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Captive State (2019)
 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, tense, captivating, intense, surprise ending, apocalyptic, scary, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: alien invasion, resistance, alien, distopia, post apocalypse, alien race, extraterrestrial, dystopia, ufo, fight, brutality, 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, 2010s, near future, year 2019, 2020s
Place: chicago, new york, moscow russia, london, north america, usa, united states of america
Keyword: attack, operation, signal, bruise

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surprise ending, suspense, scary and suspenseful films with plots about survival, death, danger, alien, violence, blood and escape mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Captive State: 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Extinction (2018), They Live (1988), Skyline (2010), The Predator (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, 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, twist ending, minimal cast, dark ...
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Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, bunker, ufo, strong female character, survivalist, end of the world, bomb shelter, conspiracy theory ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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 5.8
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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, smart, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: family friendly
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They Live (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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: exciting, allegory, political, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, alien, alien invasion, distopia, dystopia, mind control, ufo, anti conformity, invasion, evil alien, monster, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
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Skyline (2010)
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, alien, evil alien, space and aliens, alien invasion, alien encounter, vestiges of humanity, end of the world, alien abduction, creature, fantasy world ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, new york, california, usa, london ...
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100%
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The Predator (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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: tense, exciting, slasher, psychotronic, suspense ...
Audience: adult
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Place: xian, georgia, mexico
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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
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Time: 2010s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 7.0
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Cloverfield (2008)
Genre: 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: suspenseful, suspense, tense, mockumentary, lovecraft ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, disaster, found footage, alien, giant monster, survival, survival horror, danger, destruction, fear, creature, chaos ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new york, bolivia, brooklyn new york city, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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The Darkest Hour (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.
Style: suspense, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, post apocalypse, end of the world, demolished city, evil alien, creature, alien, apocalypse, disaster, space, post apocalyptic, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Underwater (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, creature, monster, giant monster, water, sea monster, creature feature, animal attack, earthquake, ocean, survival, destruction ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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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
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 6.8
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Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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: suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing, lovecraft ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, creature, dna, mutation, scientist, expedition, research, genetic mutation, terror, biologist, transformation, mission ...
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Place: chicago, florida, pakistan
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia, UK, China, Singapore
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Style: captivating, exciting, suspense, disturbing, space horror ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 6.3
 181K
Predator 2 (1990)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Ten years after a band of mercenaries first battled a vicious alien, the invisible creature from another world has returned to Earth -- and this time, it's drawn to the gang-ruled and ravaged city of Los Angeles. When it starts murdering drug ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style: suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, harsh, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: future, year 2000, y2k, 2000s
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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
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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, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Style: suspense, lovecraft, apocalyptic, space horror, rough ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 2010s, future, 2000s, near future, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Three groups of people are trying to survive Purge Night, when their stories intertwine and are left stranded in The Purge trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs.
Style: tense, suspense, breathtaking, grindhouse, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
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50%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Duration: 94 min.
Story: A sequel to 2004's Alien vs. Predator, the iconic creatures from two of the scariest film franchises in movie history wage their most brutal battle ever - in our own backyard. The small town of Gunnison, Colorado becomes a war zone between two ...
Style: suspense, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: future, year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 2004 ...
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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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, philosophical, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
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Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, distant future
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 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, futuristic ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Style: futuristic, suspense, black comedy, independent film, cult classic ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Style: surreal, suspense, scary, ambiguous ending, melancholic ...
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Extraterrestrial (2014)
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, suspense, serious, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.1
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The Crazies (1973)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Style: grindhouse, scary, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
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29%
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The Recall (2017)
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, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Audience: teens
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 34K
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, apocalyptic, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: future, 70s, year 1971, near future, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, usa, soviet union, china, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Alien Raiders (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, exciting, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ...
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Time: year 2009, future, 2000s, year 2000, year 1982 ...
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Blob (1988)
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, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: 80s
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