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* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'', and the various sequels and TV series based off it. The only ones JustBeforeTheEnd are ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.

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* ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'', and the various sequels sequels, [[Film/PlanetOfTheApesCherninSeries reboots]] and TV series based off it. The only ones JustBeforeTheEnd are ''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'' and ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes''.
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* ''Film/MadWarrior'', a trashy 1980s ''Mad Max'' ripoff, takes place after the third World War, and expectedly most of the world is an endless desert wasteland. A warlord named Malzon rules marauding tribes, and holds GladiatorGames for his own pleasure.
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* In ''Film/{{Five}}'', five people are miraculously spared when the fall-out from a super-atomic bomb eventually kills all of the rest of humanity on Earth.
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* The original ''Film/MadMax1'' takes place JustBeforeTheEnd, while its sequels, ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'', ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', and ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', take place After.

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* The original ''Film/MadMax1'' takes place JustBeforeTheEnd, while its sequels, ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'', ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', and ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', the saga of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' and ''Film/{{Furiosa|A Mad Max Saga}}'' take place After.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MortalKombatLegendsSnowBlind'' takes place in an [[Franchise/MortalKombat Earthrealm]] that has been devastated by a horde of revenants and left as a desolate wasteland.



* ''Film/AfterEarth'': Humanity's disregard for the environment rendered the planet nearly uninhabitable, forcing them to leave.

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* ''Film/AfterEarth'': Humanity's disregard for the environment rendered the planet nearly uninhabitable, forcing them to leave. A thousand years later, wild animals have reclaimed the Earth.
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* ''Film/{{Hostile}}'' is set several years after an UnspecifiedApocalypse that has left the earth a wasteland with mutants called “reapers” roaming it, a survivor who becomes injured and trapped in her upturned truck is forced survive the night fending off one of the mutants while she reflects on her life before the apocalypse.

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* ''Film/{{Hostile}}'' is set several years after an UnspecifiedApocalypse that has left the earth a wasteland with mutants called “reapers” roaming it, a survivor who becomes injured and trapped in her upturned truck is forced to survive the night fending off one of the mutants while she reflects on her life before the apocalypse.
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* ''Film/{{Hostile}}'': The film is set after an UnspecifiedApocalypse that has left the earth a wasteland with mutants called “reapers” roaming it, a survivor who becomes injured and trapped in her upturned truck is forced survive a night fending off one of the mutants while she reflects on her life before the apocalypse.

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* ''Film/{{Hostile}}'': The film ''Film/{{Hostile}}'' is set several years after an UnspecifiedApocalypse that has left the earth a wasteland with mutants called “reapers” roaming it, a survivor who becomes injured and trapped in her upturned truck is forced survive a the night fending off one of the mutants while she reflects on her life before the apocalypse.

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* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': : The Earth is being bombarded with dust storms; humanity relies on a dwindling supply of corn after the blight has killed off all other crops; governmental and military organizations have disbanded just to produce enough farmers to sustain the population; and technology is scavenged to make use of solar panels. The only hope left for humanity's survival is to move to a different planet.

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* ''Film/{{Hostile}}'': The film is set after an UnspecifiedApocalypse that has left the earth a wasteland with mutants called “reapers” roaming it, a survivor who becomes injured and trapped in her upturned truck is forced survive a night fending off one of the mutants while she reflects on her life before the apocalypse.
* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': : The Earth is being bombarded with dust storms; humanity relies on a dwindling supply of corn after the blight has killed off all other crops; governmental and military organizations have disbanded just to produce enough farmers to sustain the population; and technology is scavenged to make use of solar panels. The only hope left for humanity's survival is to move to a different planet.
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* ''Film/{{Creepozoids}}'' is set six years after a nuclear war has reduced much of the U.S. to a bombed-out ruin, with acid rain being a regular occurrence.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': Bricksburg, post-DUPLO invasion. It's PlayedForLaughs considering that we see it from the perspective of Emmet, who retains his jarringly upbeat and cheerful attitude despite the fact that the world has been more-or-less destroyed.
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* ''Film/FriendOfTheWorld'' takes place almost entirely in a bunker during the aftermath of a cataclysmic, global war.

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* The docu-drama ''The Age of Stupid'' portrays Earth in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2055]] after runaway climate change ravages the planet. The film is shown from the viewpoint of an unnamed Archivist - the [[LastOfHisKind last surviving human on Earth]] - who laments "why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?", and plays back real documentary footage from 2008, when the film was made.

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* The docu-drama ''The Age of Stupid'' ''Film/TheAgeOfStupid'' portrays Earth in [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture the year 2055]] after runaway climate change ravages the planet. The film is shown from the viewpoint of an unnamed Archivist - the [[LastOfHisKind last surviving human on Earth]] - who laments "why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?", and plays back real documentary footage from 2008, when the film was made.



* In Film/{{Bokeh}} an American couple on holiday in Iceland wake up one morning to discover that everyone else on earth has disappeared.

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* ''Film/{{Battletruck}}'' is set following a series of wars over depleting petroleum reserves. In the aftermath, the Mesopotamia Basin has been reduced to a radioactive wasteland, oil fires burn out of control throughout the Middle East, food riots regularly break out, most major cities are under martial law, much of the American countryside is a lawless wasteland, and large groups of citizens are in the process fleeing the cities to find food and fuel.
* In Film/{{Bokeh}} ''Film/{{Bokeh}}'' an American couple on holiday in Iceland wake up one morning to discover that everyone else on earth Earth has disappeared.
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* ''Film/RatsNightOfTerror'' takes place in the year 2240, 225 years after a catastrophic nuclear war destroys much of civilization and reduces the surviving population to the status of scavengers.
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* ''Battle Beyond the Sun'', an American CutAndPasteTranslation of the Soviet sci-fi film ''Nebo Zovyot'' uses this trope to hide the Soviet origins and propaganda element of the original: the race to Mars is no longer between the Soviet Union and America[[note]]with the Soviets naturally being the favoured party[[/note]], but between two superstates (North Hemis[[note]]US, Canada, Britain, most of Central and Eastern Europe plus Russia[[/note]] and South Hemis[[note]]basically everywhere else[[/note]], representing the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin North and South Hemispheres]]) into which the Earth has coalesced following a nuclear war. Just to make it obvious, the obligatory mushroom cloud StockFootage is inserted into the introduction along with a map of the film's supposed world.

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* ''Battle Beyond the Sun'', an American CutAndPasteTranslation adaptation of the Soviet sci-fi film ''Nebo Zovyot'' uses this trope to hide the Soviet origins and propaganda element of the original: the race to Mars is no longer between the Soviet Union and America[[note]]with the Soviets naturally being the favoured party[[/note]], but between two superstates (North Hemis[[note]]US, Canada, Britain, most of Central and Eastern Europe plus Russia[[/note]] and South Hemis[[note]]basically everywhere else[[/note]], representing the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin North and South Hemispheres]]) into which the Earth has coalesced following a nuclear war. Just to make it obvious, the obligatory mushroom cloud StockFootage is inserted into the introduction along with a map of the film's supposed world.
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* ''Film/DeadMansLetters'' is set in a ruined town following a nuclear war, whose inhabitants are forced to live underground and cannot leave their shelter without protective clothing due to the massive amount of radioactive fallout in both the air and soil.
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* ''[[Film/Dinosaur1985 Dinosaur!]]'' The final scenes with dinosaurs are set in an [[TearJerker extremely heartbreaking]] view of the wasteland the Earth became after the asteroid impact. The asteroid has caused thick clouds of dust and ash to blot out the sun’s light and heat, causing temperatures to drop and plants to die, and even the last few dinosaurs left alive are slowly starving to death. They are also unable to reproduce anymore, as shown by a starving ''Hadrosaurus'' bellowing in despair over her disintegrated eggs.

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* ''[[Film/Dinosaur1985 Dinosaur!]]'' Dinosaur!]]'': The final scenes with dinosaurs are set in an [[TearJerker extremely heartbreaking]] view of the wasteland the Earth became after the asteroid impact. The asteroid has caused thick clouds of dust and ash to blot out the sun’s light and heat, causing temperatures to drop and plants to die, and even the last few dinosaurs left alive are slowly starving to death. They are also unable to reproduce anymore, as shown by a starving ''Hadrosaurus'' bellowing in despair over her disintegrated eggs.
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* ''Film/DefCon4'': Following the outbreak of WorldWarIII, large areas of Earth's surface are irradiated and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalistic]] mutants known as "terminals" terrorize the few survivors, who live in makeshift fortresses made out of junk.

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%%* ''Film/DamnationAlley''* ''Film/DamnationAlley'' is set after WorldWarIII, with the Earth’s axis having ''shifted by 90 degrees''.



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%%* ''Film/DeadEndDriveIn''* ''Film/DeadEndDriveIn'', features Australia becoming a ScavengerWorld.
* ''[[Film/Dinosaur1985 Dinosaur!]]'' The final scenes with dinosaurs are set in an [[TearJerker extremely heartbreaking]] view of the wasteland the Earth became after the asteroid impact. The asteroid has caused thick clouds of dust and ash to blot out the sun’s light and heat, causing temperatures to drop and plants to die, and even the last few dinosaurs left alive are slowly starving to death. They are also unable to reproduce anymore, as shown by a starving ''Hadrosaurus'' bellowing in despair over her disintegrated eggs.
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* ''Film/FutureWorld2018'': The film is set after a war has destroyed civilization following humanity creating human-like androids.
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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' is set after a solar flare destroyed the ozone and burned the surface of the Earth, killing all the crops and most of life on earth. An ailing inventor who appears to the last man on earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.

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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' ''Film/Finch2021'' is set after a solar flare destroyed the ozone and burned the surface of the Earth, killing all the crops and most of life on earth. An ailing inventor who appears to the last man on earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.
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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' is set after a solar flare destroyed the ozone and burned the surface of the Earth, killing all the crops and most of life on earth. The last man on Earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.

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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' is set after a solar flare destroyed the ozone and burned the surface of the Earth, killing all the crops and most of life on earth. The An ailing inventor who appears to the last man on Earth earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.
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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' is set after a solar flare destroyed the ozone and burned the surface of the Earth, killing all the crops. The last man on Earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.

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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' is set after a solar flare destroyed the ozone and burned the surface of the Earth, killing all the crops.crops and most of life on earth. The last man on Earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.
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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' is set after a solar flare has burned the surface of the Earth and destroyed all the crops, the last man on Earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.

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* ''Film/{{Finch}}'' is set after a solar flare has destroyed the ozone and burned the surface of the Earth and destroyed Earth, killing all the crops, the crops. The last man on Earth makes a cross country journey with his dog and robot companions across a post-apocalyptic America.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BattleForTerra'' takes place after Earth, Venus, and Mars have wiped each other out, and the survivors are traveling on a {{Generation Ship}}s that's breaking down, looking for a new planet to settle. They find a habitable world and call it Terra. Of course, there are two problems: the air is poisonous to humans, and there are natives to consider. Another example is [[spoiler:the Terrans themselves, who used to have advanced technology but nuked themselves back to the Stone Age]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/BattleForTerra'' takes place after Earth, Venus, and Mars have wiped each other out, and the survivors are traveling on a {{Generation Ship}}s GenerationShip that's breaking down, looking for a new planet to settle. They find a habitable world and call it Terra. Of course, there are two problems: the air is poisonous to humans, and there are natives to consider. Another example is [[spoiler:the Terrans themselves, who used to have advanced technology but nuked themselves back to the Stone Age]].

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