Why this list? I couldn't find a comprehensive list of post-apocalyptic films anywhere. This is as comprehensive a list of post-apocalyptic movies and tv shows as I could get together. Although there are a lot of post-apocalyptic movies on this website, there are many, many more that aren't available yet. For the post-apocalyptic completist, I have also listed unsafe items and the reason why they have been excluded.

What is the post-apocalypse? Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after a general disaster. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in an agrarian, non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of technology remain. (Wikipedia)

The early years of post-apocalyptic films. Unsurprisingly as the United States and Societ Union increase the power of their nuclear arsenals, anxieties about World War III dominate. However, in many respects this is a golden era for post-apocalyptic films with some genuinely original and intelligent films, that address what would happen if civilisation were to end.

TITLE	YEAR	COUNTRY	IMDB	RATING
It's Great to Be Alive	1933	USA		5.9
Things to Come	1936	US / UK		6.8
Peace on Earth	1939	USA		7.9
Five	1951	USA		6.6
Robot Monster	1953	USA		2.9
Day the World Ended	1955	USA		5.1
World Without End	1956	USA		5.9
Teenage Cave Man	1958	USA		2.4
World, the Flesh and the Devil, The	1959	USA		7.0
On the Beach	1959	USA		7.5
Last Woman on Earth	1960	USA		4.7
Day the Earth Caught Fire, The	1961	UK		7.2
Panic in Year Zero!	1962	USA		6.5
Day of the Triffids	1962	UK		5.8
Ro.Go.Pa.G.	1963	Italy/France		7.0
The War Game	1964	UK		8.4
Last Man on Earth, The	1964	USA/Italy		7.0
Sins of the Fleshapoids	1965	USA		6.3
Sins of the Fleshapoids	1965	UK		6.3
Time Travelers	1966	Japan		4.5
In the Year 2889	1967	USA		2.4
Late August at the Hotel Ozone	1967	Czechoslovakia		6.9
Ecce Homo	1968	Italy
Fando y Lis	1968	Mexico		6.9
Zbehovia a putnini	1968	Italy/Czechoslovakia		7.2
Seme dell'uomo, Il	1969	Italy/France		7.0
Bed-Sitting Room, The	1969	UK		6.4
Ark	1970	USA		6.2
No Blade of Grass	1970	USA		5.9
Omega Man, The	1971	USA		6.8
Gas-s-s-s	1971	USA		6.8
Glen and Randa	1971	USA		1.7
Z.P.G.	1972	USA		5.9
Genesis II	1973	USA		4.9
Idaho Transfer	1973	USA		5.1
Refugio del miedo, El	1974	Spain		5.1
Where Have All the People Gone	1974	USA		6.8
Zardoz	1974	UK		5.5
Chosen Survivors	1974	USA		5.4
Planet Earth	1974	USA		5.5
Ottroki vo vselennoy	1974	USSR		6.3
Strange New World	1975	USA		5.3
Noah, The	1975	USA		6.5
Città dell'ultima paura, La	1975	Italy
A Boy and His Dog	1975	USA		6.6
Ultimate Warrior, The	1975	USA		5.5
People who own the dark (Último deseo)	1976	Spain		5.1
Quintet	1977	USA		4.7
Wizards	1977	USA		6.3
Damnation Alley	1977	USA		4.5
Org	1978	Italy/Argentina		5.2
Ciao maschio	1978	Italy/France		6.4
Hamburger Krankheit, Die	1979	W. Germany		4.9
Ravagers	1979	USA		3.8
Umanoide, L' (Humanoid)	1979	Italy		3.5
Fukkatsu no hi (Virus)	1980	Japan		6.2
Frozen Atlantis, The (Frusna Atlantis, Det)	1980	Sweden

Mad Max 2 (see exlcuded list below) was a massive world-wide smash and re-defined the post-apocalyptic genre. It was the film that spawned a thousand imitations, as film-makers realised that post-apocalyptic films were popular and cheap to make. Even so, there were some outstanding films in the decade, notably the serious reflections on the effects of World War II such as Testament, The Day After, Threads and When the Wind Blows.

TITLE	YEAR	COUNTRY	IMDB	RATING
Memoirs of a Survivor	1981	UK		6.3
Cherez ternii k zvyozdam	1981	USSR		2.5
Parasite	1982	USA		2.6
Malevil	1981	France		7.1
Burst City	1982	Japan		6.2
Parasite	1982	USA		2.6
Warlords of the 21st Century	1982	New Zealand		3.9
She	1982	Italy/ USA/ Israel		3.3
Café Flesh	1982	USA		6.5
New Barbarians, The	1982	Italy		4.1
2020 Texas Gladiators	1982	Italy		4.3
Bronx Warriors	1982	Italy		4.4
Aftermath, The	1982	USA		4.3
Rush	1983	Italy		3.7
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone	1983	USA		4.5
Testament	1983	USA		7.4
Animales Racionales	1983	Spain		5.9
Endgame	1983	Italy		4.9
Taking Tiger Mountain	1983	UK/USA		8.5
Survival Zone	1983	South Africa		3.9
Raiders of Atlantis	1983	Italy/Philippines		2.9
Day After, The	1983	USA		6.8
Exterminators of the Year 3000	1983	Italy		3.9
Stryker	1983	Philippines		3.6
2019 - After the Fall of New York	1983	Italy		5.4
Rock & Rule	1983	USA		6.7
Dernier combat, Le	1983	France		6.9
W is War	1983	Philippines		4.8
Bronx Warriors 2 : Escape From Bronx	1983	Italy		2.3
Warrior of the Lost World	1983	Italy/USA		2.4
Death Run (Courage)	1984	USA		6.3
Music of the Spheres	1984	Canada		4.9
A Man Called Rage	1984	Italy		3.8
Final Executioner, The (Ultimo guerriero, L' )	1984	Italy		3.1
Threads	1984	UK		8.0
Night of the Comet	1984	USA		6.2
Rats - Night of Terror	1984	Italy		3.9
Budet laskovyy dozhd	1984	USSR		3.9
Sexmission (Seksmisja)	1984	Poland		8.0
Red Dawn	1984	USA		5.7
Time Troopers (Morgengrauen)	1985	Austria		4.2
A Summer's Day Dream	1984	UK
Osa	1985	USA		4.1
City Limits	1985	USA		1.9
Quiet Earth, The	1985	New Zealand		7.2
Def-Con 4	1985	Canada		3.7
Wheels of Fire	1985	Philippines		3.8
Warriors of the Apocalypse	1985	Philippines		3.1
Clash of the Warlords	1985	Philippines		4.6
Radioactive Dreams	1985	USA		5.3
O-Bi, O-Ba - The End of Civilization	1985	Poland		6.9
Desu Pawudu	1986	Japan		5.9
Roller Blade	1986	USA		2.9
Robot Holocaust	1986	USA		2.1
Land of Doom	1986	USA		3.4
Future Hunters	1986	Philippines/USA		3.0
Hands of Steel (Vendetta dal futuro)	1986	Italy		5.0
America 3000	1986	USA		3.4
Wired to Kill	1986	USA		4.2
Letters from a Dead Man	1986	USSR		7.4
Equalizer 2000	1986	Philippines/USA		3.5
When the Wind Blows	1986	UK		7.9
Don't Travel on One Way Ticket	1987	Sweden		7.4
Survivor	1987	South Africa/USA		3.9
King Lear	1987	USA		5.1
Leere Welt	1987	Germany		8.3
Surf Nazis Must Die	1987	USA		3.1
Hard Knuckle	1987	Australia		4.2
Survivalist, The	1987	USA		4.7
Creepozoids	1987	USA		2.1
Hell Comes to Frogtown	1987	USA		4.8
Interzone	1987	Italy		5.1
Steel Dawn	1987	USA		4.2
Strit og Stumme	1987	enmark		6.5
Urban Warriors	1987	Italy		2.6
Silver Globe (Na srebrnym globie)	1987	Poland		7.6
In the Aftermath	1988	Japan/Australia		5.6
Sweetwater	1988	Norway/Sweden		4.5
Fire Fight	1988	USA		3.3
Desert Warrior	1988	USA		3.2
World Gone Wild	1988	USA		4.9
Sisterhood, The	1988	USA		4.0
Crime Zone	1988	USA/Peru		4.2
She Wolves of the Wasteland	1988	USA		3.5
Warlords	1988	USA		4.6
Miracle Mile	1988	USA		6.8
Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em	1988	Australia		8.4
Empire of Ash	1988	Canada		3.3
Lawless Land, The	1988	USA		4.0
Dead Man Walking	1988	USA		5.6
Escape from Safehaven	1989	USA		3.1
Sons of Steel	1989	Australia		3.3
Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds	1989	Australia		5.0
Terror Within, The	1989	USA		3.9
Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force	1989	USA		4.2
Blood of Heroes /Salute of the Jugger	1989	Australia/USA		6.2
Empire of Ash III	1989	Canada		3.0
Bronx Executioner	1989	Italy		2.9
Deadly Reactor	1989	USA		2.1

Arguably a nadir decade for post-apocalyptic movies, as the Mad Max clones lost the fun of their 80s counterparts. Interesting, as the clock clicked towards the end of the millennium, the quality of post-apocalyptic films improved somewhat, but overall, 90s PA doesn't have much going for it. How could it, when Kevin Costner was involved in not one but two PA futures?

TITLE	YEAR	COUNTRY	IMDB	RATING
Mindwarp	1990	USA		4.8
Havet stiger	1990	Norway
Last Island, The	1990	Netherlands		6.0
Terror Within II, The	1990	USA		3.1
Aftershock	1990	USA		3.8
Terminator II aka Shocking Dark	1990	Italy		5.6
Robot Jox	1990	USA		4.3
Crash and Burn	1990	USA		4.4
Shredder Orpheus	1990	USA		2.4
Omega Cop	1990	USA		1.7
Dune Warriors	1990	Phillipines		3.7
Circuitry Man	1990	USA		4.5
Ultra Warrior	1990	Peru/USA		1.2
Prayer of the Rollerboys	1991	USA		4.6
Roller Blade Seven	1991	USA		2.2
Karate Cop	1991	USA		2.7
Cumulus 9	1992	USA		9.5
Legend of the Roller Blade Seven	1992	USA		2.4
Warlords 3000 / Dark Vengence	1992	USA		1.2
Split Second	1992	USA		5.6
Raiders of the Sun	1992	USA		3.1
Neon City	1992	USA		4.5
Prototype	1992	USA		2.8
Executioners (Xian dai hao xia zhuan)	1993	Hong Kong		5.6
Last Border, The - viimeisellä rajalla	1993	Finland/Sweden/Germany		3.6
TC 2000	1993	USA		3.4
American Cyborg: Steel Warrior	1993	USA		2.0
Knights	1993	USA		4.0
Return to Frogtown	1993	USA		2.8
New Eden	1994	USA		4.2
Cyborg 3 - Recycler	1994			3.0
Knight Rider 2010	1994	USA		2.8
Shatter Dead	1994	USA		3.7
Lunarcop/Solar Force	1994	USA		2.7
A.P.E.X.	1994	USA		4.0
Dark Future	1994	USA		3.7
Circuitry Man II: Plughead Rewired	1994	USA		3.2
Dragon Fury	1995	USA		3.2
Terminal Virus	1995	USA		3.1
Twilight of the Dogs	1995	USA		6.7
Timemaster	1995	USA		3.7
Steel Frontier	1995	USA		4.7
Tank Girl	1995	USA		4.6
Fist of the North Star	1995	USA		3.5
Screamers	1995	Canada/USA/France		5.9
Trigger Effect, The	1996	USA		5.5
Toad Warrior	1996	USA		3.3
Klinikassistenten	1997	Denmark		1.9
Resiklo	1997	Philippines		4.7
Deepwater Black	1997	Canada/USA		7.4
Bleak Future	1997	USA		4.2
Omega Doom	1997			3.5
Cryoceen	1997	Netherlands
Hybrid	1997	USA		3.4
Viimeiset humalaiset	1998	Finland		6.3
Ice	1998	USA		4.7
Amazon Warrior	1998	USA		5.4
Freedom Deep	1998	Australia		4.3
Goodbye, 20th Century!	1998	Macedonia		7.6
Six-String Samurai	1998	USA		6.4
Dexter's Laboratory Ego Trip	1999	USA		6.7
Maximillian Tarzan	1999	Finland		4.8
Shepherd / Cybercity	1999	Canada		3.0
Shepherd II Cybermaster	1999	USA		3.5
Cold Harvest	1999	USA		4.8

The first decade of the 21st century has been a boon for Post-Apocalyptic films. Interestingly, zombie apocalypses have replaced post-nuclear holocaust movies as the de facto Post-Apocalyptic scenario.

TITLE	YEAR	COUNTRY	IMDB	RATING
Dog Days	2000	USA		6.0
Radio Free Steve	2000	USA		5.4
Left Behind	2000	USA		4.6
Battlefield Earth	2000	USA		2.3
On the Beach	2000	Australia/USA		6.9
Superstarlet AD	2000	USA		5.5
Last Man, The	2000	USA		5.7
Gangland	2000	USA		2.4
Virtual Nightmare	2000	Australia		6.2
The Last Patrol	2000	USA		3.1
Hey, Happy!	2001	USA		3.9
Ever Since the World Ended	2001	USA		5.7
Virus	2001	Serbo-Croatian		2.6
El	2001	Japan		5.4
BattleQueen 2020	2001	Canada/USA		2.1
Chaos	2002	Ireland		2.8
Max Hell Comes to Frogtown	2002	USA		2.7
Last Days of Humanity, The	2002	Germany		3.7
Left Behind II: Tribulation force	2002	USA		5.6
Gone	2002	USA		3.4
Jeremiah	2002	USA/Canada		6.6
Revengers Tragedy	2002	UK		6.5
Dead or Alive: Final	2002	Japan		5.8
Reign of Fire	2002	UK/USA/Ireland		5.8
Teenage Caveman	2002	USA		3.2
Ritana	2002	Japan		6.7
Encrypt	2003	Canada/USA		4.2
Zombie Night	2003	Canada		2.6
Zurdo	2003	Mexico		7.0
Time of the Wolf, The	2003	France/Austria/Germany		6.2
Phoenix Point	2003	USA		3.2
Dragon Head	2003	Japan