Movies Like

Eureka (2006) TV Show

7.7 724 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 5

Episodes: 77

Audience: TV-14

Story: The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses and their families to this rustic town for years where innovation and chaos have lived hand in hand. U.S. Marshal Jack Carter stumbles upon this odd town after wrecking his car and becoming stranded there. When the denizens of the town unleash an unknown scientific creation, Carter jumps in to try to restore order and consequently learns of one of the country's best kept secrets.

Plot: technology, genius, futuristic, scientist, hope for future, invisible barrier, fringe science

Cast

Peter Weller

Ariel Winter

David Selby

Wade Williams

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1 (2012)

7.7 1.7K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 76 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?

Plot: dystopia, based on graphic novel, super power, dreary

Time: future

Cast

Psycho-Pass (2012) TV Show

7.7 474 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 41

Audience: TV-MA

Story: In the year 2113, people are given brain scans to determine how likely they are to commit a crime. Those who fail are apprehended, or even killed.

Style: psychological

Plot: detective, dystopia, police, gore, cyberpunk, gunfight, torture, terrorism, ...

Time: future

Place: japan

Cast

Andrew Philpot

John Rafter Lee

Pamela Adlon

Wendee Lee

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)

7.7 814 votes

Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: Legendary dhampir D competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman seemingly abducted by undead nobleman Meier Link.

Plot: bounty hunter, based on novel or book, chase, vampire, katana, post-apocalyptic future, gore, betrayal, ...

Time: future

Cast

Rie Saitou

Koji Yusa

Akiko Yajima

Ergo Proxy (2006) TV Show

7.6 400 votes

Genre: Animation, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 23

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Thousands of years after Earth’s atmosphere was destroyed, adventure blooms in the strangest of places. The domed city of Romdo is supposed to be perfect, but Re-l Mayer, a young female inspector from the Civilian Intelligence Office, knows better. In this place where humans and robots coexist, she receives a strange message: something is awakening!

Style: philosophical, psychological

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), android, europe, amnesia, greek mythology, post-apocalyptic future, dystopia, mecha, ...

Time: future

Cast

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Gary Carr

Jack Reynor

T'Nia Miller

The Peripheral (2022) TV Show

7.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Canada

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), android, based on novel or book, war veteran, virtual reality, time machine, futuristic, gamer, ...

Cast

Seth MacFarlane

Adrianne Palicki

Penny Johnson Jerald

Scott Grimes

The Orville (2017) TV Show

7.6 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America, Canada

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 36

Audience: TV-14

Story: Follow the crew of the not-so-functional exploratory ship in the Earth's interstellar fleet, 400 years in the future.

Style: nostalgic

Plot: space battle, utopia, space exploration, curious, space adventure, amused

Time: future

Cast

Bae Doona

Gong Yoo

Lee Joon

Kim Sun-young

The Silent Sea (2021) TV Show

7.6 713 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.

Plot: moon, research, space, mission, moon base, silent, based on short film, suspense, ...

Time: future, 2070s

Cast

Ryan Gosling

Harrison Ford

Ana de Armas

Dave Bautista

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

7.6 15.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Canada, United Kingdom

Duration: 164 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Style: slow burn

Plot: android, bounty hunter, artificial intelligence (a.i.), dystopia, sequel, cyberpunk, transhumanism, los angeles, ...

Time: future, 2040s

Place: las vegas

Cast

Tye Sheridan

Olivia Cooke

Ben Mendelsohn

Lena Waithe

Ready Player One (2018)

7.6 17.1K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

Plot: based on novel or book, video game, virtual reality, dystopia, nostalgia, love, film in film, evil corporation, ...

Time: future, 1980s, 2040s

Cast

Mamoru Miyano

Shin-ichiro Miki

Hiroyuki Yoshino

Hiroshi Kamiya

Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (2007) TV Show

7.6 57 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 50

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The year is 2307 A.D. Although fossil fuels have been depleted, humanity has obtained a new source of energy to replace them, in the form of a large-scale solar power generation system based on three huge orbital elevators. However, the benefits of this system are available only to a handful of major powers and their allies. In this world of never-ending conflict, a private armed organization appears, dedicated to the elimination of war through armed force. Its name is Celestial Being, and it is in possession of "Gundam" mobile suits.

Plot: mecha, bromance, terrorism, understanding, child soldier, anime, real robot, gundam

Time: future

Place: middle east

Cast

Sam Rockwell

Kevin Spacey

Dominique McElligott

Rosie Shaw

Moon (2009)

7.6 6.3K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: R

Story: With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.

Style: melancholy, intense

Plot: moon, artificial intelligence (a.i.), isolation, dystopia, space, moon base, psychological thriller, thoughtful, ...

Time: future

A Certain Magical Index (2008) TV Show

7.5 195 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Mystery

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 74

Audience: TV-14

Story: Touma Kamijou is a student living in Academy City, a highly advanced place in terms of technology. Despite being gauged as a level zero esper (no powers), he possesses on his right hand the Imagine Breaker, an ability that negates any power whatsoever.Touma finds a young girl named Index who is trying to run away from Necessarius, a powerful magic organization that she is member of. Blessed with the skill of memorizing any sort of information, she holds 103,000 forbidden magical books within her head.As science and magic cross paths, Touma must face several dangers amid espers and magicians who appear in the exciting scientific town.

Plot: nun, magic, sorcery, supernatural, harem, futuristic, psychic power, sorcerer, ...

Ressha Sentai ToQger Returns: Super ToQ #7 of Dreams (2015)

7.5 20 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 53 min.

Story: The year is 2025, 10 years after the fight against Z. The ToQgers are all grown up and have now entered life. But one day, the Shadow Line reappears and the fight must resume. Right and his friends try to repel them but they can’t transform because they lack imagination. Fortunately for them, a mysterious purple warrior appears to save them. Will they be able to defeat the Evil Army Shadow Line once and for all? Will they find the ultimate imagination?

Plot: time travel, duringcreditsstinger

Time: future

Cast

Logan Marshall-Green

Betty Gabriel

Harrison Gilbertson

Melanie Vallejo

Upgrade (2018)

7.5 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), hacker, police, technology, cyborg, dystopia, revenge, murder, ...

Time: future, near future

Cast

Yuki Kaji

Sachika Misawa

Ayako Kawasumi

Kenichi Suzumura

Accel World (2012) TV Show

7.5 153 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-14

Story: A short, overweight student uses the Neuro Link, an evolution of the Nerve Gear, to escape himself from the reality. But his skills in the virtual world brings him to the attention of Kuroyukihime, a popular student who introduces him to the Brain Burst.

Plot: competition, technology, anti hero, virtual reality, virtual fight, friendship, bullying, rivalry, ...

Time: future

Cast

Chris Pine

Zachary Quinto

Leonard Nimoy

Eric Bana

Star Trek (2009)

7.4 10.6K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of bitter rivals. One, James Kirk, is a delinquent, thrill-seeking Iowa farm boy. The other, Spock, a Vulcan, was raised in a logic-based society that rejects all emotion. As fiery instinct clashes with calm reason, their unlikely but powerful partnership is the only thing capable of leading their crew through unimaginable danger, boldly going where no one has gone before. The human adventure has begun again.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: spacecraft, teleportation, san francisco, california, space battle, time travel, space mission, parachute, ...

Time: 23rd century, 24th century

Cast

Atsuko Tanaka

Akio Otsuka

Koichi Yamadera

Tamio Ohki

Ghost in the Shell 2.0 (2008)

7.4 465 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Crime

Country: Japan, United States of America

Duration: 85 min.

Story: In the year 2029, Section 9, a group of cybernetically enhanced cops, are called in to investigate and stop a highly-wanted hacker known as 'The Puppetmaster'.

Style: philosophical

Plot: android, cyborg, dystopia, cyberpunk, cybercrime, anime, ambiguous

Time: future

Cast

Karl Urban

Michael Ealy

Minka Kelly

Mackenzie Crook

Almost Human (2013) TV Show

7.4 561 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-14

Story: The year is 2048. By mandate, every cop must partner with a robot. Detective John Kennex returns to work after waking up from a 17-month coma. As he adjusts to working with his new partner, Dorian, a discontinued android with unexpected emotional responses, John also must learn to get along with his new colleagues.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), android, police, robot, buddy cop, grand

Time: future, 2040s