Research Guides: RELG 202: The End of the World as We Know It (HC) Fall 2024: Movies

A list of apocalyptic movies

Post-Apocalyptic Films
List of post-apocalyptic films.

Books

The Apocalypse Is Everywhere by Anne Rehill
ISBN: 0313354383

Publication Date: 2009-10-01

Check part 3 for discussions of films.

Movies available in the Tri-Co

There are many possible films that you could use. The films listed below are have been frequently discussed in regards to the themes of your course.

This is the End (2013) : Six friends are trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events that devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Eventually, they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption.

Melancholia (2012) : In this beautifully filmed science-fiction drama-psychological thriller a mysterious rogue planet, Melancholia, threatens to collide with Earth. Meanwhile, tensions are mounting and relationships are fraying as a family deals with their fears, and two sisters, their relationship already strained, struggle in the face of impending disaster.

The apocalypse (2010)
In this epic film of faith, a mother and father search for their only child as a giant asteroid headed for Earth triggers a series of apocalyptic events.
Left behind
On an overseas flight to London a journalist, Buck Williams, and a pilot, Rayford Steele, are caught in the middle of the most incredible event in history. Suddenly, without warning, dozens of passengers simply vanish into thin air. As chaos and anarchy engulf the world, both men set out on vastly different paths in a desperate search for answers.
The Rapture
A young woman, so unhappy with her life that she attempts suicide, undergoes a religious conversion when she is comforted by members of a cult. Her involvement with the cult leads to a frightening and ultimately tragic denouement.
The Omega Code
Suspense thriller about the discovery of the Bible's intangible secrets and hidden messages and the fight to control the world before the end of days.
The late great planet earth
Connects Bible prophecies with ominous current events and contemplates the future of the human race.
A thief in the night
"This ... series ... depicts the ... story of the Rapture and the Great Tribulation, as foretold in the Bible"--Container
The book of life
In this controversial retelling of the Apocalypse, Jesus returns to earth on the eve of the new millennium accompanied by his assistant, Magdalena, with the intention of bringing about the end of the world, transfers the "Book of Life" to computer disk and battles the Devil for human souls, with second thoughts about whether these lives are worth saving.