Movies like Time of the Apes
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Time of the Apes (1987)
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A female scientist and two children are accidentally transported into a future dominated by primates.
Style:
scary, bleak, serious, experimental, offbeat
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, monkey, apocalypse, catastrophe, survival, heroes, parallel world, space and aliens, space travel, rescue, save the world, laboratory, disaster, gays and lesbians, escapades, society, chaos, experiment gone awry, forces of nature, alien encounter, disorder, chaos and mayhem, cons and scams, future dystopia, computers and web ...
Time:
future
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and captivating films with plots about danger, escapades, heroes, chaos, save the world, apocalypse and disaster mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Time of the Apes: Android Apocalypse (2006), Threshold (2003), Prometheus Trap (2012), Descendents (2007), Supercollider (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak, epic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, chaos, future dystopia, technology gone awry, race against time, a.i., man versus machine, survival, androids and robots, save the world, escapades, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
future
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95%
651
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Alien seeds hitch a ride to earth in a space shuttle crew and begin to grow. When their numbers reach the Threshold amount they will be an unstoppable swarm.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
heroic mission, save the world, supernatural, race against time, dangerous animal, alien encounter, space travel, chaos, disaster, monster, evil alien, alien invasion ...
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91%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict ...
Style:
serious, exciting, stylized, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
race against time, space travel, survival, time travel, terrorism, heroes, space wars, chaos, changing the past or future, escapades, spacecraft, catastrophe ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Chile, Spain, Venezuela
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
In an undefined future, the earth has been destroyed by man, and the air polluted with a mysterious virus that turns humans into zombies. Only a few children are immune to the disease and have adapted to these extreme conditions and survived. ...
Style:
scary, serious, bleak, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot:
apocalypse, zombie, future dystopia, destiny, survival, chaos, heroes, life is a bitch, bounty hunter, virus, youth, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future
Place:
chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A scientist working on an energy project discovers his family have undergone strange changes in their personalities, while a series of natural disasters are happening across the globe. He realises that his work has accidentally pushed the planet ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, save the world, experiment gone awry, chaos, space travel, forces of nature, escapades, time travel, suspense, distopia, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Scientists must prove their time travel experiments can produce results, so their funding won't be cut off. They push their equipment, and travel 5000 years into the future, where they encounter aliens who are looking for a planet to colonize.
Style:
futuristic, campy, semi serious, humorous, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, post apocalypse, dinosaur, time loop, apocalypse, time machine, disorder, experiment gone awry, space travel, heroic mission, alien encounter, inventions and discoveries ...
Time:
future, prehistory
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating
Plot:
alien encounter, space and aliens, save the world, survival, androids and robots, battles, chaos, escapades, evil alien, distopia, graphic violence, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, futuristic
Plot:
time travel, apocalypse, changing the past or future, survival, save the world, chaos, heroes, mutant, post apocalypse, space and aliens, distopia, future dystopia ...
Time:
future, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disaster, space travel, save the world, survival, technology gone awry, race against time, spouse in danger, chaos, space, escapades, heroes, sun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, save the world, heroes, forces of nature, catastrophe, global warming, survival, rescue, end of the world, humanity in peril ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by Sponge to collect evidence against the CCG for its heinous crimes. Ryan soon faces the sinister ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, rebellion, heroes, social decay, heroic mission, chaos, life is a bitch, society, save the world, rebelliousness, rivalry, totalitarianism ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Yellowstone National Park scientist and a thrill-seeking ranger join forces to plug-up a volatile super volcano that threatens to wipe out the entire United States.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
disaster, time travel, volcano, rescue, escapades, rivalry, forces of nature, catastrophe, natural disaster, apocalypse, lava, ocean ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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, erotic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gay, disaster, save the world, heroic mission, survival, race against time, rescue, escapades, space travel, lgbt, scientist, asteroid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the seeds from the original Garden of Eden are carelessly released into today's toxic climate, the plant is transformed by our contaminated environment into a writhing mass of foliage that wreaks havoc over earth.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, ecological disaster, suspense, save the world, forces of nature, chaos, escapades, inventions and discoveries, experiment gone awry, environmentalist, heroes, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
735
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Richard Greico leads a team of electrical workers who stumble across a terrifying parallel universe. While investigating a strange power source in an abandoned building, the workers find themselves sucked into an underworld teeming with massive, ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, natural horror
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant spider, suspense, parallel world, survival, experiment gone awry, supernatural, dangerous animal, chaos, heroic mission, deadly creature, rescue, rivalry ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Just in time for the joyous holiday season, this film connects the ancient Mayan prophecy of worldwide destruction at the end of 2012, and the iconic holiday song, The 12 Days of Christmas. But there is hope: a father learns that his daughter is ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, christmas, save the world, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, small town, escapades, coming of age, teenage girl, natural disaster, rescue, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a white hot flash of light, and with no warning, one minute our moon is there, the next it's gone. Then, a second flash. And that's the last thing anyone on Earth can remember. 11 months later, it's not post- apocalyptic; it's ...
Style:
tense, exciting, bleak, disturbing, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, disaster, time travel, post apocalypse, catastrophe, life is a bitch, future dystopia, brutality, on the run, society, rescue ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Cleopatra 2525 is an American science fiction television series that aired in syndication for two seasons, from January 2000 to March 2001. It appeared as the first part of the Back2Back Action Hour, followed by Jack of All Trades.
Style:
stylized, semi serious, futuristic, campy
Audience:
family outing, teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
good versus evil, save the world, heroes, heroic mission, apocalypse, society, time travel, chaos, evil alien, rivalry, escapades, future dystopia ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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624
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, an evil pack of outlaws is systematically turning civilians into prisoners and slaves. Worse yet, the spread of a terrifying deadly flesh-eating virus threatens to destroy all of humanity. As good and evil ...
Style:
bleak, rough, serious, futuristic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female martial artist, gang, against humanity, good versus evil, life is a bitch, save the world, heroes, confined, rivalry, survival, rescue, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
Style:
serious, stylized, bleak, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot:
alien, astronaut, spacecraft, save the world, prodigy, space and aliens, save the planet, apocalypse, space travel, survival, chaos, heroic mission ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Forty-two years after her first visit in Tokyo, Mothra returns to warn mankind that they must return Mechagodzilla, along with Godzilla's bones, to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. If not, dire consequences will follow. However, ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
godzilla, monster, giant monster, save the world, deadly creature, kaiju, suspense, chaos, disorder, escapades, survival, good versus evil ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The movie begins in Southern England in the Middle Ages and then six knights are seen riding in horses towards a destroyed town. They see the remains of burned buildings and dead people until they come upon a mother and her dead baby. She quickly ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, exciting, captivating
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
dragon, survival, experiment gone awry, chaos, supernatural, dangerous animal, rescue, good versus evil, heroes, disorder, monster, suspense ...
Time:
jurassic, 20th century, middle ages
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
INTER SCI climatologist Dr. David Kotzman has evidence that a shift in the Earth's polarity triggered the last Ice Age...in a single day. Now, it's happening again, and there's no time to escape. As the temperature plummets, Miami is ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, disturbing, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, earthquake, survival, forces of nature, save the day, save the world, rescue, race against time, husband wife relationship, natural disaster, winter ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa, miami, florida, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Laura Sommers is hearing voices in her head and consults with a psychiatrist. The therapy is suddenly cut short when New York City is rocked by an alien invasion...
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
evil alien, space and aliens, apocalypse, survival, chaos, save the world, supernatural, chaos and mayhem, alien encounter, mentally unstable, escapades, mentally challenged ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
future dystopia, androids and robots, apocalypse, evil alien, space travel, save the world, a.i., man versus machine, alien, giant monster, extraterrestrial, alien invasion ...
Time:
50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, tense, captivating
Plot:
alien invasion, save the world, space and aliens, evil alien, chaos, race against time, escapades, battles, heroes, rescue, teleportation, end of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
700
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The Russian space station Avma is disintegrating, and an international team of scientists is sent to the dying station to salvage valuable technology left on board. But fate has other plans, and when a rogue meteor collides with the station, leaving ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, captivating, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rescue, space, heroic mission, space travel, race against time, undercover, government agency, escapades, nasa, meteorite, disaster, flying ...
Place:
houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
2K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, future dystopia, supernatural, save the world, heroic mission, escapades, race against time, chaos, apocalypse, alien encounter, pregnancy, space travel ...
Time:
future, year 2002
Place:
himalaya, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a comet passes the Earth it causes a cataclysmic storm. Only a disbanded government unit with a secret weather-manipulating weapon can try to stop it.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, rough
Plot:
heroic mission, race against time, save the world, chaos, escapades, heroes, environmentalism, weatherman, forces of nature, disaster, suspense, natural disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, end of the world, survival, chaos, save the world, forces of nature, post apocalypse, autism, tsunami, race against time, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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