20 movies like On the Beach, ordered by similarity : The Martian(2015), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea(1961), The Matrix(1999), Crack in the World(1965), Only Lovers Left Alive(2013), I Am Legend(2007), The Monster That Challenged the World(1957), Arrival(2016), Snowpiercer(2013), Robinson Crusoe on Mars(1964), The Incredible Shrinking Man(1957), The Fly(1986) ...
Sci-Fi
USA
1959
133 Minutes
Gregory Peck Ava Gardner Fred Astaire Anthony Perkins Donna Anderson John Tate Lola Brooks John Meillon Lou Vernon Guy Doleman Harp McGuire
commander alcoholic scientist newlywed lieutenant survivor dark tense emotional australia submarine deep sea hotel san francisco san diego nuclear war radiation survival reconnaissance denial
After a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Hungary|Jordan
2015
142 Minutes
Matt Damon Jessica Chastain Kristen Wiig Jeff Daniels Michael Peña Kate Mara Sean Bean Sebastian Stan Aksel Hennie Donald Glover Mackenzie Davis
astronaut survivor president scientist wife crew member brooding emotional intense tense dark nasa facility camp mars spacecraft space station control room space travel stranded mars
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
Sci-Fi
USA
1961
105 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon Joan Fontaine Barbara Eden Peter Lorre Robert Sterling Michael Ansara Frankie Avalon Regis Toomey John Litel Howard McNear Henry Daniell
admiral psychiatrist lieutenant captain scientist congressman thrilling tense creative submarine deep sea arctic ocean pacific ocean mariana islands fire nuclear weapons race against time sabotage showdown global disaster
When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.
Sci-Fi, Action
USA
1999
136 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Andy Wachowski Laurence Fishburne Carrie-Anne Moss Hugo Weaving Joe Pantoliano Gloria Foster Marcus Chong Paul Goddard Robert Taylor Julian Arahanga
hero secret agent leader hacker rebel robot dark bleak intense simulated reality ship office household big city man vs. machine survival war love technology deception
When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Sci-Fi
USA
1965
96 Minutes
Dana Andrews Janette Scott Kieron Moore Alexander Knox Peter Damon Gary Lasdun Mike Steen Todd Martin Jim Gillen
scientist terminally ill person geologist doctor ambassador dying person outlandish engaging suspenseful tense striking intense africa scientific experiments geology science fiction science gone awry doomsday device apocalypse discovery
A dying scientist pushes forward his project to tap through to the Earth's magma layer, with results that threaten to destroy the Earth as we know it.
Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama, Horror, Fantasy
UK|Germany|Greece|France
2013
122 Minutes
Tilda Swinton Tom Hiddleston Anton Yelchin Mia Wasikowska John Hurt Jeffrey Wright Slimane Dazi Carter Logan Yasmine Hamdan Aurélie Thépaut
vampire musician married woman married man author sister bleak emotional melodramatic creative intense dark united states tangiers, morocco detroit house vampires relationships love depression
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Horror, Sci-Fi, Drama
USA
2007
101 Minutes
Will Smith Alice Braga Dash Mihok Charlie Tahan Salli Richardson-Whitfield Willow Smith Darrell Foster April Grace Joanna Numata Samuel Glen James McCauley
scientist survivor dog mutant biologist dark gritty tense bleak thrilling frightening new york city apartment laboratory abandoned town street safe house death survival kidnapping
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.
Sci-Fi
1957
83 Minutes
Tim Holt Audrey Dalton Hans Conried Harlan Warde Casey Adams Mimi Gibson Gordon Jones Marjorie Stapp Dennis McCarthy Barbara Darrow Bob Beneveds
creature swimmer scientist lieutenant commander chilling tense california the salton sea underwater military base monsters earthquakes radiation science survival pursuit rescue 1950s
Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
2016
116 Minutes
Amy Adams Jeremy Renner Forest Whitaker Michael Stuhlbarg Mark O'Brien Tzi Ma Abigail Pniowsky Julia Scarlett Dan Jadyn Malone Frank Schorpion Nathaly Thibault
linguist army commander teammate alien civilian president fascinating creative intense moving inspiring heartwarming house helicopter spaceship office street car alien landing language
A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world.
Sci-Fi, Action
South Korea|Czech Republic
2013
125 Minutes
Chris Evans Song Kang-ho Tilda Swinton Jamie Bell Octavia Spencer John Hurt Ed Harris Ewen Bremner Ah-sung Ko Alison Pill Vlad Ivanov
survivor man train revolutionary soldier leader brooding brash intense train classroom barracks office train station train tracks apocalypse train travel survival control determination
In a future where a failed climate-change experiment has killed all life except for the lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, a new class system emerges.
Sci-Fi
USA
1964
109 Minutes
astronaut space traveler alien slave monkey commander chilling creative dark engaging tense suspenseful mars mars stranded alien attack human-animal friendship survival space exploration quest
Stranded on Mars with only a monkey as a companion, an astronaut must figure out how to find oxygen, water, and food on the lifeless planet.
Sci-Fi
USA
1957
81 Minutes
Grant Williams Randy Stuart April Kent Paul Langton William Schallert Billy Curtis Diana Darrin Helene Marshall
husband wife doctor dwarf spider cat fascinating emotional campy dark boat house doctor's office circus dollhouse basement science radiation marriage mutation
When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.
Horror, Sci-Fi
USA|UK|Canada
1986
95 Minutes
Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis John Getz Joy Boushel Leslie Carlson George Chuvalo Michael Copeman David Cronenberg Carol Lazare Shawn Hewitt
scientist girlfriend reporter editor mutant creepy tense thrilling laboratory apartment clinic teleportation experiments mutation abortion relationships failure quest love fall
A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|UK|Canada
2014
130 Minutes
Andy Serkis Jason Clarke Gary Oldman Keri Russell Toby Kebbell Kodi Smit-McPhee Kirk Acevedo Jon Eyez Enrique Murciano Jr. Terry Notary Judy Greer
chimpanzee follower human survivor leader friend brooding emotional intense california colony woods camp street hut leadership survival peace rivalry colonization
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.
Sci-Fi
USA
1980
103 Minutes
Christopher Reeve Jane Seymour Christopher Plummer Teresa Wright Bill Erwin George Voskovec Susan French John Alvin Eddra Gale Sean Hayden Audrey Bennett
playwright elderly woman professor manager actress love interest dreamy emotional heartwarming hotel mackinac island michigan obsession time travel hypnosis love triangle unlikely romance love pursuit quest
A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.
Sci-Fi, Horror
USA|Australia
2000
108 Minutes
Radha Mitchell Vin Diesel Cole Hauser Keith David Lewis Fitz-Gerald Claudia Black Rhiana Griffith John Moore Simon Burke Les Chantery Sam Sari
convict bounty hunter pilot survivor young girl alien intense thrilling tense chilling brutal spaceship alien planet settlement cave desert survival light darkness redemption
A commercial transport ship and its crew are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that only come out to feast at night. But then, they learn that a month-long eclipse is about to occur.
Sci-Fi
USA
1955
80 Minutes
Kenneth Tobey Faith Domergue Donald Curtis Ian Keith Harry Lauter Dean Maddox Del Courtney
naval officer professor scientist giant octopus suspenseful emotional submarine ocean hawaii pearl harbor san francisco mindanao deep monsters sea nuclear weapons disaster love pursuit mystery rescue
A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast.
Adventure, Sci-Fi, Action
USA
2012
142 Minutes
Jennifer Lawrence Josh Hutcherson Liam Hemsworth Woody Harrelson Elizabeth Banks Lenny Kravitz Stanley Tucci Donald Sutherland Wes Bentley Toby Jones Alexander Ludwig
teen girl teen boy sister government official television executive competitor bleak dark emotional tense north america mining town wilderness dystopia panem dictatorship media survival fame death
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Fantasy, Action
USA
2009
155 Minutes
Sam Worthington Sigourney Weaver Stephen Lang Michelle Rodriguez Giovanni Ribisi Joel David Moore Dileep Rao Matt Gerald Sean Anthony Moran Jason Whyte Scott Lawrence
marines native soldier alien love interest scientist thrilling creative crafty outer space spaceship jungle pandora aliens greed nature showdown love redemption rise
A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure
USA|UK|Canada
2011
105 Minutes
James Franco Freida Pinto John Lithgow Brian Cox Tom Felton David Oyelowo Andy Serkis Tyler Labine Jamie Harris David Hewlett Ty Olsson
scientist father chimpanzee ceo girlfriend lab worker gripping thrilling emotional san francisco animal shelter laboratory california war genetic modification animal intelligence man vs. beast science gone awry experiments quest
A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising.
Sci-Fi, Action
Australia
1985
106 Minutes
Mel Gibson George Ogilvie Tina Turner Angelo Rossitto Bruce Spence Frank Thring Paul Larsson Angry Anderson Robert Grubb George Spartels Edwin Hodgeman
ex-cop orphan gladiator leader pilot barbarian intense dark australia desert arena survival technology theft death rescue quest escape future
After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.