This week, Apple TV+ premiered the second season of Silo, a gripping dystopian future where survivors live in a vast underground bunker, believing the Earth’s surface to be uninhabitable. Mysteries, intrigue and the fight for the truth make the series a real find for fans of the post-apocalypse.
We have collected for you a selection of films and TV series with a similar atmosphere – a dark future, totalitarian regimes, isolation and the struggle for survival.
Only post-apocalypse, only hardcore!
1. The Hundred (2014-2020)
Original title: The 100
Genre: fantasy, drama, detective
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.3 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.5 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Dean White, Ed Fraiman, P.J. Pesce
Starring: Eliza Watches, Marie Avgeropoulos, Bob Morley, Henry Ian Cusick, Isaiah Washington
About what: Events in the series begin to unfold ninety-seven years after the entire civilization was destroyed by a terrible atomic war.
High in space, in Earth’s orbit, a large spaceship is flying, where I am, a survivor of a terrible disaster. It is from this last refuge that people send a space shuttle to Earth, on which one hundred young criminals are hiding…
Where to watch: Rutub
2. Pandorum (2009)
Original title: Pandorum
Genre: fantasy, horror, thriller
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.1 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.7 (IMDb)
Country: UK, Germany
Director: Christian Alvart
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ben Foster, Cam Gigandet, Antje Traue
About what: A starship is moving in the abyss of space. Two team members, awakened from hypersleep, find themselves in a crisis situation: the equipment does not work, remember that they cannot do anything. What was their mission? How much time has passed? Where are they? Who are they? They have no answers to all these questions. In addition, strangers are discovered on the ship – evil warriors who destroy everyone in their path.
The passenger has very little time.
Now for them their own life is not the most important thing, since the salvation of humanity may depend only on them. It is necessary to restore control of the ship at any cost, before the mysterious Pandorum takes power into his own hands.
Where to watch: Rutub
3. Cloverfield 10 (2016)
Original title: 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Genre: thriller, drama, fantasy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.9 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.2 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Dean White, Ed Fraiman, P.J. Pesce
Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin
About what: After recovering from a car accident, a girl finds herself in the basement of a man who claims to have saved her from a medical condition that made the world beyond the bunker uninhabitable.
But the heroine is not sure of the correctness of her savior’s words.
Where to watch: Rutub
4. Opening (2023-…)
Original title: Silo
Genre: fantasy, drama, thriller
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.8 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 8.1 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Adam Bernstein, Bert, Morten Tyldum
Cast: Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter
Christian Ochoa
About what: In the near future, the 10 thousand survivors live in a huge bunker 144 floors deep. People believe that the world is dead, external air currents and emissions to the surface are deadly. They receive all the information using giant screens that display images from an external camera.
Day after day, looking at the lifeless gray landscape, the inhabitants meekly obey the established rules, the main one of which is to never leave the bunker.
Where to watch: Rutub
5. Elysium: Heaven is not on Earth (2013)
Original title: Elysium
Genre: fantasy, drama, action
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.6 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.6 (IMDb)
Country: USA, Canada
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Matt Damon, Alice Braga, Sharlto Copley, Jodie Foster, Wagner Moura
About what: In the year 2154, there are two classes of people: the very rich, living on a pure, man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, living on an overpopulated, destroyed Earth.
A ruthless government official, the ambitious Defense Minister Dela stops at nothing to enforce anti-immigration tendencies and maintain the lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. When Max’s underdog is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a difficult mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could also bring equality to these polarized worlds.
Where to watch: Rutub
6. Zatachev (2014)
Original title: Hidden
Genre: fantasy, horror, thriller, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.2 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 6.4 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Andrea Riseborough, Emily Alyn Lind
Stephen Elliot
About what: Ray, Claire and their seven-year-old daughter Zoe are an ordinary American family living in Kingsville, North Carolina, but they have been living in a bomb shelter since the end of the world.
In 301 days, they turned the concrete dungeon into a home, holding on to the memories of the past and hoping to one day return to normal life. For 301 days they managed to avoid what lives on the surface – heavy breathing and thundering footsteps at night.
Where to watch: Rutub
7. The Road (2009)
Original title: Road
Genre: fantasy, horror, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.2 (KinoPoisk), ⭐️ 7.2 (IMDb)
Country: USA
Director: John Hillcoat
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce
About what: Monstrous cataclysms struck the Earth, the destruction of civilization, as well as almost all life on the planet. The remaining creature was divided into cannibals and their resources.
Along the road covered with ash, choose a father and son. They want to get to warm places to survive…
Where to watch: YouTube
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