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The Anomaly (2014)
8K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got there.
Style:
exciting, suspense, futuristic, mind bending, thought provoking, smart, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
conspiracy, child in peril, cyberpunk, government agent, escapades, danger, kidnapping, disorder, uncover truth, gunfight, amnesia, mind control, martial arts, revenge, motorcycle, chase, mad scientist, prostitute, nanotechnology, terrorist plot, twists and turns, pandemic, chaos, black, woman with a gun ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
london, new york, rio de janeiro, shanghai, shanghai china, russian
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Most similar movies to The Anomaly
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, surprise ending, exciting and suspenseful films with plots about pistol, murder, gun, shootout, gunfight, shot to death and violence mostly in Action, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Anomaly: Total Recall (2012), The Shadow Effect (2017), Lockout (2012), In Time (2011), Self/less (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
275K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life ...
Style:
futuristic, entertaining, mind bending, suspense, cyber ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, virtual reality, technology, memory loss, post apocalypse, dystopic future, dystopian future, on the run, flying car, mars, false memory ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
Place:
seattle, big ben london, australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.
Style:
erotic, neo noir, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
police, memory loss, confusion, amnesia, conspiracy, paranoia, brutality, violence, murder, deception, false identity, doctor ...
Time:
future
Place:
chicago, seattle
Similarity:
100%
103K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, space station, hotshot hero, secret service, hostage, rescue mission, outer space, lone hero, heroic mission, convict, prison fight, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2012, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, new york, seattle
Similarity:
100%
480K
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, serious, philosophical, thought provoking, clever ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, dystopia, distopia, love, dystopic future, survival, life & death, class differences, social differences ...
Time:
future, year 2011, near future, distant future, 2010s
Place:
usa, los angeles, canada
Similarity:
100%
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108K
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, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
body swapping, immortality, chase, cloning, soul transference, life philosophy, moral dilemma, cyberpunk, disorder, technology, twists and turns, billionaire ...
Time:
future, 2010s, near future, year 2015, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, peru, new york, caribbean ...
Similarity:
71%
17K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort: VICE, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
androids and robots, humanoid robot, artificial intelligence, technology, female robot, virtual reality, profanity, robot, chase, justice, resort, humanity ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
119K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, exciting, serious, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot:
chase, clairvoyance, telekinesis, danger, supernatural ability, supernatural, superhero, imaginary, psychic, psychokinesis, undercover, teenage girl ...
Time:
future, 2000s, year 1945, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA, Belgium
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
overpopulation, distopia, dystopia, sisters, hiding place, chase, dystopic future, death of sister, politics, tough girl, investigation, betrayal ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2017, 2010s, distant future
Similarity:
100%
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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:
apocalyptic, exciting, suspenseful, rough, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, post apocalypse, infected, female fighter, virus, tough girl, infection, zombie apocalypse, pandemic, chase, monster, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 2010s
Place:
washington d.c., tokyo, new york, moscow russia, canada ...
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:
rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
118K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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, tech noir, thought provoking, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, memory loss, amnesia, twists and turns, time travel, changing the past or future, frame up, destiny, prophecy, technology, time machine, gunfight ...
Time:
future, year 2003, near future, 21st century
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jackie Chan stars as a hardened special forces agent who fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they met in a different life.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, futuristic, bleak ...
Plot:
martial arts, female warrior, criminal gang, danger, betrayal, gunfight, police, fight, transformation, police investigation, friendship, vengeance ...
Time:
future, near future, 2000s, 2020s
Place:
sydney australia, hong kong
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” (Seagal) controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
martial arts, female warrior, coup d'etat, aikido, violence, assassination plot, revenge, murder, corruption, political corruption, spy, chase ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A Russian missile submarine disappears without trace during a secret mission in the Greenland Sea. A vessel is deployed to search for it, captained by the brother of the missing submarine’s commander. The search crew is tasked with locating the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, nautical, intense, dark ...
Plot:
kraken, sea, ocean, monster, submarine, giant creature, survival, creature feature, military, arctic, secret weapon, search and rescue ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The global war on terror rages on. When a government official goes missing, Lance, a man with an impressive record of service to his country, finds himself protecting the man who embodies everything he has dedicated his life to fight against.
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, undercover, tough heroes, one man army, danger, state affairs, daring rescue, save the day, law enforcement, chases and races, conspiracy, undercover agent ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
romania, europe, new york, washington d.c.
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ray Breslin manages an elite team of security specialists trained in the art of breaking people out of the world's most impenetrable prisons. When his most trusted operative, Shu Ren, is kidnapped and disappears inside the most elaborate prison ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, bleak, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
prison escape, prison, conspiracy, hi-tech, survival, danger, teamwork, betrayal, security system, hand to hand combat, hostage, secret place ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
chechnya, shanghai, bangkok thailand, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the year 2074, the cybernetics market is dominated by two rival companies: USA's Pinwheel Robotics and Japan's Kobayashi Electronics. Cyborgs are commonplace, used for anything from soldiers to prostitutes. Casella Reese is a prototype ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, cyber, erotic, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, cyborgs, robot, on the run, terminator, bare breasts, doomed love, assassination plot, corporation, androids and robots, hitman ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, China, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
Style:
suspense, perverse, disturbing, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
redemption, gunfight, reincarnation, spy, rescue, haunted by the past, revenge, dark hero, tragic hero, one against many, conspiracy, near death experience ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south africa, cape town south africa, africa, hong kong, florida ...
Similarity:
32%
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74K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, intense, action adventure, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
cia, cia agent, spy, violence, swat team, terrorism, husband wife relationship, female agent, tough guy, espionage, secret service, prison ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
west virginia, london, big ben london, delaware, russia
Similarity:
32%
718
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Bill McNeil heads a black ops team called "Mach 1" called in to retrieve a cannister of deadly viral agent which was stolen from the government by an arms dealer. The team retrieve the weapon but the team is setup. Bill knows a traitor is ...
Style:
independent film, exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female warrior, terrorist, terrorism, tough girl, biohazard, corrupt cop, airplane, die hard, 007, monster, profanity, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
32%
286K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bill Marks is a burned-out veteran of the Air Marshals service. He views the assignment not as a life-saving duty, but as a desk job in the sky. However, today's flight will be no routine trip. Shortly into the transatlantic journey from New ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, action thriller, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, airplane, terrorism, hostage, air disaster, hijacking, danger, resourceful, terrorist, mind game, aviation, save the day ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, iceland, london
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Ministers daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack SAS operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, military, soldier, danger, daring rescue, confined, law enforcement, escapades, chase, money, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, scotland yard
Similarity:
31%
311
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Over one hundred years ago, a cataclysmic chain of events plummeted the earth into the dark ages which destroyed most of civilization, and the remaining few survivors attempt to change the course of events that led to the destruction.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
time travel, female warrior, survival, danger, heroic mission, chaos, escapades, rivalry, apocalypse, imaginary, disaster, woman kills a man ...
Time:
future, year 1999, 90s
Place:
colombia, pentagon
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Luxembourg, Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two time travelers with opposing views are sent back to the present aboard a research ship in the Antarctic to prevent a global biological disaster from occuring
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, disease, ship, tough guy, good versus evil, race against time, heroic mission, dystopian future, imaginary, experiment gone awry, infection, one against many ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 23rd century, year 2004
Place:
south america, antarctica
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the future of post-Soviet and economically devastated Russia, Big Brother still rules with an iron hand of brutality, brain-washing and ruthless dictatorship. Into this cauldron of corruption and terror plunges American crook and smuggler John ...
Style:
futuristic, cyber, tech noir, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
reluctant partners, apocalypse, cyberpunk, woman fights a man, murder of a nude woman, capoeira, dystopian future, gangster, murder, betrayal, gang, prostitute ...
Time:
90s, future, near future
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
survival, maze, memory loss, teenager, apocalypse, fantasy world, trapped, distopia, dystopia, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, youth ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eric is a secret agent currently working as security guard for senator Dilly. The senator is the main advocate for a new kind of police officer: the Tracker, an perfect and nearly invulnerable android. When Eric realizes that senator Dilly is ...
Style:
futuristic, tech noir, independent film, fast, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, cyberpunk, terminator, apocalypse, androids and robots, robot, kickboxer, evil computer, spy, conspiracy, heroes, rebellion ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
los angeles, hawaii
Similarity:
30%
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, cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, man versus machine, secret laboratory, female robot, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, programmer, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
england
Similarity:
30%
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, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, utopia, psychopath, time travel, satire, maverick cop, totalitarianism, fish out of water, violence ...
Time:
future, 2030s, near future, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A scientist discovers the bodies of three frozen genetically modified Russians buried in the Canadian North. Upon thawing them out he realizes he has unleashed a deadly threat to Western society and must stop them at all costs.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
arctic, danger, soldier, chase, superhuman powers, save the day, escapades, heroes, imaginary, chases and races, supernatural, bare butt ...
Time:
60s, 2010s, year 1962, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
30%
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