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By Day and by Night (2010)
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By Day and by Night (2010)
Original name: De día y de noche
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Mexican science fiction film where the over-population problem has been solved by programming people to operate in either day or night, and not both.
Style: surprise ending, intellectual
Plot: underground, eclipse, sleep disorder, scientist, beach, doctor, sleeping, computer, scientific experiment, missing child, mother daughter relationship, autopsy, death of child, overpopulation, dystopia, distopia, world, park, gps
Time: future, 2010s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, captivating, independent film and futuristic films with plots about dystopia, distopia, society, dystopian future, disaster, underground and post apocalypse mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like By Day and by Night: Target (2011), Puzzlehead (2005), Advantageous (2015), The Penitent Man (2010), Hard to Be a God (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Target (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 158 min.
Story: In the year 2020, a group of wealthy Moscovites travel to an abandoned astrophysics complex, rumoured to have enough power to halt the process of aging.
Style: thought provoking, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, obsession, aging, social differences, youth, couples, society, escapades, fountain of youth, underground, immortality, couple relations ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: russia, kazakhstan
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95%
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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
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82%
 6.1
 6K
Advantageous (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
Style: futuristic, serious, bleak, captivating, existential ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: mother daughter relationship, dystopia, existentialism, parenthood, unemployment, imagination, corporation, transformation, life is a bitch, family relations, single parent, society ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, indiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Penitent Man (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Penitent Man tells the story of psychologist Dr. Jason Pyatt, a man devoted to his work - a man torn from his family. With his struggling marriage and mounting bills, Jason is at a crossroads with the life he has chosen and the life he could ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: travel, time, past, old man, scientist, time travel, destiny, twists and turns, analyst, chamberplay, dystopia, nikola tesla ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 177 min.
Story: A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case ...
Style: surreal, serious, black and white, art house, philosophical ...
Plot: distant planet, human nature, murder, moral dilemma, society, horse, renaissance, medieval, fate of humanity, humanity, alien planet, planet ...
Time: medieval times, 2010s, middle ages, year 2013
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Days of Eclipse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's ...
Style: poetic, spiritual, avant garde
Plot: underground, post apocalypse, european, spirituality, doctor, corpse, heat wave, soviet, black and white segues into color
Place: soviet union, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 ⇓
76%
The Limb Salesman (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Gabriel Goode is The Limb Salesman-- a disgraced doctor who regenerates limbs on the black market. When Goode travels to the water mining regions of the north to heal the cherished daughter of a wealthy water miner, dark family secrets are revealed, ...
Style: thrilling, romantic drama, captivating, psychological
Plot: black market, problem, dystopian future, confronting the past, tragic past, handicapped, distopia, dystopia, space, dead body, mother daughter relationship, doctor patient relationship ...
Time: future
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Lifeforce Experiment (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sciene fiction directed by Piers Haggard.
Plot: afterlife, guard dog, experiment, soul, teenager, death, funeral, computer, dying, spy, scientist, laboratory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Pilot Pirx's Inquest (1979)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This movie is about a rocket pilot named Pirx who is hired to go on a mission to evaluate some nonlinears (robots) for use as crewmembers on future space flights. Pirx and his crew, made up of nonlinears and humans, are sent out to launch two ...
Style: bizarre
Plot: space, ufo, astronaut, underground, european, spaceship, outer space, space travel, literature, robot, mutiny, spacesuit ...
Time: future, 70s
Place: soviet union, poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Coming Days (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Welcome to 2020: The European Union has collapsed following the fourth Gulf War and massive barricades keep illegal immigrants out of cities that are barely functioning. In the middle of this highly volatile environment is the family of Walter ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: terrorism, dystopian future, introspection, danger, political unrest, social decay, dysfunctional family, chaos and mayhem, family problems, human nature, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Realive (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Spain, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, rough, realistic ...
Plot: cryogenics, experiment, nurse, depression, fear, memory, doctor, newborn baby, terminal illness, society, couples, ethical dilemma ...
Time: future, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Clara (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An astronomer becomes obsessed with searching the cosmos for signs of life beyond Earth which leads to a shocking discovery.
Style: exciting, breathtaking, light, enigmatic, romantic ...
Plot: astronomer, universe, professor, scientific experiment, space and aliens, alternate universe, scientist, scientific research, parallel universe, romantic relationship, alien planet, outer space ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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 548
The Gladiators (1969)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Some time in the future, East and West have stopped maintaining standing armies and nuclear weapons. Instead, to settle their differences they pit different teams of crack combat specialists against each other.
Style: mysterious, independent film, serious, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: soldier, dystopia, distopia, human experiment, war game, fictional game show, military, game of death, anti war, insubordination, militant, computer system ...
Time: 20th century, future
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Blueprint (2003)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of the first cloned human being - told in her own words: At the age of thirty the world-famous composer Iris Sellin learns that she has an incurable illness. She - a person who wanted to live for ever - does however not give in. In order ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating, sincere
Plot: cloning, composer, fear of death, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, solace, life turned upside down, terminal illness, scientist, clone, immortal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: northern germany, canada, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
A Distant Thunder (1978)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Patty is lying awake one night in a church basement, distraught and scared. She is to be executed the next morning for refusing to take the Mark of the Beast. Patty knows what lies ahead if she takes the mark but can still not believe in Christ.When ...
Style: independent film, christian film
Plot: christian, end of the world, religion, distopia, faith, religious, christianity, christian faith, bible prophecy, preacher, minister, religious persecution ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 6K
Terminus (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Following a near-fatal accident, David Chamberlain makes an unprecedented discovery that will not only determine the fate of his family, but of mankind.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: car accident, problem, discovery, fate of humanity, destiny, post apocalyptic, disaster, parallel universe, alien abduction, apocalypse, space, epidemic ...
Time: 2010s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Centrespread (1981)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The story of a photographer's struggle in the glamorous world of nude modelling.
Style: independent film
Plot: extreme, skinny dipping, photographer, motorcycle, male nudity, totalitarian state, police station, beach, erotica, sex, female nudity, love ...
Time: future
Place: adelaide south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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 ⇓
54%
No Blade of Grass (1970)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
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, controversial, disturbing, depressing, offbeat ...
Plot: dystopia, post apocalypse, virus, survival, distopia, post apocalyptic, disaster, wasteland, epidemic, railway, quarantine, natural disaster ...
Time: future
Place: england, northern england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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White Dwarf (1995)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a distant future New York medical student Driscoll Rampart accomplishes his internship at Rusta, a rural planet that doesn't revolve around its axis and therefore is divided into contrasting halves of eternal day vs. eternal night. One is a ...
Style: serious, futuristic, offbeat
Plot: medical, space opera, distopia, planet, medical student, supernatural ability, society, supernatural, self discovery, human nature, chases and races, danger ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Where Have All the People Gone (1974)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful ...
Style: apocalyptic, spooky, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post apocalypse, disaster, dystopia, post apocalyptic, distopia, apocalypse, natural disaster, wasteland, doomsday, 666, desolation, monster ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive. Nick finds himself drawn into a ...
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: satellite, blackmail, dishonesty, buddies, alternate reality, space program, underground, radio station, cyberpunk, assassination, stoner, distopia ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 1985
Place: california, los angeles, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Air (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the near future, breathable air is nonexistent. Virtually all of humanity has disappeared, and those chosen to reestablish society reside in a controlled state of suspended animation. Two engineers tasked with guarding the last hope for mankind ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, dark, apocalyptic ...
Plot: distopia, isolation, post apocalypse, humanity, science, freezing, dystopia, disaster, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, alternate reality, bunker ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.0
 7K
Sleep Dealer (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dam, cyberpunk, virtual reality, survival, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, dystopian future, corporate crime, distopia, destruction, worker ...
Time: future
Place: latin america, mexico, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Executive Order (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, the Brazilian government decrees a measure that forces black citizens to migrate to Africa in an attempt to return to their origins. Seeing themselves in the center of terror, two cousins take refuge in an apartment, where ...
Style: tense, captivating, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot: distopia, dystopia, fighting the system, underground movement, dystopian future, social misfits, social problems, society, government, black people, black, dictator ...
Time: future, near future
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, futuristic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: space travel, space, space exploration, outer space, parallel universe, planet, spaceship, european, space opera, giant monster, dystopia, unhappy ending ...
Time: year 1969, future, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.6
 31K
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: futuristic, apocalyptic, philosophical, cult classic, visually stunning ...
Plot: space travel, robot, dystopia, distopia, environmental, space opera, loneliness, spaceship, post apocalypse, space and aliens, androids, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1972
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
I Love You, I Love You (1968)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
Style: existential, disturbing, anthology, avant garde, weird
Plot: parallel universe, time travel, swing, surrealism, experiment, confined, time, time paradox, new love, european, confined space, human relationship ...
Time: year 1968
Place: belgium, glasgow scotland, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Astronaut: The Last Push (2012)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot: space travel, accident, solitude, confined, mission gone awry, isolation, space, space exploration, human in outer space, male protagonist, heroes, loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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