Cognitive science movies and TV shows – page 2

List of cognitive science movies

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 8.1
 817K
Blade Runner (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Style: neo noir, futuristic, tech noir, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cyberpunk, dystopia, artificial intelligence, existentialism, dystopian future, distopia, androids, cyborgs, melancholy, fugitives, police detective, fugitive ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century, near future ...
Place: los angeles, california, bolivia, usa
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 7.2
 102K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, disturbing, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, body horror, hallucination, surrealism, television, mind control, virtual reality, insanity, suicide, brainwashing, dystopia, mind game ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, toronto ontario canada, usa, malaysia, canada ...
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 7.6
 211K
Dark City (1998)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.
Style: neo noir, mind bending, psychological, suspense, gothic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, memory, cyberpunk, alternate reality, distopia, alien race, trippy, dystopian future, virtual reality, amnesia, memory loss, experiment ...
Time: future, year 1998, distant future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: persia
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Being John Malkovich (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Spike Jonze’s debut feature film is a love story mix of comedy and fantasy. The story is about an unsuccessful puppeteer named Craig, who one day at work finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for ...
Style: surreal, cerebral, mind bending, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: surrealism, puppeteer, subconscious, psychology, philosophy, existentialism, satire, lesbianism, insanity, body swapping, mind control, magic realism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.8
 107K
eXistenZ (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
Style: surreal, psychological, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing ...
Plot: virtual reality, cyberpunk, alternate reality, twists and turns, cyberspace, dystopia, distopia, escape from reality, dystopian future, conspiracy, video game, parallel world ...
Time: future, 90s, year 1999, near future
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 7.7
 73K
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, surreal, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: disfigurement, dream, surrealism, psychiatrist, love, nightmare, paranoia, car accident, love triangle, memory loss, jealousy, insanity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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 7.6
 581K
Minority Report (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Style: futuristic, suspense, neo noir, cerebral, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: cyberpunk, murder, dystopian future, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, distopia, psychic, dystopia, frame up, law enforcer, consciousness ...
Time: future, near future, 20th century, distant future, year 2002 ...
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa
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 7.3
 346K
Equilibrium (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
Style: futuristic, philosophical, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: distopia, martial arts, dystopia, fighting the system, cyberpunk, gunfight, rebellion, post apocalyptic, dystopian future, utopia, totalitarianism, dystopic future ...
Time: future, near future, 80s, year 2002, 2000s
Place: china, beijing china
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Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style: psychological, depressing, surreal, independent film, confusing ...
Plot: depression, existentialism, death, theater, magic realism, schizophrenic, obsession, writers, twists and turns, philosophy, writer's life, loneliness ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, berlin germany, manhattan new york city
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 7.4
 9K
Project Nim (2011)
Genre: Documentary
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child. ...
Style: touching, sad, psychological, heartbreaking, suspenseful ...
Plot: chimpanzee, human animal relationship, survival, character study, fish out of water, science, experiment gone awry, teaching the ways of the world, confined, society, human nature, power relations ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: usa, new york
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 6.0
 7K
Sleep Dealer (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
Style: serious, suspenseful, stylized, cyber, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dam, cyberpunk, virtual reality, survival, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, dystopian future, corporate crime, distopia, destruction, worker ...
Time: future
Place: latin america, mexico, tijuana mexico
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 8.0
 543K
Rain Man (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style: road movie, sincere, uplifting, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: autism, road trip, redemption, disability, runaway, brother brother relationship, mentally challenged, siblings relations, family relations, casino, mental illness, mathematics ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: las vegas, california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, missouri ...
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has ...
Style: saga, philosophical, futuristic, reflective, cyber ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids, chick flick, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, dystopia, post apocalypse, prophecy, man versus machine, chosen one, oracle, robot, martial arts, alternate reality ...
Time: future, year 2003, 2000s, near future, distant future ...
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Style: futuristic, exciting, cyber, saga, action packed ...
Audience: kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, distopia, virtual reality, dystopia, robot, freedom, fight, alternate reality, chosen one, resistance, prophecy ...
Time: future, year 2003, near future, distant future, 23rd century ...
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 7.2
 317K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, murder, investigator, investigation, character study, police, police corruption, insomnia, guilt, psychopath, snow ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa
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 8.3
 630K
Oldboy (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style: bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place: south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
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 7.7
 448K
Crash (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style: bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, police, prejudice, racial tension, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, racist, social injustice, redemption, interracial relations, class differences, city life ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, persia, santa monica california ...
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 6.5
 180K
Idiocracy (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a ...
Style: futuristic, thought provoking, absurd, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: distopia, stupidity, time travel, satire, dystopian future, dystopia, evolution, social satire, absurdism, dimwit, society, hibernation ...
Time: future, year 2006, y2k, distant future, year 2005 ...
Place: texas, usa, washington d.c.
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: disability, hospital, human spirit, nurse, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, life turned upside down, writers, bittersweet, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place: france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
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The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: psychology, prison, experiment, human experiment, social experiment, human nature, university, prison escape, teachers and students, character study, student, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 2010s
Place: usa
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 7.9
 1.4M
Avatar (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: In the 22nd century, a paraplegic Marine is dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission, but becomes torn between following orders and protecting an alien civilization.
Style: futuristic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night ...
Plot: alien, fantasy world, ecology, culture clash, creature, beautiful scenery, battles, space and aliens, alien life-form, alien planet, space travel, alien encounter ...
Time: future, 2000s, 20th century, year 2009, 22nd century
Place: iran, space western
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 7.5
 547K
Source Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, clever, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot: time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, memory, twists and turns, save the day, destiny, changing the past or future, bomb, terrorism ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
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 8.0
 819K
Black Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style: psychological, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, insanity, dancing, character study, surrealism, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, paranoia, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city
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 8.1
 186K
Mary and Max (2009)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, adult animation, black comedy ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: loneliness, stop motion, friendship, letter, social misfits, depression, mental illness, asperger's syndrome, relationships, young woman, correspondence, imaginary friend ...
Time: 20th century, year 2009, 2000s, 70s
Place: australia, persia, oceania, usa, new york
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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 7.2
 87K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, philosophical, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, afterlife, trippy, stripper, hallucination, drug trip, life after death, lsd, male nudity, youth, incest, abortion ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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 6.3
 157K
Under the Skin (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience: adult
Plot: alien, femme fatale, extraterrestrial, human prey, nudity, disguise, female nudity, desire, nightclub, seduction, deformity, male nudity ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Faces in the Crowd (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A horror-thriller centered on a woman living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, disorder, woman in danger, murder, danger, who to trust, confusion, recovery, forensics, disease, fear, lie ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Dangerous Method (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, intellectual, sexy, period piece ...
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, psychoanalysis, psychology, historical character, introspection, psychologist, mentally unstable, insanity, sexual perversion, biopic, sexuality ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 2010s ...
Place: zurich switzerland, switzerland, europe, vienna, central europe ...
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The Imitation Game (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley ...
Style: inspirational, clever, intellectual, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: world war two, mathematics, genius, inventor, inventions and discoveries, code, code breaking, prodigy, mathematician, invention, computer, ambition ...
Time: 1940s, year 2014, 20th century, 1950s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, britain, idaho, los angeles ...
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