Movies like Soylent Green
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Soylent Green (1973)
75K
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:
futuristic, atmospheric, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical, frightening, bleak, depressing, tech noir, cyber ...
Plot:
dystopia, conspiracy, food, cannibalism, death, murder, overpopulation, distopia, police detective, investigation, law enforcement, consciousness, dystopian future, imagination, existentialism, environment, cannibal, environmental, prostitute, class differences, ecology, social commentary, survival, survival horror, global warming ...
Time:
future, distant future, near future, 2020s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Most similar movies to Soylent Green
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, thought provoking, serious and psychological thriller films with plots about distopia, dystopia, technology, existentialism, storytelling, dialogue and alternate reality mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Soylent Green: THX 1138 (1971), Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), What Happened to Monday (2017), Minority Report (2002), The Andromeda Strain (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
57K
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:
philosophical, cult classic, bleak, mindfuck, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, dystopia, dystopian future, cyberpunk, brainwashing, escape, prison, dystopic future, alone in the world, fighting the system, androids and robots ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1971, 90s, 1920s
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100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, Netherlands
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, cult classic, political ...
Plot:
distopia, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, dystopian future, brainwashing, technology, fascism, totalitarian state, satire, surveillance, political corruption ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1984, near future, 20th century ...
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
overpopulation, distopia, dystopia, sisters, hiding place, chase, dystopic future, death of sister, politics, tough girl, investigation, betrayal ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2017, 2010s, distant future
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67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Style:
futuristic, neo noir, cerebral, suspense, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, chick flick
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, dystopian future, dystopia, murder, foreknowledge, precognition, frame up, psychic, murder mystery, time loop, police investigation ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico, are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
deadly virus, virus, disaster, medical, laboratory, science, race against time, plague, alien, pandemic, epidemic, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, distant future, year 1971, year 1970 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a ...
Style:
tech noir, cult classic, futuristic, serious, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, dystopia, police brutality, violence, conspiracy, kick-butt women, bodyguard, corruption, haunted by the past, uncover truth, violent ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1995, near future, year 1999 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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:
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future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
52K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears ...
Style:
tech noir, detective, apocalyptic, exciting, mystic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hacker, technology, murder investigation, dystopia, distopia, mind control, surveillance, police, female assassin, serial killer, secret identity, investigation ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Style:
neo noir, cerebral, atmospheric, futuristic, detective ...
Plot:
surrealism, dystopia, satire, distopia, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopian future, private detective, spy, imagination, existentialism, obsession ...
Time:
future, year 1965, 50s, 1950s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect ...
Style:
clever, psychological, disturbing, creepy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
robot, feminism, small town, women's liberation, housewife, suburbs, utopia, conspiracy, paranoia, social commentary, missing person, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new england, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: 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, neo noir, depressing, apocalyptic, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, chaos, redemption, end of the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, pandemic, fertility, post apocalyptic, dying ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
Similarity:
100%
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, psychedelic, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, insanity, dystopia, surrealism, gang, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, sociopath, murder ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
Similarity:
50%
875K
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:
100%
2.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective, bad ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, psychology, mind game, police investigation, police, police detective, sin, maniac, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, usa, persia, iran, america ...
Similarity:
100%
480K
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
Similarity:
100%
385K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time:
future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
340K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, manly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, conspiracy, cloning, escape, clone, dystopian future, dystopia, isolation, fugitives, technology gone awry, genetics, lookalikes ...
Time:
future, year 2019, year 2005, 2010s, near future ...
Place:
fictional island, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling ...
Style:
futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, plague, isolation, infection, post apocalyptic, pandemic, virus, dystopia, transformation, loneliness, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1971, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, china, woodstock, california ...
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50%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style:
psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, adult animation, bleak ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, drug abuse, dystopia, schizophrenia, conspiracy, disorder, addiction, trippy, society, fighting crime, consciousness, losing-it hero ...
Time:
future, year 2006, 2000s, near future, 21st century
Place:
california, texas, usa, san diego california
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%
611K
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:
31%
113K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
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:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, twists and turns, alternate reality, dystopia, cyberspace, bodyguard, parallel world, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1999, near future
Place:
canada
Similarity:
31%
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221K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time:
future, year 1985, year 1984
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
Similarity:
30%
361K
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:
30%
184K
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:
29%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Style:
suspenseful, philosophical, meditative, cerebral, futuristic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, experiment gone awry, imagination, conspiracy, transformation, uncover truth, dystopian future, mad scientist, rebellion, computer, virtual world ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1983
Place:
england, london, europe, north carolina, rio de janeiro ...
Similarity:
29%
33K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Style:
mind bending, sexy, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, twists and turns, espionage, spy, conspiracy, memory loss, disorder, brainwashing, double agent, technology, undercover, power relations ...
Time:
future, year 2002
Similarity:
28%
170K
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
Similarity:
28%
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:
28%
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