Best Apocalypse movies of 1980s

Actors : Tina Turner, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Adam Cockburn,

After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.

Actors : George 'Buck' Flower, Meg Foster, Keith David, Roddy Piper,
Directors : John Carpenter,

A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth.

Actors : Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barkin, John Lithgow, Peter Weller,
Directors : W.D. Richter,

Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.

Actors : Michael Preston, Max Phipps, Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence,
Directors : George Miller,

In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.

Actors : Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman,
Directors : Euzhan Palcy,

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...

Actors : Richard Marcus, Louis Gossett Jr., Brion James, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

A soldier from Earth crash-lands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together ...

Actors : Michael Biehn, Peter Friedman, Demi Moore, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Carl Schultz,

In Haiti, the sea and the life-form die; in the Middle East, a town is frozen. These are signs of the Apocalypse and the Vatican is investigating, but Father Lucci advises that these omens ...

Actors : Pamela Gidley, Jennifer Balgobin, David Andrews, Melanie Griffith,
Directors : Steve De Jarnatt,

In the year 2017, a rich man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose. When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his animatronic ...

Actors : Delroy Lindo, Anna Katarina, Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen,
Directors : David Webb Peoples,

A Mad Max-esque post apocalyptic world provides the backdrop for a brutal, futuristic game resembling football. Rutger Hauer plays a disgraced former star leading a rag tag group of "...

Actors : Pierre Jolivet, Jean Reno, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper,
Directors : Luc Besson,

In a post-apocalyptic future where no one is able to speak, the few remaining humans fight over resources in order to survive.

Actors : Gail Neely, Dawn Wildsmith, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner,
Directors : Peter George,

When the son of a gun-wielding woman is murdered by neo-Nazi surf punks in the post-apocalyptic future, his Mama hunts them down for some bloodthirsty revenge.

Actors : Lukas Haas, Jami Gertz, Jason Patric, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Alan Johnson,

In a post-apocalyptic future ruled by the military, a group of renegade teenage orphans find a legendary orb, Bohdai, that can supposedly bring the rain back to dried up Earth.

Actors : Vic Morrow, Fred Williamson, Mark Gregory, Christopher Connelly,
Directors : Enzo G. Castellari,

In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.

Actors : Mark Hamill, Bob Peck, Kitty Aldridge, Bill Paxton,
Directors : Steven Lisberger,

In the near future, where Earth has been devastated by natural disasters, and giant winds rule the planet, bounty hunter Matt kidnaps a murderer out of the hands of two police officers, ...

Actors : Gianni Franco, Massimo Vanni, Geretta Geretta, Ottaviano Dell'Acqua,

In a post-apocalyptic Earth, a group of punk friends find themselves against millions of bloodthirsty rats - but the weirdest it yet to come.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masao Kusakari, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Actors : Aleksandr Sabinin, Iosif Ryklin, Viktor Mikhaylov, Rolan Bykov,
Directors : Konstantin Lopushanskiy,

The world after the nuclear apocalypse. Pale light lits the scenery of total destruction. The surviving humans vegetate in wet cellars under the nuclear winter. But somehow human spirit ...

Actors : Stephanie Zimbalist, Jill Townsend, Charlton Heston, Susannah York,
Directors : Mike Newell,

An archeologist discovers his daughter is possessed by the spirit of an Egyptian queen. To save mankind he must destroy her.

Actors : Jennifer Delora, Nadine Hartstein, J. Buzz Von Ornsteiner, Norris Culf,
Directors : Tim Kincaid,

A highly unlikely band of heroes traverses a post-apocalyptic wasteland to rescue a scientist from the tyrannical Dark One and his army of robots.

Actors : William Wallace, Laurene Landon, Chuck Wagner, Sue Giosa,
Directors : David Engelbach,

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland where a tribe of women rule and all men are either ferals or slaves, one man rises up to free the men. Can they coexist in peace or will they die in war?