Movies like Displacement
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Displacement (2016)
518
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, suspenseful, dark, experimental
Plot:
travel, memory loss, amnesia, murder mystery, investigation, obsession, female protagonist, claustrophobia, determination, college campus, moral ambiguity, slow burn, time loop, phantom, electroshock therapy, time travel, isolation, student, murder, ambulance, interrogation, death of father, selfie, death of boyfriend, cycling ...
Time:
near future
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Most similar movies to Displacement
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful and dark films with plots about claustrophobia, isolation, moral ambiguity, investigation, slow burn, paranoia and obsession mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Horror genres. Some movies like Displacement: Reversion (2015), Cerebrum (2021), Shadowplay (2007), 7 Splinters in Time (2018), Murder in My Mind (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
224
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, family secret, dead mother, billionaire, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, wealthy family, family problems, murder, uncover truth, abduction, relationship problems ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
95%
264
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:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, memory, chase, amnesiac, memory lapse, problem, experiment gone awry, battles, scientific experiment, fight, experiment ...
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three people are trapped in a room with no windows, no doors, and no memory of how or why they are there. They must figure out the mystery of what is happening and how they are connected.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, intense, mind bending ...
Plot:
confined space, amnesia, claustrophobia, memory loss, trap, mind game, identity crisis, character study, puzzle, isolation, paranoia, single ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A detective investigates a murder, only to find that the victim is... himself. Soon, he discovers multiple versions of himself, not all of them friendly.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, rough, detective, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, travel, murder, juggling, clone, police detective, conspiracy, victim, multiverse, identity crisis, alternate reality, paradox ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brain cells from a murdered woman are transplanted into an FBI agent, in the hopes of finding the killer.
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, female protagonist, murder mystery, fbi agent, memory loss, ethical dilemma, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, brain transplant, urban, catatonia, flashback ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, assault, violence, uncover truth, danger, memory loss, psychological trauma, twists and turns, murder, survivor, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Amy, a young woman with amnesia, pieces together her past with deadly consequences.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, twisted, dark ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, secrets, identity, identity crisis, danger, female protagonist, investigation, psychological manipulation, trauma, paranoia, past life ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In debt to their volatile drug dealer, best friends, Denise and Johnny, agree to a sketchy job to pay off their last hit. After breaking into a decrepit stash house to steal a bag of mysterious drugs, escape proves more troublesome, as the pair find ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
drug use, time travel, travel, drug addict, paradox, debt, drug, time loop, problem, junkie, drug dealer, identity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An American cycling team trains at a remote European lodge. Teammates start dying mysteriously. Rivals Connor and Greg battle to survive and uncover the cause behind the team's demise.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending, noir
Plot:
cycling, isolation, survival, rivalry, secrets, claustrophobia, investigation, paranoia, european, cat and mouse, betrayal, athlete ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A team of explorers arrives on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, grim ...
Plot:
mars, space exploration, investigation, outer space, space mission, astronaut, puzzle, space and aliens, space adventure, explorer, uncover truth, space ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
53%
196
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
As Felicitas' life is turned upside down, she doesn't know if her nightmares are taking over or if something bigger is trying to control her - and the only way to find out the truth is her best friend Natascha who is locked up in an asylum.
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
nightmare, female protagonist, mental illness, female friendship, trauma, paranoia, isolation, investigation, haunting, obsession, memory, mysterious past ...
Similarity:
49%
856
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Seeking peace away from her turbulent life, a young woman accepts a job as a fire lookout at a remote wilderness tower. As she settles into her new role, eerie disturbances and strange occurrences begin to unfold, and she must uncover the chilling ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
isolation, secrets, solitude, forest, macabre, female protagonist, haunting, character study, mountain, slow burn, investigation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 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:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, mind control, female protagonist, survival, nanotechnology, scientific experiment, loss of control, struggle for survival, experiment gone awry, family in danger, manipulation, human experiment ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Six different people all believe an unconscious and unidentified man in a hospital is their missing person. A film about being unconscious . . . or not.
Style:
psychological thriller, medical drama, existential, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hospital, uncertainty, unconsciousness, ambiguity, memory, multiple perspectives, identity crisis, missing person, suspicion, character study, amnesia, loss ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A modern and unrelentingly tense psychological thriller based on a theory of the origins of shortwave radio frequencies, Shortwave is an unnerving reminder that some stones are best left unturned.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
grief, isolation, loss of child, problem, vanished man, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, mysterious disappearance, secret, family problems, obsession, trauma ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Set against a dreary small town, reclusive locksmith Ethan Daunes struggles to keep ties with his younger brother Shane. Ethan's life takes an unsettling turn after finding a strange small creature and forming a mysterious connection. After a ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, tense, scary, thrilling ...
Plot:
creature feature, paranoia, supernatural, monster, gas station, birthday present, supernatural being, murder, magical creature, supernatural horror, supernatural power, isolation ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her grief or trapping her forever.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, mind bending ...
Plot:
female protagonist, journey, alternate reality, multiverse, grief, parallel world, parallel universe, adventure hero, supernatural ability, supernatural power, identity crisis, trauma ...
Similarity:
40%
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:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, futuristic ...
Plot:
prison, implanted memory, dystopia, hi-tech, problem, science runs amok, psychology, repressed memory, technology, memory, dystopian future, flash forward ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a near future, crimes and accidents have disappeared because it has become possible to call the past. However, the peace will be disturbed by a killer who seems to have found the one crack in the system.
Style:
tense, suspense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, telephone call, police investigation, travel, time warp, killing, crime investigation, time paradox, murderer, time loop, murder ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
40%
15
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A perfect wife, mother, and business owner battles a deep dark obsession that pushes her over the edge in this deadly recipe for murder
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, intense, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
domestic drama, obsession, murder, motherhood, female protagonist, mental breakdown, character study, betrayal, guilt, betrayal of trust, moral ambiguity, suspicion ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find Sean, his victim’s father, searching for the body. With no memory of the murder, Callahan soon realises that the only way to get rid of Sean is to help him dig.
Style:
crime drama, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, intense ...
Plot:
memory loss, dead body, secrets, obsession, amnesia, cat and mouse, suspicion, guilt, moral ambiguity, burial, excavation, revenge ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India, Australia
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
An incident that takes place at 7:11 PM changes the fate of a town called Hamsala Deevi and a planet called Proxima-EV12. Ravi, An IPS aspirant travels beyond imagination through time to stop a criminal mastermind, save his loved ones and his ...
Style:
tense, futuristic, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, travel, save the world, time traveler, time jump, changing the past or future, time loop, master criminal, rescue mission, determination, small town, investigation ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
The Man Who Cleans knows you can find a lot of secrets in trash. People tend to lie but their trash never does. The Man Who Cleans thought he was invisible, until he met the Girl with the Purple Hair Lock. Girl with the Purple Hair Lock breaks into ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, lake, water, murder, killing, murderer, suicide, killing spree, uncover truth, crime solving, serial murder, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his five-year-old daughter is murdered, a loving family man becomes convinced that the oddball down the street is guilty.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
bereavement, revenge, grief, lynching, price of justice, vengeance, murderer, neighbor, child murder, murder mystery, loss of child, loss of daughter ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Box Metaphor is a compelling dystopian journey where unjust imprisonment unveils societal conformity and defiance’s profound impact. It’s about breaking free from metaphorical boxes and the resilience of the human spirit.
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
dystopia, resilience, metaphor, prison, distopia, social problems, dystopian society, locked in a cage, surrealism, locked in, social issues, oppression ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In order to escape the police after a robbery, two estranged siblings lay low in a metaphysical farmhouse that hides them away in a different time. There they reckon with a mysterious force that pushes their familial bonds to unnatural breaking ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, surreal ...
Plot:
time travel, robbery, siblings, farmhouse, family drama, metaphysics, moral ambiguity, isolation, escape, haunting, macabre, confrontation ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. ...
Style:
exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, time loop, race against time, good versus evil, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, superhuman powers, imaginary, woman in danger, travel, science ...
Time:
future, year 2003
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Attempting to surpass his father's legacy, a neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own experiment, pitting ten fragments of his consciousness against each other.
Style:
psychological thriller, mind bending, dark, suspenseful, existential ...
Plot:
split personality, isolation, identity crisis, memory loss, laboratory, neuroscience, character study, mental breakdown, obsession, father son conflict, claustrophobia, body horror ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, sex trafficking, serial killer, paranoia, trauma, human trafficking, kidnapping, female protagonist, struggle for survival, trap, trapped, murderer ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Rebbeca' sister Diana returns home after being away for a while things seem odd. Diana's desperately trying to hide secrets from her sister. Rebbeca takes the detective approach to work out what's going on only to find Diana Is ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, school, sister, undercover, suicide, murder, private investigation, murder investigation, loss of sister, sleuth, secret, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
35%
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