Movies like LOLA
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LOLA (2022)
4K
Genre: Sci-Fi, War
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, two ingenious sisters, create LOLA, a miraculous machine.
Style:
exciting, offbeat, serious, captivating, whimsical, f word
Plot:
european, machine, time travel, radio, television, sent to the future, flash forward, found footage, radio communication, world war two, time machine, sibling relationship, alternate timeline, dystopia, love, dog, dancing, horse, time, nazi, food, hitler, inventor, beach, singing ...
Time:
future, year 1941, year 1948
Place:
england
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Most similar movies to LOLA
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, exciting, serious and suspenseful films with plots about time travel, imaginary, distopia, time machine, heroes, escapades and danger mostly in Sci-Fi, Drama and War genres. Some movies like LOLA: It Happened Here (1964), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), The Time Travelers (1964), Time Chasers (1994), Memoirs of a Survivor (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is caught in the middle.
Style:
thought provoking, mockumentary, independent film, dieselpunk, semi documentary ...
Plot:
world war two, dystopia, nazi, alternate history, holocaust, resistance, german occupation, politics, fascism, war, distopia, liberation ...
Time:
year 1940, year 1945, 1910s, distant future, 1940s ...
Place:
england, europe, dunkirk, madagascar, london ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
"Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut's obsessive story ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, philosophical, cerebral, non-linear ...
Plot:
world war two, time travel, surrealism, existentialism, assassination, sent to the future, aerial bombardment, slaughterhouse, prisoner of war camp, stream of consciousness, alien abduction, soldier ...
Time:
future, 1940s, 20th century, 1900s, 1930s ...
Place:
montana, indiana, europe, philadelphia, new england ...
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77%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A time travel experiment that was supposed to produce a window into time turns out to be a portal instead. One of the experimenters steps through into a not-too-distant-future world that has been destroyed by nuclear war. Some of the others follow, ...
Style:
apocalyptic, surprise ending, classic horror, grindhouse, mysterious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, post apocalypse, time loop, mutant, time portal, apocalypse, time, dystopia, group, post thermonuclear war, portal, distopia ...
Time:
60s, distant future, future
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An inventor comes up with a time machine, but must prevent its abuse at the hands of an evil C.E.O.
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, sent to the past, aviation, supermarket, evil corporation, plane crash, sent to the future, master criminal, chase, heroes, danger ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 1950s, 2040s ...
Place:
vermont, usa
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a ...
Style:
independent film, serious, atmospheric, offbeat, stylized ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, surrealism, atomic bomb, nuclear war, wasteland, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future, naked woman, gang ...
Time:
year 1981, future, 19th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, France, Austria, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An alien narrates the story of his dying planet, his and his people's visitations to Earth and Earth's self-made demise, while human astronauts in space are attempting to find an alternate planet for surviving humans to live on.
Style:
stylized, bleak, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
astronaut, found footage, ufo, save the planet, spacecraft, space travel, apocalypse, space and aliens, prodigy, dystopian future, chaos, time travel ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
France. A near and probable future. The Sisterhood of Metacontrol governs Europe. Angeline, an exemplary and irreproachable citizen has just joined the order... But her relationship with a special man, Nono, will make her question profoundly the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, captivating, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
chastity, forbidden love, distopia, feminism, dystopia, totalitarian regime, sexism, matriarchy, self sacrifice, male female relationship, love, political repression ...
Time:
future
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Three men walk into a bar; two geeks and a cynic. They are three ordinary blokes who all have dreams and hopes for an exciting and better future
Style:
horror comedy, entertaining, humorous, tricky, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time travel, sent to the future, time machine, alternate reality, time, time loop, friendship, existence paradox, pub, underdog, disorder, atheism ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 2009, distant future, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's Play transplanted into a 1930s setting.
Style:
talky, stylized, period piece, witty, political ...
Plot:
politics, medieval, shakespeare, royal family, murder, betrayal, manipulation, royalty, assassination, greed, battles, monarchy ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 18th century
Place:
england, london, europe, new york, germany
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Evacuated from their home, two teenage sisters unite with fellow survivors and escape London by river to embark on an odyssey across the badlands of Britain.
Style:
tense, suspense, exciting, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
alien, apocalypse, post apocalypse, found footage, sister sister relationship, alien invasion, military, survival, alien space craft, alien attack, resistance, alien encounter ...
Place:
london, united kingdom
Similarity:
61%
69K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, period piece, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
time travel, knight, time machine, archaeology, medieval, changing the past or future, danger, siege, twists and turns, parallel universe, time, sword and shield ...
Time:
medieval times, future, year 2003, middle ages, 14th century ...
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A particle physicist grieving over the loss of her husband in a car crash uses a revolutionary machine to bring him back, with dire consequences for her family.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, parallel world, parallel universe, alternate universe, time portal, couple relations, discovery, lookalikes, portal, research, relationship problems, dead husband ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lunopolis is a 2009 direct-to-video science fiction film directed by Matthew Avant. The film is presented in found footage style and takes place in the weeks preceding the rumored events of the 2012 prophecies. Two documentary filmmakers discover a ...
Style:
tense, serious, contemplative, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
conspiracy, found footage, moon, time travel, sent to the past, obsessive quest, uncover truth, escapades, filmmaking, partner, secret movement, twists and turns ...
Time:
future, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
52%
13K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its ...
Style:
futuristic, serious, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, time paradox, climate change, deforestation, parallel world, changing the past or future, discovery, time machine, research, apocalypse, disaster, post apocalyptic ...
Time:
future, near future
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hoping to prevent his brother's Vietnam death and to prevent the JFK assassination, a time-traveling college professor goes back to the '60s but can't find his way out. Trapped in a time warp, he can't effect a change because he ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, exciting
Plot:
time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, vietnam war, president, kennedy family, tv reporter, history teacher, race against time, state affairs, imaginary, chases and races ...
Place:
vietnam, asia, dallas texas
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the future, mankind's quest for answers will take them to the edge of the universe... but the knowledge they seek should never be known. In deep space, the military cruiser Venom is diverted from its mission to investigate a derelict ...
Style:
serious, exciting, captivating, stylized, bleak ...
Plot:
space travel, survival, changing the past or future, heroes, terrorism, escapades, time travel, chaos, spacecraft, danger, space wars, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Still guilt-ridden over the accident that took his family's lives, Eric Norris discovers that his body is host to a parasite from another world. Except, it is more than a parasite: it carries his DNA.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
heroes, family in crisis, alien encounter, legal, love triangle, widower, alien, ufo, alien invasion, space and aliens, benign alien, babies and infants ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A legendary American war veteran is recruited to hunt a mythical creature.
Style:
exciting, captivating, semi serious, tense, bloody ...
Plot:
world war two, elderly man, mission, world war two veteran, hitler, war veteran, secret mission, love interest, hunting, spy, nazi, ex soldier ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A decade after a disastrous meteor impact wipes out most of society, a group of survivalists emerge to find themselves on a twisted version of the old Earth, with a nascent society besieged by vicious marauders, ferocious mutants, and the dreadful ...
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scary
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, mutant, survival, deadly creature, danger, chaos, dystopian future, epidemic, woman with a gun, post apocalypse, distopia, post-apocalyptic future ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Former Nazi Klaus Abard survives to the 1990s by taking anti-ageing pills. He plans to use a time travel trip to return to Germany in 1944 and present Hitler with a hydrogen bomb, so that he can win the war. Unfortunately the pilot, woman-chasing ...
Style:
dark comedy, surreal, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, world war two, death of brother, conspiracy, twin brother, brother brother relationship, nazism, secret, boss, bomb, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, year 1996, year 1944, 90s ...
Place:
germany, central europe, europe, prague, czech republic ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: China
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
This movie tells the story of two person being involved in a huge scientific research. In the process of revealing the mystery step by step, the two had to face love, deception, conspiracy and betrayal. Just when they think that they have peeked ...
Style:
suspense, gloomy, clever, tense, serious ...
Plot:
relationships, social relations, love affair, male female relationship, couple relations, love, explorer, research facility, research, traitor, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, scientific research ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Since losing her husband, Sophie has struggled to manage grief, a full-time job, and parenting her devastated daughter, but when a former physicist reveals a secret time-bending machine, Sophie will be faced with an impossible choice.
Style:
captivating, exciting, serious, ambiguous ending, dramatic
Plot:
time travel, death of husband, grief, time traveler, death, time machine, woman, loss of spouse, life & death, time, loss of husband, back in time ...
Time:
2020s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The year is 1890 and Bible professor Russell Carlisle has written a new manuscript entitled "The Changing Times". His colleague, Dr. Norris Anderson, believes that what Carlisle has written could greatly affect the future of coming ...
Style:
christian film, psychological, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
time travel, time machine, professor, society, religions or cults, preaching, theology, time, christian, ethics, christianity, bible ...
Time:
1890s, future, victorian era
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two young Russian historians are going to Ukraine to take part in the reconstruction of the Lvov-Sandomierz operation in July 1944. On sight they fall into conflict with Ukrainian nationalists, and some magical twist of fate, move into the middle of ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, sincere, sentimental
Plot:
time travel, death, friendship, escapades, chase, danger, betrayal, revenge, redemption, world war two, adaptation, supernatural ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1944, 2010s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A newly designed spacecraft capable of going through time is sent to Mars to rescue a crew previously lost on Mars. The ship is sent through the past but to the wrong time, years later than the first crew. Once they land on Mars, the crew finds that ...
Style:
thought provoking, exciting, captivating, action packed, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spacecraft, tomb, space travel, princess, time travel, astronaut, outer space, travel, mars, dangerous mission, rescue mission, space exploration ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British ...
Style:
exciting, serious, offbeat, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
space travel, space, space exploration, outer space, parallel universe, planet, space opera, loner, giant monster, dystopia, unhappy ending, spaceship ...
Time:
year 1969, future, 20th century, year 1987, 80s ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 1943, five US soldiers are recruited by the OSS for a time travel mission to save the world from the tyranny of Hitler's 25th Reich.
Style:
exciting, humorous, tense, psychotronic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, world war two, time machine, swastika, chaos, killer robot, military, soldier, military base, nazi occultism, heroic mission, imaginary ...
Time:
20th century, future, 1940s, year 1943, year 2012 ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a near future society a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. His therapist is confused at first but soon decides to use him for his own gain. The 2002 adaptation discards a significant portion of the original plot, some essential ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, mind bending ...
Plot:
therapist, psychiatrist, manipulation, supernatural, dream, alternate reality, social commentary, moral ambiguity, existentialism, ethical dilemma, dystopia, paranoia ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously ...
Style:
suspense, tense, entertaining, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time loop, time travel, time machine, mistaken identity, warning, disappearance, science, female protagonist, journey, friendship, guest, alternate dimension ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in the year 2022, a group of convicts sentenced to life in prison are led on a mission into uncharted deep space by Commander Skyler (Williams) to salvage a lost ship. As incentive to go on this dangerous mission, the convicts are given the ...
Style:
independent film, serious, scary, exciting, offbeat ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
evil alien, female nudity, space opera, alien invasion, extraterrestrial, sadist, computer virus, femme fatale, world war two, alien encounter, space travel, battles ...
Time:
future, 1950s, 50s
Similarity:
34%
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