The Quiet Earth (1985)

Directed by

Geoff Murphy

Genre

drama film, science fiction film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, dystopian film

Country

New Zealand

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 634 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man wakes up to find that everyone else on Earth seems to have vanished. He thinks he is the last person alive until he meets two other survivors and they try to figure out what happened.

solitarycalmdesolatecontemplativestilleeriemelancholicslow-paced

What happens

The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Peter Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It is loosely based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison. Other sources of inspiration have been suggested: the 1954 novel I Am Legend, Dawn of the Dead, and especially the 1959 film The World, the Flesh and the Devil, of which it has been called an unofficial remake. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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