Movies and TV shows like Awake 2012
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Awake (2012)
22K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to differentiate the two. He sees two therapists: Dr. Jonathan Lee in the "red reality" and Dr. Judith Evans in the "green reality". At work, Michael's erratic behavior triggers clashes with his team; they do not know about Michael's uncanny ability to solve crimes using details from both realities.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, detective, serious, emotional, suspenseful, mysterious, dramatic, allegory, spooky ...
Plot:
alternate reality, police investigation, car accident, grief, family problems, loss, therapy, police protagonist, sanity, family relations, accident, insanity, loss of loved one, loss of son, haunted by the past, loss of family member, loss of spouse, parents and children, law enforcement, escape from reality, death in the family, dealing with death, supernatural, police, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
future, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Awake
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, psychological and detective films and TV series with plots about supernatural, investigation, death, police detective, family relations, law enforcement and police mostly in Drama, Mystery and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Awake: Premonition (2007), The OA (2016), The Leftovers (2014), Forever (2014), Mystic River (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
time travel, destiny, death, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, deja vu, couples, family problems, housewife ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
126K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
Style:
enigmatic, mysterious, sensual, erotic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parallel universe, alternate dimension, captive, disappearance, mysticism, alternate reality, supernatural power, blindness, forbidden love, mysterious disappearance, ritual, supernatural ...
Time:
future
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
When 2% of the world's population abruptly disappears without explanation, the world struggles to understand just what they're supposed to do about it. The drama series 'The Leftovers' is the story of the people who didn't ...
Style:
mind bending, touching, stylized, offbeat, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disappearance, haunted by the past, missing person, apocalypse, life turned upside down, society, hopes, post apocalypse, depression, small town, small town sheriff, chief of police ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, syria, new york state, new york
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
Doctor Henry Morgan, New York City’s star medical examiner, has a secret. He doesn't just study the dead to solve criminal cases, he does it to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years—the answer to his own inexplicable ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
immortality, supernatural, investigation, friendship, law enforcement, immortal, crime scene, supernatural ability, secret, medical examiner, friends, deduction ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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518K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, suspense, depressing, twist ending, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, vengeance, police, police investigation, investigation, death in the family, police detective, sexual abuse, loss of child, child abuse, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
Similarity:
100%
33K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with the dead to help to solve crimes. Her dreams often give her clues to the whereabouts of missing people.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
investigation, psychic, who done it, supernatural ability, psychic power, prophecy, family relations, a vision, parents and children, strong female lead, fighting crime, supportive spouse ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, arizona
Similarity:
100%
133K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
The Killing is an American crime drama television series based upon the Danish television series Forbrydelsen. Set in Seattle, Washington, the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
Style:
serious, psychological, crime drama, gloomy, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, female detective, murder, female protagonist, multiple suspects, who done it, police investigation, crime investigation, strong female lead, street kid ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
A detective investigates a mysterious motel room, which acts as a portal to an alternate universe.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
time travel, escapades, alternate dimension, supernatural, peril, heroic mission, riddles and clues, mistrust, obsessive quest, investigator, imaginary, scheme ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
665K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, island, stranded, mysterious place, desert island, stranded on an island, lost, human nature, death, plane crash, destiny, air disaster ...
Time:
y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, suspenseful, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
autism, psychic power, foreknowledge, supernatural ability, psychic, single parent, talented, supernatural, hopes, mathematics, single father, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
50%
453
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Past Life is an American crime drama television series which aired on Fox from February 9 to June 4, 2010. The series premiered on Tuesday, February 9 at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central. After the premiere, subsequent airings were broadcast on ...
Style:
surreal, emotional, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
past life, investigation, power relations, workplace, partner, supernatural, unsolved mystery, confronting the past, relationship problems, whodunit, psychology, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, visual, suspense, fairy tale ...
Plot:
novelist, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, psychiatrist, fort, cabin in the woods, secret, father son relationship, book, death of father, alternate reality, writers ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Raines is a crime drama television series that ran from March 15, 2007 to April 27, 2007 on NBC in the United States. The show premiered as a mid-season replacement, as well as airing on CH in Canada, TV3 in Ireland, ITV3 in the UK, and on Network ...
Style:
detective, serious, psychological, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Plot:
police investigation, hallucination, therapist, afterlife, investigation, mentally unstable, supernatural, law enforcement, therapy, haunted by the past, murder, supernatural ability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
26%
4K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A brilliant surgeon searches for proof of life after death.
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, family problems, uncover truth, unfulfillment, reincarnation, millionaire, research, life after death, medical, death, doctor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Life on Mars is a science fiction crime drama television series which originally aired on ABC from October 9, 2008 to April 1, 2009. It is an adaptation of the BAFTA-winning original UK series of the same name produced by the BBC. The series was ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, surreal, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, fish out of water, power relations, disorder, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, fighting crime, uncover truth, police station, police brutality, danger, partner ...
Time:
70s, future, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Dead Zone, aka Stephen King's Dead Zone was an American-Canadian science fiction/suspense series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. The show, credited as "based ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
psychic, psychic power, stephen king, twists and turns, supernatural power, acceptance, friendship, small town life, supernatural ability, supernatural, time travel, changing the past or future ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story:
Dave is facing the seemingly impossible job of bringing up four kids alone after the sudden death of his wife. And things get even more complicated when he falls in love with his wife's best friend, Sarah. Single Father asks how soon is too ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fall in love, accident, tragic event, loss of family member, parents and children, love and romance, family relations, loss of loved one, death in the family, loss of spouse, family problems, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, detective, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
missing child, child abuse, police, missing person, twists and turns, investigation, police detective, pedophile, abduction, cold case, child abduction, journalist ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, year 2014, 2010s, year 2009 ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
In the shadow of an enormous hydraulic dam, the lives of the residents of a small French town are changed to their core when hundreds of previously dead relatives all return home on the same day.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, mind bending, sexy, surreal ...
Plot:
afterlife, resurrection, teenage life, accident, small town, supernatural, death, small town life, dealing with death, haunted by the past, living dead, nobody believes ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
When the entire world blacks out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, everyone sees a flash of their own future 6 months from the present. For some, the future is hopeful, while for others, it is unexpected. For a few, it doesn't seem to ...
Style:
suspenseful, mind bending, stylized, surreal, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
investigation, destiny, uncover truth, time loop, direction and purpose, paranormal activity, foreknowledge, premonition, supernatural, worldwide chaos, team, talented ...
Time:
2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
19%
11K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
The life of an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As consolation, she's given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband's electronics ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, dark comedy ...
Plot:
robot, female protagonist, family problems, problem, futuristic technology, loss of spouse, life is a bitch, bereavement, loss of husband, loss of family member, loss of child, loss ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Clark and Ross Edwards are brothers and partners in a unique agency committed to solving clients’ problems using the hard science of psychological manipulation. Clark is a former professor and a world-renowned expert in the field of human ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, psychological, offbeat
Plot:
manipulation, family relations, mind control, workplace situations, changing lives, workplace, outside help, sibling relationship, partner, prodigy, dishonesty, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
TV show
Story:
A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. All telling their story of how they died, and how their murderer is still out there. The detective investigating the murders ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, esoteric ...
Plot:
able to see the dead, supernatural, ghost, serial killer, police investigation, uncover truth, mysterious character, life is a bitch, who done it, psychopath, supernatural ability, supernatural power ...
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A detective becomes obsessed with solving a child's 50-year-old murder, uncovering striking similarities between the case and his son's disappearance.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
loss of child, haunted by the past, dead child, missing child, law enforcement, police investigation, dealing with death, uncover truth, corpse, life is a bitch, interrogation, police detective ...
Time:
1950s, year 2009, 2000s, 50s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A Chicago-based wizard works as a private investigator.
Style:
serious, detective, stylized, exciting, mystic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, magic, private detective, magical, paranormal activity, investigation, wizards and magicians, imaginary, investigator, suspicion, danger, victim ...
Place:
usa, chicago, illinois
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Like most families that settle inside The Gates, the Monahans are unmoored from a complicated life they abandoned in Chicago. There's something very different about this place, almost... haunting. Named the new police chief of The Gates, Nick ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, costume drama, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, werewolf, youth, witch, lifestyle, female werewolf, supernatural power, danger, imaginary, vampirism, neighbor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
140K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.
Style:
realistic, serious, clever, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, police investigation, police detective, twists and turns, police, murderer, legal, grief, multiple suspects, small town, pedophile ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
18%
2K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
It’s the year 2050 and time travel exists thanks to Alice, the mechanism through which the intriguing practice is made possible. But a rumor based on a prophecy beings to spread about time travel coming to an end. When You Min Hyuk and Yoon Tae Yi ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, intellectual, suspense ...
Plot:
time travel, murder, murder investigation, time machine, kidnapping, partner, chase, investigation, society, police investigation, who done it, uncover truth ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
18%
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, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
technology, cyberpunk, gamer, alternate reality, distopia, time machine, robot, female protagonist, husband and wife, supernatural, dystopian future, alternate timeline ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
The classic police drama is updated for the 1960s. No-nonsense Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, tackle traditional police cases and face new challenges such as LSD, race riots, and public service TV shows.
Style:
detective, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police, police detective, police officer, cop, drug abuse, lapd, car chase, woman with a gun, team, criminal heroes, fighting crime, police investigation ...
Time:
future, 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
18%
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