20 Post-Apocalyptic Movies You Must See Before You Die

6. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)

George Miller's original classic, Mad Max, wasn't really a post-apocalyptic film, but it did set the stage for an even better sequel - one that took the premise of a lone anti-hero wandering the Outback and took it to delirious post-apocalyptic heights. To say that The Road Warrior is an improvement over the initial Mad Max is something of an understatement, then: this is one of the greatest post-apocalyptic pictures ever put to celluloid, not to mention one of cinema's greatest ever action flicks. The action picks up years after the events of the original film, with Gibson's titular hero forced to face off against a gang in the wastelands of Australia after civilisation has gone the way of the dodo. The Road Warrior sets up a world heavily influenced by biker culture, which gives Miller the opportunity to render some of the cinema's greatest stunts. The final chase, a relentless action tour de force, is a glorious kinetic spectacle that never gets old.