Movies like Fahrenheit 451 2018

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Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, surprise ending, captivating, grindhouse, psychotronic, philosophical, corny, ridiculous
Plot: dystopia, book, shark, fire, society, firefighter, resistance, partner, murder, meaning of life, fighting the system, loyalty, redemption, childhood memory, couple relations, apocalypse, hacker, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, epidemic, religion, dictator, disaster, dictatorship, existentialism ...
Time: near future, future
Place: usa, cleveland ohio

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about epidemic, apocalypse, distopia, post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic and disaster mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Fahrenheit 451: Equilibrium (2002), Blade Runner (1982), The Omega Man (1971), The Giver (2014), Brave New World (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 7.2
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot: totalitarianism, distopia, resistance, book, dystopia, satire, rebellion, dystopian future, fighting the system, fire, alienation, dictatorship ...
Time: year 1966, future, distant future, 60s, near future
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 7.3
 361K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, serious, philosophical, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopian future, dystopia, gunfight, post apocalyptic, fighting the system, cyberpunk, violence, totalitarianism, rebellion, dictatorship ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
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100%
 8.1
 875K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
Similarity:
100%
 6.4
 36K
The Omega Man (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, scary, bad ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, plague, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, pandemic, virus, dystopia, transformation, loneliness, dystopian future ...
Time: future, 70s, year 1971, year 1975, near future ...
Place: los angeles, usa, china, woodstock, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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 6.4
 130K
The Giver (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, South Africa, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, family friendly, family outing
Plot: distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, youth, community, utopia, destiny, society, danger, humanity, rebelliousness, runaway ...
Time: future, near future, year 2014, 2040s, 2010s
Place: peru
Similarity:
100%
Brave New World (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
Style: apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, atmospheric, grindhouse ...
Plot: distopia, dystopian future, genetic engineering, post apocalypse, social differences, society, love and romance, life is a bitch, human nature, danger, doomed romance, anarchist ...
Time: future
Place: usa
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 5.7
 1K
Planet Earth (1974)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member ...
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: dystopia, matriarchy, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, utopia, apocalypse, sorority, post apocalyptic, epidemic, wasteland, anarchist, suspended animation ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Similarity:
42%
 4.0
 3K
Omega Doom (1996)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of ...
Style: apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, neo western, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, cyborgs, distopia, cyberpunk, wasteland, androids, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future ...
Time: near future, future
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Dragon Day (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating
Plot: post apocalypse, invasion, chaos and mayhem, danger, escapades, immigrant, society, racism, unemployment, government agency, apocalypse, distopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: china, mexico
Similarity:
41%
Brave New World (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 415 min.
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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, saga ...
Plot: distopia, utopia, satire, transhumanism, dystopia, forbidden love, conspiracy, totalitarianism, genetic engineering, brainwashing, social differences, propaganda ...
Time: future, near future
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41%
 7.7
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Gattaca (1997)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, intellectual, neo noir, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, dystopia, philosophy, society, paraplegic, eugenics, hopes, dystopian future, twists and turns ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 1900s ...
Place: detroit, riviera, french riviera
Similarity:
41%
 5.8
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Genesis II (1973)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, serious, exciting, thought provoking ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, bare chested male, failed pilot, post-apocalyptic future, epidemic, loner, wasteland, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time: 22nd century, near future, future, 70s, year 1979
Place: arizona, new mexico
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41%
 5.1
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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: isolation, bunker, science, humanity, freezing, distopia, dystopia, disaster, post apocalypse, contamination, apocalypse, trapped ...
Time: future, 2010s
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41%
 7.9
 562K
Children of Men (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, apocalyptic, visually stunning ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, chaos, redemption, end of the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, pandemic, fertility, post apocalyptic, dying ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
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Judgment (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Helen Hannah, the Christian leader of "Apocalypse" "Revelation" and "Tribulation" is being put on trial in the One Nation Earth Court of Justice. Mitch Kendrick is a lawyer assigned to defend her, and Victoria Thorne, ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, clever, depressing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: apocalypse, courtroom, bible, tragic hero, save the world, courtroom drama, injustice, fighting the system, rescue, legal, society, woman in danger ...
Time: future
Similarity:
40%
Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Style: exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, asteroid, space and aliens, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, society, danger, heroes, natural disaster ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
Similarity:
40%
 4.7
 625
Ravagers (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
Style: apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Plot: post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, dystopia, post nuclear, post apocalyptic, distopia, wasteland, epidemic, survival, atomic bomb ...
Time: year 1979, 90s, future
Similarity:
40%
 4.5
 502
Jackrabbit (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance now the status quo, society is slowly putting its shattered pieces back together under a watchful ...
Style: tense, independent film, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: cyberpunk, computer, hacker, dystopia, secret, investigation, puzzle, computer hacker, post apocalyptic, conspiracy, code breaking, claustrophobia ...
Time: near future, 2010s, 80s
Similarity:
40%
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 7.8
 221K
Brazil (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time: future, year 1985, year 1984
Place: england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
Similarity:
40%
 8.1
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V for Vendetta (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, intense, captivating, neo noir ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, dystopia, vigilante, freedom, anti hero, protest, society, masked man ...
Time: future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, england, britain, big ben london, europe ...
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40%
 6.6
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THX 1138 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style: philosophical, cult classic, bleak, mindfuck, psychological ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopia, dystopian future, cyberpunk, brainwashing, escape, prison, dystopic future, alone in the world, fighting the system, androids and robots ...
Time: future, distant future, year 1971, 90s, 1920s
Similarity:
40%
 4.0
 699
Deadland (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of ...
Style: suspense, captivating, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, society, escapades, life is a bitch, post apocalypse, plague, journey, violence ...
Time: future
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39%
 6.6
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Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style: futuristic, breathtaking, cyber, serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, space station, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, politics, robot, dark future, ecological disaster, utopia ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa ...
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Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It has been 73 years since Alex failed and the Humans lost the Cyborg Wars. Since then, the Humans have been enslaved. Scientists have developed a new DNA strain, which could signal the end of the Cyborgs, and they inject it into a volunteer. When ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, apocalyptic, independent film, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: time travel, female bodybuilder, cyberpunk, space and aliens, terminator, androids and robots, cyborgs, alien, apocalypse, nemesis, post-apocalyptic future, bounty hunter ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, year 1995, 21st century
Place: africa
Similarity:
39%
 5.6
 2K
Domain (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and ...
Style: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: communication, bunker, virus, survival, disappearance, trapped, epidemic, deadly virus, struggle for survival, quarantine, pandemic, locked in a room ...
Similarity:
39%
 4.7
 921
Diverge (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: virus, pandemic, epidemic, post apocalyptic, time travel, choice, saving a life, fate of humanity, deadly virus, scientific experiment, save the world, struggle for survival ...
Time: near future
Similarity:
39%
Into the Forest (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
Style: disturbing, futuristic, erotic, melancholic, mysterious ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, forest, isolation, rape, dystopia, father daughter relationship, sisters, death of father, post apocalyptic, family bonds, humanity ...
Time: future
Place: canada
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Before the Fire (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Deep in the throes of a global pandemic, up and coming TV star, Ava Boone, is forced to flee the mounting chaos in Los Angeles and return to her rural hometown. But as she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Plot: small town, chores, homecoming, danger, dark past, troubled past, quarantine, female protagonist, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place: usa
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Light of My Life (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time: year 2019
Place: persia
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The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: distopia, dystopia, sex, sexualized violence, religion, impregnation, sexual attraction, violence against women, totalitarian state, dystopian future, rebellion, slavery ...
Time: future
Place: canada, iran
Similarity:
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