Movies like A Town Has Turned to Dust
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A Town Has Turned to Dust (1998)
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a futuristic desert hamlet, a ruthless town boss lynches a falsely accused Native American teen, setting the stage for revolt and a clash with a troubled, drunken sheriff.
Style:
futuristic, disaster movie
Plot:
post apocalypse, desert, sheriff, mining, wrestler, disaster, settlement, post apocalyptic
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Most similar movies to A Town Has Turned to Dust
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, suspenseful, serious and bleak films with plots about post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, disaster, danger, escapades and chaos mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like A Town Has Turned to Dust: Phoenix Point (2005), Android Apocalypse (2006), A Man Called Rage (1984), Asteroid (1997), Last Survivors (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures break down and a new world order emerges from the heart of the desert. As chaos sets in, we follow the adventures of some unlikely survivors, all searching ...
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, desert, virus, science, destruction, sex
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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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66%
Genre: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a soldier of fortune enters "The Forbidden Land" to find uranium that will help save mankind. However, a rival adventurer is also after the uranium, but for his own ends.
Plot:
post apocalypse, murder, distopia, rebel, uranium, death, mutant, manhunt, survivor, desert, gang, post nuclear ...
Time:
future
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62%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, space and aliens, natural disaster, apocalypse, post apocalypse, asteroid, distopia, christian, intrigue, family relations, race against time, heroes ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
texas, kansas, usa, kansas city, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The pic is set in the aftermath of an apocalyptic event that forces people into extreme isolation. A father and son, who have been living off grid for 20 years, encounter an outsider who threatens to destroy the utopia they’ve built.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, dark
Plot:
suspense, father son relationship, utopia, relationship problems, lifestyle, family life, family relations, relationships, father and son, post apocalypse, male female relationship, estrangement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange ...
Style:
suspenseful, philosophical, captivating, futuristic, tense ...
Plot:
nuclear, strong female lead, nuclear power, scientist, radiation, insanity, engineer, workplace situations, science runs amok, worker, science, employee employee relationship ...
Time:
future, near future
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58%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The year is 2005. The prison system is run by the private sector. Business tycoon R.D. Crowley, has created a virtual reality prison. The prisoner's bodies are locked in suspended animation while their minds traverse the lethal labyrinth of ...
Style:
futuristic
Plot:
cyberpunk, prison, post apocalypse, civil war, nazi, paraplegic, sword, vietnam war, old west, martial arts, virtual reality, abrupt ending ...
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58%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the not too distant future, a very smoggy and overpopulated Earth government makes it illegal to have children for a generation. One couple, unsatisfied with their substitute robot baby, breaks the rules and gets in a lot of trouble. (Z.P.G. ...
Style:
experimental, apocalyptic, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, birth control, robot, overpopulation, contamination, survival, pregnancy, future dystopia, against the odds, adoption ...
Time:
future, distant future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Shannon Lark stars as Ariel Loner who uses her lovers to achieve her goal of thwarting the one man she hasn't been able to manipulate. Her web of seduction captures the handsome David (Aaron Weisinger) and leads him on a run for their lives as ...
Plot:
espionage, technology, riot, cyberspace, science, post apocalypse, hacker, political satire, distopia, murder, satire
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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 ⇓
55%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Allan and Lisa flee the war-torn city of Sweetwater with their young son for the safety of the municipal dump in this sleepy war drama. They join other displaced survivors who were driven from their homes. After Lisa gives birth to another child and ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, disaster, violence, killing an animal, gang, pregnancy, nude, female nudity, family relations, sex, contamination, apocalypse ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
Style:
disturbing, exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, visually appealing
Plot:
disaster, survival, heroic mission, suspense, post apocalypse, astronaut, lifeguard, science, courage, death, winter, fear ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up if the Artificial Intelligence fail) at ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, bleak, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, space, spacecraft, bomb, fantasy world, astronaut, alien, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, nasa ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
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53%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
One upon a time in the future... a man and his cow fight against an evil cult leader.
Plot:
post apocalypse, quarantine, post-apocalyptic future, religion, cure, cult, giant spider, plague, alien technology, butcher, extraterrestrial, disease ...
Time:
future
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51%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three twentieth century astronauts travel through a time warp and crash on Earth in 3085 A.D.. One of the astronauts is killed in the impact, and the two survivors, Alan Virdon and Pete Burke, find that they have returned to an Earth where their ...
Style:
futuristic, psychotronic
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of ...
Style:
serious, rough, futuristic, suspenseful, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chaos, life is a bitch, society, survival, rivalry, future dystopia, escapades, heroes, secret, post apocalypse, virus, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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49%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A journalist searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, futuristic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
missing child, disaster, apocalypse, chaos, race against time, daring rescue, journalism, cult, reporter, tattoo, christianity, end of the world ...
Place:
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48%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to ...
Style:
stylized, futuristic, exciting, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, jungle, survival, virus, deadly virus, plague, apocalypse, isolation, beast, future dystopia, wilderness, distopia ...
Time:
distant future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman lives, hidden in plain sight in a ruined Hong Kong building after a tsunami destroyed the city - A castaway on a concrete island. Her concealed existence is changed forever when a small child literally floats into her life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
survival, guardian, responsibility, recluse, female protagonist, disaster, life is a bitch, catastrophe, motherhood, child custody, suspense, tsunami ...
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge pieces of interstellar debris on a path headed straight for Earth. A scientist has designed a system that would stop the largest meteor fragments from ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, futuristic, surprise ending
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, terrorism, space, post apocalypse, hostage, kidnapping, chaos, psychopath, daring rescue, escapades, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, exciting, bleak, stylized ...
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defenses. Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Guardian, the Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, rough, futuristic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, cyborgs, apocalypse, distopia, killer robot, desert, robot, man versus machine, survival, woman in danger, terminator ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, serious, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, distopia, cannibalism, heat wave, life is a bitch, apocalypse, chase, on the run, society, disaster, journey ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which could signal the end of the Cyborgs, and they inject it into a volunteer. When ...
Style:
futuristic, sexy, surreal, melancholic, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
female bodybuilder, time travel, space and aliens, cyborgs, androids and robots, cyberpunk, alien, apocalypse, terminator, post apocalypse, brutality, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, year 1995, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After the whole North of the Equator freezes below zero, a group of people in Los Angeles risk their lives while trying to "escape" from the city's hostile conditions, in order to take a ship to a hotter place on Earth.
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, post apocalypse, submarine, nature, distopia, natural disaster, ice age, nurse, money, scientist, white house ...
Place:
los angeles
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43%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
50 years from now, a pilot (Ian Rowe) is sent 60 light years across the galaxy through a new device capable of crossing the extra spatial dimensions. His mission is to orbit and reconnoiter the planet then return home. The planet is known to be ...
Style:
tense, futuristic, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
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42%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Style:
futuristic, surprise ending, tense, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot:
partners, society, resistance, firefighter, distopia, loyalty, fighting the system, childhood memory, couple relations, redemption, murder, fire ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio
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41%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Revolting mutants hunt human outcasts and underground fighters (Bruce Campbell, Marta Alicia) in a future world of mind control.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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