Best Movies About the End of the World

“Light of My Life” follows a father who has disguised his daughter as a boy after a plague has wiped out most of the world’s female population. A decade after the start of the pandemic, the pair is traveling through Canada to reach the protagonist’s grandparents’ house. Critic Abigail Camarillo said “although it’s not the most original story, it…moves you.”

This is a modern sci-fi take on the age-old anxiety that one day the sun might go out. In the year 2057, an international group of astronauts sets out on a last-ditch effort to reignite the dying sun as Earth begins to freeze. The astronauts are put to the test physically and psychologically and some begin to feel the strain in this thriller.

Another comedy about the apocalypse, “The World’s End” follows five friends who return to their hometown to reattempt a pub crawl they failed decades earlier. However, the quaint English town has been invaded by aliens. Critic Leonard Maltin said, “‘The World’s End’ is out to give its audience a good time, which the cast seems to be having from start to finish.”

Chronicling a single day and night in Los Angeles’s Miracle Mile neighborhood, the story begins when Harry and Julie meet at the La Brea Tar Pits and instantly falling in love. They make plans to meet after she gets off work at midnight but Harry sleeps through his alarm and wakes at four a.m. He tries to call her but ends up speaking to a man that says war and destruction are imminent. The ominous warning quickly proves to have some merit in this story of new love during the end of the world.

“Testament” follows the inhabitants of a small town outside of San Francisco as they try to keep going after most of civilization is destroyed in nuclear war. They are cut off from almost all sources of information and are only able to communicate with others in the world with a HAM radio. Parents try to keep some sense of normalcy for their children, but things begin to slip out of control.