Movies like The Wave 2019
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The Wave (2019)
7K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Style:
psychedelic, unusual plot structure, surreal, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational, thought provoking, slasher ...
Plot:
drug trip, hallucinogenic drug, psychedelia, karma, time travel, drug, surrealism, husband wife relationship, hallucination, dealer, acid trip, friendship, death, car accident, escape from reality, threat to kill, visual hallucination, war, first contact, contact, cop, mind meld, party, taxi, drug dealer ...
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Most similar movies to The Wave
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and surreal films with plots about time travel, murder, twists and turns, paranoia, parallel universe, existentialism and mind game mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Wave: The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Limitless (2011), Volition (2019), Time Lapse (2014), Triangle (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, philosophical, neo noir ...
Plot:
virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, twists and turns, time travel, computer system, artificial intelligence, consciousness, parallel world, simulated reality, imaginary ...
Time:
future, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, pasadena california
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract ...
Style:
clever, thought provoking, intellectual, philosophical, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
intelligence, success, drug, creativity, drug abuse, superhuman powers, ambition, rise to the top, rags to riches, brain capacity, experimental drug, prodigy ...
Time:
year 2011, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man afflicted with clairvoyance tries to change his fate when a series of events leads to a vision of his own imminent murder.
Style:
mind bending, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
changing the past or future, clairvoyance, time travel, eye, regret, danger, self sacrifice, chase, tragedy, organized crime, young man, philosophy ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, cerebral, intellectual, confusing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, parallel universe, time loop, twists and turns, murder, paranoia, blackmail, time, party ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2014, near future
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time loop, twists and turns, ship, time travel, supernatural, ghost ship, isolation, ocean, insanity, paradox, gory, shipwreck ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place:
oceania, miami, florida, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
284K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, psychological, cerebral, tense ...
Plot:
space travel, outer space, sun, end of the world, isolation, spaceship, self sacrifice, earth, heroic mission, expedition, space, danger ...
Time:
future, year 2007, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
41%
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:
41%
905K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A burned-out ex-cop travels back in time and teams up with his younger self to catch his father's murderer.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating
Plot:
time travel, police, changing the past or future, time jump, back in time, murder suspect, time traveler, murder investigation, time warp, suspect, murder, time loop ...
Similarity:
40%
121K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style:
philosophical, independent film, mind bending, confusing, surreal ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, time loop, science, changing the future, parallel universe, changing the past or future, inventor, invention, time, time traveler, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, obsession, identity, changing lives, new life, new identity, male female relationship, love story, love interest, hi-tech, character change, obsessive quest ...
Time:
future, distant future
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
blogger, time paradox, time machine, saving a life, time traveler, crime investigation, crime solving, time warp, uncover truth, investigation, time jump, interracial love relationship ...
Place:
miami
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
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:
exciting, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
war, rivalry, officer, youth, escape pod, friendship, danger, survival, trapped, monster, alien invasion, science ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A disturbing portrait of contemporary youth culture where the lines between reality and fiction are blurred with often frightening results.
Style:
surreal, psychological, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, urban legend, drug abuse, woods, drug addiction, addiction, group of friends, small town, youth, danger, murder, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, maryland, baltimore
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two parallel stories about people trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road...for over 35 years.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, mindfuck, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
time loop, trap, virtual reality, parallel universe, paranormal activity, time travel, time, mysticism, paranormal, multiple storylines, supernatural, supernatural horror ...
Time:
future, 2010s
Similarity:
40%
221K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent ...
Style:
surreal, cult classic, mind bending, psychological, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dystopia, dream, satire, distopia, cyberpunk, surrealism, surveillance, absurdism, fighting the system, bureaucracy, christmas, hallucination ...
Time:
future, year 1985, year 1984
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, brazil ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In the near future where humanoid robots are common in society, the mob reprograms a female android to think and feel in order to use it as a contract killer. This has dangerous consequences as she develops a relationship with her creator while also ...
Style:
captivating, cyber, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure
Plot:
robot, psychopath, humanoid robot, violence, danger, androids and robots, friendship, society, dishonesty, hitman, murderer, murder ...
Time:
near future, future, 2020s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Style:
suspenseful, philosophical, meditative, cerebral, futuristic ...
Plot:
virtual reality, cyberpunk, experiment gone awry, imagination, conspiracy, transformation, uncover truth, dystopian future, mad scientist, rebellion, computer, virtual world ...
Time:
future, 80s, year 1983
Place:
england, london, europe, north carolina, rio de janeiro ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In 2029, a cyborg drifter risks his life to protect a woman from her demented ex. Set in a lawless coastal town after Oregon secedes from the Union.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, cyber ...
Plot:
drifter, ex soldier, cyborgs, warrior, battles, fight, gunfight, cyberpunk, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, shootout, climbing out of a swimming pool ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government ...
Style:
scary, medical horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, drug use, desert, uncover truth, cosmic horror, experimental drug, ghost, female protagonist, drug, missing friend, journalist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot:
time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
Similarity:
39%
49K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
body horror, evil alien, supernatural horror, monster, macabre, cheerleader, alien, death, small town, survival, space and aliens, quarantine ...
Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, cerebral, disturbing ...
Plot:
group of strangers, time paradox, time travel, woods, cabin in the woods, danger, alternate reality, stranger, time, time loop, isolation, haunted house ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, action thriller ...
Plot:
obsession, memories, escape from reality, mental disorder, hallucination, parallel universe, society, mentally unstable, mansion, trippy, psychological manipulation, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, drug, ambulance, best friend, paramedic, brain tumor, time, swamp, racism, chemotherapy, investigation, alligator ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
231K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, revenge, murder, surgery, microchip, dystopia, nanotechnology, technology, super soldier, cyborgs, super computer ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Style:
surreal, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
nightmare, hallucination, mental illness, psychiatrist, surrealism, experiment, insanity, body horror, delusion, experiment gone awry, corporation, doctors and patients ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1989
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid ...
Style:
psychological, exciting, enigmatic, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lucid dream, time travel, reporter, dream, a vision, investigation, kidnapping, child abduction, loss of son, characters in danger, sleeping, surveillance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea
Similarity:
39%
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