Condominium 1980
Day of Resurrection 1980
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Dir. Kinji Fukasaku · Japan · 6.4/10
Days of Fury 1980
Apocalyptic 1980 ECO MONDO narrated by the master of creepy camp VINCENT PRICE featuring some spectacular (disaster) and occasionally graphic footage.
United States · 4.4/10
Magnitude 7.9 (地震列島) 1980
A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
Japan · 4.7/10
Phoenix 2772 1980
With Earth dying of ecological collapse, a young pilot is sent on a cosmic quest for the life-giving Phoenix to save what's left of humanity.
Dir. Taku Sugiyama · Japan · 6.8/10
Raise the Titanic 1980
An underwater team attempts to raise the sunken RMS Titanic.
United Kingdom · 5.3/10 · $7 million
The Chain Reaction 1980
Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
Australia · 5.7/10
Virus 1980
A deadly virus wipes out most of humanity leaving survivors to face various challenges in a post-apocalyptic world.
Dir. Kinji Fukasaku · Japan · 5.4/10
When Time Ran Out 1980
Tourists and residents of a tropical island must escape an erupting volcano.
United States · 5.3/10
Escape from New York 1981
A convicted criminal is sent to rescue the U.S. President from the island prison of Manhattan.
Dir. John Carpenter · United Kingdom · 7.1/10
Image of the Beast 1981
Third in the Thief in the Night series: believers face the Antichrist's world government and the mark of the beast after the Rapture.
Dir. Donald W. Thompson · United States · 4.5/10
Mad Max 2 1981
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland Max helps defend a small community from marauding gangs.
Dir. George Miller · Australia · 7.4/10
Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior) 1981
After the oil wars collapse civilization, a lone drifter helps a besieged desert settlement defend its fuel supply from a marauder gang.
Dir. George Miller · Australia · 7.6/10
Malevil 1981
A handful of villagers sheltering in a medieval French castle's wine cellar survive a nuclear war and must rebuild society from nothing.
Dir. Christian de Chalonge · France · 6.5/10
St. Helens 1981
The events leading up to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
United States · 6.2/10
Battletruck 1982
In a wasteland left by the Fuel Wars, an armored battle truck and its warlord terrorize a small community guarding its fuel reserves.
Dir. Harley Cokeliss · New Zealand · 5/10
Blade Runner 1982
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who have returned to Earth seeking their creator.
Dir. Ridley Scott · 7.9/10
Café Flesh 1982
After a nuclear war, most survivors are rendered unable to have sex without violent illness, and gather instead to watch the few who still can perform.
World War III 1982
Soviet commandos seize the Alaska pipeline, pushing the US and USSR to the edge of nuclear war.
United States · 6.5/10
Exterminators of the Year 3000 1983
In an irradiated wasteland where water is scarcer than fuel, a lone driver helps a settlement defend its water reserves from raiders.
Dir. Giuliano Carnimeo · Italy · 5.1/10
Le Dernier Combat 1983
In a wordless wasteland where humanity has lost the power of speech, a lone survivor searches for others amid roving scavengers.
Dir. Luc Besson · France · 6.7/10
Stryker 1983
In a desert wasteland where water has become the only currency worth killing for, rival factions battle to control the last wells.
Dir. Cirio H. Santiago · Philippines · 4.4/10
Testament 1983
A suburban family faces the aftermath of a nuclear attack and struggles with the slow effects of radiation.
Dir. Lynne Littman · United States · 6.4/10
The Day After 1983
The film depicts the devastating effects of a nuclear war on the people of Kansas and Missouri.
Dir. Nicholas Meyer · United States · 6.7/10
The New Barbarians 1983
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a lone warrior defends a small band of survivors from a death cult of marauders.
Italy
The Night the Bridge Fell Down 1983
The Prodigal Planet 1983
Fourth in the Thief in the Night series: the last believers face escalating persecution under the Antichrist's world government.
Dir. Donald W. Thompson · United States · 4.5/10
Das Arche Noah Prinzip 1984
A weather-controlling space station, built to prevent climate disasters, malfunctions and threatens to trigger the catastrophes it was built to stop.
Dir. Roland Emmerich · West Germany · 4.9/10
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac 1984
Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is a true story based on the crash of Air Florida flight 90 on January 13, 1982 in Washington D.C. This movie follows the main players throughout the day, with a lot of care taken to re-create what actually went wrong, who died, and who survived. There is a lot of actual footage from the day, as well as accurate representations of aircraft type and airline.
United States · 4.7/10
Inquiry: The Great British Housing Disaster 1984
David Jones investigates how 1960s council housing came to be built so poorly that thousands later needed to be demolished.
United Kingdom · 6.2/10
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1984
A millennium after industrial war poisoned the world, a princess tries to broker peace between rival kingdoms and a spreading toxic jungle.
Dir. Hayao Miyazaki · Japan · 8/10
Night of the Comet 1984
A passing comet's radiation reduces most of Earth's population to dust or ravenous zombies, leaving a pair of Valley Girl sisters among the few survivors.
Dir. Thom Eberhardt · United States · 6.3/10
Sexmission 1984
Two men emerge from decades in cryogenic sleep into an underground, all-female society built after a nuclear war destroyed the surface.
Dir. Juliusz Machulski · Poland · 7.5/10
The Terminator 1984
A cyborg assassin is sent back in time to kill the mother of the future leader of the human resistance against machines.
Dir. James Cameron · South Korea · 7.7/10
Threads 1984
The film realistically portrays the effects of a nuclear war on Sheffield England and its inhabitants.
Dir. Mick Jackson · United Kingdom · 7.6/10
When the Wind Blows 1984
An elderly English couple follow official civil-defence advice to survive a nuclear war, not understanding how little it will actually protect them.
Dir. Jimmy T. Murakami · United Kingdom · 7.7/10
Day of the Dead 1985
Holed up in an underground bunker, the last scientists and soldiers on Earth debate whether the zombie plague that wiped out civilization can still be reversed.
Dir. George A. Romero · United States · 7.1/10
Def-Con 4 1985
Three astronauts return from orbit after a nuclear war to find the wasteland below ruled by a violent warlord.
Dir. Paul Donovan · 4.5/10
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 1985
Max becomes involved in the conflicts of a post-apocalyptic community built on a barter system.
Dir. George Miller · Australia · 6.2/10
Radioactive Dreams 1985
Two young men, raised in a fallout shelter on hard-boiled detective novels, emerge after a nuclear war into a wasteland playing out as film noir.
Mexico
The Quiet Earth 1985
A man wakes up to find that he may be the last person on Earth after a scientific experiment goes wrong.
Dir. Geoff Murphy · New Zealand · 6.6/10
Warning Sign 1985
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Dir. Hal Barwood · United States · 6/10
Wheels of Fire 1985
A drifter in a post-apocalyptic wasteland takes on a marauder gang to rescue his kidnapped sister.
Dir. Cirio H. Santiago · Philippines · 4.8/10
America 3000 1986
A thousand years after nuclear war, surviving men are ruled by a matriarchal society that keeps them as laborers.
Dir. David Engelbach · 4.2/10
Dead Man's Letters 1986
A physicist sheltering in a museum basement writes letters to his lost son after a nuclear war devastates his city.
Dir. Konstantin Lopushanskiy · Soviet Union · 7.5/10
Fist of the North Star 1986
After nuclear war ends civilization, a martial artist wielding a deadly pressure-point technique wanders a wasteland ruled by gangs.
Dir. Toyoo Ashida · Japan · 7.1/10
Land of Doom 1986
A lone woman survivor of a nuclear war fends off a marauder gang while searching for other survivors.
Dir. Peter Maris · United States · 3.6/10
Maximum Overdrive 1986
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
Dir. Stephen King · United States · 5.8/10
Solarbabies 1986
In a desert wasteland controlled by a totalitarian regime that rations water, a group of orphans discovers a mysterious orb that can summon rain.
Dir. Alan Johnson · United States · 4.7/10
Cherry 2000 1987
In a near-future where society has stratified sharply and the wasteland beyond the cities is lawless, a man searches for a replacement part for his beloved android.
Epidemic 1987
A director and a screenwriter write a screenplay together about a globally spreading epidemic. Unbeknownst to them, an outbreak develops around them in the real world.
Dir. Lars von Trier · Denmark · 5.7/10
Steel Dawn 1987
A wandering swordsman helps a desert settlement defend its well from a warlord trying to seize control of the region's water.
Dir. Lance Hool · United States · 5.1/10
Akira 1988
In a dystopian Neo-Tokyo a biker gang leader tries to save his friend from a powerful psychic experiment.
Dir. Katsuhiro Ôtomo · Japan · 7.9/10
El virus del poder 1988
Mexico · 3/10
Hell Comes to Frogtown 1988
In a wasteland left by nuclear war, one of the few remaining fertile men is conscripted to rescue captive women from a colony of mutant frog-people.
Dir. Donald G. Jackson · United States · 5.5/10
Miracle Mile 1988
A man who answers a ringing pay phone learns nuclear missiles are already in the air, and has one night to find his new girlfriend before the bombs hit Los Angeles.
Dir. Steve De Jarnatt · 7/10
The Seventh Sign 1988
A pregnant woman comes to believe a mysterious boarder is connected to a string of unnatural disasters heralding the biblical End Times.
Dir. Carl Schultz · United States · 5.8/10
Η μεγάλη απόφραξη 1988
The 2 protagonists, Trifon and his assistant, Vassilakis work as plumbers, try to survive with dignity, but instead they destroy everything they undertake to repair, while demonstrating brazen behavior to their clients.
Greece · 6/10
A Visitor to a Museum 1989
A visitor travels through a toxic, flooded wasteland to reach a museum, encountering a society of mutated outcasts along the way.
Dir. Konstantin Lopushanskiy · Soviet Union · 7.2/10
Bunker Palace Hôtel 1989
As revolution closes in outside, a dictator's cronies hole up in a bunker hotel awaiting a coup they can no longer stop.
Dir. Enki Bilal · France · 6.4/10
Cyborg 1989
A plague has devastated civilization, and a drifter escorts a cyborg carrying the cure's data across a wasteland stalked by a marauder gang.
Dir. Albert Pyun · United States · 5/10
Fire and Rain 1989
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth took off from Ft Lauderdale, Fl. When the plane was landing in Ft Worth wind-shear from a strong thunderstorm caused the plane to crash.
United States · 5/10
Millennium 1989
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a novel by John Varley.
Canada · 5.3/10
The Blood of Heroes (The Salute of the Jugger) 1989
In a wasteland where nothing else remains, traveling teams compete in a brutal, ritualized blood sport for the scraps of a fallen civilization's glory.
Dir. David Webb Peoples · Australia · 6.4/10
The Johnstown Flood 1989
On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heavy rains and poor maintenance by the dam's owners. The burst dam sent a wall of water and debris, 40 feet high and half a mile wide, 14 miles downstream to the bustling industrial city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2000 people lost their lives in the disaster. This documentary tells the story, and tells us that the disaster was easily avoidable.
United States · 6.8/10