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Higher Power (2018)
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Higher Power (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When the Universe decides what it wants, it's pointless to resist. With his family's life at stake, Joseph Steadman finds himself the unwilling test subject of a maniacal scientist in a battle that could save the world – or destroy it.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
Audience: teens
Plot: scientist, psychopath, violence, murder, brutality, danger, confined, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, insanity, isolation, victim, strong violent content, body horror, apocalypse, epidemic, heroes, disaster, battles, crimes, battle
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, tense and serious films with plots about danger, apocalypse, disaster, heroes, epidemic, survival and escapades mostly in Thriller, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Higher Power: Tail Sting (2001), Oceans Rising (2017), 2012: Supernova (2009), Amityville Island (2020), 40 Days and Nights (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tail Sting (2001)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A pack of massive genetically altered Scorpions escape containment on an airplane, turning passengers into victims and forcing one ordinary woman to confront her worst fears.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary, natural horror ...
Plot: creature feature, giant insect, murder, scientist, genetics, scorpion, killer animal, airplane, creature, aviation, disaster, monster ...
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Oceans Rising (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A scientist builds a massive ark after his warnings of an Earth-destroying flood are ignored. But when it's evident the disaster will occur, those who maligned the scientist now turn to him in desperation, boarding the ark and seeking his ...
Style: apocalyptic, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, boat, scientist, sea, hopes, danger, adaptation, society, destiny, heroes ...
Time: future, year 2017
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43%
2012: Supernova (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two hundred years ago a supernova exploded somewhere in the Lyra constellation. Now the lethal burst of radiation is headed straight for Earth, and time is swiftly running out. The only thing standing between humanity and complete devastation is ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, save the world, heroic mission, danger, save the planet, race against time, heroes, scientist, apocalypse, society, epidemic, dystopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Amityville Island (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A cursed survivor of killings at the Amityville House brings evil to a small island where bizarre genetic experiments are carried out on humans and animals.
Style: psychotronic, exciting, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: shark, curse, mad scientist, evil, monster, murder, supernatural, characters in danger, peril, experiment gone awry, scientist, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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40 Days and Nights (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can, while the military creates an "ark" in a desperate attempt to preserve life on Earth.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, mockbuster, independent film
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, mass destruction, save the day, survival, chaos and mayhem, chaos, danger, chases and races, forces of nature, escapades, scientist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
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Biohazard: Patient Zero (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Two young scientists are swept up in a government plot to suppress the truth about a biological disaster at a genetic research facility.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, exciting, serious ...
Plot: survival, danger, gory, chaos, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, escapades, hidden truth, conspiracy, experiment gone awry, scientist, explorer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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31%
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After Effect (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: experiment gone awry, survival, confined, danger, chaos, murder, student, zombie, violence, military, violent content, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Super Cyclone (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a super cyclone threatens the entire American eastern seaboard, a lone meteorologist and a petroleum engineer must battle the elements to stop the threat.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, mockbuster
Plot: disaster, tornado, forces of nature, heroes, danger, evacuation, chases and races, escapades, lava, chase, partner, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Supercollider (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scientist working on an energy project discovers his family have undergone strange changes in their personalities, while a series of natural disasters are happening across the globe. He realises that his work has accidentally pushed the planet ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, experiment gone awry, save the world, forces of nature, chaos, space travel, danger, time travel, escapades, distopia, epidemic, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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28%
Independence Daysaster (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Earth is attacked by a hostile alien force, a small town firefighter and a rogue SETI scientist team up to activate the only technology capable of defeating the invaders.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: save the world, danger, space and aliens, escapades, extraterrestrial, secret service, disaster, evil alien, space, epidemic, distopia, natural disaster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Judgment Day (1999)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge pieces of interstellar debris on a path headed straight for Earth. A scientist has designed a system that would stop the largest meteor fragments from ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, futuristic, suspenseful, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: disaster, terrorism, asteroid, outer space, post apocalypse, die hard, dystopia, hostage, kidnapping, one man army, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Bats: Human Harvest (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of Delta Force soldiers, accompanied by a CIA agent, are sent to the Belzan forest in Chechnya in search of a rogue American weapons researcher, Dr. Benton Walsh. As they search for Walsh's camp, they are attacked by genetically-altered ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: creature feature, soldier, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, survival, escapades, deadly creature, heroes, danger, supernatural, terrorism ...
Time: jurassic, 2000s
Place: russia, chechnya
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27%
Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A stolen seismic weapon is activated in Yemen. A hostage freed there tries in vain to warn against its global effect. It starts seismic activity at the Californian fault line where her daughter and ex are monitoring it. Can they stop it?
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, heroes, super weapon, humanity in peril, family relations, demolished city, society, flood, destruction, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Sadist (2015)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A combat veteran, with serious psychological damage, stalks campers and hunters in the woods.
Style: slasher, psychotronic, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, war veteran, survival horror, murder, mystery killer, violence, brutality, strong violent content, sadism, danger, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Meteor Apocalypse (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Style: exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, asteroid, meteor shower, space and aliens, apocalypse, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, danger, society, heroes ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california
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Dark Light (2019)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
Style: suspense, bleak, scary, suspenseful, disturbing
Audience: teens
Plot: paranormal activity, murder, night, supernatural, survival, danger, family in danger, ghost, trapped, insanity, nightmare, violence ...
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MegaFault (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
Style: exciting, serious, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, apocalypse, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat ...
Time: 21st century
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25%
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Alien Siege (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After an alien spacecraft destroys Washington, D.C., the residents of a small town must fight off a unit of alien soldiers on the hunt for the President of the United States and the mysterious device he's carrying after his escape chopper crash ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: alien invasion, soldier, siege, alien, satire, humanity in peril, alien encounter, alien attack, heroes, space and aliens, violence, war ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Atlantic Rim: Resurrection (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When huge bio-mechanical monsters descend upon the earth ready to destroy the entire city of Los Angeles, a whole new team of top notch "M-bot" pilots take control of their supercharged robot warriors and try to save the world from being ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, giant monster, alien invasion, killer robot, kaiju, monster, humanity in peril, danger, evil alien, panic, alien creature, war ...
Time: future
Place: usa
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Cell Count (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Russell Carpenter reluctantly admits his wife Sadie into an experimental treatment facility for her life threatening disease. While locked in this prison like surrounding they, along with 6 others, are unknowingly subjected to a cure that might just ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Plot: human experiment, medical experiment, isolation, sick woman, rescue, husband wife relationship, body horror, experiment gone awry, murder, hospital, distopia, fear ...
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23%
Edge of Extinction (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: 15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying ...
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, survivalist, end of the world, survivor, survival horror, characters in danger, survival, dystopian future, virus, society, panic ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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23%
Seeds of Destruction (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the seeds from the original Garden of Eden are carelessly released into today's toxic climate, the plant is transformed by our contaminated environment into a writhing mass of foliage that wreaks havoc over earth.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, ecological disaster, save the world, forces of nature, danger, escapades, inventions and discoveries, experiment gone awry, environmentalist, heroes, creature feature, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
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Crawl or Die (2014)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, chaos, alien, confined, escapades, soldier, monster, creature, death, evil alien, apocalypse ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Caught Inside (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Surfing charters are meant to be a trip to Paradise. With six male surfers stuck on a boat, there's bound to be some friction. When two of the surf crew are replaced at the last minute with girls - the heat is turned way up. The one single girl ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: surfing, survival, trapped, danger, rivalry, isolation, ocean, losing-it hero, confined, psychopath, ship, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia
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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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22%
End of the World (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In End of the World, the fate of humanity lies in the hands of two guys who run a video rental store and are “sci-fi obsessed” movie fans. And who better to save the world, than guys who have seen all the movies and all the “out there” ways ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, psychotronic, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, natural disaster, save the world, heroes, danger, forces of nature, global warming, catastrophe, death, society, destruction ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Exploding Sun (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 174 min.
Story: The world watches in awe as the Roebling Clipper is launched into space. Using state-of-the-art scalar engines to fly around the Moon and back in just hours, the maiden voyage of the first-ever trans-lunar passenger ship is about to make history. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: disaster, sun, survival, space travel, save the world, technology gone awry, spouse in danger, chaos, danger, escapades, outer space, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Attack of the Unknown (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A SWAT team transporting a vicious crime syndicate boss must fight their way out of a county detention center during a catastrophic alien invasion.
Style: suspense, scary, tense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ufo, evil alien, alien invasion, swat team, alien, extraterrestrial, murder, space and aliens, escapades, danger, society, save the world ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
San Andreas Mega Quake (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Scientists make a horrible discovery: The "Big One" is coming in two days, with it, California will sink to the ocean. Their only hope is to rupture a volcano that will displace the earthquake's energy and build a new crust on the ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, demolished city, death, fire, survival, apocalypse, violence, humanity in peril, vestiges of humanity, end of the world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Polar Storm (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a piece of the massive comet "Copernicus" collides with the Earth, it knocks the planet off of its axis and unleashes a disaster never before witnessed. Dr. James Mayfield (Jack Coleman) and his highly trained research team are the ...
Style: exciting, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, collision, comet, natural disaster, forces of nature, danger, family relations, one last chance, save the day, survival, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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