Movies like Z.P.G.

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Z.P.G. (1972)
 5.6
 2K
Z.P.G. (1972)
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. stands for Zero Population Growth.)
Style: apocalyptic, experimental, grindhouse, frightening, thought provoking, bleak, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot: distopia, overpopulation, post apocalypse, apocalypse, birth control, post apocalyptic, survival, robot, epidemic, artificial intelligence, control, contamination, pregnancy, legal action, politics, androids and robots, family relations, utopia, missing child, family life, life is a bitch, adoption, rebellion, fighting the system, rivalry ...
Time: year 1972, future, distant future, 21st century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, futuristic and apocalyptic films with plots about post apocalypse, distopia, apocalypse, chaos, dystopian future, epidemic and post apocalyptic mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Z.P.G.: Android Apocalypse (2006), Omega Doom (1996), Planet Earth (1974), 20 Years After (2008), 2084 (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
 4.0
 3K
Omega Doom (1996)
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: apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, androids and robots, cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, androids, wasteland, dystopia, dystopian future, distopia, terminator ...
Time: near future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.7
 885
Planet Earth (1974)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member ...
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, futuristic ...
Plot: matriarchy, dystopia, post apocalypse, sorority, epidemic, end of the world, utopia, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, wasteland, anarchist, distopia ...
Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
20 Years After (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!
Style: apocalyptic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, life is a bitch, pregnancy, danger, society, escapades, chaos, dystopian future, babies and infants, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Movie in collections
 4.8
 163
2084 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, mosquito, chaos, danger, plague, confined, apocalypse, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 4.2
 590
Encrypt (2003)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: 2068, the ozone layer is gone and the world is a wasteland. A band of mercenaries attempt to break into a Estate that is guarded by a automated defence system called "Encrypt" in order to steal priceless artwork.
Style: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopia, survival, rivalry, dystopian future, life is a bitch, chaos, escapades, androids and robots, man versus machine, soldier, society, space travel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.9
 1K
Genesis II (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, epidemic, loner, end of the world, post apocalyptic, wasteland, distopia, suspended animation, cave, rebellion ...
Time: near future, future, 70s, 22nd century
Place: arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 4.0
 670
Deadland (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, escapades, life is a bitch, society, post apocalypse, plague, journey, murder ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 824
Puzzlehead (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter ...
Style: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, man versus machine, love triangle, chaos, androids and robots, obsession, society, dystopian future, cyberpunk, technology gone awry, betrayal, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.7
 5K
Natural City (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to ...
Style: suspenseful, cyber, exciting, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, cyberpunk, robot as menace, dystopian future, androids and robots, computers and web, society, danger, man versus machine, save the world ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.4
 7K
Robot Jox (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, stylized, mecha, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: robot, androids and robots, post apocalypse, man versus machine, survival, cyborgs, piloted giant robot, post apocalyptic, stop motion, androids, dystopian future, giant robot ...
Time: future, near future, year 2016
Place: usa, tucson arizona, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Humanity Bureau (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: distopia, dystopia, government agent, hidden truth, deception, dystopian future, pursuit, runaway, life is a bitch, life risking, conspiracy, fleeing ...
Time: 2030s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.2
 3K
Mindwarp (1991)
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: suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, serious, futuristic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, virtual reality, wasteland, dystopian future, rebel, cannibalism, danger, rivalry, post apocalyptic, cannibal, distopia, slavery ...
Time: future, 2030s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 3.6
 1K
World's End (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and ...
Style: exciting, thought provoking, surreal, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, post apocalypse, dystopian future, danger, on the run, rebellion, vigilantism, social decay, escapades, society, fighting the system, oil ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Plughead Rewired: Circuitry Man II (1994)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the backdrop of Earths polluted future a female FBI agent removes Danner, a pleasure android from an asylum in order to coerce him into helping her hunt down the criminal psychopath Plughead. But Plughead who has tangled with Danner before has ...
Style: tech noir, apocalyptic, independent film, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, cyberpunk, androids and robots, distopia, evil computer, heroes, special agent, dystopian future, corporate crime, technology gone awry, heroic mission, chaos ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 2.5
 2K
Death Squad (2014)
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, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, totalitarianism, heroes, rebellion, social decay, heroic mission, chaos, rivalry, rebelliousness, society, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.3
 164
Index Zero (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 2035, United States of Europe. Some humans are not sustainable anymore.
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse, gloomy ...
Plot: against the odds, survival, dystopian future, fighting the system, social decay, chaos, life is a bitch, danger, escapades, rebellion, wilderness, on the road ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.2
 856
Automatic (1995)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, martial arts, skyscraper, on the run, danger, terminator, law enforcement, rebellion, rivalry, chaos, cons and scams, murder ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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The Collapsed (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In the wake of the end of the world, a family of four desperately tries to survive. Their goal: escaping the city and traveling to the rural community they once called home. The constant threat of a violent death forcing them to stay as far away ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, family in danger, life is a bitch, on the run, woods, chaos, gory, disease, dystopia, virus ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995)
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, psychotronic, apocalyptic, independent film, fast ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, time travel, female bodybuilder, cyborgs, space and aliens, androids and robots, alien, apocalypse, terminator, nemesis, post apocalypse, transhumanism ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
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, independent film
Plot: apocalypse, changing the past or future, survival, save the world, danger, chaos, heroes, mutant, post apocalypse, space and aliens, distopia, epidemic ...
Time: future, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.9
 16K
Hardware (1990)
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, apocalyptic, cyber, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, apocalypse, killer robot, post apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, desert, androids, robot, post apocalyptic, robot as menace ...
Time: future, year 2016, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Lost Future (2010)
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, apocalyptic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: jungle, post apocalypse, survival, virus, deadly virus, plague, post apocalyptic, isolation, beast, dystopian future, wilderness, apocalypse ...
Time: distant future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 284
Afterworld (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Afterworld is a computer-animated American science fiction television series created by writer Brent V. Friedman and artist/filmmaker Michael DeCourcey. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, bleak, computer animated ...
Plot: uncover truth, escapades, dystopian future, survival, danger, vestiges of humanity, society, apocalypse, post apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, alternate reality ...
Time: future
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, san francisco, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.1
 13K
Air (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, apocalyptic ...
Plot: distopia, isolation, post apocalypse, humanity, science, freezing, dystopia, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, alternate reality, bunker ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.6
 499
Ravagers (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopia, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, epidemic, post apocalyptic, distopia, wasteland, survival, atomic bomb, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: year 1979, 90s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 4.8
 564
Shelter (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, bleak
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, trapped, survival, post apocalypse, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, post nuclear, struggle for survival, epidemic, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 6.3
 29K
Screamers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, twist ending, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, struggle for survival, apocalypse, killer robot, alien planet, robot, space, dystopia, distopia, chaos ...
Time: future, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Class of 1999 II: The Substitute (1994)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the original movie, the cyborg-teachers were all destroyed. Well that's what we thought, but there's one more rogue military robot out there determined to clean up the education system.
Style: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: robot, killer robot, cyberpunk, high school, cyborgs, murder, apocalypse, violent, epidemic, teaching, androids, teacher ...
Time: future, 20th century, 90s, year 1999
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 3.1
 7K
White Wall (2010)
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, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: chaos, danger, society, survival, life is a bitch, rivalry, dystopian future, heroes, escapades, secret, post apocalypse, virus ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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