Movies like The Call Up

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The Call Up (2016)
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The Call Up (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary, next-level gaming experience that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister. Once the group are attacked by enemy combatants, they soon realize this is no game after all. Make a mistake here and you pay with your life. Now these masters of the shoot ‘em up will have to fight for survival within a game gone bad, but this time it’s for real.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, romantic, mind bending, scenic
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, game, trapped, hacker, hacking, rivalry, friendship, youth, escapades, danger, disorder, survival, internet, trap, space, video game, serial killer, outer space, nature, band, adventure
Time: future, near future

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and exciting films with plots about danger, escapades, rivalry, survival, heroes, chases and races and deadly mostly in Thriller, Action and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Call Up: The Blackout (2019), Free Guy (2021), Censor (2017), Mafia: Survival Game (2016), Beta Test (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Blackout (2019)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 127 min.
Story: No meteorites hit Earth, no terrorists put the world in danger, no atomic war was started, but something did go wrong. Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien invasion, border, life is a bitch, survival, catastrophe, danger, soldier, death, russian soldier, society, friendship, dystopia ...
Time: future
Place: eastern europe, phoenix arizona
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Free Guy (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A bank teller realizes he's a background character in an open world action game.
Style: entertaining, humorous, exciting, feel good, heroic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot: virtual reality, video game, game, gamer, changing lives, career change, heroes, fantasy world, bank teller, code, programmer, altering history ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, seattle, tokyo
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Censor (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the not-so-distant future the computer game industry reaches its fullest flower. Virtual reality is indistinguishable from real life. The government launches Department C to control the game space. Censors secretly delve into games. Their mission ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot: virtual reality, computer game, maniac, murder, empathy, rape, conspiracy, violence, illusion, rivalry, zombie, serial killer ...
Time: near future, medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mafia: Survival Game (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A twist on the classic game of Mafia. 12 competitors take part in a game of life and death where the innocent must take out the Mafia in order to win the cash prize. Those that are voted out must face their biggest fears in a computer simulation.
Style: intense, tense, captivating, serious, futuristic
Plot: game, dystopian future, game of death, soldier, fear, lie, distopia, survival, danger, mafia, mind game, rivalry ...
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Beta Test (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While testing the latest first person shooter from global game developer, Sentinel, video game champion Max Troy discovers the events happening within the game are being reflected in the real world. He soon determines that the game's ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: video game, sword fight, conspiracy, hacker, hacking, champion, danger, society, rivalry, youth, terrorist plot, dishonesty ...
Place: seattle
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43%
5th Passenger (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in the aftermath of an oppressive class war, a pregnant officer aboard an escape pod must struggle to survive with her remaining crew when a mysterious and vicious life form attacks, determined to become the dominant species.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: escape pod, rivalry, war, officer, danger, youth, survival, friendship, science, ufo, alien invasion, trapped ...
Time: future
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Scavengers (2013)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A team of space scavengers discovers superior alien technology that threatens the balance of the known universe. Hotly pursued by a rival crew of intergalactic mercenaries, the Revelator crew must fight through the deepest reaches of space to locate ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: outer space, good versus evil, save the world, danger, chase, space wars, technology gone awry, chaos, rivalry, escapades, heroes, alien invasion ...
Time: future, 2010s
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33%
Interrogation (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After the FBI receives a threat that endangers the entire city, an interrogator and an I.T. specialist are plunged into a series of mind games with a criminal mastermind, desperately racing against time to uncover the villain's true agenda as ...
Style: tense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: fbi, threat, danger, fbi agent, life is a bitch, disorder, society, rivalry, death, murder, swat team, armed forces ...
Time: year 2016
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31%
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Fabricated City (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In real life, Kwon Yoo is unemployed, but in the virtual game world he is the best leader. Kwon Yoo is then framed for a murder. With the help of hacker Yeo-Wool, he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder case.
Style: exciting, disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological thriller
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, hopes, escapades, danger, dishonesty, friendship, investigation, adaptation, youth, obsession, police investigation, disorder ...
Time: year 2017
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31%
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Hunter Prey (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Prometheus has dropped out of orbit. Communications and life support systems are down. Situation Critical: Status of Crew and Prisoner unknown. With orders to catch their Alien Prisoner alive the surviving crew of the spaceship Prometheus pursue ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, survival, space and aliens, danger, alien encounter, distant planet, soldier, space, military, hunt down, evil alien, murder ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
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City Under Siege (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sunny is a naïve circus performer who dreams of inheriting his father's knife-throwing skills. However, his hostile colleagues continue to bully him, relegating him to a lowly clown. On a tour to Malaysia, Cheung and other performers discover ...
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Plot: martial arts, mutant, chaos, rivalry, danger, superhuman powers, circus, escapades, supernatural, disorder, fight, triad ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ancient china
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Solitary (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent on destroying everything.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: prisoner, survival, stranded, peril, left for dead, struggle for survival, space and aliens, danger, escapades, couples, male protagonist, rescue ...
Time: future
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Android Insurrection (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In the distant future high-tech man colonized the world and leaves all the dirty work of an army of androids and robots. Now, somewhere rebelling robots, and a heavily armed special forces, led by Major Fox well to look after things. Locally it is ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: danger, chaos, soldier, escapades, save the world, man versus machine, computers and web, survival, technology gone awry, imaginary, space and aliens, post apocalypse ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Rewind (2013)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for ...
Style: intense, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, terrorism, danger, heroic mission, special agent, twists and turns, foreknowledge, catastrophe, investigation, virtual reality ...
Time: future, 21st century
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Dune Drifter (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When the trainee pilot and her mortally wounded gunner are shot down, they crash land on a nearby planet. An enemy craft offers the chance of spare parts to fix her ship, but then she spots another survivor - an enemy alien soldier with no intention ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot: distant planet, rescue, struggle for survival, danger, chase, survival, escapades, peril, youth, astronaut, chases and races, left for dead ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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The Maze Runner (2014)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, young Thomas is deposited in a community of boys after his memory is erased, soon learning they're all trapped in a maze that will require him to join forces with fellow “runners” for a shot at escape.
Style: exciting, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family outing, boys' night
Plot: survival, memory loss, maze, apocalypse, teenager, distopia, trapped, fantasy world, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, dystopia, youth ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
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Alien Dawn (2012)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 2012. The dawn of destruction. As giant alien machines enslave and feed off humanity, the few remaining survivors band together to form a armed militia that will be the last stand against total extinction (IMDB.com).
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: alien encounter, space and aliens, survival, save the world, chaos, androids and robots, danger, battles, imaginary, escapades, evil alien, distopia ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
The Millionaire Tour (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Impressive debut feature from writer director Inon Shampanier. A man needs to convince his kidknappers that they have got the wrong person before they deliver him to his death.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, twisted
Plot: danger, disorder, twists and turns, cons and scams, rivalry, mistaken identity, threat, survival, trap, trapped, confined, hijacking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
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Death Squad (2014)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The year is 2047. Our planet is ruled by the repressive Confederate Central Government (CCG). Ryan is a Green War rebel agent sent on a mission by Sponge to collect evidence against the CCG for its heinous crimes. Ryan soon faces the sinister ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, futuristic, tense, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, totalitarianism, heroes, rebellion, social decay, heroic mission, chaos, rivalry, rebelliousness, society, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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2012: Damnation (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A UFO is shot down over Russia in the 1970s and the wreckage is taken to a secret research facility. When the Soviet Union collapses, the alien technology falls into the hands of a mysterious terrorist organisation, which uses it to create a ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: save the world, terrorism, secret agent, chaos, escapades, danger, secret mission, female fighter, murder, secret weapon, intrigue, female fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, usa
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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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25%
You Are Wanted (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 49 min.
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Story: Lukas Franke finds himself a victim of a hacking attack, his online information altered to implicate him as having masterminded a cyber-attack on Berlin resulting in a city-wide blackout. Suspected as a terrorist, Lukas scrambles to find out why ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hacker, terrorism, computer cracker, society, disorder, internet, friendship, youth, danger, cybercrime, espionage, post apocalypse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
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25%
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Absolon (2003)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the near future, a virus has infected everyone on the planet, and Absolon is a drug that everyone must take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug. Murchison is the leader of this firm. A scientist who was researching the virus is found ...
Style: serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pandemic, deadly virus, dishonesty, virus, chaos, disorder, plague, danger, fighting the system, uncover truth, cataclysm, heroic mission ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Superfire (2002)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: A firefighter pilot blames himself for the death of his previous colleagues and gets a new assignment with a raging forest fire in Portland, Oregon, that has the whole city in jeopardy.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forest fire, disaster, forces of nature, survival, save the day, hidden identity, heroes, disorder, danger, apocalypse, firefighter, natural disaster ...
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
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25%
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Deadly Skies (2006)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The sky is literally falling in this thriller as one of the nation's leading astronomers, Madison Kelsey believes she is tracking a huge rogue asteroid rocketing toward earth. However, she can't get anyone in authority to take her ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, erotic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, gay, save the world, heroic mission, survival, escapades, danger, rescue, race against time, space travel, lgbt, scientist ...
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25%
 4.7
 3K
Stash House (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: survival, stash, danger, couples, rivalry, trapped, gangster, showdown, smuggling, new house, escapades, drug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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25%
 4.0
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Survivor (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: During their search for a habitable planet the last living humans crash-land on a barren world, inhabited by bloodthirsty aliens and mysterious post-apocalyptic warriors.
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: post apocalypse, alien encounter, survival, distant planet, monster, danger, deadly creature, murder, alien planet, outer space, rivalry, supernatural ...
Time: future, year 2014
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Terminal Justice (1996)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 2008 cybersex can only be surpassed by one thing: Cloned women, especially created for their clients. This puts Pamela Travis, a famous and much sought-after cybersex star in great danger - Dr. Vivyan, scientist and genius in the field of ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, tech noir, independent film, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, apocalypse, space, dark future, child in peril, nudity, artificial intelligence, dystopian future, sexual relations, experiment gone awry, technology gone awry, kidnapping ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Termination Point (2007)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Top secret government experiments with time travel have been shut down and declared as too dangerous to continue. The lead scientist has disappeared with the technology and a government manhunt is underway. When his name appears on an airline ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: secret agent, alien encounter, save the world, undercover, on the run, escapades, disorder, experiment gone awry, space and aliens, manhunt, heroic mission, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Hatton Garden Job (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In April 2015, the Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company, an underground safe deposit facility in London's Hatton Garden area, was burgled by 4 elderly men. With the stolen property having a value of up to £200 million, the incident has been ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: robbery, heist, danger, friendship between men, abduction, gang, escapades, fraud, real life, true crime, british, one last job ...
Time: year 2015
Place: london
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24%
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