Movies like Y2K 1999
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Y2K (1999)
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It's millennium eve. At the stroke of midnight the Y2K computer bug kicks in, causing widespread chaos in the US.
Style:
tense, tension, suspense, period piece
Plot:
computer, evacuation, new year's eve, uncertainty, panic, anxiety, catastrophe, survival, media frenzy, social commentary, conspiracy, urban, nostalgia, disaster, nuclear power plant, power outage, general
Time:
y2k, turn of the century, 90s, 2000s, year 1999, year 2000, 1990s
Place:
usa, united states
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Most similar movies to Y2K
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and apocalyptic films with plots about survival, disaster, evacuation, apocalypse, catastrophe, conspiracy and danger mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Y2K: Nuclear Hurricane (2007), Rich Flu (2024), Escape (1971), Lost in the Pacific (2016), e-Virus (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Linda is trapped when the nuclear power plant in which she works threatens a meltdown, while her girlfriend takes on a major storm which could destroy their island home.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, hurricane, storm, artificial intelligence, nuclear power plant, lesbian, computer, race against time, nuclear, power plant, computer system, evil computer ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Deep underwater in the Marianas Trench an accident results in a devastating Tsunami that destroys the Hawaiian Islands as it continues toward the west coast. Panic ensues all up and down the western coast of North and South America. In an attempt to ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, tsunami, catastrophe, panic, survival, evacuation, apocalypse, scientist, struggle for survival, water, giant wave ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Chile, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A strange disease kills off some of the richest and most influential people on the planet. First it was the billionaires, then the multi-millionaires and so on progressively... Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. With the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, dark comedy, action thriller, political drama
Plot:
dystopia, social experiment, family drama, class struggle, pandemic, social commentary, moral dilemma, human nature, cautionary tale, moral ambiguity, panic, greed ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A mother and son find themselves faced with a brutal alien invasion where survival will depend on discovering the unthinkable truth about the enemy.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, harsh, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, catastrophe, alien invasion, alien attack, invasion, fantasy world, evil, good versus evil, life & death, monster, rescue, disaster ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
63%
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121
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A scientist's experiment could lead to the first man-made, functioning, living organism. An elite escape artist-private investigator is working to stop him.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, heroic, period piece ...
Plot:
escape artist, scientist, investigation, rescue, private investigator, survival, fugitive, pursuit, kidnapping, conspiracy, ethical dilemma, abduction ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Malaysia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The passengers of a luxury airliner become stranded on a remote, mysterious island after an emergency landing. They soon realize the island holds a dark, deadly secret.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
air disaster, survival, disaster, island, remote island, stranded on an island, paranormal, catastrophe, struggle for survival, trapped, isolation, danger ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min.
Story:
The CIA is tasked with keeping the United States one step ahead of any opposing military technology. While stealth and drone technology have dominated the battlefield, the enemy has constantly engineered equivalent weapons. But, now the CIA has ...
Style:
suspense, tense
Plot:
cia, assassination, espionage, conspiracy, paranoia, betrayal, government coverup, hacker, man on the run, surveillance, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Action - When a shower of massive meteors threatens an extinction level on Earth, the world's greatest minds devise a dangerous plan that will take the planet off its axis in order to avoid the impact. - Tia Carrere, Jason Brooks, Robert Davi
Style:
apocalyptic, tension, suspense, grim, dark
Plot:
disaster, asteroid, natural disaster, earth, mass destruction, catastrophe, chaos, survival, countdown, sacrifice, panic, rescue mission ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a super-volcano threatens the island of Hawaii, a team of rescue and disaster experts who are called in to help must race against the clock to save those in the path of the molten lava and stop the volcano for good.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
disaster, volcano, natural disaster, rescue, lava, island, salvation, rescue mission, lifeguard, rescue attempt, tropical island, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, pacific ocean
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A convicted murderer holds the world hostage with a year 2000 virus in all the world's major computer systems.
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, period piece, tense, dark ...
Plot:
virus, hostage, manipulation, countdown, conspiracy, murderer, hacker, computer, wrongful conviction, media frenzy, panic, police procedural ...
Time:
y2k
Place:
berlin germany, pacific ocean, sydney australia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
A young man has a mere six hours to escape with his best friend from their hometown before a nuclear reactor explodes.
Style:
suspense, tension, apocalyptic
Plot:
nuclear threat, escape, countdown, friendship, survival, disaster, evacuation, small town, desperation, road trip, apocalypse, uncertainty ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An alien spacecraft lands near New York and destroys everything as it heads toward Washington D.C. If it reaches the capital, it will trigger an invasion. Scientists and the military must stop it before it's too late.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, apocalyptic, mockbuster ...
Plot:
alien invasion, extraterrestrial, president, survival, military, disaster, catastrophe, teamwork, first contact, evacuation, alien, apocalypse ...
Place:
washington d.c., new york
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When martial law is declared, a family seeks shelter in the safety of its own home during a nationwide lockdown for a highly contagious virus.
Style:
suspense, bleak, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
martial law, distopia, pandemic, quarantine, deadly virus, biohazard, house, virus, evil, coronavirus, isolation, fear ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sarah, a struggling young woman, agrees to volunteer as a test subject and be implanted with the LEXX nanochip for a pharmaceutical company experiment. She hopes that the money received for her participation will solve her financial troubles. When ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, mind control, female protagonist, survival, nanotechnology, scientific experiment, loss of control, struggle for survival, experiment gone awry, family in danger, manipulation, human experiment ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A sci-fi/thriller centered on a high school violinist who witnesses the collapse of space and time.
Style:
mind bending, tense, suspense, surreal, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
disaster, alternate reality, violinist, conspiracy, supernatural, paranormal, investigation, high school, coming of age, small town, identity crisis, puzzle ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Foreign agents are after a substance called "laser rubies" that can power a killer laser beam. Government agents are dispatched to protect the rubies and eliminate the foreign agents.
Style:
suspense, thrilling, fast paced, action adventure, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
espionage, secret agent, cold war, spy, conspiracy, heist, spy thriller, paranoia, undercover, betrayal, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
40%
579
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, exciting
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, fire, humanity in peril, danger, destruction, chaos, death, evacuation, race against time, forces of nature, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An addict ex-politician whose life has spiraled out of control finds redemption when challenged with keeping his sister-in-law and niece alive during the apocalypse.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, tense
Plot:
disaster, redemption, addiction, survival, junkie, danger, death, soldier, chaos and mayhem, race against time, military, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
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366
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a devastating winter storm freezes over the whole of North Carolina, climatologists and disaster relief experts are called in before the entire East Coast is destroyed.
Style:
exciting, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ice, weather, snow, cold, cataclysm, extreme weather, freezing, science ...
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
It's 1969 and infected corn leads to an outbreak of the walking dead in a small Midwest town. With nowhere to run and isolated from the outside world, a group of friends and family must fight their way through the hordes of the undead to ...
Style:
period piece, tension, splatter, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, survival, walking dead, cornfield, undead, horde, farm, isolation, small town, quarantine, panic, body horror ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, sexy, breathtaking, serious ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, danger, invasion, infected, alien encounter, doctor, hysteria, save the world ...
Time:
year 2007, distant future, future
Place:
washington d.c., usa, kurdistan, russia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, cliffhanger
Plot:
disaster, flood, escaped prisoner, trapped, survival, confined space, claustrophobia, danger, desperation, isolation, panic, suspicion ...
Similarity:
34%
930
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
Style:
suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
quarantine, danger, plague, dishonesty, disaster, save the day, epidemic, virus, rivalry, apocalypse, disease, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
Similarity:
34%
Movie in collections
549
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, danger, social relations, dishonesty, love triangle, creature, infection, government coverup, uncover truth, survival, virus, pandemic ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Deep in the throes of a global pandemic, up and coming TV star, Ava Boone, is forced to flee the mounting chaos in Los Angeles and return to her rural hometown. But as she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Plot:
small town, chores, homecoming, danger, dark past, troubled past, quarantine, female protagonist, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
1K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of former computer University colleagues and their partners meet for dinner after several years only to share one of the most secret files on the Internet.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot:
internet, hacker, artificial intelligence, cell phone, secret, meeting, resort, discussion, lawyer, danger, murder, death ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sci-fi thriller directed by Fred Gallo.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female nudity, spaceship, survival, post apocalyptic, alien invasion, survival horror, space opera, dark future, danger, alien abduction, panic, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Style:
captivating, suspense, touching, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
subconscious, escape, desert, escape attempt, time paradox, mind game, plot twist, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, computer, political prisoner ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
For 5 billion years the Earth's core has operated like a giant, nuclear reactor. Now it's overheated, melting down like a bomb that's about to explode. The earth is being ripped apart at the seams and beneath LA, pressure is building. ...
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, weather, survival, race against time, love, demolished city, global warming, destruction, evacuation, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scientists make a horrible discovery: The "Big One" is coming in two days, with it, California will sink to the ocean. Their only hope is to rupture a volcano that will displace the earthquake's energy and build a new crust on the ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, demolished city, fire, death, apocalypse, survival, chaos and mayhem, race against time, chaos, destruction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
31%
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