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Movies like Earthly Body

The best movies like Earthly Body are Upgrade (2018), The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) and Subservience (2024). If Earthly Body hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. 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

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  2. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026)

    A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity, and explores the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what's at stake if we get it wrong.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  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

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  4. Uncanny (2015)

    For ten years, inventor David Kressen has lived in seclusion with his inventions, including Adam, a robot with incredible lifelike human qualities. When reporter Joy Andrews is given access to their unconventional facility, she is alternately repelled and attracted to the scientist and his creation. But as Adam exhibits emergent behavior of anger and jealousy towards her, she finds herself increasingly entangled in a web of deception where no one’s motives are easily decipherable.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

  5. 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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  6. 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

  7. 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

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  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Lucy (2014)

    A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. 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

  12. Impostor (2001)

    A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. WarGames (1983)

    High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. 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

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  15. Unknown: Killer Robots (2023)

    What happens when a machine makes life-or-death decisions? This documentary explores the dangers of artificial intelligence in military application.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. 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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  17. Chappie (2015)

    Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. 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

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  19. Looker (1981)

    Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts killing his beautiful patients, Dr. Roberts becomes suspicious and starts investigating. What he uncovers are the mysterious - and perhaps murderous - activities of a high-tech computer company called Digital Matrix.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Paycheck (2003)

    Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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What are the best movies like Earthly Body?

The closest matches to Earthly Body are Upgrade (2018), The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) and Subservience (2024). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Earthly Body?

Start with Upgrade (2018), the closest match to Earthly Body.

What is the highest-rated movie like Earthly Body?

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

What is the newest movie like Earthly Body?

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

Are there English movies like Earthly Body?

Yes: Upgrade (2018), The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) and Subservience (2024).

How are movies similar to Earthly Body chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Earthly Body, 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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