Movies and TV shows like Terra Nova
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Terra Nova (2011)
84K
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 46 min.
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Story:
Terra Nova follows an ordinary family on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a daring experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149, the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped and overcrowded, with the majority of plant and animal life extinct. The future of mankind is in jeopardy, and its only hope for survival is in the distant past.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, epic, sweet, dystopian, stylized, interesting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, post apocalypse, survival, human existence, extinction, changing the past or future, characters in danger, experiment, dangerous animal, alternate universe, fate of humanity, research, expedition, sent to the past, scientist, mistrust, chaos, vestiges of humanity, leader, family relations, commander, escapades, graphic violence, existence paradox ...
Time:
prehistoric times, jurassic, prehistory, 22nd century
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Most similar movies to Terra Nova
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, serious, suspenseful and captivating films and TV series with plots about danger, escapades, supernatural, survival, heroes, distopia and space mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Terra Nova: Jericho (2006), Zoo (2015), Stargate Universe (2009), Revolution (2012), Lost in Space (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, chaos, disaster, small town, leadership, twists and turns, distopia, post nuclear, courage, selflessness ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
kansas, usa
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Set amidst a wave of violent animal attacks sweeping across the planet, a young renegade scientist is thrust into a race to unlock the mystery behind this pandemic before time runs out for animals and humans alike.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dangerous animal, extinction, save the world, mutation, pandemic, experiment, animals, conspiracy, survival, death, heroes, graphic violence ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
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100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
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The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, tense, epic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
spacecraft, space travel, human existence, space, human in outer space, space and aliens, technology, military, alien planet, team, space opera, alien encounter ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, fate of humanity, post apocalypse, future dystopia, worldwide chaos, twists and turns, chaos, society, parents and children, chaos and mayhem, dictatorship ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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101K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
Style:
exciting, captivating, sincere, tense, futuristic ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
spacecraft, robot, space, survival, lost, alien planet, space adventure, alien creature, youth, twists and turns, family relations, space travel ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Films like Avatar
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, leadership, human existence, youth, nuclear holocaust, space station, rivalry, survivor, society, friendship ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
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82%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style:
mind bending, futuristic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time travel, survival, time machine, epidemic, changing the past or future, post apocalypse, existence paradox, virus, save the world, sent to the past, plague, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Outcasts is a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD. It was broadcast in the ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
space colony, mysterious planet, survival, distant planet, expedition, human nature, society, hopes, isolation, chaos, apocalypse, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
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When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.
Style:
stylized, serious, exciting, suspenseful, scenic
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, experiment gone awry, escapades, dangerous animal, time travel, ancient mystery, survival, disaster, team, supernatural, belief ...
Time:
jurassic, prehistory, 2000s, 2010s, future
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Surface is a science fiction television series that premiered on NBC on September 19, 2005. The program aired ten episodes before going on hiatus on November 28, 2005 due to NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics. It returned for five more ...
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, tense ...
Plot:
monster, marine biologist, sea monster, scientist, teenage life, nosy, uncover truth, misfit, escapades, alien encounter, supernatural, evil alien ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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TV series like The 100
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, desert island, stranded on an island, human nature, air disaster, lost, island, mysterious place, destiny, plane crash, death, mysterious character ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World is a syndicated television series loosely based on the 1912 novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World. Premiered in the fall of 1999, it ran for three seasons before it was cancelled on a ...
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serious, scary, stylized, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot:
dinosaur, dangerous animal, lost world, jungle, expedition, exploration, stranded, time travel, monster, adventurer, supernatural, exotic locale ...
Time:
prehistory
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78%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
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Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
Style:
exciting, serious, stylized, heroic, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien encounter, apocalypse, military, evil alien, resistance, life is a bitch, ufo, survival, human spirit ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 150 min.
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This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, psychotronic, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
jungle, dangerous animal, dinosaur, rivalry, heroic mission, escapades, love triangle, uninhibited rivalry, heroes, scientist, creature feature, adventurer ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
london, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
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With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, epic, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
space travel, fate of humanity, spacecraft, alien planet, ancient mystery, space, save the world, parallel world, good versus evil, space wars, technology, evil alien ...
Time:
2000s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
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A North American spin-off of the hit U.K. television series, Primeval: New World follows a specialized team of animal experts and scientists that investigates the appearance of temporal anomalies and battles both prehistoric and futuristic creatures.
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense ...
Plot:
dinosaur, time travel, time portal, dangerous animal, escapades, monster, deadly creature, giant monster, time jump, time warp, time loop, time paradox ...
Time:
jurassic, prehistory
Place:
canada, vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk with First Officer Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. With a determined crew, the ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, intellectual, epic, political ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
star trek, space travel, heroic mission, space and aliens, space, spacecraft, benign alien, friendship, alien planet, alien species, space exploration, scientist ...
Time:
23rd century, future
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, humorous, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, doctor who, heroic mission, rescue, save the world, good versus evil, obsessive quest, race against time, alien encounter, androids and robots, space and aliens ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1999, year 2000, 20th century
Place:
usa, san francisco, california, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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:
scenic, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, tense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, giant monster, dangerous animal, tyrannosaurus rex, jungle, animals, island, survival, suspense, monster, fantasy world, creature ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 90s, jurassic, 20th century
Place:
costa rica, san diego california, california, kenya, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
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The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals - a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, stylized, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, monster, rescue, secret organization, werewolf, experiment, scientist, mutant, research, fate of humanity, transformation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Films like Grimm
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, serious, suspenseful, spiritual ...
Plot:
rebellion, alien invasion, family in danger, occupation, distopia, space and aliens, parents and children, colony, family relations, resistance, survival, evil alien ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
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The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
space travel, time travel, space and aliens, alien planet, parallel world, alien race, save the world, ancient mystery, parallel universe, space, alien, back from the dead ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. ...
Style:
exciting, breathtaking, entertaining, suspenseful, epic ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot:
dinosaur, scientist, survival, suspense, animal attack, creature feature, children, island, dangerous animal, child in peril, research, disaster ...
Time:
20th century, prehistoric times, jurassic, 90s
Place:
central america, costa rica, dominican republic, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
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Defiance is an American science fiction television show that takes place in the future on a radically transformed Earth containing new species arriving from space. In the show, Joshua Nolan works as the lawman for the town of Defiance, a community ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, tense, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, post apocalypse, escapades, alien invasion, interspecies romance, enemy, mayor, ex military, law enforcement, survival, lesbian, bounty hunter ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
Style:
futuristic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, epic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot:
alien, fantasy world, culture clash, beautiful scenery, battles, ecology, creature, space and aliens, alien life-form, space travel, alien planet, scientist ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Movies similar to Lost
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, absurd, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, end of the world, invasion, survival, virus, distopia, twists and turns, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
ohio, usa, new york, tower bridge london, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
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Firefly is set in the year 2517, after the arrival of humans in a new star system and follows the adventures of the renegade crew of Serenity, a "Firefly-class" spaceship. The ensemble cast portrays the nine characters who live on Serenity.
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exciting, captivating, witty, futuristic, clever ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space, friendship, spacecraft, space travel, preacher, space opera, escapades, survival, space and aliens, captain, smuggling, space wars ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, stylized, touching, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, fish out of water, getting home, impersonating, sent to the past, experiment gone awry, partners, altering history, hopes, hidden identity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
apocalypse, virus, survival, politician, plague, deadly virus, epidemic, pandemic, disaster, group of strangers, chaos, scientist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
400 years after the extinction of the human race, a small group of humans are revived by an alien civilization. The colony of revived humans encounter struggles with the aliens who extinguished humankind centuries before, while trying to understand ...
Style:
tense, futuristic, disturbing, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, alien, vestiges of humanity, human existence, humanity, struggle for survival, fate of humanity, humanity in peril, human experiment, endangered species, against humanity, starting over ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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