"thanks for the tips, just watched prisoner 701 and was totally blown away! hope the rest of the trilogy follows suit."
I thought that the second one was a huge disappointment. Didn't seem to have any of the wit or excitement of the first installment.
Anyway, I watched a Russian film called Letters From A Dead Man yesterday. It's a hard hitting but low-key post-apocalyptic thing where the remnants of humanity scratch a living underground, periodically donning their radiation suits to venture out and wander around the corpse filled industrial wasteland above, which is locked in an eternal twilight in which the sun never truly shines.
The main character - a former nobel prize winner - and his friends are living in a derelict museum and are slowly falling apart both mentally and physically, ranting about the evils of mankind and occasionally killing themselves.
An even more sinister side of this half-world is represented by the shadowy authority figures who issue curfews, clampdown on the black market in food, medicine and books (for burning obviously), and control access to the passes which allow people to enter the promised land of the central bunker.
A mixture of absolute bleakness and, at times, beautiful imagery this is a very depressing and powerful film but well worth watching, especially as a companion piece to maybe Threads or The End of August at the Hotel Ozone, other films which issue a warning about how we might just end up.
I also watched The Blob with Steve McQueen.