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Movies like A Love Code

The best movies like A Love Code are Joe's Apartment (1996), A-X-L (2018) and Robot & Frank (2012). If A Love Code hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Joe's Apartment (1996)

    A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  2. A-X-L (2018)

    The life of a teenage boy is forever altered by a chance encounter with cutting edge military technology.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. Robot & Frank (2012)

    Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown children are concerned about their father’s well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. Initially resistant to the idea, Frank soon appreciates the benefits of robotic support – like nutritious meals and a clean house – and eventually begins to treat his robot like a true companion. With his robot’s assistance, Frank’s passion for his old, unlawful profession is reignited, for better or worse.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. I Am Mother (2019)

    A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  5. Love and Monsters (2020)

    Seven years since the Monsterpocalypse began, Joel Dawson has been living underground in order to survive. But after reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee, Joel decides to venture out to reunite with her, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. 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.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. Transformers: Beginnings (2007)

    On their home planet of Cybertron, the Autobots and Decepticons are involved in an explosive battle over the coveted AllSpark. With the fate of the universe at stake, the Autobots send it far from the reaches of the ruthless Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. But there are even more surprises in store when it crash-lands on Earth.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  8. Next Gen (2018)

    A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. Brian and Charles (2022)

    An endearing outlier, Brian lives alone in a Welsh valley, inventing oddball contraptions that seldom work. After finding a discarded mannequin head, Brian gets an idea. Three days, a washing machine, and sundry spare parts later, he’s invented Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and proves a charming, cheeky companion. Before long, however, Charles also develops autonomy. Intrigued by the wider world — or whatever lies beyond the cottage where Brian has hidden him away — Charles craves adventure.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Wifelike (2022)

    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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. Blast from the Past (1999)

    Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. Monsters of Man (2020)

    A robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing camp in the Golden Triangle, assuming they'd be killing drug runners that no one would miss. Six doctors on a humanitarian mission witness the brutal slaughter and become prime targets.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. A.R.C.H.I.E. (2016)

    A recently orphaned 15-year-old who has moved to a small town to live with her uncle befriends a robotic canine with super strength, x-ray vision and the ability to talk and the pair take on a military complex, bullies, kidnappers, romance and the world.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Transformers (2007)

    Young teenager Sam Witwicky becomes involved in the ancient struggle between two extraterrestrial factions of transforming robots – the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons. Sam holds the clue to unimaginable power and the Decepticons will stop at nothing to retrieve it.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. True Stories (1986)

    A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. Terminator Salvation (2009)

    All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend or foe.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. Short Circuit (1986)

    After a lightning bolt zaps a robot named Number 5, the lovable machine starts to think he's human and escapes the lab. Hot on his trail is his designer, Newton, who hopes to get to Number 5 before the military does. In the meantime, a spunky animal lover mistakes the robot for an alien and takes him in, teaching her new guest about life on Earth.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. Dinner in America (2022)

    An on-the-lam punk rocker and a young woman obsessed with a local band go on an unexpected and epic journey together through the decaying suburbs of the American Midwest.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  19. Drive (1997)

    A prototype enhanced human, on the run from Chinese-hired hit men, hooks up with a dread-locked bystander, and the two of them elude their pursuers narrowly each time.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Bunker (2023)

    Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like A Love Code?

The closest matches to A Love Code are Joe's Apartment (1996), A-X-L (2018) and Robot & Frank (2012). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after A Love Code?

Start with Joe's Apartment (1996), the closest match to A Love Code.

What is the highest-rated movie like A Love Code?

Dinner in America (2022), rated 7.8/10 by 253 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like A Love Code?

Bunker (2023) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like A Love Code?

Yes: Joe's Apartment (1996), A-X-L (2018) and Robot & Frank (2012).

How are movies similar to A Love Code chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Love Code, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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