Movies like Before the Fire

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Before the Fire (2020)
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Before the Fire (2020)
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 homecoming attracts a dangerous figure from her past – threatening both her and the family that serves as her only sanctuary.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, captivating, apocalyptic, tense
Plot: small town, homecoming, chores, danger, epidemic, quarantine, fear, female protagonist, dark past, troubled past, survival, chaos and mayhem, apocalypse, distopia, disaster, deadly virus, chore, bare chested male, virus, pandemic
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Before the Fire

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, captivating and suspense films with plots about apocalypse, epidemic, disaster, danger, distopia, survival and virus mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Before the Fire: Light of My Life (2019), Pandemic (2009), Deranged (2012), Diverge (2016), The Blackout (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Light of My Life (2019)
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, ambiguous ending, bleak, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot: post apocalypse, epidemic, father daughter relationship, virus, distopia, deadly virus, post apocalyptic, child in peril, forest, girl, immunity, parents and children ...
Time: year 2019
Place: persia
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 3.3
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Pandemic (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
Style: suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: quarantine, danger, plague, dishonesty, disaster, save the day, epidemic, virus, rivalry, apocalypse, disease, found footage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
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46%
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Deranged (2012)
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: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: parasite, epidemic, survival, virus, apocalypse, deadly virus, drowning, victim, pandemic, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.6
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Diverge (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
Style: suspense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: epidemic, virus, time travel, pandemic, choice, fate of humanity, scientific experiment, deadly virus, save the world, saving a life, struggle for survival, disaster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Blackout (2014)
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: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: post apocalypse, blackout, solar eclipse, struggle for survival, student, fight, survival, apocalypse, white trash, eclipse, pandemic, distopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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What Still Remains (2018)
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: apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, tense, intense
Plot: post apocalypse, community, secrets, survival, distopia, plague, female protagonist, religious, epidemic, dystopia, apocalypse, disaster ...
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40%
 3.6
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Empty (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: couple relations, chaos, social differences, on the road, couples, life is a bitch, danger, escapades, global warming, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.9
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Dragon Day (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: post apocalypse, invasion, escapades, chaos and mayhem, danger, immigrant, racism, society, government agency, unemployment, epidemic, distopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: china, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Toxin (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller
Plot: virus, conspiracy, vaccine, war veteran, scientist, danger, murder, supernatural, epidemic, apocalypse, distopia, bare chested male ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.2
 988
Storm War (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, humorous, tense, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, chaos, chaos and mayhem, danger, save the day, escapades, disorder, family relations, forces of nature, siblings relations, parents and children, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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37%
 2.2
 744
Zombex (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: ZOMBEX tells the story of a post-Katrina New Orleans as it deals with a new disaster, a zombie apocalypse. NOLA residents are no longer experiencing the depression and post-traumatic stress due to the trauma of the hurricane, thanks to the ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: zombie, chaos, supernatural, profanity, danger, escapades, anti depressant, post traumatic stress, fear, graphic violence, undead, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.1
 1K
Stormageddon (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human. When a master computer program, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, exciting, tense, disturbing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, robot, computer program, danger, chaos and mayhem, chaos, flood, military, rescue, air disaster, evacuation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Before the Fall (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A meteorite will destroy the world in three days. For Ale (Victor Clavijo), that means 72 hours of alone time, getting as drunk as possible. But when a mysterious drifter (Eduard Fernández) appears, the self-serving Ale faces a more immediate ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, futuristic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, criminal heroes, danger, chaos, rivalry, save the world, heroes, redemption, vengeance, small town life, disaster, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.8
 163
2084 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, mosquito, chaos, danger, plague, confined, apocalypse, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An outbreak of avian flu mutates into a virus that becomes transmittable from human to human.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: epidemic, virus, disease, disaster, quarantine, isolation, heroic mission, plague, experiment gone awry, chaos, heroes, danger ...
Place: usa, angola, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.7
 2K
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 ⇓
36%
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Pandemic (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: ER doctor Tsuyoshi Matsuoka receives a patient with a virus unlike anything he's seen before. His symptoms include high fever, convulsions, vomiting of blood and multiple organ failure. Could this be a new form of influenza or is it some other ...
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, psychological, sad
Plot: epidemic, quarantine, disaster, plague, disease, virus, infection, research, doctor, danger, investigation, society ...
Time: near future, 2010s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 2.5
 329
Lockdown 2025 (2021)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When martial law is declared, a family seeks shelter in the safety of its own home during a nationwide lockdown for a highly contagious virus.
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: distopia, biohazard, house, virus, coronavirus, evil, deadly virus, martial law
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Rubikon (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The company soldier Hannah and the scientists Gavin and Dimitri are researching an algae project on board the Rubikon space station, which is supposed to permanently supply humanity with oxygen and food. But suddenly the earth disappears below them ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: space station, planet, space, apocalypse, save the world, rescue, struggle for survival, fate of humanity, rescue mission, humanity, human in outer space, moral dilemma ...
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36%
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Virus (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A real life account of the deadly Nipah virus outbreak in Kerala, and the courageous fight put on by several individuals which helped to contain the epidemic.
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: virus, epidemic, deadly virus, infection, quarantine, pandemic, doctor, nurse, life is a bitch, infected, fate of humanity, plague ...
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36%
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
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35%
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Firequake (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the ...
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, fire, humanity in peril, chaos, rescue, danger, chaos and mayhem, survival, death, destruction, forces of nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Shelter (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, bleak
Plot: disaster, apocalypse, trapped, survival, post apocalypse, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, post nuclear, struggle for survival, epidemic, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Arctic Apocalypse (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A massive influx of glacial melting triggers a new ice age in the Northern Hemisphere, forcing a family to make their way across the ice-covered landscape before they are frozen out for good.
Style: disturbing, exciting, intense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ice age, natural disaster, disaster, forces of nature, arctic, survival horror, struggle for survival, destruction, family relations, cold, cold the temperature, husband and wife ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Disaster Wars: Earthquake vs. Tsunami (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Deep underwater in the Marianas Trench an accident results in a devastating Tsunami that destroys the Hawaiian Islands as it continues toward the west coast. Panic ensues all up and down the western coast of North and South America. In an attempt to ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, captivating, tense
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, earthquake, tsunami, panic, evacuation, water, scientist, giant wave, survival ...
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35%
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Infection (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, danger, social relations, dishonesty, love triangle, creature, infection, government coverup, survival, uncover truth, virus, pandemic ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Panic at Rock Island (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An island on spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun Top international artists. Tens of thousands of music fans from across the world Idyllic... Until unimaginable disaster strikes.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: chaos, plague, family in danger, danger, antidote, quarantine, murder, death, society, distopia, apocalypse, virus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.1
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Contagion (2002)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, bleak, intellectual
Audience: boys' night
Plot: quarantine, survival, save the day, terrorism, danger, bio weapon, state affairs, chaos, undercover, plague, antidote, deadly virus ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.0
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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 ⇓
34%
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