Movies like Creative Control
If Creative Control hooked you with its drama and science fiction, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Empathy, Inc. (2018)
Desperate to get back on top, venture capitalist Joel meets Nicolaus and Lester, entrepreneurs seeking investors for Empathy, Inc., a virtual reality startup offering realistic and moving experiences for users by placing them in the lives of the less fortunate. Joel gets the startup its funds but soon discovers the tech's creators have a far more insidious agenda.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmelia 2.0 (2017)
After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive her. He's approached by Wesley Enterprises pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human’s relationship with technology and her right to exist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
1985 (2018)
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEx 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: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSleep Dealer (2008)
Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three strangers risk their lives to connect with each other and break the barriers of technology.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisRelaxer (2019)
Y2K is approaching fast, but Abbie can’t get off the couch until he beats an unbeatable level on Pac-Man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEquals (2015)
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAuggie (2021)
Forced into early retirement, Felix Greystone falls in love with an augmented reality companion, to the detriment of his relationship with his wife and daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Marjorie Prime (2017)
A service which creates holographic projections of late family members allows an elderly woman to spend time with a younger version of her deceased husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHer (2013)
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUncanny (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: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDetroit Evolution (2020)
It's been one year since Markus freed the androids of Detroit. The most advanced android ever created, Nines, has evolved past his initial programming as a ruthless hunter, and now protects the city as a DPD detective. But as new crimes and dangers start to threaten RK900 himself, he must also juggle his growing fondness for his partner, Detective Gavin Reed, and navigate everything that they mean to one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Another End (2024)
In a future where consciousness can be transferred, Sal is urged by his sister to try a breakthrough technology that implants the memories and personality of the dead into the living. After the passing of his wife, Sal must decide how far he's willing to go to reconnect with the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJonathan (2018)
Jonathan is a young man with a strange condition that only his brother understands. But when he begins to yearn for a different life, their unique bond becomes increasingly tested.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisColossal (2017)
A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife Like (2019)
Sophie and James purchase a lifelike robot to cook and clean at their sprawling new home. At first, android Henry is quiet and hard-working. But as his artificial-intelligence programming kicks in, Henry starts to anticipate the couple’s needs and desires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAfter Yang (2022)
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRememory (2017)
The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDownsizing (2017)
A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Man from Earth (2007)
A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMidnight Special (2016)
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDual (2022)
A terminally ill woman opts for a cloning procedure to ease her loss on her friends and family. When she makes a miraculous recovery, her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail and lead to a court-mandated duel to the death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisImitation Girl (2017)
A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an outward appearance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
Teknolust (2002)
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist, creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlade Runner 2049 (2017)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisZoe (2018)
Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisElectroma (2006)
Two robots embark on a quest to become human.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarguerite (2015)
Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrian 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: Fans watch both · both drama & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Creative Control?
The closest matches to Creative Control are Empathy, Inc., Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Amelia 2.0.
How are movies similar to Creative Control chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Creative Control, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.
Are there English movies like Creative Control?
Yes: Empathy, Inc., Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, Amelia 2.0.