Movies like Zardoz

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Zardoz (1974)
 5.8
 24K
Zardoz (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, stylized, philosophical, apocalyptic, political, psychotronic, independent film, psychological, funny ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, distopia, breast feeding, surrealism, artificial intelligence, rebellion, immortality, death, scientist, old man, telepathy, satire, old woman, apocalypse, wasteland, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, culture clash, medieval, stowaway, space opera, sorcery, love, violence ...
Time: future, 23rd century, 20th century
Place: arizona
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, cult classic, weird and stylized films with plots about distopia, dystopia, death, heroes, violence, explosion and escapades mostly in Adventure, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like Zardoz: Barbarella (1968), The Holy Mountain (1973), Logan's Run (1976), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), On the Silver Globe (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.9
 37K
Barbarella (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Style: futuristic, psychedelic, surreal, grindhouse, erotic ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: space opera, mad scientist, alien planet, angel, female nudity, space, striptease, evil queen, laser gun, sexual fantasy, sex, alien ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: yukon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Mexican master leads a Christ figure and other disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men. The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, avant garde, disturbing, art house ...
Plot: alchemist, enlightenment, male nudity, hermaphrodite, trippy, surrealism, crucifix, symbolism, bird, mountain, spiritual journey, castration ...
Time: year 1973, 20th century, 70s
Place: mexico, latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: space travel, astronaut, outer space, space, artificial intelligence, moon, scientist, computer, trippy, space opera, human versus computer, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place: persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
Style: cerebral, surreal, philosophical, psychedelic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, fight, multiverse, lgbt, alternate universe, chinese immigrant, immigrant, mother daughter relationship, time travel, save the world, good versus evil, kung fu ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
On the Silver Globe (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 166 min.
Story: A small group of cosmic explorers leave Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization.
Style: avant garde, surreal, atmospheric, art house, profound ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surrealism, astronaut, philosophy, religion, planet, existentialism, space, moon, distopia, space travel, chaos, time travel ...
Time: future, near future
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Argentina, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the year 2025, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed. It is up to MacLeod and Rameriz to set things right. Opposition comes from both the planet Ziest (MacLeod and Ramirez's homeworld) and a corporation profiting from the ...
Style: futuristic, saga, cult classic, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cyberpunk, immortal, sword and sorcery, fictional war, alien, female warrior, medieval, sword fight, space, heroes, future war, sorcery ...
Time: future, year 1999, 90s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: scotland, new york, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his ...
Style: philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, suspense, mind blowing ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, astronaut, ape, planet of the apes, space and aliens, time travel, end of the world, trial, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, plot twist, survival ...
Time: future, stone age, 20th century, distant future, year 1968 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 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. ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, serious, entertaining ...
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 ...
Time: future, year 1995, near future, distant future
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Escape from New York (1981)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic, grindhouse, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: dystopia, cyberpunk, prison, race against time, escape, post apocalypse, hostage, dystopian future, end of the world, rescue, distopia, darkness ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 1981, distant future ...
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 172K
Dune (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 137 min.
Story: In the year 10,191, the world is at war for control of the desert planet Dune – the only place where the time-travel substance 'Spice' can be found. But when one leader gives up control, it's only so he can stage a coup with some ...
Style: atmospheric, futuristic, epic, visual, psychedelic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: desert, space travel, messiah, prophecy, space opera, space, dystopia, chosen one, future war, desert planet, dune, space wars ...
Time: future, distant future, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south pole, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 5.9
 16K
Hardware (1990)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style: bleak, apocalyptic, cyber, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, apocalypse, killer robot, post apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, desert, androids, robot, post apocalyptic, robot as menace ...
Time: future, year 2016, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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%
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Style: exciting, bleak, suspense, breathtaking, intense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, monkey, colony, dystopia, end of the world, deadly virus, animal attack, gorilla, post apocalyptic, dystopian future ...
Time: year 2014, future, 2020s, 2010s, 2030s ...
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 68K
Time Bandits (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal ...
Style: humorous, surreal, light, colorful, dark fantasy ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, date night
Plot: time travel, childhood, treasure, children, good versus evil, parallel universe, map, dwarf, time portal, monty python, mythology, medieval ...
Time: regency period, 80s, year 1981
Place: arizona, london, england, europe, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Astronaut Brent is sent to rescue Taylor but crash lands on the Planet of the Apes, just like Taylor did in the original film. Taylor has disappeared into the Forbidden Zone so Brent and Nova try to follow and find him. He discovers a cult of humans ...
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, depressing, allegory, psychotronic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, dystopia, post apocalyptic, time travel, space and aliens, gorilla, space travel, astronaut, monkey ...
Time: future, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The City of Lost Children (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, art house, stylized, gothic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: steampunk, good versus evil, trippy, goth, children, friendship, surrealism, cyberpunk, childhood, mad scientist, escape, distopia ...
Time: future
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Fando and Lis (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal.
Style: surreal, experimental, mind twisting, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, post apocalypse, nihilism, distopia, fetish, mental disorder, landscape, dystopia, unconventional romance, trippy, dream, post apocalyptic ...
Time: distant future, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Robot Holocaust (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Neo, a drifter from the atomic-blasted wastelands, arrives with his klutzy robot sidekick at a factory where slaves labor to fuel the sinister Dark One's Power Station. There, he meets a comely woman who convinces him to help rescue her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, tense, exciting ...
Plot: robot, mutant, post apocalypse, man versus machine, revolution, rebellion, heroes, rescue, society, master and servant, rivalry, escapades ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
 146K
Highlander (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, sincere, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: immortality, mentor, sword fight, medieval, magic, supernatural, immortal, good versus evil, master warrior, fight scenes, duel, mythology ...
Time: 80s, middle ages, 20th century, 16th century, 1940s ...
Place: scotland, scottish highlands, usa, europe, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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Slipstream (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, stylized, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, aviator, adventurer, bounty hunter, chase, betrayal, on the run, rescue, partner, danger, female warrior, rivalry ...
Time: year 1989, future
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28%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Style: entertaining, exciting, atmospheric, offbeat, action packed ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: steampunk, vampire, superhero, comic book, adventurer, heroic mission, secret service, immortality, comic hero, ghost ship, alternate reality, alter ego ...
Time: victorian era, year 2003, 20th century, 19th century, future ...
Place: venice, britain, europe, kenya, mediterranean sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Yor, the Hunter from the Future (1983)
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: cult classic, apocalyptic, fantasy adventure, retro, prehistoric ...
Plot: barbarian, sorcery, post apocalypse, female warrior, beast, sword and sorcery, sword, dinosaur, distopia, monster, desert, planet ...
Time: prehistory, stone age, year 1983, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
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, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, post apocalypse, distopia, man versus machine, dystopian future, time travel, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.6
 211K
Dark City (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style: neo noir, mind bending, psychological, suspense, gothic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, memory, cyberpunk, alternate reality, distopia, alien race, trippy, dystopian future, virtual reality, amnesia, memory loss, experiment ...
Time: future, year 1998, distant future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.5
 352K
Total Recall (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, ambiguous ending, suspense ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, mars, memory loss, secret agent, dystopia, virtual reality, memory, alien, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, chase ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1990 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.2
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Glen and Randa (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in ...
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious ...
Plot: post apocalypse, coming of age, apocalypse, acid, post apocalyptic, nuclear holocaust, dystopia, epidemic, nuclear disaster, distopia, comic book, commune ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
27%
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