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Captive State (2019)
60K
Genre: 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, apocalyptic, exciting, tense, captivating, intense, scary, psychological, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
alien invasion, resistance, extraterrestrial, distopia, post apocalypse, alien race, vestiges of humanity, dystopia, fight, brutality, alien technology, urban setting, capture, survival, land grab, disaster, society, struggle for survival, evil alien, alien encounter, humanity in peril, showdown, against humanity, fate of humanity, space ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2019, 2020s
Place:
chicago, new york, moscow russia, london, north america, usa, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending and apocalyptic films with plots about survival, death, gun, escape, chase, danger and explosion mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Captive State: Extinction (2018), In Time (2011), They Live (1988), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Life (2017). 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:
100%
480K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, philosophical, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, dystopia, distopia, love, dystopic future, survival, life & death, class differences, social differences ...
Time:
future, year 2011, near future, distant future, 2010s
Place:
usa, los angeles, canada
Similarity:
100%
162K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style:
cult classic, homoerotic, suspenseful, serious, black comedy ...
Plot:
conspiracy, alien invasion, dystopia, alien, distopia, mind control, social commentary, anti conformity, violence, resistance, evil alien, capitalism ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, minimal cast, twist ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalypse, kidnapping, bunker, strong female character, alien, underground bunker, survivalist, end of the world, conspiracy theory, bomb shelter ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
Similarity:
75%
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275K
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:
scary, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, tragic ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
monster, mars, space, space station, space travel, space exploration, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, alien creature, first contact, death ...
Time:
2010s, near future, year 2017, future
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 ...
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100%
94K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight ...
Style:
suspense, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ufo, apocalypse, evil alien, alien invasion, alien, alien abduction, space and aliens, vestiges of humanity, alien encounter, fantasy world, creature, catastrophe ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, california, london ...
Similarity:
100%
161K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK, India, Australia, Brazil, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other ...
Style:
exciting, slasher, psychotronic, suspense, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, alien monster, predator, hunter, extraterrestrial, alien creature, warrior, female warrior, soldier, monster, child, mission ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
xian, georgia, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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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%
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, saga, action adventure, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
cure, vaccine, virus, disease, distopia, battles, desert, fight, maze, danger, post apocalypse, laboratory ...
Time:
2010s, future
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%
442K
Genre: Action, 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:
spooky, mysterious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, disaster, found footage, giant monster, alien, survival, fear, survival horror, danger, creature, kaiju, deadly creature ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
748K
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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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390K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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:
psychedelic, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, medical horror ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, cosmic horror, dna, creature, mutation, scientist, scientific experiment, biologist, expedition, research, genetics, terror ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, arkansas, maine, england, louisiana ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
female warrior, alien abduction, alien invasion, rebellion, military, heroism, destruction, danger, rescue, alien race, chaos, alien technology ...
Time:
future
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien abduction, alien, paranoia, evil alien, woods, extraterrestrial, macabre, ufo, scarecrow, space and aliens, alien encounter, flying saucer ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Will Radford is a top analyst for Homeland Security who tracks potential threats through a mass surveillance program, until one day an attack by an unknown entity leads him to question whether the government is hiding something from him... and from ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surveillance, government conspiracy, alien invasion, dystopia, urban, national security, paranoia, urban setting, ethical dilemma, investigation, moral ambiguity, survival ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, conspiracy, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, disguise, investigation, ufo, alien, black hole, elevator, supernatural ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america, central america
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a back up if the Artificial Intelligence fail) at ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, apocalyptic, anamorphic, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, space, spacecraft, post apocalyptic, fantasy world, space opera, artificial intelligence, apocalypse, dystopia, nasa, death ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, sexy, breathtaking, serious ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, virus, epidemic, psychiatrist, danger, invasion, infected, alien encounter, doctor, hysteria, save the world ...
Time:
year 2007, distant future, future
Place:
washington d.c., usa, kurdistan, russia
Similarity:
24%
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:
surreal, suspenseful, mindfuck, twisted, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
twists and turns, hacker, secret laboratory, alien, alien abduction, road trip, alien invasion, alien contact, computer hacker, cyborgs, space, danger ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, nevada, usa
Similarity:
24%
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, maze, epidemic, young heroes, apocalypse, dystopia, immunity, danger, zombie, on the run ...
Time:
future, year 2015, near future, 2010s
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two years after the Westworld tragedy in the Delos amusement park, the corporate owners have reopened the park following over $1 billion in safety and other improvements. For publicity purposes, reporters Chuck Browning and Tracy Ballard are invited ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, serious, grindhouse, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, androids and robots, robot, robot as menace, reporter, cloning, investigation, man versus machine, society, chaos, technology gone awry, leadership ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1976, near future, 70s ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
During a pandemic lockdown, Nico, a young man with rare immunity, must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful family to reunite with his love, Sara.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
pandemic, epidemic, post apocalypse, survival, disease, infection, older man younger woman relationship, apocalypse, illicit affair, disaster, immunity, isolation ...
Time:
2020s, near future
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
body horror, evil alien, supernatural horror, monster, macabre, cheerleader, alien, death, small town, survival, space and aliens, quarantine ...
Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
23%
132K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, ecological disaster, malfunction, climate change, hurricane, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place:
afghanistan, hong kong, orlando florida, rio de janeiro, new york ...
Similarity:
23%
11K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, perverse, suspenseful, absurd ...
Plot:
alien invasion, desert, murder, female warrior, alien abduction, terminator, survival, resistance, cyborgs, robot, amnesia, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, kenya
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style:
rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
22%
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