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Films like company of heroes9/20/2023 Here are the 31 best apocalypse films ever.A whole genre in their own right, World War II movies come in all shapes and sizes: from gung-ho men-on-a-mission movies like Dirty Dozen and Where Eagles Dare to the bleaker, more complex visions of war that usually emerged from the vanquished nations ( Fires on the Plain, Kelly’s Heroes, Stalingrad, et al). Now let’s get down to the real end-of-the-world centric end of the world movies. We felt those films’ themes and motifs were more clear expressions of that other genre. Therefore, films like Sunshine, Children of Men, 12 Monkeys, Akira, and Snowpiercer we’ve classified as science-fiction (and put them into their own ranking). So “dystopia” fiction-though sometimes set after an apocalypse event-might not be as concerned with the end of the world as it is with other themes. (Do Marvel movies every really put us in doubt about the world’s salvation? No.)īut we’re also cutting out films that better represent other genres. apocalyptic? Does the world have to literally end or can it just be, ya know, threatened? And if it’s the latter, doesn’t that make, like, every Marvel movie an apocalypse movie? These are harder questions than you might think.įor the point of this list, we’re going to assume both-that is: movies after the end of the world and movies in which the world is either actively ending or has a probable threat against its existence. There aren’t too many better genres to binge away the weekend than apocalypse cinema, so we've got you covered. Sure, the nightly news might already feel like an end-of-the-world movie.
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