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How It Ends (2018)
63K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
Style:
apocalyptic, road movie, suspenseful, tense, suspense, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, independent film, grindhouse, f word ...
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, father in law son in law relationship, journey, volcano, murder, post apocalypse, road trip, distopia, dystopia, survival, post apocalyptic, relationships, gunfight, fiancee, passionate kiss, hillbilly, epidemic, supernatural, crisis, climate change, interracial love relationship, exodus, collapse, space ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seattle, chicago, minnesota, usa, united states of america, seattle washington
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic and serious films with plots about apocalypse, danger, survival, catastrophe, epidemic, disaster and end of the world mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like How It Ends: Extinction (2018), Carriers (2009), Greenland (2020), The Divide (2011), 2012 (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
Style:
suspense, light, apocalyptic, smart, cyber ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
artificial intelligence, spacecraft, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, alien invasion, invasion, apocalypse, dystopia, disaster, rescue, fear, friendship ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back ...
Style:
scary, road movie, frightening, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
virus, survival, infection, pandemic, road trip, post apocalyptic, biohazard, post apocalypse, deadly virus, dystopia, apocalypse, blood ...
Time:
distant future, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
163K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
suspense, exciting, scenic, unusual plot structure, psychotronic ...
Plot:
natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, panic, husband wife relationship, diabetic, comet, kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
greenland, atlanta georgia, canada, kentucky, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style:
suspense, satanic, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust, torment, losing-it hero, survival, survival horror, social decay, violence, confined, apocalypse, nuclear explosion ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, north korea
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, destruction, human existence, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 2010s, year 2010, year 2012 ...
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, british columbia, london, pasadena california ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, creature, deaf, monster, alien, survival horror, silence, survival, alien creature, alien invasion, deafness, alien monster ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
usa, new york, atlantic ocean, new york state, america
Similarity:
100%
204K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, survival, tsunami, astronomer, self sacrifice, spacecraft, president ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
tucson arizona, washington d.c., new york, north america, atlanta georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
145K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
Style:
futuristic, saga, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, teenager, dystopia, utopia, female protagonist, chosen one, catastrophe, manipulation, brainwashing, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
chicago, north america
Similarity:
100%
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261K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, supernatural, catastrophe, cataclysm, prophecy, foreknowledge, metaphysics, professor, prediction, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the near future, a virus of epic proportions has overtaken the planet. There are more infected than uninfected, and humanity is losing its grip on survival. Its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren is a doctor ...
Style:
suspense, serious, disturbing, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
pandemic, apocalypse, found footage, infection, virus, violence, teenage girl, survivor, post apocalypse, rescue, survival horror, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
274K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
Style:
intense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, tsunami, danger, earthquake, end of the world, daughter, father daughter relationship, happy ending ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
california, san francisco, los angeles, peru, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, independent film
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, mass destruction, save the day, survival, chaos and mayhem, chases and races, danger, chaos, forces of nature, escapades, hurricane ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Style:
suspense, brutal, sexy, rough, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pandemic, infection, fear, post apocalypse, murder, interracial couple, dog, desperation, disease, paranoia, apocalypse, infected ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sammy fights to survive.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
alien, cat, alien invasion, survival, disaster, monster, silence, extraterrestrial, parents, eaten alive, pizza, survival horror ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop of his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, scary, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, family friendly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, alien, invasion, space and aliens, evil alien, extraterrestrial, catastrophe, humanity in peril ...
Time:
year 2005, future, jurassic, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, boston, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Style:
futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, road movie, heroic ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, lone hero, religion, protector, end of the world, dystopia, dystopic future, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2010, near future, distant future, 2040s ...
Place:
indiana, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scientists make a horrible discovery: The "Big One" is coming in two days, with it, California will sink to the ocean. Their only hope is to rupture a volcano that will displace the earthquake's energy and build a new crust on the ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, demolished city, fire, death, apocalypse, survival, chaos and mayhem, race against time, chaos, destruction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth.This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the earth's crust, which threatens to ...
Style:
apocalyptic, retro, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, apocalypse, love triangle, doomsday, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, bombing, explosions, environmental, peril, giant monster ...
Time:
60s
Place:
africa, big ben london, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, exciting, inspirational, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopic future, postman, dystopian future, post apocalyptic, vestiges of humanity, post war, survival, drifter, leadership, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1997, 2010s, year 2013 ...
Place:
usa, oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, heroes, save the world, forces of nature, danger, global warming, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, society, humanity in peril ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat, military ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, climate change, forces of nature, rescue, chaos, danger, escapades, volcano, evacuation, scientist, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, usa, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
126K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, teen, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, end of the world, alien, invasion, post apocalypse, danger, survival, virus, obsessive quest, escapades, humanity in peril ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2016
Place:
ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, london, tower bridge london ...
Similarity:
50%
33K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ...
Style:
surreal, suspense, ambiguous ending, scary, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
virus, zombie, apocalypse, epidemic, stephen king, life & death, post apocalypse, end of the world, zombie apocalypse, survival, paranoia, on the road ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
boston, new england, maine
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl is in love with a gas station attendant and sees him against her father's wishes. The father is the sheriff and shortly after a confrontation with the boy friend, he is killed by escaped convicts and the daughter is kidnapped. Everyone, ...
Style:
perverse, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, bare chested male, forbidden love, unrequited love, car, gas station, kidnapping, murder, desert, false accusation, rescue, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico, oklahoma, texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, ufo, asthma, alien invasion, cabin in the woods, disappearance, danger, escape attempt, humanity in peril, spacecraft, soldier ...
Time:
labor day
Place:
alaska, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspense, harsh, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, disappearance, vestiges of humanity, group of strangers, supernatural, darkness, survival, hospital, danger, chaos, death ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
19%
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