Movies like Sensation
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Sensation (2021)
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a lowly postman is inducted into a top-secret superhuman DNA program at a research facility, it's revealed that he'll be able to receive, control and send information based on the senses of others.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, surreal
Plot:
superhuman, genetic experiment, conspiracy, mind control, paranoia, research facility, isolation, family history, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, ancestry, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia, coming of age, psychological drama, dna testing
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Sensation
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark and tense films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, paranoia, identity crisis, ethical dilemma and mind control mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sensation: Implanted (2013), Mind Thief (2022), Legal ThreaT (2020), Cerebrum (2021), Jonah (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
383
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When your memory lies, how do you find the truth?
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, suspense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
father son relationship, medical experiment, identity crisis, hallucination, amnesia, paranoia, neurology, ethical dilemma, isolation, mind control, conspiracy, moral ambiguity ...
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95%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A novelist realizes that her neighbors may be under the control of unknown forces. Little does she realize how close and sinister its influence has become. A harrowing, darkly humorous journey through the depths of the human psyche.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, dark ...
Plot:
paranoia, mind control, manipulation, super powers, supernatural power, neighbor, supernatural, superhuman powers, writer's life, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ability, writers ...
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87%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Legal ThreaT is a climactic lo-fi psychological thriller. It is a story of an innocent man Jon Luke Barker. Trapped in a world of duplicity, desperately trying escape his life, upon discovering nocuous evidence that threatens to overthrow the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, existential ...
Plot:
whistleblower, corporate conspiracy, evidence, cover up, corruption, duplicity, mistrust, industrial espionage, ethical dilemma, paranoid, innocent man, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
78%
264
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To make ends meet, Tom signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab, but when he commits a crime he cannot remember, he must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, memory, chase, amnesiac, memory lapse, problem, experiment gone awry, battles, scientific experiment, fight, experiment ...
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After an alleged alien abduction of Margot's son Jonah, Ozzie and Darren, journalists investigating supernatural cases, are determined to expose the truth. During their investigation, Ozzie grapples with his own haunting memories, leading to ...
Style:
psychological horror, creepy, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
alien abduction, investigative journalism, obsession, paranoia, character study, moral ambiguity, family drama, conspiracy, female protagonist, motherhood, isolation, small town ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sarah, a struggling young woman, agrees to volunteer as a test subject and be implanted with the LEXX nanochip for a pharmaceutical company experiment. She hopes that the money received for her participation will solve her financial troubles. When ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, mind control, female protagonist, survival, nanotechnology, scientific experiment, loss of control, struggle for survival, experiment gone awry, family in danger, manipulation, human experiment ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
To send humanity to a distant galaxy, the mysterious CEO of The Fuller Corporation must develop a cutting-edge computer-brain interface to keep his hibernating colonizers safe and sane for a journey of unknown length.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, hi-tech, space travel, power struggle, isolation, virtual reality, mind control, moral ambiguity, laboratory, identity crisis, geek, computer ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of ordinary people band together in a suburban home to battle imposters who have replaced their families, friends, and neighbors.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
paranoia, mind control, battles, body snatcher, paranoid schizophrenia, secret, psychopath, survival, alien invasion, paranoid, isolation, home invasion ...
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three people are trapped in a room with no windows, no doors, and no memory of how or why they are there. They must figure out the mystery of what is happening and how they are connected.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, intense, mind bending ...
Plot:
confined space, amnesia, claustrophobia, memory loss, trap, mind game, identity crisis, character study, puzzle, isolation, paranoia, single ...
Similarity:
64%
12K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hungary, Indonesia, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn's moon Titan, gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot manoeuvre that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, dark ...
Plot:
astronaut, trapped in space, space, memory loss, deep space, titan, space mission, isolation, hallucination, survival, spacecraft, paranoia ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
62%
323
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jason tragically lost his young son when their SUV exploded. Now fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him on a daily basis constantly remind him of losing his son. An army scientist approaches Jason about an ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, suspenseful, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
loss of child, hallucination, paranoia, grief, post traumatic stress, conspiracy, mistrust, iraq war, suspicion, desperation, mind control, terrorism ...
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A Blanc-Biehn production centered around the idea of a governmentally designed drug created to help correct or strategically alter perceptions gathered during times of trauma or stress. Slated as being a substance that may help solve issues with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, thought provoking, mind bending, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, experimental drug, conspiracy, paranoia, ptsd, moral ambiguity, mind control, social commentary, identity crisis, emotional manipulation, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia ...
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60%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At a university in Liverpool, a wave of violence is spread due to the strange experiments of Dr. Joseph Cornwall. His estranged niece Hannah arrives from the United States to live with her uncle and soon after, she uncovers a horrifying mystery.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, dark, medical horror
Plot:
human experiment, mad scientist, dark secret, university, psychological manipulation, suspicion, trauma, intrigue, claustrophobia, body horror, ethical dilemma, obsession ...
Place:
liverpool
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, born in the early 50's, is rendered ageless after her 21st birthday due to a genetic mutation. Her Hayflick Limit - the point at which cells begin to die - has been eliminated and given her the gift of biological immortality. ...
Style:
existential, suspenseful, atmospheric, melancholic, reflective ...
Plot:
immortality, ethical dilemma, genetic experiment, government conspiracy, moral ambiguity, abduction, cat and mouse, pursuit, escape, survival, solitude, isolation ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The old and overcrowded penitentiaries are just a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless, and has drastically reduced recidivism. Until one day, a psychologist in charge of monitoring the mental ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, futuristic ...
Plot:
prison, implanted memory, dystopia, hi-tech, problem, science runs amok, psychology, repressed memory, technology, memory, dystopian future, flash forward ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
55%
658
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Portugal, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The young and promising genetics researcher Thomas Nielsen will stop at nothing to become the first person to identify the elements in man that trigger aggression. To achieve faster results he performs illegal tests on the convicted mass murderer ...
Style:
suspenseful, hood, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
obsession, genetics, genetically altered, experiment, ambition, genetic experiment, human experiment, scientific experiment, ambitious man, experiment gone awry, problem, experimental drug ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Advertising executive Dale Hunter (Michael Muheny) works at the agency Arora. But after a car accident, his life changed abruptly. He has nightmares at night and by day he suffers from hallucinations. The world looks like from a computer. Numbers ...
Style:
futuristic, tense, captivating, enigmatic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, alternate reality, fictional reality, virtual reality, uncover truth, puzzle, dark secret, escape from reality, computer game, nightmare, paranoia, hallucination ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Chaos is a story of a medical student who is stuck in a murder case. Can he figure out who committed the murder?
Style:
suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, tense, neo noir
Plot:
murder mystery, medical student, investigation, medical, twists and turns, suspicion, moral ambiguity, revelation, whodunit, ethical dilemma, forensic, urban ...
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45%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Russell Carpenter reluctantly admits his wife Sadie into an experimental treatment facility for her life threatening disease. While locked in this prison like surrounding they, along with 6 others, are unknowingly subjected to a cure that might just ...
Style:
suspense, medical horror, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
human experiment, medical experiment, isolation, hospital, body horror, fear, rescue, husband wife relationship, experiment gone awry, sick woman, murder, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
44%
2K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, disturbing ...
Plot:
insomnia, student, sleep deprivation, experiment gone awry, physician, experiment, paranoia, hallucination, escape, neuroscience, claustrophobia, survival ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Just when he's beginning to take his perfect life and marriage for granted, John (Timothy Hutton) discovers that he's the result of a failed government experiment to spawn a race of perfect assassins. But the closer he gets to finding out ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, twist ending, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
death of wife, mind control, conspiracy, amnesia, assassin, identity crisis, paranoia, double life, moral ambiguity, spy thriller, surveillance, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Thailand
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.
Style:
tense, futuristic, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
conspiracy, investigation, memory, memories, erased memory, serial killer, secret, repressed memory, puzzle, implanted memory, memory loss, memory lapse ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An obsessive psychologist attempts to reprogramme her subconscious mind, but when her actions become increasingly uncharacteristic she fears her experiment is dangerously out of control.
Style:
psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
subconscious, psychologist, experiment, experiment gone awry, human experiment, psychological manipulation, medical experiment, paranoia, character study, moral ambiguity, manipulation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When professional gamer Hana, who suffers from acute agoraphobia, receives new equipment that enhances her game, she begins to wonder if it is reading her mind – or controlling it.
Style:
gaming, captivating, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
agoraphobia, mind control, female protagonist, technology, secret, virtuality, advanced technology, game, gamer, paranoia, isolation, unsettling ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, bleak, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, betrayal, isolation, conspiracy, obsession, character study, espionage, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
40%
246
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An addicted memory dealer is chased relentlessly by federal narcotics agents bent on keeping the secrets he has locked in his mind hidden.
Style:
neo noir, dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
addiction, ethical dilemma, paranoid, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, anti hero, chase, conspiracy, cyberpunk, urban, hi-tech, claustrophobia ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Box Metaphor is a compelling dystopian journey where unjust imprisonment unveils societal conformity and defiance’s profound impact. It’s about breaking free from metaphorical boxes and the resilience of the human spirit.
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, resilience, metaphor, prison, distopia, social problems, dystopian society, locked in a cage, surrealism, locked in, social issues, oppression ...
Similarity:
40%
3K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Five scientists awake from a cryogenic sleep and find themselves trapped in an underground facility. With no memory of who they are or how long they've been asleep, they begin to realize they may have been part of a scientific experiment gone ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, bloody, serious ...
Plot:
survival, claustrophobia, laboratory, isolation, unknown killer, murderer, female scientist, chemist, murder, death, scientist, female psychologist ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After witnessing the alien abduction of her mother as a child, Aurora joins the UFO cult "The Cosmic Dawn". At the cult's remote compound Aurora experiences miraculous revelations, and consciousness-expanding flowers but all ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
alien abduction, sect, problem, dark past, secret past, ufo sighting, secret, mysterious past, alien, alien encounter, cult leader, religious fanaticism ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After witnessing his girlfriend's murder, a man risks everything - including reality itself - to discover the truth.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, dark, intense ...
Plot:
murder, male protagonist, grief, loss, obsession, investigation, trauma, identity crisis, isolation, moral ambiguity, paranoia, revenge ...
Similarity:
39%
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