Movies and TV shows like Quatermass

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Quatermass (1979)
 6.9
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Quatermass (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 204 min.
TV show
Story: After the mysterious destruction of the new space station, young people find themselves drawn to a stone circle in England, and other locations around Earth. They believe they'll be taken to a better place by a higher power. Only Professor Quatermass realizes that the young people are being tricked by an alien power, who wants to "harvest" humanity. It's up to Quatermass to find a way to stop the deadly plans of the aliens.
Plot: post apocalypse, distopia, astronaut, folklore, alien, scientist, british army, riot, stonehenge, dystopia, kaiju
Time: future
Place: britain, england, london

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Most similar movies to Quatermass

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious and futuristic films and TV series with plots about dystopia, post apocalypse, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic, survival and danger mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Quatermass: 1990 (1977), Raised by Wolves (2020), Cold Lazarus (1996), An Englishman's Castle (1978), 54 Days (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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1990 (1977)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The series is set in a dystopian future in which Britain is under the grip of the Home Office's Department of Public Control (PCD), a tyrannically oppressive bureaucracy riding roughshod over the population's civil liberties. Edward ...
Style: futuristic
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, oppression, journalist, rebel, tyranny, live action
Time: 90s
Place: britain
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100%
Raised by Wolves (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, intelligent, visually appealing ...
Plot: space colony, androids, distant planet, robot human relationship, survival, atheism, war, post apocalypse, alien creature, vestiges of humanity, religious cult, parents and children ...
Time: future, distant future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 768
Cold Lazarus (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Dennis Potter's last production for television, screened alongside Karaoke.
Style: futuristic
Plot: scientist, technology, dystopia, decapitation, writers, murder, laboratory, virtual reality, pharmaceutical company, police investigation, rich woman, cryogenics ...
Time: 20th century, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Quatermass Conclusion (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: alien, ufo, alien invasion, outer space, time travel, kaiju, grandfather granddaughter relationship, professor, deception
Time: year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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An Englishman's Castle (1978)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 144 min.
TV show
Story: Set in an alternative 1970s where Germany won the Second World War and occupied Europe, a soap opera called 'An Englishman's Castle' plays out through writer Peter Ingram.
Style: soap opera
Plot: alternate history, distopia, jewish woman, underground movement, alternate timeline, third reich, playwright, nazi occupation, screenwriter, love interest, collaboration, rebel ...
Time: 70s, 1940s
Place: britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 66
54 Days (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 5 people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear and biological attack are forced to make an impossible decision - either one dies or they all die.
Plot: post apocalypse, post nuclear, distopia, dystopia, invasion, survival
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Quatermass Experiment (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A contemporary adaptation of Nigel Kneale's seminal 1953 science fiction serial.
Plot: missing person, astronaut, professor, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, kaiju, rocket, museum, marital crisis, alien possession, government official, scientist hero ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Extant (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
Style: suspenseful, stylized, tense, futuristic, serious ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, astronaut, space and aliens, scientist, alien, family relations, fear, fate of humanity, haunted by the past, parents and children, space ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 7.4
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The Tripods (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Masters using their giant Tripods. cousins. When humans reach the age of sixteen, they must undergo a process known as capping which places their mind under the control of the conquerors. In ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: alien invasion, alien, distopia, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, space, bad guys win, post apocalyptic, epidemic, bad guy, ufo ...
Time: future
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Brave New World (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 415 min.
TV show
Story: In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, surprise ending, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, distopia, utopia, conspiracy, totalitarianism, dystopic future, genetic engineering, satire, brainwashing, social differences, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.3
 41K
The Rain (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, exciting, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: post apocalypse, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, brother sister relationship, illness, danger, distopia, peril, supernatural, fear ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Childhood's End (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 247 min.
TV show
Story: After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
Style: philosophical, suspense, serious, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, space travel, demon, alien, space and aliens, technology, religion, humanity, science, danger, creativity, humanity in peril ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Air (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, apocalyptic ...
Plot: distopia, isolation, post apocalypse, humanity, science, freezing, dystopia, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, alternate reality, bunker ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The War of the Worlds (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy the prejudices of society and start a life together, all the while swerving the ongoing chaos of an alien invasion.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, suspense, tense, costume drama ...
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien attack, alien, end of the world, post apocalypse, ufo, alien race, martian, survival, fight, evil alien ...
Time: turn of the century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century ...
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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SS-GB (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Adapted from Len Deighton’s 1978 alternate history novel. A British detective investigates a murder in German-occupied Britain during World War II.
Style: detective, suspense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: nazi germany, resistance, world war two, infiltration, alternate history, murder, alternate reality, rebel, moral dilemma, love interest, father son relationship, nazi officer ...
Time: 1940s
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Survivors (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: apocalypse, virus, survival, epidemic, deadly virus, politician, plague, post apocalypse, pandemic, disaster, danger, group of strangers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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To the Lake (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Mini-series in which an unknown virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. There is no electricity, money has lost all value and those who are still not infected, are desperately fighting for food and fuel. The main character, Sergei, lives outside ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, serious
Plot: virus, epidemic, apocalypse, survival, panic, post apocalypse, extinction, dystopia, infection, snow, family in danger, zombie ...
Place: moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 8.7
 634K
Black Mirror (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style: serious, philosophical, thought provoking, anthology, clever ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: technology, dystopia, twists and turns, human nature, satire, dystopian future, social decay, society, computers and web, media satire, alternate reality, media ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 8.0
 3K
The Invaders (1967)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. ...
Style: apocalyptic, anthology, retro, serious, vintage
Audience: kids
Plot: evil alien, ufo, alien, alien invasion, post apocalypse, invasion, occult, magic, alien disguised as human, dystopia, architect, save the world ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.2
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First Born (1988)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: Edward Forester is a scientist with a godlike mission to improve the human race - but now desperately needs to undo his own creation.
Plot: monkey, kaiju, gorilla, hybrid, scientist, hybrid animal, genetics, animal horror, deoxyribonucleic acid
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 4K
DMZ (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 235 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future after a bitter civil war leaves Manhattan a demilitarized zone (DMZ), destroyed and isolated from the rest of the world, fierce medic Alma Ortega sets out on a harrowing journey to find the son she lost in the evacuation of New ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: distopia, war zone, gang war, street gang, survival, city, military, army, civil war, gang, struggle for survival, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 62K
Snowpiercer (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting ...
Style: apocalyptic, unusual plot structure, captivating, brutal, depressing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: train, post apocalypse, apocalypse, rebellion, struggle for survival, class system, inequality, disaster, humanity, forces of nature, distopia, caste system ...
Time: future, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.0
 36K
Into the Night (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sun, apocalypse, end of the world, airplane, survival, hijacking, flying, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, worldwide chaos, airplane trip, sunrise ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 59K
V (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a ...
Style: cliffhanger, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, invasion, alien, fate of humanity, evil alien, alien encounter, conspiracy, fbi, uncover truth, world domination, disguise ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
For All Mankind (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Style: realistic, exciting, disturbing, suspense, stylized ...
Plot: space program, astronaut, space race, nasa, space travel, lesbian, mining, moon, u.s. president, moon landing, space, lgbt ...
Time: year 1969, future, 70s, 60s, 80s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style: psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: rape, sexism, surrogate mother, infertility, dystopia, protest, totalitarianism, slavery, tyranny, religion, belief, women's rights ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.3
 194
Doomwatch (1970)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, ...
Style: spooky
Audience: kids
Plot: monster, virus, experiment, progress, death, danger, scientist, nature, genetics, technology, doomsday, engineering ...
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.6
 6K
Outcasts (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Outcasts is a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD. It was broadcast in the ...
Style: contemplative, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot: space colony, survival, mysterious planet, distant planet, human nature, society, expedition, isolation, danger, hopes, chaos, epidemic ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
You, Me and the Apocalypse (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: When the news is announced that a comet is on an unavoidable collision course with Earth, the most hilarious and unexpected chain of events imaginable is set in motion.
Style: semi serious, hilarious, light, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: apocalypse, end of the world, priest, media, chaos, adoption, convent, news report, interrogation room, dystopia, gay interest, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.8
 564
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 ⇓
44%
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