Movies like The Giant Monster Gamera
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The Giant Monster Gamera (1965)
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Original name: 大怪獣ガメラ
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, monster, turtle, suspense, octopus, giant creature, prehistoric creature, mars, scientist, lighthouse, train wreck, un, rage, burned alive, child in peril, morse code, nuclear, eskimo indian, nuclear explosion, prehistoric animal, military, giant animal, arctic, animal horror ...
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out daikaiju, cult film, natural horror and psychotronic films with plots about giant monster, kaiju, monster, danger, deadly creature, escapades and animal horror mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Horror genres. Some movies like The Giant Monster Gamera: Shin Godzilla (2016), War of the Monsters (1966), Boyichi and the Supermonster (1967), Super Monster (1980), Varan the Unbelievable (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
From the mind behind Evangelion comes a hit larger than life. When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red ...
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tense, serious, dark, captivating, political ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, godzilla, kaiju, monster, destruction, suspense, giant, radioactivity, evolution, military, scientist, tunnel ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a treacherous expedition to retrieve a giant opal, disaster strikes as the opal reveals itself to be an egg which spawns Barugon, demon dog from Hell! Armed with a deadly tongue and cold beams, Barugon wreaks havoc on Japan. Gamera comes to ...
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giant monster, monster, kaiju, dam, suspense, helicopter, turtle, tropical island, cave, quicksand, scorpion, mutant ...
Place:
japan, asia
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100%
Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Gamera's back, and just in time to save Japan from Gyaos, a mysterious bat-like creature awakened by a volcanic eruption. As in the first Gamera movie, a young boy establishes an emotional link with Gamera, and the two work together, with the ...
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natural horror, daikaiju, campy, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, monster, turtle, scientist, suspense, cave, supernatural, escapades, deadly creature, supernatural ability, rivalry ...
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Action, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the evil alien Zanon comes to enslave Earth, all hope seems lost. The Earth's resident superheroes, the Spacewomen, are powerless to stop him. They must enlist the help of a young boy who has a special connection with the giant turtle ...
Style:
natural horror, daikaiju, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, alien, turtle, superhero, legend, alien invasion, supernatural being, creature, giant creature, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where an unusual salt water lake is situated. However, their purifying experiments arouse the prehistoric ...
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
giant monster, monster, kaiju, godzilla, dinosaur, monster terrorizes city, giant, loss of brother, lake, death of protagonist, adaptation, animal horror
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An atomic explosion awakens Gammera, a giant fire breathing turtle monster from his millions of years of hibernation.
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scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
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giant monster, kaiju, monster, deadly creature, turtle, creature feature, suspense, airplane, rage, chaos, mutant, friendship ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
japan, tokyo, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A moon base is destroyed by a spaceship with a cluster of gumballs on its head. Later, at Sea World, dolphins are dying mysteriously. Zigra kidnaps two men and two children (one of whom is a Coke addict - Coca-Cola that is) and starts causing ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
kaiju, monster, giant monster, spacecraft, killer animal, octopus, turtle, alien, underwater fight, environmentalism, chaos, mutant ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same time as the evil gargantua, the two ...
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Plot:
kaiju, monster, giant monster, godzilla, frankenstein, airport, cryptozoology, military, sea, storm, boat, disorder ...
Time:
60s
Place:
asia, japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Aliens kidnap two children and take them to another planet for the purpose of getting knowledge from their brains, but Gamera follows and tries to rescue them.
Style:
psychotronic, daikaiju, natural horror, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, deadly creature, evil alien, spacecraft, suspense, youth, turtle, alien, rescue, monster versus monster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A group of aliens from another planet head for Earth with the intentions of conquering it. Their first ship is destroyed in transit by the giant flying turtle Gamera. A second ship makes it to Earth and captures two Boy Scouts and holds them captive ...
Style:
natural horror, daikaiju, exciting, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
kaiju, monster, giant monster, deadly creature, turtle, suspense, boy scout, alien, alien space craft, disaster, catastrophe, ocean ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World War II Captain has created the greatest warship ever seen, and possibly the surface world's ...
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psychotronic, daikaiju, natural horror, cult film
Plot:
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Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A giant creature attacks Japan during the World Fair and it's up to Gamera to stop it. But the monster injects Gamera with its offspring and a research team must take a craft into Gamera's body to eliminate the parasite.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, natural horror ...
Plot:
giant monster, monster, kaiju, turtle, mutant, save the world, heroic mission, battles, chaos, rescue, good versus evil, superhero ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The aftermath of the Oxygen Destroyer brings forth Destoroyah, a beast intent on killing Godzilla, who is on the verge of a nuclear meltdown.
Style:
natural horror, daikaiju, depressing, dark, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
godzilla, giant monster, monster, kaiju, killer animal, disaster, creature, giant creature, brutal deaths, fight, opponent, battles ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of Raymond Burr, this 16th Godzilla film ignores all previous sequels and serves ...
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Godzilla returns to terrorize Japan! This time, however, Japan has two new weapons to defend themselves. The Gryphon, a high-tech ship, and the Dimension Tide, a device that creates artificial black holes! During a test of the Dimension Tide, eggs ...
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Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with ...
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kaiju, giant monster, monster, mars, spacecraft, spacesuit, ufo, moon base, dinosaur, alien invasion, alien, suspense ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During WWII, a human heart taken from Dr. Frankenstein's lab and is kept in Japan where it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and eventually becomes an indestuctable humanoid. Later, a ...
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Time:
60s, 1940s, year 1945
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, germany, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Set in World War II, the film depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, sea monster, military, sea, octopus, dinosaur, monster, suspense, battleship, father daughter relationship, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the 6th Godzilla movie, mysterious aliens from the Planet X ask earth's people to help them save their world from the dreaded Ghidorah (aka "Monster Zero") by letting them "borrow" Godzilla and Rodan. Monster mayhem ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, godzilla, kaiju, monster, alien invasion, alien, ufo, evil alien, distopia, cult, spacesuit, suspense ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dr. Shiragami combines the DNA of roses with some extracted from Godzilla's cells. He names his creation "Biollante".
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psychotronic, daikaiju, natural horror, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, monster, creature, cult, mitsubishi, genetic engineering, monster terrorizes city, chaos, animal life, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Toru Aizawa, a 11 year old boy suddenly finds a tiny egg on a red mysterious stone. the egg hatches and comes out an abnormal little turtle (Toto) which not only grows rapidly, but also flies in the air and even blows fireballs. At the meantime, a ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A biological experiment in Florida goes awry. The result: 8-foot long land crabs which roar loudly and kill everything in sight.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A strange meteor lands in Japan unleashing hundreds of insect-like "legion" creatures which find their way into Tokyo. When the military fails to control the situation, Gamera shows up to deal with the ever-evolving space adversary.
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daikaiju, natural horror, suspenseful, serious, cult film
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, monster, creature feature, exploitation, godzilla, winter, alien life-form, chaos, battles, chaos and mayhem, alien encounter ...
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a space probe crash-lands on a far-flung Pacific atoll, the craft's alien stowaways decide to take over their new world one creature at a time. Soon, the parasitic life forms latch onto three indigenous critters -- a squid, a crab and a ...
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
This final installment of the recent Gamera trilogy begins with schoolgirl Ayana discovering a large egg in a cave that, according to legend, houses demons. The egg hatches into a small monster, which Ayana decides to raise and quickly develops a ...
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daikaiju, natural horror, suspenseful, serious, cult film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
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giant monster, kaiju, monster, superhero, creature feature, superhuman powers, samurai, godzilla, exploitation, revenge, giant bird, battles ...
Place:
japan, asia
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27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Mothra went into outer space to stop a meteor from reaching Earth, she accidentally took with cells from Godzilla and remaining cells from Biollante that inhabited our atmosphere. The combined cells went through a black hole and created a new ...
Style:
natural horror, daikaiju, semi serious, suspenseful, cult film
Plot:
godzilla, giant monster, kaiju, monster, helicopter, extraterrestrial, robot, disorder, chaos, escapades, deadly creature, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
Lord Doom, evil master of Proyas, the Dark Planet, sends Kraa the Sea Monster to Earth as part of his plan to dominate the galaxy. To keep the meddling hands of the Planet Patrol out of his scheme, he incapacitates their nearby space station. ...
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Plot:
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