Movies like The Impossible

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The Impossible (2012)
 7.5
 242K
The Impossible (2012)
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: emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching, inspirational, tear jerker, realistic, sad, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger, determination, tragedy, missing son, survivor, hopes, life & death, separation from family, water, family relations, family vacation, human spirit, parents and children, overcoming ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
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Most similar movies to The Impossible

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about survival, disaster, trapped, danger, death, nature and rescue mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Impossible: Hours (2013), Deepwater Horizon (2016), The Finest Hours (2016), 127 Hours (2010), Frozen (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.3
 31K
Hours (2013)
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: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: natural disaster, father, hurricane katrina, newborn baby, hurricane, evacuation, hospital, race against time, childbirth, exhaustion, danger, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
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: exciting, suspense, tense, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, trapped, oil, oil rig, sea, courage, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Finest Hours (2016)
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, realistic, serious, scenic, breathtaking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: survival, natural disaster, ocean, disaster, shipwreck, forces of nature, storm at sea, coast guard, courage, daring rescue, sinking ship, fisherman ...
Time: 1950s, year 2016, 20th century, year 1952, year 1951 ...
Place: new england, boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.5
 399K
127 Hours (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
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, inspirational, breathtaking, intense, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, isolation, mountain, wilderness, climbing, canyon, courage, alone, human spirit, loneliness, desert ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Movie in collections
 6.2
 80K
Frozen (2010)
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: suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: utah, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 255K
San Andreas (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
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: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, tsunami, earthquake, father daughter relationship, happy ending, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.9
 40K
The 33 (2015)
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, touching, suspense, serious, period piece ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, disaster, rescue, life, catastrophe, stranded, natural disaster, human spirit, doctor, honest, radio, hopes ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: chile, peru, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.9
 57K
Sanctum (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
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, underwater, forces of nature, underground, danger, death, deathtrap, struggle for survival, water ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: papua new guinea
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 3K
Abandoned (2015)
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, ship, desert island, death, fear, storm, courage, survival, boat, sailing, wilderness ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 132K
Greenland (2020)
Genre: Action, 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, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, diabetic, comet, panic, mass destruction ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: greenland, canada, kentucky, atlanta georgia, beirut lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.6
 70K
Hotel Mumbai (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK, Singapore
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, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: terrorism, terrorist attack, terrorist, jihad, hotel, religious fanatic, islamic terrorism, chaos, courage, hostage, survival, shooting ...
Time: year 2019, 2000s, year 2008
Place: india, mumbai india, australia, pakistan, bombay india ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 6.7
 92K
No Escape (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
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: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot: survival, family in danger, coup d'etat, execution, riot, rebellion, violence, race against time, american abroad, revolution, danger, wrong place wrong time ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 61K
Adrift (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Iceland, USA
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, suspenseful, sad, inspirational, romantic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, boat, survivor, sailboat, sea adventure, storm, underwater, human spirit, power of love, death, yacht, female protagonist ...
Time: year 1983
Place: pacific ocean, tahiti
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 231K
Everest (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Iceland
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, climbing, mountain, natural disaster, snow, mountaineer, stranded, forces of nature, man versus nature, beautiful scenery, wilderness ...
Time: year 1996, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 20th century
Place: mount everest, himalaya, nepal, asia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.6
 42K
The Wave (2015)
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, intense, road movie, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, catastrophe, survival, tsunami, landslide, hotel, geologist, dysfunctional family, apocalypse, family drama, paranoid ...
Time: 80s, year 2015
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
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, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.9
 84K
All Is Lost (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
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, tense ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing
Plot: survival, boat, loneliness, storm, ocean, survivor, isolation, ship, human spirit, sailing, sailor, desperation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.8
 71K
Into the Storm (2014)
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, exciting, apocalyptic, action adventure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, tornado, escapades, survival, end of the world, catastrophe, high school, redemption, panic, weather, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 7.1
 64K
Alive (1993)
Genre: Adventure, 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: realistic, inspirational, emotional, disturbing, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, disaster, stranded, cannibalism, air disaster, starvation, death, airplane accident, snow, mountain, wilderness, historical event ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: andes mountains, chile, uruguay, antarctic, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
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
Plot: disaster, ship, natural disaster, survival, underwater, ocean liner, cruise ship, sea disaster, new year's eve, race against time, sea, ocean ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: mediterranean sea, atlantic ocean, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Snow Walker (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style: emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, nature, wilderness, arctic, airplane, human spirit, friendship, rescue, hunter, isolation, friends, hopes ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1953, post world war two, 1950s
Place: canada, antarctic, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.8
 634K
Cast Away (2000)
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: suspense, captivating, psychological, inspirational, serious ...
Audience: family outing, date night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, loneliness, isolation, island, desert island, stranded on an island, lost at sea, courage, air disaster, determination, solitude, survivor ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, y2k, year 1995, year 1999 ...
Place: fictional island, persia, america, moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Mountain Between Us (2017)
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, suspenseful, romantic, visually stunning, tense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: survival, wilderness, snow, mountain, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, rescue, plane crash, stranger, peril, animal attack ...
Time: year 2017, future, 2010s
Place: london, new york, utah, idaho, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Society of the Snow (2023)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Chile, Uruguay, USA
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: historical drama, period piece, period drama
Plot: snow, rugby, airplane crash, survival, airplane accident, desperation, crash, mountain, corpse, disaster, male nudity, rescue ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: uruguay, chile, andes mountains, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 111K
United 93 (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
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: realistic, emotional, controversial, tense, political ...
Plot: terrorism, 9/11, airplane, hijacking, war on terror, terrorist, al qaeda, islamic terrorism, air disaster, aviation, survival, tragic event ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2006, 2000s, year 2001, 21st century
Place: new york, middle east, virginia, cleveland ohio, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Perfect Storm (2000)
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: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, storm at sea, storm, ocean, shipwreck, forces of nature, fish, sea, fishing ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: new england, boston, nova scotia, atlantic ocean, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
TV show
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: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, tsunami, danger, journalism, society, forces of nature, ocean, weather, climate, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.7
 860K
Gravity (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, suspense, minimal cast ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: isolation, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, outer space, space station, loneliness, disaster, sole survivor, catastrophe, survivor ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, seattle, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, Australia, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville’s ...
Style: scenic, suspense, exciting, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: survival, ocean, ship, whale, sea, boat, disaster, whaling, starvation, man versus nature, shipwreck, dangerous animal ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 2015, 1800s, future ...
Place: new england, america, pacific ocean, ecuador, massachusetts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.6
 245K
21 Grams (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style: mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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