Movies like Hayabusa

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Hayabusa (2011)
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Hayabusa (2011)
Original name: はやぶさ/HAYABUSA
Genre: Adventure
Country: Japan
Story: May 9, 2003 - The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launches its unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa into orbit. Its mission is to collect samples from a near Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. Hayabusa is scheduled to make contact with the asteroid in November 2005. As the spacecraft approaches its rendezvous date with the asteroid problems arise for the JAXA staff back on Earth.
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: spacecraft, mission gone awry, space travel, danger, race against time, workplace, save the day, outer space, asteroid, space and aliens, chases and races, nothing goes right, disorder, museum, japanese history, phd, spaceship, space probe, space, eastern, control room, landing, adventure
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: japan, asia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, exciting and realistic films with plots about escapades, danger, heroes, chases and races, rivalry, survival and race against time mostly in Adventure, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Hayabusa: Air Collision (2012), In Gold We Trust (2010), Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005), Space Battleship Yamato (2010), Muscle Heat (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Air Collision (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mockbuster ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, save the day, survival, danger, aviation, disorder, escapades, confined, disaster, aeroplane, army, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
In Gold We Trust (2010)
Genre: Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of adventurers make off with 600 kilograms of gold in Guyana, but when their helicopter crashes in the jungle, gold fever takes over.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, adventurer, jungle adventure, gold, chases and races, escapades, crime gone awry, obsessive quest, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, disorder, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Nature Unleashed: Earthquake (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Lithuania, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, save the day, daring rescue, danger, race against time, forces of nature, violent content, escapades, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 2199, five years after the Gamilons began an invasion of Earth, the planet has been ravaged by the aliens' bombs. The remnants of humanity have fled underground to escape the irradiated surface. One day, former pilot Susumu Kodai discovers a ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, space battle, self sacrifice, escapades, heroic mission, space and aliens, danger, save the world, heroes, siege ...
Time: future, 2010s, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In 2020, after the colonization of the moon, the spaceships Vega, Sirius and Capella are launched from Lunar Station 7. They are to explore Venus under the command of Professor Hartman, but an asteroid collides and explodes Capella. The leader ship ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, retro, independent film, serious ...
Plot: dinosaur, space and aliens, space opera, space exploration, kaiju, monster, venus the planet, pterodactyl, outer space, astronaut, reptiles, space ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, future, 2000s, 2020s
Place: soviet union, russia
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59%
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Muscle Heat (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the year 2009, a young policeman must collapse a Yakuza family whose members make a large profit with a new drug.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, contests and competitions, danger, law enforcement, tough heroes, fighting crime, rivalry, master warrior, master criminal, drug dealing, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Precious Find (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The year is 2049. 200 years after the great Californian goldrush. The new generation of gold diggers are just as full of gold fever as their ancestors.
Style: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film ...
Plot: space travel, moon, misfit, danger, partner, space and aliens, rivalry, chases and races, disorder, alien encounter, gambling, heroic mission ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie (2012)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min.
Story: The legendary Space Sheriff Gavan is hired to capture the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. However, Gavan himself is captured by Ashurada, a Zangyack prison chief and descendant of his old enemy Don Horror, and jailed in the worst prison in the universe. ...
Style: super sentai, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: superhero, superhero team, monster, heisei era, evil, superpower, showdown, race against time, tough guy, vengeance, extraterrestrial, courage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Japan Sinks (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Japan sinks! Proving once again that Japan will never cease to find inventive ways to destroy itself on screen, this summer's blockbuster Sinking of Japan brings apocalypse through tectonics. Based on Sakyo Komatsu's best-selling novel, ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, action thriller
Plot: disaster, tsunami, race against time, rescue, chaos, love affair, leadership, head of state, escapades, danger, demolished city, negotiation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Exploding Sun (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, sun, survival, space travel, save the world, technology gone awry, spouse in danger, chaos, danger, escapades, outer space, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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13 Assassins (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A group of assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.
Style: epic, jidai geki, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot: samurai, martial arts, medieval, ninja, fight, exploitation, swordplay, assassin, edo period, violent content, rivalry, assassination ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Combustion (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Action
Country: USA
Story: Millwood City engineer Scott Daniels, moved from Houston, investigates a series of mysterious fires. Scott's and Lourie Harper's only son Jesse, who hated the move or dad's youth home, fakes a fever and invites his new girlfriend ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, heroic mission, forces of nature, rescue, government agency, save the day, undercover, dishonesty, small town, mayor, disaster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, rough, emotional, serious ...
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, danger, chases and races, babies and infants, master warrior, motherhood, death of mother, prostitute, martial arts, ninja, murderer ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
To Brave Alaska (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young couple and their dog struggle to survive in Alaska.
Style: uplifting, captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, wilderness survival, treasure hunt, pets, treasure hunter, starvation, blizzard, disorder, human spirit, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 70s
Place: yukon, alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Gagarin: First in Space (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The main motif - the fight for the right to be first: the competition in the first cosmonaut, competition ...
Style: realistic, uplifting, serious, exciting, dramatic ...
Plot: outer space, space exploration, spacecraft, space mission, folk hero, national hero, cosmonaut, follow your dream, rise to the top, space, space travel, biopic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Mission to Mars (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Style: futuristic, serious, suspense, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: mars, space travel, astronaut, space station, alien, alien encounter, spacecraft, mysterious planet, trapped in space, space, space and aliens, nasa ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
20th Century Boys 3: Redemption (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The final showdown, and the final reveal: who is Friend? How can he be stopped?
Style: exciting, stylized, futuristic, suspenseful, manga ...
Plot: heroes, dystopian future, escapades, danger, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, imaginary, false identity, impostor, superhero, deadly virus, death of boy ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Gold of the Amazon Women (1979)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: treasure hunt, sword and sorcery, matriarchy, barbarian, sorority, snake, woman with a gun, semi nudity, treasure hunter, sorcery, mythology, amazon tribe ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Antarctica (1983)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
Style: suspenseful, depressing, ironic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog sled, survival, dog, expedition, nature, thoughtful, winter, landscape, animal life, escapades, pets, danger ...
Time: 50s, year 1957, 1950s
Place: antarctica, japan, asia, antarctic, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Apollo 13 (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style: factual, realistic, inspirational, suspense, epic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot: astronaut, survival, nasa, space travel, moon, disaster, rescue, space program, outer space, race against time, space, space exploration ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s, year 1970, year 1969 ...
Place: houston texas, usa, pacific ocean, texas, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Air Rage (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a Marine Colonel orders his men to massacre a village they were sent to rescue some hostages but when they found them dead they decide to get some payback. Upon returning to the States the Colonel would be court-martialed and made a plea ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, fast ...
Plot: terrorism, airplane, save the day, daring rescue, hostage, rivalry, danger, government agency, air disaster, hijacking, die hard, escape ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Fall of Hyperion (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A NASA scientist discovers that a group meteorites is heading towards Earth. Along the way, they will collide with the space station Hyperion, whose 12 astronauts are trapped and inside which there is a thermonuclear heart.
Style: serious, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: danger, space station, escapades, collision, save the day, scientist, meteorite, society, lgbt, nasa, space adventure, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Swords: Life on the Line (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: For the fisherman of New England, braving the frigid, unpredictable waters of the North Atlantic is a tradition that has been in their families for generations. It is an unforgiving environment, where forty-five-foot vessels contend with fifty-foot ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, rough
Plot: workplace situations, forces of nature, danger, working class, chases and races, boss and employee, escapades, ship, workplace, ocean
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword (1964)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: zatoichi, martial arts, handicapped, swordplay, ronin, samurai, gangster, violent content, assassination attempt, escapades, master warrior, one man army ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Apocalypse Code (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Russia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Terrorist Jaffad Ben Zayidi steals four nuclear bombs from a sunken American submarine and hides them in four major cities throughout the world. The charges can be activated by an 11-digit code. Zayidi dies and his accomplice, nicknamed "The ...
Style: exciting, captivating, futuristic, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, good versus evil, spy, special agent, escapades, rivalry, danger, chases and races, heroine, female fighter, vengeance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: malaysia, italy, france, paris france, ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The year is 2306… 12 years ago, Captain Kirk was swept away by the Nexus. One year later, Commander Scott was reported missing along with the USS Jenolen. The remaining USS Enterprise crew have split. Captain Spock and Doctor McCoy are on ...
Style: psychotronic, exciting, intellectual, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: star trek, space travel, space opera, space wars, good versus evil, commander, surrealism, alien species, space and aliens, spacecraft, benign alien, heroic mission ...
Time: future, 24th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Deep Winter (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Maverick downhill racer, Tyler Crowe, reunites with best friend and renegade snowboarder, Mark Rider. It doesn't take long for the old friends to take on a new mission. Together they head to Alaska, where led by a veteran guide, the two attempt ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: adventurer, wild ride, skiing, winter, best friend, danger, against the odds, escapades, snow, contests and competitions, uninhibited rivalry, snowboard ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo (1998)
Genre: Adventure
Country: Ukraine, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In this globe-trotting adventure, Marco Polo (Don Diamont) plays the famous 13th Century explorer who sets out from Italy to find his missing father, and along the way finds danger, excitement, and amazing discoveries at every turn. The supporting ...
Style: independent film, serious, captivating, exciting, epic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medieval, sorcery, chivalry, explorer, escapades, rivalry, state affairs, ambition, love and romance, good versus evil, obsessive quest, dishonesty ...
Time: 13th century, middle ages
Place: italy, asia, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Tusks (1988)
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Roger Singh is an animal poacher with hate in his heart, and revenge on his mind. Embittered by a recent stint in prison, Singh returns to the forbidden ivory trade only to lock horns with new game warden and former friend Mark Smith, whose ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: jungle, animal life, rivalry, nudity, ivory, ladies man, female nudity, monkey, ex convict, revenge, poacher, elephant ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: zatoichi, chess, martial arts, ninja, handicapped, ancient, swordplay, sword, samurai, violent content, escapades, hopes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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