Movies like Uncanny

A feature-film shortlist from the cached Film Atlas engine. The interactive map may include more titles or newer results. These are similarity matches, not a guarantee of age suitability.

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   Life Like

   Strong story similarity

   2019 · 96 min · Drama · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   Sophie and James purchase a lifelike robot to cook and clean at their sprawling new home. At first, android Henry is quiet and hard-working. But as his artificial-intelligence programming kicks in, Henry starts to anticipate the couple’s needs and desires.

   Why it connects

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

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   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.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   The Machine

   Strong story similarity

   2013 · 92 min · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.

   Why it connects

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

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   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.

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

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   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.

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

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   Ex Machina

   Strong story similarity

   2015 · 108 min · Drama · Science Fiction

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   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.

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

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   Zoe

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 104 min · Romance · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.

   Why it connects

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

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   Companion

   Strong story similarity

   2025 · 97 min · Horror · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

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

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   Mother/Android

   Strong story similarity

   2021 · 111 min · Science Fiction · Thriller

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   Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a stronghold of the android uprising—in hopes of reaching safety before giving birth.

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

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    Upgrade

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    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 genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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