Movies like Fireball 2009

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Fireball (2009)
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Fireball (2009)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Story: Inspector Ava Williams investigates a prison fire to its source, a prisoner seeking revenge against those who put him behind bars.
Plot: superpower, buried alive, supernatural power, bowling, train wreck, rage, pyrokinesis, paparazzi, death of father, immolation, nuclear power plant, firefighting, ex football player, football player, panties, cigarette lighter, american flag, pay phone, jumping through a window, exploding car, hit by a truck, car fire, sprinkler system, tanker truck, bandaged face ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and tense films with plots about danger, heroes, alien, chases and races, scientist, superpower and race against time mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Fireball: Y2K (1999), Volition (2019), The Power (1968), Dark Storm (2006), Termination Point (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 3.4
 424
Y2K (1999)
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.
Plot: computer, evacuation, disaster, nuclear power plant
Time: y2k, turn of the century, year 2000, 90s, 2000s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.6
 2K
Volition (2019)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
Style: mind bending, exciting, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot: clairvoyance, changing the past or future, time travel, self sacrifice, danger, regret, tragedy, philosophy, threat, memory, organized crime, young man ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.9
 2K
The Power (1968)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: One by one members of a special project team are being killed by telekinesis - the ability to move things with the power of the mind alone. The race is on to determine which of the remaining team members is the murderer and to stop them.
Style: psychotronic, retro, tech noir, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: telekinesis, psychic, mind control, mind power, psychic power, paranormal, stop motion, brain, psychokinesis, murder, scientist, supernatural power ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 3.2
 989
Dark Storm (2006)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, military base, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, race against time, mad scientist, heroes, save the world, technology gone awry, danger, escapades, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Termination Point (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared with the technology and a government manhunt is underway. When his name appears on an airline ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, alien encounter, save the world, undercover, on the run, escapades, disorder, experiment gone awry, space and aliens, manhunt, heroic mission, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 4.4
 61K
Jason X (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style: slasher, suspense, sexy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, space, murder, psychopath, masked killer, survival horror, good versus evil, friday the 13th, gory, survival, space travel, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 3.8
 768
The Void (2001)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: experiment gone awry, chaos, danger, escapades, technology gone awry, disaster, imaginary, black hole, androids and robots, dystopia, apocalypse, physicist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 6.7
 61K
Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: disturbing, intense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, scientist, psychic power, investigation, exploitation, violence, telekinesis, human experiment, murder, mind reading, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Agent Revelation (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ancient dust that controls humans is unleashed, but mysteriously affects Jim Yung who gains superpowers. Jim is taken to an underground base where he's trained to be an operative to take on an imminent alien threat and learn why aliens have ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating
Plot: supernatural, alien, heroes, supernatural ability, superhero, secret agent, special agent, superpower, showdown, good versus evil, supernatural power, save the world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 7.4
 573K
X2 (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Professor Charles Xavier and his team of genetically gifted superheroes face a rising tide of anti-mutant sentiment led by Col. William Stryker. Storm, Wolverine and Jean Grey must join their usual nemeses – Magneto and Mystique – to unhinge ...
Style: exciting, action packed, humorous, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: superhero, super powers, mutant, supernatural ability, x men, teleportation, superhuman powers, school, mind control, villain, telepathy, comic book ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: washington d.c., canada, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Android Apocalypse (2006)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Machines have taken over, but left humans thinking that they are still the ones in charge. The androids need humans because of the human brain fluid; without it the android brains can't work. Until the mad scientist finds out how to make this ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, technology gone awry, chaos, man versus machine, save the world, race against time, androids and robots, survival, escapades, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, grudge ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Garm Wars: The Last Druid (2014)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a world where clone soldiers from three military tribes are locked in a perpetual battle of air, land and technology, one clone is separated from the battle and finds herself on the run with a group of unlikely companions.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, futuristic, independent film
Plot: alien technology, warrior, supernatural power, militant, fight, superpower, battles, forces of nature, uncover truth, super powers, magical power, soldier ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 3.6
 376
Fatal Conflict (2000)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a lawless futuristic society, a rebel must prevent a tandem of renegades from destroying Los Angeles. An ex-star pilot is forced to stop a mad criminal and his gang after they've hi-jacked a huge space freighter with the intent of crashing ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic mission, psychopath, survival, heroes, danger, vengeance, escapades, confined, murder, fight, spacecraft, female fighter ...
Time: future, 90s, 2020s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Madmen of Mandoras (1963)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A group of Nazi survivors save Hitler's brain keeping it alive in a huge jar hooked up to a machine. The Nazis plan to release a deadly gas destroying all life on the planet. To ensure their success they kidnap Professor Coleman the only man on ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: nazi occultism, hitler, island, fictional country, lost soul, nazi, conspiracy, hotel, exploitation, fascism, swastika, fistfight ...
Time: 60s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.4
 473
Displacement (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
Plot: time travel, phantom, electroshock therapy, time loop, murder, student, selfie, death of boyfriend, ambulance, interrogation, death of father, cycling ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
At First Light (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A high school senior, Alex Lainey, has an encounter with mysterious lights that appear over her small town. She soon develops dangerous, supernatural abilities and turns to her childhood friend Sean Terrel. The authorities target them and a chase ...
Style: light, sweet, futuristic, romantic, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, transformation, supernatural, bullying, relationships, teenager, teenage love, fish out of water, strong female character, female protagonist, cadet, shark ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 7.4
 609K
Limitless (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style: clever, thought provoking, philosophical, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: intelligence, success, drug, drug abuse, creativity, ambition, rags to riches, rise to the top, life turned upside down, prodigy, experimental drug, overnight success ...
Time: year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.5
 3K
Xchange (2001)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the near future, a company called Xchange owns a mind transference technology that enables instantaneous travel by swapping bodies with someone at the destination. A member of the privileged corporate class ("Corpie") Xchanging for the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: body swapping, hitman, cyberpunk, heroes, society, danger, dishonesty, life is a bitch, imaginary, time travel, false identity, terrorist ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 3.3
 127
Project Grey (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's fear that they seek! Dr. Schroder listens to her criminally insane patient as he recounts the story of the murder of his four friends. Chip implants, government mind control, Russian military, and Alien visitors form the puzzle pieces of ...
Style: informative
Plot: alien, alien invasion, government conspiracy, mental institution, female nudity, mental patient, death of sister, insane asylum, alien technology, psychiatric patient, mind control, ufo ...
Place: siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 4.2
 557
Cosmic Dawn (2022)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After witnessing the alien abduction of her mother as a child, Aurora joins the UFO cult "The Cosmic Dawn". At the cult's remote compound Aurora experiences miraculous revelations, and consciousness-expanding flowers but all ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: sect, alien, problem, ufo, alien abduction, dark past, ufo sighting, secret past, mysterious past, alien encounter, secret, cosmic horror
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.1
 988
Prisoner X (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A CIA operative interrogates a time-traveling terrorist.
Style: novela
Plot: time travel, bare chested male, car crash, torture, interrogation, sudden death, terrorist, observatory, ruse, paranoia, flash forward, dutch angle ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, retro ...
Plot: time loop, false accusation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, violence, afterlife, mental health, time travel, paradox, twists and turns, sexual abuse ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.1
 115K
Push (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue ...
Style: exciting, stylized, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot: telekinesis, clairvoyance, psychic, supernatural, danger, superhero, experiment, supernatural ability, chase, imaginary, psychokinesis, conspiracy ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 1945, 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating ...
Style: apocalyptic, depressing, psychedelic, mysterious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, epidemic, natural disaster, human experiment, post apocalypse, apocalypse, folklore, distopia, satire, chase, rescue, dystopia ...
Time: future
Place: europe, england, london, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Virtual Obsession (1998)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: If you were a brilliant young scientist diagnosed with only months to live, what choices would you make? To have faith that you were taken early for a reason and go quietly, or to use cryogenics to hope you could be cured someday in the future, or ...
Plot: cryogenics, cyberpunk, scientist, computer, transhumanism, elevator, extramarital affair, little boy, seduction, husband wife relationship, unfaithful husband, nightmare ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it's said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man's Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, mad doctor, split personality, mad scientist, alter ego, serial killer, obsession, investigation, danger, criminal heroes, legal, doctor patient relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, feel good, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: cold war, nuclear, teenager, military, atomic bomb, whistleblower, heist, nuclear holocaust, scientist, plutonium, laboratory, chase ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.9
 82K
The Invasion (2007)
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, serious, intense, psychological ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, survival, invasion, danger, save the world, infected, alien encounter, end of the world ...
Time: year 2007, distant future
Place: washington d.c., usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
 13K
Brainstorm (1983)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Style: suspenseful, meditative, futuristic, philosophical, intense ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, experiment gone awry, imagination, conspiracy, transformation, uncover truth, dystopian future, mad scientist, rebellion, computer, dystopia ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1983
Place: england, london, europe, north carolina, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
War of the Worlds: The Attack (2023)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, road movie
Plot: martian, alien conspiracy, evil alien, alien invasion, astronomer, alien, alien contact, alien creature, alien encounter, battles, fight, alien life-form ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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