Movies like MindGamers

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MindGamers (2015)
 3.6
 1K
MindGamers (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of young bio-engineers discover they can use quantum physics to transfer motor-skills between human brains. Believing this to be a first step towards a new intellectual freedom, they freely distribute the technology. But as the mysterious past of one of their group is revealed, dark forces emerge that threaten to subvert this technology into a means of mass control. DxM takes the mind-bender thriller to the next level with an immersive narrative and breath-taking action.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, futuristic, disturbing, weird
Plot: lab rat, science runs amok, mind control, virtual reality, scientific experiment, experiment, science, human experiment, technology, hi-tech, schizophrenia, mind, cognitive science, tattoo, man in a wheelchair, bare chested male, falling to death, hit with a baseball bat, hit by a car, falling off a balcony, flock of birds, close up of eye, spiral staircase, camera shot of bare feet, begins with historical notes
Time: year 2002

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and disturbing films with plots about experiment, technology, hi-tech, human experiment, scientific experiment, murder and survival mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Action genres. Some movies like MindGamers: Incontrol (2017), OtherLife (2017), 2099: The Soldier Protocol (2019), Implanted (2021), Hypersleep (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 4.3
 630
Incontrol (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Incontrol follows a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of others, and experience the world through someone else. As they push the machine's abilities to its limits, they begin to question the ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, futuristic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: switching bodies, possession, mind control, student, scientist, body swapping, science runs amok, hi-tech, paranormal, technology, murder, advanced technology
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100%
 6.2
 17K
OtherLife (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLIfe expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of ...
Style: suspense, tense, futuristic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: virtual reality, computer, medicine, technology, experiment, memory, prison, corruption, coma, human experiment, chase, father daughter relationship ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
2099: The Soldier Protocol (2019)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sometime in the near future, paraplegic prison inmate Matt Mills meets "The Board" of Satoshi-Telefair Industries, who thank him for joining the Program. Under pressure and with a promise to make him walk again, Mills agrees to volunteer. ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful
Plot: experiment, paraplegic, prisoner, human experiment, scientific experiment, technology, survival, physical disability, regeneration, distopia, bare chested male, father daughter relationship ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.5
 5K
Implanted (2021)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sarah, a struggling young woman, agrees to volunteer as a test subject and be implanted with the LEXX nanochip for a pharmaceutical company experiment. She hopes that the money received for her participation will solve her financial troubles. When ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: artificial intelligence, mind control, struggle for survival, loss of control, experiment gone awry, scientific experiment, family in danger, murderer, experiment, survival, female protagonist, manipulation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 5.4
 675
Hypersleep (2022)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The old and overcrowded penitentiaries are just a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless, and has drastically reduced recidivism. Until one day, a psychologist in charge of monitoring the mental ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, futuristic
Plot: prison, implanted memory, dystopian future, technology, psychology, science runs amok, memory, virtual reality, problem, hi-tech, flash forward, prison sentence ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Soviet Sleep Experiment (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Russian researchers in the late 1940s keep five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental stimulant. Based on the popular internet horror story (Creepypasta) “The Russian Sleep Experiment”.
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful
Plot: experiment gone awry, victim, ward, problem, threat, science runs amok, human experiment, experiment, scientific experiment, medical experiment, blood
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.0
 608
Red 11 (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A human lab rat in a sinister medical research facility tries to buy his way out of debt to the company while under the influence of experimental psychoactive drugs.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: hospital, lab rat, trap, scientific experiment, laboratory, experiment, money problems, human experiment, secret laboratory, medical experiment, medicine
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.2
 2K
Atomica (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, philosophical, futuristic ...
Plot: nuclear, radiation, strong female lead, insanity, nuclear power, scientist, science runs amok, workplace situations, engineer, twists and turns, science, technology ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 4.7
 9K
Kill Switch (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, exciting, futuristic ...
Plot: parallel world, cyberpunk, disaster, distopia, experiment, science runs amok, deception, fear, murder, betrayal, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: near future
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31%
 5.5
 2K
T.I.M. (2023)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Prosthetics scientist Abi and her adulterous husband Paul adjust to life outside the city as Abi begins working for high-tech company Integrate, developing a humanoid AI - T.I.M.
Style: psychological, futuristic, captivating, thrilling
Plot: sentient robot, problem, futuristic technology, village life, robot human relationship, science runs amok, technology, technology gone awry, advanced technology, experimental technology, science, humanoid robot ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.8
 250
Cerebrum (2021)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: To make ends meet, Tom signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab, but when he commits a crime he cannot remember, he must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, independent film
Plot: memory, chase, amnesia, amnesiac, problem, battles, experiment gone awry, memory loss, erased memory, memory lapse, scientific experiment, repressed memory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 4.9
 4K
The Call Up (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, game, trapped, hacker, hacking, rivalry, escapades, danger, friendship, disorder, youth, trap ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Chimera Strain (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: scientist, illness, cryogenics, human experiment, family problems, mutation, loss of wife, experiment, father, mad scientist, science, child illness ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.4
 132
Censor (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the not-so-distant future the computer game industry reaches its fullest flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors secretly delve into games. Their mission ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: virtual reality, computer game, maniac, murder, empathy, rape, conspiracy, violence, illusion, rivalry, zombie, serial killer ...
Time: near future, medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 4K
Iru Mugan (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: A disgraced RAW agent Akilan (Vikram) is recalled by the agency to track down a crazy scientist and a cross dresser Love (also Vikram), who has discovered a deadly new drug ‘Speed inhaler’.
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: undercover agent, mad scientist, drug, drugged, criminal, drug overdose, drug addiction, fight, battles, secret service, tamil
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.3
 19K
Paradise (2023)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.
Style: futuristic, psychological, captivating
Plot: technology, dystopia, kidnapping, husband wife relationship, corporation, male female relationship, advanced technology, life, powerful corporation, life is a bitch, hi-tech, problem ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.3
 4K
Eternal Code (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A researcher's family is kidnapped after she leads efforts to withdraw her company from a collaboration. With everything on the line, only her teenage daughter can save the family with help from a suicidal veteran and a prostitute.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: kidnapping, switching bodies, corporation, hunted, battles, technology, fight, struggle for survival, hi-tech, powerful corporation, advanced technology
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.9
 2K
Deep (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: insomnia, student, experiment gone awry, human experiment, experiment, physician, life lesson, medical, medical examiner, girl, school, teenager ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Bunker: Project 12 (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: At the height of the Cold War, Russia was working on a secret scientific mission, which, if successful, would have changed the course of history. The mission, "Project 12," was ultimately deemed too dangerous to continue and the scientists ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: betrayal, cold war, one man army, warrior, struggle for survival, soldier, human experiment, russian soldier, experiment, scientist, woman with a gun, weapons
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Wesley's Mysterious File (2002)
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Andy Lau is Wesley, investigating alien existence on this earth. He works outside of the MIB-influenced FBI operation, run by Shu Qi and Roy Cheung. They're hot on the trail of the Blue-Blooded Alien (Rosamund Kwan). Two other aliens, the ...
Style: tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing
Plot: alien encounter, crime solving, puzzle, investigation, agent, alien disguised as human, alien, political conspiracy, special agent, secret agent, alien contact, experiment ...
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23%
 3.7
 5K
Dark Cloud (2022)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Following the aftermath of a horrific accident, a woman is voluntarily subjected to artificial intelligence for rehabilitation.
Style: suspense, gothic horror, disturbing, captivating
Plot: artificial intelligence, rehabilitation, female protagonist, experiment, scientific experiment, experimenting, human experiment, life is a bitch, medical experiment, problem, distopia, isolation ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Survivalist (2021)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A year and a half after the fall of civilization from a virus outbreak, a former FBI agent is forced to protect a young woman, who is immune to the disease, from a dangerous gang hunting her led by a psychopath who believes he’s going to use her ...
Style: disturbing, tense, apocalyptic, captivating, suspense
Plot: deadly virus, immunity, criminal gang, gang leader, struggle for survival, battles, virus, fight, post apocalypse, survival, gang, post apocalyptic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.8
 2K
Identicals (2015)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: relationships, new life, changing lives, new identity, hi-tech, relationship problems, character change, love affair, obsessive quest, love story, male female relationship, lifestyle change ...
Time: future, distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 4.0
 613
Black Road (2016)
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: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, cyber ...
Plot: drifter, ex soldier, cyborgs, warrior, fight, battles, gunfight, cyberpunk, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, climbing out of a swimming pool, shootout ...
Time: near future, future, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.6
 2K
Weaponized (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A damaged homicide detective (Johnny Messner) must prevent a grieving father from unleashing a "robotic virus" that he believes will destroy the terrorist cell that murdered his son, but at an unimaginable cost.
Style: futuristic, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robot, technology, haunted by the past, androids and robots, dystopian future, police, violence, artificial intelligence, computer virus, society, investigation, obsession ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
 3K
Run & Gun (2022)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After leaving a life of crime and violence, Ray is a reformed good guy, enjoying a quiet family life in the ‘burbs. But when his past is discovered, Ray is blackmailed into one last job to collect a mysterious package. After a deadly double-cross, ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: criminal, bandit, secret past, blackmail, killings, struggle for survival, confronting the past, murder, haunted by the past, violence
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22%
 5.3
 1K
Reset (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 2025, a scientist on the verge of making a major discovery related to time travel is suddenly put in peril when a rival kidnaps her young son and demands a hefty ransom: her entire research.
Style: suspenseful, tense, futuristic, suspense, intense
Plot: time loop, female scientist, single mother, ransom, kidnapping, mother son relationship, fate of humanity, rescue, time traveler, danger, child in peril, strong female lead ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
 135K
Daybreakers (2009)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vampires on a way to save ...
Style: futuristic, scary, stylized, intense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, epidemic, vampirism, distopia, pandemic, apocalypse, dystopian future, cure, female vampire, virus, transformation ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, year 2019, 2010s ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.7
 295
A. I. Tales (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film is made up of futuristic, high concept stories about artificial intelligence. Whether it's love found in time of over-population or exploration of the unknown and space-travel, "A.I. Tales" has a bit of something for every ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, futuristic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: moral dilemma, outer space, space travel, struggle for survival, multiple storylines, space exploration, artificial intelligence, survival, virtual reality, disaster, science, end of the world
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Alien Invasion (2020)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Inspired by the myth of Cthulhu, it tells a fantasy adventure story triggered by a mysterious quantum mechanics experiment.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, futuristic, lovecraft
Plot: monster, sea monster, legends and myths, beast, mythical creature, showdown, supernatural, evil alien, alien monster, giant monster, alien creature, alien ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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