Movies like The Shape of Things to Come

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The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
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The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Planet Earth is a devastated wasteland, and what's left of humanity has colonized the Moon in domed cities. Humanity's continued survival depends on an anti-radiation drug only available on planet Delta Three, which has been taken over by Omus, a brilliant but mad mechanic who places no value on human life. Omus wants to come to the Moon to rule and intends to attack it by ramming robot-controlled spaceships into the domes. Dr. John Caball, his son Jason, Jason's friend, Kim, and a robot named Sparks embark on Caball's space battlecruiser on an unauthorized mission to Delta Three to stop Omus.
Style: psychotronic, retro, mysterious, apocalyptic, independent film, epic, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: planet, time dilation, apocalypse, disaster, robot, star wars, space opera, space travel, distopia, time travel, epidemic, natural disaster, scientist, giant monster, space, canuxploitation, outer space, radiation, computer, resistance, spaceship, spacecraft, survival, artificial intelligence, space and aliens ...
Time: future, year 1979, near future
Place: usa, washington d.c.
Keyword: a.i.

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Most similar movies to The Shape of Things to Come

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, futuristic and apocalyptic films with plots about danger, space and aliens, heroes, escapades, distopia, imaginary and save the world mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Shape of Things to Come: Android Apocalypse (2006), Space: 1999 (1975), Saturn 3 (1980), Oblivion (2013), Exploding Sun (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
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Space: 1999 (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, spooky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space and aliens, space travel, moon, astronaut, space, moon base, space exploration, ufo, space opera, outer space, disaster, survival ...
Time: future, year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
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Saturn 3 (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: killer robot, robot, man versus machine, cyborgs, scientist, space station, artificial intelligence, space, obsession, androids and robots, woman in danger, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 551K
Oblivion (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, captivating, suspense, visually appealing ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian future, alien invasion, survival, space travel, space and aliens, catastrophe, danger, fate of humanity, alien encounter, resistance ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, distant future ...
Place: peru, seattle, new york, washington d.c., pentagon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Exploding Sun (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, sun, survival, space travel, save the world, technology gone awry, spouse in danger, chaos, danger, escapades, outer space, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: After the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Mankind, the last major fighter carrier leads a makeshift fugitive fleet in a desperate search for the legendary planet Earth. This film is adapted from a television series that aired on ABC from ...
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: space battle, androids and robots, military, space, space opera, survival, save the world, battlestar galactica, man versus machine, rescue, danger, good versus evil ...
Time: future, year 1978
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.2
 75K
Lost in Space (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy. But when a stowaway sabotages the mission, the Robinsons find ...
Style: surreal, exciting, stylized, entertaining, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: time travel, space travel, robot, alien, space and aliens, outer space, space exploration, spaceship, save the world, space, deep space, spacecraft ...
Time: future, year 1998
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Day the Earth Stopped (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.
Style: rough, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, evil alien, space travel, save the world, artificial intelligence, man versus machine, danger, dystopian future, apocalypse, imaginary, alien, giant monster ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Capt. William "Buck" Rogers is a jovial space cowboy who is accidentally time-warped from 1987 to 2491. Earth is engaged in interplanetary war following a global holocaust, and Buck's piloting skills make him an ideal starfighter ...
Style: psychotronic, saga, uplifting, cult classic, futuristic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space adventure, space opera, time travel, astronaut, alien invasion, space, space travel, superhero, intergalactic, cosmic horror, distopia, women ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Screamers: The Hunting (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of humans arrive on Sirius 6-B to investigate an SOS signal sent out from the planet, which has been supposedly deserted since the destruction of the man-made weapons known as "screamers." Once the squad arrives, they find a group ...
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, tense, space horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, rescue, danger, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, space travel, apocalypse, distant planet, man versus machine, deadly creature, survival, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
War of the Planets (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. ...
Style: mysterious, offbeat, bleak, semi serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: spacewalk, outer space, alien, alien invasion, space opera, kaiju, giant monster, star wars, new year's eve, dystopia, satellite, spacecraft ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Transmorphers (2007)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: About a race of alien robots that have conquered Earth and forced humanity underground. After 400 years, a small group of humans develop a plan to defeat the mechanical invaders in the ultimate battle between man and machine.
Style: mockbuster, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: androids and robots, benign alien, evil alien, chaos, save the world, alien encounter, dystopian future, heroes, space and aliens, imaginary, time travel, heroic mission ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to ...
Style: stylized, futuristic, light, bleak, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, space opera, space battle, save the world, parallel universe, alien, space wars, space, chaos, battles, imaginary, society ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
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: psychotronic, suspense, retro, independent film, serious ...
Plot: dinosaur, space and aliens, space opera, space exploration, kaiju, monster, venus the planet, pterodactyl, outer space, astronaut, reptiles, space ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, future, 2000s, 2020s
Place: soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three women makes an emergency landing on a planet plagued with a fatal disease, but are captured by dictator Overdog. Adventurer Wolff goes there to rescue them and meets Niki, the only Earthling left from a medical expedition. Combining their ...
Style: grindhouse, intense, semi serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing, teens
Plot: space opera, space travel, survival, dystopian future, monster, post apocalypse, space and aliens, danger, maze, daring rescue, rescue, woman in danger ...
Time: year 1983
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Transmorphers: Fall of Man (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In this prequel to Transmorphers -- a sci-fi thriller that borrows heavily from the plot of Transformers -- planet Earth is in peril thanks to a rogue army of alien robots, and it's up to a small group of humans to mount a crippling ...
Style: serious, mockbuster, computer animated, apocalyptic
Plot: evil alien, alien invasion, robot, androids and robots, space and aliens, man versus machine, benign alien, alien encounter, space travel, save the world, survival, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating ...
Style: apocalyptic, depressing, psychedelic, mysterious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, epidemic, natural disaster, human experiment, post apocalypse, apocalypse, folklore, distopia, satire, chase, rescue, dystopia ...
Time: future
Place: europe, england, london, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Black Hole (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 2 A.M. in St. Louis when a routine scientific experiment goes terribly wrong and an explosion shakes the city. A scientific team investigates, clashing with an intergalactic, voltage-devouring creature that vaporizes them.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature, disaster, scientist, danger, experiment gone awry, chaos, survival, save the world, deadly creature, escapades, heroic mission, apocalypse ...
Time: future
Place: missouri, washington d.c., st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. ...
Style: futuristic, intellectual, philosophical, stylized, spiritual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space travel, astronaut, space and aliens, artificial intelligence, distopia, space opera, nasa, alien, space exploration, space, extraterrestrial, deep space ...
Time: future, distant future, year 1984, year 2010, near future ...
Place: ussr, soviet union, tower bridge london, london, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Solar Crisis (1990)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up if the Artificial Intelligence fail) at ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, space, spacecraft, post apocalyptic, fantasy world, alien, space opera, space travel, apocalypse, nasa, death ...
Time: future
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Independence Daysaster (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: save the world, danger, space and aliens, escapades, extraterrestrial, secret service, disaster, evil alien, space, epidemic, distopia, natural disaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Robot Jox (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, stylized, mecha, scenic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: robot, androids and robots, post apocalypse, man versus machine, survival, cyborgs, piloted giant robot, post apocalyptic, stop motion, androids, dystopian future, giant robot ...
Time: future, near future, year 2016
Place: usa, tucson arizona, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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 ⇓
30%
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The Terminators (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A small band of resistance fighters battle the cyborgs that have taken control of the planet.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, mockbuster, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: androids and robots, space and aliens, cyborgs, danger, imaginary, space travel, chaos, heroes, man versus machine, rebelliousness, save the world, heroic mission ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.3
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Screamers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: (SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, twist ending, exciting, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, androids and robots, struggle for survival, apocalypse, killer robot, alien planet, robot, space, dystopia, distopia, chaos ...
Time: future, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Johnny 2.0 (1997)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When Dr. Johnny Dalton awakens, after being beaten by a group of eco-terrorists who were vandalizing his lab at biotech firm Azina, his business partner Frank Donahue tells him him that 15 years have passed and Johnny is merely a clone of himself. ...
Style: cyber, serious, futuristic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, cyberpunk, coma, clone, distopia, biopunk, chaos, car chase, cloning, technology gone awry, chaos and mayhem, time travel ...
Time: future
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.
Style: futuristic, humorous, independent film, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: good versus evil, space opera, space travel, spaceship, alien, space battle, female warrior, vengeance, cowboy, planet, robot, space ...
Time: 80s, year 1980
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Natural City (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to ...
Style: suspenseful, cyber, exciting, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, cyberpunk, robot as menace, dystopian future, androids and robots, computers and web, society, danger, man versus machine, save the world ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from ...
Style: futuristic, epic, saga, exciting, anamorphic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, time travel, cyborgs, star trek, space, alien, first contact, sent to the past, robot, apocalypse, androids, intergalactic ...
Time: future, year 1996, 24th century, 21st century
Place: montana, space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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