Movies like Afterlife

Swan Song (2021)

In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking exploration of love, loss, and sacrifice.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction

Archive (2020)

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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction

Finch (2021)

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

THX 1138 (1971)

People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As THX is without drugs for the first time he has feelings for a woman and they start a secret relationship.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

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 · both drama & science fiction

Cloud Atlas (2012)

A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & science fiction

Transcendence (2014)

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

Moon (2009)

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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction & drama

The Creator (2023)

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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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 · both science fiction

Automata (2014)

Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Upgrade (2018)

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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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 · both science fiction

The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

The Machine (2013)

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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Self/less (2015)

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 matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

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 · both science fiction

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction

Death Watch (1980)

In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & science fiction

Petra (2023)

Marcel, a teenager who lost his older brother who often taught him English, must fight to find a scholarship. However, turns out that his brother kept something behind to help Marcel pursue his dream.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

In the Belly of AI (2025)

Magical, autonomous, all-powerful… Artificial intelligences feed our dreams as well as our nightmares. But while tech giants promise the advent of a new humanity, the reality of their production remains totally hidden. While data centers are concreting landscapes and drying up rivers, millions of workers around the world are preparing the billions of data that will feed the voracious algorithms of Big Tech, at the cost of their mental and emotional health. They are hidden in the belly of AI. Could they be the collateral damage of the ideology of “Longtermism” that has been brewing in Silicon Valley for several years?

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Battle Royale (2000)

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Are You Living? (2021)

A movie about life and death in God's waiting room. After his fatal car accident, David wakes up in a strange room, later known as God's waiting room. David is not alone, he is greeted by a man, named Tom, who looks like he's stuck in the 1970's, he introduces David to the waiting room and fills him in on anything to know. It turns out he is God's assistant, he has a job of asking questions to the "newly dead" to see if they get a spot in the afterlife or not. After a long conversation, David and Tom talk deeply about life, death, and the meaning of living in a great mystery. Will David enter the afterlife? What secrets is Tom hiding from David?

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Eggshells (2022)

Created in response to a traumatic hate crime, artist, Venus Patel, explores her emotional journey through several archetypes, each of whom perform with an egg. Using the weapon of the assailant, the egg itself becomes a tool with many psychological and symbolic meanings within it. The power of reincarnation, birth, nature, hope while also pointing to the power it has to utterly humiliate and embarrass if used in a certain way. There is an embrace of the absurdity of these performances while still speaking to the deeper subject matter. By placing the outlandish characters into public spaces, they confront a preconceived notion of pushing true queer expression into only hidden spaces or only at night, into the daylight and into the normal everyday experience.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

A.G.N.E.S. (2024)

Eros, a renowned business motivator, leads a brilliant career despite his lonely personal life. One day, he gets the chance to try an Artificial Intelligence machine coded A.G.N.E.S., which promises to perform any task given to it. Eros makes a request to A.G.N.E.S., something that should be impossible to fulfill. Will A.G.N.E.S. be able to make it happen?

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Quatro Linhas (2025)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Skate God (TBA)

Oren, a skateboarder in dystopian future, discovers that he is a descendant of the Greek god Zephyrus and is thrust into battle with Gothicized Fallen society that wants to turn the outside world into hell on earth.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction

Empire of the Sharks (2018)

On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller who must learn to marshal a supernatural ability if she is to free her people from the Warlord's dominion.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction