The 16 greatest apocalypse motion pictures streaming on Netflix

Feeling much less “Netflix and chill” and extra “Netflix and chill your blood imagining all of the methods the world may finish” nowadays? Trying to disassociate your self right into a universe full of murderous creatures, anarchic nomads, and different assorted existential threats? If that’s the case, the streaming big’s bought you lined.

Whether or not you like it when humanity ends with a bang (Pacific Rim) or with a whimper (Don’t Look Up), learn on for Leisure Weekly’s checklist of the 16 greatest apocalypse motion pictures streaming on Netflix proper now.

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Battleship (2012)

Battleship proves board video games aren’t only for basements. With an eclectic forged that features each Liam Neeson and Rihanna, Battleship is a navy science fiction motion movie that mixes a love story, aliens, and good old style naval warfare — and in some way manages to drag all of it off.

Propelled by the very best particular results accessible on the time, whereas nonetheless nodding to the sport’s authentic low-tech roots, Battleship additionally manages to reunite Friday Evening Lights director Peter Berg with FNL star Taylor Kitsch to nice impact. When you’re on the lookout for an motion movie that received’t sink beneath the burden of your expectations, Battleship, EW’s critic writes, is the “rousing, partaking, and emotionally complicated motion struggle image the foolish 2001 motion struggle image Pearl Harbor solely wished it may very well be.” —Ilana Gordon

The place to look at Battleship: Netflix

EW grade: B+

Director: Peter Berg

Forged: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna, Brooklyn Decker, Tadanobu Asano, Liam Neeson

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Hen Field (2018)

This deeply unsettling Sandra Bullock movie finds humanity blindly stumbling to outlive after an unseen pressure drives the majority of the inhabitants to suicide. “It's a thriller about motherhood,” director Susanne Bier tells EW. “[Bullock’s character is] very forceful, very uncompromising. She's a really up to date feminine hero.”

EW’s critic calls Bird Box “taut and defiantly within the second.” Watch it, and also you’ll by no means take the luxurious of driving with out a blindfold with no consideration once more. —Sara Netzley

The place to look at Hen Field: Netflix

EW grade: B

Director: Susanne Bier

Forged: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Danielle Macdonald, Rosa Salazar, Sarah Paulson

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Don't Look Up (2021)

The mega-comet is actual, nevertheless it’s a fame and pretend information apocalypse that finally dooms the Earth in Don’t Look Up. EW’s critic calls the Adam McKay movie a “winking indictment of climate-change deniers and alternative-fact peddlers” who’re completely satisfied to disregard world existential threats as they chase just a little extra clout. As McKay tells EW, “This film got here from my terror in regards to the local weather disaster and the truth that we reside in a society that tends to position it because the fourth or fifth information story, and even deny that it's taking place, and the way horrifying that’s, however on the similar time [how] preposterously humorous.”

Don’t Look Up stars Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, and, conservatively, a billion different well-known faces. (As tempting a goal as Earth is for killer comets, McKay’s gravitational pull on actors is even stronger.) —S.N.

The place to look at Don’t Look Up: Netflix

EW grade: B

Director: Adam McKay

Forged: Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill

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Fringe of Tomorrow (2014)

The characters in Groundhog Day and Palm Springs might need thought they had been caught within the worst time loops attainable, however they had been by no means pressured to die in the identical battle time and again. In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise stars as Main Cage, a public affairs officer who’s extra accustomed to operating his mouth than discharging his weapons.

After Cage is dispatched to the entrance strains in opposition to aliens often known as Mimics who’ve overtaken Earth, he finds himself repeatedly dying in the identical combat — and the one one who believes him is struggle hero Sgt. Rita Vrataski (Emily Blunt), who as soon as skilled one thing related. Doubted by the Military, together with Basic Brigham (Brendan Gleeson), it's as much as Vrataski and Cage to plot a plan to make use of Cage's looping talents to destroy the Mimics and save humanity. —I.G.

The place to look at Fringe of Tomorrow: Netflix

EW grade: B+

Director: Doug Liman

Forged: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Invoice Paxton

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Elysium (2013)

Matt Damon is a person on a mission to save lots of himself within the 2013 sci-fi thriller Elysium. Damon performs Max, a former automotive thief residing within the dystopic stays of Los Angeles within the 12 months 2154. After Max is by chance uncovered to radiation at work, he learns he has 5 days left to reside. His solely likelihood for survival is to depart Earth and head to Elysium — the synthetic world the place the rich reside — which homes know-how able to curing any ailment. However when Max hijacks data belonging to Elysium's protection secretary (Jodie Foster), it appears unlikely he’ll ever attain his meant vacation spot alive.

Directed by Neill Blomkamp, EW's critic writes, "Elysium confirms the expertise — for razory mayhem and stunning satire, for the crazed spectacle of future decay — that Blomkamp showcased in his superb first function, District 9 (2009)." —I.G.

The place to look at Elysium: Netflix

EW grade: B+

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Forged: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga, Diego Luna, Wagner Moura, William Fichtner

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Godzilla Minus One (2023)

Godzilla Minus One received the 2024 Oscar for Greatest Visible Results, however the movie is a lot greater than a monster film with unimaginable CGI. Set in Japan, a rustic ravaged by the after-effects of World Struggle II, the movie follows a failed kamikaze pilot as he’s haunted each by his efficiency throughout the struggle and a gargantuan monster with a warmth ray able to razing Tokyo.

A love story disguised as a horror film, Godzilla Minus One provides gorgeous performances, a captivating historic perspective, and — in fact — the type of city-trampling mayhem one would count on when deciding on a Godzilla film. You realize they did a superb job when the filmmaker has you sympathizing with each the monster and the residents rallying to defeat it. —I.G.

The place to look at Godzilla Minus One: Netflix

Director: Takashi Yamazaki

Forged: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Ando, Kuranosuke Sasaki

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Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

It’s a Gojira-pocalpyse in Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters, the primary in Polygon Photos’ anime trilogy that follows a gaggle of refugees returning to a ravaged Earth 20,000 years after the cranky lizard drove out all of the people.

Administrators Hiroyuki Seshita and Kôbun Shizuno created a visible feast on this contemporary, sci-fi-infused tackle the monster mythos, persevering with in Godzilla: Metropolis on the Fringe of Battle and Godzilla: The Planet Eater, that are additionally accessible on Netflix. —S.N.

The place to look at Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters: Netflix

Administrators: Kōbun Shizuno, Hiroyuki Seshita

Forged: Mamoru Miyano, Takahiro Sakurai, Kana Hanazawa, Yūki Kaji

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I Am Mom (2019)

When you like just a little sci-fi together with your apocalypse, it is best to meet this Mom. After humanity’s extinction, a wierd lady (Hilary Swank) upends the lifetime of a teen raised in an austere postapocalyptic bunker beneath the care of a maternal robotic voiced by Rose Byrne.

Australian filmmaker Grant Sputore’s debut outing provides a heady mixture of wealthy characters, shifting loyalties, and thought-provoking concepts, together with a fierce efficiency from Danish actress Clara Rugaard as a younger lady grappling with the risk to the one life she’s ever recognized. —S.N.

The place to look at I Am Mom: Netflix

Director: Grant Sputore

Forged: Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank

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Go away the World Behind (2023)

Primarily based on a e book by Rumaan Alam, this star-studded movie follows two households who’re thrown collectively when a cyberterror assault knocks society offline. Director Sam Esmail tells EW he needed to “get inside your thoughts and unlock the fears that you just would possibly actually have about our world” in Go away the World Behind, which was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s manufacturing firm. You may’t argue in regards to the movie’s pedigree — or the fear of a world with out know-how. —S.N.

The place to look at Go away the World Behind: Netflix

Director: Sam Esmail

Forged: Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Kevin Bacon

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The Midnight Sky (2020)

George Clooney directed, co-produced, and starred in The Midnight Sky, which finds his lushly bearded Arctic scientist making an attempt to forestall a crew of astronauts, together with Felicity Jones and David Oyelowo, from returning to Earth the place a worldwide disaster awaits them.

Filming passed off in Iceland, and the climate proved to be its personal mini-catastrophe for Clooney. “It was like 40 beneath, 60-70-mile-an-hour winds, and it's difficult since you may get misplaced 15 toes away from the digicam," he advised EW. “I misplaced like 25 kilos [for the part], so I used to be fairly weak generally and I'm additionally directing an enormous movie and also you want power. I used to be fairly beat up." —S.N.

The place to look at The Midnight Sky: Netflix

EW grade: B

Director: George Clooney

Forged: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demián Bichir

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Oxygen (2021)

A nightmare involves life for claustrophobics in every single place, Oxygen is a French-language sci-fi movie that thinks exterior the field by way of motion. On the genesis, an unidentified lady (Mélanie Laurent) awakens in an hermetic medical unit, uncertain of who or the place she is. Interactions with the system's AI — dubbed M.I.L.O. (Medical Interface Liaison Officer) — present some readability as to her id, however it doesn’t matter what she tries, she can’t escape her jail.

As she seeks to know who positioned her within the field and why, truths about her private life and the present state of the world come into focus — however her seek for context is definitely a race to outwit the slowly depleting oxygen ranges. Laurent is great, and regardless of being pressured to carry out on her again, she manages to imbue the movie with a powerful sense of willpower and humanity. —I.G.

The place to look at Oxygen: Netflix

EW grade: B

Director: Alexandre Aja

Forged: Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi

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Pacific Rim (2013)

Guillermo del Toro entranced audiences when he launched his fantasy film Pan’s Labyrinth in 2006. Pacific Rim, which premiered seven years later, is a completely completely different movie. A monster flick that enables del Toro to unleash his internal geek and creature function fan, this apocalyptic movie tells the story of an alien species referred to as Kaiju that enters our universe by means of an ocean portal and makes an attempt to defeat humanity. To defend itself, Earth depends on Jaegers, big robots that may solely be operated by pairs of people working synchronistically to intuit one another’s subsequent strikes (also referred to as drifting).

"Del Toro has in some way persuaded Hollywood to bankroll his tribute to the giddy junk meals he grew up on," EW's critic writes. "And that’s precisely what the movie seems like: a 48-year-old child taking part in with gigantic motion figures on the earth's most costly sandbox." —I.G.

The place to look at Pacific Rim: Netflix by means of Oct. 31

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Forged: Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Rob Kazinsky, Max Martini, Ron Perlman

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Starship Troopers (1997)

When Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers was launched virtually three many years in the past, expectations reached greater than the celebrities. The Dutch filmmaker beforehand scored with motion blockbusters like RoboCop and Whole Recall, however his latest sci-fi satire didn’t land with audiences who failed to understand the filmmaker’s insights on fascism, navy overreach, and the ability of propaganda.

Sadly for humanity, time has confirmed Starship Troopers a a lot deeper and extra prescient movie than the one audiences thought they noticed in 1997. EW's critic describes the film, which positions humanity in opposition to violent and horrifying house bugs out for complete domination, as “bloody, amoral, and — I received’t deny it — sensationally thrilling.” That includes a forged handpicked from the very best of ‘90s teen tv, Starship Troopers is the very best sci-fi motion movie you’ll ever see about sizzling folks killing bugs. —I.G.

The place to look at Starship Troopers: Netflix by means of Oct. 31

EW grade: B+

Director: Paul Verhoeven

Forged: Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Muldoon, Michael Ironside

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Prepare to Busan (2016)

The one factor quicker than a bullet practice is the zombie an infection overtaking its passengers. Within the South Korean motion horror movie Prepare to Busan, Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a work-obsessed hedge fund supervisor and absentee father who agrees to accompany his younger daughter Soo-an (Kim Su-an) on a visit from Seoul to Busan so she will spend her birthday together with her mom. Because the practice departs, a sick lady begins transitioning right into a zombie — and infecting everybody round her.

Now barreling full-speed throughout the nation, Seok-woo, Soo-an, and the opposite passengers should discover a technique to survive the apocalyptic journey to be able to discover refuge in Busan. These zombies appear to have studied on the World Struggle Z Faculty of Swarming; they transfer on the similar frenetic velocity, aiming to contaminate everybody of their path. —I.G.

The place to look at Prepare to Busan: Netflix

Director: Yeon Sang-ho

Forged: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee, Kim Eui-sung

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What Occurred to Monday (2017)

Orphan Black lovers will need to take a look at What Occurred to Monday, a 2017 sci-fi motion thriller directed by Tommy Wirkola. The movie stars Noomi Rapace, giving seven distinctive performances as septuplet sisters, every named after a special day of the week. The siblings reside in a fascist America the place overpopulation has necessitated the creation of a Youngster Allocation Bureau (run by Glenn Shut), which imposes a single-child coverage on all households.

The septuplets reside secretly with their grandfather (Willem Dafoe), share the title Karen Settman (a relic from their lifeless mom), and are solely allowed to depart the home on the day of the week that corresponds with their title. However after Monday goes out and by no means comes house, it's as much as her sisters to save lots of her — on the danger of exposing themselves. —I.G.

The place to look at What Occurred to Monday: Netflix

Director: Tommy Wirkola

Forged: Noomi Rapace, Glenn Shut, Willem Dafoe

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The Worthy (2016)

This brutal Arabic thriller from the producers of Insidious and The Conjuring follows a band of survivors battling over scarce sources after a political faction poisons the worldwide water provide. Emirati director Ali F. Mostafa labored on a shoestring price range to create this violent cat-and-mouse story, which reminds us that the apocalypse is typically simply an excuse for very unhealthy folks to do very unhealthy issues. —S.N.

The place to look at The Worthy: Netflix

Director: Ali F. Mostafa

Forged: Mahmoud Al Atrash, Rakeen Saad, Samer Ismail, Maisa Abd Elhadi

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