Movies like I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE (1996)
The best movies like I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE (1996) are Code 8 Part II (2024), 2073 (2024) and Nowhere (1997). If I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE hooked you with its science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedDoctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010)8.0/10 from 251 votes
- NewestAfterburn (2025)Released 2025
- In JapaneseThe Whispering Star (2015)Also in Japanese
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 this2073 (2024)
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and personal freedom have been well and truly obliterated.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNowhere (1997)
In Los Angeles, a colorful assortment of bohemians try to make sense of their intersecting lives. The moody Dark Smith, his bisexual girlfriend, her lesbian lover and their shy gay friend plan on attending the wildest party of the year. But they'll only make it if they can survive the drug trips, suicides, trysts, mutilations and alien abductions that occur as one surreal day unfolds.
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 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 thisLight of My Life (2019)
Years after a pandemic wipes out most of the female population, a father struggles to shield his daughter from a dangerous and predatory world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wave (2019)
A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVoyagers (2021)
With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women -- bred for intelligence and obedience -- embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. When they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they soon become consumed by fear, lust and an insatiable hunger for power.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Giver (2014)
In a seemingly perfect community, without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the "real" world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Kovak Box (2006)
David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisChaos Walking (2021)
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
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 thisThe Whispering Star (2015)
A feminine android delivers packages to scattered humans throughout the galaxy. With years to spare, the android and us have time to contemplate the meaning of being human.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpectral (2016)
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
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 thisAfterburn (2025)
Set against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of treasure hunters who extract such objects as the Mona Lisa, the Rosetta Stone and the Crown Jewels while facing rival hunters, mutants and pirates.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Zero Theorem (2013)
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForbidden Games (1997)
The Hercules 4th planet is on the verge of death due to a strange disease that affects only men. The existence of organisms with similar genes was needed for making therapeutic drugs. At the end of a long journey in space, they finally arrive on earth. Residents of an apartment start to disappear one after another on that day. And suddenly, a mysterious young man named Suzuki appears.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Lustmord (1987)
Eiji, a teenager eager to follow in his late father's scientific footsteps perfects one of his old experiments to diminish the barrier between pain and pleasure.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Big Computer (1997)
Naichi Ryoichi, an intimate young man who had a secret love in his fellow friend Tomomi (Shiraishi shirami), was one of the only fun things to update with his friends who were not familiar with the Internet. Ryoichi, who met...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Entrails of a Beautiful Woman (1986)
A nurse starts to investigate why a woman who came to her office committed suicide. She discovers that a Yakuza gang is using an unusual drug to sexually enslave women. But she gets caught and when she is injected with the drug rather gruesome side effects appear, much to the surprise of the gang.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Rusted Body (1987)
A sexually insatiable woman leads a strange clan consisting of a sadistically unhinged woman, her oversexed boyfriend and a former army general. They have captured a businessman who has diverted company assets and work him over with torture and kinky sex to make him reveal the account number. Will he keep mum or will the clan get their way?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Tokyo Species (2012)
Michiko a high school girl had committed suicide, but she was resuscitated by an alien parasitism. While she brutally murdered men and spawned one after another, her friend Rika met Mayumi. Mayumi was told that she was parasitized by a gentle alien. They decided to fight Michiko.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Siren the Ghost Story Returns (1996)
The Internet, where anyone can easily come and go. In this virtual cyber world, a magical being with a will lives.... A strange rumor whispered among net surfers. It was a rumor that if one accessed the address "siren", he/she could experience virtual sex with a beautiful girl living in the Internet. In reality, however, those who access the address invariably disappear mysteriously. Ohtaka, who works for a computer software production company, heard this story from a colleague and at first thought it was ridiculous. One day, however, he goes missing, leaving behind a note with the address of "siren".
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Devil's Body (1987)
Following a rape, a woman contracts a strange disease that makes men die after having sex with her.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Groper Train: Under Skirt (1986)
A girl who is always a maiden at heart is a big fan of a romantic poet from the Taisho era, and wants to buy a first edition of his poetry collection that she found in a used bookstore, but it is too expensive for her. She has no choice but to work part-time at a snack bar to save up the money. One day, a pink rainbow flies into her room, and at the same time as the shock, a strange man dressed in outdated clothes appears. The man is actually a poet and a big fan of her, a scientist, and has ended up lost in the present day due to a malfunction of the time machine he made, but of course she has no idea about it. The man is surprised at the transformation of Tokyo, but what is even more surprising is that the woman in front of him is the spitting image of his girlfriend from his original world...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
Zecchô no onna (1976)
In order to win a spy war between companies, a company develops a cyborg sex machine that has no female emotions whatsoever, to infiltrate a rival company with a woman and use her own body to steal information from the opposing company. The older sister, who was transformed into this corporate spy sex machine, dies mysteriously. It was because she fell in love with a man from the rival company, and for some reason, despite being a cyborg, she became a real woman in front of him at the end. Unaware of these circumstances, the younger sister volunteers to become the cyborg sex machine herself in order to find out the truth about her sister's death...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both science fiction
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What are the best movies like I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE?
The closest matches to I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE are Code 8 Part II (2024), 2073 (2024) and Nowhere (1997). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE?
Start with Code 8 Part II (2024), the closest match to I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE.
What is the highest-rated movie like I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE?
Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol (2010), rated 8.0/10 by 251 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE?
Afterburn (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Japanese movies like I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE?
Yes: The Whispering Star (2015), Forbidden Games (1997) and Lustmord (1987).
How are movies similar to I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside I Stand Alone - SEX & LOVE, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.