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Ex Machina (2015)

Caleb, a 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 that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

Directed byAlex Garland

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What to watch after Ex Machina

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  1. 01

    Annihilation

    Same director

    2018 · 115 min · Horror · Science Fiction

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    A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • principal cast overlap
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  2. 02

    Archive

    Strong story similarity

    2020 · 109 min · Drama · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: android and artificial intelligence (a.i.)
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  3. 03

    The Artifice Girl

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 93 min · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond its original purpose.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: artificial intelligence (a.i.) and consciousness
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  4. 04

    Chappie

    Strong story similarity

    2015 · 120 min · Action · Crime · Science Fiction

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    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 soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: android and artificial intelligence (a.i.)
    • a closely matched era
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  5. 05

    Blade Runner 2049

    Similar atmosphere

    2017 · 164 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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    Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: android and artificial intelligence (a.i.)
    • a closely matched era
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  6. 06

    Swan Song

    Similar atmosphere

    2021 · 112 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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    In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  7. 07

    Wifelike

    Strong story similarity

    2022 · 105 min · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the programming of the artificial human assigned as his companion to behave like his late wife. She begins to question her reality as memories of a past life begin to surface in a world where nothing is as it seems.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
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  8. 08

    Upgrade

    Strong story similarity

    2018 · 100 min · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: artificial intelligence (a.i.) and technology
    • a closely matched era
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  9. 09

    Cloud Atlas

    Similar atmosphere

    2012 · 172 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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    A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  10. 10

    Simulant

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 95 min · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: android and artificial intelligence (a.i.)
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