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Novak (2025)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece, Switzerland, India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An ageing Serbian neuroscientist lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded as a paranoid schizophrenic for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. But when, decades later, he is rediscovered by a group of young dreamers who are trying to change the world through his ideas, he decides to quit his medication and join them in their scientific commune, risking his sanity in pursuit of a higher goal.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, atmospheric, emotional, melancholic, existential, tense, political, suspenseful ...
Plot:
neuroscience, obsession, mental illness, isolation, paranoia, ethical dilemma, activism, moral ambiguity, social commentary, slow burn
Time:
contemporary
Place:
athens greece, greece, athens
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Most similar movies to Novak
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, atmospheric, existential and melancholic films with plots about isolation, slow burn, moral ambiguity, urban, female protagonist, obsession and minimalism mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like Novak: Soul of a Beast (2021), Stalker: The Curse of the Zone (2019), By Day and by Night (2010), Toxic (2020), Thread (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Currently in post-production. Plot unknown. Unknown plot.
Style:
existential, emotional, independent film, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family drama, father son relationship, single father, intimacy, wildlife, isolation, slow burn, chaos, animal attack, identity, survival, haunting ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of post-apocalyptic earth.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, grim, mysterious, psychological ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, isolation, desolation, dystopian future, haunting, survival, moral ambiguity, radiation, slow burn, salvation, post soviet, desire ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Mexican science fiction film where the over-population problem has been solved by programming people to operate in either day or night, and not both.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, bleak, political, futuristic ...
Plot:
dystopia, overpopulation, social commentary, alienation, segregation, oppression, isolation, sleeping, claustrophobia, alternate reality, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s
Similarity:
91%
150
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motorhome to get away from the chaos. As they move down the route, the world becomes an increasingly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
insomnia, survival, isolation, epidemic, road trip, male female relationship, escape from reality, worldwide chaos, relationship problems, chaos, apocalypse, travel ...
Similarity:
77%
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318
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Niki is a resistance fighter living in a nightmarish dictatorship in Athens, 1972, and Lefteris is her son, who will be forced sooner or later to cut the thread that binds them together.
Style:
surreal, art house, experimental, political, psychological ...
Plot:
memory, resistance, identity, mother son relationship, oppression, dictatorship, violence, rebellion, surveillance, intimate, hopes, minimal dialogue ...
Time:
70s, year 1995, year 1975
Place:
athens greece, greece
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Judah is a young man with a condition - he dreams while he's still awake. His imagination makes it difficult for him to process the loss of an important person in his life, so when his cousin contacts him with a ridiculous scheme to get at the ...
Style:
surreal, melancholic, emotional, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
loss, grief, disappearance, imagination, confronting the past, bittersweet, ambiguity, intimate, family drama, mental health, isolation, slow burn ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Qiuming is a trainee at a digital mapping company. His job is to survey the streets of the ever-changing city and keep the mapping system up to date. Typical of his generation, Qiuming is upbeat, energetic, and totally immersed in the world of ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
investigation, privacy invasion, family relations, dishonesty, parents and children, mystery woman, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity, obsession, isolation, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
70%
245
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Cambodia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, detective, non-linear, futuristic ...
Plot:
buddhist, spirituality, karma, multiple storylines, destiny, wisdom of life, life philosophy, philosophy, justice, human nature, identity, reincarnation ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A woman's suicide attempt lands her in a mysterious realm where she meets a man haunted by a supernatural force. Together, they face the dark secrets of their forest prison as time runs out and malevolent powers close in.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, dark fantasy, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Plot:
supernatural, forest, haunted, isolation, female protagonist, claustrophobia, survival, moral ambiguity, folk horror, slow burn, psychological drama, pressure
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: Russia, Netherlands, Switzerland
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, thought provoking, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
anthropology, childhood trauma, evolution, trauma, tragic past, life & death, female protagonist, symbolism, memory, haunting, existentialism, father daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of beings permeated by the lack of love, guilt, pain and a desire for revenge, meet on the day of a storm at a cantina in the mythical town of Parián, a place where all roads and all destinies converge. There they find consolation for their ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, bleak, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
guilt, desperation, suffering, loneliness, moral ambiguity, character study, small town, fate, destiny, isolation, revenge, magic realism ...
Similarity:
62%
604
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission and potential life.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, existential, psychological ...
Plot:
space exploration, travel, scientist, universe, space travel, space, space mission, space program, space adventure, science, space shuttle, spacecraft ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
61%
700
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tungsten deals with the idea of electricity as a metaphor, the scenery is urban, and the plot is unfolded during a single day. One day in Athens, continuous outages, and a final blackout, caused by the strike of technicians at the electricity ...
Style:
tense, bleak, suspenseful, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
urban, electricity, blackout, darkness, teenager, social commentary, moral ambiguity, strike, intimate, slice of life, claustrophobia, urban decay ...
Place:
athens greece, greece
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
It's a movie about a subject that captivates me. And I can see that it also captivates the world and people and has done it at all times. It is the meeting with the stranger. Why is it so difficult to relate to those who's not like ...
Style:
thought provoking, art house, contemplative, tense, intercultural ...
Plot:
prejudice, xenophobia, social commentary, alienation, immigration, empathy, identity, moral ambiguity, slow burn, urban, psychological drama
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The world had changed. Streets day by day were filled with protest. The unemployed. The lost. Chaos. Then something happened. Something though it had no name had arrived. Fear. Fear over took rationale. The streets became empty. The new age of ...
Style:
dark, suspenseful, bleak, tense, political thriller ...
Plot:
fear, civil unrest, uncertainty, dystopia, political unrest, desperation, protest, survival, anxiety, chaos, social commentary, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of a post-Apocalypse Earth, Population 2 is about a relationship that ends in tragedy forcing a woman to struggle in the aftermath.
Style:
captivating, serious, dramatic, suspenseful, reflective ...
Plot:
post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, distopia, past life, post apocalypse, climate change, solitude, grief, isolation, ruins, loneliness, loss ...
Time:
future
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two people are stuck in a quarantine hotel during a deadly pandemic. Physical contact equals death, total isolation is required. Yet, it is human nature to seek togetherness. But what happens when you have to choose between love and life?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, tense, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
pandemic, isolation, quarantine, loneliness, sacrifice, infection, survival, forbidden love, moral dilemma, single, hotel, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
52%
321
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, missing daughter, mother love, female nudity, missing person, mother daughter relationship, reality versus fantasy, missing girl, private investigation, mysterious disappearance, missing child, obsession ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the ...
Style:
existential, bleak, art house, psychological, spiritual ...
Plot:
suffering, morality, haunting, apartment building, betrayal, isolation, student, obsession, social commentary, manipulation, visionary, salvation ...
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a series of unexpected UFO crash landings on the planet Earth, a large portion of life slowly and mysteriously went extinct. We follow a man that struggles for survival, as he gathers items needed for the impending winter. Outside of personal ...
Style:
bleak, existential, atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic ...
Plot:
survival, winter, post apocalyptic, sole survivor, desolation, isolation, slow burn, minimalism, post apocalypse, very little dialogue, loneliness, end of the world ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a race against the clock, Alexandra will be forced to choose how to spend the next hours: facing a critic family drama or trying to bring an answer to one of humanity's most important questions.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, serious ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, family relations, time, race against time, problem, family problems, dysfunctional family, time travel, life is a bitch, isolation, space station ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
Similarity:
48%
547
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspense, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
renaissance, snow, winter, mountain, alienation, isolation, obsession, symbolism, character study, slow burn, tourist, suspicion ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Gemma moves to LA, hoping to become an actress. She takes an overnight gig at a sleep clinic that promises to make their clients’ dreams come true. But the longer she spends there, the more it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dream, nightmare, paranoia, female protagonist, hallucination, insomnia, identity crisis, obsession, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young woman, with the help of an abandoned dog searches for other survivors while trying to cope with an unborn child growing inside of her.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic, dramatic, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, survival, dog, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, female protagonist, survival horror, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, apocalypse, pregnant woman, woman ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a world where an AI programme allows people to communicate with their deceased loved ones, a flight attendant and a mother question the meaning of reality and humanity.
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, philosophical, melancholic, contemplative ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loss, artificial intelligence, grief, mourning, ethical dilemma, mother daughter relationship, memory, identity, existentialism, futuristic technology, parenthood, healing ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a desolate desert, a reclusive gatekeeper offers refuge to a mysterious woman fleeing a dark past, leading to an unraveling of secrets and shattered realities.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, surreal, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
desert, isolation, solitude, female protagonist, identity crisis, slow burn, moral ambiguity, minimalism, relationships, malayalam
Similarity:
42%
356
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
time travel, invention, relationships, travel, grief, obsession, time loop, nothing goes right, brother sister relationship, love, investigation, suicide attempt ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Neurophysicist Calvin Gordon can assimilate anyone's DNA and relive a moment of their life, using the genetic memory of learned and experienced memories locked in the DNA, making people resemble their parents and grandparents.
Style:
mind bending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, intellectual ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, identity crisis, obsession, ethical dilemma, body swapping, politics, psychic, conspiracy, laboratory, amnesia, isolation, investigation ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, tense ...
Plot:
small town life, relationship problems, teenage life, relationships, newspaper reporter, privacy invasion, investigative journalism, teenage protagonist, woman, small village, male female relationship, murder mystery ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
41%
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