Movies like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 1961
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, talky, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, intense, apocalyptic, nautical, classic horror ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
submarine, underwater, disaster, survival, race against time, apocalypse, moral dilemma, dystopic future, brutality, rescue, shark, danger, heroic mission, save the world, daring rescue, diver, space opera, global warming, steampunk, meteor shower, nuclear submarine, water, kaiju, religious fanatic, u.s. navy ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1961, 50s, 1950s
Place:
new york
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Most similar movies to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and psychotronic films with plots about danger, heroes, catastrophe, disaster, race against time, escapades and chases and races mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: seaQuest DSV (1993), The Abyss (1989), Fantastic Voyage (1966), Waterworld (1995), The Neptune Factor (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.
Style:
cliffhanger, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, space and aliens, sea, military, benign alien, teenager, skinny dipping, water, dystopia, marine, fish, boat ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2030s, 2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
208K
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, psychological, exciting, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
ocean, ufo, underwater, first contact, disaster, sea, submarine, space and aliens, survival, heroic mission, alien encounter, alien ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989, future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The science of miniaturization has been unlocked, and the army has big plans. But when a scientist carrying the secret of the process is injured in a surprise attack, a life-threatening blood clot puts him into a coma. Now, a team of adventurers ...
Style:
medical horror, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
submarine, double agent, space and aliens, medical, rescue, military, assassination attempt, danger, chases and races, shrinking, trippy, scientist ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, year 1966, 60s, future
Similarity:
100%
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%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it and encounters terrible danger.
Style:
psychotronic, serious, exciting, rough, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underwater, ocean, giant monster, disaster, diving, kaiju, scuba diving, monster, giant octopus, sea, octopus, diver ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A group of 21st-century colonists inhabit an underwater city called Pacifica. Originally intended as a purely scientific installation, the U. S. government wants to stash all its gold reserves from Fort Knox there, along with a fantastic new ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
underwater city, disaster, sea, future war, distopia, pluto, diver, giant monster, heist gone wrong, chases and races, danger, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 21st century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The crew of an experimental underwater nuclear base are forced to struggle for their lives when their explorations disturb a creature who threatens to destroy their base.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
underwater, sea monster, creature feature, race against time, giant monster, ghost ship, survival, disaster, sea creature, shark, ship, alien invasion ...
Time:
future, prehistory, 80s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
creature, disaster, scientist, danger, experiment gone awry, chaos, deadly creature, survival, escapades, heroic mission, bomber, apocalypse ...
Time:
future
Place:
missouri, washington d.c., st. louis missouri
Similarity:
43%
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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:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, rescue, heroic mission, military life, danger, underwater, survival, rivalry, government agency, undercover, military, race against time ...
Place:
hawaii, asia, korea
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A five man submarine plants sensors around the worlds oceans to monitor for a impending earthquake.
Style:
psychotronic, stylized, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, underwater, diving, chess, scuba diving, diver, water, destiny, forces of nature, heroic mission, chases and races, danger ...
Time:
year 1966
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
42%
311
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Over one hundred years ago, a cataclysmic chain of events plummeted the earth into the dark ages which destroyed most of civilization, and the remaining few survivors attempt to change the course of events that led to the destruction.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
time travel, female warrior, survival, danger, heroic mission, chaos, escapades, rivalry, apocalypse, imaginary, disaster, woman kills a man ...
Time:
future, year 1999, 90s
Place:
colombia, pentagon
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An oceanic observation station is in desperate trouble after a sudden shark attack wrecked the oxygen supply. The accompanying ship, a coast guard cruiser, and other ships in and around the Bermuda triangle are attacked as well. The US Navy sends a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, exciting, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, shark, underwater, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, murder, experiment, beach, fear, diving, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
boston
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
titanic, submarine, ship, sea, treasure hunt, disaster, water, boat, spy, cold war, chase, underwater ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 80s, year 1982, year 1912
Place:
russia, new york, soviet union, fictional island, atlantic ocean ...
Similarity:
42%
216K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
jungle, survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, danger, giant bird, heroic mission, real life father and son playing father and son, disaster, alien, alien invasion, humanity ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 22nd century, 2010s
Place:
philadelphia, seattle
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth.This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the earth's crust, which threatens to ...
Style:
apocalyptic, retro, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, love triangle, doomsday, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, bombing, explosions, environmental, peril, giant monster ...
Time:
60s
Place:
africa, big ben london, london
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The Megalodon shark. A prehistoric killing machine 60 feet long, flashing 200 pounds of teeth and weighing over 20 tons. It's the deadliest predator the world has ever seen. The scientists say it's been extinct for more than 10,000 years. ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
shark, underwater, shark attack, survival, obsessive quest, dangerous animal, heroic mission, danger, race against time, escapades, rescue, obsession ...
Time:
prehistory
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
INTER SCI climatologist Dr. David Kotzman has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age...in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, natural disaster, survival, save the world, rescue, save the day, forces of nature, race against time, husband wife relationship, winter, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future
Place:
miami, usa, florida, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chaos, apocalypse, universe, desert, survival, astronomer, danger, disaster, heroic mission, save the planet, escapades, government agency ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, africa, taj mahal, tokyo, sydney australia ...
Similarity:
41%
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268K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of ...
Style:
exciting, serious, entertaining, action packed, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, u.s. navy, military, battleship, navy, ship, evil alien, danger, invasion, ufo, space and aliens ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, 2000s, year 2005 ...
Place:
hawaii, london, pacific ocean, tokyo, new york ...
Similarity:
41%
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, inspirational, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopic future, postman, dystopian future, post apocalyptic, vestiges of humanity, post war, survival, drifter, leadership, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1997, 2010s, year 2013 ...
Place:
usa, oregon
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, intense, serious, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, time travel, man versus machine, post apocalypse, dystopian future, terminator, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Captain Nemo goes even deeper into insanity in this mesmerizing fantasy tale. Once again at the helm of his fearsome, wildly advanced vessel, the nautical madman endeavors to turn the world above the waves upside down.
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, fairy tale, mockbuster ...
Plot:
heroes, adventurer, heroic mission, obsessive quest, obsession, supernatural, daring rescue, danger, escapades, underwater, chaos, submarine ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, fast, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, martial arts, destiny, danger, rescue, race against time, soldier, atomic bomb, government agency, daring rescue, save the world, secret agent ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, antarctica, los angeles, usa, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
41%
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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:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, heroic mission, save the world, danger, save the planet, race against time, heroes, scientist, apocalypse, society, distopia, epidemic ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
america
Similarity:
41%
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, suspenseful, exciting, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, chaos, save the world, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, post apocalypse, autism, tsunami, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
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, apocalypse, asteroid, space and aliens, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, society, danger, heroes, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
41%
107K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
underwater, creature, giant monster, monster, sea monster, animal attack, creature feature, water, cthulhu, ocean, earthquake, giant creature ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, kids
Plot:
space battle, androids and robots, military, battlestar galactica, space, space opera, survival, save the world, man versus machine, danger, rescue, good versus evil ...
Time:
future, year 1978
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Charlie Price, a former scientist turned science fiction author, starts living one of his novels when the Federal Science Foundation's weather experiments escape control and turn disastrous.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, tornado, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, forces of nature, survival, race against time, obsessive quest, escapades, danger, heroes, evil alien ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Poseidon Adventure was one of the first Catastrophe films and began the Disaster Film genre. Director Neame tells the story of a group of people that must fight for their lives aboard a sinking ship. Based on the novel by Paul Gallico.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, ocean liner, race against time, underwater, sea disaster, cruise ship, sea, sinking ship, ocean ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
israel, atlantic ocean, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
40%
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