Movies like Planet Earth

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Planet Earth (1974)
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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 of PAX, the colony of people who revived him. Dylan and his PAX team find another colony which is ruled by women and where all men are slaves. He is captured and sold as a slave, but escapes and organizes a rebellion. Dylan once again has a profound influence in the new world that he finds himself in, in the year 2233
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, exciting, offbeat, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
Plot: matriarchy, dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, end of the world, distopia, epidemic, utopia, anarchist, wasteland, suspended animation, sorority, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, time travel, mutant, heroes, kidnapping, space and aliens, rescue, chases and races, escapades, rivalry, society, chaos ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Keyword: matriarch

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Most similar movies to Planet Earth

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious and exciting films with plots about distopia, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, danger, chaos and dystopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Planet Earth: Genesis II (1973), Strange New World (1975), Omega Doom (1996), Android Apocalypse (2006), Ravagers (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
Strange New World (1975)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the near future, a group of scientists living in a space ship wake up from a hibernation state and come back to an apocalyptic Earth.
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic
Plot: post apocalypse, snake, dystopia, epidemic, distopia, catastrophe, end of the world, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, cataclysm, anarchist, wasteland ...
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31%
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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 ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
26%
Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Style: exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, asteroid, meteor shower, space and aliens, apocalypse, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, danger, society, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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. ...
Style: apocalyptic, experimental, grindhouse, frightening, controversial ...
Plot: distopia, overpopulation, post apocalypse, apocalypse, birth control, post apocalyptic, contamination, robot, survival, epidemic, control, artificial intelligence ...
Time: year 1972, future, distant future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
 4.0
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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 ⇓
24%
Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to the imagination as they battle each other in various ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, battles, save the world, survival, chaos, danger, rivalry, sexploitation, matriarchy, pregnancy, wasteland ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Land of Doom (1986)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Earth has been ravaged by a nuclear war, and a feminist warrior is forced to join up with a soldier of fortune in her journey to find a rumored "paradise" as they battle gangs of rampaging bandits.
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, serious, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, dystopia, wasteland, distopia, post apocalyptic, desert, female warrior, biker, renegade, post-apocalyptic future, woman fights a man, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 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 ⇓
23%
Quantum Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, disaster, end of the world, survival, chaos, save the world, forces of nature, danger, post apocalypse, autism, tsunami, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
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Dragon Day (2013)
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: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: post apocalypse, invasion, escapades, chaos and mayhem, danger, immigrant, racism, society, government agency, unemployment, epidemic, distopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: china, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Time Travelers (1964)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, ...
Style: apocalyptic, mysterious, classic horror, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, post apocalypse, mutant, apocalypse, time, dystopia, time loop, portal, exploitation, monster, nuclear holocaust, machine ...
Time: 60s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
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Before the Fall (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A meteorite will destroy the world in three days. For Ale (Victor Clavijo), that means 72 hours of alone time, getting as drunk as possible. But when a mysterious drifter (Eduard Fernández) appears, the self-serving Ale faces a more immediate ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, futuristic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, criminal heroes, danger, chaos, rivalry, save the world, heroes, redemption, vengeance, small town life, disaster, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
2012: Supernova (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Earth, and time is swiftly running out. The only thing standing between humanity and complete devastation is ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, save the world, heroic mission, danger, save the planet, race against time, heroes, scientist, apocalypse, society, epidemic, dystopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
End of the World (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, save the world, heroes, danger, forces of nature, global warming, catastrophe, death, society, destruction ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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 ⇓
22%
Idaho Transfer (1973)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A crew of young researchers escape into the future to avoid the shutdown of their project. They find that some type of 'eco-crisis' disaster has de-populated the area around their lab (in rural Idaho) and, by implication, the nation or ...
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, exciting, serious, futuristic ...
Plot: post apocalypse, bare breasts, teenager, time travel, end of the world, dystopian future, apocalypse, erotica, unhappy ending, epidemic, distopia, wasteland ...
Time: future
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Asteroid (1997)
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: apocalyptic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, space and aliens, asteroid, apocalypse, post apocalypse, astronomy, meteorite, post apocalyptic, intrigue, distopia, dystopia ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: usa, kansas, texas, kansas city, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Moment After II: The Awakening (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In The New World Order, who can you trust? Religious "fanatics"? The government? Ragtag militia? Religious "fanatics"?After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley (David A.R. White) reunites with his friend ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, christian film, apocalyptic ...
Plot: religious persecution, faith, christian, special agent, fighting the system, undercover, religions or cults, rivalry, society, danger, escapades, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.5
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Malevil (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, wasteland, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, nuclear explosion, confined ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Defense Condition 4 (1985)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. ...
Style: apocalyptic, action adventure, suspense, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, survival, disaster, nuclear holocaust, wasteland, distopia, exploitation, post nuclear, canuxploitation, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Empty (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: couple relations, chaos, social differences, on the road, couples, life is a bitch, danger, escapades, global warming, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
Robot Holocaust (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Neo, a drifter from the atomic-blasted wastelands, arrives with his klutzy robot sidekick at a factory where slaves labor to fuel the sinister Dark One's Power Station. There, he meets a comely woman who convinces him to help rescue her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, tense, exciting ...
Plot: robot, mutant, post apocalypse, man versus machine, revolution, rebellion, heroes, rescue, society, master and servant, rivalry, escapades ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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