Movies like Retroactive
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Retroactive (1997)
7K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.
Style:
suspense, road movie, suspenseful, cerebral, intense, serious, disturbing, psychological, independent film, rough ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, changing the past or future, serial killer, time, alternate timeline, alternate reality, destiny, repeated event, twists and turns, witnessing a crime, dying repeatedly, chases and races, nothing goes right, desert, murder, on the road, female protagonist, female fighter, disorder, revenge, car chase, brutality, memory ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future
Place:
texas, usa, arizona
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Most similar movies to Retroactive
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious and exciting films with plots about murder, dialogue, mentor, catastrophe, chase, corruption and storytelling mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Retroactive: Frequency (2000), The Butterfly Effect (2004), Deja Vu (2006), Looper (2012), Next (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
123K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, clever, feel good, serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, radio, father son relationship, investigation, police detective, parallel universe, altering history, murder mystery, changing the past or future, murder, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1999, year 1969, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
344K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help ...
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%
626K
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, mind bending, thought provoking, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, distopia, hitman, time paradox, cyberpunk, time, self sacrifice, assassin, changing the past or future, organized crime, revenge ...
Time:
future, 2040s, near future, distant future, year 2012 ...
Place:
shanghai, kansas, seattle, usa
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a ...
Style:
mindfuck, mind bending, suspense, psychological thriller, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, changing the past or future, violence, supernatural, masked killer, twists and turns, profanity, sent to the past, serial killer, alternate reality, police investigation, storytelling ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
100%
174K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies ...
Style:
mind bending, exciting, clever, action packed, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, foreknowledge, psychic, changing the past or future, danger, destiny, save the day, twists and turns, supernatural ability, a vision, precognition, terrorism ...
Time:
future, year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, las vegas, usa, arizona
Similarity:
100%
6K
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Office employee Barry Thomas is caught in a "time bounce" caused by a glitch in the company's secret project. Now the same day occurs again and again - and Barry's the only one who can do anything about it, including saving the ...
Style:
action thriller, action adventure, entertaining, detective, mind bending ...
Plot:
time loop, time travel, groundhog day, time, dying repeatedly, back in time, travel, memory, murder, experiment gone awry, prank, disorder ...
Similarity:
100%
579K
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
Similarity:
100%
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69K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Style:
suspense, futuristic, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, martial arts, changing the past or future, heroic mission, back in time, time loop, violence, danger, murder, alternate timeline, time jump ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 19th century ...
Place:
washington d.c., canada
Similarity:
75%
68K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style:
psychological, road movie, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, violence, chase, road trip, couples, highway, conspiracy, desert, uncover truth, murder, danger, car breakdown ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, new mexico, usa, massachusetts, arizona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, emotional, breathtaking, surprise ending ...
Plot:
hospital, chase, escape, father son relationship, leukemia, terminal illness, criminal, psychopath, police officer, villain played by lead actor, child in peril, boy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
100%
19K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style:
futuristic, cyber, entertaining, tech noir, disgusting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, cyberpunk, dystopia, bounty hunter, on the run, dystopian future, chase, racing, apocalypse, time traveler, time loop, car ...
Time:
future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, rough, detective ...
Plot:
masochist, chase, serial killer, police investigation, lost in the woods, police detective, murder, ransom, fbi, police station, race against time, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, miami, usa, san francisco, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style:
bleak, sexy, neo noir, road movie, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, road trip, lovers on the run, psychopath, strong sexual content, gas station, motel, journalism, on the road, hostage, murderous pair, killing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, texas, pittsburgh
Similarity:
100%
217K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three different ...
Style:
philosophical, cerebral, surreal, reflective, spiritual ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
time loop, race against time, time, destiny, parallel universe, self sacrifice, bank robbery, repeated event, butterfly effect, female protagonist, multiple perspectives, multiple outcomes ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, future
Place:
berlin germany, germany, seattle, europe
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Zambia, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, grindhouse
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, changing the past or future, time loop, back in time, on the run, heroic mission, destiny, hostage, heroes, rivalry, race against time ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style:
cult classic, clever, neo noir, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, twists and turns, gunfight, ransom, money, violence, gangster, crime gone awry, pregnancy, hostage, criminal, car chase ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
bolivia, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, car chase, police, terrorist, investigation, murder, male pubic hair, vigilante, hitman, undercover, police investigation, vengeance ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, southern california, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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69K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, stylized, intense, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, drug cartel, police investigation, violent, death of friend, characters murdered one by one, profanity, crime scene, revenge, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, danger ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
mexico, atlanta georgia, south america, georgia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, fast
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time machine, alternate timeline, heroes, martial arts, chase, superhero, heroic mission, undercover, danger, psychopath, changing the past or future ...
Time:
year 1988, 19th century, 80s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
germany, europe, california, texas, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, justice, prison, vigilante, revenge, master criminal, lawyer, retribution, fighting the system, twists and turns, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, gangster, vigilante, lone hero, murder, vengeance, jamaican, violence, hand to hand combat, drug lord, voodoo ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
153K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, black comedy, visually stunning, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, money, mafia, robbery, violence, betrayal, organized crime, twists and turns, greed, anti hero, prostitute ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, has escaped during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, John Spartan, who had also been ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, utopia, psychopath, time travel, satire, maverick cop, totalitarianism, fish out of water, violence ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
chase, police investigation, pitbull, buddy cop, reluctant partners, buddy, car, car chase, buddies, partner, danger, hostage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Buster McHenry (Sutherland) is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm (Phillips), an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster ...
Style:
suspense, serious, retro, detective, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gangster, buddy cop, revenge, car chase, police corruption, vengeance, reluctant partners, murder of an innocent person, telepathy, native american reservation, cold blooded murder, showdown ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
philadelphia, canada, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, suspenseful, surprise ending, road movie ...
Plot:
femme fatale, lovers on the run, private detective, chase, murder, organized crime, desert, casino, motel, caper, cop, falsely accused ...
Time:
year 1989, 20th century, 80s, 1930s
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, arizona, reno nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, police, corruption, conspiracy, police corruption, negotiation, twists and turns, false accusation, frame up, swat, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, tech noir, cyber, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, serial killer, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, hacking, evil computer, prison, violence, computer, technology, hacker ...
Time:
future, year 1995, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder in which the President of The United States is involved occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run yet may hold evidence that could convict the President. A political thriller ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
murder mystery, secret service, politics, usa president, political corruption, father daughter relationship, political conspiracy, president, conspiracy, justice, witnessing a crime, white house ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
100%
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