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Dream Hacker (2025)
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Due to her age, Professor Jennifer Connelly is often described as a science prodigy. A genius of our time, with five Phd's psychology, psychiatry, neurology, physics and chemistry. Jennifer's primary studies are in dreams and the effects they have on the waking mind. For the past 6 years, her studies have led her to theorize that with the right equipment, she can not only watch and record someone else's dreams but maybe even influence them in a subconscious way. To prove this theory, and believing it may have military applications, Oxford obtains a substantial government grant to build the equipment Jennifer needs to journey into this new unknown area of neural science.
Style:
psychological thriller, mind bending, tense, suspenseful, surreal, philosophical, intellectual, futuristic, existential, psychological horror ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, dream, consciousness, neuroscience, female protagonist, identity crisis, female scientist, experimental technology, ethical dilemma, laboratory, lucid dream, moral ambiguity, cyberpunk, isolation, oxford, urban, dreamland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller and existential films with plots about moral ambiguity, identity crisis, urban, isolation, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia and cyberpunk mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Dream Hacker: Supernatural (2005), Lathe of Heaven (2002), Somnium (2024), Detention 101 (2023), Minor Premise (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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85%
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Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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383
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Place:
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Story:
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