Movies and TV shows like Golden Years

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Golden Years (1991)
 5.2
 3K
Golden Years (1991)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 232 min.
TV show
Story: When an explosion at a top-secret government lab injures an elderly janitor, no one could have expected the terrifying results. Exposure to mysterious chemicals causes him to undergo a bizarre transformation. He is slowly... incredibly... growing younger every day. Now, a ruthless CIA assassin will stop at nothing to take him prisoner and turn him into a government guinea pig. With his future on the line, the janitor goes on the run with his wife and a feisty female agent. All the while, he continues to transform... into a being with powers that are as deadly as they are unimaginable.
Style: dark, mysterious, splatter, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot: stephen king, on the run, military, scientist, experiment, conspiracy, fugitive, rejuvenation, aging, laboratory, fugitives, chases and races, experiment gone awry, disorder, switching roles, genius, cia, escape, violence, assassin, murder, radiation, secret laboratory, chase, mouse ...
Time: 90s, 20th century

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Most similar movies to Golden Years

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and scary films and TV series with plots about supernatural, danger, murder, stephen king, supernatural power, deadly and conspiracy mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Golden Years: The Pretender (1996), Firestarter: Rekindled (2002), Castle Rock (2018), Firestarter (1984), Nowhere Man (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Pretender (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Pretender is an American television series that aired on NBC from 1996 to 2000. The series starred Michael T. Weiss as Jarod, a genius and former child prodigy with the ability to become anyone he wants to be, i.e., to flawlessly impersonate ...
Style: exciting, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: prodigy, secret hideout, goodhearted, righting the wronged, secret place, genius, undercover, self discovery, encounter, good versus evil, hopes, manhunt ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: delaware
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100%
Firestarter: Rekindled (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of psychokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. Charlie has been in hiding for nearly all her life from a top-secret government fringe group headed by the maniacal John ...
Style: serious, psychological, scary, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychic power, stephen king, experiment gone awry, supernatural, fire, supernatural ability, imaginary, danger, conspiracy, psionic power, race against time, disorder ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Fugitive: The Chase Continues (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Fugitive is a remake of the 1963 TV series of the same name that aired for one season on CBS between October 6, 2000 and May 25, 2001. It stars Tim Daly as Dr. Richard Kimble, Mykelti Williamson as lieutenant Philip Gerard, and Stephen Lang as ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, manhunt, chase, frame up, murder, murder suspect, chases and races, bounty hunter, nypd, black cop, uncover truth, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.5
 51K
Castle Rock (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, anthology, enigmatic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, danger, violence, investigation, paranormal phenomena, small town, blood, stephen king, death, interracial adoption, supernatural, mysticism ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 6.1
 37K
Firestarter (1984)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style: scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, psychic, experiment gone awry, creepy child, little girl, psychic power, father daughter relationship, on the run, supernatural ability, danger, government agency ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 8.3
 2K
Nowhere Man (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Nowhere Man is an American television series that aired from 1995 to 1996 starring Bruce Greenwood. Created by Lawrence Hertzog, the series aired Monday nights on UPN. Despite critical acclaim, including TV Guide's label of "The ...
Style: retro, mysterious, psychological thriller, serious, realistic ...
Plot: conspiracy, supernatural, troubled, betrayal, on the run, paranoia, photojournalism, photographer, obsessive quest, chases and races, dishonesty, identity crisis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Lisey's Story (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 401 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: stephen king, confronting the past, tragic past, investigation, dark past, past coming back to haunt, murder investigation, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, writers, animal death, killing an animal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.1
 32K
The Langoliers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: On a red eye flight from LA to Boston, 10 people wake up to a shock. All the passengers and crew have vanished. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But ...
Style: psychological, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, airplane, supernatural, stephen king, apocalypse, survival, obsessive quest, airport, alternate dimension, time, time warp, blind character ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: maine, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 6.1
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The Shining (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story: John Torrance is a writer & recovering alcoholic, who ends up taking a job as a winter caretaker for a remote Colorado hotel which he seeks as an opportunity to finish a piece of work. With his wife and son with him, the caretaker settles ...
Style: scary, creepy, mysterious, cult classic, mystic ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, winter, psychic, isolation, haunting, supernatural, supernatural ability, writers, killer, psychic power, mountain ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Storm of the Century (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 257 min.
TV show
Story: A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine. All access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, tragedy ...
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, creepy, intense ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, snow, demon, small town, blizzard, storm, winter, suicide, murder, village, mysterious stranger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Kingdom Hospital (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 608 min.
TV show
Story: Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, scary, medical horror ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, hospital, supernatural, psychic power, haunted by the past, danger, losing-it hero, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, supernatural power, arson ...
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Outer Limits (1995)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The Outer Limits is an anthology series of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. Unlike the original incarnation of the series, which was a pure anthology with each episode completely unrelated to the others, the revival ...
Style: anthology, scary, cerebral, funny, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, post apocalypse, supernatural, female alien, alien invasion, space, cyberpunk, evil alien, androids and robots, alien encounter, alien, trippy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, near future
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 8.1
 98K
11.22.63 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Style: stylized, exciting, period piece, tense, light ...
Plot: time travel, assassination, stephen king, time, time traveler, changing the past or future, altering history, kennedy assassination, murder, love, conspiracy theory, danger ...
Time: 60s, future, 20th century, year 1963, 2010s ...
Place: usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 387 min.
TV show
Story: A television mini-series adaptation of Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King's collection of short horror stories.
Style: anthology, scary, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, nightmare, evil force, danger, wrong place wrong time, mysterious place, halloween, hospital, writers, loss of son, honeymoon ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.6
 96K
The Outsider (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
Style: mysterious, scary, detective, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: stephen king, murder, supernatural, investigation, mysticism, police investigation, cold case, murder mystery, falsely accused, mysterious event, murder investigation, small town ...
Place: usa, georgia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Scorpius Gigantus (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Geneticist seeks to make a name for herself by saving the planet from disease by using eons-old antibodies, harvested from enlarged six legged creatures. The creatures don't like being big and escape. Send for help.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, humorous, exciting ...
Plot: space and aliens, disorder, mutant, heroes, deadly creature, escapades, danger, supernatural, rivalry, chases and races, experiment gone awry, chaos ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 12K
Desperation (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: survival, small town, sheriff, curses spells and rituals, stephen king, supernatural, mine, murder, mysterious character, danger, family in danger, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, vietnam, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 8.0
 12K
Millennium (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A retired FBI serial-profiler joins the mysterious Millennium Group, a team of underground ex-law enforcement experts dedicated to fighting against the ever-growing forces of evil and darkness in the world.
Style: atmospheric, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, good versus evil, supernatural, investigation, conspiracy, prophecy, secret movement, police detective, fbi, who done it, government agency, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Messengers (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: good versus evil, angel, apocalypse, supernatural ability, rivalry, danger, society, religions or cults, supernatural, superhuman powers, death, fugitives ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Stranger Things (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, telekinesis, small town, parallel universe, experiment, parallel world, friendship, supernatural power, super powers, missing person, government conspiracy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, future, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: indiana, chicago, usa, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
666 Park Avenue (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: What would you do to have everything you desire? Step inside 666 Park Avenue, New York's most seductive address. We all have some burning needs, desires and ambitions. For the residents of The Drake, the premier apartment building on ...
Style: scary, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: wish come true, fear, nightmare, god or devil, desire, good versus evil, obsession, danger, mysterious character, temptation, dream come true, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Into the Dark (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: A Year's Worth of Horrific Holidays: each episode is inspired by a holiday from the month in which it is released.
Style: anthology, scary, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: fear, holiday, murder, macabre, youth, nudity, psychopath, isolation, supernatural, mythical creature, holiday horror, supernatural horror ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Book of Jer3miah (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A college freshman, Jeremiah Whitney, accepts the undertaking to protect a mysterious Mesoamerican box. When Jeremiah's parents are mysteriously murdered, Jeremiah learns that he is the target of a frightening conspiracy. Every facet of his ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: conspiracy, chase, riddles and clues, life turned upside down, young heroes, uncover truth, religions or cults, heroic mission, destiny, heroes, dishonesty, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Equalizer (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The Equalizer is an American television series that ran for four seasons, initially on CBS, between 1985 and 1989. It stars Edward Woodward as a middle aged retired intelligence officer with a mysterious past who helps people in trouble. The show ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, anti hero, injustice, vengeance, tough heroes, rivalry, machismo, one man army, spy, superhero, conspiracy, police officer ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 26K
Zoo (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Set amidst a wave of violent animal attacks sweeping across the planet, a young renegade scientist is thrust into a race to unlock the mystery behind this pandemic before time runs out for animals and humans alike.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pandemic, extinction, dangerous animal, mutation, save the world, experiment, pursuit, conspiracy, danger, death, survival, virus ...
Time: jurassic, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 21K
Firestarter (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has ...
Style: suspense, action adventure, psychotronic, crying, neo noir ...
Plot: psychic, stephen king, fear, superpower, telepathy, pyrokinesis, fire, supernatural, evil, white supremacy, wife, loss of mother ...
Time: 2020s
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 42K
Hemlock Grove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White ...
Style: gothic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, danger, vampire, small town, protagonist as suspect, social relations, investigation, family secret, family relations, desire, gypsy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: stephen king, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, uncover truth, losing-it hero, woman in danger, infidelity, supernatural, mysterious character, dangerous attraction, supernatural ability ...
Time: 1900s
Place: washington state, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Twilight Zone (1985)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
Style: anthology, psychological, scary, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, hidden truth, nobody believes, investigation, twists and turns, nightmare comes true, abduction, imaginary, society, vietnam war, surrealism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
 158
Strange World (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Strange World is an American television program about military investigations into criminal abuses of science and technology. ABC commissioned 13 episodes, of which three aired in March 1999, before the network cancelled the program. The remaining ...
Style: detective, medical drama, anthology, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: military, paranoia, bio weapon, gulf war, cloning, technology, power relations, righting the wronged, experiment gone awry, anti war, haunted by the past, price of justice ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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