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Scorched (2008)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a climate change ravaged world in 2012, after 240 days without rain Sydney has only two weeks of water left. When the city is then ringed by severe bushfires, the question becomes, how do you fight fire when you have no water?
Style:
serious, futuristic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, suspense, intense, realistic, apocalyptic, grim ...
Plot:
disaster, journalism, fire, medical examination, investigation, politics, global warming, danger, forces of nature, life is a bitch, media, state affairs, dystopian future, firefighter, ecological disaster, climate change, drought, water shortage, catastrophe, desperation, survival, moral dilemma, heroism, family crisis, resilience ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, tense and suspense films with plots about danger, survival, apocalypse, disaster, catastrophe, escapades and natural disaster mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Scorched: Arctic Blast (2010), Anthrax (2001), 54 Days (2014), Category 6: Day of Destruction (2004), Age of Ice (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, freezing, survival, ecological disaster, forces of nature, demolished city, natural disaster, solar eclipse, save the world, obsessive quest, evacuation, chaos ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
seattle, tasmania, usa, australia
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When cattle mysteriously start dying of anthrax in a small Alberta ranching community, an RCMP officer tries to keep the peace as ranchers lay the blame on a local agricultural research center. A reporter encourages the angry ranchers - led by the ...
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quarantine, investigation, bio weapon, government agency, journalism, race against time, danger, virus, biohazard, infection, protest, civil unrest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
5 people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear and biological attack are forced to make an impossible decision - either one dies or they all die.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, grim, apocalyptic, thought provoking ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, post nuclear, claustrophobia, food shortage, nuclear fallout, confined space, human nature, water shortage, moral dilemma, fear, panic, contamination ...
Place:
sydney australia, australia
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Three tornadoes converge to wreak havoc on Chicago, disrupting the power grid and creating the worst super-storm in history: a category 6 twister.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, apocalyptic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, tornado, hurricane, natural disaster, heroic mission, survival, lightning, chaos, forces of nature, race against time, journalism, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
las vegas, usa, chicago
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Massive earthquakes open the Arabian tectonic plate, resulting in unstable weather and freezing temperatures that will be unsurvivable by nightfall. Attempting to reach safety, a vacationing family in Egypt must battle the rapidly cooling ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, climate change, danger, escapades, snow, pyramid, natural disaster, apocalypse, holiday, snowstorm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east, cairo egypt
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Style:
depressing, grim, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, cold war, nuclear explosion, survival, world war three, nuclear, post apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, radiation ...
Time:
80s, near future, distant future, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, ussr, soviet union ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 32 min.
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Story:
An earthquake directly beneath the Tokyo metropolitan area is said to occur with a 70% probability within 30 years. Staged in a news center of a TV station where a huge amount of damage information and images are gathered.
Style:
bleak, serious, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
reporter, natural disaster, disaster, news reporter, social media, fire, devastation, woman, nature, forces of nature, female protagonist, journalism ...
Time:
near future
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Day One, is an NBC made for tv sci-fi movie. It was originally written as a tv series pilot about apartment residents that survive an unknown worldwide cataclysm that destroys modern infrastructure. The series was slated to fill the Heroes time slot ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
survival, group of strangers, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse, worldwide chaos, chosen one, dystopian future, society, life is a bitch, danger, chaos, escapades ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Yellowstone is a park, but it's also the deadliest volcano on Earth. Beneath it, a sleeping 'dragon' is stirring. When an earthquake opens a crack for magma to seep through, other warning signs of an eruption start popping up, but ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, mockbuster ...
Plot:
volcano, natural disaster, disaster, survival, chaos and mayhem, heroes, danger, dystopian future, optimism, escapades, chases and races, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A crack in the world has started... we have 24 hours to stop it.
Style:
exciting, serious, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, forces of nature, race against time, danger, chaos, save the planet, end of the world, epidemic, threat, military ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
57%
379
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, danger, father son relationship, rescue, disaster, save the day, escapades, race against time, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, landslide ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An island on spectacular Sydney Harbour. Summer sun Top international artists. Tens of thousands of music fans from across the world Idyllic... Until unimaginable disaster strikes.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
chaos, plague, family in danger, danger, antidote, quarantine, death, society, murder, apocalypse, distopia, pandemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Shortly after a chemical weapon explosion in the Nevada desert, two scientists find themselves confronting a sinister cover up, and a band of hostile survivors who are looking to escape the quarantined area known as Territory 8.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot:
quarantine, desert, chemical weapon, survival, survival horror, escape, post-apocalyptic future, adaptation, scientist, fight, struggle for survival, danger ...
Time:
future
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A volcanic eruption in Iceland sends a glacier towards North America, causing everything in it's path to freeze. A family man struggles to escape the onslaught of the coming ice age.
Style:
mockbuster, hilarious, apocalyptic, independent film, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ice age, disaster, natural disaster, glacier, winter, ecological disaster, snow, climate change, frozen, volcano, blizzard, catastrophe ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert, one scientist must put her theories to the test in a desperate effort to prevent the catastrophe.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, danger, save the day, forces of nature, escapades, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, chases and races, heroes, heat wave ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Liz McAdams is haunted by the memories of a tornado that destroyed her home 25 years ago. Now a professional storm tracker, she and her family are in danger once again as another devastating twister rapidly gains momentum. Caught in the path of ...
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
disaster, tornado, natural disaster, danger, forces of nature, race against time, salvation, storm, twister, trauma, survival, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, midwest
Similarity:
49%
131
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, uncover truth, dystopian future, global warming, life is a bitch, murder, environmentalism, society, climate change, social commentary, female protagonist, dystopia ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
47%
579
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Promethean Kinetics has created Helios, a revolutionary clean coal energy source so powerful it rivals the force of the sun and will solve the energy crisis. But when certain governments start cutting safety measures required by Helios, the ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, exciting
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, fire, humanity in peril, danger, destruction, chaos, death, evacuation, race against time, forces of nature, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Style:
harsh, tense, stylized, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot:
survival, starvation, post apocalyptic, visceral, post apocalypse, wilderness, bow and arrow, depression, forest, woods, wound, bare breasts ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Yellowstone National Park scientist and a thrill-seeking ranger join forces to plug-up a volatile super volcano that threatens to wipe out the entire United States.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, rescue, escapades, danger, forces of nature, volcano, time travel, apocalypse, catastrophe, lava, threat ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
584
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, bleak, serious, tension ...
Plot:
survival, disaster, trapped, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, isolation, confined space, bunker ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
45%
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:
43%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a future in which the earth has been sent out of control, affected by a cruel and inhuman mechanism that turns back Darwin's theory of Evolution, Hamming and Liv try to survive. It seems that nothing can stand in the way of their ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, futuristic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, loss, survival, post apocalyptic, dystopia, evolution, against humanity, human nature, civilization, fate of humanity, humanity, end of civilization ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, political thriller, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
captivity, terrorism, journalism, hostage, politics, confined, prison, kidnapping, war on terror, rebellion, danger, negotiation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pakistan, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Machines have taken over, but left humans thinking that they are still the ones in charge. The androids need humans because of the human brain fluid; without it the android brains can't work. Until the mad scientist finds out how to make this ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, prison, technology gone awry, chaos, survival, androids and robots, escapades, save the world, man versus machine, race against time, dystopian future, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
41%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
Style:
futuristic, exciting, suspense, intense, serious ...
Plot:
dystopic future, space travel, colony, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, redemption, danger, survival, husband wife relationship, surrealism, human existence, escapades ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After freak climate and weather events destroy the world around them, a group of rogue scientists attempt to reverse the deadly new ice age.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, climate change, forces of nature, rescue, chaos, danger, escapades, volcano, evacuation, scientist, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iceland, europe, usa, paris france
Similarity:
37%
699
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the radiation-infected aftermath of World War III, one man's desperate attempt to find his wife in the wastelands that were once the United States inspires his fellow survivors to fight for humanity. The bomb has dropped, and in the blink of ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, apocalyptic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, survival, missing person, danger, chaos, society, escapades, life is a bitch, post apocalypse, plague, journey, violence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, disaster, time warp, scientist, airplane crash, investigation, airplane, robot, time paradox, female warrior, aviation, paradox ...
Time:
future, year 1989, year 1963, distant future
Similarity:
36%
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