Best movies like The Road
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Plot Summary:
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the warmer south, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 251000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, gloomy, psychological, sad
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Time of the Wolf (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, intense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, road movie, dark, stylized
Similar in 89%
Monsters (2010)
Plot Summary:
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, road movie, breathtaking, stylized, meditative, apocalyptic, atmospheric, thought provoking, enigmatic, suspenseful
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Apocalypse (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to the mountains - rumor has it there is water there. Along the way they meet Tom, a first-rate mechanic. But can they trust him? Fraught with deep distrust, the group is lured into an ambush where their real battle for survival begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychological thriller, scary, political, futuristic, cult classic
Similar in 77%
20 Years After (2008)
Plot Summary:
In the middle of nowhere, 20 years after an apocalyptic terrorist event that obliterated the face of the world!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, serious, suspenseful, independent film, futuristic, dystopian, disaster movie
Similar in 75%
Blindness (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Canada, Japan, UK, Italy
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing, depressing, intense, suspenseful, allegory, serious, suspense, stylized
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The Rover (2014)
Plot Summary:
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his car through the lawless wasteland of the Australian outback, aided by the brother of one of the thieves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, bleak, rough, serious, intense, apocalyptic, neo western
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The Survivalist (2015)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, intellectual, futuristic, disturbing, stylized, apocalyptic, bleak, artsy, brutal
Similar in 79%
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Plot Summary:
A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's farm in northern England where there will hopefully be food and safety for all of them. Adaptation of John Christopher's novel The Death of Grass (1956).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, offbeat, depressing, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, tense, bleak, serious, captivating
Similar in 82%
Testament (1983)
Plot Summary:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the outside world is pretty much cut off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: depressing, bleak, disturbing, emotional, tense, apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, touching, realistic
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The Day After (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby nuclear missile silos.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: disturbing, futuristic, apocalyptic, harsh, serious, thought provoking, psychotronic, suspense, bleak, rough
Similar in 81%
The Divide (2011)
Plot Summary:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, disturbing, satanic, scary, controversial, psychotronic
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Into the Forest (2015)
Plot Summary:
In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, bleak, melancholic, futuristic, erotic, apocalyptic, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, touching
Similar in 82%
The Day (2011)
Plot Summary:
Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, depressing, suspense, disturbing, brutal, perverse
Similar in 79%
Light of My Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, bleak, ambiguous ending, tense, touching, captivating, suspenseful, road movie, offbeat, suspense
Similar in 79%
Carriers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Four friends fleeing a viral pandemic soon learn they are more dangerous than any virus.A deadly virus has spread across the globe. Contagion is everywhere, no one is safe and no one can be trusted. Four young attractive people race through the back roads of the American West to the pounding beat of a vacation soundtrack. Their aim is to retreat to secluded utopian beach in the Gulf of Mexico, where they could peacefully wait out the pandemic and survive the apocalyptic disease. Their plans take a grim turn when their car breaks down on an isolated road starting a chain of events that will seal the fate of each of them in an inexorable and horrifying voyage of hell through a western landscape populated by only the hideous dead or the twisted living.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, road movie, suspenseful, psychological, apocalyptic, melancholic, absurd, serious, intense
Similar in 89%
Young Ones (2014)
Plot Summary:
In a future where water is scarce, a farmer defends his land and hopes to rejuvenate his parched soil. However, his daughter's boyfriend schemes to steal the land for himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Western
Country: South Africa, Ireland, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, clever, tense, cult classic, apocalyptic, thought provoking, dark, social, teen
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The Postman (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 2013 there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the Unites States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, inspirational, epic, motivational, disturbing, grindhouse
Similar in 87%
The Return (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: bleak, emotional, art house, road movie, atmospheric, cerebral, thought provoking, lyrical, suspenseful, independent film
Similar in 76%
Snowpiercer (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 382000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, thought provoking, futuristic, allegory, philosophical, tense, bleak, mindfuck, visually stunning, apocalyptic
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War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
Plot Summary:
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 276000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, captivating, futuristic, intense, compassionate, epic, psychotronic, sad, apocalyptic
Similar in 89%
Bird Box (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, emotional, psychological, scary, rough, slasher, psychological thriller
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Stake Land (2010)
Plot Summary:
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, road movie, suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, apocalyptic, brutal, futuristic
Similar in 87%
Children of Men (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 522000
Genere: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, bleak, apocalyptic, captivating, political, intense, road movie, emotional
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28 Days Later (2002)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 436000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, tense, dark, suspense, psychological, disturbing, creepy
Similar in 77%
The Colony (2013)
Plot Summary:
Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bleak, tense, dark, suspense, apocalyptic, harsh, intense, scary, futuristic
Similar in 90%
The Book of Eli (2010)
Plot Summary:
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 334000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: futuristic, serious, twist ending, apocalyptic, rough, biblical, heroic, tense, christian film, atmospheric
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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Plot Summary:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: road movie, visually stunning, exciting, surreal, suspense, apocalyptic, cult classic, stylized, epic, visually appealing
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The Grey (2011)
Plot Summary:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 261000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting, emotional, psychological, suspense, rough, scenic
Similar in 80%
Interstellar (2014)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 20000000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, philosophical, thought provoking, clever, atmospheric, breathtaking, serious, epic
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I Am Legend (2007)
Plot Summary:
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 799000
Genere: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, rough, serious, suspense, bleak