End of the Century (2003), Little Fish (2005), The Day After (1983), Akira (1988), Sweet Home (2015), Brazil (1985), Children of Men (2006), What We Become (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Societal Collapse movies.
Storyline: Joey, Johnny and Dee Dee -- better known as The Ramones -- changed the course of rock history with their rebellious punk ethos and minimalist approach to songwriting, and in the process became counterculture icons. "End of the Century" follows the Queens kids from their earliest underground gigs in the 1970s to their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002, featuring rare archive concert footage and candid interviews with the band members.
Plot Keywords: war, science fiction, apocalypse, disaster, survival, human nature, virus ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four years clean, video store manager Tracy (Cate Blanchett) lives quietly, avoiding anything that might trigger a heroin relapse. Her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) returns, claiming he is now a drug-free banker, and the two begin seeing each other again. Tracy looks after Lionel (Hugo Weaving), the man who introduced her to the drug. But, Lionel is thrown into a panic when his dealer, Brad (Sam Neill), suddenly retires. Lionel begs Tracy to help him score, testing her shaky sobriety.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, science fiction, virus, emotion, future, pandemic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A doctor (Jason Robards) cares for survivors roaming scorched Kansas in the aftermath of a Russian nuclear attack, while others face hopelessness for the future.
Plot Keywords: nuclear war, cold war, apocalypse, disaster, soviet union, survival, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project known as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, dystopian, action, violence, futuristic, tokyo, punk ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A real estate agent plans to use an old apartment building for a romantic night with her boyfriend. What she doesn't realize, however, is that the lessor has sent hired killers to eliminate the last remaining tenant, and they won't leave witnesses.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, disaster, survival, monster, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.
Plot Keywords: dystopian, black comedy, science fiction, bureaucracy, surrealism, social satire, absurdist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: London, 2027. In this dystopian world, humans have been incapable of reproducing for eighteen years for an unknown reason, meaning the imminent extinction of the species. Britain is the one remaining civilized society on the planet, which has resulted in people wanting to immigrate there. As such, it has become a police state in order to handle the immigrants, who are placed into refugee camps. Lowly government bureaucrat Theo Faron, once an activist, is approached by the Fishes, deemed a terrorist group, led by his ex-wife Julian Taylor, who he has not seen in close to twenty years, their marriage which disintegrated following the death of their infant son Dylan during the 2008 flu pandemic. Although the Fishes did use terrorist means in their on-going revolution against the state in the fight for immigrant rights, Julian vows that they now garner support solely by speaking to the people. What she wants is for Theo to use his connections to get transit papers for a young immigrant ...
Plot Keywords: dystopian, sci-fi, action, drama, thriller, futuristic, societal collapse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Members of a family fight for survival when a mysterious plague unleashes flesh-eating zombies in their small town.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, zombie, virus, apocalypse, family, survival ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Many years after a global plague wipes out nearly all of humanity, two San Francisco filmmakers traverse the city and beyond to interview fellow survivors. The pair document the day-to-day struggle for survival and the underlying battle between two generations: The elders who wish to hang onto the past, and their children, who want to go forward.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, independent film, mockumentary, survival, virus ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Melanie Daniels is the modern rich socialite, part of the jet-set who always gets what she wants. When lawyer Mitch Brenner sees her in a pet shop, he plays something of a practical joke on her, and she decides to return the favor. She drives about an hour north of San Francisco to Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends the weekends with his mother Lydia and younger sister Cathy. Soon after her arrival, however, the birds in the area begin to act strangely. A seagull attacks Melanie as she is crossing the bay in a small boat, and then, Lydia finds her neighbor dead, obviously the victim of a bird attack. Soon, birds in the hundreds and thousands are attacking anyone they find out of doors. There is no explanation as to why this might be happening, and as the birds continue their vicious attacks, survival becomes the priority.
Plot Keywords: suspense, thriller, horror, disaster, psychological thriller, classic, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the story's heart is Caesar (Andy Serkis), a chimpanzee who gains human-like intelligence and emotions from an experimental drug. Raised like a child by the drug's creator, Will Rodman (James Franco) and a primatologist Caroline Aranha (Freida Pinto), Caesar ultimately finds himself taken from the humans he loves and imprisoned in an ape sanctuary in San Bruno. Seeking justice for his fellow inmates, Caesar gives the fellow apes the same drug that he inherited. He then assembles a simian army and escapes the sanctuary - putting man and ape on a collision course that could change the planet forever.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, action, adventure, drama, dystopian, animal protagonist, visual effects ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage. The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart. This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature.
Plot Keywords: zombie, virus, apocalypse, survival, horror, thriller, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Centered on a post-apocalyptic society where food is scrarce and used as currency. In an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and is in need of a new maintenance man since the prior one "mysteriously" disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher's intent is to have him work for as little as possible, and then serve him to odd tenants who pay the butcher in grain. The clown and butcher's daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father's plans by contacting the "troglodytes", a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, post-apocalyptic, dystopian, cannibalism, french cinema, surrealism, absurd ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A portrait of a remote village where a buffalo escapes and causes a frenzy of ecstatic violence.
Plot Keywords: violence, human nature, survival, animal, chaos, rural, tradition ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a blackout hits, it doesn't take long before Matthew (Kyle MacLachlan) and Annie (Elisabeth Shue) start breaking the law to protect themselves as they steal medicine for their sick child. But when the power stays out for several days and violence erupts, both the couple and their friend, Joe (Dermot Mulroney), decide that the best action is driving to Annie's parents' home. During the long road trip, they must stop to steal gasoline -- but those with resources are desperately guarding them.
Plot Keywords: thriller, drama, crime, mystery, family, social, human nature ...
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