{"id":517492,"date":"2026-03-06T05:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517492\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:26:08","slug":"the-10-best-apocalypse-movies-streaming-on-netflix-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/517492\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best apocalypse movies streaming on Netflix right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether\u00a0you watch apocalyptic movies to pick up tips for future worst-case scenarios, or just want to see happy endings amidst\u00a0destruction, you’ll find what you’re looking for on Netflix. The streamer offers a bountiful supply of end times films, such as the zom-com\u00a0Zombieland<\/a>\u00a0(2009) and the crowd pleaser\u00a0Independence Day<\/a>\u00a0(1996).\n<\/p>\n

It’s okay to be anxious about current events, and it’s okay to put on a movie about even worse disasters to soothe that anxiety.\u00a0Entertainment Weekly\u00a0recommends these 10 apocalyptic films as great options.<\/p>\n

28 Years Later (2025) <\/p>\n

Ralph Fiennes as Dr. Ian Kelson in ’28 Years Later’.<\/p>\n

Miya Mizuno\/Columbia<\/p>\n

Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later proves the franchise still has a lot to say. Released 18 years after 28 Weeks Later (2007), the third installment in the postapocalyptic horror series is set on one of the British Isles, where a community has flourished, isolated from the more evolved versions of the infected that still terrorize the region. The film follows 12-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams), who must contend with his mother\u2019s growing illness and his father\u2019s inability to help her.\n<\/p>\n

Writer Alex Garland<\/a> and director Danny Boyle reunite for the first time since 28 Days Later (2002), and their collaboration meditates on British culture and isolationism in a post-Brexit, COVID-impacted world. Its own sequel,\u00a028 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/a>, premiered in January. \u2014Ilana Gordon\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch 28 Years Later: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

EW grade: A\u2013\n<\/p>\n

Director: Danny Boyle\n<\/p>\n

Cast: Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O’Connell, Alfie Williams, Ralph Fiennes\n<\/p>\n

Bird Box (2018) <\/p>\n

Sandra Bullock as Malorie Hayes in ‘Bird Box’.
\nMerrick Morton\/Netflix<\/p>\n

This deeply unsettling Sandra Bullock<\/a> film finds humanity blindly stumbling to survive after an unseen force drives the bulk of the population to suicide. \u201cIt’s a thriller about motherhood,\u201d director Susanne Bier tells EW<\/a>. \u201c[Bullock\u2019s character is] very forceful, very uncompromising. She’s a very contemporary female hero.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

EW\u2019s critic calls<\/a> Bird Box<\/a> \u201ctaut and defiantly in the moment.\u201d Watch it, and you\u2019ll never take the luxury of driving without a blindfold for granted again. \u2014Sara Netzley\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch Bird Box: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

EW grade: B\n<\/p>\n

Director: Susanne Bier\n<\/p>\n

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Danielle Macdonald, Rosa Salazar, Sarah Paulson\n<\/p>\n

Don’t Look Up (2021) <\/p>\n

Jonah Hill as Jason Orlean, Leonardo DiCaprio as Dr. Randall Mindy, Meryl Streep as President Orlean, and Jennifer Lawrence as Kate Dibiasky in ‘Don’t Look Up’.<\/p>\n

Everett<\/p>\n

The mega-comet is real, but it\u2019s a fame and fake-news apocalypse that ultimately dooms the Earth in Don\u2019t Look Up. EW\u2019s critic calls the Adam McKay film<\/a> a \u201cwinking indictment of climate-change deniers and alternative-fact peddlers\u201d who are happy to ignore global existential threats as they chase a little more clout. As McKay tells EW<\/a>, \u201cThis movie came from my terror about the climate crisis and the fact that we live in a society that tends to place it as the fourth or fifth news story, or even deny that it’s happening, and how horrifying that is, but at the same time [how] preposterously funny.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Look Up stars Jennifer Lawrence<\/a>, Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>, Cate Blanchett, and, conservatively, a billion other famous faces. (As tempting a target as Earth is for killer comets, McKay\u2019s gravitational pull on actors is even stronger.)\u00a0\u2014S.N.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch Don\u2019t Look Up: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

EW grade: B\n<\/p>\n

Director: Adam McKay\n<\/p>\n

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep, Jonah Hill\n<\/p>\n

Godzilla Minus One (2023) <\/p>\n

Kuranosuke Susaki as Seiji Akitsu and Godzilla in ‘Godzilla Minus One’.<\/p>\n

Toho International\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Godzilla Minus One\u00a0won the 2024 Oscar for Best Visual Effects, but the film is so much more than a monster movie with incredible CGI. Set in Japan, a country ravaged by the after-effects of World War II, the film follows a failed kamikaze pilot as he is haunted both by his performance during the war and a gargantuan monster with a heat ray capable of razing Tokyo.\n<\/p>\n

A love story disguised as a horror movie,\u00a0Godzilla Minus One\u00a0offers stunning performances, a fascinating historical perspective, and \u2014 of course \u2014 the kind of city-trampling mayhem one would expect when selecting a\u00a0Godzilla<\/a>\u00a0movie. You know they did a good job when the filmmaker has you sympathizing with both the monster and the citizens rallying to defeat it.\u00a0\u2014I.G.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch\u00a0Godzilla Minus One: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0Takashi Yamazaki\n<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe, Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka\n<\/p>\n

I Am Mother (2019) <\/p>\n

Clara Rugaard as Daughter in ‘I Am Mother’.
\nIan Routledge\/Sundance Institute<\/p>\n

If you like a little sci-fi with your apocalypse, you should meet this Mother. After humanity\u2019s extinction, a strange woman (Hilary Swank<\/a>) upends the life of a teenager raised in an austere postapocalyptic bunker under the care of a maternal robot voiced by Rose Byrne<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Australian filmmaker Grant Sputore\u2019s feature debut outing offers a heady mix of rich characters, shifting loyalties, and thought-provoking ideas, along with a fierce performance from Danish actress Clara Rugaard as a young woman grappling with the threat to the only life she\u2019s ever known. \u2014S.N.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch I Am Mother: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

Director: Grant Sputore\n<\/p>\n

Cast: Clara Rugaard, Rose Byrne, Hilary Swank\n<\/p>\n

Independence Day (1996) <\/p>\n

Will Smith as Capt. Steven Hiller in ‘Independence Day’.<\/p>\n

20th Century Fox<\/p>\n

Two days before the Fourth of July, an alien mothership enters Earth\u2019s atmosphere and dispatches envoys in the form of flying saucers across major cities worldwide. When the aliens attack, killing millions, it\u2019s up to satellite engineer David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum<\/a>), Marine pilot Capt. Steven Hiller (Will Smith<\/a>), and the President of the United States (Bill Pullman), to lead the world in fighting the alien forces in defense of our freedom \u2014 on Independence Day. The cinematic mid-’90s version of wearing an Old Navy American flag T-shirt, Independence Day is worth watching if only to hear the phrase \u201cwelcome to Earth,\u201d uttered not as a cynical aside, but as a rallying cry. \u2014I.G.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch Independence Day: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

EW grade: B+\n<\/p>\n

Director: Roland Emmerich\n<\/p>\n

Cast: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch\n<\/p>\n

The Midnight Sky (2020) <\/p>\n

Felicity Jones as Sully in ‘The Midnight Sky’.
\nNetflix<\/p>\n

George Clooney<\/a> directed, co-produced, and starred in The Midnight Sky<\/a>, which finds his lushly bearded Arctic scientist attempting to prevent a crew of astronauts, including those played by Felicity Jones and David Oyelowo, from returning to Earth, where a global catastrophe awaits them.\n<\/p>\n

Filming took place in Iceland, and the weather proved to be its own mini-catastrophe for Clooney. \u201cIt was like 40 below, 60-70-mile-an-hour winds, and it’s tricky because you could get lost 15 feet away from the camera,” he told EW<\/a>. \u201cI lost like 25 pounds [for the part], so I was pretty weak in general and I’m also directing a big film and you need energy. I was pretty beat up.”\u00a0\u2014S.N.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch The Midnight Sky: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

EW grade: B\n<\/p>\n

Director: George Clooney\n<\/p>\n

Cast: George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Demi\u00e1n Bichir\n<\/p>\n

Oxygen (2021) <\/p>\n

M\u00e9lanie Laurent as Elizabeth ‘Liz’ Hansen in ‘Oxygen’.<\/p>\n

Netflix<\/p>\n

A nightmare comes to life for claustrophobics everywhere,\u00a0Oxygen\u00a0is a French-language sci-fi film that thinks outside the box in terms of action. At the genesis, an unidentified woman (M\u00e9lanie Laurent<\/a>) awakens in an airtight medical unit, unsure of who or where she is. Interactions with the system’s AI \u2014 dubbed M.I.L.O. (Medical Interface Liaison Officer) \u2014 provide some clarity as to her identity, but no matter what she tries, she cannot escape her prison. As she seeks to understand who placed her in the box and why, truths about her personal life and the current state of the world come into focus \u2014 but her search for context is actually a race to outwit the slowly depleting oxygen levels. \u2014I.G.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch\u00a0Oxygen: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

EW grade:\u00a0B\n<\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0Alexandre Aja\n<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0M\u00e9lanie Laurent,\u00a0Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi\n<\/p>\n

Train to Busan (2016) <\/p>\n

Gong Yoo as Seok-woo in ‘Train to Busan’.
\nEverett Collection<\/p>\n

The only thing faster than a bullet train is the zombie infection overtaking its passengers. In the South Korean action horror film\u00a0Train to Busan, Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) is a work-obsessed hedge fund manager and absentee father who agrees to accompany his young daughter Soo-an (Kim Su-an) on a trip from Seoul to Busan so she can spend her birthday with her mother. As the train departs, a sick woman begins transitioning into a zombie \u2014 and infecting everyone around her.\n<\/p>\n

Now barreling full-speed across the country, Seok-woo, Soo-an, and the other passengers must find a way to survive the apocalyptic journey. These zombies seem to have studied at the\u00a0World War Z\u00a0School of Swarming; they move at the same frenetic speed, aiming to infect everyone in their path. \u2014I.G.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch\u00a0Train to Busan: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0Yeon Sang-ho\n<\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee\n<\/p>\n

Zombieland (2009) <\/p>\n

Jesse Eisenberg as Columbus and Amber Heard as 406 in ‘Zombieland’.<\/p>\n

Glen Wilson\/Columbia Pictures<\/p>\n

A fusion of zombie rom-com and roadtrip movie, Zombieland offered a little something for everyone when it came out in 2009. The film stars Woody Harrelson<\/a>, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone<\/a>, and Abigail Breslin as survivors of a national epidemic who meet up on the road and agree to head west together.\n<\/p>\n

Known only to each other by their cities of origin, Columbus (Eisenberg), a former college student; Tallahassee (Harrelson), a zombie-killing aficionado; and sisters Wichita (Stone) and Little Rock (Breslin) find themselves breaking all of their apocalypse rules and trusting each other as they head to California in search of a zombie-free space. As EW\u2019s critic at the time writes<\/a>, \u201cZombieland is a polished, very funny road picture shaped by wisenheimer cable-TV sensibilities.\u201d \u2014I.G.\n<\/p>\n

Where to watch Zombieland: Netflix\n<\/p>\n

EW grade: B+\n<\/p>\n

Director: Ruben Fleischer\n<\/p>\n

Cast: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether\u00a0you watch apocalyptic movies to pick up tips for future worst-case scenarios, or just want to see happy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-517492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}