Movies like Armageddon
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Armageddon (1998)
476K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, sentimental, entertaining, tear jerker, sad, suspenseful, romantic, futuristic, scenic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, space travel, catastrophe, astronaut, race against time, self sacrifice, asteroid, nasa, save the world, space and aliens, outer space, destruction, cataclysm, spacecraft, chase, space shuttle, space program, love story, wedding, love, demolished city, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, future, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
new york, paris france, washington d.c., usa, france, istanbul turkey, shanghai ...
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Most similar movies to Armageddon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, suspense, apocalyptic and suspenseful films with plots about danger, catastrophe, natural disaster, disaster, space, alien and end of the world mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Armageddon: Deep Impact (1998), The Core (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), 2012 (2009), Geostorm (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
204K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian ...
Style:
suspense, touching, serious, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, catastrophe, apocalypse, nasa, survival, tsunami, astronomer, self sacrifice, spacecraft, president ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
tucson arizona, washington d.c., new york, north america, atlanta georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
115K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with ...
Style:
intense, apocalyptic, serious, entertaining, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, survival, worldwide chaos, hacker, danger, hysteria, heroic mission, post apocalypse ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, london, los angeles, chicago ...
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
After years of increases in the greenhouse effect, havoc is wreaked globally in the form of catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of a new Ice Age. Paleoclimatologist, Jack Hall tries to warn the world while also ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
disaster, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, apocalypse, climate change, survival, environmental, post apocalypse, tsunami, global warming, environment ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, future, 20th century, distant future ...
Place:
new york, washington d.c., los angeles, antarctic, california ...
Similarity:
88%
419K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, natural disaster, catastrophe, tsunami, forces of nature, humanity in peril, cataclysm, destruction, human existence, chaos ...
Time:
future, year 2009, 2010s, year 2010, year 2012 ...
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, british columbia, london, pasadena california ...
Similarity:
91%
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132K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, exciting, suspenseful, disgusting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
end of the world, apocalypse, catastrophe, disaster, tsunami, humanity in peril, storm, ecological disaster, malfunction, climate change, hurricane, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place:
afghanistan, hong kong, orlando florida, rio de janeiro, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, boys' night, family outing
Plot:
alien invasion, extraterrestrial, invasion, end of the world, ufo, space and aliens, evil alien, first contact, survival, alien encounter, alien, creature ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future, year 1996, jurassic
Place:
new york, washington d.c., usa, bombay india, london ...
Similarity:
75%
87K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, Mike ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, suspenseful, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
natural disaster, disaster, volcano, catastrophe, survival, forces of nature, race against time, lava, teenage girl, fire, panic, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
future, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
100%
163K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style:
suspense, exciting, scenic, unusual plot structure, psychotronic ...
Plot:
natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, panic, husband wife relationship, diabetic, comet, kidnapping, post apocalypse ...
Time:
2020s, future, 21st century
Place:
greenland, atlanta georgia, canada, kentucky, moscow russia ...
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of ...
Style:
tense, clever, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nasa, astronaut, space travel, old age, space shuttle, space opera, satellite, space exploration, outer space, self sacrifice, human in outer space, one last job ...
Time:
20th century, year 1958, year 2000, 1950s, future ...
Place:
space western, california
Similarity:
83%
81K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A group of armed robbers fleeing the police head for the New Jersey Tunnel and run right into trucks transporting toxic waste. The spectacular explosion that follows results in both ends of the tunnel collapsing and the handful of people who ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
survival, disaster, natural disaster, race against time, tunnel, trapped, rescue, catastrophe, taxi driver, fire, self sacrifice, loss of loved one ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
261K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, supernatural, catastrophe, cataclysm, prophecy, foreknowledge, metaphysics, professor, prediction, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
year 2009, future, september 11 2001, 20th century, year 1959 ...
Place:
massachusetts, boston, new york, usa
Similarity:
67%
111K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, UK, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, cult classic, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, end of the world, moon, space exploration, outer space, space and aliens, catastrophe, youth, survival, mountain, space travel ...
Time:
2020s, year 2012, 2010s, year 1969, year 2011
Place:
usa, colorado, new york, houston texas, los angeles ...
Similarity:
75%
268K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of ...
Style:
exciting, serious, entertaining, action packed, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, u.s. navy, military, battleship, navy, ship, evil alien, danger, invasion, ufo, space and aliens ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, future, 2000s, year 2005 ...
Place:
hawaii, london, pacific ocean, tokyo, new york ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A massive asteroid impact on the moon begins causing storms on earth due to the sudden changes in ocean tides. But when further examination is conducted it's discovered that the moon's structure is now entirely unstable -- threatening all ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, race against time, danger, chaos, heroes, ocean, space shuttle, astronomer, male female relationship, dystopia, doom ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
colorado, chicago, boston, baltimore, florida ...
Similarity:
100%
250K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night, girls' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, tornado, catastrophe, twister, weatherman, divorce, survival, nature, hurricane, forces of nature, storm ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, north america, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, saga, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, creature, human versus alien, technology, end of the world, independence day, ufo, president, psychic, apocalypse, chinawoman ...
Time:
future, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, paris france, minnesota, nevada, china ...
Similarity:
67%
2.5M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
space travel, time travel, outer space, nasa, astronaut, father daughter relationship, space, dystopian future, survival, end of the world, robot, space exploration ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it will hit it will cause a incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use ...
Style:
apocalyptic, psychotronic, grindhouse, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, cold war, nasa, race against time, asteroid, space station, astrophysicist, scientist, astronaut, apocalypse, 007 ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century, future
Place:
new york, russia, switzerland, france, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
107K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, ...
Style:
breathtaking, suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
natural disaster, catastrophe, disaster, volcano, volcanic eruption, apocalypse, survival, mayor, small town, mountain, coffee, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
washington state
Similarity:
50%
212K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
When a freighter is viciously attacked in the Pacific Ocean, a team of experts -- including biologist Niko Tatopoulos and scientists Elsie Chapman and Mendel Craven -- concludes that an oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed, breathtaking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
dinosaur, monster, godzilla, giant monster, creature, experiment gone awry, giant, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lost world, military, disaster, human versus monster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, jurassic, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, tahiti, manhattan new york city, new jersey, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A gigantic meteors enters Earth's orbit and begins to disintegrate, showering the entire planet with debris.
Style:
exciting, bleak, apocalyptic, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, apocalypse, asteroid, space and aliens, earth, chaos, race against time, bible, society, danger, heroes, natural disaster ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.
Style:
futuristic, breathtaking, visually stunning, colorful, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, boys' night, teens
Plot:
alien, space opera, dystopia, cyberpunk, space and aliens, good versus evil, dystopian future, space travel, save the world, end of the world, space adventure, heroic mission ...
Time:
future, year 1997, 90s, 1910s, 23rd century ...
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, egypt, new york
Similarity:
44%
284K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, psychological, cerebral, tense ...
Plot:
space travel, outer space, sun, end of the world, isolation, spaceship, self sacrifice, earth, heroic mission, expedition, space, danger ...
Time:
future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
42%
Movie in collections
713K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Young teenager, Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will ...
Style:
action packed, entertaining, saga, breathtaking, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, manly, kids
Plot:
car, alien, robot, military, good versus evil, giant robot, transforming robot, alien invasion, transformers, androids and robots, transformation, man versus machine ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, near future, future, 1890s ...
Place:
california, washington d.c., los angeles, usa, pentagon ...
Similarity:
100%
105K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland, Australia, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth…65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an ...
Style:
minimal cast, tense, captivating, suspenseful, space horror ...
Plot:
tyrannosaurus rex, dinosaur, astronaut, escape, father daughter relationship, asteroid, handheld weapon, spacecraft, mountain, profanity, loss of daughter, space adventure ...
Time:
prehistoric times, 2020s, prehistory
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India, Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, exciting, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, invasion, battles, space and aliens, changing the past or future, evil alien, soldier, repeated event, foreknowledge ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2014, 2020s, 2010s ...
Place:
united kingdom, france, paris france, europe, big ben london ...
Similarity:
83%
1.2M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. ...
Style:
suspense, breathtaking, entertaining, exciting, visually stunning ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, date night, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
dinosaur, island, survival, creature feature, animal attack, child in peril, research, children, dangerous animal, teenage girl, science, fantasy world ...
Time:
jurassic, year 1993, 20th century, prehistoric times, 90s
Place:
montana, fictional island, caribbean, central america, dominican republic ...
Similarity:
75%
103K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, space station, hotshot hero, secret service, hostage, rescue mission, outer space, lone hero, heroic mission, convict, prison fight, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2012, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, new york, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Jordan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Style:
futuristic, serious, atmospheric, sentimental, suspense ...
Plot:
mars, space travel, astronaut, space station, alien, escapades, alien encounter, space, spacecraft, trapped in space, space and aliens, mysterious planet ...
Time:
future, year 2000, y2k, 2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
226K
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:
tense, gloomy, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, disaster, survival, virus, natural disaster, end of the world, suicide, graphic violence, catastrophe, paranoia, danger, plague ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, boston, philadelphia, west virginia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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