Movies like Six-String Samurai
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Six-String Samurai (1998)
8K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, Buddy is on his way to Vegas to succeed Elvis as King. Along the way, he saves an orphan who decides to tag along.
Style:
surreal, entertaining, futuristic, apocalyptic, humorous, cult classic, independent film, stylized, funny, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
desert, martial arts, apocalypse, post apocalypse, road trip, post apocalyptic, alternate history, medieval, rock and roll, heroes, chaos, danger, escapades, gang war, survival, wasteland, music, post-apocalyptic future, samurai, death, surrealism, dancing, fight, time travel, epidemic ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 50s, 1990s
Place:
las vegas, nevada, north america, russian
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Most similar movies to Six-String Samurai
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, futuristic, exciting and serious films with plots about distopia, post apocalypse, danger, apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, chaos and post apocalyptic mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Adventure genres. Some movies like Six-String Samurai: Waterworld (1995), Tank Girl (1995), The Blood of Heroes (1989), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Steel Dawn (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
223K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, dieselpunk ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, ocean, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, sailing, boat, dystopic future, water, sea, escapades, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1995, distant future, near future
Place:
arizona, canada
Similarity:
100%
37K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
Style:
slapstick, exciting, futuristic, offbeat, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
female protagonist, desert, punk, post apocalypse, female warrior, strong female lead, kickass women, wasteland, tank, cyberpunk, female fighter, comic book ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
australia, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Style:
cult classic, spoof, humorous, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, chase, scientist, evil scientist, musician, interdimensional travel, desert, rescue, mad scientist, electrocution, laboratory ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1938, future
Place:
usa, hong kong, asia, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, intense, serious, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopian future, martial arts, post apocalyptic, violence, blood, revenge, contests and competitions, escapades, athlete's life, life is a bitch, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, year 1989, near future
Place:
new jersey, australia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style:
visually appealing, visually stunning, road movie, apocalyptic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, car, desert, apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, chase, on the run, dystopia, car chase, distopia, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2015, year 2016, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control.
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, survival, sword and sorcery, martial arts, sorcery, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, heroes, vengeance, wasteland, disaster ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, future
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style:
cerebral, surreal, psychedelic, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, multiverse, fight, alternate universe, surrealism, chinese immigrant, lgbt, immigrant, parallel world, midlife crisis, kung fu, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
brighton
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, offbeat, enigmatic, humorous ...
Plot:
desert, surrealism, alien, absurdism, satire, distopia, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism, transformation, time travel, totalitarianism ...
Time:
future
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, poland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Style:
road movie, cult classic, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, lone hero, end of the world, post apocalyptic, desert, mad max, camel, car chase, group of children, australian outback, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
Similarity:
100%
243K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Style:
grindhouse, retro, futuristic, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, dystopia, chase, post apocalypse, vengeance, revenge, biker, car chase, car, dystopic future, chaos, criminal ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1979, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style:
futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, road movie, heroic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, lone hero, religion, protector, end of the world, dystopia, dystopic future, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2010, near future, distant future, 2040s ...
Place:
indiana, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the ...
Style:
cult classic, apocalyptic, exciting, grindhouse, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids, dystopia, robot, cyberpunk, sexy woman, female robot, heroic mission, post apocalyptic, androids and robots, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1987, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place:
nevada, las vegas, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Last Man Alive Must Battle a Planet of the Dead. [An Asylum film.]
Style:
mockbuster, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
virus, rescue, survival, post apocalypse, life is a bitch, rivalry, danger, supernatural, chaos, plague, dystopian future, society ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, humorous, apocalyptic, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, rescue, dystopian future, mutant, bare breasts, save the world, survival, chaos, heroic mission, danger, heroes ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
austin texas
Similarity:
50%
374K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind ...
Style:
captivating, spaghetti western, dark comedy, psychotronic, biting ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, nuclear, arizona desert, mutation, desert, destruction, capitalism, wasteland, bandit, underground bunker, ruins, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, 23rd century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A rock band writes a song called "Fish Story" based on a sentence from a badly translated novel by a quack translator. The song exceeds the boundaries of space and time and ties people and their stories together. Thirty-seven years go by, ...
Style:
witty, humorous, exciting, touching, semi serious ...
Plot:
punk band, danger, music band, imaginary, anti hero, chaos, hopes, save the world, coincidence, apocalypse, japanese schoolgirl, humanity in peril ...
Time:
70s, future, 80s, 90s, year 1999 ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and ...
Style:
parody, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, mutant, apocalypse, chaos, dystopian future, dark humor, danger, wasteland, post-apocalyptic future, survivor, private detective ...
Time:
future, year 1985, 1940s, year 1986, 80s ...
Similarity:
35%
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:
33%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller ...
Style:
serious, futuristic, apocalyptic, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, orphan, apocalypse, teenage girl, drought, dystopian future, teenager, escapades, danger, rescue, life is a bitch, chaos ...
Time:
future, 20th century
Similarity:
33%
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:
32%
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:
32%
289
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a group of religious zealots destroy everything that he loves and leaves him for dead; A man embarks on a journey of revenge that will take him through all the post-apocalyptic dangers that is WASTELAND.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot:
apocalypse, vengeance, vigilantism, chaos, reincarnation, rivalry, danger, church, religions or cults, plague, escapades, society ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and ...
Style:
exciting, thought provoking, serious, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, post apocalypse, danger, on the run, dystopian future, escapades, rebellion, society, fighting the system, vigilantism, social decay, oil ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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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%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Twenty years after the American people have been told the oil has run out and disease has scared them into complacency, the United States has become a fascist state. One man, former race car driver Franklyn Hart, now a puppet spokesman for public ...
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, car, automobile, distopia, terror, post-apocalyptic future, planet, epidemic, classic car, dystopian future, apocalypse ...
Time:
year 1981, future, distant future
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to the imagination as they battle each other in various ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, sexploitation, post apocalypse, female nudity, battles, save the world, survival, matriarchy, chaos, lone wolves, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
31%
928
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road Warrior" like crew captures her and tries to make ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, rape, wasteland, post-apocalyptic future, exploitation, heroes, desert, post nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, water shortage, attempted rape ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, wasteland, post apocalyptic, distopia, desert, female warrior, biker, renegade, woman fights a man, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, year 1986, near future
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Human Highway is a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo. Included is a collaborative ...
Style:
dark comedy, cult classic, apocalyptic, independent film, surreal ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, rock, apocalypse, pop music, punk rock, epidemic, punk, distopia, acid, surrealism, post-apocalyptic future, friends ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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:
30%
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