Movies like The Visitor from the Future

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   The Night Eats the World

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 94 min · Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   After waking up to find himself all alone in an apartment where a massive party was being held the night before, Sam is immediately forced to face a terrifying reality: the living dead have invaded the streets of Paris.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: Ciné+

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   James vs. His Future Self

   Strong story similarity

   2019 · 93 min · Comedy · Drama · Science Fiction

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   When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself – literally.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared time travel movie style
   • substantial genre overlap

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   The Crew

   Strong story similarity

   2016 · 78 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller

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   One of the members of a gang of thieves commits a serious mistake that force them to work for a ruthless gang of drug dealers, endangering the future of the team, their lives and those of their families.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared production studio: Ciné+

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   The Shift

   Strong story similarity

   2023 · 113 min · Science Fiction

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   Following a tense encounter with a mysterious stranger with otherworldly powers, a man finds himself banished to a parallel, tyrannical Earth, where he fights to get back to the woman he loves.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared time travel movie style
   • shared theme: time travel

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   School's Out

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 100 min · Drama · Mystery · Thriller

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   Pierre Hoffman joins a prestigious school as a substitute teacher and soon notices, among some of his students, an unjustified hostility and a spark of violence in their eyes. Is it because the unspeakable tragedy they have just experienced? Is it because they seem to be extraordinarily gifted children? Is it because they have lost all hope for the future? From curiosity to obsession, Pierre will try to unlock their secret.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • a closely matched era
   • shared production studio: OCS

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   Smoking Causes Coughing

   Strong story similarity

   2022 · 77 min · Comedy · Fantasy · Science Fiction

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   After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   Chronovisor

   Strong story similarity

   2026 · 99 min · Horror · Mystery · Science Fiction

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   A French academic is seduced into a world of untold histories in her scholarly quest to uncover the mystery of a history-capturing camera-like machine created by clandestine Benedictine monks. An academic-noir, armchair mystery in the lineage of Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared time travel movie style
   • shared theme: time travel

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   How I Became a Superhero

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 101 min · Action · Adventure · Comedy · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   Paris 2020. While superheroes have assimilated into the Parisian society, they discover a new drug that gives themselves personal superpowers to mere mortals. Lieutenants Moreau and Schaltzmann are investigating the case with the support of two ex-superheroes, Monte Carlo and Callista. They'll do whatever it takes to dismantle the traffic. But Moreau's past resurfaces, and the investigation becomes more complicated.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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   The Klatos Paradox

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 117 min · Drama · Horror · Mystery

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   An incompetent time traveler must team up with his unpredictable alternate self, to fix a paradox which is now slowly destroying the universe.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared time travel movie style
   • shared theme: time travel

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    Mortal Engines

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    2018 · 128 min · Adventure · Science Fiction

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    Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

    Why it connects

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

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