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10 Best Movies Like The World Sinks Except Japan

If you loved The World Sinks Except Japan, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Afterburn

Afterburn

2025★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The World Sinks Except Japan for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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. T...

#2
Real Men

Real Men

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The World Sinks Except Japan for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind....

#3
Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York

Disaster Zone: Volcano in New York

2006★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The World Sinks Except Japan for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Illegal experimentation accidentally rips open a previously unknown hidden magma reserve directly under Manhattan!...

#4
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

2020★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The World Sinks Except Japan for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A cafe owner discovers that the TV in his cafe suddenly shows images from the future, but only two minutes into the future....

#5
Once Upon a Deadpool

Once Upon a Deadpool

2018★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The World Sinks Except Japan for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A kidnapped Fred Savage is forced to endure Deadpool's PG-13 rendition of Deadpool 2, as a Princess Bride-esque story that's full of magic, wonder, and zero Fs....

#6
2012

2012

2009★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The World Sinks Except Japan for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

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 heatin...

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