Movies like WarGames: The Dead Code
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WarGames: The Dead Code (2008)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer hacker Will Farmer engages a government super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain software glitches have in turn made him become paranoid.
Style:
serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nuclear bomb, computer, bomb, terrorism, heroes, prodigy, chaos, race against time, government agency, technophobia, technology gone awry, undercover, save the day, computers and web, computer genius, technology, teenager, cyberpunk, hacking, nerd, death of father, state affairs, chess, winter, subway ...
Time:
20th century, contemporary
Place:
washington d.c., afghanistan, bosnia, montreal, philadelphia, tehran iran, montreal quebec canada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, rough and exciting films with plots about danger, heroes, chases and races, deadly, race against time, rivalry and undercover mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like WarGames: The Dead Code: The Genius Club (2006), Contagion (2002), Fatwa (2006), Detonator (2003), Counterstrike (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Seven geniuses, with IQs over 200, are plucked from their lives on Christmas Eve to try to solve the world's problems in one night
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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In the 21st Century, terrorists have developed a new way to strike: disease. Not only have they created a deadly Level Four Ebola virus, their first victim is the President of the United States. The virus is particularly contagious and is spreading. ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Secret Service agent and his brother, a reckless ATF agent, try to stop a group of extreme right-wing U.S. military mercenaries, led by a fanatic Taiwanese vixen, who hijack the Queen Mary 2 ocean liner with the U.S. and Chinese presidents on ...
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rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of ...
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Place:
london, europe, england
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59%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The only hope for humanity to survive a natural disaster is to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, surprise ending
Audience:
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dr. Maddy Rierdon, an investigator for the Department of Agriculture, is the only person who can protect America from a deadly breed of bioengineered locusts.
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Place:
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52%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in San Diego, the movie follows the desperate acts of Bill Templer head of a covert defense agency perpetrating a terrifying fraud on the American public - involving the imminent invasion of aliens - by leaking to the press a satellite image of ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Colonel Casey discovers what appears to be plans by General Lloyd to use fake military excercises to assist Jack Giddings in his plans to remove President Foster from office. Colonel Casey, and President Foster must find evidence that there is a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, political thriller
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An electronics genius programs a supercomputer to be the perfect female computer, but the computer becomes jealous of his estranged wife and tries to kill her.
Style:
psychotronic, tense, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, pentagon
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the moon for the first time in over thirty years
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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los angeles, usa, california
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43%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Country: USA, Canada
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Menno is a computer programmer at The Resort, an enormous funhouse where people can live out their fantasies in virtual reality. Feeding their personal data into a software program called The System, head of security Felix Medina is setting up a big ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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