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Last Resort (2012)
23K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Last Resort is an American military drama television series. When the crew of the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS Colorado, pick up a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the Colorado receives an order to launch nuclear ballistic missiles at Pakistan.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, cliffhanger, apocalyptic, anime, nautical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, navy, government conspiracy, nuclear threat, captain, moral dilemma, heroes, soldier, chases and races, bomb, leadership, nato, on the run, treason, nuclear, power relations, survival, danger, contact, mistrust, political conspiracy, sailing, trust, die hard, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
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stylized, captivating, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
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battleship, navy, apocalypse, heroes, danger, chaos, shooting, save the world, deadly virus, military, survival, plague ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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90%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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conspiracy, military, uncover truth, twists and turns, corporate crime, violent content, dishonesty, left to die, political conspiracy, spy, family relations, state affairs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as ...
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suspenseful, exciting, serious, stylized, sexy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
lgbt, supernatural, lgbtq, supernatural ability, gay, conspiracy, telepathy, secret organization, danger, love affair, lesbian, sex scene ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, chicago, mumbai india, indiana, idaho ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
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After disaster strikes the Earth, a marine biologist on a research mission in a submarine must fight to advance the process into a conspiracy.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, serious ...
Plot:
submarine, sea voyage, survival, post apocalypse, mission, conspiracy, military, distopia, threat, fate of humanity, humanity in peril, investigation ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
On a US nuclear missile sub, a young first officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, suspense, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
submarine, nuclear threat, cold war, navy, nuclear bomb, u.s. navy, underwater, nuclear explosion, spy, terrorist, nuclear missile, military ...
Time:
90s
Place:
alabama, mediterranean sea, pacific ocean, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, political ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, nuclear threat, nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, moral dilemma, politics, military life, disaster, danger, military, race against time, chaos ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 85 min.
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A group of people haunted by their experiences within the Bermuda Triangle band together to confront its truths.
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
100%
61K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style:
captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
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Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 43 min.
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Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat ...
Plot:
group of strangers, trapped, mysterious place, confined, captivity, twists and turns, riddles and clues, mind game, experiment, isolation, manipulation, dark past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Surface is a science fiction television series that premiered on NBC on September 19, 2005. The program aired ten episodes before going on hiatus on November 28, 2005 due to NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics. It returned for five more ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Revolution focuses on the struggle to survive 15 years after a global blackout.
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exciting, serious, apocalyptic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, fate of humanity, worldwide chaos, escapades, twists and turns, dictatorship, chaos and mayhem, chase, chaos, danger, nanotechnology ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
america, north america, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
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Space: Above and Beyond is a short-lived mid-1990s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season. It ...
Style:
apocalyptic, atmospheric, thrilling, cliffhanger, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, alien, space wars, evil alien, space, space opera, alien invasion, space program, space adventure, spaceship, military, battles ...
Time:
future, 90s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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As the world's energy supplies dwindle, the Orpheus, a research submarine, delves into the deep of the Arctic Ocean searching for rare micro-organisms, but the crew soon find themselves in peril.
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
survival, uncover truth, danger, scientist, submarine, ocean, confined, isolation, crew, supernatural, voodoo, virtual reality ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 46 min.
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Jack Bauer comes out of hiding in London to head off a massive terrorist attack while being hunted down by American forces dispatched by President James Heller.
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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23%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Tom Kirkman, a low-level cabinet member is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the Presidential line of succession.
Style:
exciting, political, political thriller, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
washington d.c., afghanistan, usa, chicago
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an ominous stealth submarine resulting in the deaths of the Executive Officer and the Engineering ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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The Fugitive is a remake of the 1963 TV series of the same name that aired for one season on CBS between October 6, 2000 and May 25, 2001. It stars Tim Daly as Dr. Richard Kimble, Mykelti Williamson as lieutenant Philip Gerard, and Stephen Lang as ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
frame up, manhunt, on the run, chase, murder, murder suspect, chases and races, bounty hunter, nypd, black cop, escaped prisoner, uncover truth ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the USS Pennsylvania as Riley and crew survive the apocalypse in the submarine.
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
submarine, zombie, apocalypse, infected, walking dead, post apocalyptic, isolation, fear, survival horror, catastrophe, struggle for survival, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Threshold was a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, cliffhanger ...
Plot:
government conspiracy, invasion, infected, alien invasion, dream, hallucination, genetically altered, alien encounter, government facility, encounter, human existence, contact ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, cold war, politics, save the day, rescue, state affairs, heroic mission, race against time, danger, government agency, military, disaster ...
Time:
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Place:
soviet union, atlantic ocean, ussr, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Somewhere on the outskirts of our solar system, the unthinkable occurs. A giant asteroid collides with a smaller one and changes direction - headed directly toward The Earth. The burning meteor rain that beats down with devastating force, is only a ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, comet, small town life, save the world, natural disaster, chaos and mayhem, race against time, contests and competitions, danger, father daughter relationship, meteorite, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
22%
31K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 40 min.
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Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
scientist, deadly virus, virus, survival, dna, danger, pandemic, quarantine, save the day, zombie, arctic, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
22%
4K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
TV show
Story:
An earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by aftershocks and tsunami.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, earthquake, survival, danger, save the day, race against time, government agency, heroic mission, forces of nature, building collapse, evacuation ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa, california, seattle
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
When a mysterious object crashes to Earth, a group of seemingly unconnected strangers die from the energy pulse, but then awaken to learn that they have assigned the task of preventing the impending Apocalypse.
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, demonic ...
Plot:
angel, good versus evil, apocalypse, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, chaos, danger, rivalry, religions or cults, supernatural, death, fugitives ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
Ian Mitchell is a lawyer and father who one day receives a box containing a gun and a picture of a stranger, along with instructions to kill the pictured person. He is subsequently attacked by another stranger, and discovers that he has been chosen ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological thriller, teen, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mind game, moral dilemma, life turned upside down, danger, who to trust, disorder, rivalry, family in danger, chases and races, hostage, distopia, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time travel, epidemic, dystopian future, changing the past or future, sent to the past, existence paradox, time machine, post apocalypse, virus, paradox, apocalypse, plague ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, chaos, danger, confined, soldier, escapades, monster, creature, evil alien, death, violence, apocalypse ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
10K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Becca Winstone learns that her son, Michael, disappears while studying abroad, and it's a race against time when she travels to Europe to track him down. A surprising turn of events reveals just how far one mother will go to protect her ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
missing child, disappearance, kidnapping, conspiracy, investigation, parents and children, spy, family relations, heroes, danger, twists and turns, missing person ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jason Gedrick and Eric Roberts lead the cast of this thriller about a submarine captain who attempts to hold Washington, D.C. hostage for a billion dollars, and the heroic doctor who struggles to thwart the plan before the situation escalates.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
submarine, confined, hostage, save the world, nuclear threat, danger, good versus evil, terrorism, save the day, state affairs, blackmail, extortion ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of talented but rebellious 'rock-star scientists' find themselves in a race against time to save Earth when a comet makes an unexpected turn towards our blue planet where all life may cease to exist within days if our small town ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, chaos, save the world, forces of nature, end of the world, danger, post apocalypse, autism, tsunami, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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