Best Movies About the End of the World

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15. Take Shelter (2011)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (97,354 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 81% (25,822 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (166 reviews)
> Directed by: Jeff Nichols

Curtis LaForche regularly has apocalyptic dreams and hallucinations of destruction. He hides his visions from his family and everyone else, dealing with them by improving the storm shelter in his backyard. Further, he begins to create rifts in their tightknit community when he cuts ties with anyone who harms him in his dreams.

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14. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (56,317 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 81% (35,471 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (61 reviews)
> Directed by: Philip Kaufman

Based on the 1955 novel “The Body Snatchers,” this film concerns a San Francisco health inspector slowly who realizes that the people around her are being replaced by duplicate alien versions of themselves.

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13. Love and Monsters (2020)
> IMDb user rating: 7.0/10 (107,648 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (54 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (107 reviews)
> Directed by: Michael Matthews

Originally planned for a theatrical release, “Love and Monsters” was released digitally due to the pandemic. An asteroid headed for Earth is destroyed but releases alien chemicals that cause cold-blooded animals to transform into massive blood thirsty monsters. Most of humanity is killed by the beasts and the rest live in underground bunkers. Most form romantic relationships, but one, Joel, sets off to find his girlfriend, who was separated from him at the beginning of the crisis.

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12. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (239,236 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 84% (57,181 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 94% (360 reviews)
> Directed by: Matt Reeves

The “Planet of the Apes” franchise was rebooted in 2011 with “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” providing a prequel to the original sci-fi classic. “War for the Planet of the Apes” is the third film since the reboot and continues the story of the first two. Intelligent apes have been forced to go to war with humans, tearing the planet apart. Critic Paul Byrnes said director Matt Reeves “tells a big story that’s satisfying in many ways.”

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11. A Quiet Place (2018)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (480,270 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 83% (24,285 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 96% (387 reviews)
> Directed by: John Krasinski

Aliens have invaded Earth and killed most of humanity. However they are blind, with an incredibly sharp sense of hearing. The Abbott family has been able to survive by making their lives as quiet as possible and using sign language to communicate. However, Evelyn, the matriarch, becomes pregnant and they must survive while trying to contain the sounds of a newborn baby.