Movies like War of the Worlds: Annihilation
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War of the Worlds: Annihilation (2021)
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A mother and son find themselves faced with a brutal alien invasion where survival will depend on discovering the unthinkable truth about the enemy.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, harsh, suspense, dark, mockbuster
Plot:
survival, catastrophe, alien invasion, alien attack, invasion, fantasy world, evil, good versus evil, monster, fight, rescue, disaster, life & death, mother son relationship, protective parent, family drama, post apocalyptic, isolation, first contact, conspiracy, evacuation, coming of age, world war, mother, hopes ...
Time:
near future
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Most similar movies to War of the Worlds: Annihilation
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and captivating films with plots about survival, disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, alien, alien invasion and rescue mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like War of the Worlds: Annihilation: Alien: Rubicon (2024), Super Volcano (2022), Agent Revelation (2021), Nuclear Hurricane (2007), Transmorphers: Mech Beasts (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An alien spacecraft lands near New York and destroys everything as it heads toward Washington D.C. If it reaches the capital, it will trigger an invasion. Scientists and the military must stop it before it's too late.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, apocalyptic, mockbuster ...
Plot:
alien invasion, extraterrestrial, president, survival, military, disaster, catastrophe, teamwork, first contact, evacuation, alien, apocalypse ...
Place:
washington d.c., new york
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a super-volcano threatens the island of Hawaii, a team of rescue and disaster experts who are called in to help must race against the clock to save those in the path of the molten lava and stop the volcano for good.
Style:
captivating, exciting, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
disaster, volcano, natural disaster, rescue, lava, island, salvation, rescue mission, lifeguard, rescue attempt, tropical island, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, pacific ocean
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An ancient dust that controls humans is unleashed, but mysteriously affects Jim Yung who gains superpowers. Jim is taken to an underground base where he's trained to be an operative to take on an imminent alien threat and learn why aliens have ...
Style:
captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
supernatural, alien, heroes, supernatural ability, alien invasion, super powers, superhero, superpower, secret agent, special agent, protector, save the world ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Linda is trapped when the nuclear power plant in which she works threatens a meltdown, while her girlfriend takes on a major storm which could destroy their island home.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, bleak, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, hurricane, storm, artificial intelligence, nuclear power plant, lesbian, computer, race against time, nuclear, power plant, computer system, evil computer ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
20 years after the events of Transmorphers, a newer, more advanced species of alien robot descends on a rebuilt Earth, threatening once again to destroy the planet.
Style:
mecha, captivating, dark, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
robot, alien invasion, giant robot, invasion, extraterrestrial, earth, robot as menace, alien technology, battles, human versus robot, alien, alien encounter ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A small team of scientists must race against time to stop what seems to be a cascade of global disasters signaling the possible apocalypse and end of days.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, harsh, dramatic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disaster, forest, storm, volcano, soldier, scientist, rescue, natural disaster, doomsday, post apocalyptic, chaos, survival ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A scientist races the clock in an attempt to save Earth from a series of deadly meteor attacks.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
meteor shower, rescue, meteorite, disaster, save the world, earth, planet, salvation, scientist, planet earth, save the planet, catastrophe ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As a megaquake threatens San Francisco, a series of foreshocks wreaks havoc across the city. Now, an elite team of emergency service and disaster experts converge on the anticipated epicenter, working tirelessly to save as many lives as possible and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, rescue, nature, rescue mission, lifeguard, forces of nature, rescue attempt, man versus nature, salvation, lifesaver, search and rescue ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A massive meteor threatens to destroy planet Earth, so scientists try to stop it with high-powered lasers.
Style:
apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
meteorite, save the world, asteroid, disaster, salvation, humanity in peril, humanity, scientist, planet, earth, rescue, planet earth ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
48%
366
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a devastating winter storm freezes over the whole of North Carolina, climatologists and disaster relief experts are called in before the entire East Coast is destroyed.
Style:
exciting, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, ice, weather, snow, cold, cataclysm, extreme weather, freezing, science ...
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
47%
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:
47%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mankind must fight to survive as Earth is invaded by hostile UFOs bent on destroying the planet. As the epic battle wages on, astronauts sneak aboard the mothership where they discover a portal to the aliens' home world. They manage to alert ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, mockbuster, tense ...
Plot:
alien invasion, space and aliens, evil alien, chaos, escapades, race against time, battles, danger, heroes, rescue, astronaut, epidemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
47%
648
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Earth's position in the universe has become of vital strategic importance to those who have, until now, only studied us from the far reaches of space. Knowing our weaknesses, they have planned their attack, and now, in just 5 days, life on ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
alien invasion, ufo, apocalypse, human versus alien, alien attack, alien technology, society, end of the world, chase, mercilessness, alien race, humanity ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
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:
43%
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:
43%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man's wife was abducted by aliens ten years ago during a car accident which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Given up on life, he has become consumed with only one mission: finding his wife.
Style:
bleak, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien abduction, car, extraterrestrial, kidnapped wife, abduction, alien contact, kidnapped, car rollover, paraplegic, alien encounter, obsessive quest, accident ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An airliner filled with 800 passengers is forced to fly fast and low, above farmlands, suburbs and skyscraper-packed cities or the tons of explosives aboard will detonate. When an elite unit of US Air Force fighter jets is sent to provide escort, ...
Style:
suspense, harsh, serious, tense, tension ...
Plot:
military, aerial combat, survival, pilot, terrorist, bomb, aviation, catastrophe, fight, fight scenes, battles, hostage situation ...
Similarity:
40%
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:
39%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a seemingly abandoned alien spacecraft is discovered orbiting Neptune, a top secret expedition is sent to investigate. In the derelict hulk they discover two surviving alien life forms telepathically linked to one other. 13 years later a ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, action thriller ...
Plot:
extraterrestrial, alien, military, female fighter, monster, female fight, island, alien contact, space and aliens, alien encounter, alien monster, spacecraft ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
39%
494
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When an apocalyptic event strikes, a group of people caught on the outside of civilization must take a perilous journey to find refuge.
Style:
apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
end of the world, disaster, lightning, acid, survival, extinction, journey, apocalypse, illness, lightning strike, disease, natural disaster ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two aliens who crash on Earth must find a buried weapon that will destroy the planet and their own society if not stopped.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space and aliens, evil alien, benign alien, race against time, danger, good versus evil, chases and races, alien invasion, brother brother relationship, space, visitor, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three young astronomers fight to survive a deadly Martian invasion.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, intense, fast paced ...
Plot:
alien invasion, martian, evil alien, alien conspiracy, astronomer, survival, disaster, fight, alien contact, alien encounter, alien creature, alien life-form ...
Similarity:
36%
496
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When three campers witness an alien mothership descending on their town and turning the population into "Altered" human beings, they team up with a reclusive stranger who offers to guide them to safety. As they're chased deep into the ...
Style:
suspenseful, mysterious, captivating, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
alien invasion, forest, survival, zombie, disaster, struggle for survival, alien, alien encounter, alien contact, infected, chase, escape ...
Similarity:
35%
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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:
35%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In a white hot flash of light, and with no warning, one minute our moon is there, the next it's gone. Then, a second flash. And that's the last thing anyone on Earth can remember. 11 months later, it's not post- apocalyptic; it's ...
Style:
tense, exciting, bleak, futuristic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, post apocalypse, time travel, moon, dystopian future, life is a bitch, danger, catastrophe, society, rescue, brutality, hopes ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The sky is literally falling in this thriller as one of the nation's leading astronomers, Madison Kelsey believes she is tracking a huge rogue asteroid rocketing toward earth. However, she can't get anyone in authority to take her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, erotic, tense, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, gay, save the world, heroic mission, survival, escapades, danger, race against time, rescue, space travel, lgbt, scientist ...
Similarity:
34%
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:
disturbing, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
alien invasion, siblings, distopia, evil alien, survival, struggle for survival, against humanity, teenager, extraterrestrial, vestiges of humanity, alien attack, alien encounter ...
Time:
future
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
33%
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, bleak, captivating, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
martial law, distopia, pandemic, quarantine, deadly virus, biohazard, house, virus, evil, coronavirus, isolation, fear ...
Similarity:
33%
94K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight ...
Style:
suspense, futuristic, apocalyptic, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
ufo, apocalypse, evil alien, alien invasion, alien, alien abduction, space and aliens, vestiges of humanity, alien encounter, fantasy world, creature, catastrophe ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, california, london ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this Earth.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, airport, supernatural, tough heroes, prisoner, alien, confined, survival, danger, criminal, alien encounter, isolation ...
Similarity:
33%
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