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Light of My Life (2019)
17K
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, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight, deadly virus, parents and children, danger, struggle for survival, pandemic, hiding, apocalypse, fantasy world, journey, fear, dystopia, father and daughter, chaos ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia
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Most similar movies to Light of My Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense and tense films with plots about distopia, apocalypse, post apocalypse, epidemic, disaster, survival and dystopia mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Light of My Life: Cargo (2017), The Survivalist (2015), I Am Legend (2007), The Happening (2008), Z for Zachariah (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
52K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, United Arab Emirates, UK
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, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, zombie, post apocalypse, survival, boat, father daughter relationship, infected, virus, infection, danger, desert, aborigine ...
Time:
near future, 2010s
Place:
australia, oceania, south australia
Similarity:
100%
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:
harsh, tense, stylized, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot:
survival, starvation, post apocalyptic, visceral, post apocalypse, wilderness, bow and arrow, depression, forest, woods, wound, bare breasts ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
100%
870K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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:
intense, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, survival, apocalypse, loneliness, post apocalypse, virus, infected, post apocalyptic, isolation, supernatural, plague, end of the world ...
Time:
future, year 2007, near future, year 2013, jurassic ...
Place:
new york, america, usa, vermont, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
226K
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:
tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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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:
suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, sex scene, post apocalypse, farm, love triangle, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, survivor, radiation, survival, jealousy, distopia ...
Time:
2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
269K
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, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, father son relationship, distopia, end of the world, cannibalism, starvation, dystopia, on the road, journey ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, distant future, 2000s ...
Place:
pittsburgh, usa, north america, canada
Similarity:
80%
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:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Plot:
small town, chores, homecoming, danger, dark past, troubled past, quarantine, female protagonist, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, tense, futuristic, twisted ...
Plot:
isolation, nuclear war, terrorism, epidemic, post apocalyptic, infection, nuclear explosion, post apocalypse, couples, toxic, danger, race against time ...
Time:
future, year 2006, distant future
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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44K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, 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, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mind control, grandfather granddaughter relationship, overprotective father, invisibility, super powers, escape, neighbor, supernatural power, new world, little girl, isolation ...
Time:
year 2019, future, near future
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, apocalyptic
Plot:
epidemic, virus, apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, panic, infection, extinction, family in danger, disaster, fear, chaos ...
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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%
49K
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, emotional, scary, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, father daughter relationship, apocalypse, pandemic, death, virus, zombie apocalypse, small town, transformation, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, terminal illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa, midwest, california
Similarity:
100%
538K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, frightening, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, virus, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, infected, fear, zombie apocalypse, plague, end of the world, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
distant future, year 2003, near future, year 2000, year 2002 ...
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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, psychotronic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian society, teenager, blackout, trick, darkness, female protagonist, doomsday, disaster ...
Time:
future
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
zombie, infection, survivalist, zombie apocalypse, post apocalypse, virus, female protagonist, epidemic, determination, grief, wilderness, forest ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
creature, post apocalypse, apocalypse, silence, survival, deadly creature, saving a life, danger, farmhouse, deaf, macabre, deafness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
appalachia
Similarity:
100%
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, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, military, infection, zombie apocalypse, teacher, scientist, zombie child, children, abandoned city ...
Time:
future, year 2016
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Plot:
parasite, epidemic, virus, survival, apocalypse, deadly virus, victim, drowning, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, pandemic ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
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699
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:
suspense, captivating, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, society, escapades, life is a bitch, post apocalypse, plague, journey, violence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
53K
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%
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:
suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
blackout, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, solar eclipse, white trash, student, fight, eclipse, human nature, fear ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, intense, tense
Plot:
post apocalypse, plague, community, distopia, survival, secrets, female protagonist, weapons, religious, quarantine, post apocalyptic, disaster ...
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a comet releases a mysterious virus that begins to kill all of the women in the world, a young couple's relationship is severely tested. They hide out (from both the illness and the savages who hunt the remaining women) in their ...
Style:
serious, intense, emotional, realistic, psychological thriller
Plot:
post apocalypse, virus, epidemic, distopia, infection, propaganda, fight, apocalypse, panic, save the world, humanity, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
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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, dramatic, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, epidemic, wilderness, end of the world, father daughter relationship, virus, survival, infection ...
Time:
future, 80s
Similarity:
100%
19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, 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, suspense, mysterious, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dark secret, boarding school, punishment, female protagonist, distopia, discipline, isolation, girls' boarding school, obedience, imprisonment, pervert, vaccine ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
cult classic, surreal, humorous, futuristic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dog, post apocalypse, dystopia, desert, distopia, nuclear holocaust, wedding, survival, wasteland, dystopian future, violent, escape ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
phoenix arizona, oklahoma
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
A deadly virus hits a small community living on an island in the North Sea.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, apocalyptic
Plot:
pandemic, teenage girl, quarantine, virus, teenage protagonist, island, stranded on an island, epidemic, survival, society, community, lifestyle change ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
fictional island
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Germany
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, serious, psychological thriller, futuristic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, heat wave, cannibalism, dystopian future, chase, on the run, danger, society, disaster, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
77K
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, disturbing, bleak, intense, depressing ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, blindness, epidemic, plague, survival, dystopia, distopia, catastrophe, pandemic, isolation, chaos ...
Time:
year 2008, distant future, 21st century
Place:
portugal, sao paulo brazil, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
apocalypse, natural disaster, sex, little girl, end of the world, on the road, post apocalyptic, redemption, orgy, survival, party, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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