Movies like Atlas Shrugged: Part I

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Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011)
 5.6
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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, futuristic, talky, captivating, thought provoking, spiritual, apocalyptic, patriotic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: economics, libertarian, capitalism, distopia, dystopia, politics, corruption, greed, capitalist, human spirit, society, totalitarianism, workplace, idealism, life is a bitch, high society, fighting the system, ambition, workplace intrigue, civil rights, corporate world, dishonesty, hopes, conspiracy, utopia ...
Time: future, year 2017, year 2016
Place: usa, new york, colorado, russia
Keyword: challenge

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Most similar movies to Atlas Shrugged: Part I

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, apocalyptic, thought provoking and futuristic films with plots about distopia, society, dystopian future, dystopia, apocalypse, life is a bitch and post apocalypse mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Atlas Shrugged: Part I: The Giver (2014), Gattaca (1997), Brave New World (1998), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Ever Since the World Ended (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Atlas Shrugged: Part II (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations ...
Style: philosophical, exciting, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: distopia, fighting the system, libertarian, ambition, rebellion, visionary, radical, rebelliousness, idealism, lifestyle, workplace, politics ...
Time: future, year 2012
Place: usa
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Atlas Shrugged: Part III: Who Is John Galt? (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Approaching collapse, the nation's economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation's most productive who are mysteriously vanishing - leaving ...
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: economics, ambition, human spirit, fighting the system, hopes, idealism, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, rebellion, dishonesty, dystopian future, political corruption ...
Time: future
Place: usa
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100%
 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 ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, kids, family outing
Plot: distopia, youth, dystopia, community, utopia, post apocalypse, society, life is a bitch, humanity, memory, danger, rebelliousness ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, year 2014, 2040s
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 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 ⇓
100%
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Brave New World (1998)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a futuristic totalitarian society, people have no control of their lives or their destiny.
Style: apocalyptic, thought provoking, serious, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: distopia, dystopian future, genetic engineering, post apocalypse, social differences, society, life is a bitch, love and romance, danger, human nature, anarchist, psychopath ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
29%
Ever Since the World Ended (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Twelve years ago, a plague swept through, wiping out most of the population; in San Francisco, only 186 people remain. Two of them use jury-rigged batteries to power a camera and make a documentary. We see a variety of approaches to survival, from ...
Style: apocalyptic, serious, tense, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: found footage, post apocalypse, life is a bitch, dystopian future, chaos, danger, society, introspection, post apocalyptic, escapades, wilderness, dystopia ...
Time: future, distant future, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 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 ⇓
26%
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 7.0
 27K
Alphaville (1965)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, futuristic, cerebral, detective ...
Plot: dystopia, surrealism, distopia, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopian future, spy, obsession, utopia, imagination, existentialism, satire ...
Time: future, year 1965
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.5
 150
Able Edwards (2004)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of the clone of a famous entertainment mogul created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic, virtual world, the clone relizes he has yet to ...
Style: experimental, contemplative, serious, thought provoking, clever ...
Plot: space station, outer space, workplace, cyberspace, society, ambition, life is a bitch, boss and employee, rivalry, unfulfillment, workplace intrigue, cloning ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.0
 4K
Quintet (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Style: apocalyptic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: ice age, dystopian future, apocalypse, climate change, rivalry, danger, isolation, life is a bitch, society, survival, obsession, chaos ...
Time: year 1979, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 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 ⇓
25%
Rain Without Thunder (1992)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This evocative faux documentary imagines a dystopian near future in which the government monitors every woman's sexual activity. At its center is Allison Golding (Ali Thomas), serving a life sentence for having an abortion. As politicians, ...
Style: psychotronic, apocalyptic, independent film, thought provoking, serious ...
Plot: dystopia, distopia, propaganda, dystopian future, injustice, pregnancy, catholic priest, fascism, social decay, legal action, against the rules, legal ...
Time: year 1992, future, 2040s, near future
Place: usa, stockholm sweden, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.3
 482
After We Leave (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A sci-fi drama about a man struggling to find his wife, who he abandoned six years ago, before their visa to emmigrate to an off-world colony expires.
Style: stylized, serious, philosophical, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: dystopic future, space travel, colony, post apocalypse, fate of humanity, outer space, twists and turns, danger, demolished city, apocalypse, life & death, imaginary ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out ...
Style: stylized, captivating, psychological, informative, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, manly
Plot: wall street, stock broker, finance, greed, stock market crash, stock market, business, corporate greed, betrayal, rivalry, corporate world, economics ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2001, 2000s, year 2008 ...
Place: new york, usa, london, manhattan new york city, tower bridge london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Brian Cruver, an ambitious 26-year-old lands a job at Enron. As he assimilates to the company's get-rich-quick mantra, spending sprees and wild corporate "gatherings" become the norm. But when Enron files for bankruptcy, Cruver ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, political, edutainment ...
Plot: evil corporation, greed, corporate crime, fighting the system, uncover truth, ambition, rise and fall, rise to the top, couple relations, love and romance, society, life is a bitch ...
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Company Men (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bobby Walker lives the proverbial American dream: great job, beautiful family, shiny Porsche in the garage. When corporate downsizing leaves him and two co-workers jobless, the three men are forced to re-define their lives as men, husbands and ...
Style: realistic, depressing, thought provoking, serious, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: unemployment, corporate world, business, corporation, workplace, finance, economics, greed, family problems, starting over, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Harrison Bergeron (1995)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: "All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The film centers around a young man ...
Style: apocalyptic, philosophical, tech noir, contemplative, semi serious ...
Plot: dystopia, distopia, dystopian future, prodigy, chubby, dysfunctional society, cognitive science, libertarian, monster, apocalypse, psychology, underground ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 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 ⇓
24%
 8.2
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V for Vendetta (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story: In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as 'V' conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When 'V' rescues a young woman from the secret police, he ...
Style: futuristic, philosophical, stylized, captivating, intense ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, dystopia, fighting the system, freedom, vigilante, anti hero, society, protest, mentor ...
Time: future, year 2005, near future, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place: london, england, britain, big ben london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
 3K
Power (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Pete St. John is a powerful and successful political consultant, with clients spread around the country. When his long-time friend and client Ohio senator Sam Hastings decides to quit politics, he is rapidly drafted to help with the campaign of the ...
Style: realistic, serious, cynical, clever, political ...
Plot: politics, political corruption, campaign, manipulation, fighting the system, society, state affairs, political intrigue, dishonesty, legal, media, ambition ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Brave New World (1980)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An acclaimed TV miniseries based on the classic sci-fi novel.
Style: apocalyptic, psychotronic, frightening, philosophical, tech noir
Plot: dystopia, distopia, utopia, post apocalypse, propaganda, shakespeare, new world, disaster, underground, communism, cyberpunk, dystopian future ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.6
 824
Puzzlehead (2005)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In a post apocalyptic world where technology is outlawed, Walter, a reclusive scientist, secretly creates a self-aware android, "Puzzlehead". Jealously erupts when Puzzlehead wins the affection of Julia, the beautiful shopgirl that Walter ...
Style: serious, futuristic, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, man versus machine, love triangle, chaos, androids and robots, obsession, society, dystopian future, cyberpunk, technology gone awry, betrayal, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 6.6
 54K
THX 1138 (1971)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the ...
Style: bleak, mindfuck, philosophical, futuristic, thought provoking ...
Plot: distopia, totalitarianism, dystopian future, cyberpunk, dystopia, prison, brainwashing, androids and robots, utopia, fighting the system, robot, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future, year 1971, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.9
 7K
Testament (1983)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, emotional, tense ...
Plot: nuclear war, cold war, nuclear holocaust, dystopian future, apocalypse, post apocalypse, tragedy, small town, death, visceral, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1983, 80s, near future
Place: california, usa, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Born in Flames (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: In a future where a socialist government gains power, a group of women decides to organize and rebel.
Style: independent film, underground film, political, cult classic, indie film ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: feminism, lesbian, anarchism, feminist, radical, socialist, sexual harassment, police brutality, racism, anarchist, dystopia, chaos ...
Time: distant future, future
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After the human race has been wiped out, Del lives in an empty town, content in his solitude and the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until he meets young Grace, who wants to stay with him.
Style: apocalyptic, psychological, surprise ending, dark, bleak ...
Plot: apocalypse, post apocalypse, male female friendship, small town, initially antagonists, dystopia, disaster, distopia, post apocalyptic, haunted by the past, twists and turns, loneliness ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.4
 373K
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: thought provoking, psychological, futuristic, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: reincarnation, destiny, distopia, life & death, dystopia, life philosophy, multiple storylines, parallel universe, clone, existentialism, karma, post apocalypse ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, year 1936, distant future ...
Place: san francisco, belgium, persia, seoul, south korea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.9
 731
Judgment (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Helen Hannah, the Christian leader of "Apocalypse" "Revelation" and "Tribulation" is being put on trial in the One Nation Earth Court of Justice. Mitch Kendrick is a lawyer assigned to defend her, and Victoria Thorne, ...
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, clever, apocalyptic, depressing ...
Plot: apocalypse, courtroom, tragic hero, bible, save the world, courtroom drama, injustice, fighting the system, society, legal, rescue, woman in danger ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.0
 22K
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, tense, surprise ending, captivating ...
Plot: dystopia, book, shark, society, firefighter, resistance, partner, childhood memory, fire, meaning of life, murder, couple relations ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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