Movies like The Secret of Steel City

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The Secret of Steel City (1979)
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The Secret of Steel City (1979)
Original name: Tajemství Ocelového města
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The film is a metaphor for the Cold War. It depicts two neighbouring nations: peace loving Fortuna and the not so peaceful land of the Steel City.
Style: gothic horror, classic horror, crying, psychotronic
Plot: distopia, dog, spy, mountain, police officer, train, escape, scientist, millionaire, journalist, murder, inventor, excavation, coach, doctor, weapons, restaurant, aristocrat, inheritance, boy, taxi, rescue, architect, fisherman, blind man ...
Time: 1910s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful and serious films with plots about explosion, danger, escapades, heroes, rivalry, escape and alien mostly in Sci-Fi, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like The Secret of Steel City: Master of the World (1961), Miss Golem (1972), Mysterious Planet (1982), Slipstream (1989), Alerta, alta tension (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Master of the World (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
Style: grindhouse, classic horror, independent film, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: steampunk, world domination, zeppelin, inventor, alien, aviation, bare chested male, megalomaniac, ship, father daughter relationship, unrequited love, anti war ...
Time: year 1961, 19th century, 1860s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions which include, even at this early date, television and a film camera. He is also an obsessed opera fan, ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, gothic horror, gothic, fairy tale ...
Plot: renaissance, evil scientist, inn, woods, rural setting, rich woman, prosthetic hand, cycling, mad scientist, opera singer, castle, mountain ...
Time: 19th century
Place: czech republic, eastern europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Secret of an Old Attic (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Croatia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During a summer holiday, two boys discover an anti-gravity cannon in an old attic.
Style: psychotronic, crying, detective
Plot: coming of age, brother sister relationship, friendship between boys, boy, car trunk, spying, cannon, photography, carriage, news reporter, scotsman, locked door ...
Place: prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Miss Golem (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It is the 1920's. The good-looking hostess Věra demonstrates household robots to visitors of the Futurum exhibition. Young inventor Petr comes to her rescue when she tries to flee from two men wanting to take her away. Věra confesses that she ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, intellectual, psychotronic, crying ...
Plot: robot, female serial killer, robotics, golem, clone, dead body, hired killer, woman in a cage, murderer, futuristic technology, bare butt, biopunk ...
Time: 1920s
Place: central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (1988)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When brothers Richard and Bryan and young nanny Crystina fall into a hole while exploring one of Hawaii's many volcanic caves, they plummet all the way to the center of the Earth in this adventure loosely based on Jules Verne's classic ...
Style: natural horror, psychotronic, independent film, crying
Plot: treasure hunt, xmas, explorer, treasure hunter, underground, lost world, dinosaur, volcano, atlantis, rock star, scientist, volcanic eruption ...
Place: hawaii, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Mysterious Planet (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A spaceship crash-lands on a planet, and the crew is astonished to find that it holds a beautiful woman who can heal the sick and injured and a race of super-intelligent beings.
Style: retro, psychotronic
Plot: kaiju, dinosaur, erotica, outer space, tyrannosaurus rex, crash landing, sinking ship, egg, pterodactyl, alien species, healing, planet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Slipstream (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Slipstream is a 1989 post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film. The plot has an emphasis on aviation and contains many common science-fiction themes, such as taking place in a dystopian future in which the landscape of the Earth itself has ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, stylized, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, aviator, adventurer, bounty hunter, chase, betrayal, on the run, rescue, partner, danger, female warrior, rivalry ...
Time: year 1989, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This made-for-TV film version uses the title and general premise of Jules Verne's novel, but had its heroes carry out the journey in an earth-penetrating machine. A television series was supposed to follow, but was never produced. Cast includes ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, psychotronic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dinosaur, daring rescue, escapades, adventurer, obsessive quest, legends and myths, forces of nature, curses spells and rituals, imaginary kingdom, inventions and discoveries, underground, explorer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Alerta, alta tension (1969)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After a criminal gang kidnaps a scientist with valuable information about nuclear weapons, an undercover agent named Jorge Rubio tries to infiltrate this gang in order to deal with the situation. The gang, however, quickly unmasks Rubio and uses ...
Style: vintage
Plot: woman rapes man, male objectification, espionage, cold war, intelligence, martial arts, bare chested male, shootout, photography, violent woman, sexual abuse, female rapist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A sequel to The Land That Time Forgot. Major Ben McBride organises a mission to the Antarctic wastes to search for his friend (Doug McClure) who has been missing in the region for several years. McBride's party find themselves in a world ...
Style: classic horror, natural horror, grindhouse, prehistoric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot: dinosaur, monster, island, kaiju, cave woman, submarine, sword and sorcery, reptiles, sorcery, giant monster, desert, cave ...
Time: stone age, prehistoric times, 1910s, 20th century, prehistory
Place: antarctica, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take ...
Style: psychotronic, classic horror, independent film, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: space and aliens, ancient civilization, alien, alien invasion, gladiator, ancient world, exodus, ancient, mythology, stop motion, slave, pyramid ...
Time: year 1961
Place: ancient greece, rome italy, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
First Men in the Moon (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the HG Wells story. The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old ...
Style: stylized, classic horror, uplifting, gothic horror, serious ...
Audience: family outing, boys' night
Plot: space travel, moon, alien, space, stop motion, steampunk, astronaut, creature feature, moon landing, space exploration, space opera, spacesuit ...
Time: year 1964, 1890s, 20th century, 60s, 19th century ...
Place: europe, england, soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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On the Comet (1970)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min.
Story: When a comet passes the Earth very closely, it pulls a small part of North Africa, and a small swathe of humanity, along with it.
Style: cult classic, psychotronic
Plot: kaiju, dinosaur, giant monster, reptiles, prehistoric animal, prehistoric creature, sea monster, giant creature, creature, british, ship, king ...
Time: 20th century, prehistory, 70s
Place: north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The science of miniaturization has been unlocked, and the army has big plans. But when a scientist carrying the secret of the process is injured in a surprise attack, a life-threatening blood clot puts him into a coma. Now, a team of adventurers ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, kids
Plot: submarine, double agent, space and aliens, rescue, military, medical, assassination attempt, chases and races, danger, shrinking, trippy, survival ...
Time: year 1966, 1900s, 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and ...
Style: independent film, captivating, semi serious, humorous, slapstick ...
Plot: steampunk, spacesuit, alternate history, space race, moon, disorder, adventurer, space and aliens, chases and races, escapades, contests and competitions, imaginary ...
Time: 19th century, year 1967
Place: england, siberia, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An U.S. Spaceship lands on a desolate planet, stranding astronaut Taylor in a world dominated by apes, 2000 years into the future, who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his ...
Style: philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, suspense, mind blowing ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, astronaut, ape, planet of the apes, space and aliens, time travel, end of the world, trial, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, plot twist, survival ...
Time: future, stone age, 20th century, distant future, year 1968 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Mysterious Island (1973)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Cameroon
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 1865, The American Civil War: Five POW manage to escape by balloon from Fort Richmond. Caught in a storm and with the balloon damaged they find themselves 'shipwrecked' on a volcanic desert island somewhere in the Pacific. Just before ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: submarine, lost soul, giant monster, castaway, island, pirate, escapades, danger, chimpanzee, jules verne
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
You Are a Widow, Sir (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be artificial body in the shape of actress Evelina Keleti ...
Style: dark comedy, psychotronic, surreal, absurd, spoof ...
Plot: fictitious kingdom, female nudity, switching bodies, astrologer, prophet, actress, brain, brain transplant, king, absurdism, human brain, conspirator ...
Place: central europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.
Style: suspense, classic horror, mysterious, independent film, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, zombie, alien, invasion, ufo, post apocalyptic, moon base, farm, plague, possession, moon, spacecraft ...
Time: year 1967
Place: kansas, cornwall
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Logan's Run (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, cult classic, psychotronic, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, dystopia, cat, robot, utopia, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, post apocalypse, space, totalitarianism, biosphere ...
Time: future, 23rd century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still ...
Style: exciting, action packed, intense, saga, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, kids ...
Plot: superhero, mad scientist, double life, superhuman powers, disguise, friendship, vigilante, fantasy world, multiverse, super villain, fight, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
War of the Worlds (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, end of the world, survival, disaster, invasion, space and aliens, destruction, creature, evil alien, catastrophe ...
Time: year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, los angeles, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.7
 203K
Dark Phoenix (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Gathered together by Professor Charles Xavier to protect a world that fears and hates them, the X-Men had fought many battles, been on adventures that spanned galaxies, grappled enemies of limitless might, but none of this could prepare them for the ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, action adventure, suspense, saga ...
Audience: adult
Plot: superhero, telekinesis, supernatural ability, mutant, heroic mission, near death experience, good versus evil, superhero team, supernatural power, school, teleportation, mind control ...
Time: 90s, year 2019, year 1975, 70s, year 1992
Place: paris france, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Predominantly set during World War II, Steve Rogers is a sickly man from Brooklyn who's transformed into super-soldier Captain America to aid in the war effort. Rogers must stop the Red Skull – Adolf Hitler's ruthless head of weaponry, ...
Style: exciting, heroic, psychotronic, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, boys' night, chick flick, teens ...
Plot: superhero, heroism, heroes, mad scientist, world war two, soldier, superhuman powers, heroic mission, courage, nazi, danger, bravery ...
Time: year 2011, future, year 1942, 20th century, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new jersey, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Man of Steel (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation ...
Style: exciting, serious, visually stunning, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: superhero, good versus evil, superhuman powers, alien invasion, double life, secret identity, superman, vigilante, earth, villain, space travel, adoptive father ...
Time: year 2013, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, canada, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The ...
Style: black comedy, apocalyptic, dark comedy, spoof, raunchy comedy ...
Plot: post apocalypse, distopia, time travel, surrealism, love story, dystopia, time machine, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, woman rapes man, time paradox, kidnapping, disguise ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, future, 1910s
Place: central europe, czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Alien Apocalypse (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An astronaut doctor Ivan Hood and his fellow astronaut Kelly return from their mission in space to find the world has been taken over by aliens. Now Dr. Ivan Hood and Kelly must lead a revolution to free the human slaves from their alien masters.
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space and aliens, save the world, heroic mission, alien encounter, chaos, rivalry, post apocalypse, dystopian future, space travel, space wars, imaginary, chases and races ...
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, suspense, action adventure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, alien, end of the world, disaster, human versus alien, apocalypse, space travel, ufo, president, independence day, monster, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, london, tower bridge london, minnesota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mysterious Island (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Germany, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: During the Civil War five survivors escape from a prison camp in Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon and find themselves on an uncharted island in the Pacific. Far from any kind of known civilization, the island is inhabited with carnivorous ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, epic ...
Plot: island, pirate, giant lizard, treasure, castaway, stranded, survival, rivalry, danger, escapades, adventurer, rescue ...
Time: 1860s
Place: fictional island, thailand, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In 1881, Michael Denning, an American soldier, and Hector Servadac, a French aristocrat, are about to have a duel over a woman that they both are infatuated with. However, just as the two men are about to shoot at each other, a comet strikes the ...
Style: classic horror, psychotronic, vintage
Plot: dinosaur, giant spider, giant lizard, kaiju, duel, comet, lizard, prehistoric man, caveman, spider, snake, space ...
Time: stone age, year 1961, 19th century, prehistoric times
Place: algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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