Movies and TV shows like Black Mirror

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Black Mirror (2011)
 8.7
 634K
Black Mirror (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone - a black mirror of our 21st Century existence.
Style: serious, philosophical, thought provoking, anthology, clever, stylized, bleak, atmospheric, cynical, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: technology, dystopia, twists and turns, human nature, satire, dystopian future, society, social decay, computers and web, media satire, alternate reality, media, dark humor, distopia, technology gone awry, gadget, media coverage, mind control, storytelling, chaos, loneliness, dark hero, serial killer, social satire, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future, contemporary
Place: england, london
Keyword: bbc, change

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Most similar movies to Black Mirror

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out intellectual, thought provoking, psychological and philosophical films and TV series with plots about dystopia, distopia, society, supernatural, philosophy, twists and turns and post apocalypse mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like Black Mirror: Ex Machina (2014), The Twilight Zone (1985), Severance (2022), Utopia (2013), Gattaca (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
Style: anthology, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Plot: cyberpunk, alternate reality, supernatural, multiple storylines, alien, computer, surrealism, twists and turns, outer space, life philosophy, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 7.7
 582K
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, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Twilight Zone (1985)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
Style: anthology, psychological, scary, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, hidden truth, nobody believes, investigation, twists and turns, nightmare comes true, abduction, imaginary, society, vietnam war, surrealism ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 8.7
 194K
Severance (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Style: breathtaking, captivating, experimental, tense, existential ...
Audience: date night
Plot: office, memory, distopia, alternate world, conspiracy, office politics, secret identity, corporation, private vs public, office worker, psycho, coworker ...
Time: future, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 8.4
 51K
Utopia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
Style: surreal, thought provoking, mind bending, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: conspiracy, danger, hidden truth, politician, who to trust, mysterious character, scientist, twists and turns, graphic violence, epidemic, life turned upside down, virus ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 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 ⇓
91%
 7.9
 42K
Humans (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, exciting, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, female robot, robot human relationship, technology, robot, society, inventions and discoveries, friendship, cyberpunk, lesbian, cyborgs ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.8
 375K
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, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, outer space, loneliness, space travel, astronaut, solitude, cloning, space and aliens, robot, dystopic future, space ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
 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 ⇓
83%
 6.2
 238K
Transcendence (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, cerebral, exciting, philosophical ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, technology gone awry, resurrection, computers and web, chaos, hi-tech, utopia, robot, science ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: peru, usa, california, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Two Sentence Horror Stories (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series featuring updated tales of horror and haunting for the digital age, inspired by the viral fan fiction of two sentence horror stories.
Style: anthology, thought provoking, realistic, philosophical, dark ...
Plot: technology, technology gone awry, couples, humanity, loneliness, multiple storylines, society, social decay, life is a bitch, computers and web, life philosophy, twists and turns ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 86K
Maniac (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 386 min.
TV show
Story: Two strangers find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.
Style: psychological, futuristic, satirical, dark comedy, philosophical ...
Plot: surrealism, psychiatric patient, schizophrenia, computer, trippy, distopia, medical experiment, borderline personality disorder, alternative medicine, pills, twists and turns, social decay ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.9
 210K
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, futuristic, psychological, dark comedy, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dystopia, dream, fighting the system, distopia, surrealism, cyberpunk, christmas, bureaucracy, imagination, mistaken identity, alternate reality, dystopian future ...
Time: future, year 1985, year 1984
Place: england, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 8.2
 1.2M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, alternate reality, freedom, video surveillance, small town, fictional reality show, hidden camera, utopia, dystopia, paranoia, god complex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.1
 215K
Wild Tales (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, UK
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.
Style: dark comedy, suspense, psychological, anthology, tense ...
Plot: multiple storylines, dark humor, human nature, revenge, vengeance, fighting the system, corruption, sex scene, wedding party, twists and turns, violence, coincidence ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: argentina, persia, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, adoption, androids, robot, distopia, imagination, boy, dystopian future, outer space, destiny ...
Time: future, year 2001, distant future, 2000s, near future ...
Place: new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 8.5
 530K
Westworld (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style: psychological thriller, stylized, serious, thought provoking, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, consciousness, moral dilemma, murder, technology gone awry, man versus machine, scientist, escapades, wild west, human android relationship ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Dimension 404 (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by the Internet’s “404” error code, Dimension 404 aims to evoke that 3 AM feeling of wandering onto the weird side of the web, stumbling upon stories that cannot be explained in the world that we know.
Style: captivating, anthology, exciting, tense, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: imaginary, multiple storylines, twists and turns, surrealism, escapades, existentialism, friendship, justice, technology, halloween, dystopia, time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
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, political, bleak ...
Plot: distopia, brainwashing, dystopia, politics, totalitarianism, surveillance, fascism, alternate reality, political corruption, female nudity, totalitarian state, propaganda ...
Time: future, year 1984, 80s, near future, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 52K
Dollhouse (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series that revolves around a corporation running numerous underground establishments across the globe which program individuals referred to as "Actives" with temporary personalities and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, cyber, mysterious, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cyberpunk, kickass women, innocence lost, female protagonist, sex slave, life is a bitch, memory loss, human nature, uncover truth, self discovery, moral ambiguity, mind control ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Years and Years (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: As Britain is rocked by unstable political, economic and technological advances, members of the Lyons family converge on one crucial night in 2019. Over the next 15 years, the twists and turns of their everyday lives are explored as we find out if ...
Style: political, captivating, light, apocalyptic, black comedy ...
Plot: family relations, political activism, female politician, society, politics, political satire, dystopia, rebel, lgbt, lifestyle, lgbtqi, distopia ...
Time: near future, future, 2020s, 2030s, year 2019
Place: london, manchester
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.6
 79K
The Peripheral (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks ...
Style: futuristic, thrilling, exciting, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, gamer, technology, female protagonist, society, robot, supernatural, social problems, advanced technology, changing lives ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.8
 2.3M
Fight Club (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style: surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place: delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 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 ⇓
100%
 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style: psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: rape, sexism, surrogate mother, infertility, dystopia, protest, totalitarianism, slavery, tyranny, religion, belief, women's rights ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 8.0
 644K
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
 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 ⇓
100%
 8.5
 15K
The Prisoner (1967)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 1010 min.
TV show
Story: After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Style: surreal, exciting, thought provoking, serious, psychological ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, prison, mind control, gadget, research, danger, uncover truth, government agency, mysterious character, scientist, convict, anger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, britain, europe, london, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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