Best Movies About the End of the World

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20. Turbo Kid (2015)
> IMDb user rating: 6.7/10 (27,319 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 77% (3,857 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 91% (55 reviews)
> Directed by: François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell

“Turbo Kid” is a sci-fi comedy that follows the titular youngster as he traverses a post-apocalyptic wasteland, set in 1997. Most of his days are spent scavenging for scrap on his BMX bike and evading the henchmen of Zeus, the local wasteland tyrant. When his friend is kidnapped, he sets out to save her and stumbles upon technologically advanced armor and weapons that give him special abilities

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19. Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
> IMDb user rating: 7.1/10 (8,632 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 76% (2,129 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 88% (8 reviews)
> Directed by: Joseph Sargent

Dr. Forbin is the chief designer of a top-secret government project called “Colossus,” a supercomputer designed to control American nuclear weapon systems. The computer quickly discovers it has a Soviet counterpart and the two supercomputers begin to communicate. Things escalate when the machines stop listening to the humans.

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18. The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
> IMDb user rating: 7.0/10 (392,780 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 74% (207,614 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (288 reviews)
> Directed by: Drew Goddard

“The Cabin in the Woods” is a satirical horror film that highlights some of the most overused horror tropes while telling a novel tale. The story follows a group of college students that head off to a remote cabin for the weekend. However, they don’t realize that the entire cabin is fitted with cameras and microphones, and they are being watching by individuals who have plans for them.

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17. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
> IMDb user rating: 7.2/10 (305,179 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 79% (61,125 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 90% (315 reviews)
> Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg

The second “Cloverfield” film abandons the found-footage format of the first and instead appears as a third-person psychological thriller. Michelle blacks out after a car crash in rural Louisiana only to wake up chained up in a dark room. One of her captors releases her and then explains that some sort of apocalyptic event has destroyed much of the Earth, but they, along with one other man, are safe in a bunker. Michelle isn’t sure what to believe and if she should risk trying to escape.

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16. Interstellar (2014)
> IMDb user rating: 8.6/10 (1,615,901 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 86% (176,938 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 72% (367 reviews)
> Directed by: Christopher Nolan

This space epic follows a group of astronauts in the year 2067 as they attempt to find a new home for humanity. Earth is experiencing extreme environmental degradation and food is starting to be in short supply. Ex-NASA pilot Joseph Cooper sets off through a wormhole to try and find a planet that will be suitable for human life. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards and won Best Visual Effects.