Movies like O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985)
The best movies like O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization (1985) are Dead Man's Letters (1986), A Visitor to a Museum (1989) and The Last Spark of Hope (2023). If O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization hooked you with its drama and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedStalker (1979)8.1/10 from 2,673 votes
- NewestThe End (2024)Released 2024
- Same seriesThe War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)Apocalypse
Dead Man's Letters (1986)
In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history. In his mind, he writes letters to his only son that will never be read and tries to find shreds of hope in his new reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Visitor to a Museum (1989)
It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Spark of Hope (2023)
A woman, who may be the last human on Earth, struggles to survive with only her robot companion. As she battles the harsh realities of her existence, the stakes intensify when her once-trusted robot turns against her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMalevil (1981)
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Quiet Earth (1985)
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981)
Poland, Christmastime. A band of hyperintelligent, bloodthirsty Martians take over the country and enlist hapless television newscaster Iron Idem as the voice of their propaganda machine. But when Iron dares to go off message, he makes an enemy even greater than the aliens—the state itself.
Why it matches: Same series: Apocalypse · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack to the Planet of the Apes (1980)
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps them to escape. In the hopes of finding a way to get back to their own time, the astronauts search for a computer in an earthquake-threatened city, with which they will be able to access their flight records. [The first of five telefilms edited from episodes of the 1974 TV series; this film combines the episodes "Escape from Tomorrow" and "The Trap"]
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
The Omega Man (1971)
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Day After (1983)
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Handmaid's Tale (1990)
In a dystopian, polluted right-wing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKin-dza-dza! (1986)
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dza-dza galaxy due to a chance encounter with an alien teleportation device. They must come to grips with a language barrier and Plukian social norms (not to mention the laws of space and time) if they ever hope to return to Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOn the Beach (1959)
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe End (2024)
Twenty-five years after environmental collapse left the Earth uninhabitable, Mother, Father and Son are confined to their palatial bunker, where they struggle to maintain hope and a sense of normalcy by clinging to the rituals of daily life—until the arrival of a stranger, Girl, upends their happy routine. As tensions rise, their seemingly idyllic existence starts to crumble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisExterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
It's the year 3000 and a nuclear war has turned the earth into a desert wasteland. A group of survivors living in a cave run out of water and desperately need to locate a new supply. The last guy they sent out to find water never returned, and now his 10 year old son Timmy wants to join the next search team. They think they know where there's an untapped well of water, but to get there they have to travel through dangerous terrain controlled by a savage gang of motorcyclists under the bloodthirsty reign of 'Crazy Bull'. On their mission, Timmy and his team run into a lonesome stranger named Alien (Robert Iannucci) who may be able to help them against the marauding motorcyclists. Can the struggling survivors looking for water in this barren world defeat Crazy Bull and his exterminating minions? Hang on tight - the battle has just begun!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Snowpiercer (2013)
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSexmission (1984)
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, World War III breaks out and life has been wiped off the surface of Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStalker (1979)
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMorning Patrol (1987)
In a deserted city, a woman walks alone trying to approach and enter the forbidden zone. Traps and the morning patrol lurk everywhere. Electronic voices summon the (non-existent) people to abandon the city. Can a love affair survive?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Human Highway (1982)
The new owner of a roadside diner stuck in a town built around an always leaking nuclear power plant plans to torch the place to collect insurance. However, an assortment of bizarre characters and weird events (such as spaceships flying around) gets in his way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Z for Zachariah (2015)
In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation exposure and his desperate search for others. A fragile, imperative strand of trust connects them. But when a stranger enters the valley, their precarious bond begins to unravel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisEscape from the Bronx (1983)
A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMad Max 2 (1981)
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTHX 1138 (1971)
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDamnation Alley (1977)
Following World War III, four survivors at a desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where they hope more survivors are living, using a specially built vehicles to protect themselves against the freakish weather, mutated plant and animal life, and other dangers encountered along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisLa Jetée (1962)
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCasshern (2004)
Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people have become prey to new diseases. Professor Azuma's "neo-cell" project, which is supposed to be the answer to mankind's hardships, becomes a nightmare come true when mutants spawned from the experiment escape and declare war on the human race. Azuma's son Tetsuya, who was killed during the previous war, is reborn into the cyborg Casshern as mankind's last hope against the new mutant threat. This live-action sci-fi movie based on a 1973 Japanese animé of the same name.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisMad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEndgame (1983)
A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThreads (1984)
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
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What are the best movies like O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization?
The closest matches to O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization are Dead Man's Letters (1986), A Visitor to a Museum (1989) and The Last Spark of Hope (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization?
People who watched O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization most often go on to Dead Man's Letters (1986), A Visitor to a Museum (1989) and The Last Spark of Hope (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization?
Stalker (1979), rated 8.1/10 by 2,673 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization?
The End (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Is O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Apocalypse, which includes The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981).
How are movies similar to O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.