Movies like Dreamscape
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Dreamscape (1984)
14K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in the dreams somehow and that is causing them to die in real life. He must find a way to stop the abuse of the power to enter dreams.
Style:
psychological, surreal, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, stylized, suspense, cult film, surprise ending ...
Plot:
psychic, conspiracy, monster, politics, sleeping, nuclear holocaust, danger, assassination, telekinesis, science, dream, heart, supernatural, heroes, supernatural ability, graphic violence, perfect crime, chases and races, escapades, deadly, rivalry, profanity, nudity (full frontal - brief), snake, chase ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
washington d.c., illinois
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about chase, danger, catastrophe, death, gun, dialogue and murder mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dreamscape: Inception (2010), X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Fury (1978), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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2.1M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, exciting ...
Plot:
parallel world, mind control, virtual reality, alternate reality, subconscious, haunted by the past, existentialism, teamwork, life philosophy, manipulations, perfect crime, sleeping ...
Time:
2010s, near future
Place:
japan, paris france, los angeles, kenya, africa ...
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60%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mutant, time travel, supernatural ability, good versus evil, superhuman powers, changing the past or future, superhero, heroes, danger, teamwork, team, transformation ...
Time:
70s, 21st century, 20th century, contemporary, 80s ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, china, moscow russia ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, entertaining, disaster movie ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
catastrophe, apocalypse, natural disaster, end of the world, tsunami, scientist, global warming, post apocalyptic, chaos, climate change, forces of nature, evacuation ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2000s, future
Place:
antarctica, los angeles, usa, new york, new delhi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
14K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, supernatural, rescue, family relations, danger, government agency, espionage, conspiracy, telepathy, government agent, vengeance, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1977
Place:
middle east, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to ...
Style:
exciting, comic, entertaining, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
good versus evil, danger, revenge, military, soldier, heroic mission, chaos, future dystopia, terrorist, government, attack, world domination ...
Time:
future, 21st century, 2000s, 1600s
Place:
japan, egypt, washington d.c., tokyo, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, experiment gone awry, supernatural ability, supernatural, deadly, government agency, secret past, scientist, burned alive, conspiracy, top secret, murder ...
Time:
50s, 90s, 80s, 1990s, year 1955 ...
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
143K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, outer space, isolation, spacecraft, survival, space and aliens, mutant, danger, memory loss, mission, post apocalypse, fear ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, time travel, man versus machine, androids and robots, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, chase, time paradox, danger, heroes, artificial intelligence, killer robot ...
Time:
future, year 2017, year 1984, year 1997, 21st century ...
Place:
los angeles, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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144K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.
Style:
surprise ending, twists and turns, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassination attempt, terrorism, secret service, bomb, betrayal, chase, president, assassination, terrorist, uncover truth, investigation, danger ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
39K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
artificial intelligence, moral dilemma, experiment, danger, violence, escape, surveillance, psychologist, cloning, fight, isolation, genetics ...
Time:
future, contemporary, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Movies like Mad Max: Fury Road
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Steve Rogers, aka Captain America is living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, good versus evil, superhuman powers, mission, shield, soldier, super soldier, adventure, political thriller, hi-tech, teamwork, leader ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, future, 2010s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
25K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, scary, twist ending, suspense, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, zombie, cell phone, virus, end of the world, violence, murder, suicide, zombie apocalypse, stephen king, survival, airport ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
boston, new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
510K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses – Magneto and Mystique – to unhinge ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, psychotronic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
superhero, supernatural ability, mutant, superhuman powers, good versus evil, heroes, professor, super powers, supernatural, x men, superhuman, teleportation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, future, 2000s, near future
Place:
usa, boston, washington d.c., canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
123K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
invisible man, experiment, mad scientist, invisibility, danger, scientist, psychopath, murder, crimes, swearing, violence, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 1990s
Place:
pentagon, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
105K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue ...
Style:
exciting, twists and turns, suspenseful, serious, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
supernatural ability, clairvoyance, telekinesis, danger, imaginary, chase, psychic, precognition, experiment, supernatural, undercover, escapades ...
Time:
future, 21st century, contemporary, year 1945
Place:
hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Day After Tomorrow similar movies
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, rough, suspenseful, cult film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, cyberpunk, flooding, plague, post apocalyptic, future dystopia, danger, escapades, global warming, murder, contamination, creature ...
Time:
future, 21st century, 2000s, year 2008
Place:
england, london, europe, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
alien invasion, evil alien, end of the world, survival, demolished city, invisibility, american abroad, electricity, post apocalypse, creature, chaos, apocalypse ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
rescue, alien, astronaut, save the world, heroic mission, race against time, heroes, against the rules, space travel, danger, deadly, undercover ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Henry, a newly resurrected cyborg who must save his wife/creator from the clutches of a psychotic tyrant with telekinetic powers, AKAN, and his army of mercenaries. Fighting alongside Henry is Jimmy, who is Henry's only hope to make it through ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, suspense, intense, twists and turns ...
Plot:
stylized violence, cyborgs, murder, survival, memory loss, psychopath, car chase, chase, terrorist group, violence, soldier, one man army ...
Time:
near future
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 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.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense, cult film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, murder, mad scientist, hospital, slasher, survival, serial killer, heroes, small town, experiment gone awry, danger, psychopath ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Films like The 5th Wave
108K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Style:
futuristic, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
distopia, utopia, survival, good versus evil, female protagonist, surveillance, technology, manipulation, danger, strong female character, politics, brainwashing ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Style:
suspense, comic, surprise ending, intense, entertaining ...
Plot:
apocalypse, superhero team, mutant, superhero, super strength, world domination, immortality, superhuman, comics, transformation, heroes, battlefield ...
Time:
80s, future, 2010s, year 1983
Place:
egypt, poland, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, cairo egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style:
suspenseful, twists and turns, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural ability, dark hero, supernatural, coma, destiny, neo noir, changing the past or future, a vision, heroes, investigation, serial killer, murder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, future
Place:
usa, new hampshire, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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74K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, femme fatale, cocoon, cloning, danger, dna, interspecies sex, genetic engineering, scientist, on the run, breeding, transformation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After seeking to live a normal life, Logan sets out to avenge the death of his girlfriend by undergoing the mutant Weapon X program and becoming Wolverine.
Style:
exciting, stylized, suspenseful, psychotronic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mutant, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, superhero, heroes, genetically altered, rage, experiment, scientist, army, good versus evil, vengeance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
nigeria, usa, ohio, new orleans, las vegas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Movies similar to Jurassic World
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
dangerous animal, dinosaur, animal attack, adventure, animal horror, island, theme park, catastrophe, survival, heroes, danger, rescue ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2010s
Place:
costa rica
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
752K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, entertaining, intense, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, good versus evil, heroes, adventure, vengeance, hotshot hero, rivalry, escapades, danger, millionaire, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 1999, year 2012, 90s ...
Place:
malibu california, tennessee, washington d.c., switzerland, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Austria, UK, Morocco
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate - an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
spy, cia, espionage, secret agents, mission, conspiracy, heroic mission, villain, undercover, danger, escapades, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
austria, london, vienna, morocco, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
51K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
outer space, space station, survival, murder, danger, slasher, good versus evil, scientist, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, slasher killer, deadly ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century, 80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
52K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
danger, supernatural, survival, escapades, secret laboratory, space and aliens, military, science, battles, save the world, heroes, heroic mission ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
usa, new york, eastern europe, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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