Movies like Fortress 1992

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Fortress (1992)
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Fortress (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private corporation bent on mind control in various ways
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, cyber, futuristic, suspense, cult classic, apocalyptic, breathtaking, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, mind control, dystopia, isolation, overpopulation, maximum security prison, androids and robots, prison escape, dystopian future, escape, heroes, prison life, cyberpunk, fighting the system, rescue, rebellion, heroic mission, captivity, danger, medieval, totalitarianism, warden, technology gone awry, disaster, robot ...
Time: future, near future, year 1992, year 2017, 80s
Keyword: dreams, retrospective

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, futuristic and exciting films with plots about distopia, dystopian future, murder, violence, explosion, dystopia and heroes mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Fortress: No Escape (1994), Lockout (2012), Demolition Man (1993), Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993), Judge Dredd (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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No Escape (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of ...
Style: suspense, exciting, grindhouse, bleak, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, island, jungle, prison guard, dystopia, survival, chase, violent, brutality, island prison, prisoner, escape ...
Time: future, year 1994, near future
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Lockout (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, space station, secret service, hotshot hero, outer space, rescue mission, hostage, lone hero, heroic mission, space, maximum security prison, prison fight ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, new york
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Demolition Man (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, utopia, crime fighter, time travel, dystopia, totalitarianism, maverick cop, police, violence, dystopian future, good versus evil ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, cyber, apocalyptic, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, on the run, robot, artificial intelligence, sex with a robot, androids and robots, corporation, assassination plot, androids, hitman, rivalry ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Judge Dredd (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Style: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopic future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, superhero, police, dystopian future, dystopia, good versus evil, post apocalyptic, tough cop, comic book ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: usa, new york
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Absolon (2003)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the near future, a virus has infected everyone on the planet, and Absolon is a drug that everyone must take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug. Murchison is the leader of this firm. A scientist who was researching the virus is found ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pandemic, deadly virus, dishonesty, virus, chaos, disorder, plague, danger, fighting the system, uncover truth, cataclysm, heroic mission ...
Time: future
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 5.4
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Freejack (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style: futuristic, entertaining, cyber, tech noir, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, cyberpunk, on the run, chase, dystopian future, dystopia, racing, bounty hunter, apocalypse, car, auto racing, death ...
Time: future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place: new york, usa
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Fortress 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 7 years on from the original Fortress movie, Brennick and his family are still on the run. Finally, they give in, and surrender, only to find themselves imprisoned in a new, more sophisticated fortress prison in outer space. But Brennick's not ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, futuristic, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, fugitives, on the run, chase, race against time, rivalry, heroes, heroic mission, isolation, totalitarian regime, mind control, space ...
Time: future, near future
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 32K
Virtuosity (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, cyber, suspense, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, serial killer, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, hacking, computer, technology, hacker, video game, good versus evil, law enforcement ...
Time: future, year 1995, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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 4.7
 825
Digital Man (1995)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An out-of-control robot is inadvertently set loose in a small community, and a crack squad of soldiers are sent to hunt it down. Gradually, the members of the squad begin to suspect that some of them are robots.
Style: tech noir, independent film, fast, exciting, serious ...
Plot: robot, terminator, soldier, cyberpunk, military, terrorism, cyborgs, distopia, evil computer, heroes, community, control ...
Time: future, near future
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 6.3
 29K
Screamers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, twist ending, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, struggle for survival, apocalypse, killer robot, alien planet, robot, space, dystopia, distopia, chaos ...
Time: future, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 256K
Escape Plan (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, suspense, clever, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly
Plot: prison, prison escape, survival, escape, prisoner, revenge, escape plan, lone hero, outsmarting, planning, ship, convict ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: morocco, usa, colorado, florida, california ...
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 6.8
 61K
Logan's Run (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, cult classic, psychotronic, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, dystopia, cat, robot, utopia, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, post apocalypse, space, totalitarianism, biosphere ...
Time: future, 23rd century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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100%
 6.6
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The Running Man (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, serious, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: dystopian future, distopia, chase, cyberpunk, chases and races, dystopic future, danger, prison, prison escape, tough heroes, stephen king, game of death ...
Time: future, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: los angeles
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100%
 5.9
 9K
Wedlock (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Style: suspense, dark comedy, black comedy, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, conspiracy, dystopian future, prisoner, on the run, heist, distopia, cyberpunk, fugitives, manhunt, prison escape, bad guy ...
Time: future, near future
Place: los angeles, california
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 6.3
 180K
Surrogates (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, distopia, utopia, androids and robots, dystopia, technology gone awry, cloning, virtual reality, cyborgs, dystopic future, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place: san diego california
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 6.1
 239K
RoboCop (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: cyborgs, police, robot, androids and robots, cyberpunk, urban, androids, haunted by the past, superhuman powers, graphic violence, technology, robocop ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: detroit, usa, tehran iran, pentagon, china ...
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 7.3
 346K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
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Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In a not-too-distant future, a lethal virus sweeps across Europe, prompting the creation of quarantine refugee camps in the United States. Police officers Delon (Natasha Henstridge) and Lemieux (Christopher Lambert) learn of a grisly murder in the ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, brutality, quarantine, virus, chase, race against time, catastrophe, fantasy world, dystopian future, chaos, danger, investigation ...
Time: year 2007, future, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, europe
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100%
Universal Soldier (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, intense, rough, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: soldier, androids and robots, cyberpunk, martial arts, vietnam war, cyborgs, reporter, transformation, military, robot, adaptation, amnesia ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: vietnam, utah, arizona, nevada, louisiana ...
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 5.9
 4K
Turkey Shoot (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the camp. Paul, one of the newest prisoners, is determined not to go down as quietly as the others.
Style: grindhouse, apocalyptic, cult classic, psychotronic, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, manhunt, torture, sadism, brutality, dystopia, lesbian rape, violence, prisoner, sex, distopia, most dangerous game ...
Time: future, year 1982, 21st century
Place: australia
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 5.6
 35K
Death Race 2 (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head, his only hope is to ...
Style: bloody, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: car chase, contests and competitions, car race, racing, survival, street racing, brutality, car, warden, heroes, rivalry, prison ...
Time: year 2011, future
Place: south africa, iran
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopia, post apocalyptic, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, dystopian future, apocalypse, earthquake, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, one man army, danger ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
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100%
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 5.8
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RoboCop 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After a successful deployment of the Robocop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. ...
Style: futuristic, bloody, cyber, stylized, tech noir ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, robot, superhero, robocop, police, comic book, tough girl, extreme violence, distopia, law enforcement ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: michigan, texas, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last Sentinel (2007)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect civilization until the drone police became the perfect enemy. With little hope left for mankind, Tallis, an electronically enhanced soldier, rescues a survivor from a failed ...
Style: exciting, serious, bleak, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soldier, battles, danger, survival, life is a bitch, man versus machine, save the world, androids and robots, heroic mission, female warrior, chaos, daring rescue ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Argentina, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the year 2025, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed. It is up to MacLeod and Rameriz to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Ziest (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the ...
Style: futuristic, saga, cult classic, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cyberpunk, immortal, sword and sorcery, fictional war, alien, female warrior, medieval, sword fight, space, heroes, future war, sorcery ...
Time: future, year 1999, 90s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: scotland, new york, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 80K
Doomsday (2008)
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 ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, cannibalism, infected, danger, society, epidemic, survival, rescue, chaos, infection, quarantine ...
Time: future, 2030s, year 2008, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, britain, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, action packed, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, cyborgs, robot, androids and robots, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, terminator, time machine, chaos, man versus machine, sent to the past, time traveler ...
Time: year 2003, future, 2000s, near future, 2030s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, beverly hills
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 4.8
 28K
Tekken (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the year of 2039, after World Wars destroy much of the civilization as we know it, territories are no longer run by governments, but by corporations; the mightiest of which is the Mishima Zaibatsu. In order to placate the seething masses of this ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, ninja, fight, superhero, tough girl, kung fu, fantasy world, heroes, revenge, tough heroes, martial arts tournament, mentor ...
Time: future, 2030s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, technology gone awry, danger, computer, hi-tech, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004, 20th century, near future, 2030s ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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