If you haven’t yet caught Netflix’s gloriously cheesy disaster movie/cultural satire Don’t Look Up, starring Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, and so many more, do it now. Seriously. It’s a funny, silly and yet depressingly accurate take on what we as a culture would do if we were faced with an extinction-level event. (Spoiler: it’s not a flattering assessment.)

Whether humanity as a whole would come together to fight the end of the world or, as portrayed in Don’t Look Up, we would be more concerned with how the end of the world would affect billionaires, politicians and celebrities is debatable. But one thing is true of us as a species: we love imagining disaster scenarios.

From Planet of the Apes (1968) to Planet of the Apes (2001) to War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), we, the current denizens of Planet Earth, have used cinema to explore our morbid fascination with The End of the World As We Know It for a very long time. Whether it’s aliens, disease, natural disaster or man’s own self-destructive tendencies, there is no shortage of movies about the end times presented for our (vicarious, one hopes) enjoyment. Here are some of our favorites.

• Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
  Director Lorene Scafaria uses the imminent end of the world (an asteroid is headed to Earth, similar to the disaster looming in Don’t Look Up) to explore the way people seek love and relationships. The humane, sometimes morose story is told through the eyes of two strangers who are thrown together as the world is literally about to fall apart. Steve Carrell is a middle-aged man whose wife has abruptly left him, and Keira Knightley plays a restless young woman desperate to reunite with her family in England.

• The World’s End (2013)
  The last film in director Edgar Wright’s “Cornetto Trilogy,” The World’s End is a dark comedy about the dangers of living in the past – but it’s also about a bunch of killer aliens. The film follows a group of high school friends (including Simon Pegg and Nick Frost) who reunite for one last pub crawl in their dead-end hometown—only to find themselves caught up a sinister extraterrestrial takeover that may cut their night short a little bit.

• 2012 (2009)
  Remember the whole Mayan Calendar Prophecy that predicted the end of the world would happen on December 21st, 2012? We know now that there was nothing to fear by that inauspicious date on the calendar, but that didn’t stop disaster maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Godzilla) from putting out a film three years prior to indulge in the very scariest of worst-case scenarios. John Cusack played a man trying to save his family from the end of the world, somehow.
• Snowpiercer (2013)
  In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges, pitting the have-nots against the other have-nots for the amusement of the haves. Chris Evans plays a man who leads a revolt against the upper crust hiding in the front cars of the train. Weirdly enough, there are those who speculate that this movie is a sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Look it up!

• Contagion (2011)
  Is it still too soon? Steven Soderbergh’s pandemic drama achieved new relevance last year thanks to the start of a very real pandemic, but this movie capitalized on a fear that was terrifying to begin with, chronicling a complete societal collapse that takes place in a world that has been depleted of people and resources by a global plague. (The director is reportedly working on a sequel – something few of us want to contemplate now, for sure.)

• World War Z (2013)
  We’ve been preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse since The Walking Dead premiered in 2010 – maybe even since Night of the Living Dead in 1968, but one thing we maybe aren’t ready for is hordes of undead that are athletic enough to outrun us. Director Marc Forster’s movie has Brad Pitt playing a US Army General who is literally racing against the infected in order to find a cure and save what’s left of humanity.

• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
  The dystopian future has never been more attractive or intriguing than it is in George Miller’s beautifully-shot thriller. Set in a desert wasteland where survivors fight for water and gasoline in monstrous customized vehicles, it is inarguably the best installment of the Mad Max saga, with a series of dazzling action sequences anchored by the very grounded performance by Charlize Theron as the regal Imperator Furiosa. A prequel with her character (to be played by Anya Taylor-Joy) is in the works.

• Children of Men (2006)
  Loosely based on the P.D. James novel, Alfonso Cuarón’s tense and thought-provoking thriller was critically-acclaimed (it earned three Oscar nominations) if not hugely popular. Set in London, which has become grim and unlivable after a worldwide infertility crisis, a jaded former activist (Clive Owen) must protect the first pregnant woman in eighteen years (Clare-Hope Ashitey) as she attempts to flee the country to save herself and her child.