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Egghead Republic (2025)
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An alternative reality where the cold war didn’t end, and an atomic bomb has struck Soviet Kazakhstan. Sonja, a 22 y.o. Swedish club-kid, working at one of the hippest magazines in the world, is mysteriously invited to report from inside the radio-active zone, to find or debunk the rumors of mutated centaurs living there…
Style:
surreal, political thriller, dystopian
Plot:
cold war, alternate history, mutant, contamination, post apocalyptic, isolation, dystopia, survival, propaganda, urban decay, haunting, road trip, coming of age
Place:
soviet union
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, bleak, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about survival, post apocalyptic, dystopia, isolation, post apocalypse, distopia and post-apocalyptic future mostly in Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like Egghead Republic: South of Hope Street (2024), After the Pandemic (2022), Caihong City (2025), Island City (1994), Kadaisi Ulaga Por (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
There is a strange event in the sky. Only a young woman, and some of her more alienated friends...notice. But they are voiceless, as it just gets stranger - even as below - on the ground, it gets more, what is ominously called, 'normal'.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Romania
Story:
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Style:
bleak, surreal, melancholic, grotesque
Plot:
virtual reality, poverty, organ trafficking, urban decay, dystopia, friendship, corruption, conspiracy, cyberpunk, survival, disease, odyssey ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A 21st-century genetic experiment goes chaotic, creating a race of genetically-violent mutants.
Style:
dark, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mutant, dystopia, genetic experiment, post apocalypse, laboratory, genetic engineering, mutation, survival, fear, survival horror, urban decay, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
near future, future, 21st century
Similarity:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In a dystopian near-future, new world order arises, leading to world war 3. India tries to remain neutral leading to capturing of Tamil Nadu from the South.
Style:
political thriller, tense, dark, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
dystopia, civil unrest, new world order, civil war, rebellion, resistance, propaganda, survival, martial law, military coup, nationalism, battlefield ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The City is under corporate siege. A result of crony capitalism run-a-muck. An environmental Fallout, caused by the Company's reckless practices, poisoned the water supply and left the poorest citizens to experience slow and agonising deaths. ...
Style:
tense, bleak, suspenseful, political thriller
Plot:
contaminated water, social inequality, corporate corruption, dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, desperation, black market, rescue mission, urban decay, female protagonist, claustrophobia ...
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77%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, ice age, mutant, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, struggle for survival, cold, mutation, plague, survivor, creature feature ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
sinister, tense, surreal, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cave, post apocalyptic, cataclysm, experiment, survival, exploration, disaster, desolation, isolation, speculation, estrangement, adaptation ...
Time:
70s, near future
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Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years in the future, society has broken down into fragmented groups who now dwell within a tangled wood, completely unaware of any civilization that exists beyond and governed by the white-suited agents of some ...
Style:
melancholic, surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, isolation, coming of age, mother son relationship, guilt, hallucination, suffering, addiction, claustrophobia, haunting ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Leera the Soulmate takes place in the distant future in 6900, the humanity has lost all it's faith and love is taken as a poison, Leera(protagonist) wakes up after 4882 years to realize that world has been, she reaches the nearby habitat, and ...
Style:
futuristic, emotional, dramatic, melancholic, anime ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, dystopia, isolation, hopes, loss of faith, waking up, post apocalyptic, tragic romance, betrayal, rebirth, identity, survival ...
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477
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After an unknown event, the world has changed forcing people to return to a simpler way of life. We follow the leadership trials of the Varosha Tribe with Eiren, Ares and Thade all in line to lead the next generation of their colony. The three ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, tense, sinister, atmospheric
Plot:
survival, leadership, post apocalyptic, friendship, coming of age, loyalty, forest, danger, quest, isolation, sacrifice, morality ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Cora is set decades into the future, after a deadly mist has covered earth, effectively wiping out most of humanity. Now, we follow Cora, a woman working for an organization trying to reverse the effects of the apocalypse.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, survival, dystopia, female protagonist, desolation, isolation, haunting, conspiracy, slow burn
Time:
near future
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A candy colored lesbian, cyberpunk extravaganza. It takes the viewer to another dimension. The character Dandy Dust has to go to various planets to boost his/her sex drive and defeat a depraved villain. There are twins who throw flowers, a groin ...
Style:
psychedelic, experimental, surreal, existential, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, cyborgs, identity, self discovery, split personality, travel, symbolism, surrealism, dystopia, haunting, space opera, post apocalyptic ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by Mary Shelley
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, exciting
Plot:
post apocalypse, disease, epidemic, pandemic, virus, apocalypse, bio weapon, isolation, nuclear, survival, frankenstein, cannibalism ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The world had changed. Streets day by day were filled with protest. The unemployed. The lost. Chaos. Then something happened. Something though it had no name had arrived. Fear. Fear over took rationale. The streets became empty. The new age of ...
Style:
dark, suspenseful, bleak, tense, political thriller ...
Plot:
fear, civil unrest, uncertainty, dystopia, political unrest, desperation, protest, survival, anxiety, chaos, social commentary, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
avant garde, black comedy, transgressive, surreal, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, political thriller, amateur film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
new orleans
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479
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, bleak, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the year of 2008, war and sickness have overtaken the planet. The deranged government declares single women a threat to the human race. Singles women are imprisoned. The corrupt warden is determined to keep the prisoners locked up.
Style:
dark, bleak, grim, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, escape, escape attempt, corruption, sexism, oppression, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, social commentary, survival, claustrophobia, desperation ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
39%
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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39%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A decade after a disastrous meteor impact wipes out most of society, a group of survivalists emerge to find themselves on a twisted version of the old Earth, with a nascent society besieged by vicious marauders, ferocious mutants, and the dreadful ...
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scary
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, mutant, survival, deadly creature, danger, chaos, dystopian future, epidemic, woman with a gun, post apocalypse, distopia, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
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 ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
Style:
apocalyptic, sinister, period piece, psychotronic
Plot:
suspended animation, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, exploration, eternal life, snake, survival, advanced technology, lost civilization, social commentary ...
Time:
future, 70s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Taking place in the fifth reality to be discovered by humanity, Into The Alternate follows an inhabitant and foreign visitor as they struggle to survive within a collapsing ecosystem.
Style:
avant garde, nature documentary, experimental, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, survival, unsettling, experimental narrative, adaptation, haunting, macabre, alienation, minimalism, intimate, parallel universe
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
Style:
psychological, futuristic, suspense, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
virtual reality, loneliness, social isolation, dystopia, dystopian future, real world, computers and web, social problems, life, society, social issues, confined ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
A man decides to escape into the future by the way of hibernation. When he wakes up, feeling lucky that the experiment worked out well, the staff of the hibernation company politely walks him to the outside were he finds a post atomic war desert… ...
Style:
philosophical, sinister, surreal, bleak, existential ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, hibernation, escape, dystopia, waking up, satire, social commentary, travel, illusion, isolation, experiment, macabre ...
Time:
future
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three American astronauts who land on Mars discover the body of a frozen Russian cosmonaut and a mysterious talking orb.
Style:
psychotronic, space horror, suspense, period piece, independent film
Plot:
mars, astronaut, outer space, space exploration, cold war, isolation, first contact, survival, cosmonaut, space opera, spacesuit, space ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
Style:
tense, brutal, bleak, grim, dark ...
Plot:
cannibalism, survival, post apocalyptic, revenge, desperation, violence, dystopia, rescue mission, isolation, moral ambiguity, lawlessness, barbarism ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A US submarine runs into a time rift. A special unit goes on a mission to see what's on the other side. They find themselves in an alternate dystopian America, now a one-man dictatorship. They decide to help the rebels.
Style:
dark, grim, suspenseful, tense, action thriller ...
Plot:
time travel, submarine, bermuda triangle, dystopia, travel, rebellion, alternate history, alternate timeline, parallel universe, resistance movement, totalitarian regime, secret mission ...
Similarity:
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