Skip to content

Movies like V.E.R.A. (2026)

The best movies like V.E.R.A. (2026) are Tau (2018), Companion (2025) and Subservience (2024). If V.E.R.A. hooked you with its science fiction and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

Quick picks

  1. Tau (2018)

    Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  2. Companion (2025)

    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.

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

    Worth the HypeMovies like this

  3. Subservience (2024)

    With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer... Like the affection of her owner and she'll kill to get it.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  4. Soulm8te (2026)

    After a ruthless tech giant acquires a small robotics company, a grieving engineer is tasked with testing their new AI companion. But when he attempts to reprogram her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops needs of her own—unleashing a relentless spree of precision-engineered mayhem.

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

    Worth the HypeMovies like this

  5. The Signal (2007)

    A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  6. Possessor (2020)

    Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  7. Morgan (2016)

    A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  8. Afraid (2024)

    Curtis Pike and his family are selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA observes the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can – and will – make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family's way.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  9. 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 thriller & science fiction

    Worth the HypeMovies like this

  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 · both science fiction & thriller

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  11. Simulant (2023)

    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.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  12. Demon Seed (1977)

    A scientist creates Proteus, an organic supercomputer with artificial intelligence which becomes obsessed with human beings, and in particular the creator's wife.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  13. Deadly Friend (1986)

    When tragedy strikes his remarkable robot and the beautiful girl next door, lonely teenage genius Paul tries to save them by pushing technology beyond its known limits into a terrifying new realm.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  14. The Artifice Girl (2023)

    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.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  15. Awareness (2023)

    Ian is a teenager who lives with his father on the outskirts by running small scams using Ian's ability to generate visual illusions upon unsuspecting victims. When one of his cons goes awry, his abilities publicly spiral out of control and Ian becomes the target of two rival organizations, each seeking to exploit his powers.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  16. Margaux (2022)

    As a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a dystopian nightmare as they realize Margaux's plans to eliminate her tenants one way or another. Time begins to run out as the group desperately tries to survive and outsmart the smart home.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  17. Brainscan (1994)

    A lonely teenage horror fan and video gamer plays a new immersive and hypnotic computer game where he becomes a psychopathic killer, but when he emerges, he finds that the murder has actually happened.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  18. 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 & thriller

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  19. Prodigy (2017)

    Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he begins to understand the extent of her capabilities and the fate that has been planned for her, he struggles to overcome her defenses before it is too late for them both.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  20. Books of Blood (2020)

    A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  21. e-Virus (2015)

    While helping the CIA to develop a deadly computer virus, a computer engineer finds himself as the target of an assassination.

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

    NewMovies like this

  22. A Sound of Thunder (2005)

    When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  23. The Lawnmower Man (1992)

    A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  24. Free Fall (2025)

    Cut off from his crew by a devastating proton storm, repairman Max drifts alone through open space and must trust Delta dispatcher Anna to bring him home alive. But survival has never felt so uncertain.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  25. M3GAN 2.0 (2025)

    After the underlying tech for M3GAN is stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia, M3GAN's creator Gemma realizes that the only option is to resurrect M3GAN and give her a few upgrades, making her faster, stronger, and more lethal.

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

    Worth the HypeMovies like this

  26. The House (2021)

    A married couple retreats to a luxury, high-tech, fully automated house on a remote island. The house AI system goes rogue and turns against them.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  27. Stealth (2005)

    Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.

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

    SnoozefestMovies like this

  28. Flight of the Navigator (1986)

    12-year-old David is accidentally knocked out in the forest near his home, but when he awakens eight years have passed. His family is overjoyed to have him back, but is just as perplexed as he is that he hasn't aged. When a NASA scientist discovers a UFO nearby, David gets the chance to unravel the mystery and recover the life he lost.

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

    Worth the HypeMovies like this

  29. Iron Man 2 (2010)

    With the world now aware of his dual life as the armored superhero Iron Man, billionaire inventor Tony Stark faces pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Unwilling to let go of his invention, Stark, with Pepper Potts and James 'Rhodey' Rhodes at his side, must forge new alliances – and confront powerful enemies.

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

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this

  30. Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

    Cyborg detective Batou is assigned to investigate a series of murders committed by gynoids—doll-like cyborgs, which all malfunctioned, killed, then self-destructed afterwards. The brains of the gynoids initialize in order to protect their manufacturer's software, but in one gynoid, which Batou himself neutralized, one file remains: a voice speaking the phrase "Help me."

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

    Worth the HypeMovies like this

Like V.E.R.A. and something else?

Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.

Blend With V.E.R.A.See on Movie Map AI

Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like V.E.R.A.?

The closest matches to V.E.R.A. are Tau (2018), Companion (2025) and Subservience (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after V.E.R.A.?

Start with Tau (2018), the closest match to V.E.R.A..

What is the highest-rated movie like V.E.R.A.?

Upgrade (2018), rated 7.5/10 by 5,377 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like V.E.R.A.?

Soulm8te (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there Spanish movies like V.E.R.A.?

Yes: Awareness (2023).

How are movies similar to V.E.R.A. chosen?

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

↑ ↓ to move · Enter to open · Full search page