Movies like The Crazies 1973
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The Crazies (1973)
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, psychotronic, surprise ending, tense, bleak, dark humor, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, plague, quarantine, virus, blood, death, murder, scientist, military police, epidemic, disease, on the run, gory, race against time, rescue, survival, danger, chaos, soldier, pregnancy, bio weapon, cure, politics, anti heroes, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
pennsylvania, asia, usa, vietnam, washington d.c.
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and rough films with plots about danger, survival, violence, deadly, blood, pistol and murder mostly in Horror, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like The Crazies: Day of the Dead (2008), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Cabin Fever (2002), The Omega Man (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the ...
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zombie, small town, quarantine, soldier, survival, apocalypse, deadly creature, virus, race against time, chaos and mayhem, experiment gone awry, plague ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
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suspenseful, scary, tense, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
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plague, on the run, insanity, infected, quarantine, survival, chaos and mayhem, deadly virus, danger, army, small town, isolation ...
Place:
iowa, usa, kansas
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50%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cannibalism, survival, trapped, cult, isolation, rescue, cemetery, danger, chaos, back from the dead, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, chaos, survival, helicopter, siege, violence, apocalypse, infection, danger, motorcycle gang, martial law, rescue ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France, Canada, South Africa, Australia, UK, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive ...
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boys' night, teens
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zombie, chaos, bio weapon, end of the world, mutant, female soldier, monster, pistol, supernatural, survival, chases and races, apocalypse ...
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Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style:
dark humor, rough, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Time:
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71%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mentally ill man in a small Texas town goes on a killing rampage and is fatally wounded by police. When doctors use an experimental serum to bring him back to life, the killer develops superhuman strength and the town sheriff must pursue him.
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80s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
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65%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing the virus/bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island. Soon the infected populace mutate into ...
Style:
serious, rough, scary, suspenseful
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 100 min.
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When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
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Audience:
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Time:
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Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On ...
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Audience:
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Country: Germany, Canada, USA, France, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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59%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, scary
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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58%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Captain Mack leads an elite military unit on a search for a missing scientist, and comes face-to-face with an an ancient evil lying beneath the Middle Eastern desert. Evil that is not of this world. Evil that should never be unearthed.
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Country: USA, France, Canada
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Story:
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57%
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Story:
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Duration: 101 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of ...
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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46%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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