Movies like Tau
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Tau (2018)
37K
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, political, underground film ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
artificial intelligence, escape attempt, robot, kidnapping, woman in danger, laboratory, murder, kidnapped woman, experiment, drone, security system, danger, captivity, cyborgs, cyberpunk, captive, trapped, strong female lead, blonde, fear, anger, strong female character, mad scientist, held captive, evil scientist ...
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Most similar movies to Tau
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, weird and scary films with plots about murder, survival, danger, violence, death, isolation and hostage mostly in Thriller, Horror and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Tau: Infinity Chamber (2016), Ex Machina (2014), I Am Mother (2019), Paradise Hills (2019), Demon Seed (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
captivating, suspense, touching, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
subconscious, escape, desert, escape attempt, time paradox, mind game, plot twist, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, computer, political prisoner ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
100%
633K
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, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, androids, technology, existentialism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, isolation, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, consciousness ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014 ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
105K
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, philosophical, apocalyptic, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, adult
Plot:
robot, artificial intelligence, post apocalypse, bunker, apocalypse, mother, daughter, end of the world, mission, technology, man versus machine, dystopian future ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
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, light ...
Plot:
teenage girl, women, high society, dystopic future, island, classism, true love, social problems, therapy, lgbt, overweight, female protagonist ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
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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:
sexy, erotic, perverse, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robotics, impregnation, pregnancy and birth, computer, laboratory, scientist, super computer, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, robot, captivity, mind game ...
Time:
future, 70s
Similarity:
100%
19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, 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, suspense, mysterious, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dark secret, boarding school, punishment, female protagonist, distopia, discipline, isolation, girls' boarding school, obedience, imprisonment, pervert, vaccine ...
Similarity:
67%
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:
sex with a robot, female robot, investigation, fight, deception, kidnapping, police detective, police investigation, life & death, weapons, uncover truth, woman ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
100%
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, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting
Plot:
humanoid robot, androids and robots, female robot, artificial intelligence, hacker, revenge, murderer, attempted murder, criminal's revenge, robot as menace, assassination, murder mystery ...
Time:
future, 2040s
Similarity:
100%
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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:
romantic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, saga ...
Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
telekinesis, post apocalypse, teenager, good versus evil, runaway teen, mind control, superhuman powers, danger, soldier, friendship, love and romance, escape ...
Time:
near future
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
100%
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:
captivating, suspense, gothic horror, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
sister sister relationship, artificial intelligence, female protagonist, rehabilitation, medical experiment, problem, life is a bitch, experimenting, human experiment, experiment, car accident, kidnapping ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
22%
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:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, held captive, psychopath, danger, lake, drowning, kidnapped, writer's life, river, woman in danger, hostage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
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, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, home invasion, trap, psychopath, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, terror, psycho killer ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
19%
615K
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:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, kidnapping, dissociative identity disorder, murder, split personality, psycho, insanity, serial killer, paranoia, captive, schizophrenia, psychopath ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, minimal cast, twist ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalypse, kidnapping, bunker, strong female character, alien, underground bunker, survivalist, end of the world, conspiracy theory, bomb shelter ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Five female filmmakers en route to screen their new horror film in Los Angeles, experience their own real life terror when they cross paths with deranged scientist hellbent on using them for his twisted experiments.
Style:
psychotronic, slasher, suspense, bleak, scary
Plot:
abuse, survival horror, mad scientist, playing god, violent, insanity, sadist, characters in danger, life & death, terrorizing, strong female presence, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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, dark, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creature, mutant, secrets, genetics, laboratory, mad scientist, murder, death, transformation, experiment gone awry, survival, danger ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The newly married Elizabeth arrives with her new husband, the scientist Henry, at a magnificent house. He tells her that she can do there anything she pleases, except to enter a certain closed room.
Style:
suspense, sensual, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
locked room, cloning, wife, scientist, obsessive love, secret, husband wife relationship, newlyweds, murder, kidnapping, wedding, uncover truth ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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, dark, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
alien, creature, space travel, outer space, extraterrestrial, alien life-form, alien parasite, space exploration, alien creature, human versus alien, androids, robot ...
Time:
future, near future, 22nd century, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
space western
Similarity:
18%
260K
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, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
18%
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:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, disturbing ...
Plot:
cleaning lady, childhood trauma, held captive, trap, murder, survival, isolation, danger, female protagonist, obsession, infidelity, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
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:
stylized, suspense, serious, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, human versus robot, science runs amok, murder, killer robot, revenge, robot as menace, dystopian future, technology gone awry, twists and turns, fight ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
18%
11K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, serious, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
man versus machine, robot, cyborgs, scientist, killer robot, saturn the planet, outer space, chess, artificial intelligence, psychopath, infatuation, spaceship ...
Time:
future, year 1980, year 2016, distant future
Similarity:
18%
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:
missing person, serial killer, psychopath, woman in danger, survival, obsession, confined, isolation, captivity, danger, master criminal, rivalry ...
Similarity:
18%
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29K
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, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
virus, post apocalypse, twists and turns, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, epidemic, nightmare, infected, plot twist, isolation ...
Similarity:
18%
113K
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, suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, murder, hotel, survival horror, hostage, danger, voyeurism, kidnapped, estranged couple, motel, macabre ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
18%
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:
woman in danger, kidnapped woman, accidental incest, psychopath, strong violent content, kidnapping, survival, confined, danger, police officer killed, brother sister incest, pervert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Everyday, thousands of immigrants line the parking lots of hardware stores and climb into cars with strangers they've never met, all for the promise of paid work. In Beneath Us, a group of undocumented workers are lured into the home of Liz ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
survival, game of death, nightmare, psychopath, violence, survival horror, brutality, worker, hostage, killer, terror, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
328K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, trapped, kidnapping, blind man, murder, breaking and entering, twists and turns, survival, blindness, psychopath, violence, paranoia ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, california, detroit
Similarity:
18%
371K
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, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman returns to her family home and discovers it to be inhabited by monsters.
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nightmare, haunted house, paranormal activity, murder, night, danger, family in danger, supernatural, insanity, trapped, ghost, fear ...
Similarity:
18%
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