Movies like Ex Machina

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Ex Machina (2014)
 7.7
 555K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
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, philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, intellectual, tense, cerebral, clever ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, isolation, technology, existentialism, cyberpunk, manipulation, suspense, cyborgs, androids, androids and robots, female robot, confined, psychology, human android relationship, a.i., deception, robot human relationship, computer, man versus machine, consciousness, humanoid robot, twists and turns, philosophy, inventor ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: england

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Most similar movies to Ex Machina

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out thought provoking, weird, philosophical and futuristic films with plots about distopia, technology, cyberpunk, suspense, post apocalypse, dialogue and existentialism mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ex Machina: The Machine (2013), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Moon (2009), Chappie (2015), Blade Runner (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 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, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, a.i., distopia, cyborgs, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, secret laboratory, programmer, suspense, technology gone awry ...
Time: future, near future
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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, intellectual ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: distopia, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, a.i., future dystopia, robot, adoption, first contact, imagination, end of the world, androids ...
Time: future, 22nd century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 7.8
 364K
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, futuristic, bleak, philosophical, twist ending ...
Plot: isolation, moon, astronaut, loneliness, space travel, space, solitude, cloning, suspense, twists and turns, distopia, dystopic future ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.8
 257K
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, emotional, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, cyborgs, distopia, androids and robots, technology, first contact, technology gone awry, a.i., gangsters, human versus robot ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 8.1
 780K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, thought provoking, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot: cyberpunk, existentialism, distopia, artificial intelligence, future dystopia, cyborgs, a.i., robot, fugitives, police, police detective, androids ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.8
 237K
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, thought provoking, surreal, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: destiny, time, philosophy, alternate reality, surrealism, depression, butterfly effect, utopia, multiple outcomes, life changing experience, twists and turns, bittersweet ...
Time: future, year 1975, 20th century, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 335K
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: psychological, disturbing, psychedelic, surreal, thought provoking ...
Plot: female protagonist, dna, creature, scientist, mutation, suspense, expedition, research, mission, biologist, transformation, animal attack ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: florida, pakistan, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 7.9
 709K
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, futuristic, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, first contact, female protagonist, linguist, scientist, extraterrestrial, time, science, alien race, alien contact, alien creature, ufo ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: montana, china, massachusetts, venezuela, russia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 6.2
 232K
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: thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, exciting, intellectual ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, resurrection, technology gone awry, hi-tech, chaos, computers and web, a.i., nanotechnology, utopia ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 7.7
 42K
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, murder mystery, investigation, technology, artificial intelligence, computer, computer hacker ...
Time: future
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 93K
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, captivating, surprise ending, cerebral, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, post apocalypse, mission, end of the world, apocalypse, bunker, mother, human versus robot, technology, suspense, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: future
Place: australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 627K
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, love, philosophy, human nature, a.i., unlikely relationship, cyberspace, divorce, psychology, unlikely couple ...
Time: future, near future, 2030s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.8
 44K
Morgan (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
Style: clever, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: suspense, twists and turns, cloning, cyborgs, escape, genetics, moral dilemma, surveillance, violence, death, chase, artificial intelligence ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 41K
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, apocalyptic, absurd ...
Audience: adult
Plot: androids and robots, a.i., artificial intelligence, robot human relationship, technology, robot, human nature, society, inventions and discoveries, friendship, lesbian, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 58K
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, absurd ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, distopia, robot, post apocalypse, androids and robots, cyberpunk, ecology, robot human relationship, cyborgs, rain, investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 2040s, near future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.8
 109K
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: psychological, thought provoking, surreal, intellectual, enigmatic ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, parallel universe, changing the past or future, changing the future, twists and turns, science, inventor, time, mathematics, scientist ...
Time: future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 8.8
 560K
Black Mirror (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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: philosophical, serious, thought provoking, clever, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: technology, twists and turns, alternate reality, distopia, human nature, satire, social decay, society, media satire, computers and web, media, dark humor ...
Time: future, near future
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 8.5
 512K
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: stylized, serious, thought provoking, futuristic, intellectual ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, moral dilemma, consciousness, androids, murder, technology gone awry, scientist, man versus machine, escapades, a.i., human android relationship ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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 7.8
 310K
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, fighting the system, genetics, twists and turns, discrimination, society, eugenics, paraplegic, future dystopia, science, utopia, deception ...
Time: future, near future
Place: riviera, detroit, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.0
 5K
Zone 414 (2021)
Genre: 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, disturbing, captivating, tense, thrilling ...
Plot: androids and robots, cyberpunk, distopia, humanoid robot, artificial intelligence, androids, investigation, sleuth, uncover truth, forensics, mysterious disappearance, private detective ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 102K
eXistenZ (1999)
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 ⇓
100%
 7.5
 421K
28 Days Later (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the ...
Style: scary, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, post apocalypse, apocalypse, virus, survival, epidemic, fear, end of the world, rage, infected, zombie apocalypse, laboratory ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, manchester, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 71K
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Plot: psychiatrist, paranoia, disfigurement, nightmare, dreams, surrealism, love, suspense, memory loss, jealousy, love triangle, car accident ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, thought provoking, entertaining, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, investigation, police detective, robot, mission, mercilessness, violence, dark future, flying car, bounty hunter, police officer ...
Time: future, 2040s, near future, 2020s, year 1966 ...
Place: california, los angeles, san diego california, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.1
 12K
Air (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind ...
Style: suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, thought provoking, sinister ...
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, post apocalypse, survival, isolation, suspense, humanity, science, freezing, disaster, alternate reality, alone in the world ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 288K
Predestination (2014)
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 ⇓
53%
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Style: psychedelic, mind bending, psychological, non-linear, disturbing ...
Plot: computer, video game, programmer, alternate reality, free will, time travel, twists and turns, flashback, psychology, male protagonist, mind, repeated scene ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, stylized, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cyberpunk, female protagonist, distopia, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, robot, technology, tough girl, female martial artist, chase, terrorism, one woman army ...
Time: future, near future
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 190K
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, thought provoking, surprise ending, experimental, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, microchip, nanotechnology, distopia, cyborgs, revenge, surgery, super computer, super soldier, evil wins ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.4
 24K
Anna (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, confusing ...
Plot: manipulation, suspense, twists and turns, haunted by the past, uncover truth, brutality, psychic power, dishonesty, life is a bitch, murder, false memory, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, spain, california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%