Movies like Rising Storm

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Rising Storm (1989)
 4.7
 332
Rising Storm (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The year is 2099. The United States is ruled by the Reverend Jimmy Joe II, in a dictatorship where big guns and fundamentalist religion are used to keep the masses in control. The Reverend's troopers patrol the streets and the slums with assault rifles, ready to prevent any trouble from the revolutionary Kropfelders.
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, rebel, post-apocalyptic future, prison, strong female lead, archaeologist, dictator, rock and roll, poverty, rebellion, revolution, dictatorship, female orgasm, satire, petty criminal, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, love interest, radio dj, freedom fighter, televangelist, dystopia, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, distopia ...

Most similar movies to Rising Storm

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film and psychotronic films with plots about post apocalypse, distopia, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, dystopian future and heroes mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Comedy genres. Some movies like Rising Storm: Robot Wars (1993), Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988), Cherry 2000 (1987), Circuitry Man (1990), Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 3.9
 2K
Robot Wars (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: In the year 2041, the rebel Centros are a plague to the survivors of the great toxic gas scare of 1993. A renegade Megarobot pilot and an archaeologist must team up (despite personal differences, a reluctant romance, and official pressure to cease ...
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, cult classic, mecha
Plot: robot, post apocalypse, giant monster, monster, cyborgs, stop motion, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, exploitation, space opera, kaiju, epidemic ...
Time: 2040s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 'Hell' is the name of the hero of the story. He's a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to ...
Style: independent film, exciting, humorous, apocalyptic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, rescue, dystopian future, mutant, prisoner, save the world, survival, chaos, heroic mission, chastity belt, bare breasts ...
Time: future, 80s
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 5.5
 11K
Cherry 2000 (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson to find her exact duplicate. But as their journey to replace his perfect mate leads them into the ...
Style: cult classic, exciting, apocalyptic, grindhouse, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids, robot, dystopia, distopia, cyberpunk, female robot, sexy woman, post apocalyptic, heroic mission, androids and robots ...
Time: future, year 1987, near future, year 2017, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 4.6
 999
Circuitry Man (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a future where most humans have moved underground to escape the pollution, one of the few pleasures left is a kind of narcotic in the form of chips which can be plugged directly into the brain. Lori, a female body guard steals a case of such ...
Style: cyber, tech noir, apocalyptic, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, androids and robots, post apocalyptic, cyborgs, cognitive science, distopia, evil computer, dystopian future, chaos, computers and web, social decay ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A few decades from now - Sienna, a rebellious robot-fighting arms dealer, lives on a post-apocalyptic Earth. When the cities start to fall under the control of the A.I. Scourge, a hyper-weaponized robot army, Sienna decides to leave the Earth and ...
Style: futuristic, rough, bleak, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: future war, cyborgs, distopia, robot, artificial intelligence, space battle, dystopia, post apocalypse, robot as menace, weapons, manhunt, killer robot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Ultimate Warrior (1975)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Only a few people still live in New York in 2015. They are organized in gangs with their own turf. One of them is led by Baron, another one by Carrot, and they are constantly at war with each other.
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, depressing, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, wasteland, distopia, epidemic, nuclear disaster, quarantine, exploitation, nuclear holocaust, gang ...
Time: future, year 1975, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: persia, new york, usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 6.3
 4K
Lazer Team 2 (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After Woody goes missing while working on secret alien research, scientist Maggie Wittington must recruit the former members of Lazer Team to join her in rescuing their lost friend.
Style: psychotronic, humorous, parody, futuristic, absurd
Plot: alien, superhero, fight, teamwork, loser, superhuman speed, twists and turns, parallel universe, fantasy world, technology, satire, space ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Hostile Environment (1999)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Toxic waste has contaminated the world's fresh water supply. A select few with the ability to de-contaminate the supply now control the world. Minna rules the de-contaminators from a giant warship, forcing desperate land dwellers to trade ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic
Plot: post apocalypse, disaster, woman with a gun, ocean, mutiny, femme fatale, hopes, dystopia, bomb, good versus evil, army, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 5.4
 35K
Tank Girl (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Based on the British cult comic-strip, our tank-riding anti-heroine fights a mega-corporation, which controls the world's water supply.
Style: stylized, futuristic, exciting, slapstick, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, female protagonist, punk, post apocalypse, female warrior, post apocalyptic, kickass women, cyberpunk, wasteland, female fighter, save the world, comic book ...
Time: future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: australia, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.3
 1K
A.P.E.X. (1994)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists,into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film, serious
Plot: time travel, robot, post apocalypse, cyborgs, terminator, apocalypse, androids and robots, dystopian future, distopia, alien, cyberpunk, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1973
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Warriors of the Apocalypse (1984)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a nuclear war with civilization's death as a result leads an adventurer, a group of hikers on their search for the Mountain of Life. On their way they meet pygmy tribes, brutal gangs and amazon women.
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic
Plot: post apocalypse, wasteland, apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, woman with a gun, female warrior, amazon, post-apocalyptic future, bare chested male, immortality, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 4.1
 723
Equalizer 2000 (1987)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a bleak, postnuclear future world, warring factions struggle to claim the Equalizer 2000, the one weapon powerful enough to guarantee survival.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, slasher, independent film
Plot: wasteland, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, dystopia, exploitation, woman with a gun, machine gun, desert, post-apocalyptic future, motorcycle gang ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The fifth and final episode in the Planet of the Apes series. After the collapse of human civilization, a community of intelligent apes led by Caesar lives in harmony with a group of humans. Gorilla General Aldo tries to cause an ape civil war and a ...
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, futuristic, space horror, saga ...
Audience: adult
Plot: post apocalypse, ape, planet of the apes, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, end of the world, revolution, gorilla, monkey, survival, rebellion, time dilation ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.9
 444
Interzone (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film, exciting, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: waterfall, post apocalypse, wasteland, apocalypse, mutant, fight, treasure, female warrior, post apocalyptic, dystopia, distopia, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Defense Condition 4 (1985)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. ...
Style: apocalyptic, action adventure, suspense, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, survival, disaster, nuclear holocaust, wasteland, distopia, exploitation, post nuclear, canuxploitation, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 3.7
 370
Space Rage (1985)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets bounty-hunter Walker, and the Colonel, a retired policeman from LA ...
Style: psychotronic, independent film
Plot: prison, star wars, space, post apocalypse, distopia, prison escape, space opera, bounty hunter, revolution, mine, outer space, robbery ...
Time: year 1985
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 2.7
 368
Prison Planet (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Committed to overthrowing a bloodthirsty tyrant, brave freedom fighter Blaine (James Phillips) earns a one-way ticket to Prison Planet, an inhospitable wasteland where he battles violent goons and struggles to find Himshaw (Jack Willcox), the key to ...
Style: funny, serious, rough, bleak, futuristic ...
Plot: prison, post apocalypse, desert, planet, space opera, dystopian future, rebellion, beefcake, menage a trois, white trash, post-apocalyptic future, profanity ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. ...
Style: road movie, grindhouse, suspenseful, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: car, carsploitation, dystopia, racing, dystopian future, car chase, distopia, chases and races, danger, auto racing, post apocalyptic, rivalry ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 2000, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.7
 496
Robo Warriors (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior - a towering fighting machine.
Style: futuristic, mecha, independent film
Plot: monster, apocalypse, giant robot, dystopia, exploitation, distopia, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, robot, piloted giant robot, hopes, battles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Phoenix the Warrior (1988)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Big hair, big guns, big personalities, and a serious lack of wardrobe. She-Wolves of the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic story that features women--lots and lots of women--who leave little to the imagination as they battle each other in various ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, battles, save the world, survival, chaos, danger, rivalry, sexploitation, matriarchy, pregnancy, wasteland ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.3
 568
Roller Blade (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a futuristic society, rebels fighting against a fascist state are aided by a group of roller-skating nuns called the Bod Sisters.
Style: apocalyptic, independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, dystopia, mutant, exploitation, zombie, woman with a gun, distopia, masked villain, nun, post-apocalyptic future, nudity, female pubic hair ...
Time: year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
American Cyborg: Steel Warrior (1993)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the nuclear war people are sterile and ruled by the artifical intelligences they created in this violent world. The only woman who was able to give life to a child has to take the child through the dangerous city to the ship to save it. She is ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, cult classic, perverse, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: post apocalypse, cyborgs, androids and robots, terminator, cyberpunk, apocalypse, dystopian future, kung fu, cannon, androids, distopia, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
 10K
Lazer Team (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the late 1970's, the SETI project received a one time signal from outer space. It looked exactly as theorists thought a communication from an alien civilization would -- unfortunately it has never been decoded. Or so we were told. ...
Style: parody, melancholic, futuristic, humorous, psychotronic ...
Plot: malfunction, misfit, parallel universe, farce, twists and turns, space opera, fight scenes, teamwork, alien, training, superhero, dystopia ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 3.0
 685
Prototype (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Los Angeles - 2057 - a lawless, war-torn terrain and home to Chandra, a beautiful but deadly young woman, and Hawkiins, a tough ex-soldier whose career was terminated by crippling wounds. No longer lovers, the pair still share erotic and disturbing ...
Style: futuristic, tech noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot: androids and robots, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, cyborgs, apocalypse, imaginary, vengeance, androids, boy strangling, terminator, distopia, evil computer ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.6
 1K
Prison Ship (1986)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
Style: humorous, semi serious, futuristic, light, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: prison, women in prison, femme fatale, spacecraft, alien, outer space, women's prison, lesbianism, female prisoner, confined, space and aliens, danger ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 3.6
 1K
World's End (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and ...
Style: exciting, thought provoking, surreal, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, post apocalypse, dystopian future, danger, on the run, rebellion, vigilantism, social decay, escapades, society, fighting the system, oil ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 2.9
 791
Road Wars (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After the earth’s water supply is depleted, the survivors form roving road gangs, armed to the teeth and desperate to find and protect water supplies. But when a new breed of blood-drinking humans emerges, the survivors must contend with a whole ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, mutant, survival horror, zombie, chase, death, violence, chaos, killings, peril, walking dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.2
 249
New Crime City (1994)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ricks is a criminal who is revived after execution to go into a futuristic prison to get a virus that the big prison gang has created. The prison is a squared off area of LA that the prisoners are put into and allowed to do as they please. Ricks ...
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, criminal, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, ex cop, male nudity, punched in the face, virus, electrocuted, gas chamber, cannibal, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2000s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Wheels of Fire (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Future is now. There are no rules and no place to hide from the deadly Highway Warriors who ravage the roads in machines of destruction.
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, soap opera, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: post apocalypse, rape, automobile, wasteland, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, exploitation, buddies, distopia, female nudity, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.2
 407
Aftershock (1990)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An alien visits Earth during World War III, learns English by absorbing a dictionary, and meets good and bad earthlings.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, fight, execution, sword, massacre, alien, u.s. constitution, punk rocker, bow, crossbow ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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