Movies like Waterborne
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Waterborne (2005)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Heera Bhatti, an American-Sikh, runs a corner store in Los Angeles with the help of her son, Vikram, and Gulu. She does not approve of Vikram's Caucasian girlfriend, Lillian, and would prefer that Vikram marry a Punjabi girl, but Vikram has made up his mind. Then the lives of all Californians are turned upside down when one morning eight people are dead after drinking contaminated tap water.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, captivating, intercultural, inter cultural
Plot:
survival, contamination, terrorism, plague, bio weapon, danger, disaster, dystopia, violence, husband wife relationship, thirst, toxin, distopia, racism, heroes, society, chaos, urban, human nature, chaos and mayhem, anti hero, end of the world, chess, police officer, military ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Most similar movies to Waterborne
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, bleak, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about danger, life is a bitch, society, survival, escapades, disaster and deadly mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Sport genres. Some movies like Waterborne: The Art of Travel (2008), Blackout (2007), Day One (2010), Contagion (2002), One Hundred Mornings (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two thousand miles from home, Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (with baby Clayton) lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow, battling for survival against the elements. Using only meager supplies and resourcefulness, the young ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
frostbite, survival, hypothermia, snowstorm, rescue, wilderness, heroes, danger, babies and infants, family life, forces of nature, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
High school grad. Conner Layne is about to marry his first love, but when wedding plans fail, he goes solo on his honeymoon to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to cross the Darien Gap in record time.
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
adventurer, travel, self discovery, canceled wedding, escapades, friends, prank, youth, wanderlust, survival, nature, disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
100%
641
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, blackout, lie, danger, violence, nypd, urban, stash, woman
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Day One, is an NBC made for tv sci-fi movie. It was originally written as a tv series pilot about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure. The series was slated to fill the Heroes time slot ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
survival, group of strangers, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse, worldwide chaos, chosen one, dystopian future, society, life is a bitch, danger, chaos, escapades ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
29%
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885
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, intellectual
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
quarantine, bio weapon, terrorism, save the day, survival, chaos, state affairs, danger, undercover, plague, antidote, infection ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
survival, infidelity, couple relations, post apocalypse, human nature, danger, dishonesty, betrayal, life is a bitch, vestiges of humanity, chaos, couples ...
Time:
future
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
24%
418
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories.
Style:
independent film, anthology, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
racism, die hard, black lives matter, discrimination, hip hop culture, hip hop, nypd, civil rights, drug addiction, rebellion, violent content, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
south central los angeles, america, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wilderness survival, wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, moral dilemma, danger, isolation, hopes, snow, mountain, winter ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
kidnapping, clinic, dystopia, life is a bitch, politics, against humanity, confined, on the run, danger, state affairs, survival, legal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
457
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Larry Sullivan is a white collar FBI agent, but when a mysterious virus strikes on board a cruise ship he's send to his uncle John, a recluse who shoots at strangers, but one of the last surviving experts from the 1960s programs to develop ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic
Plot:
world war three, bio weapon, terrorism, special agent, heroes, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, plague, chases and races, fbi, scientist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Plot:
radiation, plutonium, danger, manhunt, uncover truth, race against time, dishonesty, life is a bitch, contamination, nuclear war, radiation poisoning, computer ...
Place:
russia
Similarity:
21%
175
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
With a catastrophic event rapidly approaching, 18 people vie for 10 spots in the small town's only bomb shelter.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, epic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, chaos, small town, disaster, family relations, danger, society, escapades, hopes, clergy, fight, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
342
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader of a white supremacist gang, after being being brutally attacked by the gang he seeks revenge via his street connections.
Style:
bleak, rough, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, rivalry, racism, police corruption, gangster, youth, urban ghetto, city life, going straight, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional
Plot:
disaster, heroic mission, heroes, survival, danger, escapades, rescue, child in peril, car crash, baseball, news report, decapitation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Slovenia, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A psychological portrait of a woman traveling home in a war-torn world.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
on the road, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, getting home, survival, danger, society, wartime life, introspection, dystopia, runaway child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, politics, injustice, culture clash, state affairs, vigilantism, social decay, discrimination, police corruption, african american, blaxploitation, black ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A TV reporter and cameraman are taken hostage on a tugboat while covering a workers strike. The demands of the hostage-takers are to collect all the nuclear detonators in the Charleston, SC area so they may be detonated at sea. They threaten to ...
Style:
bad ending, thought provoking, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
found footage, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, nuclear, nuclear explosion, nuclear war, terrorism, president, u.s. president, nuclear bomb, disaster, witch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south carolina, usa, charleston south carolina
Similarity:
19%
503
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in the belly of Los Angeles' criminal underworld, Arc is the story of Paris Pritchert, a former police officer turned drug dealer and addict, who embarks on a quest to find a missing child in the hope of redeeming his eroding character. The ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized, dark ...
Plot:
redemption, addiction, missing child, private detective, law enforcement, dealer, drug abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, society, drug addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young man sells drugs to rich kids, but finding love gives him reason to leave the gritty life. However, the gritty life has trouble letting go.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
going straight, juvenile delinquency, materialism, destiny, society, drug abuse, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, drug dealing, fight scenes, urban ghetto, transplant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, california, chicago
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Argentina, Canada, Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marie is a Toronto police officer. One evening, her husband Joshua and their son Nicky are brutally murdered in their car. Marie quickly links Pablo Molina, an Argentinian drug trafficker who she'd arrested a few months earlier, with the crime. ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, death of son, self discovery, manhunt, vengeance, tragic hero, heroes, revenge plot, police officer, unfulfillment, rivalry, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bolivia, canada, argentina, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
L.A. private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of an alluring woman's brother. Surrounded by double-crossing deals and dangerous relation, Rybeck will have to plunge headfirst into his deadliest case ever.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
danger, investigation, chase, escapades, private investigator, die hard, infidelity, dishonesty, deception, gunfight, conspiracy, sadistic psychopath ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman discovers a series of mysterious deaths that seem ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, on the run, danger, plague, journalism, death in the family, biohazard, infection, medicine, covert operation, pandemic ...
Time:
80s
Place:
budapest, los angeles, hungary
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An American Jewish man visiting Jerusalem for the funeral of his father gets sucked into a world of violent intrigue after meeting a mysterious, beautiful Palestinian woman.
Style:
realistic, tense, emotional, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, political unrest, terrorism, couples, politics, danger, unfulfillment, undercover, society, femme fatale, life turned upside down, intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestinian authority, middle east, jerusalem
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after the end of the Vietnam War, a family who was tragically affected by the war are forced to emigrate to America.
Style:
serious, sincere, bleak, inspirational, political ...
Plot:
vietnam war, human spirit, fighting the system, refugee, parents and children, political unrest, re-education, society, tragic hero, hopes, danger, military ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam, asia, usa, california, indochina
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style:
bleak, intense, atmospheric, apocalyptic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, boy, hopes, sex scene, dysfunctional society, survival, chaos, danger, social differences, life is a bitch, countryside ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 2000s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This made-for-television film documents the takeover of the TWA airliner in flight from Athens to Rome in 1985. The focus is on the flight attendant, Uli Derickson, whose courage and hope helped save all but one of the passengers on the plane. The ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, air disaster, aviation, mossad, war on terror, lebanese civil war, spy, airplane, hijacking, stewardess, save the day, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
rome italy, europe, greece
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, poignant ...
Plot:
terrorism, islam, injustice, vengeance, society, couple relations, life is a bitch, rivalry, introspection, danger, false accusation, politics ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, paris france, france, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A disaster movie opening with an enormous multi-vehicle crash on a Californian highway. After the opening stunt-filled action, a flashback of the crash victims' lives prior to and leading up to the accident. The closing replays the entire ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, truck driver, intercourse, cop killer, automobile, car chase, car crash, chaos and mayhem, collision, escapades, survival, chases and races ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style:
apocalyptic, offbeat, cult classic, controversial, depressing ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, post apocalyptic, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, wasteland, rape, gang rape, attempted rape ...
Time:
future
Place:
england, northern england, london
Similarity:
18%
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