

There are times when you are watching a movie and you get that familiar feeling of: haven’t I seen this before? Usually it’s because one movie is a blatant rip-off of another (*cough* Mac & Me and ET *uncough*) but sometimes something stranger has happened and two very similar movies have been released almost at the same time.
Now, there could be an element of cashing in but the following were released so close to each other that it’s more coincidence than anything else - or if you really want to go down the conspiracy theory route, industrial espionage thanks to warring screenwriters - where two films that are eerily similar come out at pretty much the same time.
For this list, we’ve tried to avoid the natural disaster movies, but who can forget Volcano and Dante’s Peak (both 1997), Armageddon and Deep Impact (both 1998)? Here are others that follow the same theme… literally.
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As Content Director of Shortlist, Marc likes nothing more than to compile endless lists of an evening by candlelight. He started out life as a movie writer for numerous (now defunct) magazines and soon found himself online - editing a gaggle of gadget sites, including TechRadar, Digital Camera World and Tom's Guide UK. At Shortlist you'll find him mostly writing about movies and tech, so no change there then.
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