Movies like Volition

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Volition (2019)
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Volition (2019)
Genre: 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, exciting, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful, realistic, dramatic, independent film, twist ending
Plot: clairvoyance, changing the past or future, time travel, self sacrifice, danger, regret, tragedy, destiny, philosophy, memory, chase, organized crime, young man, threat, surprising revelation, eye, contact, criminal, supernatural power, time paradox, first contact, romance
Time: future

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, exciting and tense films with plots about danger, time travel, imaginary, changing the past or future, chases and races, heroes and space mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Volition: The Wave (2019), Looper (2012), Rewind (2013), 95ers: Time Runners (2013), Termination Point (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Wave (2019)
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, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug trip, hallucinogenic drug, psychedelia, karma, time travel, drug, surrealism, husband wife relationship, acid trip, hallucination, dealer, visual hallucination ...
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100%
 7.4
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Looper (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a ...
Style: futuristic, clever, mind bending, exciting, thought provoking ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, hitman, distopia, organized crime, cyberpunk, time paradox, assassin, shooting, self sacrifice, changing the past or future, parallel universe ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, 2040s, near future ...
Place: seattle, kansas, shanghai, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.0
 2K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
95ers: Time Runners (2013)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Time is unraveling, paradoxes are everywhere, and strangers with terrifying technologies are on the hunt. A thrilling, original, ultra indie full-length sci-fi movie that is the story of Sally Biggs, an FBI agent who has the power to rewind time. ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, race against time, good versus evil, law enforcement, danger, imaginary, superhuman powers, rivalry, woman in danger, repeated scene, travel ...
Time: future, year 2003
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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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 ...
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61%
 5.5
 3K
Xchange (2001)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the near future, a company called Xchange owns a mind transference technology that enables instantaneous travel by swapping bodies with someone at the destination. A member of the privileged corporate class ("Corpie") Xchanging for the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: body swapping, hitman, cyberpunk, heroes, society, danger, dishonesty, life is a bitch, imaginary, time travel, false identity, terrorist ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)
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: suspense, serious, suspenseful, erotic, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, destiny, changing the past or future, sent to the past, supernatural ability, time loop, childhood, suicide, supernatural, haunted by the past, hopes, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.3
 2K
Dropa (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A government assassin comes out of retirement to hunt down the alien responsible for killing the former members of his team.
Style: exciting, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: soldier, assassin, hunter, hitman, redemption, tragedy, distopia, space, killer, communism, adventure hero, chase ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.2
 166K
Next (2007)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies ...
Style: mind bending, exciting, stylized, action packed, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychic, foreknowledge, destiny, changing the past or future, danger, save the day, twists and turns, supernatural ability, terrorism, a vision, precognition ...
Time: future, year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, las vegas, usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.1
 67
Quito 2023 (2013)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Is the year 2023. Quito has been walled by Leonardo Ponce, a military dictator that took control of the city in the early 2010's. A group of revolutionaries led by Marcos and Santiago are on the verge of giving a coup d'état. Just hours ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: revolutionary, military, revolution, coup d'etat, dictatorship, power struggle, war, dystopia, underground, subversion
Time: future, near future
Place: south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 3.2
 989
Dark Storm (2006)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On a secret military base a group of scientists have made a discovery unequaled since the invention of the A-bomb; code-named Eruptor, it's a device that supercharges Dark Matter and uses it to change the molecular structure of its target, ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: disaster, military base, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, race against time, mad scientist, heroes, save the world, technology gone awry, danger, escapades, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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, philosophical, suspense, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, twists and turns, alternate reality, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, mind control, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 2.4
 4K
Time Chasers (1994)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, sent to the past, aviation, evil corporation, save the day, chase, chases and races, danger, escapades, imaginary, heroes ...
Time: future, 20th century, 90s, 1950s, 2040s
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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54%
 5.8
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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
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54%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Alien Overlords (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A man learns about alien agendas from a dying agent and feels compelled to warn the world about the impending danger.
Style: thought provoking, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: found footage, ufo, alien invasion, time, life changing experience, alien race, military, human existence, alien contact, troubled, oldtimer, danger ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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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 ...
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: virtual reality, game, trapped, hacker, hacking, rivalry, escapades, danger, friendship, disorder, youth, trap ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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
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53%
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Slipstream (2005)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Zambia, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A scientist plots a bank robbery based around his newest invention -- a time travel gadget that will send its user 10 minutes into the past. Everything goes according to plan, until he encounters a group of thieves who've planned their heist ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, grindhouse
Audience: boys' night
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, time, back in time, heist, time loop, hostage, rivalry, heroes, on the run, crime gone awry, danger ...
Place: africa
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53%
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Excursion (2018)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the late eighties, the USSR government enlists Tomas, a devoted member of the Communist Party, to travel back in time to future London and document how Socialism has thrived.
Style: not serious, humorous, light, mumblecore, absurd
Plot: time travel, time paradox, changing the past or future, bully, existence paradox, sent to the future, culture clash, danger, confrontation, time traveler, destiny, future shock ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: soviet union, ussr, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.5
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Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
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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 ⇓
52%
Running Against Time (1990)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, vietnam war, president, kennedy family, race against time, imaginary, chases and races, heroes, assassination, state affairs ...
Place: vietnam, asia, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.1
 115K
Push (2009)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue ...
Style: exciting, stylized, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teen drama ...
Plot: telekinesis, clairvoyance, psychic, supernatural, danger, superhero, experiment, supernatural ability, chase, imaginary, psychokinesis, conspiracy ...
Time: future, 2000s, year 1945, 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 2.7
 430
Dark Reprieve (2008)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two people Matt and Kate wake up in a closed down prison. They have no idea how they got there, or why they are there. In the prison they encounter several terrors as they look for an exit.
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: prison, captivity, murder, danger, survival, violence, supernatural, stranger, memory loss, homicide, electric chair, fashion ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Forbidden Dimensions (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Jack Slade was born during a solar eclipse in the year 1980. 18 years later, he finds out he has the ability to travel into the future. He projects himself into the year 2035, where society has been destroyed by a fascist regiment of psychopathic ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, futuristic, independent film
Plot: apocalypse, changing the past or future, survival, save the world, danger, chaos, heroes, mutant, post apocalypse, space and aliens, distopia, epidemic ...
Time: future, year 1998
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 303K
Predestination (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time: year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place: usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Chernobyl: Exclusion Zone (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
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Story: 5 youths give chase after a man who has stolen 8 million rubles from them. The man reveals on his video blog his intention to travel to Chernobyl. With every kilometer the journey of the heroes becomes more dangerous and confusing.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, scary, apocalyptic
Audience: teens
Plot: time machine, youth, sent to the past, friends, danger, twists and turns, multiple storylines, escapades, chase, gunfight, runaway, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, 80s
Place: russia, ussr, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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