Movies like Shelter 2015
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Shelter (2015)
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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, bleak, serious, dramatic, tension, intense, grim, ambiguous ending, disaster movie
Plot:
survival, disaster, apocalypse, post apocalypse, trapped, post apocalyptic, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, bunker, claustrophobia, isolation, confined space, struggle for survival, post nuclear, driven mad, paranoia, character study, obsession, hopelessness, emotional breakdown, slow burn, epidemic, group, locked in a room ...
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Most similar movies to Shelter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense and bleak films with plots about survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, epidemic, distopia and dystopia mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Shelter: Domain (2016), Air (2015), 20 Years After (2008), Territory 8 (2013), The Blackout (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
communication, bunker, virus, survival, disappearance, trapped, epidemic, deadly virus, struggle for survival, quarantine, pandemic, locked in a room ...
Similarity:
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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
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival, life is a bitch, pregnancy, escapades, danger, society, dystopian future, babies and infants, post nuclear, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
55%
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:
53%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
blackout, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, solar eclipse, white trash, student, fight, eclipse, human nature, fear ...
Similarity:
51%
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
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating
Plot:
post apocalypse, invasion, chaos and mayhem, danger, escapades, immigrant, society, racism, unemployment, government agency, apocalypse, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
china, mexico
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, demon, apartment building, fantasy world, fight, monster, post apocalypse, survival horror, isolation, claustrophobia, post apocalyptic, home invasion ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a comet releases a mysterious virus that begins to kill all of the women in the world, a young couple's relationship is severely tested. They hide out (from both the illness and the savages who hunt the remaining women) in their ...
Style:
serious, intense, emotional, realistic, psychological thriller
Plot:
post apocalypse, virus, epidemic, distopia, infection, propaganda, fight, apocalypse, panic, save the world, humanity, fate of humanity ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, apocalypse, radiation poisoning, radiation, nuclear, supernatural, isolation, danger, chaos, survival horror, zombie apocalypse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In southern France, in a quite little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible ...
Style:
apocalyptic, exciting, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, post apocalyptic, wasteland, bombing, dystopia, train ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
49%
625
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between two groups called the Flockers and the Ravagers, an adventurer and his "pleasure girl" try to find their way to a rumored safe haven called the Land of Genesis.
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, nuclear holocaust, dystopia, post nuclear, post apocalyptic, distopia, wasteland, epidemic, survival, atomic bomb ...
Time:
year 1979, 90s, future
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a ...
Style:
dramatic, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot:
robot, pregnant woman, post apocalypse, journey, apocalypse, couples, couple relations, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, survival, pregnancy, characters in danger ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
korea
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of a post-Apocalypse Earth, Population 2 is about a relationship that ends in tragedy forcing a woman to struggle in the aftermath.
Style:
captivating, serious, dramatic, suspenseful, reflective ...
Plot:
post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, distopia, past life, post apocalypse, climate change, solitude, grief, isolation, ruins, loneliness, loss ...
Time:
future
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, survival, dog, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, female protagonist, survival horror, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, pregnant woman, woman ...
Similarity:
49%
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:
49%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style:
apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, child in peril, father daughter relationship, forest, girl, survival, immunity, virus, epidemic, distopia, post apocalyptic, fight ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long-since destroyed by disease; but when a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, intense, tense
Plot:
post apocalypse, plague, community, distopia, survival, secrets, female protagonist, weapons, religious, quarantine, post apocalyptic, disaster ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Injured U.S. soldier Miles Willis awakens to discover he is trapped in a mysterious cube armed only with his combat gear. As Miles begins to question his sanity, he finds a lifeline – a voice on the other end of his satellite phone who claims to ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tension, intense, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival horror, confined space, survival, isolation, struggle for survival, deathtrap, escape, soldier, claustrophobia, locked room, race against time, trap ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mankind is nearly extinct in this post-apocalyptic creature thriller. Most humans died from a deadly plague and the ice age they manufactured to eradicate it. A man named Vargas leads a group of survivors on a quest to reach Shangri-La, the last ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, ice age, mutant, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, struggle for survival, cold, mutation, plague, survivor, creature feature ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of old friends gets together for a weekend in a mountain cabin. Years have gone by and yet nothing seems to have changed between them. But lurking behind the laughter and stories is a murky episode from the past that continues to haunt them. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, minimal cast, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
survival, chaos, haunted by the past, danger, isolation, friendship, distopia, post apocalypse, wilderness survival, post apocalyptic, epidemic, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
48%
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:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, captivating, scary, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, escape, jail cell, management, corporate world, survival, trapped in a building, male protagonist, trapped in a room, trap, trapped, isolation ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in a post-apocalyptic world where a global airborne pandemic has wiped out 90% of the Earth's population and only the young and immune have endured as scavengers. For Ellie and Quinn, the daily challenges to stay alive are compounded when ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, apocalyptic, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, post apocalyptic, survival, distopia, epidemic, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, dystopia, coming of age, isolation, infection ...
Similarity:
48%
352
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An outbreak of a bacteria called M-3 causes people to die in extreme pain via body spasms. A woman who is a carrier escapes from a hospital and goes on the run, spreading the plague to people she encounters, and onto food in fast food stops etc. She ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, grim ...
Plot:
pandemic, quarantine, plague, disaster, virus, disease, infection, bacteria, epidemic, post apocalypse, mass death, panic ...
Time:
year 1970
Similarity:
48%
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:
48%
171
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, isolation, mosquito, survival, chaos, danger, plague, confined, post apocalypse, apocalypse, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The exciting story of Sam, a broken man who after the world ends from a massive Meteor shower and the death of his son, is forced to survive underground. He and his trusted friend Troy along with a young female Rose, are thrust on a journey that ...
Style:
tense, captivating, dark, bleak
Plot:
survival, friendship, mutant, apocalypse, post apocalypse, dystopia, post apocalyptic, battles, struggle for survival, meteor shower, loss, underground ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, sex scene, post apocalypse, farm, love triangle, post apocalyptic, nuclear war, survivor, radiation, survival, jealousy, distopia ...
Time:
2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
47%
38K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As a young scientist searches for a way to save a dying Earth, she finds a connection with a man who's racing to catch the last shuttle off the planet.
Style:
suspenseful, apocalyptic, exciting, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, extinction, survival, distant planet, dystopia, space, apocalypse, disaster, science, destruction, save the world, colonization ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
47%
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