Movies and TV shows like The Peripheral

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The Peripheral (2022)
 7.6
 79K
The Peripheral (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.
Style: futuristic, thrilling, exciting, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, smart, dark, clever
Plot: distopia, cyberpunk, alternate reality, gamer, technology, society, female protagonist, robot, supernatural, social problems, undercover, changing lives, hi-tech, family problems, lifestyle change, escape from reality, social issues, advanced technology, dystopian future, time machine, young woman, war veteran, apocalypse, computer, geek ...
Time: future

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Most similar movies to The Peripheral

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out exciting, futuristic, suspenseful and serious films and TV series with plots about dystopia, distopia, supernatural, post apocalypse, society, apocalypse and survival mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Peripheral: Severance (2022), Total Recall 2070 (1999), Mother/Android (2021), Humans (2015), Fringe (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Severance (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.
Style: breathtaking, captivating, experimental, tense, existential ...
Audience: date night
Plot: office, memory, distopia, alternate world, conspiracy, office politics, secret identity, corporation, private vs public, office worker, psycho, coworker ...
Time: future, 2020s
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100%
Total Recall 2070 (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Total Recall 2070 is a science fiction television series first broadcast in 1999 on the Canadian television channel CHCH-TV and later the same year on the American Showtime channel. It was later syndicated in the United States with some editing to ...
Style: cyber, tech noir, relaxing, detective, serious ...
Plot: cyberpunk, mars, androids, dark future, artificial intelligence, distopia, space, dystopian future, police detective, technology, rebellion, society ...
Time: future, 20th century, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.
Style: anthology, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Plot: cyberpunk, alternate reality, supernatural, multiple storylines, alien, computer, surrealism, twists and turns, outer space, life philosophy, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 21K
Mother/Android (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, tragic ending ...
Plot: robot, pregnant woman, apocalypse, couple relations, couples, female protagonist, survival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, runaway, youth, family relations, pregnancy ...
Time: near future, future
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.9
 42K
Humans (2015)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, exciting, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, androids and robots, female robot, robot human relationship, technology, robot, society, inventions and discoveries, friendship, cyberpunk, lesbian, cyborgs ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa, london
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100%
 8.4
 256K
Fringe (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, surreal, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, investigation, mad scientist, time travel, parallel universe, fbi, alternate dimension, top secret, alternate reality, experiment, danger, paranormal activity ...
Time: 2000s, future, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: harvard university, usa, massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Brave New World (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 415 min.
TV show
Story: In a utopia whose perfection hinges upon control of monogamy and privacy, members of the collective begin to question the rules, putting their regimented society on a collision course with forbidden love and revolution.
Style: thought provoking, futuristic, surprise ending, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, distopia, utopia, conspiracy, totalitarianism, dystopic future, genetic engineering, satire, brainwashing, social differences, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 8.1
 114K
Silo (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
TV show
Story: In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant underground silo that plunges hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.
Style: tense, thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: underground city, post apocalypse, dystopia, rebellion, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse, survival, dystopian future, struggle for survival, post apocalyptic, world war, drug ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.7
 634K
Black Mirror (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.  Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to ...
Style: serious, philosophical, thought provoking, anthology, clever ...
Audience: teens, family friendly
Plot: technology, dystopia, twists and turns, human nature, satire, dystopian future, social decay, society, computers and web, media satire, alternate reality, media ...
Time: future, 2010s, near future
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 170K
The Expanse (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.
Style: futuristic, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: outer space, space travel, space opera, human in outer space, spacecraft, spaceship, space station, investigation, space colony, alien life-form, space wars, conspiracy ...
Time: future, near future, 24th century, 23rd century
Place: space western, hawaii
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100%
 8.5
 530K
Westworld (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
TV show
Story: A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be ...
Style: psychological thriller, stylized, serious, thought provoking, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, consciousness, moral dilemma, murder, technology gone awry, man versus machine, scientist, escapades, wild west, human android relationship ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco
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67%
 8.0
 64K
Travelers (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: time travel, time traveler, artificial intelligence, time machine, consciousness, police detective, time paradox, changing the future, sent to the past, post apocalypse, teamwork, mind control ...
Time: future
Place: north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship. A TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel.
Style: psychological, rough, melancholic, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: rape, sexism, surrogate mother, infertility, dystopia, protest, totalitarianism, slavery, tyranny, religion, belief, women's rights ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 274K
The 100 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the books by Kass Morgan, this show takes place 100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity. The last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, futuristic, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, danger, fate of humanity, human existence, leadership, youth, nuclear holocaust, space station, outer space, rivalry, society ...
Time: future, near future
Place: usa
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100%
 7.3
 60K
Wayward Pines (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be ...
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot: apocalypse, society, small town, investigation, small town life, beast, danger, missing person, murder, cryogenics, confined, suspended animation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, idaho
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100%
 7.9
 187K
Altered Carbon (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Style: futuristic, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, consciousness, artificial intelligence, investigation, virtual reality, murder, resistance fighter, twists and turns, body swapping, female nudity, doppelganger, multiple storylines ...
Time: future, distant future
Place: san francisco
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100%
 7.3
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Dark Angel (2000)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Super soldier Max Guevera tries to live a normal life in post-apocalyptic Seattle while eluding capture by government agents from the covert biotech facility she escaped from as a child and searching for her genetically-enhanced brothers and sisters ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: female protagonist, secret government organization, cyberpunk, genetic engineering, double life, super soldier, hidden identity, tough girl, female martial artist, dystopia, cloning, martial arts ...
Time: future, near future, 2010s
Place: usa, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.1
 572K
I, Robot (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 2035, where robots are common-place and abide by the three laws of robotics, a techno-phobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, philosophical, exciting, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, distopia, cyborgs, androids and robots, androids, technology gone awry, danger, computer, hi-tech, fate of humanity ...
Time: future, year 2004, 20th century, near future, 2030s ...
Place: chicago, usa
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100%
Raised by Wolves (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the ...
Style: futuristic, suspense, apocalyptic, intelligent, visually appealing ...
Plot: space colony, androids, distant planet, robot human relationship, survival, atheism, war, post apocalypse, alien creature, vestiges of humanity, religious cult, parents and children ...
Time: future, distant future, near future
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100%
 7.3
 105K
Lost in Space (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fights against all odds to survive and escape. But they're surrounded by hidden dangers.
Style: exciting, tense, sincere, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: outer space, spacecraft, robot, survival, alien planet, space exploration, danger, space, youth, alien creature, twists and turns, space adventure ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 2K
Wild Palms (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology.
Style: disturbing, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, dystopian future, mind control, fictional reality, uncover truth, society, manipulation, love interest, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, evil corporation ...
Time: future, 20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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38%
 6.9
 186
Automata (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: In an alternate 1930's Prohibition-era New York City, it's not liquor that is outlawed but the future production of highly sentient robots known as automatons. Automata follows former NYPD detective turned private eye Sam Regal and his ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, futuristic, interesting
Plot: sentient robot, androids, uncover truth, social issues, crime solving, crime investigation, murder investigation, investigation, alternate reality, police investigation, robot, social problems ...
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37%
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 7.6
 4K
Three-Body (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Nanotechnology researcher Wang Miao is taken to the Joint Operations Center by police officer Shi Qiang, who's investigating the mysterious suicide wave among scientists worldwide, and recruited to sneak into an organization called the ...
Style: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: alien invasion, countdown, alien, technology, experimental technology, advanced technology, extraterrestrial technology, futuristic technology, alien technology, hi-tech, alien encounter, puzzle ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
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37%
 7.7
 52K
Dollhouse (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Dollhouse is an American science fiction television series that revolves around a corporation running numerous underground establishments across the globe which program individuals referred to as "Actives" with temporary personalities and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, cyber, mysterious, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cyberpunk, kickass women, innocence lost, female protagonist, sex slave, life is a bitch, memory loss, human nature, uncover truth, self discovery, moral ambiguity, mind control ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.1
 7K
Hot Skull (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a world shaken by an epidemic of madness that spreads through speech, Murat is the only immune person. As he searches for the secret of his mysterious immunity, his “hot skull", he has to leave the safe zone and embark on an adventure ...
Style: futuristic, captivating, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: epidemic, authoritarianism, city, virus, life, exploration, distopia, society, immunity, survival, pandemic, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.7
 48K
12 Monkeys (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time travel, epidemic, survival, changing the past or future, time machine, existence paradox, post apocalypse, sent to the past, plague, virus, save the world, apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.2
 1K
Charlie Jade (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, scary, futuristic ...
Plot: private detective, imaginary, danger, society, fish out of water, dystopian future, chaos, life is a bitch, escapades, cyberpunk, parallel universe, evil ...
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Last Thing He Told Me (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 275 min.
TV show
Story: A woman must forge a relationship with her teenage stepdaughter in order to find her husband, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: missing husband, private investigation, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, life is a bitch, mysterious disappearance, investigation, family problems, female protagonist, secret, problem, disappearance, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 2K
The Feed (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
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 ⇓
35%
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