The Quiet Earth

Waikato, New Zealand + dawn + a ringing telephone. A scientist awakens to find humanity vanished. Cars crash unmanned; the skies are silent. He searches for answers and others, confronting the awful truth of his solitude. An eerie end-of-days thriller echoing Cold War anxieties.

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Geoff Murphy directed The Quiet Earth in 1985. See Geoff Murphy's full filmography, where to start with Geoff Murphy, or where to go after you've seen everything by Geoff Murphy.

The Quiet Earth was released in 1985 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 91 minutes.