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Simulant (2023)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love for SIM Evan as it does for her. SIM Evan tries to win Faye back while at the same time being on-the-run from a government agent chasing down SIMs who have become “conscious” and could potentially be a threat to humankind.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, existential, emotional, melancholic
Plot:
human android relationship, artificial intelligence, androids, government, consciousness, humanoid robot, sentient robot, robot, investigation, technology, androids and robots, secrets, secret, transformation, robot human relationship, advanced technology, identity crisis, identity, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, hacker, loneliness, chase, manhunt, government conspiracy ...
Time:
near future, future
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, tense and suspenseful films with plots about artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, technology, robot, dystopia, androids and ethical dilemma mostly in Sci-Fi, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Simulant: Android Re-Enactment (2011), Echo Dr. (2013), Ex Machina (2014), Override (2020), A. I. Tales (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ermus Daglek, retired Empathtek engineer, commandeers a defunct factory where he creates androids based on persons from his past and recreates a dinner party where he lost the love of his life - until they malfunction and escape.
Style:
futuristic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
androids, robot human relationship, human android relationship, robot, love, memory, obsession, science runs amok, hi-tech, problem, scientist, troubled past ...
Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When their home security system malfunctions, a family struggles to survive an attack against a state of the art patrol guard that believes they are intruders.
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futuristic, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
killer robot, man versus machine, artificial intelligence, family relations, survival, technology gone awry, family in danger, androids and robots, home invasion, security system, androids, manhunt ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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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 ...
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psychological, futuristic, twist ending, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
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Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, androids, technology, existentialism, cyborgs, cyberpunk, isolation, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, consciousness ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014 ...
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 2040, a female humanoid A.I. is hacked by her husband and forced to kidnap the U.S. vice president's son and execute him on live TV, as the culprit seeks revenge for his own son's death.
Style:
futuristic, suspense, captivating, tense, exciting
Plot:
humanoid robot, androids and robots, female robot, artificial intelligence, hacker, revenge, murderer, attempted murder, criminal's revenge, robot as menace, assassination, murder mystery ...
Time:
future, 2040s
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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:
futuristic, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, space travel, multiple storylines, space exploration, struggle for survival, survival, moral dilemma, outer space, technology, exploration, transhumanism, androids ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After his wife tragically dies, a desperate widowed husband finds a service online that can bring her back - but not all is as it seems.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, dramatic, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
wedding, husband wife relationship, wife, grief, robot, death of wife, death, humanoid robot, female robot, androids and robots, cyborgs, loss ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
87%
223
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, relationships, flash forward, chaos, technology, ethical dilemma, dystopia, catastrophe, investigation, panic, moral ambiguity, hacking ...
Time:
near future
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and ...
Style:
touching, entertaining, exciting, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, cyberpunk, cyborgs, parents and children, androids and robots, human versus robot, technology, technology gone awry, brutality, consciousness, distopia ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2015, near future, 21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
86%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Prosthetics scientist Abi and her adulterous husband Paul adjust to life outside the city as Abi begins working for high-tech company Integrate, developing a humanoid AI - T.I.M.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, futuristic, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
humanoid robot, technology, artificial intelligence, sentient robot, problem, futuristic technology, technology gone awry, advanced technology, robot, science runs amok, talking robot, experimental technology ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
In a high-tech future, a rogue security robot secretly gains free will. To stay hidden, it reluctantly joins a new mission protecting scientists on a dangerous planet...even though it just wants to binge soap operas.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, dark
Plot:
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Time:
near future
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After witnessing his girlfriend's murder, a man risks everything - including reality itself - to discover the truth.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, dark, intense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
futuristic, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, cyber ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, man versus machine, secret laboratory, female robot, distopia, laboratory, inventions and discoveries, programmer, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
england
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong, Canada, India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Style:
futuristic, philosophical, cerebral, suspense, visually stunning ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
cyberpunk, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, female protagonist, robot, technology, distopia, hacker, dystopia, tough girl, androids, chase ...
Time:
future, year 2017, near future, 2010s, year 2011
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Serbia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, crime thriller, suspenseful, captivating, futuristic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, independent film, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, computer, hacker, dystopia, secret, investigation, puzzle, computer hacker, post apocalyptic, conspiracy, code breaking, claustrophobia ...
Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Switzerland, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, super computer, robotics, human versus robot, robot as menace, sentient robot, giant robot, technology gone awry, struggle for survival, humanity in peril, evil robot ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, tension, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
virtual reality, super computer, ethics, consciousness, ethical dilemma, mind game, identity crisis, morality, female protagonist, mature, cyberpunk, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
near future
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female robot, human android relationship, humanoid robot, sentient robot, danger, robot human relationship, family relations, robot, androids, lifestyle, life, twists and turns ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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82%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
gaming, captivating, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
agoraphobia, mind control, female protagonist, technology, secret, virtuality, advanced technology, game, gamer, paranoia, isolation, unsettling ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
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Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, futuristic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
relationships, loss, survival, post apocalyptic, dystopia, evolution, against humanity, human nature, civilization, fate of humanity, humanity, end of civilization ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Style:
futuristic, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, androids and robots, robot, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, cyberpunk, dystopian future, robot human relationship, post apocalyptic, cyborgs, investigation ...
Time:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, tear jerker, psychological, suspenseful, tech noir ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, cyber, exciting, stylized, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, robot as menace, apocalypse, dystopian future, androids and robots, computers and web, save the world, danger, man versus machine, rivalry ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, intense, tense, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot:
past, investigation, secrets, confronting the past, fight, troubled past, cover up, cat and mouse, family drama, protective father, small town, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Aris, a lonely 48-year-old man, lives with a young beautiful girl who anticipates and fulfills all his desires without asking for anything in return, since she is a robot and the year is 2038. ELLi has a perfect human form, the most advanced ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, disturbing, futuristic, psychological
Plot:
sensuality, love, robot, artificial intelligence, androids, humanoid robot, love and romance, robot human relationship, human android relationship, relationships, love story, romantic relationship ...
Time:
near future, future
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a failed suicide attempt, a young man coping with loss and depression, submits to a series of trials that fine-tune human emotions, but his unique reaction to the tests send him on a journey that transcends both physical and perceived reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, existential, experimental, mind bending ...
Plot:
loss, grief, mental health, depression, consciousness, human experiment, identity, alienation, isolation, neuroscience, alternate reality, intimate ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hong Kong
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopia, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, fugitive, police detective, fugitives, flying car ...
Time:
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Place:
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