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Gorath (1962)
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Original name: 妖星ゴラス
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1980, a giant planetoid named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Even though it is smaller than Earth, its mass is huge enough to crush the Earth and destroy it. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after all the orbiting ships are drawn into the planetoid. A later mission is sent to observe and the crew barely leaves before suffering the same fate. However Astronaut Tatsuo Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. The Earth's scientists then come up with a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move Earth out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
Style:
daikaiju, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, disaster movie
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, godzilla, disaster, saturn the planet, dinosaur, virus, flood, planet, walrus, spacesuit, giant animal, tsunami, panic, space, heroes, space and aliens, save the world, extinction, chases and races, escapades, danger, astronomer, collision ...
Time:
future, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
japan, antarctica, south pole, asia, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and daikaiju films with plots about danger, heroes, escapades, chaos, monster, disaster and giant monster mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Gorath: Destroy All Monsters (1968), Dogora (1964), Attack of the Mushroom People (1963), Space Amoeba (1970), The War of the Gargantuas (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Story:
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
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65%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Time:
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63%
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Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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61%
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Country: Japan, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
59%
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Similarity:
58%
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Similarity:
58%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Place:
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Country: Japan, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Country: Japan, USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
36%
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Country: USA, Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
36%
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