Movies and TV shows like The War of the Worlds 2019
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The War of the Worlds (2019)
11K
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, costume drama, frightening, bleak, suspense, tense, period piece, psychotronic, period drama, interesting
Plot:
alien invasion, alien attack, alien, end of the world, apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien race, martian, survival, ufo, fight, evil alien, alien robot, struggle for survival, alien encounter, showdown, fate of humanity, refugee, distopia, epidemic, invasion, puzzle, space program, propaganda, space ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 20th century, year 1900, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london
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Most similar movies to The War of the Worlds
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious and tense films and TV series with plots about distopia, epidemic, apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien invasion, survival and danger mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The War of the Worlds: Snowpiercer (2020), Monsters: Dark Continent (2014), The Tripods (1984), Survivors (2008), Survivors (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 50 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, serious, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
survival horror, alien contact, post apocalypse, alien abduction, post-apocalyptic future, interracial relations, alien attack, ex husband ex wife relationship, bonding, love interest, struggle for survival, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
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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, depressing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
train, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, rebellion, class system, inequality, disaster, distopia, humanity, forces of nature, caste system ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Jordan
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, stylized, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
creature, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, alien contact, military, giant monster, giant creature, evil alien, fictional war, missile, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, captivating, psychotronic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, distopia, post apocalypse, dystopia, bad guys win, post apocalyptic, space, apocalypse, bad guy, robot, epidemic ...
Time:
future
Place:
britain
Similarity:
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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, deadly virus, politician, pandemic, disaster, post apocalypse, danger, group of strangers, distopia, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – ...
Style:
apocalyptic, scary, bleak, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
epidemic, plague, apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, survival, virus outbreak, disaster, disease, vestiges of humanity, virus, distopia, crisis ...
Place:
britain, england, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
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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, futuristic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, end of the world, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, top secret, train, distopia, epidemic, dystopia, wasteland ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
38%
61K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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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:
suspenseful, cliffhanger, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, fate of humanity, evil alien, conspiracy, invasion, alien encounter, alien, fbi, world domination, disguise, space and aliens ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
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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, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
invasion, alien invasion, alien, alien encounter, space and aliens, ufo, alien civilization, alien contact, evil alien, survival, struggle for survival, underground ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 27 min.
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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, suspenseful, stylized, serious, vintage
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, comet, alien invasion, dystopia, post apocalyptic, mushroom, ufo, survival, distopia, disaster, blindness, politics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
37%
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, serious, stylized, saga, epic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, ufo, post apocalypse, apocalypse, military, alien encounter, evil alien, resistance, human spirit, chaos and mayhem, space and aliens ...
Time:
jurassic, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: 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, apocalypse, post apocalypse, found footage, sister sister relationship, alien invasion, military, survival, alien space craft, alien attack, resistance, alien encounter ...
Place:
london, united kingdom
Similarity:
37%
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:
disturbing, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
alien invasion, siblings, distopia, evil alien, survival, struggle for survival, against humanity, teenager, extraterrestrial, vestiges of humanity, alien attack, alien encounter ...
Time:
future
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Sci-Fi
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, retro, anthology, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
evil alien, ufo, alien invasion, post apocalypse, magic, alien disguised as human, flying saucer, dystopia, occult, invasion, architect, save the world ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Similarity:
36%
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, exciting, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, friendship, human versus alien, alien attack, man versus machine, heroes, humanity in peril, rescue, spacecraft, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 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, futuristic, thought provoking, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, science, demon, space travel, humanity, religion, alien, technology, space and aliens, adaptation, world domination, life philosophy ...
Time:
near future, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, israel
Similarity:
35%
5K
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:
spooky, apocalyptic, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien contact, alien invasion, alien, evil alien, spaceship, battles, post apocalypse, space opera, extraterrestrial, space program, aviation, magic ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, near future, year 1980
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
What if the Earth/Mars battle from H.G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds wasn't fiction but actually fact? Like the famous 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast that caused Americans to believe an actual invasion was in progress, the ...
Style:
tense, mockumentary, futuristic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
alien invasion, martian, extraterrestrial, evil alien, showdown, battles, found footage, war, alien contact, fight, against humanity, struggle for survival ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century
Similarity:
35%
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931
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:
psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, husband wife relationship, human versus alien, near death experience, worldwide chaos, heroes, family relations, alien creature, humanity in peril, escape attempt, alien contact ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
41K
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:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
alien invasion, occupation, rebellion, space and aliens, resistance, colony, danger, evil alien, distopia, family in danger, survival, intruder ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
35%
121
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:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, family relations, human versus alien, humanity in peril, survival, heroes, alien encounter, chaos and mayhem, post traumatic stress disorder, end of the world ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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:
futuristic, saga, exciting, tense, thrilling ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, human existence, human in outer space, spacecraft, space and aliens, space opera, outer space, technology, stargate, military, alien planet, space adventure ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s
Similarity:
35%
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:
34%
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46K
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:
atmospheric, captivating, exciting, apocalyptic, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
post apocalypse, virus, apocalypse, pandemic, survival, vestiges of humanity, brother sister relationship, illness, danger, distopia, life is a bitch, desperation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nanny, abbey, family relations, child abuse, spanish civil war, civil rights, human rights, colleague, feminist, butler, bittersweet, lifestyle ...
Time:
1900s, middle ages, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
34%
110K
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:
apocalyptic, exciting, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, blindness, survival, clan, distopia, blind character, medieval, warrior, tribe, blind man, lesbian, loss of eyesight ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
34%
25K
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, political drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
asteroid, save the planet, apocalypse, end of the world, comet, conspiracy, escape, atheism, betrayal, investigation, disaster, tragedy ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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, mysterious planet, survival, distant planet, society, human nature, expedition, isolation, chaos, danger, hopes, epidemic ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows ...
Style:
stylized, captivating, costume drama, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
businessman, high society, rise to the top, visionary, department store, success, materialism, lifestyle, ambitious, career, boss, manager ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, victorian era
Place:
england, london, britain
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
A look at strange paranormal events
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
paranormal phenomena, ghost, alien, ufo, supernatural ability, supernatural, supernatural power, deadly creature, violence, chase, curses spells and rituals, paranormal investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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