Movies like The Last Days on Mars

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The Last Days on Mars (2013)
 5.5
 38K
The Last Days on Mars (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member of Tantalus Base believes he has made an astounding discovery – fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claims all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. But a routine excavation turns to disaster when the porous ground collapses and he falls into a deep crevice and near certain death. His devastated colleagues attempt to recover his body. However, when another vanishes, they start to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not without danger.
Style: scary, tense, bleak, suspenseful, futuristic, space horror, light, sweet, bad ending, bloody ...
Plot: mars, space travel, space, mysterious planet, survival, zombie, astronaut, suspense, space and aliens, alien, death, zombie attack, catastrophe, monster, expedition, distant planet, escapades, apocalypse, infection, fight, fear, space exploration, evil, claustrophobia, end of the world ...
Time: future, 2040s, near future, 21st century

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Most similar movies to The Last Days on Mars

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, cult film, weird and visually appealing films with plots about survival, suspense, danger, chase, space, catastrophe and blood mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like The Last Days on Mars: Apollo 18 (2011), Europa Report (2013), Sunshine (2007), Event Horizon (1997), Pandorum (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 5.2
 56K
Apollo 18 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage ...
Style: scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: astronaut, suspense, found footage, space, alien encounter, nasa, space travel, expedition, moon landing, twists and turns, alien, heroic mission ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, future, year 1969, year 2011 ...
Place: antarctica
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100%
 6.4
 73K
Europa Report (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon.
Style: psychological, tense, cerebral, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: space travel, found footage, space, spacecraft, alien, space exploration, distant planet, astronaut, survival, suspense, moon, spacewalk ...
Time: future, 50s, year 1972, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 255K
Sunshine (2007)
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, psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot: space travel, suspense, end of the world, space, sun, astronaut, spacecraft, heroic mission, self sacrifice, survival, expedition, trapped in space ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.6
 186K
Event Horizon (1997)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, futuristic, bleak, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space travel, supernatural, trapped in space, space, insanity, space station, hallucination, space and aliens, nightmare, rescue team, survival, astronaut ...
Time: future, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 6.7
 154K
Pandorum (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style: futuristic, scary, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space, survival, space travel, post apocalypse, isolation, suspense, memory loss, survival horror, spacecraft, mission, end of the world, monster ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 894K
Alien (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style: scary, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, frightening ...
Audience: kids
Plot: alien, monster, suspense, space travel, space, female protagonist, space and aliens, deadly creature, fear, creature, spacecraft, evil alien ...
Time: future, 22nd century, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 287K
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the ...
Style: bad ending, futuristic, twist ending, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien, space travel, monster, space, alien life-form, robot, creature, human versus alien, scientist, extraterrestrial, alien creature, suspense ...
Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 305K
Alien³ (1992)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, splatter ...
Audience: kids
Plot: alien, space, prison, human versus alien, deadly creature, evil alien, space travel, survival, cryogenics, monster, distopia, redemption ...
Time: future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mission to Mars (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, USA
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, suspenseful ...
Plot: mars, space travel, astronaut, alien, suspense, space station, space, spacecraft, mysterious planet, trapped in space, alien encounter, space and aliens ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 416K
Passengers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style: futuristic, romantic, scenic, dramatic, thought provoking ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night
Plot: space, isolation, survival, trapped in space, love story, space travel, loneliness, love, space station, space program, malfunction, spacecraft ...
Time: future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Doom: Annihilation (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Doom: Annihilation follows a group of space marines as they respond to a distress call from a base on a Martian moon, only to discover it’s been overrun by demonic creatures who threaten to create Hell on Earth.
Style: scary, bloody, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: monster, mars, research facility, biopunk, zombie, suspense, secret laboratory, space, survival, violence, soldier, space marine ...
Time: future, near future
Place: nevada
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100%
 5.3
 15K
Infini (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A search and rescue team are transported through deep space to a distant mining colony to save the sole survivor of a biological outbreak. During their mission, they find a lethal weapon which is set to arrive on Earth within the hour.
Style: intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, space horror ...
Plot: space travel, alien, space, military, survival, suspense, insanity, death, rescue, virus, mind control, plague ...
Time: future, 23rd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.0
 617K
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
Plot: survival, alien, space travel, distant planet, space, androids, space and aliens, mission, spacecraft, alien life-form, mysterious planet, monster ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 23K
Voyagers (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic, Romania, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: With the human race's future at stake, a group of young men and women embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. But when they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they become helpless for pleasure, hunger, and power once ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: space travel, alien planet, spacecraft, space, space exploration, sexual behavior, distant planet, escapades, space and aliens, psychopath, rescue, society ...
Time: future
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
 244K
Pitch Black (2000)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, tense, harsh, light ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: monster, survival, creature, suspense, alien life-form, alien, space travel, escape, dark hero, space, deadly creature, space and aliens ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 235K
Predators (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A mercenary reluctantly leads a motley crew of warriors who soon come to realize they've been captured and deposited on an alien planet by an unknown nemesis. With the exception of a peculiar physician, they are all cold-blooded killers, ...
Style: scary, intense, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, monster, jungle, predator, space and aliens, evil alien, alien life-form, deadly creature, space, hunting, hi-tech, survival horror ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 237K
Life (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style: scary, apocalyptic, tragic ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space, suspense, mars, monster, space travel, space station, alien, alien life-form, astronaut, first contact, survival horror, death ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 59K
Red Planet (2000)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Style: futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: mars, survival, space travel, space, astronaut, catastrophe, robot, spacecraft, save the world, ecological disaster, desert, stranded ...
Time: future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.0
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The Martian (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Hungary, Jordan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw ...
Style: futuristic, biting, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, kids, teens
Plot: survival, mars, isolation, nasa, science, stranded, space travel, astronaut, scientist, space, left for dead, food shortage ...
Time: 2030s, future, 21st century
Place: china, london, usa, houston texas, beijing china ...
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83%
 7.2
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The Descent (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, suspense, creature, cave, expedition, survival horror, trapped, survival, group of friends, fear, mutant, death ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When scientists discover something in the Arctic that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the ...
Style: scary, exciting, splatter, breathtaking, allegory ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, monster, deadly creature, save the world, predator, survival, apocalypse, evil alien, first contact, space, superhero, cloning ...
Time: future, jurassic, year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: antarctica, egypt, nepal, nebraska, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 9K
Patient Zero (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent "Infected," a man gifted with the ability to speak the Infected's new language leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, rough, slasher ...
Plot: pandemic, zombie, virus, infection, infected, patient, end of the world, bunker, survival, professor, mutant, rescue ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.6
 1.9M
Interstellar (2014)
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, thought provoking, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot: space, time travel, space travel, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, distopia, survival, scientist, space station, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, colorado
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100%
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 6.5
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Ad Astra (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.
Style: exciting, futuristic, touching, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space exploration, space, moon, solar system, astronaut, obsession, father son relationship, journey, space pirate, space station, trapped in space, spacecraft ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, epic, saga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: space, space travel, star trek, space battle, cloning, alien, teleportation, robot, self sacrifice, heroes, heroic mission, rivalry ...
Time: future, 24th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 22K
Leviathan (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, exciting, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: monster, ship, race against time, survival, experiment gone awry, ocean, suicide, shipwreck, creature feature, sea, disaster, survival horror ...
Time: 80s
Place: atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 136K
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, serious, atmospheric, psychotronic ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, deadly creature, alien invasion, evil alien, chase, alien encounter, suspense, survival horror, death, space and aliens, survival ...
Time: future, year 1982, 80s, 21st century
Place: antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, deadly creature, sole survivor, supernatural, survival horror, monster, claustrophobia, expedition, suspense, creature, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Land of the Dead (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the ...
Style: scary, exciting, suspenseful, rough, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie attack, apocalypse, suspense, virus, violence, future dystopia, cannibalism, zombie outbreak, survival ...
Time: future, 2000s, 90s, year 1995
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.1
 40K
The Cave (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, intense, bad ending, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, diver, monster, deadly creature, supernatural, suspense, parasite, transformation, disaster, creature, diving ...
Time: 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%