Movies like Five
If Five's mix of california, nuclear war and pregnancy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Five's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Threads
1984 · Directed by Mick Jackson · 117 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: nuclear holocaust, nuclear fallout, radiation sickness · Also drama and science fiction
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
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The Road
2009 · Directed by John Hillcoat · 111 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, post-apocalyptic future
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.
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WALL·E
2008 · Directed by Andrew Stanton · 98 min8.1
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, loneliness
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE.
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The Assessment
2025 · Directed by Fleur Fortuné · 114 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and drama
In a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.
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The Quiet Earth
1985 · Directed by Geoff Murphy · 91 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: post-apocalyptic future · Also drama and science fiction
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 · Directed by George Miller · 121 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia, post-apocalyptic future
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.
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THX 1138
1971 · Directed by George Lucas · 86 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia · Also science fiction and drama
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people.
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Children of Men
2006 · Directed by Alfonso Cuarón · 109 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia
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…
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Watchmen
2009 · Directed by Zack Snyder · 163 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: nuclear war
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer…
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The China Syndrome
1979 · Directed by James Bridges · 122 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: california
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant.
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The Island
2005 · Directed by Michael Bay · 136 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: dystopia
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly…