Movies like Sinkhole 2013

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Sinkhole (2013)
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Sinkhole (2013)
Original name: Sink Hole
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a massive sinkhole swallows a nearby town, a school bus filled with students is dropped deep underground. After the crash, the students realize the bus is hanging precariously against the side of the sinkhole, held in place by a broken pipe. Any sudden move could send the bus plummeting into the darkness below. Alone and with all the adults injured, the teens struggle for survival with the story taking on shades of Lord of the Flies. Their only hope is a small-town paramedic, who must overcome a tragic past to rescue the students.
Style: disaster movie
Plot: high school student, disaster, bully, balloon, cell phone, teenager, lifeguard, student, death, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, courage, mother daughter relationship, city, fear, bus, trapped, disciple, group, sinkhole, school bus, screaming, hole, disaster film
Keyword: pipe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic and psychotronic films with plots about disaster, apocalypse, death, teenage girl, post apocalypse, teenager and family relations mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sinkhole: The Dimension Travelers (1998), Damnation Alley (1977), Deadly Voltage (2015), Story of a Girl (2017), 3 Feet Ball & Souls (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Dimension Travelers (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mysterious Transfer Student.
Plot: newspaper, student, teenage girl, teenager, teacher, high school student, coming of age, high school, time travel, friend, school, girl ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Damnation Alley (1977)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A small group of survivors at a military installation who survived World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are living. Hopefully their specially built vehicles will protect them against the ...
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, cockroach, desert, disaster, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, end of the world, post nuclear, distopia, motorcycle, wasteland ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future, 70s
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, california, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Deadly Voltage (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A fractured family, caught in a deadly lightning storm, is forced to come together to save their lives.
Style: captivating, dramatic, tense, suspenseful, serious
Plot: disaster, cell phone, struck by lightning, divorce, mountain biking, husband and wife, junkyard, storm, vacation, ex wife, wife, weatherman
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Story of a Girl (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a compromising video of sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert hits social media, her teenage life is changed forever. Overcoming bullies, hurtful school-yard taunts and the enduring rage and disappointment of her father, Deanna longs to escape a life ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, light, suspenseful, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot: yoga, high school student, bully, gay, bullying, summer vacation, family crisis, waitress, mother daughter relationship, caucasian, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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3 Feet Ball & Souls (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of four decides to commit suicide using gigantic fireworks. But every time the fireworks explode, they find themselves back in time before they carried out the plan. They suspect the cause to be the young age of one of the members and try to ...
Style: psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: suicide, depression, teenager, teenage girl, time loop, time travel, japanese schoolgirl, meeting, society, suicidal thoughts, danger, suicidal ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
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, controversial, disturbing, depressing, offbeat ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, distopia, post apocalyptic, disaster, wasteland, epidemic, railway, quarantine, natural disaster ...
Time: future
Place: england, northern england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Aporia (2023)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, dramatic, ambiguous ending
Plot: time travel, death of husband, death, time machine, grief, time traveler, loss of spouse, time, life & death, loss of husband, female protagonist, death of spouse ...
Time: 20th century, 2020s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 4.8
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Shelter (2015)
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: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, bleak
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, trapped, survival, post apocalypse, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, post nuclear, struggle for survival, epidemic, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Painful Secrets (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sad, teen ...
Plot: mental illness, self mutilation, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, self harm, psychiatrist, bullying, physical abuse, female friendship, depression, trouble, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.0
 18K
The Day After (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, disaster, post apocalypse, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear holocaust, radiation, end of the world, dystopia, nuclear threat, nuclear ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, missouri, ussr ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
A Fire in the Sky (1978)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but no one believes them.
Style: apocalyptic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: disaster, comet, cadet, astronomer, newspaper office, elopement, governor, collision, forces of nature, alien encounter, kidnapping, celebrity culture ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 2.7
 831
10,000 Days (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: 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.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: disaster, winter, heroic mission, survival, science, post apocalypse, fear, courage, astronaut, death, planet earth, self sacrifice ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 2.1
 549
Pink Zone (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of young delinquents, carrying a deadly virus for women, attacks a girls high school, the spoiled reckless daughter of a powerful local man has to collaborate with her cruel schoolmates to get out before she gets infected.
Plot: detention, teen angst, juvenile delinquent, bully, virus, post apocalypse, high school, coming of age, student, girl, virginity, library ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.8
 5K
Radioflash (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to survival in a dark new world.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking, epic, suspense ...
Plot: survival, father daughter relationship, post apocalypse, apocalypse, teenager, dystopian society, trick, darkness, blackout, female protagonist, doomsday, disaster ...
Time: future
Place: america, idaho, montana, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Don't Look Deeper (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A high school student in central California sets off an unexpected series of events when she begins to doubt if she's human.
Style: captivating, psychological, futuristic, apocalyptic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: female protagonist, school, social problems, doubts and hesitations, doubt, self discovery, life, high school life, schoolgirl, introspection, social issues, transgender ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 192
Game Over (2003)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a super computer is linked to a video game network, the computer programmer who designed the game must enter the virtual reality world of his fantasies and defeat the computer before it causes worldwide chaos!
Plot: cheerleader, woman with a gun, cyberpunk, fight club, virtual reality, super computer, video game, tattoo, waking up, lie, computer virus, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.2
 879
Asteroid (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An out of touch family man moves with his wife and daughter from the big city to his dream house on the outskirts of a small town just in time for the apocalypse.
Style: apocalyptic, satirical, disturbing, captivating, semi serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.5
 81K
Volcano (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike ...
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, volcano, catastrophe, end of the world, firefighter, forces of nature, race against time, lava, panic, fire ...
Time: year 1997, future, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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A Feral World (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An orphaned boy in a post-apocalyptic world, meets a grieving woman who is trying to find her lost daughter. Their journey leads them face-to-face with a despot who may have the daughter held captive.
Style: bleak, psychotronic, apocalyptic, suspenseful
Plot: survivor, distopia, coming of age, post apocalypse, wasteland, survival, friendship, unlikely friendships, danger, group of criminals, loner, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.9
 7K
Testament (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, emotional, tense ...
Plot: nuclear war, cold war, nuclear holocaust, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place: california, usa, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.3
 521
Half-Life (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: As troubling signs of global cataclysms accelerate, a brother and sister react to their father's desertion and the powerful presence of their mother's new boyfriend.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: mother's boyfriend, youth, family relations, manipulation, parents and children, teenage love, single parent, prodigy, society, love and romance, child's point of view, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Stephanie Daley (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. ...
Style: emotional, serious, psychological, rough, suspense ...
Plot: sex education, murder, pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family problems, investigation, american football, cheerleader, high school student, babies and infants, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Where Have All the People Gone (1974)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful ...
Style: apocalyptic, spooky, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, disaster, dystopia, post apocalyptic, distopia, apocalypse, natural disaster, wasteland, doomsday, 666, desolation, monster ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Terror Out of the Sky (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: animal attack, insect, disaster, killer animal, killer bee, bee, scientist, creature feature, schoolboy, animal, animal horror, bug ...
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, war veteran, family relations, father daughter incest, life is a bitch, parents and children, rural setting, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.2
 988
Storm War (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, humorous, tense, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, chaos, chaos and mayhem, danger, save the day, escapades, disorder, family relations, forces of nature, siblings relations, parents and children, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 2.7
 109
20.0 Megaquake (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: As a megaquake threatens San Francisco, a series of foreshocks wreaks havoc across the city. Now, an elite team of emergency service and disaster experts converge on the anticipated epicenter, working tirelessly to save as many lives as possible and ...
Style: bleak, serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: disaster, rescue attempt, man versus nature, salvation, lifesaver, nature, earthquake, rescue, lifeguard, forces of nature, rescue mission, natural disaster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Short Walk to Daylight (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
Style: psychotronic, corny
Plot: disaster, subway, natural disaster, train, escape, racial tension, trapped, earthquake, flood, drug addict, railway, gas leak
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 8.9
 13
Hurt (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues ...
Plot: alcoholism, student, high school, shooting, suicide, bullying, death, depression, teenager
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 23K
After Yang (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and ...
Style: melancholic, unusual plot structure, enigmatic, philosophical, underground film ...
Plot: robot, foster child, artificial intelligence, father, androids, loss, mourning, family relations, parents and children, death, family problems, society ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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