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Extinction (2018)
 5.8
 57K
Extinction (2018)
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, twist ending, avant garde, thought provoking, futuristic, grindhouse ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artificial intelligence, alien invasion, survival, space, spacecraft, invasion, apocalypse, dystopia, rescue, disaster, husband wife relationship, friendship, father daughter relationship, chase, fear, self mutilation, child in peril, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, robot, love, hacker, twists and turns, distopia, cyberpunk ...
Time: future
Keyword: attack, operation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, surprise ending, apocalyptic and suspenseful films with plots about shot in the chest, pistol, distopia, violence, blood, murder and danger mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Extinction: The Tomorrow War (2021), How It Ends (2018), Beyond Skyline (2017), Captive State (2019), Elysium (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Tomorrow War (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: An ordinary man is recruited by time travellers from 30 years in the future to fight in a war against deadly aliens.
Style: suspense, futuristic, exciting, anamorphic, action adventure ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: alien invasion, time travel, future war, alien, military, struggle for survival, soldier, final battle, evil alien, alien monster, alien encounter, father daughter relationship ...
Time: future
Place: bahamas, dominican republic, miami, russia, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 58K
How It Ends (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, 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, independent film ...
Plot: end of the world, disaster, journey, volcano, father in law son in law relationship, murder, road trip, post apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, survival, apocalypse ...
Time: 2010s
Place: seattle, chicago, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 23K
Beyond Skyline (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia, UK, China, Singapore
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.
Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing, space horror ...
Plot: alien, alien invasion, rescue, spaceship, ufo, monster, invasion, evil alien, abduction, evolution, brutality, survival ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: laos, southeast asia, los angeles
⇓ 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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 6.6
 469K
Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, space station, apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, dark future, ecological disaster, post apocalypse, utopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 32K
The Machine (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, cyborgs, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, female robot, secret laboratory, programmer, cyberpunk, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 714K
District 9 (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style: mockumentary, serious, suspense, biting, futuristic ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, distopia, space and aliens, alien encounter, apocalypse, transformation, mutation, metamorphosis, refugee, society ...
Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 387K
Snowpiercer (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, train, survival, distopia, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, end of the world, social differences, winter, capitalism, snow ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place: britain, south korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who ...
Style: captivating, apocalyptic, action adventure, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: distopia, cure, vaccine, imprisonment, virus, friendship, post apocalypse, disease, desert, battles, maze, fight ...
Time: 2010s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 46K
Morgan (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
Style: suspense, clever, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, cloning, moral dilemma, genetics, violence, experiment, robot, artificial intelligence, chase, secret laboratory, female robot, isolation ...
Time: future, year 2016, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 205K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, tech noir, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, surgery, microchip, revenge, nanotechnology, cyborgs, technology, super computer, dystopia, distopia ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 15K
Kill Command (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, intense, cyber, minimal cast ...
Plot: robot, man versus machine, killer robot, military, computer program, cyborgs, female warrior, cyberpunk, distopia, violence, battles, rescue ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 259K
Ad Astra (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style: exciting, suspense, futuristic, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: space exploration, outer space, astronaut, moon, solar system, obsession, father son relationship, space pirate, space travel, spacecraft, trapped in space, space station ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2019, near future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 17K
Occupation (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A small group of town residents have to band together after a devastating ground invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers, and work together for a chance to strike back.
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scenic ...
Plot: alien invasion, ufo, alien abduction, female warrior, rebellion, rescue, danger, destruction, heroism, military, bravery, alien race ...
Time: future
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.0
 59K
Automata (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, dystopia, androids and robots, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, robot human relationship, ecology, dystopian future, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, near future, year 2014, 2010s, 2040s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.3
 10K
Revolt (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they ...
Style: absurd, suspenseful, perverse, surprise ending, road movie ...
Plot: alien invasion, murder, desert, female warrior, terminator, survival, resistance, robot, amnesia, post apocalyptic, chaos, distopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, kenya
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, serious, intense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: distopia, post apocalypse, survival, desert, maze, teenager, dystopia, epidemic, apocalypse, young heroes, twists and turns, zombie ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 7.3
 346K
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, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Last Survivors (2014)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: post apocalypse, revenge, drought, survival, murder, desert, thirst, female warrior, water shortage, strong female character, teenage girl, dystopia ...
Time: near future
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.1
 25K
Impostor (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gary Sinise plays Spencer Olham, a top-secret government weapons designer who is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
Style: futuristic, exciting, psychological thriller, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, cyborgs, androids and robots, manhunt, space, on the run, save the world, dystopian future, imaginary, rivalry, race against time ...
Time: future, year 2001, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.0
 59K
Soldier (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sergeant Todd is a veteran soldier for an elite group of the armed forces. After being defeated by a new breed of genetically engineered soldiers, he is dumped on a waste planet and left for dead. He soon interacts with a group of crash survivors ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, entertaining, scenic, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: future war, space travel, genetic engineering, space, soldier, distopia, military, terminator, alien, robot, post apocalyptic, one man army ...
Time: future, year 1998, year 1996, near future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, futuristic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopia, post apocalyptic, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, dystopian future, apocalypse, earthquake, catastrophe, chaos and mayhem, one man army, danger ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 110K
Repo Men (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the ...
Style: futuristic, bloody, suspense, absurd, thought provoking ...
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, dystopia, evil corporation, dystopian future, dystopic future, rebel, virtual reality, chase, hitman, transplant, black market ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2010
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style: futuristic, intense, serious, apocalyptic, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, post apocalypse, distopia, man versus machine, dystopian future, time travel, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Last Patrol (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a massive earthquake destroys Los Angeles, a new order is formed. But disagreement among the ranks leads to more war and disruption, and The Last Patrol must bring order if there's to be any hope for the future.
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, rescue, earthquake, desert, chaos and mayhem, survival, rivalry, danger, life is a bitch, post apocalypse, battles, disaster ...
Time: future, near future
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, dystopia, cyborgs, heroic mission, artificial intelligence, computers and web, danger, hacking, dystopian future, computer cracker ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s ...
Place: arizona, japan, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, India
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, alien, invasion, cowboy, space and aliens, monster, evil alien, creature, human versus alien, alien abduction ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, future, 1870s, 19th century
Place: arizona, space western, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
 3.7
 2K
Supernova (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 172 min.
Story: A international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, universe, desert, survival, danger, astronomer, heroic mission, save the planet, escapades, natural disaster, violence, military ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, africa, taj mahal, tokyo, sydney australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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