Movies like Waterworld

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Waterworld (1995)
 6.3
 208K
Waterworld (1995)
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. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland' – which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Style: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, entertaining, cult classic, psychological thriller, retro, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, date night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, sailing, water, boat, dystopic future, sea, rescue, end of the world, distopia, dystopian future, pirate, escapades, sailboat, vestiges of humanity, danger, diving, steampunk, catastrophe, ship, fight scenes, stranded ...
Time: future, year 1995, distant future, near future
Place: arizona, canada
Keyword: ocean or sea, dreams, reboot, retrospective, poster

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting and serious films with plots about distopia, apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalyptic and danger mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like Waterworld: The Postman (1997), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Book of Eli (2010), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.1
 78K
The Postman (1997)
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, end of the world, leadership, dystopian future, postman, post apocalyptic, distopia, vestiges of humanity, post war, survival ...
Time: future, year 1997, near future, year 2013, 2010s ...
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
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: cult classic, road movie, action adventure, cyber, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, lone hero, dystopia, end of the world, post apocalyptic, desert, mad max, car chase, wasteland, dystopian future, survival, chase ...
Time: future, 20th century, 80s
Place: australia, south australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
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, visually stunning, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, desert, dystopian future, chase, car chase, distopia, car, dystopia, on the run ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2016, distant future ...
Place: australia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.8
 338K
The Book of Eli (2010)
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, twist ending, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, end of the world, desert, faith, religion, danger, dystopia, lone hero ...
Time: future, year 2010, near future, 2010s, distant future ...
Place: indiana, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
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: apocalyptic, road movie, futuristic, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, desert, truck, car chase, dystopia, loner, lone hero, chase, post apocalyptic, oil, survival ...
Time: future, year 1982, distant future, 20th century, near future ...
Place: australia, oceania, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.2
 808K
I Am Legend (2007)
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: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 2007, near future, jurassic, distant future ...
Place: new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.8
 220K
Mad Max (1979)
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: road movie, futuristic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, stylized ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, chase, dystopia, vengeance, post apocalypse, revenge, biker, car chase, dystopic future, chaos, car, violence spree ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, year 1979, distant future ...
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
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, apocalyptic, intense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, dystopian future, martial arts, distopia, post apocalyptic, violence, blood, revenge, escapades, contests and competitions, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, year 1989, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, repeated event, military, danger, soldier, time paradox, space and aliens ...
Time: future, year 2014, near future, 2010s, 2020s ...
Place: france, paris france, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 443K
In Time (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, survival, love, distopia, dystopic future, dystopia, class differences, life & death, social differences ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Six-String Samurai (1998)
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, futuristic, entertaining, apocalyptic, humorous ...
Plot: desert, martial arts, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, road trip, alternate history, rock and roll, danger, heroes, chaos, medieval ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 504K
The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot: survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Fifth Element (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
Style: futuristic, breathtaking, exciting, colorful, visually stunning ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, boys' night, teens
Plot: alien, space opera, cyberpunk, dystopian future, space and aliens, good versus evil, space travel, end of the world, save the world, dystopia, life philosophy, love ...
Time: future, year 1997, 90s, 23rd century, 1910s
Place: egypt, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, post apocalypse, environmental, climate, cataclysm, survival, stranded ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place: new york, los angeles, washington d.c., california, antarctic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, danger, slavery, rescue, brutality, stupidity, survival, planet ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k
Place: denver colorado, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 145K
Reign of Fire (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In post-apocalyptic England, an American volunteer and a British survivor team up to fight off a brood of fire-breathing dragons seeking to return to global dominance after centuries of rest underground. The Brit -- leading a clan of survivors to ...
Style: exciting, suspense, entertaining, apocalyptic, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: dragon, apocalypse, monster, creature, post apocalypse, end of the world, extinction, chaos, dystopia, destruction, deadly creature, heroes ...
Time: future, year 2002, near future, jurassic, 2000s ...
Place: ireland, europe, britain, edinburgh scotland, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.1
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Steel Dawn (1987)
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: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, desert, post apocalyptic, survival, sword and sorcery, martial arts, dystopia, sorcery, vengeance, heroes, wasteland, distopia ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 132K
Aeon Flux (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Brazil, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is ...
Style: futuristic, stylized, action packed, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: strong female character, female protagonist, woman with a gun, secret movement, strong female lead, cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, rebelliousness, rebellion, superheroine, superhero ...
Time: future, near future, 2000s
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 7.0
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Oblivion (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, captivating, suspense, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian future, alien invasion, survival, space travel, space and aliens, catastrophe, danger, fate of humanity, alien encounter, resistance ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, distant future ...
Place: peru, seattle, new york, washington d.c., pentagon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.9
 80K
Doomsday (2008)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, South Africa, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A lethal virus spreads throughout the British isles,infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. To contain the threat, acting authorities brutally quarantine the country as it succumbs to fear and chaos. The quarantine is successful. Three ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, cannibalism, infected, danger, society, epidemic, survival, rescue, chaos, infection, quarantine ...
Time: future, 2030s, year 2008, 2010s, 21st century
Place: scotland, england, britain, london, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that Hammond has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ...
Style: suspense, scenic, suspenseful, saga, exciting ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: dinosaur, giant monster, island, jungle, tyrannosaurus rex, dangerous animal, jurassic park, survival, animal, lost world, monster, predator ...
Time: jurassic, 90s, year 1997, prehistoric times, 20th century
Place: fictional island, costa rica, caribbean, california, san diego california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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Divergent (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes ...
Style: exciting, serious, teen, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: distopia, fighting the system, heroine, rebellion, survival, dystopia, danger, chosen one, choice, post apocalypse, society, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.1
 112K
Sphere (1998)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style: scary, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: ocean, underwater, alien, paranoia, first contact, psychology, survival, supernatural, space, submarine, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time: future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Time Machine (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, time machine, dystopic future, steampunk, obsessive quest, post apocalypse, utopia, changing the past or future, chase, apocalypse, loss of loved one, scientist ...
Time: future, distant future, victorian era, 2030s, 19th century ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 56K
Chaos Walking (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong, Luxembourg
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Style: enigmatic, captivating, psychotronic, unusual plot structure, futuristic ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen fantasy
Plot: post apocalypse, wilderness, distopia, mind reading, fantasy world, distant planet, colonialism, attempted escape, space colony, swamp, farm, farmer ...
Time: 2020s, 23rd century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 396K
2012 (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, destruction, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, human existence, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: las vegas, los angeles, british columbia, mount everest, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Lost Future (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to ...
Style: stylized, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: jungle, post apocalypse, survival, virus, deadly virus, plague, post apocalyptic, isolation, beast, dystopian future, wilderness, apocalypse ...
Time: distant future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 11K
Cherry 2000 (1987)
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: cult classic, exciting, apocalyptic, grindhouse, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids, robot, dystopia, distopia, cyberpunk, female robot, sexy woman, post apocalyptic, heroic mission, androids and robots ...
Time: future, year 1987, near future, year 2017, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 61K
Logan's Run (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, cult classic, psychotronic, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, dystopia, cat, robot, utopia, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, post apocalypse, space, totalitarianism, biosphere ...
Time: future, 23rd century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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