Consciousness movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant consciousness movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out intellectual, thought provoking, serious, cerebral, philosophical and complex films and TV shows about / with consciousness, storytelling, philosophy, existentialism, death, dialogue, twists and turns, supernatural, technology and surrealism plots mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Thriller genres shot in USA, UK, Australia and other countries.
consciousness
TOP 10 movies tagged as consciousness: Transcendence (2014), Westworld (2016), Chappie (2015), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Shift (2009), Ex Machina (2014), Altered Carbon (2018), Travelers (2016), Replicas (2018), Minority Report (2002).
Best films
List of consciousness movies
232K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Style:
thought provoking, futuristic, philosophical, exciting, intellectual ...
Plot:
artificial intelligence, technology, scientist, consciousness, resurrection, technology gone awry, hi-tech, chaos, computers and web, a.i., nanotechnology, utopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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512K
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:
stylized, serious, thought provoking, futuristic, intellectual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, moral dilemma, consciousness, androids, murder, technology gone awry, scientist, man versus machine, escapades, a.i., human android relationship ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco
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257K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, stylized, emotional, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
robot, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, cyborgs, distopia, androids and robots, technology, first contact, technology gone awry, a.i., gangsters, human versus robot ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, johannesburg south africa
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, atmospheric, confusing ...
Plot:
alternate reality, virtual reality, twists and turns, cyberpunk, cyberspace, time travel, computer system, parallel universe, parallel world, distopia, dystopic future, technology gone awry ...
Time:
future, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1937 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
From the creators of You Can Heal Your Life: The Movie comes a compelling portrait of three modern lives in need of new direction and new meaning. In his first-ever movie, Wayne Dyer explores the spiritual journey in the second half of life when we ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, spiritual ...
Plot:
consciousness, enlightenment, career change, cause and meaning, changing lives, con artists, charlatan, dull life, redemption, hopes, self discovery, buddhism ...
Place:
california
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555K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
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 ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, twist ending, futuristic, mind bending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
artificial intelligence, robot, isolation, technology, existentialism, cyberpunk, manipulation, suspense, cyborgs, androids, androids and robots, female robot ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england
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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, artificial intelligence, investigation, consciousness, murder, resistance fighter, virtual reality, multiple storylines, twists and turns, body swapping, doppelganger, female nudity ...
Time:
future, distant future
Place:
san francisco
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59K
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, intellectual ...
Plot:
time travel, time traveler, time machine, police detective, time paradox, undercover, artificial intelligence, consciousness, changing the future, post apocalypse, sent to the past, teamwork ...
Time:
future
Place:
north america
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40K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, China, Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A scientist becomes obsessed with bringing back his family members who died in a traffic accident.
Style:
exciting, intellectual, futuristic, clever, psychotronic ...
Plot:
robot, science, scientific experiment, family in danger, consciousness, cloning, genetics, resurrection, laboratory, betrayal, biologist, scientist ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
puerto rico
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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, neo noir, exciting, tense, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
cyberpunk, murder, suspense, future dystopia, foreknowledge, precognition, time loop, frame up, distopia, law enforcer, police investigation, time travel ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa
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1.9M
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, intense, cerebral ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
distopia, artificial intelligence, martial arts, existentialism, philosophy, cyberpunk, alternate reality, virtual reality, fight, gunfight, post apocalypse, hacker ...
Time:
future, near future, 20th century, 90s, 22nd century ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our ...
Style:
philosophical, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
philosophy, existentialism, surrealism, dream, alternate reality, lucid dream, psychology, life philosophy, imagination, consciousness, lifestyle, trippy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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644K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, time travel, time warp, life philosophy, groundhog day, love, redemption, repeated event, fall in love, hopes ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
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629K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
racism, cult, suspense, brainwashing, hypnosis, survival, interracial romance, manipulation, kidnapping, african american, paranoia, abduction ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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94K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, psychedelic, cerebral, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space, scientist, space travel, russian, space station, immortality, astronaut, dreams, space and aliens, loneliness, hallucination, insanity ...
Time:
70s, future, distant future
Place:
ussr, tokyo, russia
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134K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style:
exciting, allegory, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot:
conspiracy, distopia, alien, alien invasion, mind control, invasion, brainwashing, anti conformity, evil alien, uncover truth, monster, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles
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280K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Contact is a science fiction film about an encounter with alien intelligence. Based on the novel by Carl Sagan the film starred Jodie Foster as the one chosen scientist who must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and ...
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, inspirational, futuristic, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
science, nasa, scientist, first contact, alien encounter, space travel, religion, space and aliens, alien contact, benign alien, alien, intelligence ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
puerto rico, new mexico, washington d.c., usa, florida ...
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203K
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:
psychological, mind bending, neo noir, gothic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
distopia, investigation, memory, alternate reality, cyberpunk, suspense, alien race, alien, post apocalypse, future dystopia, amnesia, memory loss ...
Time:
future, 1940s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
freedom, self discovery, video surveillance, small town, fictional reality show, hidden camera, alternate reality, loneliness, morality, fictional reality, god complex, utopia ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
florida, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, life philosophy, life & death, redemption, love, death, destiny, metaphysics, true love, spirituality, husband wife reunion ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on James Redfield's worldwide best-selling novel, The Celestine Prophecy is a spiritual adventure film chronicling the discovery of ancient scrolls in the rainforests of Peru. The prophecy and its nine key insights predict a worldwide ...
Style:
serious, tense, exciting, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
spirituality, prophecy, jungle, obsessive quest, heroic mission, rain forest, escapades, supernatural, society, heroes, clergy, consciousness ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
peru, latin america
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Style:
psychological, psychedelic, philosophical, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
cyberpunk, drug abuse, losing-it hero, schizophrenia, addiction, drugs, society, twists and turns, fighting crime, hallucination, undercover, future dystopia ...
Time:
future, near future, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, san diego california
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, atmospheric, thought provoking, artsy ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
philosophy, childhood, grief, coming of age, spirituality, father son relationship, parenthood, existentialism, family relations, hopes, religion, domineering father ...
Time:
50s, prehistory, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place:
texas, usa, china
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Maybe the 1960s, maybe the future. Seven astronauts wake up in a spaceship, not knowing where they have come from nor where they are heading. As the ship operates by itself, they have ample time to meditate, rather scientifically, on matter, life ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot:
spacecraft, space and aliens, space, confined, space travel, satire, isolation, cause and meaning, universe, multiverse, cosmology, consciousness ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossible for anyone to knowingly break the law.
Style:
unusual plot structure, twist ending, confusing, talky, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
money, sniper, organized crime, tough girl, fighting crime, criminal, mafia, father son relationship, brutality, violence, gunfight, u.s. government ...
Time:
near future, distant future
Place:
canada, detroit, usa
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31K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This ...
Style:
emotional, sad, inspirational, thought provoking, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, supernatural, albino, paranormal phenomena, miraculous event, christ allegory, bullying, healing power, struck by lightning, electricity, bully, supernatural power ...
Time:
future
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440K
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:
thought provoking, touching, bleak, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, prejudice, multiple storylines, plot twist, sexual harassment, racist, racial tension, social injustice, redemption, class differences, city life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, puerto rico, santa monica california ...
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242K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.
Style:
surreal, melancholic, philosophical, thought provoking, artsy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
metaphysics, death, spirituality, afterlife, surrealism, cancer, buddhism, immortality, loneliness, obsession, love, love story ...
Time:
future, 16th century, 21st century
Place:
spain, europe, latin america, guatemala, central america
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2.4M
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, clever, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
suspense, memory, virtual reality, alternate reality, dream, subconscious, architecture, existentialism, fictional reality, mind control, imagination, lucid dream ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s
Place:
paris france, japan, los angeles, new york, kenya ...
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