Movies like Strange Days
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Strange Days (1995)
84K
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 murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates and is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case?
Style:
tech noir, cult classic, futuristic, serious, visually stunning, cyber, thought provoking, psychological, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, dystopia, police brutality, violence, conspiracy, kick-butt women, bodyguard, corruption, haunted by the past, uncover truth, technology, violent, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, computer, white male black female relationship, police corruption, interracial romance, police, post apocalypse, virtual world, sexualized violence, prostitute ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1995, near future, year 1999, year 2000, turn of the century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Most similar movies to Strange Days
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, cult classic, futuristic and serious films with plots about chase, murder, distopia, death, blood, dialogue and storytelling mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like Strange Days: Minority Report (2002), Dredd (2012), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Ghost in the Shell (2017), 8MM (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
310K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, USA, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Style:
futuristic, cult classic, intense, neo noir, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly, manly, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, post apocalypse, one man army, brutality, dystopia, distopia, organized crime, lone hero, judge, tough cop, rookie ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2012, near future, distant future
Place:
usa, america, seattle
Similarity:
100%
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:
80%
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:
100%
Movie in collections
150K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, erotic, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private detective, obsession, male nudity, videotaped sex, revenge, murder mystery, private investigator, sexual abuse, investigation, violent, serial killer, sex ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
75%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an ...
Style:
surreal, futuristic, cynical, apocalyptic, postmodern ...
Plot:
time travel, dystopian future, apocalypse, alternate reality, memory, prophecy, chaos, distopia, dark humor, alternate history, amnesia, drug ...
Time:
future, year 2005, year 2006, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
los angeles, syria, middle east, nevada, southern california ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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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 ...
Plot:
dystopia, conspiracy, food, cannibalism, death, murder, overpopulation, distopia, police detective, investigation, law enforcement, consciousness ...
Time:
future, distant future, near future, 2020s, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, clever, suspense ...
Plot:
assassination, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, accountant, twists and turns, politics, kidnapping, race against time, hostage, assassination plot, child in peril, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, philosophical, intellectual, suspense ...
Plot:
distopia, surveillance, cyberpunk, twists and turns, memory, existentialism, microchip, afterlife, dystopian future, social satire, machine, deception ...
Time:
future, year 2004, near future
Similarity:
100%
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, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, intense, captivating, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, dystopia, vigilante, freedom, anti hero, protest, society, masked man ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, big ben london, europe ...
Similarity:
50%
378K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Construction worker Douglas Quaid discovers a memory chip in his brain during a virtual-reality trip. He also finds that his past has been invented to conceal a plot of planetary domination. Soon, he's off to Mars to find out who he is and who ...
Style:
futuristic, cerebral, cult classic, mind bending, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
kids, manly, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, mars, dystopia, secret agent, dystopian future, virtual reality, memory, memory loss, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, chase ...
Time:
future, 20th century, near future, 90s, year 1990 ...
Similarity:
100%
115K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style:
surreal, psychological, scary, psychedelic, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, psychopath, coma, mind game, investigation, race against time, sadomasochism, virtual reality, fbi, psychiatrist, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 90s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
81K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while ...
Style:
teen, cyber, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, family outing
Plot:
hacker, internet, cyberpunk, computer cracker, hacking, virtual reality, computer, computer hacker, programmer, secret service, high school, computer virus ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1988, year 1995
Place:
new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Thriller about an honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, who is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, visually stunning, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, mining, jupiter the planet, spacesuit, alien, space opera, outer space, attempted murder, tough guy, courage, marital separation, video surveillance ...
Time:
future, year 1981, distant future
Place:
space western
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
306K
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:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, 'Hotel Artemis' follows the Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
Style:
suspense, perverse, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
hotel, cyberpunk, organized crime, spy, female warrior, nurse, crime boss, female killer, survival, riot, agoraphobia, mystery woman ...
Time:
future, 2020s, near future
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
32%
240K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, creepy ...
Plot:
rape, fear, family in danger, revenge, violence, lawyer, serial killer, sexualized violence, dangerous attraction, psychology, justice, prison ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
north carolina, georgia, florida, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
32%
344K
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:
50%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man, part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. When one of the terrorists calls him a machine, Alex questions his ...
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
androids and robots, cyborgs, terrorist group, terminator, terrorism, cyberpunk, conspiracy, police detective, female warrior, nude fight, microchip, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1992, 2020s
Place:
usa, los angeles, rio de janeiro, brazil, new mexico ...
Similarity:
31%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Drama, 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, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
31%
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:
31%
131K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, tech noir, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, police, dystopic future, dystopian future, dystopia, apocalypse, post apocalypse, good versus evil, brutality, superhero, law enforcement, judge ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
16%
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:
31%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An alien is on the run in America. To get his kicks, it kills anything that gets in its way, and uses the body as a new hiding place. This alien has a goal in life; power. Hotly pursued by another alien (who's borrowed the body of a dead FBI ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, cult classic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, violence, car chase, buddy cop, fbi, mind control, chase, twists and turns, revenge, space and aliens, alien invasion, robbery ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
31%
81K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
heist, police corruption, betrayal, bank robbery, dirty cop, mafia, corruption, corrupt cop, masked man, police detective, strip club, violent ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel, boston, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
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
Similarity:
31%
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