Movies like Automata

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Automata (2014)
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Automata (2014)
Original name: Autómata
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic, cyber, suspense, retro, mind bending, experimental ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, cyberpunk, dystopian future, robot human relationship, post apocalyptic, cyborgs, investigation, end of the world, danger, insurance agent, uncover truth, survival, ecology, dishonesty, robotics, apocalypse, technology, machine, corporation, rain ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2014, 2040s, 21st century

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Most similar movies to Automata

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, cyber, thought provoking and serious films with plots about distopia, dystopia, technology, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, robot and artificial intelligence mostly in Sci-Fi, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Automata: Elysium (2013), The Machine (2013), Surrogates (2009), Vice (2015), Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style: futuristic, breathtaking, cyber, serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, space station, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, politics, robot, dark future, ecological disaster, utopia ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa ...
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The Machine (2013)
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, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, man versus machine, secret laboratory, female robot, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, programmer, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: england
Similarity:
100%
 6.3
 184K
Surrogates (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Style: futuristic, bleak, cerebral, surreal, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, distopia, virtual reality, androids and robots, utopia, technology gone awry, cloning, dystopian future, cyborgs, technology, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2017
Place: san diego california
Similarity:
100%
 4.2
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Vice (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, ...
Style: futuristic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: androids and robots, humanoid robot, artificial intelligence, technology, female robot, virtual reality, profanity, robot, chase, justice, resort, humanity ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: usa
Similarity:
100%
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Spain
Duration: 164 min.
Story: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, ...
Style: futuristic, neo noir, detective, tech noir, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, dystopia, investigation, dark future, technology, robot, flying car, bounty hunter, violence, police detective, memory ...
Time: future, near future, 2040s, distant future, year 2017 ...
Place: california, nevada, space western, san diego california, los angeles ...
Similarity:
82%
 6.8
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Chappie (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and ...
Style: touching, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, parents and children, androids and robots, human versus robot, technology, technology gone awry, brutality, consciousness, distopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, near future, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
100%
 7.3
 361K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, serious, philosophical, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopian future, dystopia, gunfight, post apocalyptic, fighting the system, cyberpunk, violence, totalitarianism, rebellion, dictatorship ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
Similarity:
100%
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Canada, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, cerebral, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, female protagonist, robot, technology, distopia, hacker, dystopia, tough girl, androids, chase ...
Time: future, year 2017, near future, 2010s, year 2011
Place: tokyo, japan
Similarity:
86%
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 7.5
 231K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, revenge, murder, surgery, microchip, dystopia, nanotechnology, technology, super soldier, cyborgs, super computer ...
Time: near future, future, 2010s
Similarity:
83%
 7.7
 633K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, technology, existentialism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, isolation, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, consciousness ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014 ...
Place: england
Similarity:
75%
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, futuristic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, androids, distopia, adoption, robot, imagination, boy, destiny, machine, child abuse ...
Time: future, year 2001, 2000s, near future, distant future ...
Place: new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.9
 110K
Finch (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.
Style: psychological, apocalyptic, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: robot, post apocalypse, dog, technology, androids and robots, loneliness, artificial intelligence, friendship, dystopia, survival, philosophy, love and romance ...
Time: future, near future
Place: europe
Similarity:
100%
 6.0
 72K
The Signal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style: surreal, suspenseful, mindfuck, twisted, cerebral ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: twists and turns, hacker, secret laboratory, alien, alien abduction, road trip, alien invasion, alien contact, computer hacker, cyborgs, space, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: columbus ohio, nevada, usa
Similarity:
100%
 6.2
 246K
Transcendence (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, 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: cerebral, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, technology, consciousness, technology gone awry, resurrection, science, scientist, nanotechnology, computers and web, chaos, hi-tech, computer ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, year 2010 ...
Place: peru, usa, africa, europe, asia ...
Similarity:
80%
Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 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, cyber, stylized, tech noir, cult classic ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, dystopia, dystopian future, heroic mission, danger, computers and web, computer cracker, artificial intelligence, yakuza, hacking ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 2000s, 2020s ...
Place: japan, arizona, beijing china, canada
Similarity:
100%
 7.7
 344K
Gattaca (1997)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Science fiction drama about a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics where humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. The young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet he is ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, intellectual, neo noir, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, dystopia, philosophy, society, paraplegic, eugenics, hopes, dystopian future, twists and turns ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 1900s ...
Place: detroit, riviera, french riviera
Similarity:
75%
 6.8
 65K
Logan's Run (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: All citizens get a chance of being 'renewed' in a Civic Ceremony at their 30th birthday, unless they run and escape before their time comes.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, visually stunning, philosophical, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dystopia, apocalypse, utopia, cat, dystopian future, robot, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, artificial intelligence, escape, post-apocalyptic future, space ...
Time: future, distant future, 23rd century, 70s
Place: washington d.c., usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
 5.7
 16K
Kill Command (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines. Against this backdrop an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island training facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for ...
Style: futuristic, intense, suspense, minimal cast, surprise ending ...
Plot: robot, killer robot, man versus machine, computer program, military, female warrior, cyborgs, cyberpunk, battles, rescue, laboratory, death ...
Time: near future, future
Similarity:
100%
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 7.1
 611K
I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, exciting, apocalyptic, serious ...
Audience: manly, teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, distopia, androids and robots, dystopia, dystopian future, androids, technology gone awry, fate of humanity, hi-tech ...
Time: future, year 2004, 2030s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: chicago, usa, north america
Similarity:
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%
Terminator Salvation (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, intense, serious, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, time travel, man versus machine, post apocalypse, dystopian future, terminator, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place: los angeles, san francisco, california
Similarity:
100%
 8.1
 875K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
Similarity:
44%
 7.9
 201K
Altered Carbon (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Style: futuristic, tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, consciousness, artificial intelligence, investigation, resistance fighter, twists and turns, virtual reality, murder, body swapping, doppelganger, female nudity, multiple storylines ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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 7.6
 306K
RoboCop (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed ...
Style: futuristic, entertaining, black comedy, cyber, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens, manly
Plot: cyberpunk, robot, cyborgs, androids and robots, dystopia, robocop, police, revenge, graphic violence, law enforcement, satire, gory ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, detroit, michigan
Similarity:
100%
 5.5
 45K
Replicas (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
Style: intellectual, exciting, futuristic, clever, psychotronic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: consciousness, science, cloning, laboratory, family in danger, genetics, robot, androids, resurrection, scientist, scientific experiment, biologist ...
Time: near future, future
Place: puerto rico
Similarity:
100%
Until the End of the World (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Australia, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Until The End of the World is an odyssey for the modern age. As with Homer's Odyssey, the purpose of the journey is to restore sight -- a spiritual reconciliation between an obsessed father and a deserted son. Dr. Farber, in trying to find a ...
Style: road movie, futuristic, surreal, cyber, bleak ...
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, on the road, photograph, chase, virtual reality, post apocalypse, magic, dream, lovers, train, road trip ...
Time: future, year 1991, 90s, near future, year 1999 ...
Place: australia, berlin germany, china, moscow russia, venice ...
Similarity:
100%
 5.7
 62K
Red Planet (2000)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Style: futuristic, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: mars, space, spacecraft, space travel, robot, astronaut, survival, space opera, catastrophe, ecological disaster, space exploration, stranded ...
Time: future, year 2000, y2k, near future, 2020s ...
Place: antarctica
Similarity:
100%
 6.3
 114K
Repo Men (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, absurd, visually appealing, cyber ...
Plot: cyberpunk, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, evil corporation, dystopic future, rebel, fight scenes, virtual reality, biopunk, chase, hitman ...
Time: future, near future, year 2010, 2010s
Place: usa
Similarity:
50%
 5.8
 62K
Extinction (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A chief mechanic at a factory, haunted by apocalyptic nightmares, becomes a hero when Earth is invaded by a mysterious army bent on destruction.
Style: suspense, light, apocalyptic, smart, cyber ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artificial intelligence, spacecraft, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, alien invasion, invasion, apocalypse, dystopia, disaster, rescue, fear, friendship ...
Time: future
Similarity:
27%
 5.7
 5K
Natural City (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Two cops, R and Noma, hunt down renegade cyborgs. Cyborgs are used as commandos by the military, as lust objects and for companionship. Normaly they have a limited lifespan of three years but black market technology is being developed to be able to ...
Style: suspenseful, cyber, exciting, stylized, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyborgs, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, robot as menace, apocalypse, dystopian future, androids and robots, computers and web, save the world, danger, man versus machine, rivalry ...
Time: future
Similarity:
27%