Movies like The Thirteenth Floor
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The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions.
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, atmospheric, confusing, philosophical, thought provoking, clever, neo noir, futuristic ...
Plot:
alternate reality, virtual reality, twists and turns, cyberpunk, cyberspace, time travel, computer system, parallel universe, parallel world, distopia, dystopic future, technology gone awry, uncover truth, consciousness, computer, artificial intelligence, technology, deception, deja vu, research, conspiracy, life is a bitch, murder mystery, suspense, investigation ...
Time:
future, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, near future, year 1937, 2020s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Most similar movies to The Thirteenth Floor
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, thought provoking, suspenseful and clever films with plots about storytelling, suspense, twists and turns, existentialism, technology, alternate reality and first contact mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Thirteenth Floor: Dark City (1998), Source Code (2011), The Matrix (1999), Inception (2010), Coherence (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, neo noir, gothic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, investigation, memory, alternate reality, cyberpunk, suspense, alien race, alien, post apocalypse, future dystopia, amnesia, memory loss ...
Time:
future, 1940s
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89%
528K
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, clever, mind bending, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, train, twists and turns, alternate reality, bomb, destiny, save the day, memory, parallel universe, changing the past or future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, afghanistan, chicago illinois, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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 ⇓
83%
2.4M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, clever, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
suspense, memory, virtual reality, alternate reality, dream, subconscious, architecture, existentialism, fictional reality, mind control, imagination, lucid dream ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
paris france, japan, los angeles, new york, kenya ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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133K
Genre: Drama, 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, tense, confusing ...
Plot:
parallel world, twists and turns, alternate reality, parallel universe, time loop, friends, disorder, paranoia, suspense, dinner party, confinement indoors, comet ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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273K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, surreal, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, hallucination, virtual reality, mind game, love, tragic love, disfigurement, psychology, dream, obsession, lost love, alternate reality ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
63%
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, exciting, tense, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
cyberpunk, murder, suspense, future dystopia, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, frame up, distopia, law enforcer, police investigation, time travel ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time:
year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style:
surprise ending, thought provoking, clever, twist ending, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, time loop, plot twist, time paradox, time machine, mission, parallel universe, changing the past or future, mysterious character, existentialism, special agents ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981 ...
Place:
usa, new york, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Movies similar to The Maze Runner
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, meditative, psychological, futuristic, intense ...
Plot:
virtual reality, memory, cyberpunk, imagination, conspiracy, transformation, experiment gone awry, uncover truth, future dystopia, mad scientist, rebellion, computer ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
england, europe, london, rio de janeiro, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
236K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, psychology, trap, mathematics, escape, maze, claustrophobia, group of strangers, survival horror, death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot:
memory loss, time loop, time travel, hospital, paranoia, murder, nightmare, uncover truth, memory, dishonesty, investigation, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2000, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot:
time travel, insanity, post apocalypse, apocalypse, psychology, paranoia, time loop, virus, end of the world, alternate reality, social misfits, save the world ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2030s, 20th century, year 1990 ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, canada, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
116K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, time loop, supernatural, mental institution, murder, memory loss, parallel universe, hallucination, supernatural ability, suspense, butterfly effect ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style:
futuristic, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hacker, alien, twists and turns, road trip, alien invasion, suspense, cyborgs, computer hacker, alien contact, space, secret laboratory, existentialism ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
177K
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, suspenseful, surreal, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robot, distopia, cyberpunk, androids and robots, dystopic future, technology gone awry, utopia, cloning, clones, future dystopia, physical appearance, virtual reality ...
Time:
future, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
811K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, insanity, time travel, imaginary friend, surrealism, parallel universe, hallucination, suspense, time loop, suburbs, schizophrenia ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
virginia, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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181K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Plot:
mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, paranoia, obsession, computer, surrealism, cyberpunk, rabbi, torah, psychology, mental illness ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
110K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, exciting, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, memory loss, cyberpunk, amnesia, twists and turns, frame up, alternate reality, suspense, gunfight, chase, distopia, time ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Inception
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, philosophical, suspenseful, tricky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body swapping, cloning, soul transference, immortality, uncover truth, chase, disorder, moral dilemma, life philosophy, technology, twists and turns, billionaire ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, new york, caribbean, st. louis missouri
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82%
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, dramatic, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, butterfly effect, twists and turns, memory loss, suspense, alternate reality, psychology, memory, changing the past or future, time traveler, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
41K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cube Zero is the third film in the trilogy yet this time instead of a film about people trapped in a deadly cube trying to get out we see it from the eyes of someone who is controlling the cube and the torture of the victims inside. When the nerd ...
Style:
scary, clever, surreal, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
torture, parallel world, mathematics, survival, rescue, suspense, trap, riddles and clues, isolation, confined, race against time, captivity ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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32K
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:
psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, thought provoking, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, memory loss, espionage, twists and turns, distopia, spy, technology, brainwashing, uncover truth, hidden identity, mysterious character, dystopic future ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, tricky, enigmatic, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, plot twist, time machine, mysterious character, twists and turns, threat, time, surrealism, disorder, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Matrix related movies
419K
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, philosophical, serious, stylized, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time, distopia, immortality, fighting the system, survival, love, dystopic future, future dystopia, social differences, class differences, race against time, wealth ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
los angeles, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman ...
Style:
mind bending, romantic, thought provoking, philosophical, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
destiny, love story, alternate reality, power of love, fictional reality, twists and turns, fall in love, politics, changing the past or future, manipulation, true love, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
254K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, mental disorder, suspense, murder mystery, psychology, investigation, murderer, murder, stranded, twists and turns, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
nevada, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
100%
584K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style:
clever, thought provoking, philosophical, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
intelligence, success, ambition, rise to the top, creativity, life turned upside down, experimental drug, prodigy, rags to riches, superhuman powers, resourceful, overnight success ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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