Movies like The Trouble with Being Born

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The Trouble with Being Born (2020)
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The Trouble with Being Born (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, futuristic, disturbing, philosophical
Plot: artificial intelligence, missing child, philosophy, isolation, robot, implanted memory, pedophilia, memory, memorabilia, father daughter relationship, twists and turns, boy, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, childhood memory, mysterious past, false memory, father, woman, brother sister relationship, humanoid, forest, swimming pool, dystopia ...
Place: vienna

Most similar movies to The Trouble with Being Born

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about artificial intelligence, robot, family relations, distopia, memory, dystopian future and androids mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Trouble with Being Born: Auggie (2019), Moon (2009), Archive (2020), The White King (2016), Embers (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Auggie (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Forced into early retirement, Felix Greystone falls in love with an augmented reality companion, to the detriment of his relationship with his wife and daughter.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, independent film
Plot: artificial intelligence, fall in love, family relations, love affair, in love, relationships, family problems, father daughter relationship, retirement, husband wife relationship, love interest, relationship problems ...
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Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With only three weeks left in his three year contract, Sam Bell is getting anxious to finally return to Earth. He is the only occupant of a Moon-based manufacturing facility along with his computer and assistant, GERTY. When he has an accident ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, suspense, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, moon, outer space, loneliness, space travel, astronaut, solitude, cloning, space and aliens, robot, dystopic future, space ...
Time: future, year 2009, 2010s, near future, y2k ...
Place: hawaii, mexico
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87%
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Archive (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, mystic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, space and aliens, deadly creature, husband wife relationship, dead wife, monster, heroic mission, death of wife, androids, dead, cyberpunk ...
Time: 2020s, near future, future, 2030s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The White King (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: distopia, social problems, life is a bitch, social misfits, family relations, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, rebel, society, children in wartime, coming of age, youth ...
Time: distant future
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Embers (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: distopia, memory loss, dystopian future, epidemic, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, fate of humanity, memory lapse, vestiges of humanity, memory, humanity, struggle for survival ...
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77%
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I Am Mother (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Style: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, mindfuck, cyber ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, adult
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, post apocalypse, bunker, end of the world, apocalypse, mother, mission, dystopian future, technology, daughter, extinction ...
Time: near future, future
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
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71%
 6.3
 2K
The Feed (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story: In the near future, people’s minds are connected to The Feed, giving them instant connectivity. When something or someone invades it, everyone is at risk.
Style: exciting, disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: society, disorder, adaptation, computer, father son relationship, twists and turns, family relations, violence, dialogue, parallel universe, dystopia, mind game ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.4
 100K
The Circle (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and ...
Style: futuristic, intense, suspense, grindhouse, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: technology, distopia, video surveillance, privacy, fighting the system, media manipulation, science, propaganda, world politics, life philosophy, twists and turns, betrayal ...
Time: future, year 2017, distant future, 2010s
Place: bay area, scotland
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67%
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Android Kunjappan Version 5.25 (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Bhaskara, a conservative villager, hates the idea of his son relocating to Russia for a job. However, when his son brings a robot to care for him, he develops an unlikely bond with the machine.
Style: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, family relations, family life, changing lives, human android relationship, robot human relationship, androids, lifestyle change, satire, robot, lifestyle, father son relationship ...
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63%
SORI: Voice from the Heart (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: While desperately searching for his missing daughter, Hae-kwan comes across an AI satellite robot that remembers sounds from all over the world. Rejuvenated by the robot's abilities, Hae-kwan begins to track down his daughter's voice. As ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, futuristic, road movie
Plot: robot, artificial intelligence, missing daughter, relationships, uncover truth, father daughter relationship, sentient robot, humanoid robot, life is a bitch, talking robot, investigation, robot human relationship ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.7
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After Yang (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and ...
Style: melancholic, unusual plot structure, enigmatic, philosophical, underground film ...
Plot: robot, foster child, artificial intelligence, father, androids, loss, mourning, family relations, parents and children, death, family problems, society ...
Time: future
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59%
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A. I. Tales (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The film is made up of futuristic, high concept stories about artificial intelligence. Whether it's love found in time of over-population or exploration of the unknown and space-travel, "A.I. Tales" has a bit of something for every ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, futuristic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: moral dilemma, outer space, space travel, struggle for survival, multiple storylines, space exploration, artificial intelligence, survival, virtual reality, disaster, science, end of the world
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Door into Summer (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pioneering roboticist awakens in 2025 after decades in cryosleep. To change the past and reunite with his adopted sister, he seeks a way back to 1995.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: cryogenics, scientist, robotics, technology, life is a bitch, relationship problems, robot, fiance fiancee relationship, groom, business partner, schoolgirl, invention ...
Time: future
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.8
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Swan Song (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate.
Style: psychological, futuristic, disturbing, captivating, existential ...
Plot: love, illness, clone, moral dilemma, terminator, dystopian future, love and romance, father son relationship, father, husband wife relationship, cloning, family relations ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Teleios (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A deep space mining vessel has been adrift for two years. It is suspected the crew brutally killed each other, but the reason for the bloodbath is unknown. A rescue crew is sent to find if there are any survivors, what happened and why.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense
Plot: isolation, space station, artificial intelligence, serial killer, murder mystery, sole survivor, outer space, future war, distopia, suspended animation, deep space, chinaman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Valley of Shadows (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
Style: gothic, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: forest, boy, imagination, mysticism, village, youth, darkness, coming of age, life & death, magic realism, werewolf
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51%
 4.9
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Deep (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four insomniac med school students are lured into a neuroscience experiment that spirals out of control and must find a way out before it’s too late.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: insomnia, student, experiment gone awry, human experiment, experiment, physician, life lesson, medical, medical examiner, girl, school, teenager ...
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51%
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final ...
Style: thought provoking, philosophical, sentimental, fairy tale, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, androids and robots, adoption, androids, robot, distopia, imagination, boy, dystopian future, outer space, destiny ...
Time: future, year 2001, distant future, 2000s, near future ...
Place: new york, persia, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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50%
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Reaching Distance (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister's killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has a complex past with much more than one passenger.
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: photographic memory, killer, memory, confronting the past, memories, fantasy becomes reality, promiscuous past, family problems, murder, investigation, murder investigation, flashback sequence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him re-think his current situation in life.
Style: enigmatic, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: father daughter relationship, jealousy, revenge, memory, letter, dream, pregnancy, flashback, suicide, childbirth, ex husband ex wife relationship, mysterious past ...
Time: 21st century
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48%
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The Door (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, tense ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, time paradox, dealing with death, life turned upside down, couples, family relations, supernatural, father daughter relationship, time, paradox, bereavement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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48%
Marjorie Prime (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: husband wife relationship, old woman, doctor, marriage, aging, flash forward, friendship, dead husband, couple relations, family relations, love, redemption ...
Time: near future, future, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Battle of Memories (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A man becomes involved in a memory manipulation operation to try and regain lost memories. He thinks the exercise may help repair his failed marriage, but accidentally ends up with the mind of a serial killer.
Style: futuristic, suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: memory, erased memory, memories, uncover truth, dystopian future, memory lapse, conspiracy, secret, investigation, repressed memory, memory loss, implanted memory ...
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44%
 7.3
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Better Than Us (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
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Story: Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, apocalyptic, sweet ...
Plot: female robot, human android relationship, humanoid robot, sentient robot, danger, society, scientist, robot human relationship, artificial intelligence, robot, family relations, life ...
Time: near future
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43%
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Zoe (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: artificial intelligence, female robot, robot, humanoid robot, robot human relationship, love, addiction, memory, sentient robot, scientist, false memory, loneliness ...
Time: future
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43%
The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed ...
Style: serious, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing child, family relations, parents and children, nanny, couples, woman in danger, single parent, danger, suspicion, twists and turns, woman seduces a man, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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42%
 6.5
 21
Culling Hens (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Story: A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, underground film ...
Plot: bestiality, infidelity, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, family problems, family secret, animal, sex, killing, woman, husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.7
 7K
The Wall (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A woman inexplicably finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall suddenly surrounds the countryside. Accompanied by her loyal dog Lynx, she becomes immersed in a world untouched by civilization and ruled by the ...
Style: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, serious, scenic ...
Plot: nature, isolation, introspection, solitude, survival, dog, human animal relationship, diary, forest, human nature, wilderness survival, animal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: alps, germany, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.7
 112
Iodine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: John Clem heads north to investigate the disappearance of his estranged father. Upon arriving at the family cottage, John feels a sense of home, something he hasn't felt since he was a child. Running into Avery (Ray Wise - Twin Peaks, Reaper) ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, psychological, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: mental illness, parents and children, estrangement, family relations, missing person, conspiracy, existentialism, survival, environment, search for father, on the road, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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