Movies like The Man with the Magic Box
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The Man with the Magic Box (2017)
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Original name: Człowiek z magicznym pudełkiem
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Retro-futuristic timetravel-mystery.
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, disturbing, melancholic, existential, bleak, surreal, art house, political thriller ...
Plot:
radio, in love, secretly observing, travel, unrequited love, government agency, twists and turns, music, conspiracy, love and romance, time traveler, manager, dystopian future, amnesia, urban, memory loss, flashback, social commentary, obsession, political satire, moral ambiguity, magic realism, slow burn, dark humor, investigation ...
Time:
near future
Place:
warsaw poland, poland
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Most similar movies to The Man with the Magic Box
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, existential, tense and surreal films with plots about urban, obsession, slow burn, dystopia, isolation, social commentary and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Romance genres. Some movies like The Man with the Magic Box: Without Ward (2022), 2030 (2014), Everything Before Us (2015), Sum of Histories (2015), One and the Same (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The Sci-Fi Romantic Independent film WITHOUT WARD takes place in the future where a one-world government; Contractualism, controls everything. A notable inventor, Ward (Martin Landau), creates a drug which allows people to literally live in their ...
Style:
romantic, futuristic, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
male nudity, self discovery, isolation, dystopia, escape from reality, custody, society, life is a bitch, romantic relationship, fantasy becomes reality, drug, relationship problems ...
Time:
near future
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95%
131
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Vietnam, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a near future Vietnam where global warming and rising seawater levels have forced cultivation to be done on floating farms, a strong-willed woman has to make a critical decision about her ex-lover, a suspect of her husband's murder.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, uncover truth, dystopian future, global warming, life is a bitch, murder, environmentalism, society, climate change, social commentary, female protagonist, dystopia ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
vietnam, asia
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Department of Emotional Integrity (DEI) documents all relationship activity. A 'relationship score' is given to keep people accountable for their choices. The score is public for all to see, and affects various aspects of daily life. ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
troubled relationship, relationship problems, government agency, love, law and order, lifestyle, social problems, couple relations, couples, relationships, society, male female relationship ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A scientist makes a discovery that allows him to send emails back in time, but meddling with his past may not give him the future he wants.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, non-linear, compassionate, suspenseful ...
Plot:
changing the past or future, parallel universe, travel, car accident, scientist, unconditional love, husband wife relationship, scientific discovery, secret message, twists and turns, sent to the past, tragic love ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a young woman, Lola, is invited to a secret facility, she discovers an experiment beyond space and time. After uncovering her own past life as a teenage boy named Robbie, she embarks on a malevolent path for justice against the ex-con who ...
Style:
serious, captivating, disturbing, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, reincarnation, murder, experiment, time travel, travel, vengeance, rebel, teenager, friendship, regret, loss of family member ...
Similarity:
74%
356
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his girlfriend's murder, Daniel, a physics student becomes obsessed with the idea of going back in time to stop the tragedy. He lets himself be consumed by his own obsession until after years of isolation, he finds the solution. Daniel ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, serious, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
time travel, invention, relationships, travel, grief, obsession, time loop, nothing goes right, brother sister relationship, love, investigation, suicide attempt ...
Similarity:
74%
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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:
73%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The world had changed. Streets day by day were filled with protest. The unemployed. The lost. Chaos. Then something happened. Something though it had no name had arrived. Fear. Fear over took rationale. The streets became empty. The new age of ...
Style:
dark, suspenseful, bleak, tense, political thriller ...
Plot:
fear, civil unrest, uncertainty, dystopia, political unrest, desperation, protest, survival, anxiety, chaos, social commentary, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Months after disappearance, the mother of a missing daughter begins her own increasingly irrational investigation.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
investigation, missing daughter, mother love, female nudity, missing person, mother daughter relationship, reality versus fantasy, missing girl, private investigation, mysterious disappearance, missing child, obsession ...
Similarity:
64%
445
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a young man's life spirals out of control, he tries to regain focus by seeking out an offbeat hypnosis treatment. Things take a turn when the girl from his dreams starts to appear in real life. While he tries to unlock the mystery of who she ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, sentimental, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
memory, magic realism, hospital, brain, life, couples, love, secret, doctor, identity, hypnosis, relationships ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Canada, France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the ...
Style:
atmospheric, art house, tense, suspenseful, experimental ...
Plot:
murder, motive, flashback, narration, alienation, haunting, love, urban, relationships, confession, city, investigation ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Following a worldwide event known as The Reset, humanity rebuilds a society with aging mechanics where gleaming technology once stood. Surveillance now the status quo, society is slowly putting its shattered pieces back together under a watchful ...
Style:
tense, independent film, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, computer, hacker, dystopia, secret, investigation, puzzle, computer hacker, post apocalyptic, conspiracy, code breaking, claustrophobia ...
Time:
near future, 2010s, 80s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A modern love story set in the near future where an AI building is powered by human feelings. Due to a software glitch, it falls in love with a real girl, escapes the building into the body of a real man, and tries to win her affections.
Style:
romantic, psychological, captivating, feel good, heartfelt ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
artificial intelligence, forbidden love, technology, love and romance, love story, romantic relationship, relationship problems, escapades, in love, love affair, mind control, relationships ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
58%
245
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Cambodia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, detective, non-linear, futuristic ...
Plot:
buddhist, spirituality, karma, multiple storylines, destiny, wisdom of life, life philosophy, philosophy, justice, human nature, identity, reincarnation ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
cambodia
Similarity:
57%
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:
57%
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:
56%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Fausto is destined to live the suicide of his beloved wife. After this tragic event, he’s inexplicably given the opportunity to travel back in time and change the faith of the woman who he loves.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, dark, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, redemption, guilt, regret, mourning, suicide, travel, tragic romance, fate, second chance, haunting ...
Similarity:
56%
157
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Arnaldo, that to get rid of his miserable life, seeks of a clinic that promises to copy people. With a copy occupying his place, he would take a new life. But, when having his request denied, Arnaldo has no choice but to ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
relationship problems, life is a bitch, couple relations, star crossed lovers, male female relationship, love affair, problem, in love, couples, relationships, self discovery, loneliness ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Neurophysicist Calvin Gordon can assimilate anyone's DNA and relive a moment of their life, using the genetic memory of learned and experienced memories locked in the DNA, making people resemble their parents and grandparents.
Style:
mind bending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, intellectual ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, identity crisis, obsession, ethical dilemma, body swapping, politics, psychic, conspiracy, laboratory, amnesia, isolation, investigation ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Similarity:
51%
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:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, north america, new york
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.
Style:
dark comedy, existential, bleak, melancholic, philosophical ...
Plot:
female protagonist, loneliness, dystopia, alienation, social commentary, deadpan, misanthropy, character study, ethical dilemma, irony, morality, satire ...
Time:
near future
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 2028, cartoonist Han Cho becomes obsessed with his neighbor, an assassin named Nana. He professes his love for her but she remains indifferent. By accident Han Cho finds an amnesia-inducing drug which he uses to spike Nana’s drink. With her ...
Style:
controversial, psychological thriller, tense, black comedy, intense ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, unrequited love, obsession, deception, moral ambiguity, manipulation, assassin, neighbor, dangerous attraction, stalker, identity ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
47%
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565
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
Style:
psychological thriller, neo noir, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mind control, conspiracy, investigation, manipulation, hypnosis, social commentary, media manipulation, dystopia, female antagonist, sexual manipulation, slow burn, police procedural ...
Time:
near future
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
There is a strange event in the sky. Only a young woman, and some of her more alienated friends...notice. But they are voiceless, as it just gets stranger - even as below - on the ground, it gets more, what is ominously called, 'normal'.
Style:
captivating, mysterious, atmospheric, existential, surreal ...
Plot:
survival, alternate history, distopia, dystopian society, struggle for survival, dystopian future, problem, dystopia, mysterious event, outsider, walled city, social commentary ...
Time:
near future, 2020s
Similarity:
42%
265
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, existential, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
kidnapping, escape, alienation, character study, frustration, social realism, forbidden love, cross cultural relations, illicit affair, mature, loneliness, class conflict ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, england
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Portugal
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
In a parallel world Pedro tries to hack his way into joining an exodus to another planet. While he dwells in his dreams and frustrations of being left behind he meets Eva, who challenges him and forces him to come to terms with his purpose.
Style:
melancholic, reflective, philosophical, poignant, surreal ...
Plot:
self discovery, dream, alienation, parallel world, existentialism, escape, slow burn, dystopian future, frustration, alternate reality, hacking, technology ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Three days in the life of a young clarinetist (Fernando Alves Pinto), who is in love with a violinist (Vera Zimmerman), but can't get her attention. In the first day he feels alone and frail; in the second day what was supposed to be pleasant ...
Style:
art house, art film, sincere, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
classical music, musician, violinist, pianist, musical performance, orchestra, love story, love and romance, love interest, musician's life, music, love affair ...
Time:
year 2000
Similarity:
40%
236
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sci-fi story about a man (Timothy Dwight) on the run from a Big Brother-like security force.
Style:
bleak, tense, independent film, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
surveillance, dystopia, man on the run, mind control, totalitarianism, paranoia, claustrophobia, isolation, underground movement, moral ambiguity, parallel universe, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Film by Erwin Michelberger.
Style:
psychological thriller, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
alienation, obsession, moral ambiguity, slow burn, urban, haunting, identity crisis, minimalism, dark humor, turk, urban setting, vandalism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
39%
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