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Earth Abides (2024)
7K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the slide into extinction.
Style:
philosophical, bleak, sinister, existential, grim
Plot:
survival, pandemic, post apocalyptic, isolation, leadership, loneliness, desperation, small community, hopes, minimalism, morality, wilderness, slow burn, literary, survivalist, plague, extinction, survivor, apocalypse, male nudity, male star appears nude
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, tense, suspenseful and grim films and TV series with plots about post apocalyptic, survival, isolation, dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse and distopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Earth Abides: Pluribus (2025), The Man from Ruin (2016), Tomorrow Before After (2023), Glacier (2021), In the Land of the Wolves (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
Style:
dark comedy, existential, bleak, melancholic, philosophical ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, dystopia, alienation, social commentary, deadpan, misanthropy, character study, ethical dilemma, irony, morality, satire ...
Time:
near future
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
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100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a series of unexpected UFO crash landings on the planet Earth, a large portion of life slowly and mysteriously went extinct. We follow a man that struggles for survival, as he gathers items needed for the impending winter. Outside of personal ...
Style:
bleak, existential, atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
survival, winter, post apocalyptic, sole survivor, desolation, isolation, slow burn, minimalism, post apocalypse, very little dialogue, loneliness, end of the world ...
Time:
future
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53%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, survival, dog, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, female protagonist, survival horror, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, pregnant woman, woman ...
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49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two people are stuck in a quarantine hotel during a deadly pandemic. Physical contact equals death, total isolation is required. Yet, it is human nature to seek togetherness. But what happens when you have to choose between love and life?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, tense, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
pandemic, isolation, quarantine, loneliness, sacrifice, infection, survival, forbidden love, moral dilemma, single, hotel, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
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Story:
An asocial woman and her dog will have to survive in a world where living seems impossible.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
survival, post-apocalyptic future, dog, struggle for survival, apocalypse, fight, sociopath, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, loneliness, dystopia, man versus nature ...
Place:
basque country
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39%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, ...
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
apocalypse, virus, survival, deadly virus, politician, pandemic, disaster, post apocalypse, danger, group of strangers, distopia, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, poetic, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, survival, dystopia, desolation, family drama, loneliness, isolation, minimalism, rite of passage, road trip ...
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35%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A catastrophe wipes out almost all of humanity. A single girl appears to be the only survivor. Having managed to escape the ruins, she is now growing up in the woods. Could this last person on earth be a new beginning?
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, independent film, existential, grim ...
Plot:
dystopia, survival, post apocalyptic, isolation, desolation, wilderness, loneliness, solitude, resilience, catastrophe, female protagonist, coming of age ...
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35%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
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The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by ...
Style:
apocalyptic, gloomy, serious, captivating, futuristic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, end of the world, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, top secret, train, distopia, epidemic, dystopia, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
35%
546
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mother fights to save her ailing daughter after a global pandemic worse than any seen before ravaged the planet, leaving resources so scarce you must pay for them with your life.
Style:
tense, dramatic, captivating, harsh, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, mother daughter relationship, distopia, daughter, dystopia, post apocalyptic, illness, female protagonist, mother and daughter, parents and children, mother, fight ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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A series of six 2 minute internet web episodes from 3 June to 19 June 2014; prior "The Last Ship" screening on 22 June 2014; featuring Rhona Mitra as Doctor Rachel Scott. In these episodes, Doctor Scott sets some of the background to the ...
Style:
bleak, exciting, suspense, scary, suspenseful
Plot:
virus, navy, plague, apocalypse, killing, chaos, escapades, vengeance, graphic violence, human nature, desperation, peril ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
46K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min.
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After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
post apocalypse, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, vestiges of humanity, brother sister relationship, illness, danger, distopia, life is a bitch, desperation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
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Helgoland. Here, on Germany's only offshore island, a small community of survivors of an apocalypse that has overrun the rest of the world and plunged it into chaos is holed up. But the price of their survival is high. The resources on the ...
Style:
bleak, grim, suspense, tense
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, island, isolation, dystopia, end of the world, human nature, rationing, moral ambiguity, community, claustrophobia
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33%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – ...
Style:
apocalyptic, scary, bleak, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
epidemic, plague, apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, survival, virus outbreak, disaster, disease, vestiges of humanity, virus, distopia, crisis ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
When a modern world-wide plague becomes resistant to all cures, time-travelers must seek answers in a legendary 14th century rural French village known for its immunity to the original Bubonic Plague. The team gets more than they've bargained ...
Style:
tense, captivating, action adventure, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
pandemic, bubonic plague, plague, immunity, extinction, time travel, paradox, travel, time traveler, back in time, fate of humanity, time machine ...
Time:
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32%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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tense, captivating, bleak, grim, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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31%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
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Style:
bleak, suspenseful, tense, dark, grim ...
Plot:
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Time:
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31%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, suspenseful, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
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31%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
It is the last days and the Forever Winter has begun. Surviving in the deep woods, 15-year-old Lizzy is no longer a child but has been hardened by her experiences in a world that's quickly going to hell.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, survival, post apocalyptic, abduction, kidnapping, child abduction, end of the world, life is a bitch, kidnapped, apocalypse, child kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Similarity:
30%
437
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
plague, epidemic, isolation, scientist, pandemic, claustrophobia, save the world, deadly virus, humanity, confined space, threat, virus ...
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30%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
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A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.
Style:
tense, bleak, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian future, quarantine, pandemic, plague, dystopian society, death, distopia, society, dystopic future, danger, government conspiracy ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After years on his own in a post-pandemic Oklahoma, a 17 year-old doomsday prepper meets a pregnant girl who brings companionship, but also the danger of a gun-wielding group of survivors hellbent on building a new world.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, coming of age, teenager, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, post apocalypse, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, teenage life, dream world, maturation ...
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30%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In 2062, the last remaining humans battle each other in between hump sessions as their supply of clean, breathable air (supplied by a pipeline that's running dry) dwindles to nothing.
Style:
bleak, grim, brutal, independent film, weird
Plot:
dystopia, violence, survival, post apocalyptic, desperation, rape, mature, anarchy, wasteland, contamination, lawlessness, hopelessness ...
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30%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of a post-Apocalypse Earth, Population 2 is about a relationship that ends in tragedy forcing a woman to struggle in the aftermath.
Style:
captivating, serious, dramatic, suspenseful, reflective ...
Plot:
post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, distopia, past life, post apocalypse, climate change, solitude, grief, isolation, ruins, loneliness, loss ...
Time:
future
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
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Story:
When a night watchman finishes his shift at work, he is terrified to discover that everyone in the world who went to sleep the previous night has died. Now he and a band of survivors must stay awake and uncover the secret of this global epidemic, ...
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
sleep deprivation, survival, investigation, isolation, post apocalyptic, epidemic, insomnia, pandemic, paranoia, claustrophobia, night watchman, conspiracy ...
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28%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be Indians during the visit of a general. In ...
Style:
bleak, existential, art house, grim, experimental ...
Plot:
social commentary, authoritarianism, dystopia, post apocalyptic, post war, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, satire, alienation, moral dilemma, political repression, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2000, future
Place:
brazil
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28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of post-apocalyptic earth.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, grim, mysterious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
future
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After a devastating toxic snowfall kills millions, Juan Salvo and a group of survivors in Buenos Aires must resist an invisible threat from another world.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, heroic
Plot:
snow, alien invasion, survival, post apocalyptic, reluctant hero, alien, resistance, desperation, snowstorm, isolation, claustrophobia, dystopia ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina
Similarity:
27%
308
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A man and his dog are stranded on a volatile, oval-shaped planet and are forced to adapt and escape before time destroys them both.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
distant planet, survival, accident, danger, catastrophe, isolation, one man army, dog, estrangement, save the day, bonding, adaptation ...
Similarity:
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207K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story:
In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
Style:
captivating, tense, bleak, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
underground city, dystopia, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, sheriff, politics, disaster, survival ...
Time:
future
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