This thread has already covered a bunch, but I did think of some others. These don't all concern time travel or alternate realities, and some were made before the 80s. Additionally, they may not share the same tones or themes you're looking for, but they all contain similarities to 'Quiet Earth' so I'll mention them:
Phase IV (1974)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070531/
A largely unnoticed cosmic event is altering the planet in phases. When 2 scientists go to a remote desert research facility to study ants who are building strange shapes and towers, they find themselves holed up with a third person, struggling to survive against the pending fourth phase.
The Last Wave (1977)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076299/
Australia is beset by unusual weather and sudden storms, which seem to carry great importance for the Aboriginals. When a tribal murder occurs during one of the heavy rains, a white lawyer reluctantly takes on the case. He becomes increasingly obsessed with both the murder and the weather, while also exploring for the first time the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime. Dreams, mysticism, nature and prophesy collide in this masterpiece by Peter Weir.
The Sacrifice (aka Offret) (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091670/
Believing the world outside his desolate village is engaged in nuclear annihilation and that life as he knows it will soon be over, a philosophical atheist begs God to return the world to normal so that his young son will survive in exchange for an act of complete self-sacrifice. When he awakes, it's as if nothing has happened and the man is forced to decide whether to honor his promise or not.
Millennium (1989)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097883/
An NTSB investigator begins to suspect time travelers are somehow involved in the 747 crash he's investigating.
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clacton0
13 years ago
Some Movies I like from my list
BBC Life On Mars & Ashes to Ashes which are cop shows but they go back in time to the 70s and 80s.
BBC Doctor Who
FlashForward Everyone in the world will get a flash of their own future.
Goodnight Sweetheart On UK DVD Gary Sparrow lives in the 1990s with his wife but has a route back to the 1940s Comedy set in London.
Impact 2008 Get ready to experience the dark side of the moon!
Jericho After a series of terrorist attacks leave the US in a state of disaster. A small Kansas town must come together to deal with a new reality.
Journeyman A man travels back in time to help people in trouble.
Seven Days An ex-CIA is the point man for a government organization dedicated to time travelling to correct errors that occurred in the previous week.
Sliders All ready mentioned.
BBC Survivors 2008
BBC The Day of the Triffids 2009
The Last Train 1999 A group of commuter train passagers are put in accidental suspended animation and emerge years later into a devastated world. This is only on Download.
The Outer Limits 1995
10.5: Apocalypse
2012 Roland Emmerich
28 Days Later
After Armageddon Only watched this the other day its set in LA about a Pandemic.
Asteroid 1997 With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it.
Atomic Train 1999
Contact 1997
Crack in the World 1965 Now on DVD Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth.
Damnation Alley 1977 Again only on download In an post-apocalyptic world, a group of survivors travel and find other settlements in huge custom designed all terrain vehicles.
Frequency 2000 An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father's life, but then must fix the consequences.
I Am Legend 2007
Ice 1998 After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the city's hostile conditions, in order to take a ship to a hotter place on Earth.
Inferno 1998
Kate & Leopold 2001
Knowing 2009
Life After People If humans were suddenly to disappear, what would happen to our planet - the structures we've built, the everyday items we take for granted, domesticated and wild animals, plants, trees? What would become of the things that define our species and leave our mark on this Earth?
Meltdown Days of Destruction
Meteor 1979
Meteor Storm 2010
Night of the Comet 1984
On the Beach
Philadelphia Experiment
Polar Storm 2009 A comet passes near the Earth and disturbs Earth's magnetic field.
Quantum Apocalypse 2010
Retroactive 1997 B Movie A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Supernova 2005 Luke Perry A scientific possibility becomes a terrifying reality when the most powerful force in the universe threatens to hurtle home.
Supervolcano 2005 A volcano in Yellowstone Park suddenly erupts.
The Final Countdown 1980
The Day After 1983
The Day After Tomorrow 2004
The Langoliers 1995
The Omega Man 1971
The Postman 1997
The Sky's on Fire 1998
The Time Machine 1960 And 2002
The Time Shifters 1999
Threads 1984
Time After Time 1979
Timecop 1994
Timequest 2000
Timescape 1992
Timestalkers 1987
Waterworld 1995
When Worlds Collide
Wow what a long list with films to do with space and time travel.
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VelvetVoice
13 years ago
OOH OOH I wanna be in this thread! I read The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold back in the 80's, great book. He did writing for ST:TOS. I never heard of a lot of these movies, I better get crackin'!
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ggersten-1
13 years ago
Surprised no one has mentioned "The World The Flesh and The Devil" starring Harry Belafonte and Inger Stevens. Belafonte is a miner trapped in a a cave=in. He hears the digging and then it stops. He digs himself out and there are no people anywhere. He makes his way to an empty New York City. He thinks he's alone, but then meets Inger Stevens. Ok, it's the 1950s and they have a problem. For all they know they are the last man and woman on earth - only omg - he's black and she's white. Then Mel Ferrer shows up and creates a potential love triangle. There is then an utterly ridiculous ending sequence.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053454/
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hellishmundane
13 years ago
Nothing
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298482/
alternate universe. last two people. very silly and enjoyable.
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stage-577-735504
13 years ago
hmm for some strange reason no one mentioned
one of my favorite movies
12:01
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106188/
Barry Thomas is the average office worker. He becomes attracted to Lisa Fredericks who works in the same company. After work, Barry witnesses the murder of Lisa and goes to a bar to get drunk. Later that night, there is a storm and Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 am. The next morning, he realizes that everything is happening exactly as it did the previous day. The next morning the day is repeated again. It is now Barry's job--being the only person alive who is aware of this time loop--to stop the murder of Lisa, and stop the time loop or be caught in time forever.
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