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The Ugly Swans (2006)
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The Ugly Swans (2006)
Original name: Гадкие лебеди
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia, France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the near future, writer Victor Banev gets himself on a UN commission to investigate what's going on in the remote town of Tashlinsk, where reports tell of a virus-created race of brainiac mutants. Banev's tween daughter Ira is enrolled at a school for gifted children which has been taken over by the mutants, who have grown to despise ordinary humanity.
Style: bleak, exciting, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, psychedelic, realistic, surreal, scary, stylized ...
Plot: school, supernatural, politics, rescue, boarding school life, prodigy, isolation, boarding school, danger, siblings relations, science, military, paranormal phenomena, father daughter relationship, alien invasion, writers, distopia, architecture, european, spiritual journey, ghost, mutant, heroes, misfit, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: poland
Keyword: russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and bleak films with plots about danger, supernatural, alien, isolation, distopia, space and space and aliens mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Ugly Swans: Anna to the Infinite Power (1983), Children of the Damned (1964), Malevil (1981), Grey Skies (2010), Sole Survivor (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Anna to the Infinite Power (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic dreams. Simultaneously, several strange things begin to happen. A strange, mysterious neighbor, by the name of MacKayla moves ...
Style: independent film, tech noir, scary, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: child prodigy, prodigy, cloning, mentor, gene manipulation, clone, holocaust, genetic engineering, medical research, teacher, nurse, human duplication ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Children of the Damned (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, black and white ...
Plot: evil child, creepy child, children, supernatural, church, killer child, prodigy, supernatural ability, danger, social misfits, moral dilemma, genius ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.5
 951
Malevil (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, wasteland, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, nuclear explosion, confined ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 3.4
 611
Grey Skies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of old college friends reunite to relive their glory days by renting a beautiful cabin in the woods. As the sun sets on their first day in the cabin, bright flashes of light announce the arrival of mysterious creatures. These friends will ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, psychological
Plot: alien, alien abduction, alien encounter, survival, isolation, danger, woods, escapades, abduction, ufo, violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Sole Survivor (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story: A reporter loses his wife and daughter to a plane crash, but when the sole survivor appears, the reporter realizes that it wasn't a mere accident, but a conspiracy involving children with mysterious.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: murder, journalism, supernatural, ghost, danger, survivor, experiment, possessed human, airplane crash, reporter, on the run, healing power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 5.0
 4K
Quintet (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Style: apocalyptic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: ice age, dystopian future, apocalypse, climate change, rivalry, danger, isolation, life is a bitch, society, survival, obsession, chaos ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 8.1
 144K
Stalker (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style: philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: stalker, distopia, human nature, post apocalypse, trippy, dystopian future, surrealism, wish come true, dog, society, post apocalyptic, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 1979, distant future, near future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ...
Style: bleak, contemplative, serious, allegory, slow cinema ...
Plot: surrealism, delusion, circus, musician, magic realism, philosophy, social relations, danger, small town life, village life, european, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Movie in collections
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The People (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young woman is assigned to teach school in a secluded valley whose inhabitants appear stern, secretive and anti-pleasure. Following two children who disappear to play in the woods, she finds that this is actually a community of extraterrestrials ...
Style: psychotronic, semi serious
Plot: alien, school, telekinesis, teacher, distopia, child, ufo, levitation, danger, space and aliens, benign alien, teachers and students ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.9
 759K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: alien, first contact, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, time, science, alien race, alien contact, extraterrestrial, scientist, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: china, montana, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Incident at Raven's Gate (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to ...
Style: independent film, bleak, suspenseful, offbeat, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, distopia, fashion, post apocalypse, murder, farm, violent content, cons and scams, supernatural ability, chases and races, danger, mentally unstable ...
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.8
 375K
Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, outer space, loneliness, space travel, astronaut, solitude, cloning, space and aliens, robot, dystopic future, space ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.1
 20K
Cargo (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, philosophical, tense ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, spacecraft, isolation, space and aliens, dystopia, post apocalypse, distopia, uncover truth, danger, teleportation, alien ...
Time: future, 23rd century, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.4
 1K
The Unknown (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five young field-biologists are sent to northern Sweden to investigate effects of a large forest fire. However, what was thought to be some weeks of camping and easy work soon turns into a nightmare as they find the remains of a mysterious creature ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, disturbing
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, woods, isolation, wilderness, monster, backwoods, confined, strange behavior, alien possession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.8
 2K
Dorm (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable -- until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
Style: serious, touching, bleak, scary, suspense
Plot: coming of age, friendship, boarding school, nightmare, rescue, little boy, drowning, guilt, supernatural, haunted by the past, social misfits, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Color Out of Space (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he ...
Style: lovecraft, neo noir, tense, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: cosmic horror, farm, missing person, supernatural, danger, countryside, meteorite, laboratory, cthulhu, paranormal activity, paranormal, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.9
 826
High Moon (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the future where the countries of Earth have established colonies to mine the Moon's resources. When a new life form is discovered, chaos erupts as various factions race to uncover and exploit its powerful secrets.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Plot: space and aliens, imaginary, moon, chaos and mayhem, inventions and discoveries, chaos, space, danger, investigation, oxygen, space wars, outer space
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 344
Fissures (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, fear, loss of mother, supernatural power, uncover truth, murder mystery, clue, hearing voices, small village, mysterious past ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.5
 292K
Contact (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style: cerebral, inspirational, philosophical, futuristic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: science, space travel, scientist, nasa, alien encounter, outer space, alien, space and aliens, first contact, astronomy, religion, alien contact ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, distant future
Place: puerto rico, new mexico, washington d.c., usa, hokkaido ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations ...
Style: philosophical, exciting, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: distopia, fighting the system, libertarian, ambition, rebellion, visionary, radical, rebelliousness, idealism, lifestyle, workplace, politics ...
Time: future, year 2012
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.3
 3K
Roswell (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his ...
Style: cynical, captivating, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, alien abduction, space and aliens, space, extraterrestrial, cadet, military, conspiracy, abduction, soldier, uncover truth ...
Time: 1940s
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Island of the Burning Damned (1967)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: island, alien, scientist, danger, supernatural, isolation, love triangle, investigation, monster, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, ufo ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 6K
Innocence (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, UK, Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Style: disturbing, surreal, art house, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boarding school, friendship, childhood, coming of age, little girl, boarding school life, girls' boarding school, society, school, obsession, teenage life, escape ...
Time: 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 3.5
 904
Alien Siege (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alien Siege is a 2005 Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie about an alien race that comes to Earth seeking a cure to a deadly virus, for which the antidote is human blood.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: deadly creature, evil alien, rescue, heroic mission, save the world, space and aliens, supernatural, danger, alien invasion, ufo, space, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 484
Ghostboat (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission ...
Style: serious, scary, tense, mind bending, rough ...
Plot: submarine, supernatural, world war two, british navy, ghost ship, supernatural ability, heroes, danger, escapades, ghost, memory loss, ocean ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Extinction: The G.M.O. Chronicles (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Retrovirus, which was conceived as a tool for industrial genetic engineering, has gotten out of control and is spreading rapidly. While it crosses all organisms within our ecological system completely indiscriminately (mixing plant with animal and ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, extinction, infection, survivor, isolation, death, chaos, danger, mutant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Curse of the Fly (1965)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Remember that scientist that was trying to perfect a matter transportation machine but got fused with a fly when one of the little critters got into the transporter with him? Well, this story is about three of his descendents (a son, Henri Delambre, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, exciting, serious, black and white ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mad scientist, experiment, disfigurement, laboratory, mental institution, experiment gone awry, danger, deadly creature, curse, monster, human monster, wedding ...
Time: 60s
Place: england, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
 1K
Black River (2001)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Burned-out Hollywood screenwriter Bo Aikens (Jay Mohr) is fed up with life in Los Angeles. He heads out of the hustle and bustle of the big city and arrives in picturesque Black River in Northern California, seeking relaxation and artistic ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot: small town, small town life, danger, sister sister relationship, destiny, isolation, remote control, guardian angel, writers, disaster, ritual, phone ringing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Call Me Elisabeth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, exciting ...
Plot: family relations, master and servant, couples, danger, mute or deaf, countryside, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, friendship, intellectual disability ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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