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Dead Man's Letters (1986)
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Original name: Письма мертвого человека
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 never be read.
Style:
apocalyptic, depressing, psychedelic, spiritual, mind blowing, poetic, twisted, eighties
Plot:
nuclear war, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, underground, nuclear explosion, atomic bomb, disaster, epidemic, depression, spirituality, wasteland, surrealism, bombing, european, trauma, life changing, dystopian future, nuclear disaster, virus outbreak, christmas ...
Time:
distant future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, russian
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Most similar movies to Dead Man's Letters
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, serious, bleak and suspenseful films with plots about post apocalypse, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia and epidemic mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dead Man's Letters: The Day After (1983), Visitor of a Museum (1989), Threads (1984), Melancholia (2011), Stalker (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.
Style:
apocalyptic, surreal, bizarre, eighties, weird
Plot:
religion, messiah, underground, distopia, post apocalyptic, mental disorder, wasteland, european, nuclear holocaust, life changing, epidemic, apocalypse ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Style:
depressing, grim, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, cold war, nuclear explosion, survival, world war three, nuclear, post apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, radiation ...
Time:
80s, near future, distant future, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, ussr, soviet union ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, psychological, surreal, philosophical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
depression, wedding, end of the world, apocalypse, sister sister relationship, nihilism, collision, mental health, disaster, female nudity, mental disorder, human nature ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep seeded ...
Style:
philosophical, atmospheric, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
stalker, post apocalypse, dystopian future, surrealism, psychokinesis, dog, wish come true, trippy, human nature, distopia, escapades, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1979, near future
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia
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67%
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, tense, apocalyptic, serious ...
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, cold war, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place:
california, usa, bay area, san francisco
Similarity:
43%
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 ...
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
apocalypse, nuclear, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, nuclear war, save the world, atomic bomb, post apocalypse, chaos, survival, heroic mission, race against time ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
australia, asia, melbourne, san francisco
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A troupe of young women on post-apocalyptic earth are lead around by a mistress born before the war, eventually stumbling into the company of a lonely old man.
Style:
apocalyptic, surreal, psychotronic
Plot:
post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, matriarchy, animal abuse, killing an animal, bombing, fishing, dystopia, minimal dialogue ...
Place:
eastern europe, czechoslovakia
Similarity:
41%
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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, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, post apocalyptic, wasteland, bombing, dystopia, train ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
40%
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:
political, surreal, apocalyptic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot:
roadblock, death of pet, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, nuclear explosion, end of the world, nuclear war, martial law, nuclear threat, terror, epidemic, nuclear disaster ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
39%
425
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Noah, the sole remaining survivor on our planet after a nuclear holocaust, finds himself unable to to accept his unique predicament. To cope with his loneliness, he creates an imaginary companion, then a companion for his companion and finally an ...
Style:
apocalyptic, existential, mystic, independent film, allegory ...
Plot:
nuclear war, dystopia, post apocalypse, distopia, nuclear holocaust, imaginary friend, apocalypse, isolation, post apocalyptic, bombing, wasteland, doomsday ...
Time:
post world war two, future
Similarity:
39%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their ...
Style:
art house, apocalyptic, psychotronic, crying, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
post-apocalyptic future, post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, distopia, surrealism, apocalypse, bombing, nuclear bomb, european, wasteland ...
Time:
near future, distant future
Place:
eastern europe, central europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, psychedelic, art film, psychological ...
Plot:
underground, stream of consciousness, alienation, isolation, totalitarianism, bureaucracy, claustrophobia, identity crisis, symbolism, ethnic diversity, moral ambiguity, surveillance ...
Place:
soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
37%
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, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, disaster, dystopia, post apocalyptic, distopia, apocalypse, radiation, solar flare, wasteland, doomsday, desolation, 666 ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
36%
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:
36%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, futuristic, twisted ...
Plot:
isolation, nuclear war, terrorism, epidemic, post apocalyptic, infection, nuclear explosion, post apocalypse, couples, toxic, danger, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 2006, distant future
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An orphaned boy in a post-apocalyptic world, meets a grieving woman who is trying to find her lost daughter. Their journey leads them face-to-face with a despot who may have the daughter held captive.
Style:
psychotronic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
survivor, distopia, coming of age, post apocalypse, wasteland, danger, group of criminals, survival, unlikely friendships, friendship, human nature, loner ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style:
apocalyptic, offbeat, cult classic, controversial, depressing ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, post apocalyptic, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, wasteland, rape, gang rape, attempted rape ...
Time:
future
Place:
england, northern england, london
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
A docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain.
Style:
apocalyptic, controversial, mockumentary, disturbing, semi documentary ...
Plot:
nuclear war, cold war, nuclear threat, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, nuclear bomb, nuclear, war, post apocalypse, dystopia, nuclear disaster, distopia ...
Time:
distant future, year 1965, 60s, future
Place:
europe, england, britain
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' (which lasted two minutes and twenty eight seconds, including the signing of the peace treaty) is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and ...
Style:
dark comedy, apocalyptic, psychedelic, surreal, psychotronic ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, post apocalyptic, absurdism, nuclear holocaust, distopia, satire, epidemic, apocalypse, nuclear bomb, bombing ...
Time:
year 1969, future
Place:
cornwall, england, london
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychedelic, aesthetic, grotesque
Plot:
post apocalypse, rape, museum, cannibalism, nudity, plague, surrealism, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, reproduction, male female relationship, sex ...
Time:
distant future
Similarity:
33%
584
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:
suspenseful, dramatic, bleak, serious, tension ...
Plot:
survival, disaster, trapped, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, isolation, confined space, bunker ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, man versus machine, dystopian future, chaos, love triangle, androids and robots, society, obsession, cyberpunk, technology gone awry, betrayal, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
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, futuristic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, end of the world, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, top secret, train, distopia, epidemic, dystopia, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
33%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, sex scene, post apocalypse, farm, love triangle, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, survivor, radiation, survival, jealousy, distopia ...
Time:
2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
33%
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, mockumentary, tragic ending
Plot:
nuclear explosion, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, apocalypse, world war three, cold war, nuclear bomb, post apocalypse, found footage, u.s. president, president, catastrophe ...
Place:
usa, soviet union, saudi arabia, middle east, ussr
Similarity:
33%
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 apocalyptic, post apocalypse, life is a bitch, dystopian future, chaos, danger, society, introspection, escapades, wilderness, dystopia ...
Time:
future, distant future, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, neo western, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, cyborgs, distopia, cyberpunk, wasteland, androids, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents ...
Style:
apocalyptic, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, distopia, nudity, darkness, underground, nuclear disaster, dystopia, epidemic, illuminati, wasteland, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
distant future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
32%
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