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The Man from Ruin (2016)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a series of unexpected UFO crash landings on the planet Earth, a large portion of life slowly and mysteriously went extinct. We follow a man that struggles for survival, as he gathers items needed for the impending winter. Outside of personal video logs and the philosophical ramblings of a former human survivor, the man seems to wander the world without contact from other humans.
Style:
bleak, existential, atmospheric, contemplative, mysterious, melancholic, psychological, art house, independent film, philosophical
Plot:
survival, winter, post apocalyptic, isolation, sole survivor, desolation, minimalism, slow burn, post apocalypse, very little dialogue, end of the world, loneliness, extinction, woods, character study, post-apocalyptic future, hopelessness, philosophy, beer, abandoned building, alone, forest, videotaping, voice recording
Time:
future
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Most similar movies to The Man from Ruin
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, existential, atmospheric and melancholic films with plots about isolation, survival, post apocalyptic, slow burn, loneliness, minimalism and post apocalypse mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Man from Ruin: Tomorrow Before After (2023), The Land of the Sons (2021), Population 2 (2012), Stalker: The Curse of the Zone (2019), After Armageddon (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, survival, dog, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, female protagonist, survival horror, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, pregnant woman, woman ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, bleak, poetic, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, survival, dystopia, desolation, family drama, loneliness, isolation, minimalism, rite of passage, road trip ...
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81%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of a post-Apocalypse Earth, Population 2 is about a relationship that ends in tragedy forcing a woman to struggle in the aftermath.
Style:
captivating, serious, dramatic, suspenseful, reflective ...
Plot:
post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, distopia, past life, post apocalypse, climate change, solitude, grief, isolation, ruins, loneliness, loss ...
Time:
future
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of post-apocalyptic earth.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, grim, mysterious, psychological ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, isolation, desolation, dystopian future, haunting, survival, moral ambiguity, radiation, slow burn, salvation, post soviet, desire ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two men, who are polar opposites, must come to terms with being the last two humans on Earth in a post-Apocalyptic world.
Style:
bleak, philosophical, existential, psychological, reflective
Plot:
post apocalypse, isolation, post apocalyptic, end of the world, survival, humanity, character study, loneliness, friendship, hopelessness, intimate, resilience ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.
Style:
existential, melancholic, contemplative, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
cloning, clone, human clone, identity, identity crisis, isolation, alienation, loneliness, dystopia, existential crisis, adaptation, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
52%
336
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, existential, art house, meditative ...
Plot:
dog, forest, hunting, hunter, lost, wilderness, nature, loneliness, isolation, disorientation, character study, wanderer ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two people are stuck in a quarantine hotel during a deadly pandemic. Physical contact equals death, total isolation is required. Yet, it is human nature to seek togetherness. But what happens when you have to choose between love and life?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, tense, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
pandemic, isolation, quarantine, loneliness, sacrifice, infection, survival, forbidden love, moral dilemma, single, hotel, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
When a plague of unprecedented virulence sweeps the globe, the human race is all but wiped out. In the aftermath, as the great machine of civilization slowly and inexorably breaks down, only a few shattered survivors remain to struggle against the ...
Style:
existential, bleak, philosophical, sinister, grim
Plot:
pandemic, survival, post apocalyptic, isolation, leadership, desperation, loneliness, small community, hopes, wilderness, morality, literary ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Croatia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Cain is a military scientist, bitterly disappointed in human race. His conclusion is that the mankind failed to create a world worth living in. Only a small minority of privileged people live in prosperity, while the rest are spending their lives in ...
Style:
grim, bleak, atmospheric, dark, contemplative ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, loneliness, desolation, hopelessness, survivor, isolation, desperation, existentialism, ethical dilemma, weapon of mass destruction ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
99% of the human race has colonized on Mars. The remaining few work to rehabilitate our dying planet. Each year a small number are selected to return home to aid in the process. For those few, it will be their first glimpse of Earth. We follow them ...
Style:
psychological thriller, existential, atmospheric, melancholic, bleak
Plot:
isolation, identity crisis, alienation, dystopian future, survival, claustrophobia, slow burn, futuristic technology, redemption, distopia
Time:
near future
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After years on his own in a post-pandemic Oklahoma, a 17 year-old doomsday prepper meets a pregnant girl who brings companionship, but also the danger of a gun-wielding group of survivors hellbent on building a new world.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, coming of age, teenager, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, post apocalypse, adolescence vs adulthood, grownups, teenage life, dream world, maturation ...
Similarity:
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584
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, bleak, serious, tension ...
Plot:
survival, disaster, trapped, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, isolation, confined space, bunker ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
pregnancy, isolation, loneliness, claustrophobia, character study, abandonment, survival, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, existentialism, minimalism, symbolism ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and lacking hope. An anxious silence hangs over the land. On one particularly starry night, two peasants find ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, atmospheric, melancholic, grim ...
Plot:
memory loss, stranger, hunger, manor, amnesia, identity, post war, macabre, desolation, haunting, isolation, loneliness ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
37%
38K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Style:
suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, extinction, survival, distant planet, dystopia, space, apocalypse, disaster, science, destruction, save the world, colonization ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
Two brothers on a road trip through Texas discuss the morality of killing and ponder our place in the natural world.
Style:
art house, existential, philosophical, reflective, contemplative ...
Plot:
road trip, moral dilemma, character study, killing, brothers, moral ambiguity, existential crisis, slow burn, minimalism, small town, coming of age, philosophy ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
34%
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308
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A man and his dog are stranded on a volatile, oval-shaped planet and are forced to adapt and escape before time destroys them both.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
distant planet, survival, accident, danger, catastrophe, isolation, one man army, dog, estrangement, save the day, bonding, adaptation ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After spending three months doing experiments in space, scientists Antón and Daniel return to civilization. They're astounded to discover that the Earth has undergone an enormous cataclysm and the law of the gravity has even been altered in ...
Style:
sinister, tense, surreal, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cave, post apocalyptic, cataclysm, experiment, survival, exploration, disaster, desolation, isolation, speculation, estrangement, adaptation ...
Time:
70s, near future
Similarity:
33%
150
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motorhome to get away from the chaos. As they move down the route, the world becomes an increasingly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
insomnia, survival, isolation, epidemic, road trip, male female relationship, escape from reality, worldwide chaos, relationship problems, chaos, apocalypse, travel ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A suspenseful sci-fi journey tracking the turbulent relationship of Cole and Maya as they struggle to survive in a world where the human population has been left decimated after an extra-terrestrial attack.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, apocalyptic, indie film
Plot:
alien invasion, post-apocalyptic future, survival, isolation, end of the world, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, moral ambiguity, parenthood, flashback, epidemic, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-aged bachelor farmer living in rural Ireland has to deal with isolation and loneliness.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, contemplative, existential ...
Plot:
loneliness, isolation, village life, hardship, realism, social isolation, loss, minimalism, slice of life, intimate, slow burn, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world 200 years in the future, society has broken down into fragmented groups who now dwell within a tangled wood, completely unaware of any civilization that exists beyond and governed by the white-suited agents of some ...
Style:
melancholic, surreal, atmospheric, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, isolation, coming of age, mother son relationship, guilt, hallucination, suffering, addiction, claustrophobia, haunting ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be Indians during the visit of a general. In ...
Style:
bleak, existential, art house, grim, experimental ...
Plot:
social commentary, authoritarianism, dystopia, post apocalyptic, post war, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, satire, alienation, moral dilemma, political repression, identity crisis ...
Time:
year 2000, future
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Trying to escape danger in a post-apocalyptic world, Bannon realizes that his very existence will be put to the test.
Style:
tense, bleak, grim, dark, suspense
Plot:
survival, post apocalyptic, desperation, escape, danger, struggle for survival, desolation, wasteland, dystopia, journey, isolation, loneliness ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot:
space travel, accident, mission gone awry, isolation, solitude, confined, space exploration, human in outer space, loneliness, male protagonist, heroes, extraterrestrial life ...
Time:
2010s, future
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wake up one morning to discover every person on Earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event lead them to reconsider everything they know about ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, depressing, cerebral ...
Plot:
survival, life & death, adam and eve, loneliness, apocalypse, christian, tragedy, self discovery, lovers, doubt, isolation, post apocalypse ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A woman's suicide attempt lands her in a mysterious realm where she meets a man haunted by a supernatural force. Together, they face the dark secrets of their forest prison as time runs out and malevolent powers close in.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, dark fantasy, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Plot:
supernatural, forest, haunted, isolation, female protagonist, claustrophobia, survival, moral ambiguity, folk horror, slow burn, psychological drama, pressure
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A tale of self-rediscovery seen through the eyes of a grief-stricken trumpeter, who finds salvation in a lighthouse and its two suicidal visitors.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, contemplative, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
lighthouse, grief, suicide, seaside, empathy, loneliness, trumpet player, salvation, healing, intimate, mourning, redemption ...
Similarity:
27%
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