Movies and TV shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is a 1960s American science fiction television series based on the 1961 film of the same name. Both were created by Irwin Allen, which enabled the movie's sets, costumes, props, special effects models, and sometimes footage, to be used in the production of the television series. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was the first of Irwin Allen's four science fiction television series as well as the longest running. The show's main theme was underwater adventure. Voyage was broadcast on ABC from September 14, 1964 to March 31, 1968, and was the decade's longest-running American science fiction television series with continuing characters. The 110 episodes produced included 32 shot in black and white, and 78 filmed in color. The first two seasons took place in the then future of the 1970s. The final two seasons took place in the 1980s. The show starred Richard Basehart and David Hedison.
Style: serious, suspenseful, vintage
Audience: kids
Plot: submarine, sea monster, underwater, ocean, kaiju, time travel, shark, magic, mermaid, diver, future war, scuba diving, heroes, expedition, cold war, adventurer, disaster, global warming, escapades, danger, heroic mission, sea adventure, transformation, paranoia, exploration ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s, 1960s
Keyword: scuba, oldies, ocean or sea

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Most similar movies to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and futuristic films and TV series with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, heroic mission, survival, space and aliens and chases and races mostly in Adventure, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Goliath Awaits (1981), Around the World Under the Sea (1966), Galactica 1980 (1980), The Time Tunnel (1966), City Beneath the Sea (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Goliath Awaits (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: During World War II the passenger liner "Goliath" is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades they build a rigidly regulated society ...
Style: psychotronic, spooky
Plot: ocean liner, disaster, ghost ship, kriegsmarine, dystopia, world war two, survival, suspicion of murder, submarine, security guard, rescue team, shipwreck ...
Time: 1940s, year 1939
Place: atlantic ocean, big ben london, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Around the World Under the Sea (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A five man submarine plants sensors around the worlds oceans to monitor for a impending earthquake.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, diving, chess, scuba diving, diver, water, danger, battle of the sexes, chases and races, space and aliens, heroes ...
Time: year 1966
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Galactica 1980 (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Galactica 1980 is a science fiction television series, and a spin-off from the original Battlestar Galactica television series. It was first broadcast on the ABC network in the United States from January 27 to May 4, 1980. It was later shown in ...
Style: saga, epic, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids
Plot: battlestar galactica, space opera, time travel, intergalactic, time dilation, alien invasion, star wars, androids and robots, space and aliens, space, military, world war two ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style: melancholic, talky, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, betrayal, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark ...
Time: future, year 1961, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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The Time Tunnel (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Time Tunnel is a 1966–1967 U.S. color science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and ...
Style: psychotronic, homoerotic, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: time travel, time machine, fish out of water, time, occult, future war, paradox, magic, kaiju, space opera, portal, dinosaur ...
Time: 20th century, near future, year 1968, 1910s, 60s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
City Beneath the Sea (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new ...
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: underwater city, disaster, sea, distopia, diver, pluto, giant monster, future war, heist gone wrong, chases and races, danger, escapades ...
Time: future, year 2016, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Land of the Giants (1968)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Land of the Giants is an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was the fourth of ...
Style: saga, epic, serious, clever, offbeat ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space and aliens, giant, space travel, kaiju, outer space, intergalactic, future war, dystopia, space opera, space, survival, rescue ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, near future, year 1983
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 158 min.
TV show
Story: The year is 1886, when New England's fishing harbours are the scene for a "creature of unknown origin" destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre Aronnax, a marine expert, and Ned Land, the iron willed sailor, to learn ...
Style: fairy tale, epic, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: underwater, giant squid, submarine, octopus, creature, animal, adaptation, heroic mission, deadly creature, danger, androids and robots, obsessive quest ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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seaQuest DSV (1993)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
Style: cliffhanger, futuristic, serious, exciting, nautical
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, space and aliens, sea, military, benign alien, space wars, teenager, hi-tech, dolphins, captain, girl, boat ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2030s, 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Neptune Factor (1973)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
Style: psychotronic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, ocean, giant monster, disaster, diving, kaiju, scuba diving, monster, planet, diver, sea, octopus ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The science of miniaturization has been unlocked, and the army has big plans. But when a scientist carrying the secret of the process is injured in a surprise attack, a life-threatening blood clot puts him into a coma. Now, a team of adventurers ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: submarine, double agent, space and aliens, rescue, military, medical, assassination attempt, chases and races, danger, shrinking, trippy, survival ...
Time: year 1966, 1900s, 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Planet of the Apes (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Plot: time travel, ape, planet of the apes, monkey, space travel, astronaut, danger, survival, dystopian future, escapades, on the run, chases and races ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Earth 2 (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Earth 2 is an American science fiction television series which aired on NBC from November 6, 1994 to June 4, 1995. The show was canceled after one season of 22 episodes. It follows the journey and settlement of a small expeditionary group called the ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: space colony, space, apocalypse, space travel, post apocalypse, space opera, spaceship, space and aliens, outer space, distopia, dystopia, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Beast (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 176 min.
TV show
Story: Fishing and jobs are becoming scarce in the small seaport village of Graves Point, when mysterious deaths and unexplained disappearances begin to occur. Divers vanish and a young couple disappears at sea, their empty raft washing up on the shore. ...
Style: natural horror, suspenseful, serious, wild
Audience: boys' night
Plot: giant squid, monster, creature feature, water, underwater, animal attack, sea, beast, shark, creature, giant monster, kaiju ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios. The series ran for two seasons between 1979–1981, and the feature-length pilot episode for the series was released as a ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, exciting, touching, saga ...
Audience: family outing, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot: space opera, space and aliens, space travel, artificial intelligence, good versus evil, astronaut, time travel, alien invasion, survival, adventurer, save the world, fighting crime ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Lost World (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a ...
Style: scary, serious, stylized, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: lost world, dinosaur, dangerous animal, jungle, expedition, exploration, adventurer, time travel, monster, supernatural, stranded, imaginary ...
Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Lost in Space (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968. The ...
Style: saga, sitcom, epic, retro, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: space and aliens, alien planet, space travel, space, robot, time travel, spaceship, alien, artificial intelligence, female alien, alien invasion, space opera ...
Time: future, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Star Trek Continues (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The USS Enterprise's historic five-year mission continues with all new episodes of the original series. "Star Trek: Continues", a new Trek series, beams down with exciting adventures of the Federation's most heroic crew led by ...
Style: exciting, serious, stylized, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: star trek, space travel, spacecraft, outer space, good versus evil, heroes, adventurer, heroic mission, danger, rivalry, escapades, intergalactic ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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V: The Final Battle (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 272 min.
TV show
Story: A small group of human resistance fighters fight a desperate guerrilla war against the genocidal extra-terrestrials who dominate Earth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, bleak, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: alien, resistance, apocalypse, save the world, heroic mission, alien encounter, good versus evil, chaos, heroes, evil alien, murder, ufo ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Airwolf (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Airwolf is an American television series that ran from 1984 until 1987. The program centers on a high-tech military helicopter, code named Airwolf, and its crew as they undertake various missions, many involving espionage, with a Cold War ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: helicopter, pilot, military, missing person, partner, undercover, escapades, super weapon, government agency, heroes, dishonesty, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, post world war two
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Logan's Run (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary.
Style: captivating, serious, exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Plot: chase, dystopian future, on the run, danger, escapades, chases and races, androids and robots, secret place, chaos, distopia, post apocalypse, hiding place ...
Time: future, 23rd century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Gray Lady Down (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Shark Hunter (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Deep (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: As the world's energy supplies dwindle, the Orpheus, a research submarine, delves into the deep of the Arctic Ocean searching for rare micro-organisms, but the crew soon find themselves in peril.
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: survival, submarine, danger, uncover truth, scientist, ocean, confined, isolation, crew, supernatural, voodoo, water ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of another man, who had previously gone on a similar expedition and disappeared.
Style: gothic horror, epic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: pre-teens, boys' night, kids, family outing, teens
Plot: dinosaur, archaeologist, imaginary kingdom, reptiles, prehistoric creature, lost world, steampunk, underground, kaiju, explorer, monster, prehistoric animal ...
Time: prehistoric times, jurassic, 19th century, 1870s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Voyagers! (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Voyagers! is an American science fiction time travel-based television series that aired on NBC during the 1982–1983 season. The series stars Jon-Erik Hexum and Meeno Peluce.
Style: exciting, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: time machine, time travel, paradox, anarchist, super powers, youth, time, alternate history, righting the wronged, adventurer, obsessive quest, escapades ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Bionic Woman (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, retro ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: spy, superheroine, androids and robots, superhero, superhuman powers, escapades, danger, investigation, undercover, government agency, chases and races, government facility ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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V (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 197 min.
TV show
Story: Aliens pretending to be friendly come to Earth and are received openly. The aliens have masqueraded themselves to look just like humans. When it is discovered that the aliens' planet is dying and that they have come to rape the Earth of its ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, epic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
Plot: evil alien, alien invasion, human versus alien, alien, save the world, battles, cover-up, extraterrestrial, danger, journalism, escapades, heroic mission ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Space: 1999 (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, spooky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space and aliens, space travel, moon, astronaut, space, moon base, space exploration, ufo, space opera, outer space, disaster, survival ...
Time: future, year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 19th century, an expert marine biologist is hired by the government to determine what's sinking ships all over the ocean. His daughter follows him. They are intercepted by a mysterious captain Nemo and his incredible submarine.
Style: serious, atmospheric, fairy tale, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: underwater, submarine, steampunk, sailor, animal, creature, professor, shipwreck, rivalry, good versus evil, heroes, daring rescue ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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