Movies like Burst City

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Burst City (1982)
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Burst City (1982)
Original name: 爆裂都市
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in a barren, futuristic Tokyo of highways and wastelands, a rowdy group of punk bands and their fans gather to protest slow, boring, Japanese living.
Style: cyber, weird, cult film
Plot: cyberpunk, punk rock, punk, rock, martial arts, post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, music, biker, exploitation, police, violence, brutality, chaos, greaser, riot, dystopia, craziness

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film and cyber films with plots about distopia, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, cyberpunk, dystopian future and epidemic mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Burst City: Gunhed (1989), Heatseeker (1995), Survival Zone (1983), Dead or Alive: Final (2002), Natural City (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gunhed (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: High-concept Sci-Fi adventure about an island that actually is a computer called Kyron 5, itself created to design and manufacture super-advanced robots to be used as slaves for the rest of the world. One day Kyron decides that human beings are ...
Style: cyber, apocalyptic, mecha, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, kaiju, giant monster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, man versus machine, terminator, future war, distopia, star wars, dystopia ...
Time: future, 2030s, 21st century
Place: texas, new york
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Heatseeker (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.
Style: futuristic, tech noir, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: cyborgs, martial arts, cyberpunk, apocalypse, terminator, buddies, distopia, fight to the death, kickboxing, cage fighting, bare butt, nudity ...
Place: las vegas
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83%
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Survival Zone (1983)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a post-nuclear world, a happy family of ranchers is beseiged by a roving band of ne'er do well marauders who want to eat the men and mate with the women. Having already killed and eaten an entire mission full of nuns, the family has no ...
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, independent film
Plot: biker, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, dystopia, decapitation, apocalypse, distopia, sexploitation, bike, motorcycle, monastery, post nuclear ...
Time: future, distant future, post world war two
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Dead or Alive: Final (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in a post apocalyptic Yokohama where the population is kept under rigid control by a homosexual megalomaniac mayor. The citizens are administered drugs to suppress heterosexual urges. Officer Takeshi Honda (Riki Takeuchi) is a hard boiled cop ...
Style: futuristic, surreal, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, drug overdose, betrayal, martial arts, pregnancy, dystopian future, androids and robots, police investigation, man versus machine, chaos ...
Time: 24th century, future
Place: japan, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Max Headroom - 20 Minutes into the Future (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
Story: The film introduces Edison Carter (Matt Frewer), a television reporter trying to expose corruption and greed. In the movie, reporter Carter discovers that his employer, Network 23, has created a new form of subliminal advertising (termed ...
Style: cyber, apocalyptic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal ...
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, underground, love, post apocalypse, new world, magic, distopia, transcendence, trippy, television, artificial intelligence ...
Time: near future
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72%
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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 ⇓
68%
Legend Of The Roller Blade Seven (1992)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world where rollerblading is the chief means of travel, the evil Pharoah sends his minions outside the Wheel Zone to abduct a psychic. The psychic has been trained in the way of the samurai, but has shunned her training to ...
Style: apocalyptic, independent film, spoof, psychotronic
Plot: post apocalypse, distopia, martial arts, exploitation, sexploitation, rollerblading, roller skating
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Gene Generation (2007)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Singapore, South Korea, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a futuristic world, Michelle lives everyday battling with DNA Hackers who use their skills to hack into people's bodies and kill them. She is an assassin, trying to keep her younger brother, Jackie, out of trouble. When Jackie gets involved ...
Style: serious, stylized, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, apocalypse, biopunk, dystopian future, chaos, hitman, danger, life is a bitch, femme fatale, society, woman with a gun, fight ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Kill Mode (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It is the year 2027, eight years after the first outbreak of The Sickness, a highly contagious, adaptive and lethal virus. The world is now run by a pharmaceutical corporation called The Company, which distributes a treatment for the virus but ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting
Plot: distopia, fighting the system, post apocalypse, fight, survival, pursuit, cyberpunk, political rally, betrayal, imprisonment, friendship, good versus evil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Lovedolls Superstar (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An all-girl punk band forms a religious cult.
Style: independent film
Plot: punk, punk rock, rock, fictional band, underground, teenager, rivalry, musician, violence, rock and roll, satire, teensploitation ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Puzzlehead (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter ...
Style: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, man versus machine, love triangle, chaos, androids and robots, obsession, society, dystopian future, cyberpunk, technology gone awry, betrayal, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Cybernator (1991)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the future, an L.A. cop whose girlfriend is a stripper uncovers a conspiracy concerning killer cyborgs.
Style: independent film
Plot: cyborgs, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, distopia, stripper, secret project, terminator, evil computer, military, murder investigation, dystopia, killer ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Death Powder (1986)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Three conspirators steal a secret android. In their warehouse hideout, the android secretes a reality-altering substance, which casts them into a frightening nether-world of interconnected subjectivity.
Style: cyber, controversial, experimental, psychotronic, avant garde
Plot: cyberpunk, surrealism, body horror, distopia, nightmare, parallel universe, hallucination, blood, murder, female nudity, violence, massacre ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 55 min.
Story: A young boy gets jolted with electricity as he's climbing a cable pylon. As he gets older, he experiences intense fits of violence in which bolts of electricity burst from his fists. Elsewhere in Tokyo, there is an electronics wizard who also ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting, cyber ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, superhuman powers, danger, rivalry, vigilantism, vengeance, battles, violence, supernatural power, rock, rage, heavy metal ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Nirvana (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, apocalyptic, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, cyberspace, computer hacker, computer, artificial intelligence, alternate reality, unrequited love, winter, apocalypse, technology gone awry, time travel ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Survivalist (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed.
Style: apocalyptic, independent film
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, death of family, national guard, motorcycle gang, biker gang, family man, chaos, nuclear bomb, martial law ...
Place: usa, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Human Highway (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Human Highway is a 1982 comedy film starring and co-directed by Neil Young under his pseudonym Bernard Shakey. Dean Stockwell co-directed the film and acted along with Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, and the band Devo. Included is a collaborative ...
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, apocalyptic, independent film, surreal ...
Plot: post apocalypse, rock, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, pop music, punk rock, punk, acid, surrealism, post-apocalyptic future, friends ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: In 2062, the last remaining humans battle each other in between hump sessions as their supply of clean, breathable air (supplied by a pipeline that's running dry) dwindles to nothing.
Style: independent film, weird
Plot: post apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, motorcycle, nudity, female nudity, male nudity, bike, lesbianism, violence, rape, bare breasts ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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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 ...
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52%
The Blood of Heroes (1989)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic world where the only sport that has survived in a wasted society is the brutal game known as jugging. Sallow, the leader of a rag-tag team, has played in the main Leagues before, but was cast out because of indiscretions with a ...
Style: bleak, apocalyptic, intense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, dystopian future, martial arts, distopia, post apocalyptic, violence, blood, revenge, escapades, contests and competitions, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, year 1989, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
50%
Six-String Samurai (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, entertaining, apocalyptic, humorous ...
Plot: desert, martial arts, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, road trip, alternate history, rock and roll, danger, heroes, chaos, medieval ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Loren Cass (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Adolescents come to terms with their lives after the rebellions of 1996 St. Petersburg.
Style: independent film
Plot: sex, punk, punk rock, rock, punk rocker, teenage girl, suicide, robbery, graffiti, rock band, cocaine, burglary ...
Place: florida, los angeles, new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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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 ⇓
48%
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, dystopia, cyborgs, heroic mission, artificial intelligence, computers and web, danger, hacking, dystopian future, computer cracker ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s ...
Place: arizona, japan, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Returner (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After an alien invasion threatens to annihilate the human race, a young Japanese girl, named Milly (Anne Suzuki), travels back in time from 2084 to October 2002, and enlists the reluctant aid of skilled Tokyo gunman, named Miyamoto (Takeshi ...
Style: atmospheric, cult classic, stylized, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: time travel, alien invasion, save the world, space and aliens, post apocalypse, danger, escapades, changing the past or future, life is a bitch, dystopian future, imaginary, hitman ...
Time: future, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.9
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The Taqwacores (2010)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three years in the making, this feature documentary follows the progression of the Muslim Punk scene: from its imaginary inception in a novel written by a white-convert named Michael Muhammad Knight to a full-blown, real-life scene of Muslim punk ...
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: punk, islam, rock, lifestyle, rebelliousness, youth, moral dilemma, fighting the system, college life, student life, social misfits, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
42%
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Casshern (2004)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Fifty years of war between the Great Eastern Federation and Europa - now merged as Eurasia - have taken their toll on planet Earth. As a result of the use of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, much of Earth has become uninhabitable and people ...
Style: stylized, intense, exciting, suspenseful, cerebral ...
Plot: dystopia, good versus evil, vengeance, mutant, superhero, artificial intelligence, rescue, tragic hero, heroic mission, redemption, laboratory, heroes ...
Time: future, near future, distant future
Place: japan, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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