Post-Apocalypse

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Life after the end of the world as we know it.

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) poster

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

1981

In the fuel-starved wasteland after civilization's collapse, burnt-out ex-cop Max Rockatansky stumbles into a war between a besieged refinery community and a marauder army — and reluctantly becomes the driver of their one chance at escape.

The Terminator (1984) poster

The Terminator

1984

In 2029, the machines that exterminated most of humanity lose the war — so they send an unstoppable cyborg assassin back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of the resistance leader who beat them. The resistance sends one soldier to protect her. He has a photograph, a sawed-off shotgun, and no way home.

Akira (1988) poster

Akira

1988

Neo-Tokyo, 2019, thirty-one years after a psychic detonation leveled the old city. Teenage biker Kaneda's gang collides with a secret government program when his volatile friend Tetsuo awakens powers that could end the world — powers connected to a name the state buried underground: Akira.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) poster

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991

Two terminators arrive in Los Angeles: a reprogrammed T-800 sent to protect ten-year-old John Connor, and the T-1000 — a liquid-metal prototype that can look like anyone — sent to kill him. With Sarah Connor institutionalized for telling the truth, the future's only hope is a boy, his mother, and the machine that once hunted her.

Twelve Monkeys (1995) poster

Twelve Monkeys

1995

In 2035, decades after a virus killed five billion people and drove the survivors underground, prisoner James Cole is sent back in time — not to prevent the outbreak, which is impossible, but to trace its source. Battered between decades and diagnosed insane in 1990, Cole begins to wonder if the doctors are right, while a childhood memory of an airport shooting keeps circling closer.

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