Movies and TV shows like War of the Worlds 2019
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War of the Worlds (2019)
20K
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:
serious, suspense, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, tense, captivating, psychotronic
Plot:
survival horror, alien contact, post apocalypse, alien abduction, post-apocalyptic future, interracial relations, alien attack, ex husband ex wife relationship, love interest, bonding, apocalypse, supernatural, disaster, struggle for survival, evil alien, space, dystopia, fight, space and aliens, alien technology, alien encounter, love, distopia, epidemic, space program ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to War of the Worlds
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out apocalyptic, suspenseful, serious and exciting films and TV series with plots about post apocalypse, distopia, apocalypse, danger, survival, epidemic and post-apocalyptic future mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like War of the Worlds: See (2019), Outcasts (2010), Earth: Final Conflict (1997), The Rain (2018), Childhood's End (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien attack, alien, end of the world, apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien race, martian, survival, ufo, fight, evil alien ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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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:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, alien invasion, alien contact, spaceship, space, space opera, evil alien, rebellion, conspiracy, alien, space program, woman with a gun ...
Similarity:
100%
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46K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 45 min.
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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:
100%
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:
100%
10K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
Style:
futuristic, captivating, exciting, tense, sad
Plot:
alien encounter, federal bureau of investigation, alien technology, alien space craft, alien race, cia agent, government coverup, alien, investigation, teamwork, paranormal investigator, uncover truth ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Defiance is an American science fiction television show that takes place in the future on a radically transformed Earth containing new species arriving from space. In the show, Joshua Nolan works as the lawman for the town of Defiance, a community ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, serious, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
interspecies romance, alien, alien invasion, post apocalypse, escapades, lesbian, danger, enemy, ex military, law enforcement, survival, mayor ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
time travel, epidemic, dystopian future, changing the past or future, sent to the past, existence paradox, time machine, post apocalypse, virus, paradox, apocalypse, plague ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.”
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
ufo, physicist, political conspiracy, alien, state affairs, alien abduction, investigation, alien conspiracy, government agency, paranormal activity, alien contact, space and aliens ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
71K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time traveler, undercover, consciousness, artificial intelligence, time paradox, sent to the past, hopes, police detective, changing the future, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
north america
Similarity:
100%
27K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
The Event is an emotional, high-octane conspiracy thriller that follows Sean Walker, an everyman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of his would-be fiancée Leila, and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.
Style:
captivating, exciting, mind bending, serious, non-linear ...
Plot:
conspiracy, alien contact, twists and turns, secret movement, government agency, extraterrestrial, president, missing person, space and aliens, alien, virus, top secret ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, 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:
34%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
400 years after the extinction of the human race, a small group of humans are revived by an alien civilization. The colony of revived humans encounter struggles with the aliens who extinguished humankind centuries before, while trying to understand ...
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, vestiges of humanity, humanity, human existence, humanity in peril, fate of humanity, struggle for survival, human experiment, starting over, endangered species, space and aliens, against humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
utah
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
When the sun suddenly starts killing everything in its path, passengers on an overnight flight from Brussels attempt to survive by any means necessary.
Style:
unusual plot structure, apocalyptic, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sun, apocalypse, airplane, hijacking, survival, end of the world, distopia, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, worldwide chaos, flying, airplane trip ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
32%
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:
32%
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61K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style:
captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, disaster, small town, danger, chaos, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, conspiracy, distopia, leadership ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
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:
31%
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:
31%
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:
31%
31K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
scientist, deadly virus, virus, survival, dna, danger, pandemic, quarantine, save the day, zombie, arctic, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
Style:
exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, infection, epidemic, survival horror, pandemic, post-apocalyptic future, survivor, violence, vestiges of humanity, zombie ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
usa, north america
Similarity:
30%
26K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
An astronaut returns home from a year long solo mission in space. She tries to reconnect with her husband and son in their everyday life. Her experiences in space and home lead to events that ultimately will change the course of human history.
Style:
futuristic, spooky, stylized, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, androids and robots, astronaut, space and aliens, scientist, family relations, fear, fate of humanity, parents and children, haunted by the past, artificial insemination, space ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, life is a bitch, pregnancy, escapades, danger, society, dystopian future, babies and infants, post nuclear, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Space: Above and Beyond is a short-lived mid-1990s American science fiction television show on the FOX Network, created and written by Glen Morgan and James Wong. Originally planned for five seasons, it ran only for the single 1995–1996 season. It ...
Style:
apocalyptic, atmospheric, thrilling, cliffhanger, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space and aliens, alien, space wars, evil alien, space, space opera, alien invasion, space program, space adventure, spaceship, military, battles ...
Time:
future, 90s
Similarity:
29%
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:
29%
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