How It Ends
2018 Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, MysteryA desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
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Discover a curated list of captivating movies similar to How It Ends. Explore films such as War of the Worlds, Geostorm, and Eternals, around the themes of disaster, journey, father in law son in law relationship. Other notable keywords include netflix original and end of the world.
#1
War of the Worlds
Synopsis:
Ray 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 touches down.
Starring:
Miranda Otto,
Yul Vazquez,
Lisa Ann Walter
Plot:
alien,
survival,
underground,
mass death,
escape,
paranoia,
near death experience,
cult film,
disaster,
destroyed city
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#2
Geostorm
Synopsis:
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out e…
Starring:
Gerard Butler,
Andy García,
Eugenio Derbez
Plot:
near future,
global warming,
malfunction,
disaster,
failure,
nasa,
tsunami,
u.s. president,
disaster film,
kidnapping
...
#3
Eternals
Synopsis:
The Eternals are a team of ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. When an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows, they are forced to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.
Starring:
Richard Madden,
Ma Dong-seok,
Salma Hayek
Plot:
suicide,
superhero,
gay,
f rated,
gay superhero,
marvel cinematic universe,
sex scene,
snow,
based on comic,
eternals
...
#4
The 5th Wave
Synopsis:
16-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.
Starring:
Chloë Grace Moretz,
Maria Bello,
Maika Monroe
Plot:
alien,
based on novel,
male objectification,
invasion,
kiss,
child soldier,
ohio,
teddy bear,
based on young adult novel,
survivor
...
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#5
Moonfall
Synopsis:
A mysterious force knocks the moon from its orbit around Earth and sends it hurtling on a collision course with life as we know it.
Starring:
Michael Peña,
Donald Sutherland,
Patrick Wilson
Plot:
disaster film,
moon,
disaster,
rocket,
meteor strike,
meteor shower,
snow adventure,
one word title,
galaxy,
earth
...
#6
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
Synopsis:
Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in …
Starring:
Vera Farmiga,
Ken Watanabe,
Thomas Middleditch
Plot:
monster,
terrorism,
destruction,
showdown,
kidnapping,
monster versus monster,
creature feature,
helicopter,
dragon,
monster movie
...
#7
2012
Synopsis:
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, wr…
Starring:
John Cusack,
Amanda Peet,
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#8
X-Men: Apocalypse
Synopsis:
After the re-emergence of the world's first mutant, world-destroyer Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
Starring:
Michael Fassbender,
Oscar Isaac,
James McAvoy
Plot:
mutant,
x men,
superhero team,
superhero,
year 1983,
1980s,
based on comic book,
marvel comics,
comic book,
good versus evil
...
#9
Transformers: The Last Knight
Synopsis:
Autobots and Decepticons are at war, with humans on the sidelines. Optimus Prime is gone. The key to saving our future lies buried in the secrets of the past, in the hidden history of Transformers on Earth.
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg,
Stanley Tucci,
Josh Duhamel
Plot:
transforming robot,
racial slur,
ethnic slur,
based on toy,
fifth part,
sequel,
england,
london england,
gunfight,
shootout
...
#10
Power Rangers
Synopsis:
Saban's Power Rangers follows five ordinary teens who must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove — and the world — is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat. Chosen by destiny, our heroes quickly discover they are the only ones who can save the planet. But to do so, they will have to overcome their real-life issues and before it’s too la…
Starring:
David Denman,
Naomi Scott,
Ludi Lin
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#11
Greenland
Synopsis:
John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possibl…
Starring:
David Denman,
Gerard Butler,
Holt McCallany
#12
Tomorrowland
Synopsis:
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."
Starring:
Hugh Laurie,
Britt Robertson,
Chris Bauer
Plot:
time travel,
futuristic city,
future,
inventor,
boy genius,
destiny,
nasa,
machine,
science,
weapon
...
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#13
The Dark Tower
Synopsis:
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Starring:
Jackie Earle Haley,
Dennis Haysbert,
Idris Elba
Plot:
gunslinger,
based on novel,
parallel dimension,
science fantasy,
evil wizard,
shotgun,
gun store,
gun duel,
bullet time,
gun fu
...
#14
Star Trek Into Darkness
Synopsis:
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic che…
Starring:
Benedict Cumberbatch,
John Cho,
Simon Pegg
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#15
Skyline
Synopsis:
When strange lights descend on the city of Los Angeles, people are drawn outside like moths to a flame where an extraterrestrial force threatens to swallow the entire human population off the face of the Earth. Now the band of survivors must fight for their lives as the world unravels around them.
Starring:
Donald Faison,
Eric Balfour,
Scottie Thompson
#16
Pandemic
Synopsis:
After a virus of epic proportions overwhelms the planet—with more infected than uninfected—humanity is losing its grip on survival and its only hope is finding a cure and keeping the infected contained. Lauren, a doctor, arrives in Los Angeles with her crack team to lead the hunt for uncontaminated civilian survivors, but nothing can prepare them for the blood-soaked mayhem they witness as they h…
Starring:
Mekhi Phifer,
Missi Pyle,
Rachel Nichols
Plot:
pandemic,
survival,
rescue,
zombie,
dystopia,
post apocalypse,
infection,
shooting a woman,
woman with a gun,
woman in jeopardy
...
#17
Pacific Rim
Synopsis:
A ragtag band of humans band together in the year 2025 to fight legions of monstrous creatures rising from the sea. Using massive piloted robots to combat the alien threat, earth's survivors take the fight to the invading alien force lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. Nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless enemy, the forces of mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely …
Starring:
Max Martini,
Clifton Collins Jr.,
Idris Elba
Plot:
kaiju,
pilot,
portal,
creature,
robot,
ocean,
scientist,
pacific ocean,
apocalypse,
giant monster
...
#18
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
Synopsis:
The Flash finds himself in a war-torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to restore the timeline.
Starring:
Cary Elwes,
Michael Beach,
Michael B. Jordan
#19
Justice League
Synopsis:
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and the Parademons who are on the hunt for three Mother Boxes on Earth.
Starring:
Jason Momoa,
Ben Affleck,
Amy Adams
#20
Independence Day
Synopsis:
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
Starring:
Will Smith,
Bill Pullman,
Jeff Goldblum