Movies like Dark Planet
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Dark Planet (1997)
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two sides, one known as the Alphas and the other the Rebels, struggle in a brutal war on Earth and in outer space. When a habitable planet is discovered in orbit around a star that is on the far side of a dangerous wormhole, the two sides mysteriously set aside their differences and send a joint mission to explore the planet. The mission of the starship Scylla is soon beset by political intrigue and treachery, jeopardizing not only the mission, but the lives of the entire crew
Style:
futuristic, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
space exploration, space travel, reluctant partners, monster, space opera, outer space, survival, heroes, spacecraft, space and aliens, betrayal, battles, soldier, space wars, save the world, life is a bitch, intrigue, escapades, rivalry, society, political intrigue, danger, partner, state affairs, hotshot hero ...
Time:
future
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Most similar movies to Dark Planet
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and futuristic films with plots about danger, escapades, space and aliens, heroes, space, rivalry and space travel mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Dark Planet: For the Cause (2000), Replikator (1994), Battlestar Galactica (1978), Nightfall (1988), Crimson Force (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The ultimate showdown on a forbidden planet.
Style:
exciting, rough, stylized, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soldier, battles, dystopian future, chaos, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, danger, apocalypse, imaginary, fight, fictional war ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two rival corporations are developing replication technology which would enable the cloning of human tissue. The technology falls into a criminal group. Ludo Ludovic and Kathy Moskow with the help of a cop try to stop the criminals.
Style:
tech noir, independent film, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
cloning, virtual reality, post apocalypse, terminator, dystopia, industrial espionage, lookalikes, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, inventions and discoveries, time travel, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The first Cylon war has been raging for 10 years and a young Ensign William Adama joins the fleet. He's disappointed not to be assigned to a fighter but to a freighter, and his co-pilot isn't too keen on having a rookie flying his aircraft ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, entertaining, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space opera, space wars, androids and robots, battlestar galactica, space travel, cyborgs, escapades, betrayal, heroic mission, battles, military, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
space battle, androids and robots, military, battlestar galactica, space, space opera, survival, save the world, man versus machine, danger, rescue, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, year 1978
Similarity:
100%
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824
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The people of the planet Aeon, blessed with six suns, have never experienced night. When an archeological excavation uncovers evidence of an ancient catastrophe, all signs point towards the impending darkness of the very Nightfall. Panic erupts as ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
astronomer, nudity, apocalypse, space opera, blindness, cult leader, religious cult, loss of eyesight, astronomy, seductress, blind woman, mystery woman ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The crew of the first manned mission to Mars crash land on the surface in search of a clean everlasting power source they believe to be hidden somewhere beneath the ground. However, the crew find themselves in the middle of a civil war between the ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mars, heroic mission, outer space, heroes, escapades, danger, rivalry, chaos, alien encounter, space travel, martian, space exploration ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Orion commander Cliff Allister McLane, galactic war hero and unconventional daredevil in the service of the world government, is transferred with his crew to the space patrol. On top of that, Colonel Villa, head of the Galactic Security Service, ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
spacecraft, space travel, save the world, heroic mission, heroes, danger, battles, evil alien, space and aliens, escapades, space wars, outer space ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, serious, exciting
Plot:
trapped in space, spacecraft, terrorism, survival, rescue, space and aliens, escapades, danger, disaster, outer space, murder, evil corporation ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
It is 2035 A.D. and the final countdown has begun for a voyage that will reach across the vastness of outer space -- to explore the nearest Earth-Like planet. An international crew has been placed in cryogenic suspended animation for the journey. ...
Style:
tense, space horror, dark, futuristic, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
spacecraft, outer space, space travel, space opera, space, suspended animation, survival, isolation, waking up, dystopia, claustrophobia, exploration ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 21st century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
College friends Devin, Jack, Shelly, Kristy, Shaun, and Flower rent a spacecraft to autopilot them to Centauri Five for a holiday break. Impatient over the rental agency restricting the ship’s speed to 10x, Devin and the others convince Shaun to ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, danger, escapades, space and aliens, evil alien, distant planet, running for your life, spaceship crash, space wars, fight, teamwork, team ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
33%
483
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the near future, a space station dubbed Earth II is built for the purpose of scientific research and world peace. However, that peace is shattered when the Chinese send up a nuclear bomb that is orbiting just a few miles away from the station. ...
Style:
uplifting, exciting, serious, futuristic, bleak ...
Plot:
space station, spacewalk, space travel, distopia, outer space, space colony, nuclear threat, danger, race against time, escapades, chases and races, save the day ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Space pirates, led by diabolical Colonel Fraser, take over a cargo ship carrying anti-matter explosive and an important official. Space marines, led by Captain Gray, must stop their evil plans.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space wars, heroic mission, daring rescue, danger, space and aliens, terrorism, save the day, master villain, heroes, hostage, space marine, military ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
33%
599
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dystopia, survival, rivalry, dystopian future, life is a bitch, chaos, escapades, androids and robots, soldier, man versus machine, society, space travel ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
In the distant future high-tech man colonized the world and leaves all the dirty work of an army of androids and robots. Now, somewhere rebelling robots, and a heavily armed special forces, led by Major Fox well to look after things. Locally it is ...
Style:
serious, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
danger, chaos, escapades, computers and web, soldier, save the world, technology gone awry, survival, imaginary, man versus machine, space and aliens, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, epic, stylized, suspenseful
Plot:
flash gordon, alien invasion, space opera, space and aliens, superhero, plague, outer space, dystopian future, dystopia, escapades, save the world, imaginary ...
Time:
60s, 1930s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A corrupt planetary federation… The ultimate weapon of destruction.... One starship captain stands between them….and intergalactic armageddon. STARSHIP: RISING - RISE UP OR DIE In the distant future, an immortal bionic leader, the product of ...
Style:
serious, rough, bleak, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
spacecraft, space travel, environmentalism, military, danger, time travel, space and aliens, distant planet, space, space opera, artificial intelligence, rebellion ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the not-so-distant future, Captain Jordan Strider, a Special Forces Officer in the New World Alliance, is chosen for a top-secret mission. Sent to a desolate planet, Terra 219, to arrest possible traitors to the Alliance, Strider must survive ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
space wars, space battle, evil alien, military, spacesuit, alien, betrayal, alien encounter, space travel, space and aliens, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jon 141 founds himself stuck in a world of out-of-control reality TV. Every week, he has to fight for higher ratings and his life. But now, the network wants more viewers, and sleazy producer Quinton McBride knows just how to do it. By destroying ...
Style:
semi serious, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rebellion, heroes, imaginary, escapades, rebelliousness, androids and robots, danger, chaos, rivalry, society, space wars, dystopia ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
At the end of mankind's greatest battle, empires will crumble, alliances will form, enemies will rise and heroes will fall. World's will end, and a new journey will begin.
Style:
psychotronic, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, humorous
Plot:
space opera, intergalactic, space travel, time travel, star trek, space wars, teamwork, imaginary, captain, space mission, team, spacecraft ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of ...
Style:
serious, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
chaos, survival, danger, rivalry, dystopian future, heroes, escapades, secret, post apocalypse, virus, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
28%
6K
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awakens to find earth has suffered an extinction-level event.
Style:
suspense, visually appealing, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting ...
Plot:
trapped in space, spacecraft, asteroids and comets, astronaut, survival, space station, space shuttle, space program, space travel, disaster, scientist, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Hollywood version of the popular video game series "Wing Commander". Unlike other video games to feature film transitions, series creator Chris Roberts was heavily involved in the film's creation. This is the story of Christopher ...
Style:
exciting, action adventure, disgusting, uplifting, fast ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space opera, space wars, space and aliens, spacecraft, space, heroic mission, danger, outer space, video game, space travel, alien encounter, military ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1998
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors.
Style:
exciting, futuristic, semi serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moon, danger, misfit, partner, disorder, rivalry, space and aliens, chases and races, heroic mission, alien encounter, gambling, space travel ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space opera, space travel, spacecraft, space battle, save the world, parallel universe, space wars, battles, chaos, heroes, supernatural, danger ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. ...
Style:
cyber, serious, suspenseful, futuristic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, cyberpunk, coma, clone, biopunk, distopia, chaos, on the run, danger, escapades, heroes, chases and races ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe, holland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning begins with Captain James B. Pirk of the starship Kickstart shipwrecked on the 21st century Earth with his crew. Originally from the distant future, Pirk and his crew traveled back in time to save the Earth from hostile ...
Style:
parody, futuristic, funny, light, absurd ...
Plot:
spacecraft, emperor, space opera, time travel, storytelling, alternate reality, alien, space wars, save the world, space and aliens, escapades, man versus machine ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
russia, finland
Similarity:
26%
313
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two giant super-states remain—the bleak, oppressive, and totalitarian "Hemisphere," and the sprawling and futuristic "Megaville." Megaville has an elected president, ...
Style:
cyber, independent film, futuristic, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, hitman, assassination, society, distopia, police officer, evil computer, dystopian future, smuggling, life is a bitch, dishonesty, undercover ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, bleak ...
Plot:
space travel, survival, changing the past or future, heroes, terrorism, escapades, time travel, chaos, spacecraft, danger, space wars, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
Style:
futuristic, saga, epic, exciting, talky ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
star trek, space travel, space opera, artificial intelligence, alien, space adventure, teleportation, planet, space exploration, space station, bald woman, man versus machine ...
Time:
23rd century, future
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a future not too far away, Steve Battier, an elderly, terminally ill multi-millionaire, accepts the offer of a company - RPG - that in exchange for a high monetary sum, provides a very select group of clientèle the chance to be young again. For ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, dystopian future, life is a bitch, escapades, terminal illness, danger, contests and competitions, chaos, technology gone awry, switching bodies, cyberpunk, survival game ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
24%
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