Movies like Cube Zero

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Cube Zero (2004)
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Cube Zero (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Cube Zero is the third film in the trilogy yet this time instead of a film about people trapped in a deadly cube trying to get out we see it from the eyes of someone who is controlling the cube and the torture of the victims inside. When the nerd can’t stand to see a woman suffer he himself enters the cube to try and save her.
Style: clever, surreal, scary, psychological, suspense, rough, psychedelic, mind bending, slasher, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: trap, parallel world, mathematics, torture, isolation, survival, escape room, rescue, claustrophobia, riddles and clues, captivity, danger, trapped, technology, paranoia, chess, cyberpunk, memory loss, gory, distopia, kidnapping, confined space, death, computer, alternate reality ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: canada

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Most similar movies to Cube Zero

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, suspenseful and surprise ending films with plots about murder, trapped, puzzle, mind game, survival, isolation and death mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Cube Zero: Cube (1997), Cube 2: Hypercube (2002), Circle (2015), Buried (2010), The Thirteenth Floor (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The sequel to the low budget first film ‘Cube.’ This time the prisoners find them selves in a more advanced cube environment that they must escape from before they are killed. A science fiction film where space and time have more than one path.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, futuristic, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: claustrophobia, survival, locked in a room, maze, group of strangers, mathematics, time travel, virtual reality, survival horror, trap, parallel universe, captive ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.0
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Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, execution, morality, life & death, prejudice, game of death, survival horror, stranger, struggle for survival, plot twist, sole survivor, twists and turns ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style: mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Plot: virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, time travel, cyberspace, computer system, parallel universe, twists and turns, artificial intelligence, parallel world, consciousness, imaginary ...
Time: future, 90s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style: suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, minimal cast, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, alien invasion, alien, kidnapping, bunker, ufo, strong female character, survivalist, end of the world, bomb shelter, conspiracy theory ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
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Saw VI (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally ...
Style: bloody, scary, slasher, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, trap, game of death, characters murdered one by one, vigilante, serial killer, mind game, psychopath, gory, violence, police investigation, twists and turns ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Breathing Room (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mind game, isolation, murder, game, clue, experiment, rivalry, danger, trapped, dishonesty, kidnapping, video surveillance ...
Time: year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.0
 644K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
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House of 9 (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, deathtrap, captivity, mind game, murder, sole survivor, group of strangers, psychological torture, characters killed one by one, hidden camera, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
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Nine Dead (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?
Style: psychological, surprise ending, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, confined, danger, gory, captivity, group of strangers, riddles and clues, game of death, murder, locked in a room, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
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The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot: survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Killing Room (2009)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Style: psychological, tense, clever, psychological thriller, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: claustrophobia, mind game, isolation, race against time, memory loss, trapped, manhunt, psychopath, missing person, trap, death, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
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The Platform (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, futuristic ...
Plot: struggle for survival, survival, confined, food shortage, prison, cannibalism, social injustice, social differences, rivalry, social relations, danger, fear ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: iberian peninsula
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.2
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The Hole (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style: psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: claustrophobia, obsession, survival, psychology, school, bunker, underground bunker, twists and turns, danger, youth, trapped, male nudity ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
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Triangle (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
Style: twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: time loop, twists and turns, ship, time travel, supernatural, ghost ship, isolation, ocean, insanity, gory, time paradox, macabre ...
Time: year 2009, 1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1932 ...
Place: oceania, miami, florida, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 38K
The Divide (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style: suspense, tense, apocalyptic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, isolation, survival horror, torment, nuclear holocaust, losing-it hero, disaster, social decay, group of strangers, apocalypse, confined, danger ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cube (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.
Style: suspense, intense, scary, stylized, tense ...
Plot: locked in a room, trap, maze, isolation, trapped, stranger, life & death, mistrust, murder, death, japanese woman, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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100%
A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style: surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, murderous pair, psychopath, honeymoon, wilderness, danger, island, paranoia, vacation gone wrong, murder, survival horror ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Escape Room (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
Style: suspense, exciting, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: puzzle, trapped, game of death, survival, escape room, clue, group of strangers, quest, riddles and clues, evil corporation, teamwork, death ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
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Battle Royale (2000)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: game of death, survival, death, dystopia, suicide, gory, desperation, cruelty, social commentary, school class, dystopian future, contests and competitions ...
Time: future, year 2000, distant future, 2000s, near future
Place: japan, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Infinity Chamber (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, time paradox, subconscious, escape attempt, mind game, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, computer, political prisoner, mistaken identity, plot twist ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.6
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Fermat's Room (2007)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time ...
Style: surprise ending, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: mathematics, riddles and clues, locked in a room, mind game, isolation, game of death, science, trapped, puzzle, mathematician, room, survival ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 107K
eXistenZ (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, cyberspace, dystopia, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy, video game, parallel world ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1999, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 211K
Saw III (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate ...
Style: scary, bloody, psychological, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, serial killer, game of death, trap, mind game, sadism, psychopath, brutality, gory, mutilation, sadistic horror, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 31K
Unknown (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, twists and turns, kidnapping, confined, murder, hostage, trapped, loss of friend, suicide, survival, puzzle, trap ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.6
 275K
Saw II (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, gory, trap, sadistic horror, psychopath, serial murder, hostage, mind game, brutality, violent, insanity ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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