Movies like The Andromeda Strain 1971

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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
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The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scramble to a secure laboratory and try to first isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents..
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, tense, suspenseful, cerebral, atmospheric, talky, serious, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: deadly virus, disaster, plague, alien, medical, survival, laboratory, science, virus, infection, race against time, distopia, scientist, natural disaster, disease, small town, catastrophe, twists and turns, conspiracy, paranoia, space, pandemic, greed, research, alien invasion ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, distant future, year 1971, future, 50s, 1950s
Place: new mexico, usa
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Most similar movies to The Andromeda Strain

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and scary films with plots about danger, deadly, epidemic, apocalypse, dystopia, survival and monster mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Andromeda Strain: Warning Sign (1985), The Satan Bug (1965), Soylent Green (1973), The Stepford Wives (1975), The Manhattan Project (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Warning Sign (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
Style: slasher, sad, tech noir, scary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virus, epidemic, infection, disease, laboratory, biological warfare, crisis, infected, apocalypse, found footage, monster, bio weapon ...
Time: year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Satan Bug (1965)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The Satan Bug (1965) is a science fiction film in which a US government germ warfare lab has had an accident. The first theory is that one of the germs has been released and killed several scientists. The big fear is that a more virulent strain, ...
Style: cult classic, apocalyptic, action thriller, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biological warfare, virus, laboratory, dystopia, disaster, bio weapon, apocalypse, race against time, mad scientist, epidemic, deadly virus, blackmail ...
Time: 60s
Place: los angeles, florida, california, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.0
 70K
Soylent Green (1973)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Style: futuristic, mindfuck, twist ending, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: dystopia, food, cannibalism, distopia, cannibal, conspiracy, overpopulation, murder, environmental, post apocalyptic, death, police detective ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: robot, feminism, conspiracy, small town, housewife, women's liberation, suburbs, androids, social commentary, paranoia, utopia, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Andromeda Strain (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
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Story: A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, melancholic, harsh, stylized ...
Plot: virus, laboratory, pandemic, plague, bacteria, biohazard, infection, time travel, catastrophe, danger, cure, deadly virus ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, utah, shanghai, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, feel good, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: cold war, nuclear, teenager, military, atomic bomb, whistleblower, heist, nuclear holocaust, scientist, plutonium, laboratory, chase ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
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The Happening (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliott Moore (Mark Wahlberg) and his wife (Zooey Deschanel) flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it ...
Style: gloomy, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: virus, apocalypse, disaster, survival, end of the world, natural disaster, suicide, paranoia, catastrophe, chaos, graphic violence, plague ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, philadelphia, boston, usa, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cargo (2009)
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, suspense, philosophical, tense ...
Plot: space travel, outer space, spacecraft, isolation, space and aliens, dystopia, post apocalypse, distopia, uncover truth, danger, teleportation, alien ...
Time: future, 23rd century, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.4
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Brainstorm (1983)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Style: suspenseful, meditative, futuristic, philosophical, intense ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, experiment gone awry, imagination, conspiracy, transformation, uncover truth, dystopian future, mad scientist, rebellion, computer, dystopia ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1983
Place: england, london, europe, north carolina, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
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The Kindred (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with ...
Style: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, mutant, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, secrets, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Komodo vs. Cobra (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A team of environmentalists, including a reporter, her camera man, and an environmentalist's famous girlfriend charter a boat and with the captain, sail to a military island. They suspect the island is hosting to illegal activities. Upon ...
Style: suspenseful, natural horror, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: giant snake, giant animal, giant lizard, snake, scientist, laboratory, island, race against time, experiment gone awry, monster, dangerous animal, danger ...
Time: jurassic
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic ...
Plot: ufo, alien, alien abduction, alien encounter, alien contact, space and aliens, alien invasion, space, abduction, working class, investigation, murder ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Alien Lockdown (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After an experiment to make the ultimate weapon goes wrong, a team of commandos is sent into a genetic research lab and end up getting stalked by a creature that looks a lot like the Predator
Style: suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, fast ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: evil alien, experiment gone awry, soldier, heroic mission, supernatural, deadly creature, survival, gory, danger, save the world, mad scientist, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Patriot (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A deadly virus threatens to wipe out an entire Rocky Mountain town, leaving the town doctor to find some way to escape the soldiers who enforce the town's quarantine and devise an antidote. Matters take a more deadly turn after the physician is ...
Style: melancholic, exciting, serious, rough, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, small town, virus, doctor, death, epidemic, chase, indians, violence, fight scenes, father daughter relationship, hospital ...
Time: year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Living Hell (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in it's path.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: save the world, heroic mission, race against time, heroes, supernatural, rivalry, survival, experiment gone awry, government agency, danger, chases and races, escapades ...
Time: 60s, year 1969
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Eden Log (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and ...
Style: psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, isolation, memory loss, heroic mission, captivity, rivalry, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, life is a bitch, race against time ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.0
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Toxic Skies (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A doctor must find a cure for a viral epidemic that is spreading through vapors from jets.
Style: scary, exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Plot: disaster, dystopia, supernatural, save the world, life is a bitch, survival, dystopian future, escapades, chaos, danger, plague, terminal illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 8.2
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The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, alien, survival, creature, fear, body horror, paranoia, snow, supernatural, suspicion, ufo ...
Time: year 1982, 20th century, 80s
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 6.9
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Coma (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, neo noir, scary ...
Plot: conspiracy, medical, amateur detective, investigation, hospital, coma, serial killer, transplant, black market, danger, intern, twists and turns ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
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Hidden (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: virus, post apocalypse, epidemic, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, underground, twists and turns, infected, bomb shelter, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.0
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Prometheus (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: alien, space travel, survival, androids, outer space, robot, space and aliens, distant planet, expedition, alien encounter, spacecraft, alien life-form ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
 135K
Daybreakers (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style: futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, epidemic, vampirism, distopia, pandemic, apocalypse, dystopian future, cure, female vampire, virus, transformation ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, year 2019, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.2
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The Thing (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, alien, gory, alien invasion, deadly creature, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, survival, apocalypse, danger, transformation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 80s, year 1982 ...
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 5.6
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Black Death (1992)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On her way home in a plane to New York, the teenage Sarah gets very ill. She realizes too late that it's more than a cold and with her parents still on vacation, she breaks down in the middle of the street and dies shortly after in a hospital ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, apocalyptic
Plot: plague, hospital, disease, quarantine, infection, die hard, pandemic, virus, epidemic, disaster, terminal illness, race against time ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.0
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The Signal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style: futuristic, surreal, mindfuck, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: hacker, road trip, twists and turns, alien invasion, alien, computer hacker, alien contact, secret laboratory, cyborgs, space, alien abduction, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.0
 2K
Crawl or Die (2014)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, danger, chaos, alien, confined, escapades, soldier, monster, creature, death, evil alien, apocalypse ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.2
 117K
The 5th Wave (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, apocalyptic, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, end of the world, alien, invasion, virus, survival, post apocalypse, ufo, danger, obsessive quest, youth ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2016
Place: ohio, usa, bangkok thailand, tower bridge london, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Island of the Burning Damned (1967)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: island, alien, scientist, danger, supernatural, isolation, love triangle, investigation, monster, alien invasion, post apocalyptic, ufo ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Day of the Dead (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Day of the Dead is a horror film which is nominally a quasi-remake of George A. Romero's classic zombie film of the same name, which was the third in Romero's Dead series. The film is directed by Steve Miner (who also directed Friday the ...
Style: suspense, scary, stylized, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, virus, apocalypse, quarantine, infection, epidemic, small town, survival, survival horror, post apocalyptic, brutality, transformation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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