Movies like Annihilation

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Annihilation (2018)
 6.8
 357K
Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style: suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing, lovecraft, psychological thriller, thought provoking, surreal, mindfuck, scary ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, creature, dna, mutation, scientist, expedition, research, genetic mutation, terror, biologist, transformation, mission, psychologist, genetics, professor, secret mission, scientific experiment, cosmic horror, supernatural, beast, science, blood, body horror, animal attack, swamp ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: chicago, florida, pakistan
Keyword: attack, feminist film, avant-garde, bruise, fang, portuguese, challenge

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Most similar movies to Annihilation

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending and scary films with plots about blood, monster, death, fear, murder, space and distopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Annihilation: Arrival (2016), Ex Machina (2014), Prometheus (2012), Alien (1979), The Thing (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.9
 759K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: alien, first contact, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, time, science, alien race, alien contact, extraterrestrial, scientist, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: china, montana, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 7.0
 641K
Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, survival, androids, outer space, robot, space and aliens, distant planet, expedition, alien encounter, spacecraft, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 8.5
 943K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 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: scary, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, minimal cast ...
Audience: kids, manly, adult
Plot: alien, monster, space travel, outer space, space and aliens, evil alien, space, heroine, female protagonist, survival horror, spaceship, alien monster ...
Time: future, 22nd century, 20th century, year 1979, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 8.2
 463K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.6
 251K
Life (2017)
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, scary, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space travel, space, mars, outer space, monster, alien, space station, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, extraterrestrial life, first contact ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.9
 41K
The Void (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style: dark, lovecraft, creepy, stylized, surreal ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, hospital, monster, cosmic horror, another dimension, insanity, macabre, murder, mutation, small town, isolation, human experiment ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Spain
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, ...
Style: futuristic, neo noir, tech noir, thought provoking, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, dystopia, investigation, robot, dark future, mission, police detective, flying car, violence, bounty hunter, memory ...
Time: future, 2040s, year 2017, near future, distant future ...
Place: california, san diego california, space western, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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 6.6
 383K
Bird Box (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, epidemic, end of the world, post apocalypse, creature, blindness, fear, pursuit, survival horror, suicide, parents and children, characters murdered one by one ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Color Out of Space (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Malaysia, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land ...
Style: suspense, lovecraft, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mutation, farm, cosmic horror, husband wife relationship, alien invasion, farmhouse, meteorite, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, infected, self mutilation, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: new england, arizona, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.7
 159K
Pandorum (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style: futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, survival, outer space, isolation, monster, post apocalypse, space, survival horror, spacecraft, memory loss, danger, end of the world ...
Time: future, year 2009
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 4.8
 33K
The Titan (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On a bleak future Earth, a soldier endures a radical genetic transformation to save humanity. But his wife fears he's becoming more creature than man.
Style: suspense, sad, rough, exciting, disgusting ...
Plot: human experiment, genetic mutation, creature, nasa, experiment, mental breakdown, soldier, transformation, mutation, laboratory, military base, space ...
Time: future, 2040s, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.2
 266K
Sunshine (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, end of the world, sun, earth, self sacrifice, spaceship, expedition, astronaut, heroic mission, space, danger ...
Time: future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.8
 107K
eXistenZ (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, cyberspace, dystopia, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy, video game, parallel world ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1999, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.1
 112K
Sphere (1998)
Genre: Action, 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: scary, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: ocean, underwater, alien, paranoia, first contact, psychology, survival, supernatural, space, submarine, space and aliens, ghost ship ...
Time: future, jurassic, 90s, 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.9
 38K
Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 40K
Synchronic (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Style: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot: time travel, drug, best friend, brain tumor, paramedic, time, chemotherapy, ambulance, racism, investigation, alligator, swamp ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
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: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, mind bending, bloody, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, creature, survival, cabin in the woods, trapped, zombie, fear, werewolf, dark humor, death, danger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 14K
Sea Fever (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: sea, beast, expedition, biologist, sea monster, ship, crew, creature, rescue from drowning, forces of nature, underwater, victim ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, pandemic, post apocalypse, infection, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, military, zombie child, children, undead, virus ...
Time: future, year 2016
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.8
 41K
High Life (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Poland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Style: suspense, psychological, psychotronic, art house, visually stunning ...
Audience: toddlers, adult
Plot: astronaut, spaceship, outer space, space mission, survival, galaxy, trapped in space, baby, deep space, father daughter relationship, taboo, gardening ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 419K
Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.9
 96K
Underwater (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, creature, monster, giant monster, water, sea monster, creature feature, animal attack, earthquake, ocean, survival, destruction ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, psychedelic, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot: space travel, astronaut, outer space, space, artificial intelligence, moon, scientist, computer, trippy, space opera, human versus computer, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 20th century, stone age, year 1968 ...
Place: persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.2
 145K
The Thing (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
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: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, gory, alien invasion, deadly creature, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, survival, apocalypse, danger, transformation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 80s, year 1982 ...
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.4
 373K
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style: thought provoking, psychological, futuristic, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: reincarnation, destiny, distopia, life & death, dystopia, life philosophy, multiple storylines, parallel universe, clone, existentialism, karma, post apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 1936, distant future ...
Place: san francisco, belgium, persia, seoul, south korea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 69K
The Signal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style: futuristic, surreal, mindfuck, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: hacker, road trip, twists and turns, alien invasion, alien, computer hacker, alien contact, secret laboratory, cyborgs, space, alien abduction, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 819K
Black Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style: psychological, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, insanity, dancing, character study, surrealism, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, paranoia, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 57K
Captive State (2019)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: alien invasion, resistance, alien, distopia, post apocalypse, alien race, extraterrestrial, dystopia, ufo, urban setting, fight, brutality ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2019, 2020s
Place: chicago, new york, london, north america, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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