Movies like On the Beach

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On the Beach (2000)
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On the Beach (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a gigantic wave of radiation is floating in on the breezes. One American sub located in the Pacific has survived and is met with disdain by the Australians. The calculations of Australia's most renowned scientist says the country is doomed. However, one of his rivals says that he is wrong. He believes that a 1000 people can be relocated to the northern hemisphere, where his assumptions indicate the radiation levels may be lower. The American Captain is asked to take a mission to the north to determine which scientist is right.
Style: tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspense, exciting, gloomy, psychotronic, disaster movie
Plot: nuclear, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, nuclear war, save the world, atomic bomb, post nuclear, post apocalypse, survival, heroic mission, race against time, navy, chaos, danger, submarine, ocean, end of the world, friendship between men, fictional war, cold war, post apocalyptic, catastrophe, epidemic, water, isolation ...
Time: future, 21st century, contemporary
Place: australia, asia
Keyword: ocean or sea, australian

Most similar movies to On the Beach

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, post apocalypse, danger, disaster and post apocalyptic mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like On the Beach: The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), The Day After (1983), Countdown to Looking Glass (1984), The Abyss (1989), Z for Zachariah (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have ...
Style: bleak, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: end of the world, disaster, cold war, nuclear bomb, newspaper, natural disaster, science, chaos, race against time, danger, nuclear, worldwide chaos ...
Time: 60s, year 1961, distant future, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, russia, new york ...
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The Day After (1983)
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: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of the film details the events that lead up to the initial exchange of nuclear weapons from the ...
Style: apocalyptic, tragic ending, mockumentary
Plot: nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, disaster, apocalypse, cold war, found footage, post apocalypse, u.s. president, president, catastrophe, distopia, post apocalyptic ...
Place: usa, soviet union, saudi arabia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 191K
The Abyss (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: ufo, ocean, underwater, first contact, submarine, sea, disaster, alien, space and aliens, survival, alien encounter, heroic mission ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Z for Zachariah (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly ...
Style: tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, love triangle, end of the world, survivor, post apocalyptic, radiation, nuclear war, farm, distopia, isolation ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
4:44 Last Day on Earth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
Style: serious, apocalyptic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: end of the world, couples, introspection, couple relations, chaos, danger, sexual relations, disaster, global warming, post apocalypse, friendship, artist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 499
Ravagers (1979)
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, apocalypse, dystopia, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, epidemic, post apocalyptic, distopia, wasteland, survival, atomic bomb, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: year 1979, 90s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.9
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Testament (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, emotional, tense ...
Plot: nuclear war, cold war, nuclear holocaust, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place: california, usa, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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20 Years After (2008)
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, danger, society, escapades, chaos, dystopian future, babies and infants, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.5
 951
Malevil (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, wasteland, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, nuclear explosion, confined ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
25%
 5.9
 1K
Genesis II (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, epidemic, loner, end of the world, post apocalyptic, wasteland, distopia, suspended animation, cave, rebellion ...
Time: near future, future, 70s, 22nd century
Place: arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, tense, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: found footage, post apocalypse, life is a bitch, dystopian future, chaos, danger, society, introspection, post apocalyptic, escapades, wilderness, dystopia ...
Time: future, distant future, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
Without Warning (1994)
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, depressing, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: found footage, disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, ufo, catastrophe, post apocalypse, world war, bad guys win, doomsday, cataclysm, epidemic ...
Time: 90s
Place: east asia, france, europe, china, wyoming ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
 4.0
 670
Deadland (2009)
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: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, escapades, life is a bitch, society, post apocalypse, plague, journey, murder ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
21%
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Dead Man's Letters (1986)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a world after the nuclear apocalypse a scholar helps a small group of children and adults survive, staying with them in the basement of the former museum of history. In his mind he writes letters to his son — though it is obvious that they will ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychedelic, spiritual, mind blowing, depressing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, disaster, dystopia, underground, epidemic, end of the world, spirituality, nuclear disaster ...
Time: distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Where Have All the People Gone (1974)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful ...
Style: apocalyptic, spooky, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, disaster, dystopia, post apocalyptic, distopia, apocalypse, natural disaster, wasteland, doomsday, 666, desolation, monster ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
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Planet Earth (1974)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member ...
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, futuristic ...
Plot: matriarchy, dystopia, post apocalypse, sorority, epidemic, end of the world, utopia, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, wasteland, anarchist, distopia ...
Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.1
 995
The Last Train (1999)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
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Story: The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by ...
Style: apocalyptic, gloomy, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, top secret, distopia, dystopia, end of the world, epidemic, wasteland, tribe, train ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Defense Condition 4 (1985)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
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, action adventure, suspense, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, survival, disaster, nuclear holocaust, wasteland, distopia, exploitation, post nuclear, canuxploitation, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, humorous, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dog, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, dystopia, desert, distopia, post apocalyptic, survival, dystopian future, bare chested male, bride and groom, sperm donor ...
Time: future, year 1975, 2020s
Place: phoenix arizona, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.8
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Shelter (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, bleak
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, trapped, survival, post apocalypse, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, post nuclear, struggle for survival, epidemic, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
This Is Not a Test (1962)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A highway patrolman stops motorists on a highway after he hears news reports of a possible nuclear attack.
Style: apocalyptic, surreal, political, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: end of the world, roadblock, death of pet, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, terror, nuclear threat, epidemic, nuclear disaster, distopia, post apocalyptic, apocalypse ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.8
 765
Tides of War (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the Executive Officer and the Engineering ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, rescue, heroic mission, military life, danger, underwater, survival, rivalry, government agency, military, undercover, leadership ...
Place: hawaii, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Idaho Transfer (1973)
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, futuristic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, bare breasts, teenager, time travel, end of the world, dystopian future, apocalypse, erotica, unhappy ending, epidemic, distopia, wasteland ...
Time: future
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.3
 482
After We Leave (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
Style: stylized, serious, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: dystopic future, space travel, colony, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, outer space, twists and turns, danger, demolished city, apocalypse, life & death, imaginary ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.1
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Contagion (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, intellectual
Audience: boys' night
Plot: quarantine, survival, save the day, terrorism, danger, bio weapon, state affairs, chaos, undercover, plague, antidote, deadly virus ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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