Movies like Damnation Alley
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Damnation Alley (1977)
6K
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the freakish weather mutated plant and animal life and other dangers along the way.
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, rough, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, cockroach, post nuclear, nuclear holocaust, abandoned city, disaster, post apocalyptic, distopia, motorcycle, wasteland, nuclear explosion, creature, travel, chess, biker, death, animal attack, civilization, fortress, blackjack, nuclear missile, post nuclear war, monster, epidemic ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 70s, near future
Place:
las vegas, new york, usa, california, detroit, arizona, soviet union ...
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Most similar movies to Damnation Alley
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful and futuristic films with plots about danger, post apocalypse, chaos, distopia, apocalypse, escapades and survival mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Horror genres. Some movies like Damnation Alley: The Aftermath (1982), Teenage Caveman (2002), Idaho Transfer (1973), The Omega Man (1971), The Time Travelers (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a lengthy space mission, two astronauts (Steve Barkett and Larry Latham) return to an Earth transformed by nuclear war. As renegade gangs and mutants rule Los Angeles, the astronauts join two pretty women and a couple of kids in a growing ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, retro ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, biker, gang, astronaut, survival, mutant, battles, chaos, danger, rivalry, civilization, one against many ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic future mankind is lives in a prehistoric manner. After killing his father for sexually assaulting his girlfriend, the son of a tribal leader runs away with a group of his teenage friends. They are taken in by Neil and Judith ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
deadly creature, chaos and mayhem, danger, caveman, bare chested male, lesbianism, decapitation, plague, teenage life, youth, dystopian future, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, stone age
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or ...
Style:
apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, teenager, bare breasts, time travel, dystopian future, apocalypse, time machine, backpacking, secret experiment, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, erotica ...
Time:
future
Place:
idaho, usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style:
futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, plague, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, pandemic, virus, dystopia, transformation, loneliness, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1971, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, china, woodstock, california ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath Plughead. But Plughead who has tangled with Danner before has ...
Style:
tech noir, apocalyptic, independent film, serious, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, cyberpunk, androids and robots, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, evil computer, heroes, dystopian future, special agent, corporate crime, heroic mission, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, ...
Style:
apocalyptic, surprise ending, classic horror, grindhouse, mysterious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, post apocalypse, time loop, mutant, time portal, apocalypse, time, dystopia, group, post thermonuclear war, portal, distopia ...
Time:
60s, distant future, future
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Following the destruction caused on Earth by nuclear weapons, Ryan Cawdor returns after twenty years to a ravaged part of Virginia he used to call home, where his brother and stepmother plotted to kill his father, the baron. With his companions in ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, rivalry, save the world, heroic mission, heroes, chaos, rescue, escapades, dystopian future, leadership ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style:
futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time:
80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
Similarity:
54%
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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:
54%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, grindhouse, depressing, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, survival, wasteland, distopia, exploitation, quarantine, nuclear disaster, epidemic, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
future, year 1975, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
persia, new york, usa, north carolina
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up if the Artificial Intelligence fail) at ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, space, spacecraft, post apocalyptic, fantasy world, space opera, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, dystopia, nasa, death ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
Similarity:
53%
625
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, dystopia, post nuclear, post apocalyptic, distopia, wasteland, epidemic, survival, atomic bomb ...
Time:
year 1979, 90s, future
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nuclear Family begins the story of a young couple, John and Lynn, who are trying to survive in the woods after what appears to be a nuclear holocaust. They stay on the move with their 11-year-old daughter, Pauline... all the while searching for ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot:
apocalypse, dystopian future, survival, society, chaos, family in danger, social decay, vestiges of humanity, life is a bitch, who to trust, disorder, woods ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style:
scary, medical horror, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dystopian future, deadly creature, parasite, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, dystopia, bio weapon, danger, plague ...
Time:
future, year 1992, year 1982, 90s, near future ...
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style:
visually appealing, visually stunning, road movie, apocalyptic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, car, desert, apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, chase, on the run, dystopia, car chase, distopia, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2015, year 2016, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, los angeles
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public ...
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, car, automobile, distopia, terror, post-apocalyptic future, planet, epidemic, classic car, dystopian future, apocalypse ...
Time:
year 1981, future, distant future
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, disease, ship, tough guy, good versus evil, race against time, heroic mission, dystopian future, imaginary, experiment gone awry, infection, one against many ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 23rd century, year 2004
Place:
south america, antarctica
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Set in a post-nuclear-holocaust future, this sci-fi western takes place in the frontier city of New Hope, the only place around with a working oil refinery. Ever since a megalomaniac general and his followers took over the place, life has been ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, perverse, scenic, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, post apocalyptic, life is a bitch, heroes, survival, cowboy, distopia, cyberpunk, anti hero, soldier ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
space western
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, intense, serious, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, time travel, man versus machine, post apocalypse, dystopian future, terminator, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Astronaut Brent is sent to rescue Taylor but crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor did in the original film. Taylor has disappeared into the Forbidden Zone so Brent and Nova try to follow and find him. He discovers a cult of humans ...
Style:
apocalyptic, saga, futuristic, depressing, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, ape, astronaut, planet of the apes, apocalypse, dystopia, space and aliens, time travel, desert, gorilla, monkey, outer space ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, tokyo
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film, semi serious, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dinosaur, time loop, apocalypse, epidemic, time machine, disorder, heroic mission, inventions and discoveries, space travel, alien encounter, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
year 1967, prehistory, future
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
The year is 1998, six years after the nuke wars reduced the world to rubble and a few bands of wandering survivors. One of these groups stumbles into an abandoned government research facility, where they were working on making the body capable of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, retro, grindhouse, independent film, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, monster, alien, creature, creature feature, post-apocalyptic future, laboratory, apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, bare chested male, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, tech noir, psychotronic, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, androids and robots, terminator, cyborgs, cyberpunk, apocalypse, kung fu, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future, cannon, martial arts, alien ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style:
philosophical, visually stunning, futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
robot, dystopia, space travel, space opera, distopia, space and aliens, spaceship, post apocalypse, spacecraft, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, isolation ...
Time:
future, year 1972
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, saga, psychotronic, classic horror, space horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, gorilla, revolution, monkey, post-apocalyptic future, survival, rebellion, time dilation ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 70s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the ...
Style:
cult classic, apocalyptic, exciting, grindhouse, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids, dystopia, robot, cyberpunk, sexy woman, female robot, heroic mission, post apocalyptic, androids and robots, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1987, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place:
nevada, las vegas, reno nevada
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more ...
Style:
bad ending, apocalyptic, depressing, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
found footage, disaster, apocalypse, asteroids and comets, natural disaster, ufo, catastrophe, bad guys win, alien invasion, epidemic, bad guy, world war ...
Time:
90s
Place:
east asia, europe, wyoming, asia, south of france ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" ...
Style:
black and white, bleak, apocalyptic, experimental, stylized ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, wasteland, dystopic future, survival, isolation, dystopian future, minimal dialogue, post-apocalyptic future, battles, post apocalyptic, loneliness ...
Time:
future, year 1983, near future
Place:
japan, france, california, paris france
Similarity:
49%
928
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, rape, wasteland, post-apocalyptic future, exploitation, heroes, desert, post nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, water shortage, attempted rape ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Experiments in biological warfare have destroyed all but a few remnants of the human race. Alone in a lab, eight students work feverishly to create a vaccine before they are forced outside in search for food. It is then that the surviving scientists ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, monster, isolation, space and aliens, rescue, plague, battles, deadly creature, danger, pregnancy, life is a bitch, creature ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
48%
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