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The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
 5.6
 71K
The Cloverfield Paradox
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, suspense
Plot: space station, experiment gone awry, scientist, characters killed one by one, self sacrifice, alternate dimension, trapped in space, danger, paranormal phenomena, alien, convulsion, newscast, giant monster, stowaway, earth viewed from space, betrayal, experiment, male vomiting, dissection, praying, explosive decompression, tear on cheek, shot point blank, foaming at the mouth, severed arm ...
Time: near future

Best films like The Cloverfield Paradox

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Castle Rock
Castle Rock (2018)
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USA
60 min.
 8.4
Alien
Alien (1979)
Horror, Sci-Fi
UK, USA
116 min.
 8.5

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and scary films with plots about danger, death, alien, survival, dialogue, catastrophe and murder mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Horror genres. Some movies like The Cloverfield Paradox: Cargo (2009), The Thing (2011), Beyond Loch Ness (2008), Apollo 18 (2011), The Mist (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cargo (2009)
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Cargo
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Plot: space travel, teleportation, isolation, alien, outer space, future dystopia, spacecraft, technology, science, first contact, virtual reality, conspiracy ...
Time: future, 23rd century
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The Thing (2011)
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The Thing
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, alien, gory, monster, expedition, transformation, deadly creature, alien invasion, death, first contact, danger, isolation ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century, year 1982
Place: antarctica
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Beyond Loch Ness (2008)
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Beyond Loch Ness
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: James Murphey is a rugged cryptozoologist, who thirty years earlier, during a trip to Loch Ness, Scotland, had a fatal encounter with the fabled "Nessie" creature that killed his father, and left James with deep facial scar. Twenty years ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, suspense, scary, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sea monster, dangerous animal, obsessive quest, survival, experiment gone awry, gory, deadly creature, mystery, chaos and mayhem, danger, deadly, eaten alive ...
Time: contemporary
Place: europe, scotland
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System:   78%
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Apollo 18 (2011)
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 50K
Apollo 18
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot: moon, nasa, space travel, alien, survival, astronaut, outer space, alien encounter, space program, mars, aliens, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2011, year 1969, year 1972 ...
Place: antarctica
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The Mist (2007)
 7.2
 252K
The Mist
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, bad ending, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, fog, catastrophe, stephen king, fight, giant insect, religious fanatic, blood, human versus monster, supermarket ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place: maine, usa
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The Last Days on Mars (2013)
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 32K
The Last Days on Mars
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: mars, space travel, zombie, survival, death, blood, alien, virus, splatter, outer space, first contact, space and aliens ...
Time: future, 21st century, near future
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Event Horizon (1997)
 6.7
 138K
Event Horizon
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, space travel, insanity, survival, supernatural, violence, science, outer space, blood, transformation, gore, ghost ...
Time: future, 21st century, 2040s
⇓ similarity ⇓
System:   72%
    User:   63%
 
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Life (2017)
 6.6
 164K
Life
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style: suspense, tense, tragic ending, suspenseful, scary ...
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The Whispers (2015)
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 10K
The Whispers
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: We love to play games with our children. But what happens when someone else starts to play with them too? Someone we don't know. Can't see. Can't hear. In The Whispers, someone or something -- is manipulating the ones we love most to ...
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Between (2015)
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Between
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, tense, bleak
Audience: teens
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Castle Rock (2018)
 8.4
 11K
Castle Rock
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style: suspense, enigmatic, bleak, suspenseful, rough
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Time: contemporary
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Helix (2014)
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Helix
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Duration: 40 min.
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Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
 7.1
 8K
Five Million Years to Earth
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: talky, suspenseful, serious, suspense, bleak ...
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The Titan (2018)
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The Titan
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Europa Report (2013)
 6.5
 61K
Europa Report
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot: space travel, moon, survival, alien, science, spacecraft, outer space, mars, nasa, death, aliens, first contact ...
Time: future, 21st century, contemporary, year 1972
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Leviathan (1989)
 5.8
 15K
Leviathan
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
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System:   47%
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Unearthed (2007)
 4.0
 3K
Unearthed
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the desert area of Hat Creek, cows are found partially devoured and the farmers believe that a wolf is attacking the cattle. The alcoholic Sheriff Annie Flynn is called by the local farmer Rob Horn to witness the remains of an animal to request ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
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Time: contemporary
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System:   46%
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The Asylum (2015)
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 5K
The Asylum
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: During an all-night, drug-fueled party at an abandoned asylum known for the horrific treatment of its patients, a group of ordinary teens decide to experiment with the occult, mysteriously leading to a violent possession. In an effort to find help, ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, exciting
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Eloise (2017)
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 3K
Eloise
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, rough, psychological
Plot: haunted, ghost, mental institution, inheritance, missing person, baby, time travel, mad doctor, brutality, little girl, mental illness, torture ...
Time: year 1982
Place: michigan
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System:   41%
    User:   49%
 
Impulse (1984)
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Impulse
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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The Expanse (2015)
 8.4
 59K
The Expanse
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
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Time: future, 23rd century
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Sphere (1998)
 6.1
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Sphere
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 90s, future
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Fringe (2008)
 8.4
 201K
Fringe
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 46 min.
Story: FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, surreal, suspense, scary
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alternate dimension, fbi, special agents, supernatural, danger, mad scientist, investigation, crimes, top secret, paranormal activity, mystery, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century, 2000s, 2010s
Place: usa, massachusetts, harvard university
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I Am Legend (2007)
 7.2
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I Am Legend
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, dog, sacrifice, cancer, chase, vampire, dystopic future, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, 21st century, near future, year 2012, 2010s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
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System:   39%
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Alien (1979)
 8.5
 680K
Alien
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, futuristic, frightening ...
Plot: monster, evil alien, space travel, alien, survival horror, human versus alien, deadly creature, alien invasion, alien monster, sole survivor, spacecraft, alien encounter ...
Time: future, 22nd century
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System:   39%
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Headspace (2005)
 4.7
 2K
Headspace
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man (Christopher Denham) must use his newfound intellect to stop a brutal series of murders.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, offbeat ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, slasher, mystery, supernatural ability, investigation, mind game, obsession, murder, who done it, woman in danger, psychopath ...
Time: contemporary
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System:   39%
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The Lazarus Effect (2015)
 5.2
 35K
The Lazarus Effect
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, surprise ending, scary, twist ending ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, death, dog, experiment gone awry, inventions and discoveries, demons, life & death, danger, mad scientist, experiment, disorder ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Ghostland (2018)
 6.3
 11K
Ghostland
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, suspense, psychedelic, scary ...
Plot: doll, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, violence, female protagonist, danger, sadistic psychopath, home invasion, escape, nightmare, blood, insanity ...
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Devil's Pass (2013)
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Devil's Pass
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, bad ending ...
Audience: teens
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Time: contemporary, 21st century, year 1980
Place: russia, antarctica
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After.Life (2009)
 5.9
 34K
After.Life
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
Style: psychological, bleak, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, mysterious character, mystery, supernatural, death, life & death, talking to the dead, dealing with death, danger, mentor, psychology, couple relations ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century
Place: usa
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System:   37%
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