Movies like Ex Machina

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Ex Machina (2014)
 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending, thought provoking, intellectual, minimal cast, clever, cerebral ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology, consciousness, human android relationship, deception, twists and turns, confined, man versus machine, robot human relationship, humanoid robot, computer, inventor, female android, video surveillance, scientist ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016, near future, 21st century ...
Place: england
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Most similar movies to Ex Machina

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out philosophical, futuristic, surprise ending and intellectual films with plots about dystopia, technology, distopia, cyberpunk, hacker, robot and consciousness mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ex Machina: I Am Mother (2019), The Machine (2013), Mr. Nobody (2009), Annihilation (2018), Moon (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Am Mother (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Style: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, mindfuck, cyber ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, adult
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, post apocalypse, bunker, end of the world, apocalypse, mother, mission, dystopian future, technology, daughter, extinction ...
Time: near future, future
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 32K
The Machine (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, cyborgs, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, female robot, secret laboratory, programmer, cyberpunk, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.7
 245K
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style: psychological, surreal, philosophical, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: time, philosophy, destiny, alternate reality, surrealism, butterfly effect, depression, choice, utopia, twists and turns, multiple outcomes, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 2009, year 2011, distant future, 2010s ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 357K
Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style: suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing, lovecraft ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, creature, dna, mutation, scientist, expedition, research, genetic mutation, terror, biologist, transformation, mission ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: chicago, florida, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 7.8
 375K
Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, outer space, loneliness, space travel, astronaut, solitude, cloning, space and aliens, robot, dystopic future, space ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, adoption, androids, robot, distopia, imagination, boy, dystopian future, outer space, destiny ...
Time: future, year 2001, distant future, 2000s, near future ...
Place: new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 8.7
 634K
Black Mirror (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style: serious, philosophical, thought provoking, anthology, clever ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: technology, dystopia, twists and turns, human nature, satire, dystopian future, social decay, society, computers and web, media satire, alternate reality, media ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, 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, tech noir, thought provoking, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, dystopia, investigation, robot, dark future, mission, police detective, flying car, violence, bounty hunter, memory ...
Time: future, 2040s, year 2017, near future, distant future ...
Place: california, san diego california, space western, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 8.5
 530K
Westworld (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style: psychological thriller, stylized, serious, thought provoking, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, consciousness, moral dilemma, murder, technology gone awry, man versus machine, scientist, escapades, wild west, human android relationship ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 7.9
 759K
Arrival (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style: psychological, intellectual, philosophical, reflective, futuristic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: alien, first contact, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, time, science, alien race, alien contact, extraterrestrial, scientist, creature ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: china, montana, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.2
 238K
Transcendence (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, cerebral, exciting, philosophical ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, technology gone awry, resurrection, computers and web, chaos, hi-tech, utopia, robot, science ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: peru, usa, california, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 8.0
 665K
Her (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style: melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, touching, clever ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, philosophy, love, computer, cyberspace, impossible love, relationship problems, psychology, human nature, unlikely relationship ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, distant future ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.6
 47K
Devs (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 409 min.
TV show
Story: Young computer engineer Lily Chan investigates the secretive development division of her employer, a cutting-edge tech company based in San Francisco, which she believes is behind the murder of her boyfriend.
Style: intellectual, captivating, enigmatic, exciting, philosophical ...
Plot: murder investigation, virtual reality, hacker, quantum physics, cold blooded murder, conspiracy, artificial intelligence, computer, technology, robot, murder mystery, investigation ...
Time: future
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 268K
Chappie (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and ...
Style: touching, stylized, entertaining, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, androids and robots, distopia, technology gone awry, technology, human versus robot, parents and children, consciousness, brutality ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, near future, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.9
 42K
Humans (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, exciting, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, female robot, robot human relationship, technology, robot, society, inventions and discoveries, friendship, cyberpunk, lesbian, cyborgs ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Ghost in the Shell (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
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, neo noir, suspense, stylized ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, robot, female protagonist, technology, distopia, hacker, androids, tough girl, chase, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, year 2011, near future
Place: tokyo, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.7
 321K
Gattaca (1997)
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, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, philosophy, society, eugenics, paraplegic, twists and turns, science, utopia, dystopia ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 1997, 1900s, distant future ...
Place: riviera, detroit, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 6.0
 59K
Automata (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Style: futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, dystopia, androids and robots, post apocalypse, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, robot human relationship, ecology, dystopian future, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, near future, year 2014, 2010s, 2040s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 34K
Tau (2018)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, intelligent ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, escape attempt, kidnapping, experiment, woman in danger, laboratory, murder, security system, kidnapped woman, drone, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 107K
eXistenZ (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
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, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, cyberspace, dystopia, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy, video game, parallel world ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1999, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 114K
Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, independent film, confusing, mind bending ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, parallel universe, time machine, changing the past or future, changing the future, science, inventor, paradox, time traveler, twists and turns, scientist ...
Time: future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.4
 26K
Archive (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, mystic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, space and aliens, deadly creature, husband wife relationship, dead wife, monster, heroic mission, death of wife, androids, dead, cyberpunk ...
Time: 2020s, near future, future, 2030s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.0
 6K
Zone 414 (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the near future on a colony of state-of-the-art robots, a private investigator is hired by the colony's creator to bring his missing daughter home.
Style: futuristic, captivating, tense, disturbing, cyber ...
Plot: androids and robots, cyberpunk, distopia, humanoid robot, androids, female nudity, investigation, sleuth, uncover truth, forensics, private detective, mysterious disappearance ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 98K
Solaris (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story: A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, cerebral, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, scientist, space travel, space and aliens, dream, metaphysics, space station, space, astronaut, loneliness, insanity, science ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, future, distant future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
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 ...
Style: mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Plot: virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, time travel, cyberspace, computer system, parallel universe, twists and turns, artificial intelligence, parallel world, consciousness, imaginary ...
Time: future, 90s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 205K
Upgrade (2018)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style: futuristic, surprise ending, thought provoking, tech noir, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, surgery, microchip, revenge, nanotechnology, cyborgs, technology, super computer, dystopia, distopia ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.7
 32K
Cypher (2002)
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: suspenseful, tense, stylized, enigmatic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, memory loss, espionage, twists and turns, spy, distopia, brainwashing, dystopian future, uncover truth, hidden identity, power relations, double agent ...
Time: future, year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 42K
Replicas (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
Style: exciting, intellectual, futuristic, clever, psychotronic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: robot, consciousness, science, cloning, family in danger, resurrection, laboratory, genetics, androids, betrayal, scientist, scientific experiment ...
Time: near future, future
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
 387K
Snowpiercer (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style: suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, train, survival, distopia, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, end of the world, social differences, winter, capitalism, snow ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place: britain, south korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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