Movies Like Shanghai Fortress
If you liked Shanghai Fortress (2019), a science fiction and war movie directed by Teng Huatao, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The 5th Wave (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
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The War of the Worlds (1953)
★ 6.8/10Also science fictionThe residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made…
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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionIn the 28th century, Valerian and Laureline are special operatives charged with keeping order throughout the human territories. On assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two undertake a mission to Alpha, an…
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Impostor (2001)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionA top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.
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The Host (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also science fictionA parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to…
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Ender's Game (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also science fictionBased on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space wars of the future.
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The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionHoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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Dune (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also science fictionPaul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As…
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Man of Steel (2013)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionA young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save…
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Battle: Los Angeles (2011)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionWhen once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat and an alien invasion force begins attacking Earths major costal and riverside cities, a U.S Marine staff sergeant and his team are sent into battle only to find they…
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also warJamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who looks out for him while they are in the…
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1984 (1956)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionIn a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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The Taking of Tiger Mountain (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also warYang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.
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Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also science fictionTwo unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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John Carter (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionJohn Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink…
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War of the Worlds (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also science fictionRay Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm…
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The Avengers (2012)
★ 8.1/10Also science fictionWhen an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from…
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Insurgent (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionBeatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
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Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons (2022)
★ 7.7/10Also science fictionAfter discovering he has powers, 11-year-old Jonathan Kent and assassin-turned-Boy-Wonder Damian Wayne must join forces to rescue their fathers (Superman & Batman) and save the planet from the malevolent alien force…
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The Thing from Another World (1951)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionScientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.