Movies and TV shows like The Stand 1994
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The Stand (1994)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 361 min.
TV show
Story:
The human race is wiped out by a government invented super flu. The remaining survivors take sides in the forces of good and evil. A mysterious old woman who is a servant of God and a powerful and deadly man who might be the devil himself. A gas station attendant, a rock star, a mute, a professor, a farmer, a socialite, a mildly retarded man, a judge, a teenager, a mother, and a nerd take forces.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, futuristic, tense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, splatter, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, pandemic, supernatural, plague, post apocalypse, natural disaster, good versus evil, survival, end of the world, epidemic, deadly virus, future dystopia, catastrophe, betrayal, distopia, race against time, justice, vengeance, suspense, save the world, chaos and mayhem, heroic mission, life is a bitch, supernatural ability ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
las vegas, usa, nebraska, maine, austin texas, new york, texas ...
Most similar movies to The Stand
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic and scary films and TV series with plots about danger, catastrophe, post apocalypse, death, apocalypse, dialogue and survival mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Stand: Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010), Storm of the Century (1999), 28 Days Later (2002), The Walking Dead (2010), Lost (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 510 min.
TV show
Story:
After the world is decimated by a man-made plague, a battle of literally Biblical proportions ensues between the survivors.
Style:
rough, tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, deadly virus, god or devil, suspense, epidemic, good versus evil, apocalypse, pandemic, wilderness, devil, supernatural, fighting illness ...
Place:
new york
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100%

Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the Umbrella Corporation reaches new heights, but Alice gets some ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, splatter, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, monster, future dystopia, apocalypse, virus, survival, mutation, infected, zombie survival, female warrior, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa, tokyo, california, japan ...
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100%

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 257 min.
TV show
Story:
A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine. All access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, tragedy ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
demon, supernatural, snow, blizzard, storm, winter, suicide, island, murder, small town, village, stranger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style:
scary, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, virus, survival, epidemic, fear, end of the world, rage, infected, zombie apocalypse, laboratory ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, manchester, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, pandemic, supernatural, virus, zombie apocalypse, graphic violence, peril, fear, plague ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, atlanta, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Series like The Walking Dead
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, desert island, stranded on an island, human nature, air disaster, lost, island, mysterious place, destiny, plane crash, death, mysterious character ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Malta
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is ...
Style:
suspenseful, apocalyptic, scary, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, virus, epidemic, deadly virus, survival, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, pandemic, natural disaster, chaos ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 2000s, year 1973, 21st century
Place:
israel, new jersey, new york, philadelphia, jerusalem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, splatter, rough ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
infected, epidemic, insanity, survival, deadly virus, chaos and mayhem, quarantine, plague, virus, suspense, small town, bio weapon ...
Place:
usa, iowa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style:
futuristic, bleak, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, zombie, survival, plague, vampire, isolation, cult, end of the world, apocalypse, transformation, loneliness, virus ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1977, year 1975, near future
Place:
los angeles, usa, ussr, california, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 266 min.
TV show
Story:
Under Paul ‘Muad'Dib’ Atreides' rule as Emperor, the planet Arrakis has enjoyed a renaissance. However, the revolution that Muad'dib inspired has transformed into a brutal jihad that has plunged all of humanity into a bitter, ...
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, intense, epic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
imaginary kingdom, desert, good versus evil, heroic mission, space travel, space opera, escapades, leadership, political unrest, space and aliens, fantasy world, fight scenes ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Movies like Lost
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style:
intense, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, distopia, supernatural, isolation, infected, end of the world, dog ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 2000s, year 2012, near future ...
Place:
new york, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%

Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Robert Morgan is the last man on earth, as far as he can tell. A plague killed everyone else on the planet several years ago. He was immune to it, and can only guess why. Vampires that were formerly human attack Morgan's home every night
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, scary, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, vampire, virus, zombie, survival, end of the world, distopia, chase, monster, disease, cemetery ...
Time:
future
Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, surreal, absurd, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, zombie, apocalypse, post apocalypse, end of the world, epidemic, insanity, survival, zombie apocalypse, violence, life & death, suicide ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
boston, new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to ...
Style:
scary, touching, suspenseful, bleak, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, father daughter relationship, apocalypse, virus, pandemic, small town, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, transformation, terminal illness, supernatural, loneliness ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back ...
Style:
scary, road movie, suspenseful, psychological, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, virus, infection, post apocalypse, pandemic, road trip, biohazard, apocalypse, deadly virus, suspense, end of the world, zombie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Films like I Am Legend

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pandemic, apocalypse, disaster, epidemic, submarine, post apocalypse, infection, virus, chaos, deadly virus, ghost, quarantine ...
Time:
year 1983, year 1982, year 1988, 80s, year 1981
Place:
antarctica, empire state building manhattan new york city, paris france, washington d.c., moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Germany, Italy
Duration: 265 min.
TV show
Story:
A three part mini-series based on Frank Herbert's classic Science Fiction novel entailing politics, betrayal, lust, greed and the coming of a Messiah.
Style:
epic, futuristic, stylized, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
rebel, space opera, prophecy, dune, desert planet, distopia, space, space travel, vengeance, chosen one, space and aliens, space wars ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this chilling sequel to 28 Days Later, the inhabitants of the British Isles appear to have lost their battle against the onslaught of disease, as the deadly rage virus has killed every citizen there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to ...
Style:
scary, tense, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, end of the world, post apocalypse, infected, deadly virus, zombie apocalypse, chaos, suspense, chaos and mayhem, infection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story:
A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of ...
Style:
tense, serious, stylized, melancholic, harsh ...
Plot:
laboratory, virus, biohazard, plague, catastrophe, bacteria, disease, deadly virus, cure, disaster, time travel, infection ...
Time:
future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, utah, shanghai, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
107K

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, absurd, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
angel, apocalypse, supernatural, religion, desert, good versus evil, heroes, survival, god, save the world, prophecy, extinction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north america, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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World War Z similar movies
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style:
tense, serious, gloomy, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, virus, disaster, catastrophe, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, graphic violence, suspense, plague ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, west virginia, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story:
After a 40-year armistice in a war between the Twelve Colonies and the Cylons, the Cylons launch a surprise nuclear attack intended to exterminate the human race. Virtually all of the population of the Twelve Colonies are wiped out.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, cerebral, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, space wars, space, space battle, future dystopia, cyborgs, space and aliens, androids and robots, alternate universe, good versus evil, obsessive quest, military ...
Time:
future, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%

Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style:
psychological, neo noir, suspenseful, dark, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural, dark hero, serial killer, suspense, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, twists and turns, destiny, psychology, investigation, a vision ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, 70s
Place:
maine, canada, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%

Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death ...
Style:
scary, bleak, road movie, brutal, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, vampire, survival, vampire hunter, epidemic, infected, apocalypse, monster, religious fanaticism, coming of age, suspense, depression ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%

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, thought provoking, futuristic, harsh, serious ...
Plot:
cold war, nuclear war, disaster, apocalypse, post apocalypse, end of the world, nuclear holocaust, radiation, catastrophe, distopia, nuclear bomb, natural disaster ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century
Place:
usa, kansas, new jersey, missouri, nebraska ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Films like Cloverfield

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, pregnancy, small town, alien life-form, genetics, husband wife relationship, suspense, mind game, supernatural ability, babies and infants, small town life ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%

Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Four boyhood pals perform a heroic act and are changed by the powers they gain in return. Years later, on a hunting trip in the Maine woods, they're overtaken by a vicious blizzard that harbors an ominous presence. Challenged to stop an alien ...
Style:
scary, psychological, apocalyptic, slasher, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, supernatural, first contact, virus, supernatural ability, forest, alien encounter, evil alien, apocalypse, transformation, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
colorado, usa, boston, massachusetts, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%

Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the ...
Style:
scary, stylized, rough, intense, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, virus, suspense, small town, survival, quarantine, survival horror, epidemic, transformation, brutality, soldier ...
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is ...
Style:
dark fantasy, scary, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
vampire, post apocalypse, supernatural, distopia, good versus evil, apocalypse, future dystopia, monster, priest, vampire hunter, clergy, human versus monster ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%

Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style:
dark, scary, suspenseful, bleak, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, suspense, distopia, infection, experiment, zombie apocalypse, military, zombie child, monster ...
Time:
future
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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