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After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
It has a 47% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
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Blade Runner (1982)
It has a 43% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, the same director and shared genres.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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Greenland (2020)
It has a 41% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
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 possible safe haven.
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I Am Legend (2007)
It has a 40% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Robert Neville is a scientist who was unable to stop the spread of the terrible virus that was incurable and man-made. Immune, Neville is now the last human survivor in what is left of New York City and perhaps the world. For three years, Neville has faithfully sent out daily radio messages, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But he is not alone.
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127 Hours (2010)
It has a 40% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
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Project Hail Mary (2026)
It has a 39% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Science teacher Ryland Grace wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction.
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Twelve Monkeys (1995)
It has a 38% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
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The Omega Man (1971)
It has a 37% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
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After Impact (2026)
It has a 35% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by its story and themes, shared genres and country of origin.
After losing his father, Ethan Nichols inherits one of the largest greenhouses in the country, just as the world faces a devastating threat from an approaching asteroid. As society begins to unravel, Ethan grapples with personal betrayal, overwhelming loneliness, and the growing fear that survival may come at the cost of his humanity. Seeking refuge in his family’s bunker, Ethan endures the harsh aftermath of the impact, wrestling with physical injury and emotional despair. When a faint voice crackles over his radio, Ethan discovers he's not as alone as he believed.
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The Grey (2012)
It has a 35% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and country of origin.
After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.
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Lord of the Flies (1990)
It has a 33% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and country of origin.
When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
It has a 32% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.
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The Quiet Earth (1985)
It has a 31% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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Idiocracy (2006)
It has a 31% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
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Interstellar (2014)
It has a 31% affinity with The Dog Stars, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.
The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
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