Movies like Independence Day: Resurgence
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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, entertaining, ridiculous, parody, romantic, epic, bad ending, scenic, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, human versus alien, end of the world, space, disaster, military, space battle, alien civilization, independence day, chinawoman, ufo, natural disaster, apocalypse, survival, space travel, president, humanity, catastrophe, monster, redemption, spacecraft, suspense, rescue, salvation ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa, china, paris france, london, las vegas, washington d.c. ...
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Most similar movies to Independence Day: Resurgence
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspenseful, futuristic and psychotronic films with plots about danger, explosion, chase, suspense, distopia, catastrophe and post apocalypse mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like Independence Day: Resurgence: Independence Day (1996), The 5th Wave (2016), Battlefield Earth (2000), Battle Los Angeles (2011), 2012 (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated ...
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exciting, entertaining, tense, futuristic, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, invasion, space and aliens, end of the world, alien, ufo, survival, extraterrestrial, evil alien, first contact, alien encounter, natural disaster ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future, jurassic
Place:
new york, washington d.c., usa, utah, moscow russia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
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exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, absurd, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, end of the world, invasion, survival, virus, distopia, twists and turns, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
ohio, usa, new york, tower bridge london, london ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
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futuristic, campy, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
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boys' night
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alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, stupidity, save the world, survival, planet, rivalry, heroes, miner ...
Time:
future
Place:
denver colorado, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The Earth is attacked by unknown forces. As people everywhere watch the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a ...
Style:
serious, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, battles, survival, battlefield, evil alien, military, invasion, extraterrestrial, alien encounter, heroic mission, save the world ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, mojave desert, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, race against time, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, destruction, human existence, vestiges of humanity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 2000s, year 2009 ...
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, mount everest, british columbia, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
giant monster, monster, robot, battles, kaiju, creature, androids and robots, chaos and mayhem, destruction, survival, heroic mission, giant robots ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, year 2017, 2020s ...
Place:
tokyo, pacific ocean, hong kong, asia, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, entertaining, apocalyptic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, nasa, astronaut, space travel, space, save the world, race against time, suspense ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., paris france, usa, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
Style:
captivating, exciting, disturbing, epic, scary ...
Plot:
alien, alien invasion, rescue, alien technology, evil alien, evolution, abduction, brutality, monster, survival, extraterrestrial, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
laos, los angeles, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, climate change, environmental, nature, scientist, stranded, global warming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., antarctica, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, France, Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.
Style:
exciting, epic, fairy tale, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, viking, alien invasion, vengeance, medieval, norse mythology, alien encounter, human versus alien, survival, apocalypse, space ...
Time:
middle ages, future, 8th century
Place:
europe, norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's ...
Style:
futuristic, captivating, entertaining, touching, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, family outing
Plot:
female protagonist, distopia, survival, post apocalypse, future dystopia, competition, fight, young heroes, fight scenes, anti heroine, dictator, adaptation ...
Time:
future, near future
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100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, intense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
alien, strong female character, survival, space travel, monster, space, space and aliens, female warrior, human versus alien, strong female lead, deadly creature, mysterious planet ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego ...
Style:
entertaining, exciting, funny, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids
Plot:
superhero, spider man character, teenager, high school, technology, good versus evil, mentor, supernatural power, tony stark character, teenage life, school, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city, berlin germany, india ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Canada
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
Style:
absurd, entertaining, confusing, visually appealing, anamorphic ...
Plot:
alien, robot, transforming robot, giant robots, dinosaur, mission, culture clash, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, survival, revenge, alternate reality ...
Time:
future, middle ages, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
tower bridge london, england, havana cuba, usa, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural being that have taken over a European city.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, military, technology, science, chase, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, escapades, survival, super soldier, distopia ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
virginia, usa, eastern europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Style:
exciting, futuristic, entertaining, epic, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, archaeology, alien, military, slavery, space opera, teleportation, ancient egypt, pyramid, evil alien, creature, portal ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
egypt, colorado, africa, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet clash in a spectacular battle for the ages. As Monarch embarks ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot:
giant monster, godzilla, king kong, kaiju, giant ape, giant animal, monster, dinosaur, monster versus monster, creature, giant creature, creature feature ...
Time:
jurassic, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, usa, las vegas, florida, antarctica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style:
futuristic, intense, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, distopia, apocalypse, robot, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, androids and robots, man versus machine, future war, dystopic future, artificial intelligence, save the world ...
Time:
future, near future, 2000s, year 2003, 2010s
Place:
los angeles, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Style:
futuristic, scenic, exciting, saga, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot:
star wars, fantasy world, space, alien, telepathy, obesity, space opera, betrayal, fictional war, space and aliens, female protagonist, super weapon ...
Time:
future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When a virus threatens to turn the now earth-dwelling friendly alien hybrids against humans, Captain Rose Corley must lead a team of elite mercenaries on a mission to the alien world in order to save what's left of humanity.
Style:
psychotronic, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
evil alien, alien invasion, alien, alien encounter, monster, space battle, alien planet, space travel, apocalypse, creature, alien monster, martial arts ...
Time:
future
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they ...
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absurd, apocalyptic, suspenseful, perverse, road movie ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, murder, desert, terminator, survival, resistance, amnesia, chaos, distopia, apocalypse, military ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
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futuristic, exciting, serious, entertaining, intense ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot:
alien, chosen one, space wars, distopia, space, battles, training, young heroes, prodigy, space and aliens, child prodigy, space battle ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from District 13 ...
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exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
distopia, strong female lead, rebellion, chase, revolution, resistance, tough girl, chosen one, good versus evil, teenager, brutality, brainwashing ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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, intense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, alien, distopia, alien invasion, survival, future dystopia, space, space travel, catastrophe, destruction, disorder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., pentagon, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm ...
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Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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28%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, UK, Canada
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, mysterious, psychotronic, captivating ...
Plot:
disaster, moon, apocalypse, end of the world, catastrophe, space exploration, friendship, space and aliens, space, survival, space travel, meteor shower ...
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Place:
usa, new york, houston texas, california, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor, but from the enemy species he was fighting; they band together to survive on this hostile world. In the end the human finds ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
alien, evil alien, future dystopia, friendship, space and aliens, space exploration, space, space wars, survival, stranded, desert, space travel ...
Time:
future, 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ...
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exciting, surreal, stylized, surprise ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, alien, space travel, space and aliens, robot, space, save the world, space exploration, spacecraft, heroes, escapades, terrorism ...
Time:
future
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27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, entertaining, bloody, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
military, alien, monster, alien invasion, creature, soldier, space and aliens, space wars, distopia, space travel, evil alien, fictional war ...
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future, 23rd century, jurassic, 22nd century
Place:
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27%
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