Movies like They Live
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They Live (1988)
134K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.
Style:
exciting, allegory, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, political, homoerotic, clever, futuristic, mind bending ...
Plot:
conspiracy, distopia, alien, alien invasion, mind control, invasion, brainwashing, anti conformity, evil alien, uncover truth, monster, dystopic future, violence, existentialism, graphic violence, escapades, society, heroic mission, hunt down, teleportation, cult, suspense, ufo, helicopter, resistance ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles
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Most similar movies to They Live
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, cult film, serious and futuristic films with plots about distopia, suspense, dialogue, transformation, violence, monster and apocalypse mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like They Live: Scanners (1981), The Hidden (1987), The Matrix (1999), Demolition Man (1993), The Island (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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58K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
scientist, telekinesis, suspense, violence, exploitation, cult, murder, body horror, mind reading, supernatural ability, investigation, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
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86%
Genre: 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:
exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien, chase, car chase, fbi, buddy cop, suspense, twists and turns, mind control, violence, revenge, monster, space and aliens ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
1.9M
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:
thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, intense, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
distopia, artificial intelligence, martial arts, existentialism, philosophy, cyberpunk, alternate reality, virtual reality, fight, gunfight, post apocalypse, hacker ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 22nd century ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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, stylized, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, future dystopia, crime fighter, utopia, dystopic future, time travel, maverick cop, police, violence, good versus evil, surveillance ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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320K
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, intense, psychological, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, escape, cloning, fugitives, technology gone awry, future dystopia, conspiracy, island, clones, utopia, lookalikes, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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In Time related movies
108K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
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, thought provoking, bloody, twist ending, absurd ...
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, dystopic future, future dystopia, evil corporation, on the run, rebel, chase, black market, biopunk, surrealism, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
alien invasion, distopia, suspense, resistance, alien, post apocalypse, alien race, attack, alien technology, brutality, urban setting, fight ...
Time:
future, 2020s, near future, year 2019
Place:
new york, usa, moscow russia, north america, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: 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, psychological, psychedelic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hallucination, cyberpunk, insanity, television, paranoia, body horror, mind control, surrealism, satire, suicide, cult, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada, pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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432K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
monster, alien, survival, isolation, fear, paranoia, creature, supernatural, snow, suspense, scientist, death ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
antarctica, south pole
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Zane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the transmission that leads him into a ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, intense, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, conspiracy, alien, evil alien, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, investigation, suspense, paranoia, disguise, supernatural, space ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america, central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Movies like The Matrix
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.
Style:
futuristic, campy, exciting, humorous, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, creature, future dystopia, police detective, monster, global warming, suspense, supernatural, brutality, apocalypse ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, chase, dystopic future, prison, rivalry, resistance, prison escape, gadget, tough heroes, future dystopia, game of death ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 2017, year 2019 ...
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, distopia, race against time, future dystopia, heroic mission, apocalypse, earthquake, chaos and mayhem, one man army, daring rescue, life is a bitch, survival ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, latin america, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been walled off and turned into a giant maximum security prison within which the country's worst criminals are left to form their own anarchic society. However, when the President of the United States crash ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, serious, apocalyptic, rough ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, distopia, cyberpunk, post apocalypse, escape, race against time, future dystopia, loner, rescue, gunfight, hostage, tough guy ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey, usa, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
690K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Aliens land in South Africa and, with their ship totally disabled, have no way home. Years later, after living in a slum and wearing out their welcome the 'Non-Humans' are being moved to a new tent city overseen by Multi-National United ...
Style:
serious, cerebral, thought provoking, biting, futuristic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
alien, distopia, suspense, alien invasion, mutation, quarantine, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, transformation, alien encounter, alien race, metamorphosis ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 1982, 21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Movies like The Thing
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, the Psychlos are stripping Earth clean of its natural resources, using the broken remnants of ...
Style:
futuristic, campy, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, post apocalypse, evil alien, heroic mission, stupidity, save the world, survival, planet, rivalry, heroes, miner ...
Time:
future
Place:
denver colorado, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
549K
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, exciting, philosophical, serious, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, robot, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, cyborgs, androids and robots, computer, hi-tech, a.i., future dystopia, technology gone awry, man versus machine ...
Time:
future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 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, stylized, suspenseful, bleak, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, hacker, future dystopia, cyborgs, heroic mission, hacking, computers and web, distopia, computer, computer cracker, cyberspace ...
Time:
future, near future, 2000s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
canada, japan, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
113K
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On December 28th, 1999, the citizens of New York City are getting ready for the turn of the millennium. However, the Devil decides to crash the party by coming to the city, inhabiting a man's body, and searching for his chosen bride, a ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, satanic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, devil, apocalypse, deal with the devil, good versus evil, end of the world, demon, suspense, disaster, priest, church, heroic mission ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 70s, year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
60K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a futuristic resort, wealthy patrons can visit recreations of different time periods and experience their wildest fantasies with life-like robots. But when Richard Benjamin opts for the wild west, he gets more than he bargained for when a ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, philosophical, tense, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
old west, survival, cyberpunk, computer, artificial intelligence, robot, technology gone awry, vacation, man versus machine, distopia, robot as menace, villain played by lead actor ...
Time:
future, 70s, 19th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Films like The Mist
337K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
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, mind bending, ambiguous ending, thought provoking, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, mars, memory loss, secret agents, false memory, space colony, conspiracy, future dystopia, alien, chase, space, virtual reality ...
Time:
future, 80s, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
102K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France
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:
surreal, mind bending, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, distopia, plot twist, technology, video game, genetics, chase, escape from reality, cyberspace ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
28K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspenseful, exciting, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, androids and robots, struggle for survival, cyberpunk, apocalypse, alien planet, space, post apocalypse, distopia, robot, killer robot, future dystopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Movie in collections
131K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, splatter ...
Plot:
vampire, distopia, supernatural, epidemic, apocalypse, pandemic, dystopic future, cure, female vampire, vampirism, future dystopia, transformation ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
186K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, futuristic, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, supernatural, trapped in space, space, insanity, space station, hallucination, space and aliens, nightmare, rescue team, survival, astronaut ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Films like Predator
318K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
atmospheric, twist ending, psychological, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, apocalypse, suspense, religious fanatic, fear, creature, small town, macabre, spider, twists and turns, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's the end of yet another night at Hastings Supermarket, a grocery store in Buck Lake, Arizona. But just before closing, a group of masked and armed to the teeth militants invades the store and take everyone hostage
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, exciting, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
suspense, hostage, evil alien, hostage situation, alien, paranormal phenomena, battles, investigation, isolation, captivity, race against time, save the world ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Umbrella Corporation’s deadly T-virus continues to ravage the Earth, transforming the global population into legions of the flesh eating Undead. The human race’s last and only hope, Alice, awakens in the heart of Umbrella’s most ...
Style:
scary, stylized, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, monster, virus, chase, female fighter, future dystopia, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, plague, tough girl, pandemic ...
Time:
future
Place:
tokyo, canada, washington d.c., new york, moscow russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, female nudity, suspense, body swapping, supernatural, apocalypse, macabre, distopia, monster, evil wins, end of the world ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
534K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, intense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, alien, distopia, alien invasion, survival, future dystopia, space, space travel, catastrophe, destruction, disorder ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, washington d.c., pentagon, empire state building manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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