Movies like The Day the Earth Caught Fire

20 movies like The Day the Earth Caught Fire, ordered by similarity : Colossus: The Forbin Project(1969), The Bay(2012), Star Trek(2009), Attack the Block(2011), The Abyss(1989), Big Hero 6(2014), X-Men: First Class(2011), At First Light(2018), Hardware(1990), RoboCop(2014), Maze Runner: The Death Cure(2018), Domain(2017) ...

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The Day the Earth Caught Fire

When the U.S. and Russia unwittingly test atomic bombs at the same time, it alters the nutation (axis of rotation) of the Earth.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project

Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

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The Bay

Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.

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Star Trek

The brash James T. Kirk tries to live up to his father's legacy with Mr. Spock keeping him in check as a vengeful Romulan from the future creates black holes to destroy the Federation one planet at a time.

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Attack the Block

A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion.

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The Abyss

A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.

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Big Hero 6

A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who together team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

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X-Men: First Class

Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender) work with other mutants to prevent a nuclear nightmare, but a situation soon tears the close friends apart.

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At First Light

Alex is floating unconscious in a lake when light from a UFO of light saves her by enhancing her abilities such as telekinesis and healing power. Her friend Sean helps her. The authorities want her - not just for stealing a police car.

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Hardware

The head of a cyborg reactivates, rebuilds itself, and goes on a violent rampage in a space marine's girlfriend's apartment.

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RoboCop

In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy, a loving husband, father and good cop, is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".

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Domain

The survivors of a global virus are forced to live alone in bunkers. They communicate through a networked video interface, but their new social ecosystem is threatened when, one by one, they begin vanishing from their bunkers.

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Cloud Atlas

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

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Arrival

A linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecrafts appear around the world.

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Snowpiercer

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.

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UFO: It Is Here

Five film students are producing a documentary about the local zoo when suddenly the animals go berserk: The reason is a light ball flying by in the sky and crashing at the horizon. ... See full summary »

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Sorry to Bother You

In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

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Dark Storm

After four years Derek Wu is released from prison. Hunting for a regular job he tries to redeem his life by living clean. Then, Derek's old gang buddies turn up murdered and the police make... See full summary »

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The Endless

As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.

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7 Splinters in Time

A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them friendly.

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