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Tau (2018)
 5.8
 34K
Tau (2018)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, philosophical, mind bending, clever, intellectual, political ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, escape attempt, kidnapping, experiment, woman in danger, laboratory, murder, security system, kidnapped woman, drone, danger, distopia, cyberpunk, captive, trapped, psychopath, cyborgs, hostage, science, secret society, androids, technology, underground, trap ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, weird and psychological films with plots about murder, danger, death, survival, psychopath, blood and monster mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Horror genres. Some movies like Tau: Infinity Chamber (2016), Ex Machina (2014), Level 16 (2018), I Am Mother (2019), Wifelike (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Infinity Chamber (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, time paradox, subconscious, escape attempt, mind game, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, computer, political prisoner, mistaken identity, plot twist ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 6.1
 16K
Level 16 (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, melancholic, suspense, mysterious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: imprisonment, dark secret, boarding school, punishment, discipline, girls' boarding school, female protagonist, isolation, distopia, secrets, obedience, women's prison ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 99K
I Am Mother (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Style: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, mindfuck, cyber ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, adult
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, post apocalypse, bunker, end of the world, apocalypse, mother, mission, dystopian future, technology, daughter, extinction ...
Time: near future, future
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.9
 4K
Wifelike (2022)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial ...
Style: captivating, serious, suspense, futuristic
Plot: female robot, artificial intelligence, police detective, kidnapping, police investigation, investigation, deception, fight, woman, weapons, uncover truth, life & death ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.9
 3K
Override (2021)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 2040, a female humanoid A.I. is hacked by her husband and forced to kidnap the U.S. vice president's son and execute him on live TV, as the culprit seeks revenge for his own son's death.
Style: futuristic, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting
Plot: humanoid robot, androids and robots, female robot, artificial intelligence, hacker, revenge, murderer, robot as menace, criminal's revenge, attempted murder, vengeance, murder mystery ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 17K
Paradise Hills (2019)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman is sent to Paradise Hills to be reformed, only to learn that the high-class facility's beautiful facade hides a sinister secret.
Style: atmospheric, colorful, twisted, apocalyptic, offbeat ...
Plot: women, teenage girl, dystopic future, high society, island, classism, social problems, lgbt, overweight, therapy, feminist, woman ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Darkest Minds (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.
Style: exciting, captivating, romantic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: telekinesis, post apocalypse, teenager, good versus evil, superhuman powers, mind control, runaway teen, danger, friendship, super powers, love and romance, escape ...
Time: near future
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 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 ⇓
21%
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.4
 302K
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world – which has its sole inhabitant the ...
Style: bad ending, futuristic, suspense, enigmatic, dark ...
Plot: alien, creature, space travel, outer space, extraterrestrial, robot, alien life-form, androids, monster, human versus alien, space exploration, survival ...
Time: future, year 2017, 2010s, near future, 22nd century
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 546K
Split (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twist ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, mental illness, murder, psychopath, psycho, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, paranoia, serial killer, schizophrenia, violence ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Cabin by the Lake (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A screenwriter does research for his new script by actually kidnapping and drowning young girls. He then places them in his "garden" of other dead girls coming back daily to check on them. One girl narrowly escapes and the other bodies are ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, held captive, kidnapping, danger, psychopath, kidnapped, writer's life, woman in danger, river, hostage, abduction, missing person ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Cleaning Lady (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As a means to distract herself from an affair, a love-addicted woman befriends a cleaning lady, badly scarred by burns. She soon learns, these scars run much deeper than the surface. Long version of Jon Knautz short movie.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot: held captive, cleaning lady, murder, survival, trap, isolation, danger, female protagonist, childhood trauma, infidelity, obsession, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.6
 726
The Alpha Test (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A suburban family drives their new gadget, The Alpha Home Assistant, to a killing rampage after mistreating and abusing it, leading to a full A.I. uprising…
Style: suspense, futuristic, stylized, serious, cyber
Plot: robot, human versus robot, science runs amok, murder, artificial intelligence, robot as menace, dystopian future, androids, society, technology gone awry, fantasy world, technology ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
 2K
The Kindred (1987)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mothers biggest fan. Together with ...
Style: scary, suspense, dark, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, mutant, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, secrets, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 10K
Demon Seed (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A scientist creates Proteus, an organic super computer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creators wife.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, erotic, cult classic, classic horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: computer, laboratory, impregnation, robotics, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, robot, pregnancy and birth, mind game, captivity, cyborgs, alien ...
Time: future, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Stepford Wives (1975)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: robot, feminism, conspiracy, small town, housewife, women's liberation, suburbs, androids, social commentary, paranoia, utopia, distopia ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 5.6
 8K
Isolation (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival, infection, creature feature, farm, quarantine, experiment gone awry, monster, creature, race against time, danger, escapades, genetic engineering ...
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.3
 2K
Rogue River (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without transport or communication, she accepts the hospitality of a stranger who offers her shelter for the night at his cabin. With no other options available, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapped woman, survival, confined, danger, strong violent content, police officer killed, brother sister incest, extreme violence, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
 239K
The Purge (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, psychological, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, self defense, violence spree, danger, survival horror, family in danger, society, social decay, security system, dystopia, killing spree ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, near future ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
 25K
Hidden (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: virus, post apocalypse, epidemic, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, underground, twists and turns, infected, bomb shelter, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 338K
The Mist (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style: twist ending, atmospheric, psychological, bad ending, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, survival horror, religious fanatic, giant monster, chaos and mayhem, small town ...
Time: year 2007, distant future, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 54K
The Collection (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, trap, kidnapping, torture, masked killer, sadistic horror, massacre, survival, psychopath, escape, crazy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, master criminal, danger, rivalry, gory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.6
 251K
Life (2017)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style: suspense, scary, apocalyptic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: space travel, space, mars, outer space, monster, alien, space station, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, extraterrestrial life, first contact ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.1
 10K
Saturn 3 (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam and the scientist Alex, who is also his lover and has never been on Earth, have been researching hydroponics for three ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: killer robot, robot, man versus machine, cyborgs, scientist, space station, artificial intelligence, space, obsession, androids and robots, woman in danger, chaos ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 1980
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 107K
Vacancy (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, trapped, hotel, murder, hostage, survival horror, macabre, danger, estranged couple, masked killer, kidnapped, motel ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, apocalypse, creature, police, creature feature, psychopath, danger, mind game, serial killer, plague, race against time, investigation ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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