The Top 50 Apocalyptic Films of All Time

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The Top 50 Apocalyptic Films of All Time
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Ranking		 Movie Title Release
Year		 Director MPAA
Rating		 Your
Ranking
39 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1964 Stanley Kubrick NR -
126 Shaun of the Dead 2004 Edgar Wright R -
385 Night of the Living Dead 1968 George A. Romero NR -
555 The Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 Robert Wise G -
559 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 Don Siegel NR -
630 Independence Day 1996 Roland Emmerich PG13 -
633 Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 Philip Kaufman PG -
668 Dogma 1999 Kevin Smith R -
1144 Prince of Darkness 1987 John Carpenter R -
1176 In the Mouth of Madness 1995 John Carpenter R -
1199 The World's End 2013 Edgar Wright R -
1288 Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier R -
1363 Sunshine 2007 Danny Boyle R -
1594 The War of the Worlds 1953 Byron Haskin G -
1963 The Andromeda Strain 1971 Robert Wise G -
2191 Armageddon 1998 Michael Bay PG13 -
2409 Lifeforce 1985 Tobe Hooper R -
2502 This Is the End 2013 Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen R -
2584 The Mitchells vs. the Machines 2021 Michael Rianda, Jeff Rowe PG -
2658 Miracle Mile 1988 Steve De Jarnatt R -
3090 Seeking a Friend for the End of the World 2012 Lorene Scafaria R -
3116 War of the Worlds 2005 Steven Spielberg PG13 -
3338 Colossus: The Forbin Project 1970 Joseph Sargent PG -
3672 When Worlds Collide 1951 Rudolph Maté G -
3831 Last Night 1998 Don McKellar R -
3986 World War Z 2013 Marc Forster PG13 -
4432 The Day After 1983 Nicholas Meyer NR -
4445 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines 2003 Jonathan Mostow R -
4498 The Day the Earth Caught Fire 1961 Val Guest NR -
4549 The Day After Tomorrow 2004 Roland Emmerich PG13 -
4944 Don't Look Up 2021 Adam McKay R -
5057 The Rapture 1991 Michael Tolkin R -
5517 The Day of the Triffids 1962 Steve Sekely, Freddie Francis NR -
5866 Blindness 2008 Fernando Meirelles R -
6145 It's a Disaster 2012 Todd Berger NR -
6260 The Seventh Sign 1988 Carl Schultz R -
6412 Deep Impact 1998 Mimi Leder PG13 -
6658 Omen III: The Final Conflict 1981 Graham Baker R -
7048 Meteor 1979 Ronald Neame PG -
7731 V/H/S/2 2013 Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sánchez, Adam Wingard, Timo Tjahjanto, Gareth Evans NR -
7840 The Hole 1998 Ming-liang Tsai NR -
8559 Noah 2014 Darren Aronofsky PG13 -
8716 Knowing 2009 Alex Proyas PG13 -
8831 The Andromeda Strain 2008 Mikael Salomon NR -
8946 The End of the World 1916 August Blom NR -
9015 Diary of the Dead 2007 George A. Romero R -
9543 2012 2009 Roland Emmerich PG13 -
9810 The Invasion 2007 Oliver Hirschbiegel PG13 -
9858 The Core 2003 Jon Amiel PG13 -
9919 Battle: Los Angeles 2011 Jonathan Liebesman PG13 -

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