Movies like Meteor 1979

If you like "Meteor" you are looking for apocalyptic, psychotronic and grindhouse movies about / with disaster, natural disaster, cold war, nasa, apocalypse, 007 and asteroid themes of Action, Drama and Sci-Fi genre shot in USA or Hong Kong.
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Meteor (1979)
 5.0
 8K
Meteor (1979)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough fire power. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, grindhouse, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast, exciting, light, romantic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, cold war, nasa, apocalypse, 007, asteroid, space station, post apocalypse, space travel, avalanche, translator, race against time, astronomy, dystopia, death, coast guard, space, distopia, epidemic, meteorite, un, threat, world trade center manhattan new york city, post apocalyptic ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century, future
Place: new york, russia, hong kong, washington d.c., france, siberia, moscow russia ...
Keyword: russian

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Most similar movies to Meteor

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and apocalyptic films with plots about disaster, apocalypse, danger, race against time, natural disaster, chases and races and escapades mostly in Thriller, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Meteor: Armageddon (1998), Ice Twisters (2009), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Quantum Apocalypse (2010), Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.7
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Armageddon (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story: When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, sentimental, entertaining, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, outer space, asteroid, race against time, self sacrifice, nasa ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, future, 20th century
Place: new york, paris france, washington d.c., usa, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
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Ice Twisters (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation's weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.
Style: serious, exciting, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: disaster, tornado, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, forces of nature, obsessive quest, race against time, survival, danger, escapades, heroes, evil alien ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, climate, cataclysm, survival, stranded ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place: new york, los angeles, washington d.c., california, antarctic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Quantum Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, end of the world, survival, chaos, save the world, forces of nature, danger, post apocalypse, autism, tsunami, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Style: exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, asteroid, meteor shower, space and aliens, apocalypse, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, danger, society, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Tidal Wave: No Escape (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A retired and disgruntled scientist is brought out of retirement to explain why tidal waves are wiping out coastal communities. But is he part of the problem?
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, epidemic, distopia, forces of nature, mysterious character, save the day, chases and races, government agency, heroes, alien encounter ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Earthstorm (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A massive asteroid impact on the moon begins causing storms on earth due to the sudden changes in ocean tides. But when further examination is conducted it's discovered that the moon's structure is now entirely unstable -- threatening all ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, space travel, race against time, space and aliens, danger, chaos, save the world, heroes, ocean, astronomer, space shuttle ...
Time: 2000s
Place: colorado, baltimore, boston, chicago, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.7
 2K
Polar Storm (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a piece of the massive comet "Copernicus" collides with the Earth, it knocks the planet off of its axis and unleashes a disaster never before witnessed. Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) and his highly trained research team are the ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, collision, comet, natural disaster, forces of nature, danger, family relations, one last chance, save the day, survival, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, apocalyptic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, hurricane, tornado, heroic mission, survival, forces of nature, chaos, race against time, journalism, apocalypse, danger ...
Time: future
Place: las vegas, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.0
 1K
Solar Attack (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the sun's increasing expulsions of plasma threaten to ignite methane in our atmosphere, international tensions rise while scientists race for a solution to avoid natural disaster.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, forces of nature, space and aliens, heroic mission, save the world, danger, apocalypse, escapades, survival, ex husband ex wife relationship, scientist ...
Place: detroit, shanghai, pentagon, washington d.c., moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.0
 2K
MegaFault (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
Style: exciting, serious, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, apocalypse, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.7
 2K
Asteroid (1997)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, space and aliens, asteroid, apocalypse, post apocalypse, astronomy, meteorite, post apocalyptic, intrigue, distopia, dystopia ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: usa, kansas, texas, kansas city, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
End of the World (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, save the world, heroes, danger, forces of nature, global warming, catastrophe, death, society, destruction ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Exploding Sun (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, sun, survival, space travel, save the world, technology gone awry, spouse in danger, chaos, danger, escapades, outer space, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Crack in the World (1965)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth.This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the earth's crust, which threatens to ...
Style: apocalyptic, retro, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, love triangle, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, doomsday, nuclear explosion, peril, environmental, explosions ...
Time: 60s
Place: africa, london, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Absolute Zero (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: INTER SCI climatologist Dr. David Kotzman has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age...in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, survival, forces of nature, save the day, save the world, rescue, race against time, husband wife relationship, winter ...
Time: future
Place: miami, usa, florida, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
2012: Supernova (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Earth, and time is swiftly running out. The only thing standing between humanity and complete devastation is ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, save the world, heroic mission, danger, save the planet, race against time, heroes, scientist, apocalypse, society, epidemic, dystopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Earth's Final Hours (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After dense matter from an imploded white hole hits Earth, the planet's rotation is devastated. A group of government agents must locate a lost satellite network that is the world's only hope for survival.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, save the world, satellite, forces of nature, special agent, government agency, danger, heroes, dishonesty, escapades, extinction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Collision Earth (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A huge solar flare blasts Mercury out of it's orbit and provides it with an intense magnetic field and it's on collision course for Earth.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, apocalyptic
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, collision, save the world, danger, heroic mission, save the planet, heroes, escapades, weapon system, meteorite, apocalypse, natural disaster ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Flood (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, talky, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, tornado, survival, natural disaster, race against time, rescue, save the day, epidemic, secret agent, danger, forces of nature ...
Place: london, england, europe, big ben london, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
2012: Ice Age (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it's path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
Style: mockbuster, hilarious, apocalyptic, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ice age, natural disaster, disaster, glacier, winter, ecological disaster, snow, climate change, catastrophe, epidemic, dystopia, space ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Seattle Superstorm (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An object is shot down over Seattle and the debris begins to effect the local weather ultimately threatening the whole world.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, storm, family in danger, weather, tornado, catastrophe, save the day, forces of nature, chaos, soldier, heroes, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Asteroid: Final Impact (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A deadly meteor storm has been labeled a one-time celestial occurrence, but astrophysicist Steve Thomas believes something worse is yet to come. After discovering his asteroid tracking satellite is secretly being used for military surveillance, ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, asteroid, deep space, save the world, patriot, astrophysicist, secret, science, race against time, scientist, meteor shower ...
Time: 2010s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Earthfall (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: As a rogue planet roars through our solar system, it acts as an intergalactic magnet that pulls Earth in its wake. Meteors destroy major cities. Fire and ice storms engulf the land. Casualties are in the millions. And as the situation grows even ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, meteorite, apocalypse, outer space, destruction, asteroid, distopia, end of the world, save the world, one last chance, fate of humanity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.5
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Tidal Wave (1973)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the disappearing Japan
Style: action thriller, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: apocalypse, forces of nature, tsunami, distopia, natural disaster, epidemic, evacuation, disaster, chaos, rescue, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, mount fuji, tokyo, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.1
 2K
Ice Quake (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: As the permafrost melts in Alaska, underground rivers of volatile liquid methane form which sets off a series of devastating earthquakes. Forced apart by this violent occurrence, one family must find each other during the holidays and work to stop ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, apocalyptic, christmas horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, earthquake, avalanche, forces of nature, save the world, winter, survival, daring rescue, danger, family in danger, natural disaster, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: disaster, climate change, natural disaster, forces of nature, rescue, chaos, danger, escapades, volcano, snow, evacuation, scientist ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: europe, iceland, usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.9
 4K
Arctic Blast (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, freezing, forces of nature, ecological disaster, natural disaster, solar eclipse, ice age, save the world, survival, climate change, evacuation, chaos ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: seattle, tasmania, australia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.4
 1K
Descent (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When cracks in the Earth's crust large enough to swallow a city block appear, a team of scientists must go deep into the Earth to find a way to stop the destruction.
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating, humorous
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, race against time, trespassing, burned alive, chaos, heroes, save the world, heroic mission, dishonesty, danger, forces of nature, natural disaster ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Fall of Hyperion (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
Style: serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: danger, space station, escapades, collision, save the day, scientist, meteorite, society, lgbt, nasa, space adventure, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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