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Lapsis (2020)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In a parallel present, delivery man Ray Tincelli is struggling to support himself and his ailing younger brother. After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market. As he gets pulled deeper into the zone, he encounters growing hostility and the threat of robot cablers, and must choose to either help his fellow workers or to get rich and get out.
Style:
suspense, surreal, enigmatic, serious, futuristic, tense, dark comedy, bleak, weird, dystopian ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, forest, worker, job, parallel world, technology, undercover, labor camp, satire, moral dilemma, social commentary, alienation, brotherhood, dystopia, robot, extreme, conspiracy, claustrophobia, anti hero, slow burn, contractor, hiking, brother, danger, surrealism ...
Time:
near future
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and serious films with plots about claustrophobia, isolation, paranoia, conspiracy, dystopia, murder and slow burn mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Lapsis: The Mill (2023), Cargo (2009), Cypher (2002), The Mourning (2015), The Alpha Test (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A businessman wakes up beside an ancient grist mill situated in the center of an open-air prison cell with no idea how he got there. Forced to work as a beast of burden to stay alive, he must find a way to escape before the birth of his child.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 112 min.
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The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.
Style:
mind bending, sexy, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
cyberpunk, twists and turns, espionage, spy, conspiracy, memory loss, disorder, brainwashing, double agent, technology, undercover, power relations ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
Style:
suspense, mystical, tense, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot:
mourning, presumed dead, conspiracy theory, secret, mysticism, conspiracy, soldier, paranormal, veteran, homecoming, supernatural, alienation ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A suburban family drives their new gadget, The Alpha Home Assistant, to a killing rampage after mistreating and abusing it, leading to a full A.I. uprising…
Style:
stylized, suspense, serious, futuristic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, human versus robot, science runs amok, murder, killer robot, revenge, robot as menace, dystopian future, technology gone awry, twists and turns, fight ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While staying at a tropical resort, a man becomes convinced the American timeshare company running it has an evil plan to take away his loved ones.
Style:
tense, surreal, captivating, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
private investigation, resort hotel, mental disorder, rescue, family relations, marital problem, investigation, saving a life, escapades, crime investigation, family problems, relationship problems ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the near future, instead of being sent to prison criminals are aged for the number of years the system feels is adequate to the crime they committed. Vincent Dawson is a 15 year old, whose late father was a musician who didn't exactly make ...
Style:
futuristic, crime drama, emotional, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 2085, a grieving mother hires a young ritualist (Kayikci) to bring her son back to life inside an isolated villa where reality fractures, and a forbidden resurrection unleashes a terrifying night : A night of ritual-driven surge of unease and ...
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological, mystic, creepy ...
Plot:
resurrection, isolation, grief, ritual, supernatural, mourning, afterlife, motherhood, occult, paranormal, macabre, nightmare ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, Estonia, Serbia, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
Style:
surreal, suspense, anthology, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, post apocalypse, multiple storylines, life is a bitch, magic realism, absurdism, unsettling, moral ambiguity, fatalism, desperation, isolation, urban decay ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
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246
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An addicted memory dealer is chased relentlessly by federal narcotics agents bent on keeping the secrets he has locked in his mind hidden.
Style:
neo noir, dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
addiction, ethical dilemma, paranoid, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, anti hero, chase, conspiracy, cyberpunk, urban, hi-tech, claustrophobia ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A geneticist wakes up from an accident with only fragments of his memory is forced to relearn who he is via his twin brother. But as he digs deeper, he discovers he might not be who he thought at all.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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930
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A slow-paced, action thriller about a virus that strikes a New Mexico county and the local veterinarian who gets caught in the middle.
Style:
suspense, bleak, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
quarantine, danger, plague, dishonesty, disaster, save the day, epidemic, virus, rivalry, apocalypse, disease, found footage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, mindfuck, twisted, cerebral ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
twists and turns, hacker, secret laboratory, alien, alien abduction, road trip, alien invasion, alien contact, computer hacker, cyborgs, space, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK, Hungary, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, bloody, serious ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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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:
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Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, dark ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, disturbing ...
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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tense, sinister, suspense, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, suspense, rough, detective, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
investigation, travel, murder, juggling, clone, police detective, conspiracy, victim, multiverse, identity crisis, alternate reality, paradox ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When your memory lies, how do you find the truth?
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, suspense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
father son relationship, medical experiment, identity crisis, hallucination, amnesia, paranoia, neurology, ethical dilemma, isolation, mind control, conspiracy, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
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