4. Last Night
Don McKellar's outstanding 1998 drama doesn't get anywhere near the level of praise and consideration that it should. The film is set in Toronto on New Year's Eve 1999, depicting how a group of people will spend their final moments on Earth before the inevitable Y2K apocalypse scenario unfolds. What's great about this film is that it really digs into the humanity of the situation; we get the oddities such as David Cronenberg's owner of a power company who calls up all his customers to re-assure them their gas will remain on until the end of the world, we get the people who share a final meal together with their families, and also those who device suicide pacts so that they're in control of their own destinies. It's a great, heartfelt film that suggests quite convincingly how it would all go down if we actually thought the world was going to end.
What it tells us: basic humanity can win out in an apocalypse scenario, if there's nothing to do but wait.