Movies like The Midnight Sky
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The Midnight Sky (2020)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, tricky, inspirational, touching, enigmatic, emotional, scenic
Plot:
space travel, space station, astronaut, survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, nuclear radiation, space colony, scientist, space exploration, disaster, space, spacecraft, dream, hallucination, terminal illness, mass death, space adventure, suspense, monster, distopia, nature, writers, father daughter relationship, isolation ...
Time:
2040s
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Most similar movies to The Midnight Sky
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, futuristic, captivating and thought provoking films with plots about suspense, survival, space, space travel, astronaut, science and apocalypse mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Midnight Sky: Gravity (2013), Interstellar (2014), The Martian (2015), Ad Astra (2019), Marooned (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, scenic, breathtaking, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
space, isolation, survival, astronaut, space station, catastrophe, space travel, disaster, sole survivor, stranded, survivor, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, houston texas
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1.9M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
space, time travel, space travel, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, distopia, survival, scientist, space station, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
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100%
869K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style:
futuristic, biting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens
Plot:
survival, mars, isolation, nasa, science, stranded, space travel, astronaut, scientist, space, left for dead, food shortage ...
Time:
2030s, future, 21st century
Place:
china, london, usa, houston texas, beijing china ...
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100%
243K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style:
exciting, futuristic, touching, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space exploration, space, moon, solar system, astronaut, obsession, father son relationship, journey, space pirate, space station, trapped in space, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, futuristic, melancholic ...
Plot:
nasa, astronaut, space travel, space, rescue, survival, suspense, stranded, spacewalk, race against time, escapades, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, future, 70s, 60s
Place:
antarctica, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Films like Interstellar
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future: after a global catastrophe has wiped out nearly all of humanity on Earth, an elite astronaut from Space Colony Kepler must make a decision that will seal the fate of the people on both planets.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, anamorphic
Plot:
space travel, post apocalypse, water, distopia, shipwreck, space colony, human existence, suspense, crash landing, children, apocalypse, survival ...
Time:
future
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44%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Style:
futuristic, serious, atmospheric, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mars, space travel, astronaut, alien, suspense, space station, space, spacecraft, mysterious planet, trapped in space, alien encounter, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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43%
255K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style:
futuristic, psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot:
space travel, suspense, end of the world, space, sun, astronaut, spacecraft, heroic mission, self sacrifice, survival, expedition, trapped in space ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind ...
Style:
suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, thought provoking, sinister ...
Plot:
apocalypse, distopia, post apocalypse, survival, isolation, suspense, humanity, science, freezing, disaster, alternate reality, alone in the world ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
35K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, thought provoking, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, exodus, extinction, save the world, escape, scientist, distant planet, science, destruction, disaster, apocalypse ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Films like I Am Legend
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Style:
tense, rough, intense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
alien, space station, trapped in space, alternate dimension, space, alternate reality, parallel universe, scientist, suspense, monster, alternate world, parallel world ...
Time:
near future, future, 2000s, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
433K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous ...
Style:
exciting, sentimental, entertaining, apocalyptic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, nasa, astronaut, space travel, space, save the world, race against time, suspense ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., paris france, usa, france ...
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42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, entertaining, serious ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, natural disaster, post apocalypse, end of the world, apocalypse, climate change, environmental, nature, scientist, stranded, global warming ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, washington d.c., antarctica, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Romania, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
With the human race's future at stake, a group of young men and women embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they become helpless for pleasure, hunger, and power once ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
space travel, alien planet, spacecraft, space, space exploration, sexual behavior, distant planet, escapades, space and aliens, psychopath, rescue, society ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe
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41%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, space horror, psychotronic ...
Plot:
asteroid, survival, space travel, spacecraft, astronaut, space, survivor, rescue, suspense, oxygen, disaster, venus the planet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The Tomorrow War related movies
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, tense, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Plot:
space travel, space, spacecraft, isolation, post apocalypse, distopia, uncover truth, teleportation, space and aliens, alien, suspense, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, 23rd century
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40%
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, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, father daughter relationship, epidemic, distopia, deadly virus, virus, child in peril, forest, girl, immunity, parents and children, survival ...
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40%
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
This is a sequel to 2001 A Space Odyssey. It is now 2010 and both the Americans and the Russians are racing to get to Jupiter to investigate the black monolith (similar to the one found in Lunar Crater Clavius) which was found by the U.S.S. ...
Style:
futuristic, intellectual, stylized, light, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space, ghost ship, astronaut, space travel, distopia, space and aliens, nasa, alien, space opera, space exploration, mars, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
future, year 1984, year 2010, near future, 80s ...
Place:
new mexico, washington d.c., ussr, paris france, tower bridge london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
trapped in space, mars, space, survival, space travel, hopes, distant planet, near death experience, astronaut, isolation, nasa, escapades ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
280K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, inspirational, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
science, nasa, scientist, first contact, alien encounter, space travel, religion, space and aliens, alien contact, benign alien, alien, intelligence ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
puerto rico, new mexico, washington d.c., usa, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Movies similar to Passengers
416K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style:
futuristic, romantic, scenic, dramatic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
space, isolation, survival, trapped in space, love story, space travel, loneliness, love, space station, space program, malfunction, spacecraft ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 2065, the crew of the Pegasus are searching for a new home for humanity. As they approach their potential new world, the discovery of another ship could be the key to their salvation, or doom them and the rest of humanity to extinction.
Style:
captivating, disturbing
Plot:
mission, future dystopia, survival, space mission, struggle for survival, space travel, human existence, vestiges of humanity, fate of humanity, post apocalypse, space colony, survivor ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
182K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
touching, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, suspense, nasa, apocalypse, extinction, save the world, president, survival, life & death ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., virginia, tucson arizona, langley virginia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led ...
Style:
futuristic, twist ending, intense, bad ending, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, time travel, astronaut, distopia, monkey, future dystopia, genetics, suspense, survival, alien planet, greed, stranded ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 2020s, distant future, 2000s
Place:
washington d.c., north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
5K
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of astronauts living in the haunting emptiness of deep space awakens to find earth has suffered an extinction-level event.
Style:
exciting, visually appealing, suspenseful, futuristic, disturbing
Plot:
spacecraft, space, asteroids and comets, trapped in space, survival, astronaut, space shuttle, space station, disaster, space travel, space program, hopes ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Movies like Moonfall
301K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Canada, Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from ...
Style:
factual, realistic, suspenseful, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, boys' night
Plot:
astronaut, survival, nasa, space, race against time, disaster, space travel, rescue, space exploration, moon, space program, trapped in space ...
Time:
70s, 60s, year 1969, year 1970, future ...
Place:
houston texas, usa, pacific ocean, texas, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, communication, virus, survival, bunker, quarantine, trapped, deadly virus, suspense, disappearance, struggle for survival, epidemic ...
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39%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, thought provoking, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
space travel, astronaut, space, artificial intelligence, scientist, computer, surrealism, human versus computer, technology, evolution, self discovery, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 1930s, prehistory, 2000s ...
Place:
vatican
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
After a massive alien artifact lands on Earth, Niko Breckinridge leads an interstellar mission to track down its source and make first contact.
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, touching, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot:
space, space mission, space travel, spacecraft, alien, astronaut, space shuttle, gay, space exploration, survival, heroic mission, teamwork ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, ship, storm at sea, storm, forces of nature, shipwreck, fish, sea, ocean, fishing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, atlantic ocean, boston, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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