Movies like The Pleasure Machines (1969)
The best movies like The Pleasure Machines (1969) are Code 8 Part II (2024), Vesper (2022) and Spring (2014). If The Pleasure Machines hooked you with its science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Pleasure Machines
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)8.0/10 from 251 votes
- NewestOmni Loop (2024)Released 2024
Code 8 Part II (2024)
In a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVesper (2022)
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpring (2014)
A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonsters 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 · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human (1999)
David Hyde Pierce, playing an alien (credited as infinity-cubed in the opening credits), narrates a courtship in a late-20th century American city as an extraterrestrial nature documentary. The relationship "footage" is played straight, while the voice-over (with its most often wildly inaccurate theories) and elaborate visual metaphors add comedy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReal Men (1987)
A womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBabylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
After being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest city on record and a clue to a dangerous ancient race.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisF.R.E.D.I. (2018)
An intelligent, lovable robot known as "F.R.E.D.I." is stolen from a secret research facility by the project's lead scientist. The robot is found by a 15 year old teenager, James. Soon the two begin to communicate and create a bond in which F.R.E.D.I. learns about teenage life and James learns about some new values.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisSlash/Back (2022)
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimescape (1992)
Before they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the future who visit the past to witness history's greatest catastrophes—and his small town is their next stop.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrequencies (2013)
The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)
Amy Pond and Rory Williams are trapped on a crashing space liner, and the only way the Eleventh Doctor can rescue them is to save the soul of a lonely old miser. But is Kazran Sardick, the richest man in Sardicktown, beyond redemption? And what is lurking in the fogs of Christmas Eve?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSuperintelligence (2020)
When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol to prove that people are worth saving.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Congress (2013)
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Who: The Runaway Bride (2006)
A young bride in the midst of her wedding finds herself mysteriously transported to the TARDIS. The Doctor must discover what her connection is with the Empress of the Racnoss's plan to destroy the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMeet Cute (2022)
A wildly inventive deconstruction of the romantic comedy built around the question: What would you do if you could travel to your loved ones’ past, heal their traumas, fix their problems, and change them into the perfect partner?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoctor Who: Last Christmas (2014)
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an Arctic base, under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOmni Loop (2024)
Diagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and be the person she always intended to be.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMemoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSex Files: Pleasureville (2000)
Aliens masquerading as owners of a small town video store distribute tapes that cause anyone who watches them to pleasure themselves and whoever else is nearby.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Femaliens: Seduction of the Species (2017)
The Femaliens have touched down, and they want to get down! They’ve come from the far reaches of sexyspace to seduce mankind any way they can. With their assets in tow, the Femaliens crash land on Venice Beach and find primitive man needing lessons in seduction. As ambassadors of passion, the ladies fulfill their mission and turn the cave boys into cave men! Masters of time and space, the babes return to Venice Beach and find partygoers needing assistance in cutting loose. The Femaliens use their skills to teach the co-eds how to keep the party going for years to come! From Homo Erectus to the modern day (well... the 90’s) these troupes of hard-bodied humanoids show the inhabitants of planet earth how to lose their inhibitions and perpetuate the species!
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
SpiderBabe (2003)
A socially awkward young woman gets bitten by a radioactive spider and becomes a crime-fighting superhero and tries to defeat a nefarious super villain while going after any man (or woman) she wants to bed down with.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisVirgin Hunters 3: Agents of Passion (2017)
Earth is no place for virgins. The Virgin Hunters are back in the latest installment of the hit series that keeps - going.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
T&A Time Travelers (2017)
Strap on HARD and TIGHT for the ultimate pleasure trip through LUST, SPACE, and TIME! Watch as forbidden time travelers journey through history and the "Final Frontier" of sexual pleasures. History has never been this NAUGHTY or this HOT in this trilogy of T&A TIME TRAVELERS.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Holocaust Cannibal (2014)
Nearing the end of WWII, Nazis realize that their defeat is imminent, so a handful of them board a plane bound for Argentina, where they plan to live in hiding. During the flight, lightning hits the plane and the SS parachute onto an island populated by savages. Atrocities await.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Femalien 2 (1998)
Two aliens come to Earth to find their missing comrade from the first movie.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Emmanuelle: First Contact (1994)
Emmanuelle makes first contact...when a group of intergalactic travelers arrives, seeking to understand human love and sexuality. Who better to teach them than Emmanuelle, the most sensual woman in the world...and beyond.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Raid on Passion Planet (2018)
In the depths of sexy space, orbiting the hottest star in the galaxy, is a planet of space babes and astro-nymphs who crave a close encounter with the men of Earth. These cosmic cuties have nothing to do all day but frolic in the company of the other nubile natives of the Passion Planet. But not all is soft and pink on this orgasmic orb. Wicked Women’s Prison Colony Wardens and Puritanical Political Putas threaten to harsh the welcoming vibe of this homogenous hive of horny hotties, and when interplanetary invaders arrive to haul their sisters onto sex trafficking slave ships, they set their phasers to stun for a red hot revenge. So put your ion engines on full thrust and engage these interstellar beauties in a sensual showdown in the naked reaches of seductive space and witness firsthand the perils of a poontang planet.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Invisible Hentai Man: 60 Secretive Minutes (2014)
At a university hospital, a love story is drawn between a dull resident, Nobuhiko Kitagawa, who finds the secret drug to become a transparent human being, and a beautiful nurse, Narumi Sano.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Pleasure Machines?
The closest matches to The Pleasure Machines are Code 8 Part II (2024), Vesper (2022) and Spring (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Pleasure Machines?
Start with Code 8 Part II (2024), the closest match to The Pleasure Machines.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Pleasure Machines?
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010), rated 8.0/10 by 251 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Pleasure Machines?
Omni Loop (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Pleasure Machines?
Yes: Code 8 Part II (2024), Vesper (2022) and Spring (2014).
How are movies similar to The Pleasure Machines chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Pleasure Machines, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.