
Favorite Post-Apocalypse
=/dystopian/etc
(yes I know these terms are not synonymous ... but they are both awesome)
(yes I know these terms are not synonymous ... but they are both awesome)
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1.
Mad Max
(1979)
A vengeful Australian policeman sets out to avenge his partner, his wife and his son whom were murdered by a motorcycle gang in retaliation for the death of their leader. (88 mins.)
Director: George Miller
2.
Johnny Mnemonic
(1995)
A data courier, carrying a data package literally inside his head too large to hold for long, must deliver it before he dies from it. (96 mins.)
Director: Robert Longo
3.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
(2008)
A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however. (98 mins.)
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
4.
Demolition Man
(1993)
A cop is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent enemy who is loose in a nonviolent future society. (115 mins.)
Director: Marco Brambilla
5.
Brazil
(1985)
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. (132 mins.)
Director: Terry Gilliam
6.
The City of Lost Children
(1995)
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process. (112 mins.)
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
7.
Dawn of the Dead
(1978)
Following an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. (127 mins.)
Director: George A. Romero
“ and every other zombie movie... ” - epomanic
8.
Videodrome
(1983)
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station. (87 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
9.
Escape from New York
(1981)
In 1997, when the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant max. security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in for a rescue. (99 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
10.
Blade Runner
(1982)
Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to Earth seeking their maker. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
11.
Delicatessen
(1991)
Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants. (99 mins.)
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
12.
Twelve Monkeys
(1995)
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. (129 mins.)
Director: Terry Gilliam
13.
Soylent Green
(1973)
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff. (97 mins.)
Director: Richard Fleischer
14.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
(1981)
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits. (95 mins.)
Director: George Miller
15.
Tank Girl
(1995)
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply. (104 mins.)
Director: Rachel Talalay
16.
Logan's Run
(1976)
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at 30. (119 mins.)
Director: Michael Anderson
17.
La Jetée
(1962 Short Film)
Time travel, still images, a past, present and future and the aftermath of World War III. The tale of a man... (28 mins.)
Director: Chris Marker
18.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(1978)
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. (115 mins.)
Director: Philip Kaufman
19.
Death Race
(2008)
Ex-con Jensen Ames is forced by the warden of a notorious prison to compete in our post-industrial world's most popular sport: a car race in which inmates must brutalize and kill one another on the road to victory. (105 mins.)
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
20.
The Omega Man
(1971)
Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race. (98 mins.)
Director: Boris Sagal
21.
Planet of the Apes
(1968)
An astronaut crew crash lands on a planet in the distant future where intelligent talking apes are the dominant species, and humans are the oppressed and enslaved. (112 mins.)
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
22.
eXistenZ
(1999)
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged. (97 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
23.
The Quiet Earth
(1985)
A man awakens to find himself alone in the world. (91 mins.)
Director: Geoffrey Murphy
24.
Cherry 2000
(1987)
In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose... (99 mins.)
Director: Steve De Jarnatt












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