Movies like Gorgo
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Gorgo (1961)
5K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Never take a baby from his mother. You'll see why in this action-packed monster thriller as young Gorgo, a creature from the sea, is relocated to London from Ireland, with rampaging mommy-dearest not far behind.
Style:
natural horror, retro, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, daikaiju, scary, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, dinosaur, giant lizard, monster terrorizes city, circus, mutant, creature feature, giant creature, lost world, rescue, reptiles, ship, carnival, scientist, volcano, sea monster, happy ending, sea creature, paleontologist, all male cast, scuba diving, royal navy, sea, killer animal ...
Time:
year 1961, prehistory
Place:
ireland, big ben london, london, england, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out natural horror, serious, suspenseful and scary films with plots about monster, deadly, danger, giant monster, deadly creature, escapades and kaiju mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Action genres. Some movies like Gorgo: The Giant Monster Gamera (1965), Konga (1961), Varan the Unbelievable (1962), Raptor Island (2004), The War of the Gargantuas (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
Style:
natural horror, serious, bleak, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
kaiju, dinosaur, creature feature, monster, giant monster, giant animal, virus, creature, animal attack, reptiles, prehistoric animal, underwater ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 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 ...
Style:
classic horror, natural horror, grindhouse, suspense, daikaiju ...
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, gamera, turtle, prehistoric creature, giant creature, mutant, darkness, pop culture, killer animal, dinosaur ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
90%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr.Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he ...
Style:
natural horror, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror, scary ...
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, mad scientist, king kong, monkey, monster, man eating plant, killer animal, ape, mutant, chaos, danger ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
90%
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, cult horror, retro, black and white, cult classic ...
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, monster, godzilla, sea monster, creature feature, lake, prehistoric creature, demolished city, island, panic, isolation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
88%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A team of terrorist-fighting Naval officers in the South China Sea finds their struggle against the enemy taking a backseat to the fight of their lives when an horde of creatures thought to be extinct for millions of years descend upon them in an ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
lost world, creature feature, dangerous animal, soldier, kaiju, battles, deadly creature, danger, military, chaos, survival, ancient mystery ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 92 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 ...
Style:
natural horror, daikaiju, classic horror, prehistoric, grindhouse ...
Plot:
frankenstein, kaiju, giant monster, cryptozoology, military, boat, storm, sea, giant animal, post apocalyptic, prehistoric man, 666 ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan
Similarity:
88%
956
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
Style:
retro, natural horror, independent film, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, kaiju, deadly creature, giant monster, creature feature, snake, giant octopus, shark, dinosaur, creature, animal attack, octopus ...
Time:
prehistory, 20th century, 70s
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A black hole hits North Wisconsin and opens a door to other dimensions. Giant 15 meter spiders emerge from it, who have an appetite for human flesh! Dr. Jenny Langer and Dr. Vance from the NASA try to save the world.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, semi serious, natural horror, retro ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
small town, giant spider, spider, kaiju, evil alien, monster, cobweb, giant monster, experiment gone awry, save the world, deadly creature, danger ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
87%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the ...
Style:
psychotronic, grindhouse, daikaiju, retro, classic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, dinosaur, island, deadly creature, creature feature, ship, earthquake, tropical island, photographer, killer animal, creature ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
Style:
psychotronic, grindhouse, slasher, classic horror, black and white ...
Plot:
monster, creature, constable, tentacle, laboratory, isolation, island, creature feature, pathologist, isolated community, science runs amok, multiple monsters ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
ireland, japan
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A portion of the tail of a prehistoric reptile is discovered in Denmark. It regenerates into the entire reptile, which proceeds to destroy buildings and property and generally make a nuisance of itself. It can fly, swim, and walk, and has ...
Style:
natural horror, suspense, grindhouse, classic horror, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
giant monster, monster terrorizes city, dinosaur, kaiju, monster, navy, panic, scientist, professor, creature feature, chess, ocean ...
Time:
year 1961, prehistory
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia, copenhagen, finland
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
International terrorists get a surprise when their cargo turns out to contain living dinosaurs. The army commando team now have to think fast, if they want to prevent the extinction of the human species, instead of the reptiles.
Style:
natural horror, scary, independent film, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, creature feature, kaiju, creature, killer animal, exploitation, giant monster, reptiles, terrorism, animal attack, alien monster ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s, 80s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 87 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, natural horror ...
Plot:
frankenstein, giant monster, world war two, scientist, false accusation, mutant, deadly creature, supernatural, rescue, laboratory, experiment gone awry, danger ...
Time:
60s, year 1945, 1940s
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, germany, tokyo, asia ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the ...
Style:
scary, suspense, enigmatic, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blindness, space and aliens, creature feature, post apocalyptic, monster, mutant, distopia, apocalypse, survival, humanity, post apocalypse, save the world ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, england, united kingdom, london, france ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sleazy scam artist Joan Collins tries to sell phony real estate deals down in the Florida everglades. What she and her unsuspecting buyers don't know is the area has been taken over by giant ants!
Style:
scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
giant insect, ant, supernatural, disaster, giant monster, technology, real estate, deadly creature, danger, dangerous animal, toxic, cons and scams ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida, everglades, usa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: 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 ...
Style:
daikaiju, suspense, natural horror, grindhouse, classic horror ...
Plot:
kaiju, giant monster, monster, gamera, mutant, prehistoric creature, dinosaur, killer animal, reptiles, mothra, dam, quicksand ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The plot concerns an American astronaut, Frank Douglas, who mysteriously disappears from his spacecraft as it parachutes to Earth. The vanished astronaut is apparently replaced by or turned into a large, radioactive, humanoid monster. A team of ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, cult classic, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot:
creature feature, mysterious death, twist the dance, giant, astronaut, secret formula, alien, murder, laboratory, mutant, isolation, missing person ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned ...
Style:
serious, exciting, scary, suspenseful, crying ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
oil rig, kaiju, sea monster, survival, sea creature, ocean, communication problem, deadly creature, isolation, danger, escapades, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Earthquakes in central Korea turn out to be the work of Yongary, a prehistoric gasoline-eating reptile that soon goes on a rampage through Seoul.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, classic horror ...
Plot:
giant monster, kaiju, chaos, mutant, monster, friendship, danger, deadly creature, on the run, heroes, forces of nature, reptile ...
Time:
prehistory
Place:
korea, asia, seoul
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Genetically-engineered Komodo dragons have become ginormous creatures hunting people on a remote tropical island. A small group of scientists must stop the dragons before they escape the island and destroy the rest of the world.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, natural horror, serious, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, giant lizard, mutation, danger, chaos, creature feature, killer animal, genetic engineering, creature, animal attack, monster ...
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Russia, Armenia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, perverse, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dangerous animal, pterodactyl, experiment gone awry, dinosaur, deadly creature, expedition, paleontologist, creature feature, heroic mission, save the day, save the world, race against time ...
Time:
prehistoric times, jurassic
Place:
armenia, turkey
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mad scientist (Donald Pleasence) crosses plants with people, and the results wind up in a sideshow.
Style:
independent film, funny, slasher, classic horror, gothic horror ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, experiment, exploitation, monster, body horror, creature, creature feature, mutant, scientist, bare chested male, murder, human experiment ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut. When ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, sex scene, dangerous animal, rescue, survival, disorder, experiment gone awry, small town life, danger, deadly creature, heroes, race against time ...
Time:
jurassic, prehistoric times, prehistory
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An alien starship crashes in a swamp in a U.S. National Park. Some mosquitos begin to feed from the alien's corpses, causing them to grow to the size of a vulture. These mutant insects became very agressive, killing every human being they find. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, horrifying, suspense, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mosquito, mutation, park ranger, mutant, monster, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, chaos, space and aliens, battles, creature ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Using fossilized DNA, a scientist resurrects one of nature's most fearsome predators, a sabretooth tiger. Scientific ambition turns deadly, however, when the creature escapes and begins savagely stalking its prey - the human race.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, natural horror, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
dangerous animal, animal attack, experiment gone awry, science runs amok, animal experimentation, killer animal, creature feature, tiger, danger, gory, killed by an animal, brutality ...
Time:
jurassic
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Belize
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Jackson Slate, famous treasure hunter, is out to find the legendary Lost Gold Of Cortez in the open waters off a secluded island in the Caribbean Sea. Using dynamite to blast his way through centuries of silt, new chasms are created reaching miles ...
Style:
scary, exciting, suspense, rough, natural horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
dinosaur, lost world, sea monster, animal attack, creature feature, killer animal, deadly creature, giant monster, danger, escapades, tyrannosaurus rex, military ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
latin america, caribbean
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Drama, 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, dark, depressing, daikaiju, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
godzilla, kaiju, killer animal, giant monster, mutant, giant animal, disaster, reptiles, giant creature, dinosaur, creature, monster ...
Time:
jurassic, 90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo, hong kong
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan, USA
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 ...
Style:
daikaiju, political thriller, natural horror, cult classic, serious ...
Plot:
kaiju, monster, godzilla, giant monster, disaster, giant animal, island, monster terrorizes city, dinosaur, mutant, scientist, undead ...
Time:
jurassic, year 1985, 80s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A team of environmentalists, including a reporter, her camera man, and an environmentalist's famous girlfriend charter a boat and with the captain, sail to a military island. They suspect the island is hosting to illegal activities. Upon ...
Style:
suspenseful, natural horror, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
giant animal, giant snake, giant lizard, island, snake, scientist, laboratory, eaten alive, race against time, experiment gone awry, monster, danger ...
Time:
jurassic
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A nature field researcher is investigating the strange extinction of small animals and insects in the area, which indicates that something is wrong. His suspicions are soon to be proven right when he meets May, who lives in a cabin in the forest ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, natural horror ...
Plot:
mutant, lizard, supernatural, danger, dangerous animal, extinction, on the run, woman in danger, woods, snow, evolution, creature feature ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
78%
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