Movies like Dark Skies 2009

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Dark Skies (2009)
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Dark Skies (2009)
Original name: Black Rain
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A reclusive scientific prodigy and three college friends find themselves in the middle of a toxic storm, when an unscrupulous business deal rains terror down on an entire county.
Style: cult film
Plot: lgbt, gay, epidemic, pandemic, forest, scientist, storm, recluse, male nudity, businesswoman, death of protagonist, camping, computer hacker, nightmare, gay lead character, van, evil corporation, loss of loved one, government coverup, phd, corporate crime, gay best friend, contamination, bare chested male, bare butt ...

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Most similar movies to Dark Skies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic and serious films with plots about survival, apocalypse, epidemic, pandemic, danger, blood and post apocalypse mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Dark Skies: Scab (2005), Deadly Skies (2006), Aaron... Albeit a Sex Hero (2009), Pandemic (2016), Containment (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Scab (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a one-night stand turns Ajay into a vampire, he decides misery really does love company and tries to suck his friends Teague and Floor into a life of bloodlust.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: male nudity, nudity, gay, vampire human love, gay interest, gay erotica, lgbt, male rape, gay sex, male prostitute, orgasm, hand job ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 3.8
 659
Deadly Skies (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The sky is literally falling in this thriller as one of the nation's leading astronomers, Madison Kelsey believes she is tracking a huge rogue asteroid rocketing toward earth. However, she can't get anyone in authority to take her ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, erotic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, gay, save the world, heroic mission, survival, escapades, danger, rescue, race against time, space travel, lgbt, scientist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Aaron... Albeit a Sex Hero (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Wild and unpredictable events shake up the life of Aaron (Matthew Burnett), who, before being stung by a scorpion and kidnapped, was a simple wage slave. Now, he's immersed in a strange adventure that will find him seduced by a coworker and ...
Style: spoof, queer cinema
Plot: gay, lgbt, gay subtext, nudity, male pubic hair, drug deal, forest, undercover agent, grandmother, gay lead character, gay sex, gay slur ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 4.4
 8K
Pandemic (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the near future, a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren is a doctor ...
Style: suspense, serious, disturbing, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: virus, pandemic, infection, found footage, teenage girl, apocalypse, survivor, survival, rescue, survival horror, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 4.9
 3K
Containment (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, mysterious, creepy ...
Plot: epidemic, infection, pandemic, virus, trapped, quarantine, human nature, secret, life turned upside down, society, disease, post apocalyptic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group ...
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, rescue, danger, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, space travel, apocalypse, distant planet, man versus machine, deadly creature, survival, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Canada, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As the city is locked down under quarantine, Alice joins a small band of elite soldiers, enlisted to rescue the missing daughter of the creator of the mutating T-virus. It's a heart-pounding race against time as the group faces off against ...
Style: gothic, scary, suspense, apocalyptic, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, monster, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, post apocalypse, survival horror, virus, mutant, distopia, evil corporation, dark heroine, undead ...
Time: future, year 2004, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.4
 135K
Daybreakers (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style: futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, epidemic, vampirism, distopia, pandemic, apocalypse, dystopian future, cure, female vampire, virus, transformation ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, year 2019, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most ...
Style: scary, stylized, apocalyptic, exciting, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, monster, virus, female fighter, zombie apocalypse, infected, infection, tough girl, plague, chase, pandemic ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s
Place: tokyo, washington d.c., moscow russia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.3
 610
Socket (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dr. Bill Matthews is struck by lighting. While recovering at the hospital where he works, he begins an intimate relationship with Dr. Craig Murphy, who invites Bill to join a strange group of lightning survivors.
Style: serious, scary, bleak, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: gay, hospital, addiction, doctor, murder, dead woman, lgbt, survival, gays and lesbians, life is a bitch, sexual relations, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.8
 10K
Ravenous (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a village, things have changed. Some of the people are not what they were anymore. They start attacking their families, their friends, their neighbours... We call them "Les Affamés" (The Hungry). A few survivors go deep into the forest ...
Style: scary, suspense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: zombie apocalypse, epidemic, infection, survival, infected, zombie outbreak, zombie, survivor, small town, apocalypse, undead, post apocalypse ...
Place: quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 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 ⇓
45%
 5.3
 47K
The Colony (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, dark, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, epidemic, starvation, ice age, distopia, dehumanization, danger, dystopia, cannibalism, survival horror ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.5
 4K
Antisocial (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five university friends gather at a house party to ring in the New Year. Unbeknownst to them, an epidemic has erupted outside, causing outbreaks around the world. With nowhere else to turn, they barricade themselves indoors with only their phones, ...
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: infection, zombie, buddies, survival, virus, plague, chaos, friendship, isolation, college, epidemic, internet ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.0
 30K
Virus (1999)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: virus, alien, robot, alien invasion, deadly creature, cyborgs, survival, ship, ghost ship, ocean, rescue, natural disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.5
 4K
G - Zombie (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Sara is a research student who wants to make an immunity booster to save humanity. Her experiment however turns people into zombies and in comes Dhruva to save the day.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: fate of humanity, zombie apocalypse, virus, walking dead, survival, dystopian future, courage, danger, escapades, vaccine, violence, pandemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.1
 15K
The Crazies (1973)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style: grindhouse, scary, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: epidemic, virus, plague, infected, quarantine, infection, zombie, isolation, disaster, disease, military, survival ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, asia, vietnam, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.5
 14K
Last Man Down (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After civilization succumbs to a deadly pandemic and his wife is murdered, a special forces soldier abandons his duty and becomes a hermit in the Nordic wilderness. Years later, a wounded woman appears on his doorstep. She's escaped from a lab ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, apocalyptic
Plot: mercenary, commando, forest, pandemic, virus, epidemic, post apocalyptic, disaster, distopia, comic book, blood, military ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
 5.3
 5K
Watchers (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature feature, dog, creature, laboratory, genetic mutation, experiment gone awry, survival, genetic engineering, mad scientist, danger, on the run, boy dog relationship ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
COVID-21: Lethal Virus (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The climate change has released an ancient rabies virus trapped in the Antarctica ice. A female scientist tries to get to the laboratory to create a cure to save the world, protected by an eccentric and two members of the special forces.
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: walking dead, virus, infection, deadly virus, fate of humanity, humanity in peril, survival horror, apocalypse, undead, zombie, scientist, death threat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A reboot of the "Resident Evil" franchise. Set in 1998, the intention is to re-create the 'terrifying visceral experience' of the first two games in the series, exploring 'the secrets hidden in the walls of the Spenser ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Plot: zombie, virus, female warrior, infection, resident evil, mutant, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, supernatural, one against many, one woman army, end of the world ...
Time: future, 2020s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.7
 236
Drink Me (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min.
Story: James and Andy, a sexy gay couple, seem to have everything they ever dreamed of…but things are about to change. Andy loses his job and they take in a handsome stranger called Sebastian. Nightmares come to life as Andy realizes that Sebastian is ...
Style: homoerotic, sexy, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: gay erotica, lgbt, homoeroticism, gay sex, vampire, gay, violence, youth, love and romance, couples, vengeance, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.0
 1K
Swamp Devil (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: SWAMP DEVIL is the story of young Melanie Blaime (played by Cindy Sampson) and her father Howard (portrayed by the venerable Bruce Dern). After a long estrangement from her father for reasons not entirely clear, Melanie returns to her childhood home ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: swamp, murder, monster, small town, supernatural, dangerous animal, vengeance, danger, mutant, teenage life, family life, on the run ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Years after the Racoon City catastrophe, survivors travel across the Nevada desert, hoping to make it to Alaska. Alice joins the caravan and their fight against hordes of zombies and the evil Umbrella Corp.
Style: suspenseful, scary, entertaining, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, monster, supernatural, heroine, zombie apocalypse, infected, survival, post apocalypse, danger, genetically altered, experiment ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2000s
Place: las vegas, salt lake city utah, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.2
 144K
They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style: exciting, allegory, political, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien, alien invasion, distopia, dystopia, mind control, ufo, anti conformity, invasion, evil alien, monster, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Dead End Drive-In (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the near future, drive-in theatres are turned into concentration camps for the undesirable and unemployed. The prisoners don't really care to escape because they are fed and they have a place to live which is, in most cases, probably better ...
Style: grindhouse, intense, cult classic, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: exploitation, dystopian future, distopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, carsploitation, post apocalyptic, epidemic, exodus, wasteland, fear, supernatural being ...
Time: future, near future
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 3.8
 4K
Redcon-1 (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A squad of eight Special Forces soldiers are assigned a suicide mission to rescue a scientist from a city ruled by the undead.
Style: brutal, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie outbreak, zombie survival, soldier, zombie apocalypse, military, rescue mission, scientist, gang, pandemic, city, swat team ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Outwaters (2022)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Four travelers encounter menacing phenomena while camping in a remote stretch of the Mojave Desert.
Style: spooky, psychological, captivating, tense, experimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: found footage, camping, time travel, wilderness, alternate dimension, survival, problem, creature, desert, witch, male nudity, male pubic hair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The First Purge (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of ...
Style: psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, suspense, hood ...
Audience: adult
Plot: abuse of power, social injustice, survival horror, distopia, survival, resistance movement, conspiracy, atrocity, murder, political oppression, fighting the system, mass death ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2017
Place: new york, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.1
 9K
The Recall (2017)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, alien invasion, cabin in the woods, asthma, mind control, alien, danger, spacecraft, humanity in peril, escape attempt, murder ...
Place: alaska, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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