Movies like LFO
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LFO (2013)
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden, Denmark, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse of power takes over and, eventually, severe consequences for mankind are at stake.
Style:
suspense, humorous, semi serious, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, philosophical, cerebral, contemplative, grim ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, manipulation, dark humor, hypnosis, supernatural ability, supernatural, unfulfillment, mind control, social experiment, ethical dilemma, obsession, minimalism, claustrophobia, intimate, slow burn, unsettling, isolation, male protagonist, single, dystopia, sexual content, sex scene, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, mind game ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
eastern europe
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Most similar movies to LFO
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological thriller, suspense and psychological films with plots about isolation, slow burn, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, ethical dilemma, obsession and minimalism mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres. Some movies like LFO: The Disquiet (2006), Glacier (2021), Incontrol (2017), 24 Hours (2002), By Day and by Night (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Darren Prager is an aspiring writer who finds himself completely unable to comprehend the intricacies of human behavior. Obsessed with finding the key to understanding the nature of character, he turns a co-worker's family into the unwitting ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, independent film, tense, experimental ...
Plot:
obsession, voyeurism, ethical dilemma, character study, moral ambiguity, social experiment, manipulation, isolation, male protagonist, identity crisis, experimental narrative, alienation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two people are stuck in a quarantine hotel during a deadly pandemic. Physical contact equals death, total isolation is required. Yet, it is human nature to seek togetherness. But what happens when you have to choose between love and life?
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, tense, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
pandemic, isolation, quarantine, loneliness, sacrifice, infection, survival, forbidden love, moral dilemma, single, hotel, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
89%
673
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Incontrol follows a group of university students who discover a device that allows them to take control of others, and experience the world through someone else. As they push the machine's abilities to its limits, they begin to question the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
mind control, switching bodies, possession, identity crisis, student, science runs amok, advanced technology, scientist, hi-tech, body swapping, addiction, obsession ...
Similarity:
88%
134
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A two-part omnibus consisting of b/w comedy about a group of friends who try to cover up a murder, and thriller set in an abandoned warehouse where three policemen guard their witness-collaborator who claims "they" will come and shoot them ...
Style:
tense, suspense, dread, black and white, sinister ...
Plot:
abandoned warehouse, omnibus, paranoia, moral ambiguity, isolation, witness protection, claustrophobia, violence, cat and mouse, dark humor, slow burn, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Mexican science fiction film where the over-population problem has been solved by programming people to operate in either day or night, and not both.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, bleak, political, futuristic ...
Plot:
dystopia, overpopulation, social commentary, alienation, segregation, oppression, isolation, sleeping, claustrophobia, alternate reality, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A woman's suicide attempt lands her in a mysterious realm where she meets a man haunted by a supernatural force. Together, they face the dark secrets of their forest prison as time runs out and malevolent powers close in.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, dark fantasy, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Plot:
supernatural, forest, haunted, isolation, female protagonist, claustrophobia, survival, moral ambiguity, folk horror, slow burn, psychological drama, pressure
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ailing former scuba diver, who faces extremely tough times, begins experiencing otherworldly incidents.
Style:
mind bending, tense, scary, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
mentally unstable, haunted by the past, dealing with death, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, scuba diver, isolation, haunting, supernatural, grief, trauma, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Set in suburban North Carolina, “The Wilding” follows the fractured Hayes family as they attempt to rebuild their lives amidst sinister, supernatural forces. Looking to leave their troubled past behind, George and Margaret try to help their ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, family drama, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, obsession, monster, fantasy world, fear, good versus evil, a vision, supernatural horror ...
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
66%
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150
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the middle of a mysterious insomnia epidemic that slowly takes on catastrophic dimensions, Laura (39) and Augusto (42) flee the city in their motorhome to get away from the chaos. As they move down the route, the world becomes an increasingly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, apocalyptic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
insomnia, survival, isolation, epidemic, road trip, male female relationship, escape from reality, worldwide chaos, relationship problems, chaos, apocalypse, travel ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of friends uncover an otherworldly object in a rural field, which they soon discover holds greater secrets than they could imagine.
Style:
suspense, sinister, tension, ambiguous ending, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
secrets, discovery, alien, uncertainty, friends, first contact, alien technology, curiosity, slow burn, investigation, supernatural, isolation ...
Similarity:
63%
559
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A somber paranormal thriller that offers an original, exciting variation of the tale of two men with supernatural abilities, locked in a duel to the death. A battle between a man who can control people with a stare, and the only man he cannot ...
Style:
psychotronic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
superpower, paranormal activity, supernatural, supernatural ability, rivalry, mind control, control, escapades, characters in danger, society, curses spells and rituals, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a race against the clock, Alexandra will be forced to choose how to spend the next hours: facing a critic family drama or trying to bring an answer to one of humanity's most important questions.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, serious ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, family relations, time, race against time, problem, family problems, dysfunctional family, time travel, life is a bitch, isolation, space station ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, Estonia, Serbia, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
Style:
surreal, suspense, anthology, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, post apocalypse, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, magic realism, absurdism, unsettling, moral ambiguity, fatalism, desperation, isolation, urban decay ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
58%
436
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Four astronauts have to stay 1000 days in a space station around Earth in order to prove that a trip to Europa, one of Jupiter's moon, is possible. The experience goes well until something happens on earth.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
astronaut, space station, isolation, space mission, space exploration, human in outer space, space program, cosmonaut, spacecraft, mission, confined space, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life. She absorbs his dreams, until finally she threaten his very existence.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, surreal ...
Plot:
obsession, isolation, psychological manipulation, character study, privacy invasion, unsettling, slow burn, claustrophobia, symbolism, mental breakdown, possession, nightmare ...
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
Similarity:
56%
80
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A hotel. A cliff. Six lost people, looking for something, or looking to lose themselves.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
hotel, human nature, haunted by the past, couples, introspection, self discovery, society, isolation, loss, confined, character study, uncertainty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
53%
123
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, contemplative, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
bullying, school teacher, school, teacher, parents, mistrust, doubt, crisis, friendship, teenager, youth, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
André and Vera are a young entrepreneurial couple. They get the opportunity to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking. From this point, her attitude changes and André ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, reflective, art house, suspense
Plot:
hypnosis, hypocrisy, social commentary, psychological manipulation, moral ambiguity, social satire, identity, female protagonist, manipulation, satire, transformation, character study ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In an attempt to spur citizens into taking more productive roles in society, the Japanese government issues death messages, or "ikigami", informing them that they have only 24 hours left to live. The film follows a young man tasked with ...
Style:
tense, philosophical, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
social experiment, social commentary, dystopia, death sentence, life & death, society, legal, social problems, law and order, murder, social relations, legislation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
japan, east asia
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for his own gain. The 2002 adaptation discards a significant portion of the original plot, some essential ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, mind bending ...
Plot:
therapist, psychiatrist, manipulation, supernatural, dream, alternate reality, social commentary, moral ambiguity, existentialism, ethical dilemma, dystopia, paranoia ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
48%
607
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The enigmatic Isabel decides to rent her belly to give birth to the baby of Sara and Joaquin, a possessive couple obsessed with the idea of starting a family.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, motherhood, pregnancy, parenthood, single parent, pregnant woman, unsettling, family problems, parents and children, social problems, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a tragic accident cuts short the first manned mission to explore life on the moons of Jupiter, Michael Forrest must make the 3 year journey home to Earth in pure solitude
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, philosophical, independent film ...
Plot:
space travel, accident, mission gone awry, isolation, solitude, confined, space exploration, human in outer space, loneliness, male protagonist, heroes, extraterrestrial life ...
Time:
2010s, future
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Darrin Danver is married to Deb. He is a videogames programmer and works for Z-Games when he receives an offer for a job from CTC. He accepts the offer and moves with his wife Deb near Las Vegas. There he discovers that he is paid a lot only to ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, independent film, neo noir
Plot:
mind control, corporate conspiracy, brainwashing, video game, paranoia, ethical dilemma, industrial espionage, moral ambiguity, nudity, sex scene, female nudity, erotica ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
43%
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693
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Forced into early retirement, Felix Greystone falls in love with an augmented reality companion, to the detriment of his relationship with his wife and daughter.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film, contemplative ...
Plot:
retirement, artificial intelligence, midlife crisis, family problems, family relations, relationships, fall in love, in love, love affair, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, love interest ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
42%
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: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A novelist realizes that her neighbors may be under the control of unknown forces. Little does she realize how close and sinister its influence has become. A harrowing, darkly humorous journey through the depths of the human psyche.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, dark ...
Plot:
paranoia, mind control, manipulation, super powers, supernatural power, neighbor, supernatural, superhuman powers, writer's life, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ability, writers ...
Similarity:
39%
40
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece, Switzerland, India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An ageing Serbian neuroscientist lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded as a paranoid schizophrenic for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. But when, decades later, he is rediscovered by a group ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
neuroscience, mental illness, isolation, paranoia, ethical dilemma, obsession, social commentary, activism, moral ambiguity, slow burn
Place:
athens greece, greece
Similarity:
39%
604
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two scientists are selected to travel across the universe to the source of a distant transmission and potential life.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, existential, psychological ...
Plot:
space exploration, travel, scientist, universe, space travel, space, space mission, space program, space adventure, science, space shuttle, spacecraft ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.
Style:
existential, melancholic, contemplative, philosophical, art house ...
Plot:
cloning, clone, human clone, identity, identity crisis, isolation, alienation, loneliness, dystopia, existential crisis, adaptation, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two lovers travel from town to town playing a dark game of deceit that soon spirals out of control, threatening their very relationship.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
couple relations, hidden identity, manipulation, couples, dishonesty, juggling, con artists, deception, society, love and romance, crumbling relationship, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
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