Movies like Pandora 2016
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Pandora (2016)
9K
Original name: 판도라
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
When an earthquake hits a Korean village housing a run-down nuclear power plant, a man risks his life to save the country from imminent disaster.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker, disaster movie
Plot:
nuclear power plant, disaster, nuclear holocaust, tragedy, small town, panic, survival, workplace, save the day, workplace situations, virus, epidemic, pandemic, infection, climate, threat, nuclear fallout, virus outbreak, corruption, earthquake, nuclear disaster, catastrophe, end of the world, nuclear, explosion ...
Place:
south korea, korea, indiana, busan
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Most similar movies to Pandora
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about disaster, survival, catastrophe, danger, apocalypse, natural disaster and panic mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Pandora: Emergency Declaration (2021), Deranged (2012), The Days (2023), The Tower (2012), Escape from Mogadishu (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded an international flight bound for the United States. When a healthy passenger on the same flight suddenly dies a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
airplane hijack, aviation, hijacking, passenger, airplane, crash landing, airport, terrorist, flying, terrorism, investigation, terror ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Plot:
parasite, epidemic, virus, survival, apocalypse, deadly virus, victim, drowning, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, pandemic ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Blamed by some, hailed as heroes by others, those involved with Fukushima Daiichi face a deadly, invisible threat — an unprecedented nuclear disaster.
Style:
tense, captivating, dark
Plot:
nuclear disaster, nuclear radiation, nuclear power plant, tragedy, disaster, nuclear power, radiation poisoning, flooding, radiation, nuclear, accident, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve at Tower Sky, an ultra-luxurious building complex, a White Christmas party is held to dazzle its equally high-end tenants and VIP guests. Dae-ho, the manager of the building and single father, is forced to cancel plans with his ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, christmas horror, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, skyscraper, catastrophe, firefighter, fire, tower, rescue, christmas, trapped, danger, survival, save the day ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Diplomats from the North and South Korean embassies in Somalia attempt a daring joint escape from Mogadishu when the outbreak of civil war leaves them stranded.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
inter-korean relations, escape, wartime, soldier, survival, diplomat, life is a bitch, society, wartime life, runaway, civil disobedience, escape attempt ...
Time:
90s, year 1991
Place:
somalia, south korea, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
disaster, oil rig, sea, catastrophe, north sea, ocean, submarine, oil industry, natural disaster, trapped, mission, trap ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake an tsunami in 2011.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, sincere
Plot:
nuclear disaster, nuclear power plant, nuclear radiation, japanese wife, nuclear power, japanese history, mishap, fukushima, grandfather, white house, flooding, businessman ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2011
Place:
japan, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
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, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, tsunami, catastrophe, panic, survival, evacuation, apocalypse, scientist, struggle for survival, water, giant wave ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A scientist (Gerald McRaney) perfects a tornado-warning system and tries to convince residents of a nearby town that a deadly twister is approaching.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, tension
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, weather, death threat, catastrophe, social problems, struggle for survival, small town, scientist, danger, man versus nature, twister ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
Style:
suspense, tension, tense, grim
Plot:
quarantine, disaster, cruise ship, virus outbreak, ocean, mutiny, mother daughter relationship, biohazard, confined, panic, isolation, pandemic ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The climate change has released an ancient rabies virus trapped in the Antarctica ice. A female scientist tries to get to the laboratory to create a cure to save the world, protected by an eccentric and two members of the special forces.
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
walking dead, infection, virus, deadly virus, apocalypse, fate of humanity, humanity in peril, undead, pandemic, humanity, death threat, vestiges of humanity ...
Similarity:
21%
16K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Infected through the respiratory system, there is a new kind of disease that kills in 36 hours once infected. The people of the city struggle to survive this. The worst epidemic ever seen is sweeping through Bundang, the suburb of Seoul. After ...
Style:
suspenseful, terrifying, serious, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
epidemic, quarantine, plague, deadly virus, virus, infected, disaster, survival, pandemic, infection, chaos, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
21%
43K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, living dead, death, virus, brutality, soldier, halloween, supernatural, plague ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
busan, korea, south korea, hong kong
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The president of the United States declares a state of emergency after a deadly virus developed as a bio-weapon is accidentally released across the globe.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
quarantine, bio weapon, pandemic, virus, terrorism, epidemic, virus outbreak, terrorist attack, disease, terrorist, deadly virus, terrorizing ...
Similarity:
20%
318
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A presumed virus outbreak during a flight from south Asia to Munich. Most of all, the scientific premise is utterly wrong. Retroviruses is shown as multiplying in erythrocytes, which lack a) DNA (necessary for retrovirus replication) and b) the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tension
Plot:
epidemic, airplane, quarantine, moral dilemma, disaster, isolation, passenger, pandemic, virus outbreak, deadly virus, isolated place, virus ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
20%
16K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A geologist races against time to save his estranged wife and two children when a devastating earthquake strikes Oslo, Norway.
Style:
suspense, breathtaking, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
disaster, catastrophe, earthquake, geologist, natural disaster, destruction, demolished city, kids in trouble, saving a life, distopia, teenager, angry ...
Time:
1900s
Place:
oslo norway
Similarity:
20%
11K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Frigga tries to balance her risky job as a security manager in the Kiirunavaara mine with her family life, her new love, and her ex, who doesn’t want to let go. But when the ground suddenly starts to shake under their feet, the puzzle of life ...
Style:
serious, bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
disaster, mine, job, family relations, survival, manager, family life, danger, workplace, miner, jeopardy, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
271
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When raw gold is discovered deep in the woods, a group of gold hunters arrive to mine it. Several neighbors in the area witness the hunters by chance and find themselves in danger. Among the witnesses, hunter Ki-sung risks his life to protect the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, brutal ...
Plot:
murder, hunting, survival, greed, forest, struggle for survival, murder witness, threat, witness, murderer, witnessing a crime, treasure hunt ...
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
20%
7K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Timely yet terrifying, The Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the ...
Style:
serious, talky, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, tornado, flood, natural disaster, race against time, rescue, epidemic, save the day, secret agent, danger, forces of nature ...
Place:
london, europe, england, big ben london, scotland
Similarity:
20%
404
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hotel guests become trapped by a raging fire.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fire, hotel, trapped, arson, deathtrap, trap, luxury hotel, struggle for survival, house fire, death threat, disaster, survival ...
Similarity:
20%
54K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.
Style:
suspense, exciting, disturbing, psychological, splatter ...
Plot:
zombie, survival, isolation, walking dead, infection, epidemic, apocalypse, zombie attack, zombie apocalypse, virus, zombie outbreak, zombie survival ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
seoul, south korea
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, tunnel, danger, disaster, rescue, life & death, catastrophe, hopes, car accident, confined, youth, christmas ...
Similarity:
20%
6K
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, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
virus, deadly virus, epidemic, infection, quarantine, pandemic, doctor, nurse, virus outbreak, danger, fate of humanity, infected ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
19%
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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 ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Plot:
small town, chores, homecoming, danger, dark past, troubled past, quarantine, female protagonist, fear, epidemic, survival, chaos and mayhem ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A woman desperately races to save her child after police place her hometown on lockdown due to an active shooter incident.
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
school shooting, race against time, child in peril, saving a life, rescue, problem, mother and son, child killer, parents and children, threat to kill, threat, kids in trouble ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
As a new day begins in the small American town of Minninnewah, the residents start their day as ordinary as the next. Mother Nature, however, has other plans for them. Inhabitants have just 13 minutes to seek shelter before the largest tornado on ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
natural disaster, bad weather, disaster, tornado, aftermath, gay relationship, rescue, race against time, small town, hiding place, survival, family relations ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
19%
325
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the beautiful underwater reefs off the coast of Florida's pastoral Pajaro Island, a fissure rips open in the ocean floor. When graduate student Greg Chambers encounters the seismic readings, he rushes to tell his professor, Anthony ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, harsh, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
disaster, survival, earthquake, resort, graduate student, small town, catastrophe, burned alive, ocean, professor, city, coastal town ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Man-sik and Yeon-hee, are unsure as to whether they can overcome past wounds and continue being a couple. Dr. Kim, who cautions against a possible mega-tsunami at Haeundae, collapses in agony springing from an unexpected turn-up of his daughter and ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tear jerker ...
Plot:
tsunami, lifeguard, disaster, forces of nature, natural disaster, demolished city, race against time, danger, post apocalypse, death of mother, survival, apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, busan, south korea, asia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
After a massive earthquake, only one apartment building is left standing in Seoul, South Korea. Outsiders flock to Hwang Gung Apartments, but residents can't cope with the increasing numbers.
Style:
psychological, captivating
Plot:
disaster, survival, escape, earthquake, food, community, crash survivor, catastrophe, life is a bitch, problem, apocalypse, dystopia ...
Place:
seoul, south korea, korea
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Lithuania, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An earthquake destroys a Russian Nuclear Power plant.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, natural disaster, save the day, daring rescue, danger, race against time, forces of nature, nuclear power plant, violent content, chases and races, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, russia
Similarity:
18%
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