If You Liked DEFCON-4, Watch These Next
Finished DEFCON-4 (1985) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like DEFCON-4, most of them are science fiction, thriller, action.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Afterburn(2025)
6.2ActionScience FictionComedyAlso action and science fiction
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels…
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2.The Time Shifters(1999)
5.8Science FictionThrillerActionAlso science fiction and thriller
Tom Merrick gets caught up in a time-traveling conspiracy and must set the timeline right before it is irrevocably altered.
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3.The Kovak Box(2006)
5.8Science FictionThrillerActionAlso science fiction and thriller
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
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5.Panic in Year Zero!(1962)
6.3DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
While on a fishing trip, Harry Baldwin and his family hear an explosion and realize that Los Angeles has been leveled by a nuclear attack. Looters and killers are everywhere. Escaping to the hills with his family, he sets about the business of surviving in a world where, he knows, the old ideals of humanity will be…
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6.Right at Your Door(2006)
5.8DramaThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
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7.Die Alone(2024)
6.4HorrorThrillerScience FictionAlso thriller and science fiction
Lost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Mae, a hardened and eccentric survivor. Together, Ethan and Mae face threats both human…
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8.Monsters of Man(2020)
6.4Science FictionActionAlso science fiction and action
A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six…
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9.These Final Hours(2014)
6.5Science FictionDramaThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
With the end of the world only hours away, self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching desperately for her missing father. This simple act sets James on a path to redemption.
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10.Monster Hunters(2020)
6.2Science FictionActionHorrorAlso science fiction and action
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a secret branch of the government specializing in alien weaponry. But with the team untested in actual…
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11.The 5th Wave(2016)
5.9Science FictionAdventureActionAlso science fiction and action
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.
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12.The Last Survivors(2014)
6.1ThrillerActionScience FictionAlso thriller and action
In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
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13.Extinction(2015)
6.3HorrorScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
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14.The Terminator(1984)
7.7ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to…
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15.Terminator 2: Judgment Day(1991)
8.2ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.
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16.Daylight's End(2016)
5.9ActionHorrorScience FictionAlso action and science fiction
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so…
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17.The Island(2005)
6.7ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso action and thriller
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 the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about…
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18.Project Ithaca(2019)
5.9Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction and thriller
Five strangers awaken to find themselves trapped aboard an alien spaceship that seems to be harnessing their terror to power the ship. They begin to understand that these species have been abducting humans for decades and possibly centuries.
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20.Chief of Station(2024)
6.3ActionThrillerAlso action and thriller
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
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