Movies like The Giver

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The Giver (2014)
 6.4
 125K
The Giver (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, atmospheric, exciting, philosophical, suspenseful, melancholic, intense, teen, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, date night, family friendly
Plot: distopia, youth, dystopia, community, utopia, post apocalypse, society, life is a bitch, humanity, memory, danger, rebelliousness, dystopian future, destiny, runaway, childhood, teaching the ways of the world, fighting the system, totalitarianism, training, alternate reality, segregation, revolution, mentor, love story ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2014, 2040s
Place: peru
Keyword: life lessons

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Most similar movies to The Giver

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out futuristic, serious, thought provoking and apocalyptic films with plots about distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, society, apocalypse, post apocalypse and epidemic mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Giver: The Host (2013), Divergent (2014), Insurgent (2015), Equals (2015), Upside Down (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.8
 118K
The Host (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as she comes to be called) forms a bond with her host and sets out to aid other free ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, romantic, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: alien invasion, teenage girl, apocalypse, interspecies romance, true love, youth, evil alien, invasion, self sacrifice, teenage love, love and romance, power of love ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013
Place: usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
Style: futuristic, suspense, entertaining, teen, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, girls' night
Plot: distopia, female protagonist, survival, rebellion, strong female character, society, teenager, game, youth, dystopian future, fighting the system, dystopia ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 6.6
 486K
Divergent (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes ...
Style: exciting, serious, teen, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: distopia, fighting the system, heroine, rebellion, survival, dystopia, danger, chosen one, choice, post apocalypse, society, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.2
 253K
Insurgent (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart.
Style: exciting, teen, futuristic, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: distopia, post apocalypse, tough girl, teenager, strong female lead, chosen one, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, dystopian future, good versus evil, rebellion, female fighter ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, near future
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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 6.0
 33K
Equals (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Style: artsy, touching, intellectual, intense, harsh ...
Plot: utopia, relationships, post apocalypse, dystopic future, depression, forbidden sex, loneliness, genetics, brutality, character study, distopia, love story ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.3
 74K
Upside Down (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure ...
Style: surreal, futuristic, romantic, touching, stylized ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night
Plot: fantasy world, true love, forbidden love, gravity, parallel world, alternate reality, imagination, love story, beautiful scenery, chase, fighting the system, parallel universe ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2012, year 2013
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 504K
The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot: survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 7.3
 346K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 7.1
 153K
Never Let Me Go (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for ...
Style: sad, depressing, melancholic, heartbreaking, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama ...
Plot: boarding school, dystopia, distopia, existentialism, cloning, childhood, sadness, love triangle, alternate reality, transplant, couples, love and romance ...
Time: year 1978, 2010s, year 2010, 50s, 80s ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hunger Games (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot: survival, female protagonist, distopia, death, game of death, contests and competitions, competition, youth, danger, heroine, society, rivalry ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Space Between Us (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.
Style: romantic, futuristic, light, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot: mars, love story, teenage love, teenager, nasa, astronaut, travel, road trip, life & death, beautiful scenery, outer space, space mission ...
Time: future, near future, year 2017
Place: usa, california, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 443K
In Time (2011)
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, stylized, serious, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time, dystopian future, immortality, fighting the system, survival, love, distopia, dystopic future, dystopia, class differences, life & death, social differences ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.1
 572K
I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, technology gone awry, danger, computer, hi-tech, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004, 20th century, near future, 2030s ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, cliffhanger, teen, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing
Plot: female protagonist, survival, distopia, competition, post apocalypse, dystopian future, young heroes, dictator, fight, fight scenes, resistance, anti heroine ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.6
 469K
Elysium (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes (Jodie Foster), a hard line government ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, space station, apocalypse, dystopia, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, dark future, ecological disaster, post apocalypse, utopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.0
 443K
Passengers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in its sleep chambers. As a result, two passengers are awakened 90 years early.
Style: futuristic, romantic, scenic, dramatic, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, family friendly
Plot: space travel, outer space, isolation, survival, love story, space program, loneliness, trapped in space, love, space station, malfunction, space ...
Time: future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: space western, los angeles, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.0
 69K
The Signal (2014)
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, mindfuck, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: hacker, road trip, twists and turns, alien invasion, alien, computer hacker, alien contact, secret laboratory, cyborgs, space, alien abduction, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. ...
Style: futuristic, exciting, suspense, serious, intense ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: distopia, post apocalypse, survival, desert, maze, teenager, dystopia, epidemic, apocalypse, young heroes, twists and turns, zombie ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 7.6
 274K
The 100 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, danger, fate of humanity, human existence, leadership, youth, nuclear holocaust, space station, outer space, rivalry, society ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 5.3
 2K
Utopia Falls (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a genre bending take on a coming of age story, a group of teens in a distant future colony uncover an ancient forbidden archive of historical, cultural and musical relics. This discovery forces them to question everything they've been ...
Style: exciting, futuristic, semi serious, entertaining, surreal
Audience: teens
Plot: society, fighting the system, youth, rebelliousness, good versus evil, dystopia, lesbian, dystopian future, sapphic, friends, friend, competition ...
Time: future, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 527K
Children of Men (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, depressing, bleak, spiritual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, end of the world, chaos, redemption, heroic mission, pandemic, post apocalyptic, fertility, dying ...
Time: future, year 2006, distant future, near future, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.4
 100K
The Circle (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and ...
Style: futuristic, intense, suspense, grindhouse, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: technology, distopia, video surveillance, privacy, fighting the system, media manipulation, science, propaganda, world politics, life philosophy, twists and turns, betrayal ...
Time: future, year 2017, distant future, 2010s
Place: bay area, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Childhood's End (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 247 min.
TV show
Story: After peaceful aliens invade earth, humanity finds itself living in a utopia under the indirect rule of the aliens, but does this utopia come at a price?
Style: philosophical, suspense, serious, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien invasion, space travel, demon, alien, space and aliens, technology, religion, humanity, science, danger, creativity, humanity in peril ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.3
 10K
The Thinning (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In a post-apocalyptic future where population control is dictated by a high-school aptitude test, two students discover the test is smoke and mirrors hiding a larger conspiracy.
Style: disturbing, touching, cynical, exciting, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: protest, overpopulation, youth, eugenics, distopia, dystopian future, high school, rivalry, love, danger, dishonesty, dystopia ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Brave New World (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 415 min.
TV show
Story: In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, surprise ending, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, distopia, utopia, conspiracy, totalitarianism, dystopic future, genetic engineering, satire, brainwashing, social differences, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 23K
After the Dark (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Style: psychological, philosophical, thought provoking, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, teacher, teachers and students, human nature, survival, experiment gone awry, social experiment, social relations, danger, disorder, philosophy, bunker ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: indonesia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 45K
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as "firemen", to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of ...
Style: futuristic, atmospheric, thought provoking, tense, stylized ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, dystopia, book, resistance, fighting the system, rebellion, oppression, social decay, justice, dystopic future ...
Time: future, year 1966, distant future, near future, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Style: sensual, sexy, apocalyptic, disturbing, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: distopia, dystopia, religion, impregnation, dystopian future, totalitarian state, violence against women, social commentary, rebellion, slavery, rape, pregnancy ...
Time: future
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Style: philosophical, stylized, serious, talky, futuristic ...
Plot: economics, libertarian, capitalism, distopia, dystopia, politics, greed, corruption, capitalist, totalitarianism, society, workplace ...
Time: future, year 2017, year 2016
Place: usa, new york, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 2K
Delirium (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
Story: Set in a world where love is deemed illegal and can be eradicated with a special procedure. With 95 days to go until her scheduled treatment, Lena Holoway does the unthinkable, she falls in love.
Style: exciting, captivating, romantic, suspense, teen ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: forbidden love, society, fighting the system, danger, dystopian future, escapades, distopia, adaptation, young adult, paranormal romance, fall in love, love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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