Movies like Ares
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Ares (2016)
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Original name: Arès
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In a near future, the world order has changed. With its 10 millions of unemployed citizens, France has now become a poor country. Its people wavers between rebellion and resignation and find an outlet in the shape of TV broadcast ultra brutal fights in which the players are legally doped and unscrupulous.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspense, captivating, cyber, low-budget
Plot:
distopia, cyberpunk, fight, anarchist, capitalism, dystopia, murder, death, corruption, death of mother, prison, bet, suicide, fascism, revolution, teenager, mars, martian, inequality, crossdresser, prizefight, fighter, human experiment, money, boxer ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
paris france, france
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Most similar movies to Ares
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, futuristic, serious and suspense films with plots about distopia, dystopia, death, cyberpunk, murder, dystopian future and society mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Ares: Gattaca (1997), The Final Cut (2004), Omega Doom (1996), THX 1138 (1971), Black Road (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
344K
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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100%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, philosophical, intellectual, suspense ...
Plot:
distopia, surveillance, cyberpunk, twists and turns, memory, existentialism, microchip, afterlife, dystopian future, social satire, machine, deception ...
Time:
future, year 2004, near future
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26%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of ...
Style:
apocalyptic, futuristic, cyber, neo western, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, androids and robots, robot, apocalypse, cyborgs, distopia, cyberpunk, wasteland, androids, dystopia, post-apocalyptic future, dystopian future ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
23%
57K
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:
philosophical, cult classic, bleak, mindfuck, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, totalitarianism, dystopia, dystopian future, cyberpunk, brainwashing, escape, prison, dystopic future, alone in the world, fighting the system, androids and robots ...
Time:
future, distant future, year 1971, 90s, 1920s
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In 2029, a cyborg drifter risks his life to protect a woman from her demented ex. Set in a lawless coastal town after Oregon secedes from the Union.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, cyber ...
Plot:
drifter, ex soldier, cyborgs, warrior, battles, fight, gunfight, cyberpunk, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, shootout, climbing out of a swimming pool ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York City in the year 2095 where genetically altered humans live side by side with unaltered men and women.
Style:
surreal, futuristic, serious, suspenseful, absurd ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, genetics, mythology, fantasy world, cyborgs, ancient egypt, parallel universe, dystopian future, transformation, society, dystopia, androids ...
Time:
future, year 2004
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, doctor, uncover truth, cyberpunk, vengeance, haunted by the past, rivalry, danger, murder, manipulation, chase, surgery ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
Plot:
police, father daughter relationship, death, drug, brother brother relationship, family relations, danger, friendship, murder, childhood friend, funeral, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Lithuania, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, psychological, touching, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
distopia, mortality, dystopian future, terminal illness, virtual reality, clone, family relations, father child relationship, ecological disaster, catastrophe, virtual world, science ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
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Story:
A series of murders take place in 16th-century Seville, where the plague has taken hold; a condemned man faces the Inquisition as he attempts to save the son of a friend by speaking out.
Style:
tense, bleak, psychological, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, dystopian future, quarantine, pandemic, plague, dystopian society, death, distopia, society, dystopic future, danger, government conspiracy ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Deep space, at the edge of the galaxy. The future. A new prisoner arrives on top security prison ship and psychiatric research unit Dante 01. Sole survivor of an encounter with an alien force beyond imagining, Saint Georges is a man possessed by ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, serious, satanic ...
Plot:
prison, trapped in space, space station, spacecraft, female psychiatrist, psychiatrist, survival, prison life, danger, supernatural ability, mental illness, distant planet ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating
Plot:
funeral, radicalism, nationalist, radical, murder, death, prison, violence, life is a bitch, criminal, confronting the past, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
21%
927
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Germany 2029: A renowned journalist is banned from writing, leading him and his wife to retreat into their luxurious holiday home. As the political conditions in Germany escalate, the smarthome increasingly transforms from a peaceful refuge into a ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, action thriller
Plot:
artificial intelligence, video surveillance, technology, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, family relations, technology gone awry, experiment gone awry, skinny dipping, privacy, revolution, female nudity ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a ...
Style:
tech noir, cult classic, futuristic, serious, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, dystopia, police brutality, violence, conspiracy, kick-butt women, bodyguard, corruption, haunted by the past, uncover truth, violent ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1995, near future, year 1999 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its ...
Style:
futuristic, cyber, apocalyptic, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, virtual reality, cyberspace, computer hacker, computer, artificial intelligence, alternate reality, unrequited love, winter, apocalypse, technology gone awry, computer cracker ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a ...
Style:
dramatic, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, futuristic ...
Plot:
robot, pregnant woman, post apocalypse, journey, apocalypse, couples, couple relations, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, survival, pregnancy, characters in danger ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
korea
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Planet Earth is a sequel to Gene Roddenberry's Genesis II (1973) made-for-TV movie, in which a NASA scientist, Dylan Hunt, is revived from suspended animation in the post-nuclear war United States. In Planet Earth, Dylan is now a sworn member ...
Style:
apocalyptic, grindhouse, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dystopia, matriarchy, post apocalypse, post-apocalyptic future, utopia, apocalypse, sorority, post apocalyptic, epidemic, wasteland, anarchist, suspended animation ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In the near future where humanoid robots are common in society, the mob reprograms a female android to think and feel in order to use it as a contract killer. This has dangerous consequences as she develops a relationship with her creator while also ...
Style:
captivating, cyber, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure
Plot:
robot, psychopath, humanoid robot, violence, danger, androids and robots, friendship, society, dishonesty, hitman, murderer, murder ...
Time:
near future, future, 2020s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
escape, border crossing, activist, attempted escape, life risking, mother child separation, rescue mission, risk, airport, islam, military, isis ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
syria, paris france, turkey
Similarity:
20%
45K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Poland, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Style:
suspense, psychological, visually stunning, psychotronic, exciting ...
Audience:
toddlers, adult
Plot:
survival, astronaut, spaceship, space mission, galaxy, baby, trapped in space, outer space, deep space, experiment, father daughter relationship, taboo ...
Time:
2010s, future, year 2019
Similarity:
20%
489K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, South Africa, Mexico
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, breathtaking, cyber, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, dystopian future, dystopia, space station, distopia, class conflict, space and aliens, politics, robot, dark future, ecological disaster, utopia ...
Time:
future, year 2013, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place:
los angeles, seattle, peru, africa, usa ...
Similarity:
20%
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, surprise ending, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
dystopia, book, shark, fire, society, firefighter, resistance, partner, childhood memory, murder, meaning of life, couple relations ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
usa, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, intense, captivating, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
revolution, distopia, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, dystopia, vigilante, freedom, anti hero, protest, society, masked man ...
Time:
future, year 2005, 2000s, distant future, near future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, big ben london, europe ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time ...
Style:
exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
virtual reality, survival, save the world, danger, escape from reality, imaginary, trapped in space, murder, crew, planet, gang rape, interracial couple ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Roddy has a camera implanted in his brain. He is then hired by a television producer to film a documentary of terminally ill Katherine, without her knowledge. His footage will then be run on the popular TV series, "Death Watch".
Style:
tech noir, cult classic, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
dystopia, terminal illness, dystopian future, distopia, television, fictional reality show, cold war, social commentary, dystopic future, surveillance, cyberpunk, amor ...
Time:
year 1980, future, 2020s, 80s, near future ...
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
Style:
mysterious, exciting, cynical, serious, rough ...
Plot:
manhunt, television, distopia, violent content, media satire, unemployment, danger, race against time, dishonesty, chases and races, contests and competitions, media ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
3K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A government assassin comes out of retirement to hunt down the alien responsible for killing the former members of his team.
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Plot:
soldier, assassin, hunter, tragedy, redemption, hitman, distopia, space, killer, communism, chase, adventure hero ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
19%
361K
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, serious, philosophical, cerebral, psychological ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, martial arts, dystopian future, dystopia, gunfight, post apocalyptic, fighting the system, cyberpunk, violence, totalitarianism, rebellion, dictatorship ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place:
china, beijing china
Similarity:
19%
62K
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, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, cyberpunk, dystopian future, robot human relationship, post apocalyptic, cyborgs, investigation ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2014, 2040s ...
Similarity:
18%
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