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In Time (2011)

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".

Directed byAndrew Niccol

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  1. 01

    RoboCop

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 118 min · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: dystopia and future
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  2. 02

    Paycheck

    Strong story similarity

    2003 · 119 min · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  3. 03

    Surrogates

    Strong story similarity

    2009 · 89 min · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: dystopia and future
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  4. 04

    Primer

    Strong story similarity

    2004 · 77 min · Drama · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
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  5. 05

    The Creator

    Strong story similarity

    2023 · 134 min · Action · Adventure · Science Fiction

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    Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • substantial genre overlap
    • shared production studio: New Regency Pictures
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  6. 06

    Self/less

    Strong story similarity

    2015 · 117 min · Action · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  7. 07

    Gattaca

    Same director

    1997 · 107 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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    Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • similar audience response
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  8. 08

    Sunshine

    Shared cast

    2007 · 108 min · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    Fifty years into the future, the sun is dying, and Earth is threatened by arctic temperatures. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun — but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind’s last hope.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a principal cast member
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  9. 09

    Time Lapse

    Strong story similarity

    2014 · 104 min · Horror · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared genre DNA
    • a closely matched era
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  10. 10

    Frequency

    Strong story similarity

    2000 · 118 min · Crime · Science Fiction · Thriller

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    When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal murders he and his father must find a way to fix the consequences of altering time.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: future and race against time
    • substantial genre overlap
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