Movies like Parallels 2015

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Parallels (2015)
 6.0
 15K
Parallels (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An underground MMA fighter must confront his sister and his past in an adventure through parallel universes
Style: clever, confusing, futuristic, suspense, enigmatic, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, mind blowing, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parallel universe, time, plot twist, survival, twists and turns, multiverse, alternate reality, alternate universe, betrayal, clone, teleportation, dystopia, group sex, time travel, post apocalypse, epidemic, immortal, consciousness, paradox, gang bang, alternate timeline, interdimensional travel, meme, abduction, parallel world ...
Time: future
Place: california, louisiana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, futuristic, mind bending and complex films with plots about time travel, alternate reality, technology, time, dialogue, parallel universe and first contact mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Parallels: ARQ (2016), Coherence (2013), Synchronicity (2015), The Gateway (2018), Source Code (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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ARQ (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
Style: psychological, tense, enigmatic, cerebral, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time loop, twists and turns, time travel, life & death, creativity, memory, dystopia, post apocalypse, time, survival, distopia, faked death ...
Time: future
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 7.2
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Coherence (2013)
Genre: 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, cerebral, confusing ...
Plot: twists and turns, alternate reality, parallel world, parallel universe, time loop, quantum physics, disorder, friends, paranoia, paradox, isolation, dinner party ...
Time: near future, year 2013, future, distant future, 2010s ...
Place: usa, los angeles
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Synchronicity (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this mind-bending 'Sci-Fi Noir' a daring physicist folds time to travel into the past, trying to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his ...
Style: mindfuck, suspense, futuristic, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, parallel universe, violence, twists and turns, love story, brutality, time machine, alternate reality, science, travel, life & death ...
Time: future, near future
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 5.4
 5K
The Gateway (2018)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: time travel, parallel world, parallel universe, alternate universe, time portal, couple relations, discovery, lookalikes, portal, research, relationship problems, dead husband ...
Time: future
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100%
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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, mind bending, clever, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, twists and turns, memory, save the day, changing the past or future, destiny, terrorism, time ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
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 6.8
 23K
Ink (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the ...
Style: surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience: adult
Plot: another dimension, parallel universe, nightmare, good versus evil, time paradox, businessman, imagination, supernatural, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, surrealism, dystopia ...
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Earthtastrophe (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In a white hot flash of light, and with no warning, one minute our moon is there, the next it's gone. Then, a second flash. And that's the last thing anyone on Earth can remember. 11 months later, it's not post- apocalyptic; it's ...
Style: tense, exciting, bleak, futuristic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, time travel, moon, dystopian future, life is a bitch, danger, catastrophe, society, rescue, brutality, hopes ...
Time: future
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100%
 8.7
 2.2M
The Matrix (1999)
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: philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience: date night, manly, kids, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, philosophy, dystopia, virtual reality, existentialism, distopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, martial arts, gunfight, hacker, simulated reality ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1999, near future, 22nd century ...
Place: persia, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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 6.7
 480K
In Time (2011)
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, serious, philosophical, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, dystopia, distopia, love, dystopic future, survival, life & death, class differences, social differences ...
Time: future, year 2011, near future, distant future, 2010s
Place: usa, los angeles, canada
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Style: futuristic, exciting, saga, action adventure, cyber ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, virtual reality, distopia, robot, post apocalyptic, alternate reality, chosen one, dystopia, resistance, prophecy, one against many ...
Time: future, year 2003, 23rd century, 2000s, distant future ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens
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Time: future, distant future, 2030s, victorian era, near future ...
Place: usa, new york, egypt
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 7.1
 344K
Deja Vu (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
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Style: suspenseful, exciting, tricky, clever, confusing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night, date night, family friendly ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, twists and turns, investigation, deja vu, terrorism, time, danger, changing the past or future, police investigation, alternate timeline, parallel universe ...
Time: near future, 2000s, year 2006, future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The first Cylon war has been raging for 10 years and a young Ensign William Adama joins the fleet. He's disappointed not to be assigned to a fighter but to a freighter, and his co-pilot isn't too keen on having a rookie flying his aircraft ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, entertaining, tense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: future, 2010s
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Duration: 106 min.
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Style: exciting, clever, suspense, futuristic, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
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Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, year 2014, distant future ...
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 6.3
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Audience: teens, boys' night
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Time: future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India, Australia
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, clever, captivating ...
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Time: future, near future, year 2014, 2020s, 2010s ...
Place: united kingdom, france, paris france, europe, big ben london ...
Similarity:
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 6.8
 340K
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Duration: 136 min.
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Style: futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, action packed ...
Audience: teens, manly, girls' night, boys' night
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Time: future, year 2019, year 2005, 2010s, near future ...
Place: fictional island, los angeles
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100%
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Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
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Style: futuristic, intense, sexy, suspense, saga ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
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Time: year 2003, future, 2000s, 2030s, near future ...
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Style: futuristic, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending, ambiguous ending ...
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Duration: 120 min.
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Style: futuristic, twist ending, bad ending, suspense, saga ...
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Time: future, year 2001, near future, 20th century, 2020s ...
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 4.6
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Style: unusual plot structure, suspense, mind bending, twist ending, philosophical ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
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Style: mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, philosophical, neo noir ...
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Time: future, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
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 8.7
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Interstellar (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
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Style: futuristic, mind bending, cerebral, clever, philosophical ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, date night ...
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 7.9
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Star Trek (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
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Style: futuristic, entertaining, visually stunning, epic, exciting ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night, adult
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Time: future, year 2009, 24th century, 23rd century, 2000s
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100%
 7.1
 74K
Timecrimes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
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Style: suspense, twist ending, cerebral, enigmatic, confusing ...
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 5.9
 99K
The One (2001)
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Duration: 87 min.
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Style: exciting, stylized, suspenseful, serious, action packed ...
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Time: year 2001, 2000s, future
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 6.7
 121K
Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
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Style: philosophical, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
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 3.7
 461
Collider (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, psychological
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Time: future, 2030s, year 2016
Place: usa, colorado
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 4.4
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A.P.E.X. (1994)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A time-travel experiment in which a robot probe is sent from the year 2073 to the year 1973 goes terribly wrong thrusting one of the project scientists,into a plague ravaged alternate time-line whose war weary inhabitants are locked in a constant ...
Style: futuristic, psychotronic, tech noir, independent film, serious
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