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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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Landfall (1977)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.