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This Is Not My Life (2010)
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This Is Not My Life (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: This Is Not My Life is a 2010 New Zealand television mystery thriller which originally aired on Television New Zealand's TV ONE channel on Thursday nights. Set in the 2020s, the show centres on Alec Ross who awakes one morning to find that he doesn't know who or where he is and doesn't recognise his wife or children. The story is set in the fictional town of Waimoana. The series is written by Rachel Lang and Gavin Strawhan and directed by Robert Sarkies and Peter Salmon. Thirteen episodes have been produced. Though the show only lasted one season, it has been announced American network ABC has purchased the series to adapt for an American audience.
Style: serious, futuristic, tense, captivating, psychological, mind blowing, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: memory loss, uncover truth, twists and turns, small town, identity crisis, memory lapse, erased memory, repressed memory, memory, society, danger, conspiracy, family relations, family life, escapades, suburbs, suburban life, chance, dishonesty, obsessive quest, wife, husband wife relationship, mystery
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new zealand

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, captivating, tense and serious films and TV series with plots about danger, uncover truth, dishonesty, society, investigation, conspiracy and twists and turns mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Drama genres. Some movies like This Is Not My Life: Battle of Memories (2017), The Prisoner (2009), Last Light (2022), Orphan Black: Echoes (2023), Boy 7 (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Battle of Memories (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.
Style: futuristic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: memory, erased memory, memories, uncover truth, dystopian future, memory lapse, conspiracy, secret, investigation, repressed memory, memory loss, implanted memory ...
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The Prisoner (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s about a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "the Village".
Style: mind bending, psychological, postmodern, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: espionage, mind control, village, uncover truth, confined, isolation, captivity, memory loss, hidden truth, lifestyle, escapades, mind game ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york
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Last Light (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 215 min.
TV show
Story: Separated across continents, petro-chemist Andy Yeats and his family must survive the deadly effects of a sudden global oil crisis and find the mastermind behind it all.
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: distopia, society, survival, family relations, rescue, teenage daughter, son, wife, daughter
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Orphan Black: Echoes (2023)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: A new series set in the “Orphan Black” universe is currently in the early development stages at AMC. Temple Street Productions, which produced the original series, is on board to produce the new one as well. This is not spin-off or reboot of the ...
Style: thrilling, tense, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: conspiracy, change of luck, bonding, female protagonist, woman, strong female presence, dark future, seeing the future, women, destiny
Time: near future, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Boy 7 (2015)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Sam regains consciousness in the middle of a crowded subway, he doesn't know how he got there, where he came from nor his own name. He franticly searches for his identity, using the contents of his backpack. Slowly but surely he realizes ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: memory loss, twists and turns, protagonist as suspect, on the run, uncover truth, danger, who to trust, murder, manipulation, young heroes, heroes, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland
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Pig (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. At death's door, he is discovered by a woman living alone in the desert and is nursed back to health. Upon regaining ...
Style: tense, surprise ending, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, memory loss, intrigue, dishonesty, nursing, amnesia, society, danger, intelligence, mind meld, profanity, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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The Reckoning (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, serious ...
Plot: murder, twists and turns, moral dilemma, family relations, couple relations, couples, human nature, inheritance, danger, rivalry, violent content, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
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American Odyssey (2015)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In this "Traffic"-like action drama, an international conspiracy explodes when three strangers' lives unexpectedly collide - a female soldier, a corporate lawyer and a political activist.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: military, twists and turns, uncover truth, violent content, corporate crime, dishonesty, left to die, spy, family relations, state affairs, society, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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84%
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Afterworld (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Afterworld is a computer-animated American science fiction television series created by writer Brent V. Friedman and artist/filmmaker Michael DeCourcey. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, presents an ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, apocalyptic, bleak, computer animated ...
Plot: uncover truth, escapades, dystopian future, survival, danger, vestiges of humanity, society, apocalypse, post apocalypse, distopia, epidemic, alternate reality ...
Time: future
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, san francisco, new york
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82%
 5.5
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Zenith (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, experimental, serious ...
Plot: mind game, conspiracy, obsession, uncover truth, investigation, fall in love, life is a bitch, dishonesty, love and romance, society, psychology, underground ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Sequestered (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A jury is sequestered in a hotel while deliberating a court case with massive implications.
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: legal, uncover truth, jury, murder trial, dishonesty, law enforcement, isolation, lawyer, investigation, hotel, legal investigation, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
My Own Worst Enemy (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: My Own Worst Enemy is an American television drama that aired on NBC in 2008. It premiered on October 13 and ended on December 15 after 9 episodes. The series was produced by Universal Media Studios. Jason Smilovic was the executive producer; David ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, split personality, spy, disorder, working undercover, workplace, danger, undercover, suburbs, husband wife relationship, therapist, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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The Proxy (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
TV show
Story: An evil organisation that creates superpowered reanimated humans known as Proxies want to recover a flash drive contains secret data from Ashens, his neighbour Tom and a unique Proxy.
Style: serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating
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Time: future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Duke Evans, out of work NSA analyst, is evicted from his home he moves his family to his grandfather's old cabin. However here they are also threatened when a hellish cyber-attack is unleashed on the US rendering anything with a computer ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating
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Time: future, 21st century
Place: china, mexico
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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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Eleventh Hour (2006)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Professor Ian Hood is a former physics professor recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective and Jensen's Young is the companion bodyguard hired to protect Hood from the people who want to see his work put to an end.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot: investigation, mad scientist, false accusation, injustice, ego clash, dishonesty, danger, society, plague, murder, technology gone awry, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Know Who You Are (2017)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, disappearance, niece, investigation, police, danger, family relations, memory, murder suspect, memory loss, suspicion, suspicion of murder ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Open Your Eyes (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: After a tragic accident, an amnesiac teen tries to rebuild her life at a memory disorders center but becomes suspicious of her unconventional treatment.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, secret, teenager, amnesiac, uncover truth, problem, teenage girl, memory lapse, investigation, psychological trauma, nightmare ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Duty After School (2023)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: When mysterious alien spheres start invading the world, high school students are called upon to join the world’s first war against extraterrestrial forces.
Style: futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, fight, secret, problem, ufo, alien contact, alien encounter, ufo sighting, science
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73%
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Lunopolis (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a ...
Style: tense, serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: conspiracy, found footage, time travel, moon, sent to the past, obsessive quest, uncover truth, escapades, filmmaking, partner, secret movement, legends and myths ...
Time: future, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Keeping Faith (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Faith, a small-town Welsh lawyer, is forced to cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing. As the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: lawyer, missing person, female lawyer, investigation, pregnancy, husband wife relationship, danger, couples, twists and turns, family relations, dishonesty, greed ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Area Q. (2011)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A year after the disappearance of his son, Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist, still has no information and begins his own obsessive search. However, the obsession has him losing his house and job so his boss sends him on special assignment ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: alien encounter, obsession, journalism, missing child, danger, life turned upside down, uncover truth, alien abduction, spacecraft, evil alien, extraterrestrial, unusual phenomena ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, northeast brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story: Gemini Division is an American science fiction series of five-to-seven minute long episodes created by Electric Farm Entertainment which went into production in March 2008. Based on an original story by Brent Friedman the online series was developed ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, serious, cyber, futuristic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, uncover truth, investigation, corporate crime, artificial intelligence, working undercover, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rivalry, undercover, imaginary, cyberpunk ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: New Zealand
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Style: captivating, suspense, tense, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: rescue, secret movement, danger, confined, family relations, isolation, conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, couples, rivalry, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 176 min.
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Story: Two scientists attempt to discover a new unlimited energy resource, but their experiment is sabotaged by eco-terrorists. A black hole is then formed and could destroy the world ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: disaster, save the world, terrorism, science runs amok, escapades, experiment gone awry, chaos, danger, heroes, black hole, natural disaster, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Planet of the Apes (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, apocalyptic, futuristic ...
Plot: time travel, ape, planet of the apes, monkey, space travel, astronaut, danger, survival, dystopian future, escapades, on the run, chases and races ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
A Dark Reflection (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A journalist digs deep into the world of aviation and discovers some uncomfortable truths. And a conspiracy trail dating back to 1954. But why is no one saying anything?
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, realistic
Plot: uncover truth, journalism, investigation, moral dilemma, society, dishonesty, political conspiracy, feminist, conspiracy, media, journalist
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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ID:A (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman wakes up in a river. Wounded and without memory, then races to elude mysterious followers and recover from amnesia.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: amnesia, violence against women, memory loss, runaway, hunted, secret identity, dark past, female protagonist, repressed memory, stolen money, memory lapse, money ...
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66%
Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, retro ...
Plot: time loop, false accusation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, violence, afterlife, mental health, time travel, paradox, twists and turns, sexual abuse ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: canada
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65%
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