Movies like The Lawnmower Man
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The Lawnmower Man (1992)
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, dark, psychological, thought provoking, bad ending, entertaining ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyberspace, virtual reality, computer, vengeance, suspense, experiment gone awry, mentally challenged, technology, artificial intelligence, internet, misfit, a.i., inventions and discoveries, technology gone awry, revenge, laboratory, husband wife relationship, natural disaster, chimpanzee, supernatural power, apocalypse, hacker, cyborgs, transhumanism ...
Time:
future, 90s, 1990s
Place:
washington d.c.
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Most similar movies to The Lawnmower Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, suspenseful, serious and cult film films with plots about catastrophe, dialogue, first contact, transformation, danger, suspense and technology mostly in Sci-Fi, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Lawnmower Man: Johnny Mnemonic (1995), Transcendence (2014), eXistenZ (1999), The Machine (2013), Brainscan (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to ...
Style:
futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, bleak, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, future dystopia, cyborgs, heroic mission, hacking, computers and web, distopia, computer, computer cracker, cyberspace ...
Time:
future, near future, 2000s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, japan, beijing china
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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
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88%
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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%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jobe is resuscitated by Jonathan Walker. He wants Jobe to create a special computer chip that would connect all the computers in the world into one network, which Walker would control and use. But what Walker doesn't realize is a group of ...
Style:
futuristic, bad ending, melancholic, psychological, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
computer, cyberpunk, virtual reality, revenge, technology, hacker, androids and robots, cyborgs, prodigy, chase, sword fight, surveillance ...
Time:
future, 80s, 2040s
Place:
los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, a.i., distopia, cyborgs, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, secret laboratory, programmer, suspense, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Matrix
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A lonely teenage horror-movie fan discovers a mysterious computer game that uses hypnosis to custom-tailor the game into the most terrifying experience imaginable. When he emerges from the hypnotic trance he is horrified to find evidence that the ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, virtual reality, computer, macabre, teenager, video game, transformation, mentor, technology gone awry, experiment gone awry, hypnosis, technophobia ...
Time:
80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspenseful, exciting, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, androids and robots, struggle for survival, cyberpunk, apocalypse, alien planet, space, post apocalypse, distopia, robot, killer robot, future dystopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the "Address Book Killer," who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books. Terry and her son Josh come into the store to price software, and a salesman uses Terry's ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, futuristic, sinister ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, computer, hospital, cyberpunk, virtual reality, murder, androids and robots, cybersecurity, hacker, internet, death, suspense ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
ohio, midwest, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
scientist, telekinesis, suspense, violence, exploitation, cult, murder, body horror, mind reading, supernatural ability, investigation, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, futuristic, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, supernatural, trapped in space, space, insanity, space station, hallucination, space and aliens, nightmare, rescue team, survival, astronaut ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Tetsuo: The Iron Man is a 1989 Japanese cyberpunk film by cult-film director Shinya Tsukamoto produced by Japan Home Video. This, his third film, is an extremely graphic but also strikingly-filmed fantasy shot in the same low-budget, ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychotronic, experimental, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, body horror, surrealism, transformation, very little dialogue, distopia, metamorphosis, sex, hit and run, businessman, apocalypse, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, melancholic ...
Plot:
insect, cockroach, virus, mutant, monster, tunnel, entomologist, suspense, creature, experiment gone awry, disease, giant insect ...
Time:
90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After being driven to extinction, great bloodthirsty dinosaurs come back to life with the assistance of a demented genetic scientist. She plans to replace the human race with a super-race of dinosaurs who will not pollute the planet.
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
monster, dinosaur, mad scientist, mutant, virus, genetics, chaos, deadly creature, disorder, dangerous animal, extinction, kaiju ...
Time:
90s, prehistory, prehistoric times, jurassic
Place:
washington d.c., nevada
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36%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, sexy, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
body horror, mad scientist, supernatural, transformation, macabre, monster, experiment, zombie, laboratory, another dimension, mutant, murder ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
35%
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Movies like Ex Machina
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, pregnancy, small town, alien life-form, genetics, husband wife relationship, suspense, mind game, supernatural ability, babies and infants, small town life ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style:
scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
supernatural, psychic, father daughter relationship, little girl, experiment gone awry, suspense, on the run, supernatural ability, government agency, pyrokinesis, conspiracy, fire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vermont, new york
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35%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Cocky researcher, Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible and he's so confident he's found the right formula that he tests it on himself and soon begins to vanish. The only problem is – no-one can ...
Style:
scary, sexy, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
invisible man, invisibility, experiment, psychopath, suspense, rape, scientist, mad scientist, monster, transformation, voyeurism, brutality ...
Time:
20th century, future, 90s, 2000s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, pentagon
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, gothic, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
time travel, mad scientist, monster, supernatural, destiny, murder, death, alternate reality, suspense, macabre, mutant, vengeance ...
Time:
future, 19th century, 2030s, 1810s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, geneva switzerland, los angeles
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34%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named "Dren", the creature rapidly develops ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sexy, twist ending, rough ...
Plot:
monster, supernatural, genetic engineering, genetics, experiment, cloning, experiment gone awry, laboratory, creature, suspense, dna, farm ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Films like Event Horizon
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs ...
Style:
scary, futuristic, suspenseful, captivating, frightening ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
alien, monster, suspense, space travel, space, female protagonist, space and aliens, deadly creature, fear, creature, spacecraft, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In this modern retelling of H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi horror, civilization is laid to ruin when a super race of aliens invades Earth. In a blink of an eye, massive "walkers" cover the planet, annihilating all in their path. As cities ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, serious, futuristic, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, apocalypse, survival, natural disaster, space travel, monster, save the world, introspection, heroic mission, supernatural, future dystopia ...
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33%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the ...
Style:
bad ending, futuristic, twist ending, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien, space travel, monster, space, alien life-form, robot, creature, human versus alien, scientist, extraterrestrial, alien creature, suspense ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A shipwrecked sailor stumbles upon a mysterious island and is shocked to discover that a brilliant scientist and his lab assistant have found a way to combine human and animal DNA with horrific results.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, campy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, genetics, experiment, mutant, rebellion, chaos and mayhem, mutation, survival, dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, stranded, monster ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, future, 21st century
Place:
indonesia, pacific ocean, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Japan, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When the crew of an American tugboat boards an abandoned Russian research vessel, the alien life form aboard regards them as a virus which must be destroyed.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, bleak, rough, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
alien, ship, ocean, survival, rescue, cyborgs, natural disaster, virus, boat, robot, monster, deadly creature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Movies similar to TRON: Legacy
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
drugs, science, hallucination, experiment gone awry, surrealism, obsession, suspense, transformation, isolation, macabre, university, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
harvard university, new york, africa, california, boston ...
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33%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus, his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, futuristic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, save the world, monster, survival, future dystopia, alien, bio weapon, plague, suspense, desert ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1992, 90s, near future
Place:
california, los angeles
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33%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hallucination, cyberpunk, insanity, television, paranoia, body horror, mind control, surrealism, satire, suicide, cult, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada, pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia ...
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33%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When their computer hacker friend accidentally channels a mysterious wireless signal, a group of co-eds rally to stop a terrifying evil from taking over the world.
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, hacker, suspense, suicide, college, paranoia, technology, apocalypse, internet, computers and web, college life, graphic violence ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A shower of meteorites produces a rare night time spectacle that blinds anyone that looks at it. As it was such a beautiful sight, most people were watching, and as a consequence, 99% of the World's population go completely blind. In the ...
Style:
scary, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blindness, post apocalypse, monster, apocalypse, space and aliens, suspense, mutant, end of the world, distopia, survival, humanity, save the world ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, spain, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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