Movies like Apocalypse
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Apocalypse (2011)
13K
Original name: Hell
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller, scary, political, futuristic, cult classic, mindfuck, twisted ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, heat wave, cannibalism, dystopian future, chase, danger, on the run, society, disaster, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future, on the road, journey, moral dilemma, porn, pandemic, infection, fear, isolation, wasteland, climate change, stranded, strong female character, survival horror ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, contemporary
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to Apocalypse
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious and bleak films with plots about post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, epidemic, post apocalyptic, danger and distopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Apocalypse: The Road (2009), The Day (2011), Light of My Life (2019), 2084 (2009), 20 Years After (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
269K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style:
bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, distopia, end of the world, cannibalism, starvation, dystopia, on the road, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, distant future, 2000s ...
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
100%
14K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, survival horror, dystopia, trapped, countryside, dystopian future, danger, post apocalyptic, life is a bitch, epidemic ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style:
apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia
Similarity:
100%
171
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, isolation, mosquito, survival, chaos, danger, plague, confined, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, life is a bitch, pregnancy, escapades, danger, society, dystopian future, babies and infants, post nuclear, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, suspense, dramatic, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, epidemic, wilderness, end of the world, father daughter relationship, virus, survival, infection ...
Time:
future, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, radiation poisoning, radiation, nuclear, supernatural, isolation, danger, chaos, survival horror, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
32%
699
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, society, escapades, life is a bitch, post apocalypse, plague, journey, violence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The virus came so fast no one had time to prepare. Before the day was over, entire towns were decimated, and large cities became monumental tombs. Left with nothing but fading hope and the will to live, reclusive software consultant Michael (Dexter ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot:
apocalypse, zombie, virus, isolation, survival, chaos, deadly creature, danger, save the world, plague, post apocalypse, infection ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In the early part of the 21st Century, an unknown virus began spreading among the populous. Within weeks it had engulfed the entire planet, from the smallest communities to the greatest cities. Upon the death of its host, the virus would reanimate ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic, scary ...
Plot:
infection, found footage, zombie, survival, dystopian future, chaos and mayhem, gory, danger, deadly creature, rescue, on the run, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
united kingdom, europe, london, england
Similarity:
30%
29K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
virus, post apocalypse, twists and turns, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, epidemic, nightmare, infected, plot twist, isolation ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, tense, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, starvation, epidemic, ice age, danger, survival horror, dystopia, cannibalism, underground bunker, distopia ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
29%
538K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style:
scary, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place:
london, england, bolivia, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
28%
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:
28%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying ...
Style:
apocalyptic, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, end of the world, survivalist, survivor, survival horror, survival, characters in danger, dystopian future, virus, fate of humanity, vestiges of humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, action adventure, independent film, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, survival, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, nuclear holocaust, wasteland, distopia, canuxploitation, post nuclear, exploitation, nuclear explosion ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, future
Place:
nova scotia, russia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It has been over one year since the start of the outbreak. Our society has collapsed and the world has descended into chaos. Elvis and Tweeter are two of the last people left alive, and band together to flee the United States for a remote island ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, escape, plague, zombie, apocalypse, on the run, survival, cannibalism, supernatural, social decay, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, caribbean
Similarity:
28%
52K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, United Arab Emirates, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, zombie, post apocalypse, survival, boat, father daughter relationship, infected, virus, infection, danger, desert, aborigine ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
australia, oceania, south australia
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, serious, futuristic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, post apocalypse, cannibalism, wasteland, dystopian future, trap, cannibal, rebel, danger, rivalry, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, independent film
Plot:
apocalypse, changing the past or future, survival, save the world, chaos, danger, heroes, mutant, post apocalypse, space and aliens, epidemic, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 1998
Similarity:
28%
18K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style:
bleak, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, apocalypse, post apocalypse, cyborgs, killer robot, robot, androids, dystopia, man versus machine, desert, artificial intelligence, wasteland ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The last seven survivors of a nuclear war barricade themselves against an attack by a mutant cannibal.
Style:
apocalyptic, independent film, scary, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, monster, post-apocalyptic future, mutant, distopia, post apocalyptic, murder, radiation, end of the world, survival, disaster, violent content ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style:
suspense, cult classic, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, violence, zombie attack, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, gory, virus, zombie outbreak, survival horror, cannibalism, infected ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 90s, year 1995, 2000s
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Machines have taken over, but left humans thinking that they are still the ones in charge. The androids need humans because of the human brain fluid; without it the android brains can't work. Until the mad scientist finds out how to make this ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, prison, technology gone awry, chaos, survival, androids and robots, escapades, save the world, man versus machine, race against time, dystopian future, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
27%
870K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style:
intense, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, post apocalyptic, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world ...
Time:
future, year 2007, near future, year 2013, jurassic ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
27%
167K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
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, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, survival, isolation, creature, outer space, danger, survival horror, deadly creature, spacecraft, post apocalypse, spaceship, monster ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1969
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, suspenseful, scary, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brutality, zombie, violent, chaos, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, survival, danger, murder, virus, epidemic, violence spree ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
27%
82K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 105 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:
suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, cannibalism, virus, rescue, infected, danger, distopia, epidemic, female fighter, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 2030s, year 2008, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
scotland, britain, london, england, europe ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Venezuela, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Film about an epidemic outbreak of a new rabies virus in Venezuela and a father trying to save his son from contagion. A Russian man is in Caracas under the influence of the Krokodil drug, when he gets infected with the rabies virus and starts an ...
Style:
suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
infection, post apocalypse, disease, brutality, pandemic, survival, danger, virus, body horror, gory, quarantine, infected ...
Place:
venezuela
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, family in danger, life is a bitch, on the run, woods, chaos, gory, disease, virus, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
26%
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