01 A dysfunctional family's wedding celebration unfolds as a rogue planet drifts on a collision course with Earth.
6 Best Countdown to Apocalypse Movies
By Vlad Zakh · June 13, 2026
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The knowledge that the world’s final hours are ticking away has powered some of cinema’s most emotionally raw and unsettling dramas. In Melancholia (2011): A dysfunctional family’s wedding celebration unfolds as a rogue planet drifts on a collision course with Earth. Another standout is Miracle Mile (1989): A man who overhears a warning of imminent nuclear attack races through Los Angeles to save the woman he just met.
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02 A man sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his high school sweetheart as an asteroid approaches Earth.
03 A couple in a New York apartment spends the final hours before the world's scheduled end confronting their relationship.
04 Humanity scrambles to prevent, or survive, an extinction-level comet impact with Earth.
05 A group of Toronto residents each choose how to spend their final hours before the world ends at midnight.
06 A man who overhears a warning of imminent nuclear attack races through Los Angeles to save the woman he just met.
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