Movies like High-Rise

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High-Rise (2015)
 5.5
 47K
High-Rise (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Style: psychological, futuristic, cerebral, cult classic, surreal, art house, brutal, artsy, stylized, period piece ...
Audience: adult
Plot: distopia, decadence, money, violence, tower, dark humor, existentialism, violent, surrealism, rape, male nudity, orgy, apartment building, class conflict, skyscraper, obsession, visceral, mental disorder, hot and sexy, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, nuclear bomb, dystopian future, social problems, relationship problems ...
Time: future, 70s, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, year 1975
Place: london, england, ireland

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Most similar movies to High-Rise

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, thought provoking, visually appealing and cerebral films with plots about distopia, dystopia, death, loneliness, storytelling, apocalypse and post apocalypse mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like High-Rise: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), The Lobster (2015), Megalopolis (2024), Brazil (1985), Ex Machina (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, West Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, cult classic, political ...
Plot: distopia, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, dystopian future, brainwashing, technology, fascism, totalitarian state, satire, surveillance, political corruption ...
Time: future, 80s, year 1984, near future, 20th century ...
Place: london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
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100%
 7.1
 330K
The Lobster (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, Belgium, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style: surreal, art house, clever, absurd, ironic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: absurdism, dystopia, distopia, solitude, blindness, love, manhunt, society, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, secret relationship ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, future, near future
Place: ireland, greece, hellas, canada
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60%
 4.7
 41K
Megalopolis (2024)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Genius artist Cesar Catilina seeks to leap the City of New Rome into a utopian, idealistic future, while his opposition, Mayor Franklyn Cicero, remains committed to a regressive status quo, perpetuating greed, special interests, and partisan ...
Style: epic, exciting, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot: utopia, architect, disaster, male nudity, sex scene, mayor, distopia, time, satellite, uncle nephew relationship, city, urban setting ...
Time: future
Place: new york
Similarity:
100%
 7.8
 221K
Brazil (1985)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style: surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time: future, year 1985, year 1984
Place: england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
Similarity:
60%
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 7.7
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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 ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, technology, existentialism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, isolation, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, consciousness ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014 ...
Place: england
Similarity:
100%
 7.1
 663K
Don't Look Up (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Style: cerebral, apocalyptic, feel good, political, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: disaster, asteroid, end of the world, social satire, danger, satire, politics, meteorite, chaos, comet, mass hysteria, social commentary ...
Time: future, 2020s, year 1994, distant future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, london, illinois, north america ...
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100%
 7.1
 199K
The Master (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style: art house, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: psychiatry, scientology, right hand man, drifter, sex, female pubic hair, mentor, religion, bare breasts, religions or cults, brainwashing, writers ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place: usa, phoenix arizona, san francisco, alabama, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
100%
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychology, insanity, dystopia, surrealism, gang, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, sociopath, murder ...
Time: future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
Place: britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
Similarity:
67%
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 5.8
 137K
Downsizing (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Norway
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Style: satirical, semi serious, melancholic, existential, action thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: shrinking, aeroplane, experiment, amputee, neighbor, divorce, environment, laboratory, new house, cleaning lady, poverty, journey ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future
Place: new mexico, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
100%
Visitor of a Museum (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 136 min.
Story: It is the future, the world is in ruins and a large portion of the population consists of deformed mutants living in reservations. In this world a man decides to spend his vacation visiting the ruins of a museum that is now buried under the sea.
Style: apocalyptic, surreal, bizarre, eighties, weird
Plot: religion, messiah, underground, distopia, post apocalyptic, mental disorder, wasteland, european, nuclear holocaust, life changing, epidemic, apocalypse ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
100%
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Thomas Jerome Newton is an alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft. A British science-fiction film from director Nicolas ...
Style: atmospheric, cult classic, surreal, cerebral, erotic ...
Plot: space and aliens, alien invasion, surrealism, alien, sex scene, satire, female nudity, dystopia, nudity, alien life-form, hallucination, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1976, distant future, 70s
Place: usa, new mexico, new york
Similarity:
29%
 7.9
 562K
Children of Men (2006)
Genre: 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, apocalyptic, visually stunning ...
Audience: adult
Plot: apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, chaos, redemption, end of the world, dystopian future, heroic mission, pandemic, fertility, post apocalyptic, dying ...
Time: future, near future, distant future, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, europe, washington state, seattle ...
Similarity:
28%
These Final Hours (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: What would you do on the last day on Earth? With the end of the world only hours away, the self-absorbed James heads to the ultimate party-to-end-all-parties. On his way there, he saves the life of a young girl named Rose who is searching ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: apocalypse, natural disaster, sex, little girl, end of the world, on the road, post apocalyptic, redemption, orgy, survival, party, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: australia, new zealand
Similarity:
26%
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A strange new virus has appeared, which only attacks strains of grasses such as wheat and rice, and the world is descending into famine and chaos. Architect John, along with his family and friends, is making his way from London to his brother's ...
Style: apocalyptic, offbeat, cult classic, controversial, depressing ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, post apocalyptic, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, disaster, wasteland, rape, gang rape, attempted rape ...
Time: future
Place: england, northern england, london
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26%
 7.1
 207K
Melancholia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, psychological, surreal, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: depression, wedding, end of the world, apocalypse, sister sister relationship, nihilism, collision, mental health, disaster, female nudity, mental disorder, human nature ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
Similarity:
24%
 7.2
 47K
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: totalitarianism, distopia, resistance, book, dystopia, satire, rebellion, dystopian future, fighting the system, fire, alienation, dictatorship ...
Time: year 1966, future, distant future, 60s, near future
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24%
 7.3
 385K
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, UK, Spain
Duration: 172 min.
Story: A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, futuristic, spiritual, mind bending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: destiny, dystopia, reincarnation, life & death, multiple storylines, life philosophy, clone, homosexual, distopia, post apocalypse, karma, tribe ...
Time: future, year 1936, distant future, year 1975, near future ...
Place: seoul, san francisco, belgium, persia, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
22%
 7.0
 20K
The Day After (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact that rapidly escalates into a full scale exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union, focusing on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, ...
Style: futuristic, harsh, apocalyptic, serious, psychotronic ...
Plot: cold war, nuclear war, apocalypse, catastrophe, nuclear explosion, disaster, nuclear bomb, nuclear holocaust, post apocalypse, dystopia, radiation, nuclear threat ...
Time: 80s, future, distant future, 20th century
Place: usa, kansas, soviet union, kansas city, ussr ...
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22%
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 7.7
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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, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, genetics, fighting the system, discrimination, dystopia, philosophy, society, paraplegic, eugenics, hopes, dystopian future, twists and turns ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 1900s ...
Place: detroit, riviera, french riviera
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21%
 7.0
 67K
Perfect Sense (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael find themselves embarking on a sensual adventure while the world around ...
Style: romantic, sexy, philosophical, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, love story, love affair, pandemic, female nudity, one night stand, male full rear nudity, epidemic, chaos, food, human existence, blindness ...
Time: distant future, year 2011, future
Place: glasgow scotland, scotland, iran, canada
Similarity:
21%
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
Style: philosophical, sexy, cerebral, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot: post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, alone, apocalypse, male nudity, end of the world, vestiges of humanity, survival, dystopia, love triangle, disaster, parallel world ...
Time: future, year 1985
Place: new zealand
Similarity:
21%
 7.8
 392K
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, clever ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, loneliness, space travel, outer space, astronaut, space, twists and turns, solitude, space and aliens, human clone, cloning ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
Similarity:
21%
 6.4
 72K
Crash (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
Style: disturbing, erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexuality, hospital, erotica, obsession, sex, lust, car accident, sexual perversion, sex scene, female nudity, husband wife relationship, deviant sex ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: los angeles, canada
Similarity:
20%
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The Great Beauty (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Style: philosophical, intellectual, visually stunning, breathtaking, art house ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: stripper, writer's life, party, high society, passion, female nudity, friendship, artist, aging, surrealism, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
Similarity:
20%
 6.6
 33K
Silent Running (1972)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet's ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed so that the spacecraft can be reused for ...
Style: philosophical, visually stunning, futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking ...
Plot: robot, dystopia, space travel, space opera, distopia, space and aliens, spaceship, post apocalypse, spacecraft, dystopian future, artificial intelligence, isolation ...
Time: future, year 1972
Similarity:
20%
Into the Forest (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the not too distant future, two young women who live in a remote ancient forest discover the world around them is on the brink of an apocalypse. Informed only by rumor, they fight intruders, disease, loneliness & starvation.
Style: disturbing, futuristic, erotic, melancholic, mysterious ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, forest, isolation, rape, dystopia, father daughter relationship, sisters, death of father, post apocalyptic, family bonds, humanity ...
Time: future
Place: canada
Similarity:
20%
 7.2
 112K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Similarity:
20%
 6.8
 11K
Kafka (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. ...
Style: surreal, black and white, philosophical, cerebral, cult classic ...
Plot: writers, conspiracy, art, politics, paranoia, distopia, paranoid, biopic, murder, death, surrealism, insanity ...
Time: year 1991, 1910s, 20th century, year 1919, 18th century
Place: central europe, prague
Similarity:
20%
The Survivalist (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.
Style: harsh, tense, stylized, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot: survival, starvation, post apocalyptic, visceral, post apocalypse, wilderness, bow and arrow, depression, forest, woods, wound, bare breasts ...
Time: near future, future
Similarity:
20%
 6.6
 12K
Nowhere (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The third film in a trilogy by writer-director Gregg Araki. Described as "90210 on acid", the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
Style: surreal, erotic, sexual, stylized, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay interest, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, coming of age, surrealism, youth, friendship, social differences, drug, teenager, estrangement ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, indiana, seattle, california, usa ...
Similarity:
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