Movies like Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
74K

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, political, dark, suspenseful, futuristic, tense ...
Plot:
distopia, brainwashing, politics, totalitarianism, future dystopia, torture, fascism, surveillance, female nudity, alternate reality, political corruption, society, against humanity, betrayal, helicopter, communism, paranoia, dystopic future, technology, sex scene, starvation, totalitarian state, propaganda, big brother, political repression ...
Time:
future, year 1984, 80s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom, vatican
Most similar movies to Nineteen Eighty-Four
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out thought provoking, futuristic, visually appealing and atmospheric films with plots about distopia, storytelling, post apocalypse, disaster, society, apocalypse and existentialism mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nineteen Eighty-Four: Equilibrium (2002), Brazil (1985), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), V for Vendetta (2005), A Clockwork Orange (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, psychological, clever ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, martial arts, fighting the system, gunfight, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, utopia, rebellion, totalitarianism, future dystopia, dystopic future, lone hero ...
Time:
future, 80s, 2000s
Place:
beijing china, china
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, thought provoking, futuristic, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, fighting the system, surrealism, dream, cyberpunk, christmas, bureaucracy, hallucination, twists and turns, dystopic future, mistaken identity, surveillance ...
Time:
future, year 1984
Place:
england, brazil, canada, london, britain ...
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100%

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style:
futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, future dystopia, fighting the system, social decay, justice, resistance, secrets, culture clash, dystopic future, lone hero, rebellion ...
Time:
future, 60s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he ...
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, stylized, intense, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
distopia, revolution, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, freedom, society, vigilante, superhero, rebellion, vigilantism, mysterious character ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s
Place:
london, england, britain, big ben london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, atmospheric, psychedelic, cerebral ...
Plot:
gang, insanity, rape, violent, surrealism, psychology, drugs, distopia, violence, psychopath, brutality, murder ...
Time:
future, year 1995, 20th century, 90s, 70s ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Interstellar
310K

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, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
distopia, fighting the system, genetics, twists and turns, discrimination, society, eugenics, paraplegic, future dystopia, science, utopia, deception ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
riviera, detroit, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
53K

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style:
bleak, thought provoking, futuristic, psychological, talky ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future, surveillance, future dystopia, cyberpunk, prison, androids and robots, alone in the world, fighting the system, utopia, prison escape ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
"All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man ...
Style:
philosophical, semi serious, futuristic, disturbing, surprise ending ...
Plot:
distopia, prodigy, monster, underground, apocalypse, psychology, satire, totalitarianism, dark humor, mind control, injustice, social decay ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style:
atmospheric, depressing, neo noir, bleak, thought provoking ...
Plot:
apocalypse, distopia, end of the world, redemption, future dystopia, chaos, heroic mission, pandemic, fertility, mission, childlessness, on the run ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, washington state, poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
368K

Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
thought provoking, allegory, tense, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
post apocalypse, train, distopia, survival, future dystopia, revolution, rebellion, social differences, winter, class struggle, society, snow ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2014, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Fight Club

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, atmospheric, philosophical, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
distopia, genetic engineering, post apocalypse, social differences, love and romance, society, life is a bitch, human nature, helicopter, anarchist, psychopath, psychology ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
21K

Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, clever, intellectual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, surveillance, husband wife relationship, fall in love, cloning, cyberpunk, infidelity, forgery, investigation, dystopic future, future dystopia, love and romance ...
Time:
future
Place:
asia, shanghai, seattle, china, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style:
sad, depressing, melancholic, psychological, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
distopia, boarding school, existentialism, childhood, friendship, loneliness, love triangle, cloning, sadness, love and romance, transplant, jealousy ...
Time:
50s, year 1978, year 1985, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 415 min.
TV show
Story:
In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, surprise ending, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
distopia, life is a bitch, future dystopia, utopia, dystopic future, conspiracy, genetic engineering, satire, social differences, society, totalitarianism, apocalypse ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%

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 ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and ...
Style:
futuristic, intense, exciting, thought provoking, tense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
technology, distopia, privacy, video surveillance, women, fighting the system, internet, social media, media manipulation, life philosophy, science, world politics ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Place:
scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Denmark, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A ship carrying settlers to a new home in Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
Style:
tragic ending, tense, psychological, philosophical, captivating ...
Plot:
trapped in space, orgy, tragedy, distopia, female nudity, space, existentialism, depression, cult, female protagonist, society, life philosophy ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
555K

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
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, philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, mind bending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, isolation, technology, existentialism, cyberpunk, manipulation, suspense, cyborgs, androids, androids and robots, female robot ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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560K

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.Â
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style:
philosophical, serious, thought provoking, clever, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
technology, twists and turns, alternate reality, distopia, human nature, satire, social decay, society, media satire, computers and web, media, dark humor ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style:
psychological, bleak, rough, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
rape, sexism, tyranny, surrogate mother, infertility, slavery, protest, violence, religion, distopia, totalitarianism, belief ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like V for Vendetta
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, absurd, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
distopia, decadence, existentialism, dark humor, money, surrealism, insanity, violence, class conflict, tower, obsession, violent ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1975
Place:
london, england, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
364K

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style:
psychological, futuristic, bleak, philosophical, twist ending ...
Plot:
isolation, moon, astronaut, loneliness, space travel, space, solitude, cloning, suspense, twists and turns, distopia, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style:
philosophical, surreal, thought provoking, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, alone, end of the world, male nudity, distopia, disaster, vestiges of humanity, love triangle, survival, experiment, cyberpunk ...
Time:
future
Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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780K

Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, thought provoking, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, existentialism, distopia, artificial intelligence, future dystopia, cyborgs, a.i., robot, fugitives, police, police detective, androids ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, tense, intellectual, futuristic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, starvation, isolation, violence, apocalypse, wilderness, imagination, depression, destiny, crime gone awry, character study ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog Blood are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War 4, where survivors must battle for food, shelter, and sexual companionship in the ...
Style:
surreal, futuristic, humorous, apocalyptic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dog, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, nuclear holocaust, desert, female nudity, sperm donor, coming of age, apocalypse, violent, end of the world ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
oklahoma, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

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
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%

Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style:
depressing, thought provoking, bleak, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
nuclear war, disaster, cold war, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, distopia, small town, death, end of the world, visceral, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, future, near future
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
121K

Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, family outing
Plot:
distopia, memory, post apocalypse, youth, future dystopia, community, society, runaway, humanity, life is a bitch, utopia, rebelliousness ...
Time:
future, 2040s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
2.2M

Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, thought provoking, twist ending, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, plot twist, fight, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, against the rules, obsession ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
delaware, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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