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The Impossible (2012)
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Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
Style:
suspense, inspirational, heartbreaking, emotional, motivational, tense, tear jerker, sentimental, realistic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ocean, tsunami, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, family in danger, vacation, determination, life & death, tragedy, missing son, overcoming, death, survivor, nightmare, child in peril, separation from family, family relations, family vacation, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2012, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
thailand, southeast asia, asia, american
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Most similar movies to The Impossible
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, intense and serious films with plots about survival, disaster, catastrophe, death, trapped, danger and nature mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Impossible: Deepwater Horizon (2016), The Finest Hours (2016), 127 Hours (2010), San Andreas (2015), Abandoned (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, courage, oil, oil rig, sea, trapped, destruction, heroism, rescue ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, boston, california, usa
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
Style:
exciting, tense, scenic, stylized, breathtaking ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, courage, shipwreck, forces of nature, coast guard, storm at sea, daring rescue, fisherman, ship captain ...
Time:
1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1951, year 1952 ...
Place:
new england, boston, massachusetts, usa, england
Similarity:
89%
422K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, inspirational, intense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, mountain, wilderness, canyon, courage, alone, desert, trap, loneliness, life & death ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
utah, usa
Similarity:
83%
274K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style:
intense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, tsunami, danger, earthquake, end of the world, daughter, father daughter relationship, happy ending ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
Similarity:
88%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When their yacht capsizes during a storm; four men face almost certain death.
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
sea, lost at sea, death, desert island, ship, fear, survival, courage, storm, boat, sailing, wilderness survival ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
32K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Style:
touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
natural disaster, father, hurricane katrina, hurricane, newborn baby, hospital, evacuation, race against time, exhaustion, childbirth, danger, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
83%
246K
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Iceland, USA, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one ...
Style:
realistic, scenic, dramatic, breathtaking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
survival, mountain climbing, mountain, mountaineer, natural disaster, disaster, snow, stranded, forces of nature, frostbite, tragedy, wilderness ...
Time:
year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
Similarity:
88%
59K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The 3-D action-thriller Sanctum, from executive producer James Cameron, follows a team of underwater cave divers on a treacherous expedition to the largest, most beautiful and least accessible cave system on Earth. When a tropical storm forces them ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, cave, expedition, disaster, danger, underwater, death, forces of nature, underground, water, struggle for survival, deathtrap ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
papua new guinea
Similarity:
80%
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87K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
antarctic, utah
Similarity:
100%
66K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong, Iceland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman and her fiancé find themselves caught in a hurricane after departing Tahiti by boat. She wakes up after being knocked out, only to discover him missing, and the elements threatening.
Style:
sincere, sad, suspenseful, romantic drama, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, water, sailboat, sea adventure, power of love, death, storm, sea, yacht, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1983
Place:
tahiti, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
42K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Style:
factual, suspense, touching, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, rescue, disaster, life, catastrophe, stranded, natural disaster, hopes, doctor, honest, radio, trapped ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
chile, peru, south america, latin america, australia
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK, Singapore, India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai about the Mumbai attacks in 2008 at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, factual, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist attack, terrorist, jihad, hotel, courage, religious fanatic, islamic terrorism, hostage, shooting, survival, cruelty ...
Time:
year 2019, 2000s, year 2008
Place:
india, mumbai india, australia, bombay india, pakistan ...
Similarity:
92%
115K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, ship, shipwreck, catastrophe, cruise ship, ocean, sea disaster, drowning, father daughter relationship, trapped ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
atlantic ocean
Similarity:
83%
68K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager ...
Style:
inspirational, emotional, breathtaking, sad, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, stranded, cannibalism, disaster, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, mountain, mountain climbing, historical event, wilderness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place:
andes mountains, chile, uruguay, south america, antarctic ...
Similarity:
100%
98K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense, suspense thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, coup d'etat, family in danger, riot, execution, race against time, escape, rebellion, american abroad, danger, wrong place wrong time, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam, middle east ...
Similarity:
88%
46K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Based on the fact that mountain party Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will race out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger. A geologist gets ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, road movie, feel good, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, landslide, geologist, hotel, destiny, stupidity, flood, evacuation ...
Time:
80s, year 2015
Similarity:
60%
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
During a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, a veteran mariner awakes to find his vessel taking on water after a collision with a stray shipping container. With his radio and navigation equipment disabled, he sails unknowingly into a violent storm and ...
Style:
harsh, reflective, touching, suspenseful, philosophical ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
survival, boat, survivor, storm, loneliness, isolation, ocean, ship, desperation, human spirit, sea, forces of nature ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
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163K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
suspense, exciting, scenic, unusual plot structure, psychotronic ...
Plot:
natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, panic, husband wife relationship, diabetic, comet, kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
greenland, atlanta georgia, canada, kentucky, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Style:
captivating, psychological, period piece, dark, inspirational ...
Plot:
survival, airplane crash, mountain, disaster, desperation, crash, photograph, rugby, rescue, struggle for survival, snow, airplane accident ...
Time:
70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place:
andes mountains, uruguay, chile, south america, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
684K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, courage, determination, solitude, lost at sea, air disaster, survivor ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
fictional island, moscow russia, persia, america, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The town of Silverton is in one day destroyed by the unprecedented power of a series of tornadoes. The population is at the mercy of the unpredictable and deadly cyclones, while hunters warn that the worst is yet to come. Most people find shelter, ...
Style:
stylized, talky, action adventure, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, end of the world, escapades, death, weather, high school, redemption, panic, storm, catastrophe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, courage, underwater, radiation sickness, nuclear, radioactivity, sea, sea disaster ...
Time:
60s, year 1989, year 2002, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
soviet union, nova scotia, russia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
winter, child in peril, mentally unstable, cold weather, wilderness, parent child relationship, brother brother relationship, snowstorm, divorced parents, snow, father son relationship, weekend ...
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
115K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Style:
controversial, political, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot:
terrorism, 9/11, airplane, hijacking, terrorist, war on terror, survival, al qaeda, aviation, medieval, death, airplane accident ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2006, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place:
new york, middle east, boston, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
Inspired by true accounts, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the harrowing aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand two years ago.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tsunami, journalism, danger, society, forces of nature, survival, aftermath, grief, loss, trauma ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Style:
scenic, visually stunning, romantic, romantic drama, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
survival, wilderness, mountain, snow, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, sole survivor, stranger, plane crash, wilderness survival, peril ...
Time:
year 2017, future, 2010s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, utah, idaho, london
Similarity:
50%
39K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, island, sex scene, public nudity, female nudity, violence, isolation, power struggle, remote island, wilderness, betrayal ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexy, emotional ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, ship, natural disaster, catastrophe, storm at sea, survival, storm, boat, fish, forces of nature, shipwreck, sea ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
atlantic ocean, boston, new england, nova scotia, portugal
Similarity:
23%
633
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
An exploration into the various ways in which, within the circumstances of one day, civilisation could be brought to an abrupt end..
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
volcano, disaster, natural disaster, epidemic, black hole, experiment, apocalypse, destruction, danger, chaos, catastrophe, meteorite ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, europe, middle east, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
20%
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