampling, Alba Rohrwacher

Votes: 368

28. Fish Story (2009)

113 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Several seemingly unrelated but surprisingly intertwined tales reveal how a Japanese band that independently invented punk rock in 1975 is, 37 years later, connected to a comet that is about to destroy the world.

Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura | Stars: Atsushi Itô, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Noriko Eguchi, Hidekazu Mashima

Votes: 3,438

29. End Day (2005 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 48 min | Drama, Thriller

An exploration into the various ways in which, within the circumstances of one day, civilisation could be brought to an abrupt end..

Director: Gareth Edwards | Stars: Bill McGuire, Jay Melosh, Simon Day, David Levy

Votes: 603

30. Massive Retaliation (1984)

90 min | Drama, War

Three families that are best friends head to their secret retreat when WW3 seems to be nearing. The adults arrive at the retreat and must endure the stress to come while the children are ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas A. Cohen | Stars: Christopher Burton, Molly Cohen, Doug Santana, Alex Drude

Votes: 152

31. War Book (2014)

92 min | Drama

Eight UK government officials act out their potential response and decisions in a simulated war game scenario in which escalation of nuclear threat between India and Pakistan leads to nuclear war and quite likely the end of the world.

Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Adeel Akhtar, Shaun Evans, Sophie Okonedo, Phoebe Fox

Votes: 710

32. After Armageddon (2010 TV Movie)

87 min | Documentary, Drama, History

A docudrama about a family in LA that is trying to survive the breakdown of society, law, and order after a flu pandemic kills half the people on Earth.

Director: Stephen Kemp | Stars: Rob Hartz, Kathleen Cameron, James Brown, Ross Collins

Votes: 203

33. Shelter (I) (2008)

101 min | Drama

With a catastrophic event rapidly approaching, 18 people vie for 10 spots in the small town's only bomb shelter.

Director: Chris Elston | Stars: James Casey, Chris Elston, Jennifer Pennington, Kelsey Sanders

Votes: 170

34. Doomsday and the Arrival of Dajjal

Action, Drama, Horror | Announced

Doomsday and The Arrival of Dajjal There will be three hard years before the Dajjal (appears). During them, people will be stricken by a great famine. In the first year, . People will stop offering the prayers .

Director: Omer Sarikaya

35. Forever Yours (2011)

80 min | Horror

Two intertwining stories of a group of people dealing with their loved ones being attacked by zombies.

Director: Larry Rosen | Stars: Emilie Crigler, Daniel Pietruszka, Debbie D, Angela Frankes

Votes: 79

36. The Island (2010)

25 min | Short, Drama, Horror

An H.P. Lovecraft tinged examination of one man's life in a world gone mad.

Director: Nathan Fisher | Stars: Nathan Fisher, Charlotte Wyatt

Votes: 23

37. Spongecake (2012)

11 min | Short, Action, Comedy

Part Sci Fi action thriller, part dark comedy, 'Spongecake' is a post apocalyptic mini-movie depicting a day in the life of a soldier as he struggles to survive in the aftermath of a nuclear war.

Directors: Matthew Reyna, Andrew Reyna | Stars: Austin Gonzales, Mark Gonzales

38. Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003–2010)
Episode: The Apocalypse (2009)

TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy, Documentary

The Mayan calendar ends 22 December 2012. Will the world end as well - and how?

Directors: Star Price, Tim Rogan, Ted Saad, Steven Uhlenberg, David Wechter | Stars: Penn Jillette, Teller, Gary Coleman, Mari Cova

Votes: 111

39. Atomic Betty (2004–2010)
Episode: Self Sabotage/Crass Menagerie (2004)

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

An improper repair from Sparky leaves Betty's ship harder to operate; Maximus uses Betty's galactic reputation to trap her into his menagerie.

Directors: Virginie Jallot, Dave Woodgate, Mauro Casalese | Stars: Len Carlson, Juan Chioran, Tony Daniels, Catherine Disher

40. Futurama (1999– )
Episode: A Farewell to Arms (2012)

TV-14 | 22 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Earth gets evacuated after a prediction of the end of the planet.

Directors: Raymie Muzquiz, Peter Avanzino | Stars: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Tress MacNeille

Votes: 1,985