Movies like Cypher 2002
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Cypher (2002)
32K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, thought provoking, tense, stylized, enigmatic, sexy, futuristic, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, memory loss, espionage, twists and turns, distopia, spy, technology, brainwashing, hidden identity, mysterious character, uncover truth, dystopic future, dishonesty, power relations, psychology, suspense, cloning, double life, double agent, powerful corporation, industrial espionage, conspiracy, amnesia, false identity, new identity ...
Time:
future
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Most similar movies to Cypher
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out thought provoking, suspenseful, complex and serious films with plots about storytelling, twists and turns, mentor, dialogue, suspense, paranoia and existentialism mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Cypher: eXistenZ (1999), The Jacket (2005), Total Recall (1990), Vanilla Sky (2001), The Thirteenth Floor (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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102K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France
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, mind bending, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, distopia, plot twist, technology, video game, genetics, chase, escape from reality, cyberspace ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
canada
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100%
116K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, time loop, supernatural, mental institution, murder, memory loss, parallel universe, hallucination, supernatural ability, suspense, butterfly effect ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
vermont
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100%
337K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, ambiguous ending, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, mars, memory loss, secret agents, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, future dystopia, alien, chase, space, virtual reality ...
Time:
future, 80s, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
273K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, surreal, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, hallucination, virtual reality, mind game, love, tragic love, disfigurement, psychology, dream, obsession, lost love, alternate reality ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot:
alternate reality, virtual reality, twists and turns, cyberpunk, cyberspace, time travel, computer system, parallel universe, parallel world, distopia, dystopic future, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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 apocalypse, apocalypse, psychology, paranoia, time loop, virus, end of the world, alternate reality, social misfits, save the world ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2030s, 20th century, year 1990 ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, canada, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman ...
Style:
mind bending, romantic, thought provoking, philosophical, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
destiny, love story, alternate reality, power of love, fictional reality, twists and turns, fall in love, politics, changing the past or future, manipulation, true love, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Style:
futuristic, neo noir, exciting, tense, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
cyberpunk, murder, suspense, future dystopia, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, frame up, distopia, law enforcer, police investigation, time travel ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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320K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, intense, psychological, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, escape, cloning, fugitives, technology gone awry, future dystopia, conspiracy, island, clones, utopia, lookalikes, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
133K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, tense, confusing ...
Plot:
parallel world, twists and turns, alternate reality, parallel universe, time loop, friends, disorder, paranoia, suspense, dinner party, confinement indoors, comet ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Inception related movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, surreal, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
cult, cult leader, time travel, manipulation, twists and turns, religions or cults, brainwashing, investigation, journalist, uncover truth, exploitation, society ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
1.3M
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, amnesia, memory loss, murder, plot twist, revenge, memory, paranoia, vengeance, psychology, twists and turns, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
405K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, manipulation, suspense, mind game, game, uncover truth, scheme, life turned upside down, life philosophy, existentialism, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, mexico, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an ...
Style:
surreal, futuristic, enigmatic, cynical, allegory ...
Plot:
time travel, distopia, alternate reality, memory, post apocalypse, drugs, mad scientist, prophecy, chaos, future dystopia, apocalypse, dishonesty ...
Time:
future, year 2005, near future, 2000s, year 2008
Place:
los angeles, texas, southern california, afghanistan, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paranoid computer programmer Simon wakes up to find a package in his room one day. Despite attempts at securing his apartment, the packages keep arriving. While cameras watch Simon's every move, he struggles to find the answers to the ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, enigmatic, cerebral, tricky ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, paranoia, mind game, mind control, computer, technology, neighbor, investigation, life is a bitch, robot, existentialism ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret involving the origins of a revolutionary and needed new foodstuff.
Style:
twist ending, futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, mind bending ...
Plot:
distopia, food, conspiracy, overpopulation, cannibalism, environmental, end of the world, death, murder, cannibal, existentialism, cyberpunk ...
Time:
future, 70s, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
119K
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, mind bending, twist ending, tricky ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, plot twist, mind game, survival, confinement indoors, surveillance, rivalry, psychologist, suspense, pandemic, ambition ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
24K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, confusing ...
Plot:
manipulation, suspense, twists and turns, haunted by the past, uncover truth, brutality, psychic power, dishonesty, life is a bitch, murder, false memory, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, spain, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, tricky, enigmatic, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, plot twist, time machine, mysterious character, twists and turns, threat, time, surrealism, disorder, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually ...
Style:
psychological, clever, political, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
conspiracy, gulf war, political conspiracy, suspense, brainwashing, mind control, sniper, senator, politics, assassination, political corruption, surveillance ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1991
Place:
usa, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Donnie Darko similar movies
109K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, surreal, intellectual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
time travel, time loop, time machine, parallel universe, changing the past or future, changing the future, twists and turns, science, inventor, time, mathematics, scientist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, memory, psychiatrist, missing child, paranoia, mind game, delusion, abduction, grief, alien ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
206K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, twists and turns, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, paranoia, a vision, uncover truth, escape from reality, investigation, plot twist, psychology ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An employee of a corporation with a lucrative secret process is tempted to betray it. But there's more to it than that.
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, twists and turns, betrayal, investigation, intrigue, business, invention, heist, conspiracy, con artists, manipulation, secrets ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
venezuela, caribbean, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, non-linear, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, hotel, distopia, betrayal, prostitution, gangsters, crime gone awry, erotica, nude, mentor, multiple storylines, lone hero ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
tokyo, new york, usa, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Butterfly Effect related movies
110K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, exciting, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, memory loss, cyberpunk, amnesia, twists and turns, frame up, alternate reality, suspense, gunfight, chase, distopia, time ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time:
year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
424K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, plot twist, invulnerability, twists and turns, train crash, suspense, villain, self discovery, father son relationship, supernatural ability, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 60s, 2000s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
162K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, revenge, twists and turns, bullying, secrets, gift, obsession, stalker, husband wife relationship, psychopath, manipulation, surveillance ...
Place:
los angeles, california, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style:
psychological, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, paranoia, disfigurement, nightmare, dreams, surrealism, love, suspense, memory loss, jealousy, love triangle, car accident ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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