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Grand Star (2007)
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France
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Grand Star, called La Compagnie des Glaces in France is a Canadian French Belgian Co-production science fiction television series playing on Space and A-Channel as of September 2007.
Set in an apocalyptic future 100 years after a cataclysmic nuclear explosion on the Moon sends the Earth into a new Ice Age, the show revolves around the interactions between a small community of Earth survivors and the returning descendants of colonists who escaped Earth in advance of the disaster. The series is adapted from a series of novels called La Compagnie des glaces by Georges-Jean Arnaud.
A multiplayer strategy game based on the universe of the TV series was launched in 2007. In the game, players face each other and use their trains to gather money for the control of energy sources.
A French video game named Transarctica was also based on the novel series and haphazardly translated into English.
The first novel in the series was translated in 2010 under the title The Ice Company by Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier ISBN 978-1-935558-31-6
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survival, ice age, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, cold, space exploration, struggle for survival, cold weather, space, post-apocalyptic future, survivalist, dystopia, political intrigue, adaptation, rebirth, prospector, train, monopoly, evil corporation, genocide, outpost
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, captivating, tense and bleak films and TV series with plots about survival, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future and epidemic mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Grand Star: In the Land of the Wolves (2017), Shangri-La: Near Extinction (2018), After the Pandemic (2022), Silo (2023), Tin Can (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
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An asocial woman and her dog will have to survive in a world where living seems impossible.
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survival, post-apocalyptic future, dog, struggle for survival, apocalypse, fight, sociopath, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, loneliness, dystopia, man versus nature ...
Place:
basque country
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a global airborne pandemic has wiped out 90% of the Earth's population and only the young and immune have endured as scavengers. For Ellie and Quinn, the daily challenges to stay alive are compounded when ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
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In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
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captivating, tense, bleak, psychological, thrilling ...
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underground city, dystopia, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, sheriff, politics, disaster, survival ...
Time:
future
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58%
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437
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
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As the world faces a deadly plague, humanity's hope for a cure lies with a scientist who awakens imprisoned in a metal chamber. She desperately works to escape her confined cell to save the last of humanity.
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tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
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plague, epidemic, isolation, scientist, pandemic, claustrophobia, save the world, deadly virus, humanity, confined space, threat, virus ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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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 ...
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suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, bleak, computer animated ...
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uncover truth, post apocalypse, dystopian future, escapades, survival, danger, vestiges of humanity, society, apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, epidemic ...
Time:
future
Place:
washington d.c., san francisco, new york, usa, seattle
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
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futuristic, psychological, thrilling, captivating
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adult
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space travel, space opera, space exploration, survival, spacecraft, space, outer space, human in outer space, struggle for survival, space adventure, rescue, space mission ...
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22nd century, near future
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54%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
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When the apocalypse arrives, it takes the form of a biochemical virus. All social structures break down and a new world order emerges from the heart of the desert. As chaos sets in, we follow the adventures of some unlikely survivors, all searching ...
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591
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
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A beautiful young woman awakens aboard an adrift space ship with no memory of who she is or how she got there and at the mercy of the ship's mysterious computer.
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Time:
future
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53%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
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The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by ...
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Place:
england, europe
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52%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
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When Samuel, a factory laborer on planet Baen 6, learns his wife is pregnant, he does the only thing he can to ensure his child will avoid the same societal debt he has - he enlists in the planet's military ranks as a salvage marine.
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adult
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future
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49%
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
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Set in a near future where mining conglomerates have turned Canada into a wasteland. Two brothers must travel the same road that claimed their sister's life in their quest to deliver mysterious cargo. En route they must contend with road ...
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Time:
future
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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It is the last days and the Forever Winter has begun. Surviving in the deep woods, 15-year-old Lizzy is no longer a child but has been hardened by her experiences in a world that's quickly going to hell.
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tense, suspenseful, psychological, dark, captivating ...
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struggle for survival, survival, post apocalyptic, abduction, kidnapping, child abduction, end of the world, life is a bitch, kidnapped, apocalypse, child kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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A television movie made from two segments of the TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), Planet of the Apes: Tomorrow's Tide (1974) and Planet of the Apes: Up Above the World So High (1974).
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action adventure, tense, bleak, grim, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 24 min.
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The New Tomorrow is a New Zealand-based television series produced by Cloud 9 and is a sequel to the cult television series The Tribe. The show was created by Raymond Thompson and premiered on 17 September 2005 on the Seven Network in ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 35 min.
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When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.
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unusual plot structure, apocalyptic, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
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sun, apocalypse, airplane, hijacking, survival, end of the world, distopia, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, worldwide chaos, flying, airplane trip ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
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In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.
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bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dramatic, captivating ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized ...
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apocalypse, virus, survival, deadly virus, politician, pandemic, disaster, post apocalypse, danger, group of strangers, distopia, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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39%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Outcasts is a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD. It was broadcast in the ...
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contemplative, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
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space colony, mysterious planet, survival, distant planet, society, human nature, expedition, isolation, chaos, danger, hopes, epidemic ...
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future, 21st century
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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When a modern world-wide plague becomes resistant to all cures, time-travelers must seek answers in a legendary 14th century rural French village known for its immunity to the original Bubonic Plague. The team gets more than they've bargained ...
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tense, captivating, action adventure, suspenseful, dark ...
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Time:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Three twentieth century astronauts travel through a time warp and crash on Earth in 3085 A.D.. One of the astronauts is killed in the impact, and the two survivors, Alan Virdon and Pete Burke, find that they have returned to an Earth where their ...
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action adventure, suspenseful, melancholic, psychotronic, futuristic
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
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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.
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Audience:
boys' night
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
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In an oppressive future, where everyone's only contact is their computer, one lonely young man is forced to venture forth in search of human contact.
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psychological, futuristic, suspense, captivating, thought provoking ...
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virtual reality, loneliness, social isolation, dystopia, dystopian future, real world, computers and web, social problems, life, society, social issues, confined ...
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future, near future
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
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Based on a novel by Mary Shelley
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apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, exciting
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post apocalypse, disease, epidemic, pandemic, virus, apocalypse, bio weapon, isolation, nuclear, survival, frankenstein, cannibalism ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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10,000 Days ago, Comet 23 struck Earth with the magnitude of all the nuclear weapons in the world sending the planet into a deep freeze. Now, 27 years in the future, those who survived are locked in an epic battle of life or death.
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futuristic, disturbing, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
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disaster, winter, heroic mission, survival, post apocalypse, death, science, fear, courage, astronaut, self sacrifice, planet earth ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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A television movie made from two segments of the TV Series Planet of the Apes (1974), Planet of the Apes: The Horse Race (1974) and Planet of the Apes: The Tyrant (1974).
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action drama, tense, suspense, grim
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planet of the apes, ape, horse race, tyranny, post apocalypse, corruption, betrayal, power struggle, rescue mission, escape, survival, political intrigue ...
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
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Set in a dystopian future when women have stopped having children, "The Lottery" reveals a world staring down the barrel of impending extinction. Remarkably, 100 embryos are successfully fertilized and a national lottery is held to decide ...
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atmospheric, serious, bleak, cerebral, mind bending ...
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children, infertility, conspiracy, dystopian future, embryo, pandemic, chaos, society, government agency, human nature, extinction, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future
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