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Post-apocalyptic movies
The world after the end, and whoever is left in it.
Post-apocalypse is the genre of what remains once you remove civilisation: empty cities, the road, water on a schedule and the question of who can be trusted. Hard survival stories sit here beside quiet dramas about the end of the world.
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Frequently asked
- How is post-apocalypse different from a disaster film?
- A disaster film shows the end itself; post-apocalypse shows life afterwards. In the first the characters escape, in the second they already have and must decide how to live.
- Is all of it bleak?
- No. The genre also holds adventures, near-comedies and lyrical road stories. Bleakness is the backdrop, not the requirement.
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- Movies about magic and wizardsSchools of magic, spellbooks and worlds you would gladly move to.
- Survival moviesOne person, a hostile environment and very little time.
- Medieval moviesCastles, tournaments, sieges and kings you should not trust.
- Prison escape moviesWalls, routine, a plan — and one chance to get out.
- War moviesNot about victories — about the people inside them.