Movies like Gorath
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Gorath (1962)
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Original name: 妖星ゴラス
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 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, spacecraft, disaster, dinosaur, virus, flood, planet, walrus, spacesuit, tsunami, panic, space, heroes, space and aliens, save the world, extinction, chases and races, escapades, danger, astronomer, collision, race against time ...
Time:
future, 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
japan, antarctica, south pole, asia, tokyo
Most similar movies to Gorath
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, daikaiju and psychotronic films with plots about danger, escapades, monster, giant monster, kaiju, chaos and heroes mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Gorath: Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla (2002), Godzilla 1985 (1985), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965), Godzilla 2000 (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After the appearance of a new Gojira (Godzilla), the Japanese government builds a robotic Godzilla from the bones of the original monster that attacked Tokyo in 1954 to stop the beast.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, natural horror, daikaiju ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
jurassic, year 2003, year 1999, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 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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⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The 9th Godzilla film was the last made by the original Godzilla creators, and was meant to be a grand finale. Aliens have released all the giant monsters from their imprisonment on Monster Island and are using them to destroy earth's major ...
Style:
daikaiju, grindhouse, natural horror, classic horror, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, monster, alien invasion, mothra, monster terrorizes city, giant spider, dinosaur, alien, creature feature, moon base ...
Time:
future, jurassic, 90s, year 1999
Place:
japan, mount fuji, asia, france, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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 ...
Style:
scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, daikaiju ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, germany, hiroshima japan, tokyo, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 ...
Style:
grindhouse, daikaiju, natural horror, suspense, classic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kaiju, godzilla, giant monster, alien invasion, monster, alien, ufo, crossover, evil alien, distopia, spacesuit, killer animal ...
Time:
jurassic, 60s
Place:
japan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, stylized, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, jurassic
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
983
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The Earth is attacked by a giant jellyfish monster from outer space that, for some reason, has a sweet tooth for diamonds.
Style:
daikaiju, natural horror, grindhouse, detective, serious ...
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, space monster, yakuza, diamond theft, monster, alien, gangster, police detective, godzilla, fishing, ufo ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A hibernating species of giant carnivorous bird is awakened on a Japanese island shortly after the Japanese military encounters an unidentified mass moving beneath the water off-shore.
Style:
natural horror, daikaiju, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, exciting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In his 13th film, Godzilla takes a supporting role to the far more prominently featured Jet Jaguar, an Ultra-Man like robot. Aliens take control of Earth's monsters and begin using them to destroy the human race. Jet Jaguar decides to stop the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Country: Japan, Australia, China, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 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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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
436K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Ford Brody, a Navy bomb expert, has just reunited with his family in San Francisco when he is forced to go to Japan to help his estranged father, Joe. Soon, both men are swept up in an escalating crisis when Godzilla, King of the Monsters, arises ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Time travelers from the 23rd century return to 1992 to warn Japan that Godzilla will cause a catastrophic nuclear incident in the 21st century and suggest a way to rid the world of him forever. They intend to go back to 1944, to Ragos Island, where ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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