Produced by Oppenheimer, Signe Byrge Sørensen, and star Tilda Swinton, the film also features George MacKay, Moses Ingram, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny, Lennie James, and Michael Shannon.

Set two decades after an environmental catastrophe renders Earth's surface uninhabitable, the story centers on a wealthy family— Mother, Father, and their 20-year-old Son who have isolated themselves in a luxurious bunker deep within a converted salt mine, along with a few other individuals- Friend, one of Mother's oldest friends, Butler, an aging queer man who serves the others, and Doctor, who provides them with medication and keeps track of safety precautions and procedures.

The Son, having spent his entire life underground, yearns to experience the outside world he's never seen and build scale models of historical events and places.

The family celebrates New Year's Eve with a program of skits and elaborate homemade costumes of animals, where the Butler and Father perform a soft shoe tap dance.

During the New Year's Eve dinner, the Girl appeals to the Mother about leaving the rest of humanity behind, arguing with her about what guilt they must feel before the Father stops the conversation.

The Father continues to justify his actions while writing the book with the Son, and Later tries to convince the Girl of his innocence, saying that all of the other corporations were worse than he was and he at least "cared".

[9] A few days after the film's premiere at Telluride, Mubi acquired distribution rights to it for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and Austria.

The website's consensus reads: "The End doesn't lack for ambition or talent, but its bold vision is ill-served by a bloated runtime and monotonous musical score.

[14] Lovia Gyarkye of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "The End requires complete submission to the off-kilter rules that govern this family and to Oppenheimer's ambitions to radicalize the musical genre.

"[15] Sheila O'Malley of RogerEbert.com gave the film two and a half stars out of four and wrote, "The experiment of The End may not entirely work, but it is good that it exists.