Movies and TV shows like The War of the Worlds

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The War of the Worlds (2019)
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The War of the Worlds (2019)
Genre: Drama, History, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Set in Edwardian England, George and his partner Amy attempt to defy the prejudices of society and start a life together, all the while swerving the ongoing chaos of an alien invasion.
Style: apocalyptic, bleak, suspense, tense, costume drama, frightening, period piece, period drama, interesting
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien attack, alien, end of the world, post apocalypse, ufo, alien race, martian, survival, fight, evil alien, alien robot, struggle for survival, alien encounter, showdown, fate of humanity, distopia, epidemic, invasion, puzzle, space program, propaganda, space, dystopia ...
Time: turn of the century, edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, 20th century, year 1900, 2010s ...
Place: england, london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense and captivating films and TV series with plots about apocalypse, epidemic, danger, distopia, alien invasion, survival and post apocalypse mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The War of the Worlds: The Rain (2018), Snowpiercer (2020), Monsters: Dark Continent (2014), The Tripods (1984), Survivors (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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War of the Worlds (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: Set in contemporary Europe, the reimagining follows the pockets of humanity left on earth following an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, serious, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival horror, post apocalypse, alien contact, end of the world, alien abduction, scientist, alien attack, ex husband ex wife relationship, interracial relations, love interest, bonding, evil alien ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s
Place: france
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 6.3
 41K
The Rain (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark on a perilous search for safety. A Scandinavian thriller series.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, exciting, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: post apocalypse, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, brother sister relationship, illness, danger, distopia, peril, supernatural, fear ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 62K
Snowpiercer (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting ...
Style: apocalyptic, unusual plot structure, captivating, brutal, depressing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: train, post apocalypse, apocalypse, rebellion, struggle for survival, class system, inequality, disaster, humanity, forces of nature, distopia, caste system ...
Time: future, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Monsters: Dark Continent (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Seven years on from the events of Monsters, and the ‘Infected Zones’ have spread worldwide. Humans have been knocked off the top of the food chain, with disparate communities struggling for survival. American soldiers are being sent abroad to ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, stylized ...
Plot: alien invasion, creature, post apocalypse, military, alien contact, survival, giant creature, evil alien, giant monster, alien, dystopian future, deadly creature ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 2K
The Tripods (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Masters using their giant Tripods. cousins. When humans reach the age of sixteen, they must undergo a process known as capping which places their mind under the control of the conquerors. In ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, captivating, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: alien invasion, alien, distopia, post apocalypse, dystopia, apocalypse, space, bad guys win, post apocalyptic, epidemic, bad guy, ufo ...
Time: future
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.5
 9K
Survivors (2008)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors was a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC. It depicts the lives of a group of people who survived a virulent unknown strain of influenza which has wiped out most of the human species. According to the producers, ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: apocalypse, virus, survival, epidemic, deadly virus, politician, plague, post apocalypse, pandemic, disaster, danger, group of strangers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.1
 93K
Falling Skies (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Survivors of an alien attack on earth gather together to fight for their lives and fight back.
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, serious, stylized, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, ufo, alien encounter, apocalypse, military, evil alien, survival, resistance, life is a bitch, human spirit ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.8
 59K
V (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a ...
Style: cliffhanger, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ufo, alien invasion, invasion, alien, fate of humanity, evil alien, alien encounter, conspiracy, fbi, uncover truth, world domination, disguise ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 7.1
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The Last Train (1999)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The Last Train is a British six-part post-apocalyptic television drama serial first broadcast on the ITV network in 1999. It has since been repeated on ITV2 in 1999/2001 and on numerous occasions on the UK Sci-Fi Channel. The serial was written by ...
Style: apocalyptic, gloomy, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, top secret, distopia, dystopia, end of the world, epidemic, wasteland, tribe, train ...
Time: future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.5
 640
Alien Outbreak (2020)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In a small rural community, local police officers Zoe and Patrick begin their shift as normal but soon, strange events unfold. Residents begin behaving erratically, and suicidal panic spreads amongst the township they are trying to protect. Zoe and ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: family outing
Plot: alien invasion, alien encounter, alien, invasion, space and aliens, ufo, alien civilization, alien contact, evil alien, survival, underground, struggle for survival ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 8.0
 3K
The Invaders (1967)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. ...
Style: apocalyptic, anthology, retro, serious, vintage
Audience: kids
Plot: evil alien, ufo, alien, alien invasion, post apocalypse, invasion, occult, magic, alien disguised as human, dystopia, architect, save the world ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Quiet Hour (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a remote part of rural, post-apocalyptic England, now occupied by unseen alien invaders, a feisty teenage girl sets out on a desperate attempt to fight back a group of bandits and defend her parents' farm, their remaining livestock, and the ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, apocalyptic, suspense
Plot: alien invasion, siblings, distopia, survival, evil alien, vestiges of humanity, teenager, struggle for survival, extraterrestrial, human alien relationship, alien encounter, against humanity ...
Time: future
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Childhood's End (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 247 min.
TV show
Story: After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
Style: philosophical, suspense, serious, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, space travel, demon, alien, space and aliens, technology, religion, humanity, science, danger, creativity, humanity in peril ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.0
 104
By Dawn (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A former marine suffering from severe PTSD prepares his family for war as the deadline for an alien invasion approaches.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, humanity in peril, survival, human versus alien, heroes, death, violence, chase, fear, panic ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Darkest Dawn (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Evacuated from their home, two teenage sisters unite with fellow survivors and escape London by river to embark on an odyssey across the badlands of Britain.
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, post apocalypse, sister sister relationship, found footage, military, survival, alien space craft, alien encounter, struggle for survival, resistance ...
Place: london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.9
 24K
Salvation (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, apocalyptic
Audience: adult
Plot: asteroid, end of the world, save the planet, apocalypse, comet, conspiracy, betrayal, investigation, disaster, danger, tragedy, escape ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 2.7
 1K
Taking Earth (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The human race is thrown into chaos as an alien invasion takes control of the planet in an effort to find one boy out of 7 billion people who holds the power to destroy them.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, tense, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, friendship, alien, human versus alien, alien attack, heroes, man versus machine, humanity in peril, rescue, fear, chase ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.9
 4K
UFO (1970)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In the year 1980 the Earth is threatened by an alien race who kidnap and kill humans and use them for body parts. A highly secret military organization is set up in the hope of defending the Earth from this alien threat. This organization is named ...
Style: apocalyptic, spooky, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: kids
Plot: ufo, alien contact, alien invasion, space, alien, spaceship, battles, evil alien, post apocalypse, extraterrestrial, space opera, aviation ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, near future
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Movie in collections
 7.3
 39K
Colony (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In the near future a family must make difficult decisions as they balance staying together with trying to survive. They live in Los Angeles, which has been occupied by a force of outside intruders. While some people have chosen to collaborate with ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot: alien invasion, rebellion, occupation, space and aliens, colony, distopia, danger, resistance, survival, evil alien, family in danger, intruder ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 2.7
 895
Alienate (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A couple on the brink of ending their marriage spend a weekend in different cities. After a cataclysmic event strikes, the husband embarks on a physical and emotional quest to return home as a nation prepares for the worst.
Style: scary, tense, psychological, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, husband wife relationship, human versus alien, chaos and mayhem, space and aliens, humanity, near death experience, alien contact, rescue, escape attempt, worldwide chaos ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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 ⇓
38%
Stargate Universe (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, tense, thrilling, cliffhanger ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: space travel, spacecraft, outer space, human existence, space opera, space and aliens, human in outer space, technology, military, alien planet, team, stargate ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.6
 6K
Outcasts (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Outcasts is a 2011 British television science-fiction drama serial, starring Liam Cunningham, Hermione Norris, Amy Manson, Daniel Mays, Jamie Bamber, Eric Mabius and Ashley Walters. It originally aired on BBC One, and BBC HD. It was broadcast in the ...
Style: contemplative, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Plot: space colony, survival, mysterious planet, distant planet, human nature, society, expedition, isolation, danger, hopes, chaos, epidemic ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Day of the Triffids (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: BBC mini-series remake of the 1962 original. When a comet blinds nearly everyone in the world, a genetically-engineered species of plant takes over.
Style: apocalyptic, serious, stylized, suspenseful, vintage
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, survival, alien invasion, distopia, disaster, epidemic, ufo, mushroom, politics, doomsday ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Great Martian War 1913–1917 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Documentary-drama recounting the Martian War of 1913–1917. Europe was on tenterhooks in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, everyone was expecting a Great War between the major European powers. But then, in 1913, something crashed into the forests ...
Style: mockumentary, tense, captivating, futuristic
Plot: fictional war, alien invasion, martian, giant robot, robot as menace, war, alien technology, found footage, alien robot, alien encounter, struggle for survival, fight ...
Time: 2010s, 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Interstellar Wars (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: For Millennia the Aliien force has watched and waited, a brooding menace that has now at last decided to take over the Earth. Communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference and this has turned into a ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, suspense ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, save the world, death, violence, chaos and mayhem, chase, evil alien, danger, survival, extraterrestrial, resistance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.7
 993
Alien Conquest (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sibling astronomers discover Martians are threatening to attack Earth, but no one believes them—until Martians land and nearly destroy all of New York City. As the siblings try to make it out of the city with their families, they discover the ...
Style: tense, futuristic, captivating, mockbuster
Plot: alien invasion, evil alien, space and aliens, alien encounter, chase, alien, struggle for survival, showdown, battles, alien contact, fight, combat ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.6
 97K
See (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, blindness, clan, distopia, blind character, tribe, warrior, blind man, medieval, lesbian, end of the world ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 2K
8 Days (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: With a huge asteroid rushing towards Europe, there are only eight days left till impact. In the face of the apocalypse everything changes; laws and rules are abandoned. Who can save themself, what is really important now?
Style: rough, psychological, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: end of the world, panic, destiny, danger, death, society, heroes, dishonesty, escapades, redemption, violence, ambition ...
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.9
 461
Drone Wars (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When drones arrive in a flash, slaughtering humanity and stripping the Earth of its resources, a small team of scientists hiding in Los Angeles works to expel the drone menace once and for all.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: drone, invasion, alien invasion, alien, fictional war, humanity in peril, man versus machine, society, destruction, panic, ufo, alien contact ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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