Movies like The Colony 2021
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The Colony (2021)
14K
Original name: Tides
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:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic, anamorphic
Plot:
space travel, water, distopia, post apocalypse, shipwreck, space colony, human existence, children, apocalypse, survival, spaceship crash, crash landing, spacecraft, female astronaut, trapped in space, dystopian future, female protagonist, cosmonaut, colony, humanity, problem, space exploration, starting over, struggle for survival, human in outer space ...
Time:
future, 2020s
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Most similar movies to The Colony
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic and tense films with plots about distopia, survival, apocalypse, epidemic, post apocalypse, disaster and dystopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Colony: Pandorum (2009), Stowaway (2021), The Last Scout (2017), Solis (2018), Air (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
167K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, survival, isolation, creature, outer space, danger, survival horror, deadly creature, spacecraft, post apocalypse, spaceship, monster ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1969
Similarity:
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56K
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, minimal cast, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space travel, outer space, spacecraft, trapped in space, mars, space, space exploration, astronaut, space adventure, teamwork, struggle for survival, team ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: 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, suspense
Plot:
mission, space travel, space mission, space colony, struggle for survival, fate of humanity, vestiges of humanity, human existence, dystopian future, astronaut, space adventure, epidemic ...
Time:
future, 21st century
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100%
4K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Following an accident, an Engineer of an asteroid mining company endures the extreme limits – both physical and psychological – of human survival, trapped inside an escape pod as he helplessly idles towards the Sun.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, neurotic, minimal cast
Plot:
rescue, space, spacecraft, race against time, death threat, struggle for survival, life risking, space station, cosmonaut, european, science, trapped ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
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13K
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:
suspense, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
isolation, bunker, science, humanity, freezing, distopia, dystopia, disaster, post apocalypse, contamination, apocalypse, trapped ...
Time:
future, 2010s
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100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style:
visually appealing, visually stunning, road movie, apocalyptic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, car, desert, apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, chase, on the run, dystopia, car chase, distopia, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2015, year 2016, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a nuclear war decimated the northern hemisphere, the surviving population in the south become desperate and violent competing for scarce resources. Society crumbles and an infectious bacteria threatens to destroy those who remain. In an ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
distopia, post apocalypse, eye, epidemic, sole survivor, child in peril, child, humanity in peril, struggle for survival, humanity, vestiges of humanity, human existence ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
Style:
apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, road movie ...
Plot:
dystopia, hidden truth, deception, government agent, dystopian future, life is a bitch, pursuit, runaway, human existence, life risking, conspiracy, single mother ...
Time:
2030s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, Romania
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A visually spectacular dystopian take on an Arab world torn apart by social disorder.
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, struggle for survival, life is a bitch, humanity, fate of humanity, cat versus mouse, city life, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
26%
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, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, end of the world, survivalist, survivor, survival horror, survival, characters in danger, dystopian future, virus, fate of humanity, vestiges of humanity ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After an unnatural event leaves mankind nearly extinct, a runaway girl and a rogue bounty hunter brave a dangerous wilderness to find a fabled sanctuary that can either save or destroy what's left of humanity.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
bounty hunter, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, vestiges of humanity, desert, outcast, wasteland, humanity, fate of humanity, unlikely hero ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, Hungary, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, suspense, dramatic, retro ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, epidemic, wilderness, end of the world, father daughter relationship, virus, survival, infection ...
Time:
future, 80s
Similarity:
24%
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, suspense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
space travel, astronaut, space colony, space station, post apocalypse, space exploration, nuclear radiation, spaceship, spacecraft, scientist, disaster, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
2020s, 2040s, 21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, action adventure, independent film, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, survival, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, nuclear holocaust, wasteland, distopia, canuxploitation, post nuclear, exploitation, nuclear explosion ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, future
Place:
nova scotia, russia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to ...
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
catastrophe, dangerous mission, ecological disaster, survival, earth, mission, rescue mission, experiment gone awry, save the world, struggle for survival, post apocalypse, genetic mutation ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to ...
Style:
exciting, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
end of the world, survival, underground city, danger, society, collision, space, jupiter, disaster, space station, astronaut, outer space ...
Time:
future
Place:
china, asia, russia, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 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, bad ending, suspense, saga ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, dystopia, ape, survival, astronaut, space adventure, genetics, dystopian future, alien planet, space travel, planet of the apes, distopia ...
Time:
future, year 2001, near future, 20th century, 2020s ...
Place:
washington d.c., north america
Similarity:
21%
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, apocalypse, asteroid, space and aliens, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, society, danger, heroes, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.
Style:
tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
alien planet, post apocalypse, distant planet, alien encounter, survival, deadly creature, monster, danger, outer space, rivalry, supernatural, murder ...
Time:
future, year 2014
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A millionaire philanthropist collects the famous Chrystal Skulls trying to tap into their ancient powers. It is up to a team lead by a college professor whose father disappeared searching for the 13th skull to save the world when the first 12 skulls ...
Style:
tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
natural disaster, archaeology, distopia, apocalypse, artifact, humanity in peril, save the world, foreknowledge, ancient, survival, forces of nature, civilization ...
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When drones arrive in a flash, slaughtering humanity and stripping the Earth of its resources, a small team of scientists hiding in Los Angeles works to expel the drone menace once and for all.
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
drone, invasion, end of the world, alien invasion, fictional war, alien technology, humanity in peril, man versus machine, human existence, fear, evil alien, destruction ...
Time:
future
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, exciting, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, border, alien monster, survival, danger, soldier, death, friendship, society, russian soldier, catastrophe, dystopia ...
Time:
future
Place:
eastern europe, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
20%
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, space travel, survival, chaos, danger, spouse in danger, technology gone awry, escapades, heroes, apocalypse, natural disaster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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27K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Lithuania, France, Belgium, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
distopia, dark future, teenage girl, woman, post apocalypse, dna, cyberpunk, hunger, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, experiment, man versus nature ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
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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:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of post-apocalyptic survivors, struggle to survive in a world where jungles and forests and primeval wetlands and deserts have obliterated civilization. They staunchly face genetically mutating beasts and mysterious diseases in an attempt to ...
Style:
stylized, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, melancholic ...
Plot:
jungle, post apocalypse, survival, virus, medieval, plague, deadly virus, post apocalyptic, isolation, dystopian future, wilderness, distopia ...
Time:
distant future, future
Similarity:
20%
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:
suspense, disturbing, futuristic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
space station, planet, apocalypse, space, space shuttle, save the world, rescue mission, moral dilemma, struggle for survival, humanity, human in outer space, fate of humanity ...
Similarity:
20%
583K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Iceland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, visually appealing, visually stunning, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopian future, alien invasion, survival, cloning, danger, space travel, dystopia, resistance, mysterious character, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future, year 2013, near future, year 2000, distant future ...
Place:
peru, seattle, empire state building manhattan new york city, new york, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
mars, space, spacecraft, space travel, robot, astronaut, survival, space opera, catastrophe, ecological disaster, space exploration, stranded ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, near future, 2020s ...
Place:
antarctica
Similarity:
20%
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:
suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, experiment gone awry, save the world, chaos, space travel, forces of nature, danger, time travel, escapades, alternate dimension, family drama, paranoia ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
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