Movies like Inception
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Inception (2010)
2.4M
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, clever, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, cerebral, philosophical, thought provoking, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
suspense, memory, virtual reality, alternate reality, dream, subconscious, architecture, existentialism, fictional reality, mind control, imagination, lucid dream, parallel world, philosophy, teamwork, kidnapping, puzzle, fantasy world, psychological manipulation, twists and turns, sleeping, heist, guilt, strong female character, thief ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
paris france, japan, los angeles, africa, new york, tokyo, kenya ...
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Most similar movies to Inception
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out philosophical, thought provoking, mind blowing and visually appealing films with plots about suspense, twists and turns, storytelling, dialogue, death, alternate reality and technology mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Inception: Source Code (2011), Tenet (2020), Shutter Island (2010), The Prestige (2006), Looper (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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528K
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, clever, mind bending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, train, twists and turns, alternate reality, bomb, destiny, save the day, memory, parallel universe, changing the past or future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, afghanistan, chicago illinois, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
521K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Plot unknown. The project is described as an action epic revolving around international espionage.
Style:
unusual plot structure, mind bending, twist ending, mind blowing, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
time paradox, time travel, time, save the world, time loop, alternate timeline, terrorism, cia agent, quantum physics, espionage, mission, time traveler ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
mumbai india, los angeles, india, vietnam, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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 ⇓
94%
1.3M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, clever, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, magic, plot twist, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, deception, magic trick, illusionist, illusion, secrets, secret ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, future, 20th century ...
Place:
london, colorado, los angeles, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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583K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, clever, mind bending, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, hitman, distopia, time paradox, organized crime, cyberpunk, escape, self sacrifice, changing the past or future, chase, destiny ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
Place:
shanghai, kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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 ⇓
90%
1.9M
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, intense, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
distopia, artificial intelligence, martial arts, existentialism, philosophy, cyberpunk, alternate reality, virtual reality, fight, gunfight, post apocalypse, hacker ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 22nd century ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 ⇓
76%
Movie in collections
232K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, exciting, intellectual ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, resurrection, technology gone awry, hi-tech, chaos, computers and web, a.i., nanotechnology, utopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
1.9M
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick
Plot:
space, time travel, space travel, father daughter relationship, nasa, astronaut, distopia, survival, scientist, space station, end of the world, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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534K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, intense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, alien, distopia, alien invasion, survival, future dystopia, space, space travel, catastrophe, destruction, disorder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., pentagon, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 ⇓
71%
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 ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, dramatic, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, butterfly effect, twists and turns, memory loss, suspense, alternate reality, psychology, memory, changing the past or future, time traveler, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Shutter Island related movies
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, thought provoking, mind bending, cerebral ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
space travel, astronaut, space, artificial intelligence, scientist, computer, surrealism, human versus computer, technology, evolution, self discovery, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 1930s, prehistory, 2000s ...
Place:
vatican
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
584K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style:
clever, thought provoking, philosophical, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
intelligence, success, ambition, rise to the top, creativity, life turned upside down, experimental drug, prodigy, rags to riches, superhuman powers, resourceful, overnight success ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
506K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Taiwan, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
Style:
philosophical, futuristic, surreal, intellectual, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
supernatural, intelligence, drugs, transformation, tough girl, experimental drug, strong female lead, supernatural ability, superhuman powers, telepathy, mind control, human brain ...
Time:
future, stone age, 21st century
Place:
paris france, berlin germany, rome italy, france, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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203K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, neo noir, gothic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, investigation, memory, alternate reality, cyberpunk, suspense, alien race, alien, post apocalypse, future dystopia, amnesia, memory loss ...
Time:
future, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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419K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, serious, stylized, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time, distopia, immortality, fighting the system, survival, love, dystopic future, future dystopia, social differences, class differences, race against time, wealth ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
los angeles, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
63%
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 ⇓
70%
Movie in collections
258K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, entertaining, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, memory loss, dystopic future, post apocalypse, future dystopia, secret agents, space, virtual reality, on the run, technology, false memory ...
Time:
future
Place:
big ben london, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
11K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After a colossal and mysterious accident a young talented architect comes back to his senses in a very odd world that only resembles the reality. This world is based on the memories of the ones who live in it - people who are currently finding ...
Style:
mind bending, exciting, atmospheric, enigmatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
subconscious, architect, alternate reality, couples, getting home, monster, coma, imagination, research, scientist, society, foreknowledge ...
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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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 ⇓
75%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, exciting, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, soldier, military, battles, invasion, repeated event, changing the past or future, time paradox, evil alien ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
france, paris france, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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: 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, tense, suspenseful, serious, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
survival, maze, memory loss, distopia, apocalypse, teenager, post apocalypse, fantasy world, trapped, suspense, youth, escape ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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