Movies like The Wave 2019
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The Wave (2019)
6K
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, surreal, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, inspirational, thought provoking, slasher, surprise ending ...
Plot:
drug trip, hallucinogenic drug, karma, psychedelia, drugs, time travel, surrealism, husband wife relationship, suspense, hallucination, dealer, acid trip, friendship, death, car accident, escape from reality, threat to kill, visual hallucination, war, first contact, mind meld, party, taxi, drug dealer, homeless ...
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Most similar movies to The Wave
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking and weird films with plots about suspense, storytelling, technology, surrealism, distopia, catastrophe and murder mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like The Wave: Limitless (2011), Altered States (1980), Liquid Sky (1982), Seconds (1966), The Mandela Effect (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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584K
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, philosophical, intellectual, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
intelligence, success, ambition, rise to the top, creativity, life turned upside down, experimental drug, prodigy, rags to riches, superhuman powers, resourceful, overnight success ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
drugs, science, hallucination, experiment gone awry, surrealism, obsession, suspense, transformation, isolation, macabre, university, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
harvard university, new york, africa, california, boston ...
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55%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Invisible aliens in a tiny flying saucer come to Earth looking for heroin. They land on top of a New York apartment inhabited by a drug dealer and her female, androgynous, bisexual nymphomaniac lover, a fashion model. The aliens soon find the human ...
Style:
psychedelic, surreal, sexy, art house, stylized ...
Plot:
alien, sex, drugs, heroin, space and aliens, surrealism, lgbt, cyberpunk, alien invasion, exploitation, punk rock, gender ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
21K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically alters the customer to look like the intended person, stages the customer's death, gets rid of ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, thought provoking, cerebral, tense ...
Plot:
surrealism, plastic surgery, haunted by the past, new identity, macabre, cult, suspense, existentialism, redemption, midlife crisis, faked death, mental disorder ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california, malibu california, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 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:
exciting, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot:
escape from reality, obsession, hallucination, suspense, parallel universe, memories, society, mentally unstable, mansion, mental disorder, psychological manipulation, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Mist similar movies
811K
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, mind bending, surreal, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, insanity, time travel, imaginary friend, surrealism, parallel universe, hallucination, suspense, time loop, suburbs, schizophrenia ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
virginia, los angeles, usa
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49%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously ...
Style:
tense, entertaining, exciting, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
time loop, time travel, time machine, mistaken identity, forest, warning, blackout, science, suspense, female protagonist, scientist, love ...
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49%
Genre: Horror, 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:
intellectual, psychological, tense, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, parallel universe, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, suspense, paranoia, twists and turns, blackmail, destiny, survival, murder ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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109K
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:
psychological, thought provoking, surreal, intellectual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
time travel, time loop, time machine, parallel universe, changing the past or future, changing the future, twists and turns, science, inventor, time, mathematics, scientist ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
255K
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, psychological, philosophical, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot:
space travel, suspense, end of the world, space, sun, astronaut, spacecraft, heroic mission, self sacrifice, survival, expedition, trapped in space ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies similar to Limitless
35K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
time travel, suspense, psychopath, serial killer, borderline personality disorder, police officer, couples, time, death, chase, husband wife relationship, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
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48%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychological, psychedelic, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hallucination, cyberpunk, insanity, television, paranoia, body horror, mind control, surrealism, satire, suicide, cult, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada, pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia ...
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48%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, touching, surreal ...
Plot:
time paradox, suspense, escape, artificial intelligence, jail, subconscious, escape attempt, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, reality, prison escape ...
Time:
near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After his girlfriend, Julie and two best friends are killed in a tragic auto accident, Nick struggles to cope with his loss and grief. Suffering from migraine-like seizures, Nick soon discovers that he has the power to change the past via his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, mind bending, erotic, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
time travel, destiny, changing the past or future, sent to the past, suspense, supernatural ability, childhood, suicide, supernatural, haunted by the past, hopes, time ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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, dramatic, philosophical, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
time travel, time loop, butterfly effect, twists and turns, memory loss, suspense, alternate reality, psychology, memory, changing the past or future, time traveler, mind control ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Movies like Ex Machina
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, meditative, psychological, futuristic, intense ...
Plot:
virtual reality, memory, cyberpunk, imagination, conspiracy, transformation, experiment gone awry, uncover truth, future dystopia, mad scientist, rebellion, computer ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
england, europe, london, rio de janeiro, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
190K
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, experimental, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, murder, microchip, nanotechnology, distopia, cyborgs, revenge, surgery, super computer, super soldier, evil wins ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot:
time travel, insanity, post apocalypse, apocalypse, psychology, paranoia, time loop, virus, end of the world, alternate reality, social misfits, save the world ...
Time:
future, 90s, 2030s, 20th century, year 1990 ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, canada, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, tricky, enigmatic, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, suspense, plot twist, time machine, mysterious character, twists and turns, threat, time, surrealism, disorder, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, tense, disturbing, exciting, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
escape pod, war, rivalry, officer, youth, attack, survival, friendship, trapped, science, monster, alien creature ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Donnie Darko similar movies
16K
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home of a sculptress as a ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, rough, futuristic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, cyborgs, apocalypse, distopia, killer robot, desert, robot, man versus machine, survival, woman in danger, terminator ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, zombie, brutality, post apocalypse, chaos, psychopath, survival, murder, violence spree, macabre, insanity, epidemic ...
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45%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In a desolate community full of drug-addled Marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. As she struggles to get a grip on reality, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
drug abuse, conspiracy, suspense, pregnancy, body horror, bad kids, kidnapping, surrealism, social problems, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, escape from reality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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:
captivating, tense, disturbing, futuristic
Plot:
ex soldier, drifter, gunfight, cyborgs, warrior, a.i., fight, suspense, artificial intelligence, battles, climbing out of a swimming pool, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
120K
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, surprise ending, twist ending, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time loop, twists and turns, ship, suspense, time travel, supernatural, ocean, ghost ship, isolation, insanity, macabre, castaway ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1932, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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186K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, futuristic, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, supernatural, trapped in space, space, insanity, space station, hallucination, space and aliens, nightmare, rescue team, survival, astronaut ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
58K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
scientist, telekinesis, suspense, violence, exploitation, cult, murder, body horror, mind reading, supernatural ability, investigation, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
834
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The survivor of a deadly virus is given the chance to reclaim his lost life by stopping the man responsible for the disease.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking
Plot:
virus, time travel, epidemic, pandemic, choice, scientific experiment, deadly virus, saving a life, fate of humanity, suspense, struggle for survival, save the world ...
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45%
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, psychological, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, hallucination, nightmare, paranoia, experiment, insanity, experiment gone awry, delusion, psychiatrist, surrealism, corporation, obsession ...
Time:
80s
Place:
indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results. From the director who gave you Swamp ...
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychedelic ...
Plot:
mad scientist, hospital, scientist, monkey, experiment, macabre, insanity, death, visceral, surgery, supernatural, supernatural ability ...
Time:
60s
Place:
las vegas, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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