10 Great Movies Where the World Literally Ends

Many moons before Grey's Anatomy and Killing Eve, Sandra Oh was a darling of the late-nineties/early-aughts indie drama scene, starring in a spate of productions which make up in critical acclaim what they lack in audience numbers.

This is where we find Last Night, Don McKellar's apocalyptic black comedy-drama, which premiered at Cannes and proved you don't need a massive budget to usher in the end of the world.

Set in Toronto, the film features a mysterious, large-scale calamity that is set to bring everything to an end at the stroke of midnight. Thus, when the accompanying panic and chaos have largely subsided, all a rag-tag group of friends, family and strangers are left to do is count down the hours together in bleak comic fashion. 

Oh stars as Sandra, stranded in the city while scavenging in the supermarket, who through a series of comic turns comes into collision with the lonely Patrick (played by McKellar) and the film's array of oddballs and ordinary folks, encountering the whole spectrum of human emotion along the way. The film ends as telegraphed, with the final seconds on Earth for Sandra and Patrick concluding not with violence but a kiss.