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Light of My Life (2019)
 6.6
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Light of My Life (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, tense, touching, captivating, suspenseful, road movie, offbeat, suspense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, epidemic, father daughter relationship, virus, distopia, deadly virus, child in peril, post apocalyptic, forest, girl, survival, parents and children, immunity, pandemic, fight, hiding, apocalypse, fantasy world, journey, fear, danger, struggle for survival, dystopia, father and daughter, chaos ...
Time: year 2019
Place: persia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense and tense films with plots about distopia, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, disaster, survival and dystopia mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Light of My Life: Cargo (2017), The Road (2009), I Am Legend (2007), The Survivalist (2015), Z for Zachariah (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cargo (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: zombie, pandemic, post apocalypse, survival, infection, father daughter relationship, boat, infected, baby, aborigine, danger, protection ...
Time: near future, 2010s
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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 7.2
 253K
The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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100%
 7.2
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I Am Legend (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville ...
Style: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 2007, near future, jurassic, distant future ...
Place: new york, america, usa, brooklyn new york city, vermont ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Survivalist (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Style: tense, stylized, disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, starvation, wilderness, violence, depression, imagination, crime gone awry, character study, forest, desperation ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Z for Zachariah (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly ...
Style: tense, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, love triangle, end of the world, survivor, post apocalyptic, radiation, nuclear war, farm, distopia, isolation ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 216K
The Happening (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style: gloomy, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: virus, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, catastrophe, chaos, graphic violence, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, philadelphia, boston, usa, france ...
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 7.2
 15K
To the Lake (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Mini-series in which an unknown virus turns Moscow into a city of the dead. There is no electricity, money has lost all value and those who are still not infected, are desperately fighting for food and fuel. The main character, Sergei, lives outside ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, serious
Plot: virus, epidemic, apocalypse, survival, panic, post apocalypse, extinction, dystopia, infection, snow, family in danger, zombie ...
Place: moscow russia, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Right at Your Door (2006)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, tense, futuristic ...
Plot: infection, isolation, terrorism, post apocalypse, disaster, epidemic, couples, toxic, save the day, danger, race against time, virus ...
Time: future, distant future, year 2006
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.7
 40K
Freaks (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat - or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really ...
Style: suspense, exciting, psychotronic, independent film, tense ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, mind control, grandfather granddaughter relationship, super powers, escape, overprotective father, superpower, invisibility, neighbor, little girl, isolation, new world ...
Time: year 2019, future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 47K
Maggie (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: There's a deadly zombie epidemic threatening humanity, but Wade, a small-town farmer and family man, refuses to accept defeat even when his daughter Maggie becomes infected. As Maggie's condition worsens and the authorities seek to ...
Style: touching, scary, bleak, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, father daughter relationship, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, zombie apocalypse, small town, transformation, post apocalyptic, terminal illness, danger, supernatural ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Before the Fire (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Deep in the throes of a global pandemic, up and coming TV star, Ava Boone, is forced to flee the mounting chaos in Los Angeles and return to her rural hometown. But as she struggles to acclimate to a way of life she left behind long ago, her ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot: small town, chores, homecoming, danger, quarantine, dark past, female protagonist, troubled past, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place: usa
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100%
 5.9
 12K
Apocalypse (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to ...
Style: apocalyptic, suspenseful, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, heat wave, cannibalism, dystopian future, life is a bitch, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, chase, danger, on the run, distopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 8K
Here Alone (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a terrible virus ravages human civilization, Ann finds herself living alone in a forest, foraging for supplies, and accompanied only by a radio that broadcasts a single transmission in French. Few animals even remain; the only survivors seem ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: zombie, survivalist, infection, virus, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, female protagonist, epidemic, determination, grief, wilderness, forest ...
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 4.8
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Radioflash (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to survival in a dark new world.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking, epic, suspense ...
Plot: survival, father daughter relationship, post apocalypse, apocalypse, teenager, dystopian society, trick, darkness, blackout, female protagonist, doomsday, disaster ...
Time: future
Place: america, idaho, montana, ireland
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 5.3
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The Silence (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.
Style: exciting, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: creature, post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, silence, deadly creature, saving a life, creature feature, danger, farmhouse, deaf, macabre ...
Time: 21st century
Place: appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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It Comes at Night (2017)
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, minimal cast, rough, apocalyptic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infection, pandemic, post apocalypse, interracial couple, fear, paranoia, dog, apocalypse, murder, infected, hopelessness, forest ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
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 5.3
 47K
The Colony (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, dark, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, epidemic, starvation, ice age, distopia, dehumanization, danger, dystopia, cannibalism, survival horror ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into a thoughtless, flesh-eating monster. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who seems to be immune to the fungus, they all begin a journey to save humanity.
Style: dark, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, pandemic, post apocalypse, infection, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, military, zombie child, children, undead, virus ...
Time: future, year 2016
Place: london
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100%
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Deranged (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jae-hyuk is a pharmaceutical worker for a medical supplies company. When a series of dead bodies are found floating in the Han River. The public is shocked to discovered that the deaths are related to a fatal outbreak of virus-infected mutant ...
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
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Place: south korea
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Deadland (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of ...
Style: captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, escapades, life is a bitch, society, post apocalypse, plague, journey, murder ...
Time: future
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 6.0
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Carriers (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 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, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, survival, infection, pandemic, post apocalyptic, road trip, end of the world, post apocalypse, biohazard, deadly virus, apocalypse, dystopia ...
Time: distant future, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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100%
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Extinction (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Style: scary, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalyptic, zombie apocalypse, end of the world, wilderness, father daughter relationship, dystopia, virus, monster, survival ...
Time: future
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100%
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, humorous, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dog, post apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, dystopia, desert, distopia, post apocalyptic, survival, dystopian future, bare chested male, bride and groom, sperm donor ...
Time: future, year 1975, 2020s
Place: phoenix arizona, oklahoma
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The Island (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 48 min.
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Story: A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, apocalyptic
Plot: pandemic, virus, teenage girl, quarantine, teenage protagonist, island, epidemic, stranded on an island, struggle for survival, society, survival, lifestyle change ...
Time: 2020s
Place: fictional island
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 6.1
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Level 16 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, melancholic, suspense, mysterious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: imprisonment, dark secret, boarding school, punishment, discipline, girls' boarding school, female protagonist, isolation, distopia, secrets, obedience, women's prison ...
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 7.5
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28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, rage ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, year 2003, distant future, near future ...
Place: london, britain, england, bolivia, europe ...
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100%
 6.5
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Blindness (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, intense, depressing ...
Plot: post apocalypse, plague, survival, epidemic, blindness, distopia, apocalypse, dystopia, virus, post apocalyptic, disability, pandemic ...
Time: distant future, year 2008, 21st century
Place: portugal, sao paulo brazil
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No Blade of Grass (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style: apocalyptic, controversial, disturbing, depressing, offbeat ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, distopia, post apocalyptic, disaster, wasteland, epidemic, railway, quarantine, natural disaster ...
Time: future
Place: england, northern england, london
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22%
 5.2
 820
The Blackout (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: post apocalypse, blackout, solar eclipse, struggle for survival, student, fight, survival, apocalypse, white trash, eclipse, pandemic, distopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
What Still Remains (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long-since destroyed by disease; but when a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of ...
Style: apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, tense, intense
Plot: post apocalypse, community, secrets, survival, distopia, plague, female protagonist, religious, epidemic, dystopia, apocalypse, disaster ...
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20%
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