Movies like Steel Dawn
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Steel Dawn (1987)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 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:
futuristic, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, humorous, melancholic, harsh, reflective, campy, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, survival, martial arts, sword, vengeance, heroes, distopia, disaster, gang, fight, violence, sword fight, chase, catastrophe, ninja, revenge, mutant, natural disaster, hunting, cyborgs, assassin, death, murder, camp ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out cult film, futuristic, serious and exciting films with plots about escapades, danger, violence, dialogue, vengeance, heroes and lone hero mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like Steel Dawn: The Postman (1997), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Fist of the North Star (1995), Double Dragon (1994), Waterworld (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopic future, postman, distopia, future dystopia, vestiges of humanity, leadership, post war, survival, brutality, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, 2040s, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
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:
road movie, exciting, surreal, stylized, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, distopia, desert, apocalypse, survival, chase, car chase, on the run, car, tough guy, future dystopia, chaos ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
australia, los angeles
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100%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
From the immensely popular FIST OF THE NORTH STAR comic book series, comes a new hero. The fate of mankind rests with superhuman warrior Kenshiro who roams the wastelands of the future waging a battle against overwhelming evil. With the spiritual ...
Style:
stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful, anime ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, destiny, vengeance, nuclear holocaust, superhuman powers, battles, heroic mission, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, life is a bitch, escapades, chaos ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
tokyo
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set 15 years in the future in post-earthquake California, where San Diego and Los Angeles are merged into one city, two teenage brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader named Bo Abobo has the other half, and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, sexy, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, heroic mission, chase, heroes, good versus evil, superhuman powers, fight, rivalry, leadership, race against time, secret identity, gang ...
Time:
future, year 2007, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, egypt, china, california, usa
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 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, serious, apocalyptic, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, ocean, sailing, boat, distopia, water, rescue, dystopic future, sea, future dystopia ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada
⇓ 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:
apocalyptic, road movie, dystopian, entertaining, dieselpunk ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, lone hero, desert, end of the world, car chase, car, survival, fight, chase, catastrophe, motorcycle, oil ...
Time:
future
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This Italian-Turkish co-production helmed by genre veteran Antonio Margheriti (using the pseudonym "Anthony M. Dawson") was cobbled together from a four-part science-fiction miniseries shown on Italian television. In prehistoric times, the ...
Style:
campy, ridiculous, surreal, futuristic, parody ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, dinosaur, sword, beast, distopia, monster, caveman, sword and sorcery, desert, barbarian, robot, violence ...
Time:
prehistory, stone age, 80s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 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:
bleak, intense, serious, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, sport, survival, distopia, martial arts, violence, apocalypse, revenge, contests and competitions, escapades, future dystopia, athlete's life ...
Time:
future
Place:
new jersey, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ...
Style:
surreal, humorous, futuristic, entertaining, campy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
desert, martial arts, post apocalypse, apocalypse, rock and roll, chaos, heroes, escapades, gang war, end of the world, road trip, fight ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, 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:
futuristic, campy, sexy, exciting, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, distopia, robot, cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids, androids and robots, sexy woman, female robot, wilderness, heroic mission, future dystopia ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 2017, 2010s ...
Place:
las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Pacific Rim
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A martial artist hunts a killer in a plague-infested urban dump of the future.
Style:
stylized, homoerotic, bleak, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, cyborgs, martial arts, androids and robots, chase, cyberpunk, future dystopia, robot, one man army, apocalypse, chaos, violence ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, georgia, south carolina, atlanta georgia
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, distopia, race against time, future dystopia, heroic mission, apocalypse, earthquake, chaos and mayhem, one man army, daring rescue, life is a bitch, survival ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, latin america, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
futuristic, road movie, suspenseful, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
apocalypse, chase, post apocalypse, vengeance, car chase, revenge, car, biker, dystopic future, chaos, violence spree, exploitation ...
Time:
future
Place:
australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is ...
Style:
futuristic, perverse, psychotronic, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, androids and robots, cyborgs, terminator, cyberpunk, apocalypse, kung fu, fetus, distopia, alien, heroes, chase ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ 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, heroic, biblical, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, religion, faith, lone hero, desert, protector, dystopic future, chaos, future dystopia, bible ...
Time:
future, 2040s
Place:
usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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, stylized, captivating, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, orphan, apocalypse, survival, drought, future dystopia, teenager, save the world, teenage girl, escapades, life is a bitch, rescue ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
splatter, absurd, harsh, intense, campy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, survival, catastrophe, disaster, natural disaster, revenge, memory, first contact, finnish, fight scenes ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
russia
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36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A seeker named Dogen rescues Dhyana after her father is murdered by the evil Jared-Syn. To avenge her father's death, Dogen must find Jared-Syn's hideout in the mysterious "Lost City", but the only person who knows where it is an ...
Style:
futuristic, campy, humorous, sexy, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, space, apocalypse, monster, desert, cyborgs, truck, abduction, miner, demon, puppet, nostalgia ...
Time:
future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Immortals Connor and Duncan Macleod join forces against a man from Connor's distant past in the highlands of Scotland, Kell, an immensely powerful immortal who leads an army of equally powerful and deadly immortal swordsmen and assassins. No ...
Style:
exciting, melancholic, suspenseful, serious, enigmatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
sword fight, vengeance, good versus evil, supernatural, sword and sorcery, immortality, supernatural ability, superhero, mentor, heroic mission, rivalry, martial arts ...
Time:
18th century, 16th century, 17th century, 2000s, middle ages ...
Place:
scotland, new york, ireland, italy, usa ...
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35%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, futuristic, reflective, harsh ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, distopia, apocalypse, monkey, end of the world, revolution, survival, rebellion, slavery, mutant, chase, surveillance ...
Time:
future, near future, 70s, 2000s
Place:
tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Movies like Oblivion
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When terrorists threaten nuclear catastrophe, the world's only hope is to reactivate decommissioned Universal Soldier Luc Deveraux. Rearmed and reprogrammed, Deveraux must take on his nemesis from the original Universal Soldier and a ...
Style:
exciting, intense, tense, serious, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, soldier, military, fight, martial arts, chase, violence, fight scenes, lone hero, heroes, gunfight, terminator ...
Time:
future, 80s, 60s, 2000s
Place:
virginia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their ...
Style:
intense, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
space opera, space travel, post apocalypse, survival, future dystopia, alien, space and aliens, distopia, monster, space, maze, rescue ...
Time:
future, 80s
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33%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After the end of the world, Earth is a thirsty planet ruled by vicious warlords. One woman is brave enough to fight back; she bands together five warriors to save her town and their precious water
Style:
perverse, psychotronic
Plot:
post apocalypse, female fighter, distopia, apocalypse, superhero, exploitation, warlord, tough guy, desert, mixed martial arts, duel, future war ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which could signal the end of the Cyborgs, and they inject it into a volunteer. When ...
Style:
futuristic, sexy, surreal, melancholic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
female bodybuilder, time travel, space and aliens, cyborgs, androids and robots, cyberpunk, alien, apocalypse, terminator, post apocalypse, brutality, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, year 1995, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Style:
futuristic, humorous, stylized, exciting, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
space opera, good versus evil, space travel, alien, space adventure, space, death, vengeance, robot, mercenary, spacecraft, space battle ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Films like Jupiter Ascending
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA, South Africa, Namibia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, brutality, gunfight, assassination, justice, gratuitous violence, soldier, mission of murder, war, politics, state affairs, fighting the system ...
Time:
80s
Place:
africa, russia
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32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, chase, lone hero, runaway, fight scenes, military, master warrior, heroes, violence, fight, mortal combat ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Style:
road movie, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, car chase, desert, loner, dystopic future, biker, chase, car, survival, gang ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
australia, oceania, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for ...
Style:
stylized, scenic, satirical, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
robot, post apocalypse, androids and robots, man versus machine, distopia, survival, giant robots, apocalypse, future dystopia, technology gone awry, heroic mission, save the world ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
usa, alaska
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31%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Yuki is the last surviving royal of the House of Takemikazuchi or Takemikazuchi no Hime (たけみかずち の ひめ), who live in a futuristic post-apocalyptic isolationist world where they use their skills as former Mikado guards to become ...
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stylized, serious, suspenseful, visually appealing, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female warrior, martial arts, vengeance, sword fight, rebellion, leadership, heroic mission, rivalry, escapades, love affair, future dystopia, ninja ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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