20 best movies like Limitless (2011)


List of the best movies like Limitless (2011): The Wolf of Wall Street, The Words, Inception, Gone Girl, Self/less, Side Effects, True Story, Dragonball Evolution, The Speed of Thought, A Most Violent Year.

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Markimdb: 8.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration03:00

    A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

      The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

      Markimdb: 8.8
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:28

        Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:29

          With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:41

            An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:41

              A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:34

              A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

              Markimdb: 2.5
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA, Mexico, Japan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
              Duration01:25

                The young warrior Son Goku sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo, to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.

                Markimdb: 4.8
                Genrefantastic, thriller
                CountryUSA

                Joshua Lazarus (Nick Stahl) is a telepath who has been raised in a NSA foster home. Lazarus helps the government by using his abilities. He is told by the agency that the telepathy is a side effect of Widmann's Disease, and that he will become insane in time and eventually die from the illness. However, Lazarus meets a woman with similar powers (Taryn Manning) who does not have any sign of the disease, launching Lazarus to confront the lies he has been told

                Markimdb: 7
                Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
                Duration02:05

                A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

                Markimdb: 5.4
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryBulgaria, USA
                Duration02:23

                A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.

                Markimdb: 7.4
                Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure, detective
                CountryUSA, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore
                Duration02:52

                A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:30

                This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.

                Markimdb: 3
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
                CountryUSA

                A PhD student ties unusual tremors in Los Angeles to rogue scientists, who will weaponize Nikola Tesla's secrets and cause massive earthquakes, if they can only find his lost notebook

                Markimdb: 4.8
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:10

                When a crisis threatens to destroy their high school, four teens hatch a daring plan to raise $10 million. Step one? Breaking into the U.S. Mint.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:44

                Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

                Markimdb: 6.1
                Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
                Duration01:45

                Set in a world with memory implants, Alan Hakman is a 'cutter'—someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories—but his latest assignment puts him in great danger.

                Markimdb: 2.2
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure
                CountryUSA

                When an energy experiment goes haywire, a rash of massive hurricanes rips across North America. A high school science teacher must get his family to safety before the hurricanes merge, creating a "hypercane" with the power to wipe the US off the map.

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller
                CountryCanada, USA
                Duration01:52

                Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.

                Markimdb: 6.6
                Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:37

                A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genredrama, biography, sport
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:06

                  The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

                  Markimdb: 5.5
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, biography
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:40

                  A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

                  Markimdb: 5.7
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:07

                  After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.

                  Markimdb: 5.7
                  Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:32

                  After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.

                  Markimdb: 4
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:30

                  Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

                  Markimdb: 6.1
                  Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, France
                  Duration01:46

                  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.

                  Markimdb: 4.9
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:31

                  A group of college friends discover a 15th century coffin that allows them to experience the world as ghosts. While their first adventures in the spirit world are playful and innocent, the "Box of Shadows" soon brings out the group's most dangerous impulses and desires. The friends find themselves pulled into a world of evil where they learn the line between life and death is there for a reason.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:56

                  A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

                  Markimdb: 7.4
                  Genredrama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:31

                  Based on the play of the same name by Pulitzer Prize Winner Cormac McCarthy, this searing two-character drama mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men - a deeply religious black ex-con who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. Locked in a philosophical debate, both passionately defend their personal credos and try to convert the other.

                  Markimdb: 5.7
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:16

                  Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.

                  Markimdb: 6.2
                  Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy
                  CountryCanada, USA, Spain, South Korea
                  Duration01:58

                  A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.

                  Markimdb: 7.7
                  Genredrama, biography
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:56

                    On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among friends soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

                    Markimdb: 6.2
                    Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:48

                    In the near future, due to a breakthrough scientific discovery by Dr. Thomas Harbor, there is now definitive proof of an afterlife. While countless people have chosen suicide to reset their existence, others try to decide what it all means. Among them is Dr. Harbor's son Will, who has arrived at his father's isolated compound with a mysterious young woman named Isla. There, they discover the strange acolytes who help Dr. Harbor with his experiments.

                    Markimdb: 7.9
                    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, Canada, India
                    Duration02:32

                    Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.

                    Markimdb: 8
                    Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:06

                    In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. 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.

                    Markimdb: 5.8
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
                    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
                    Duration02:02

                    Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

                    Markimdb: 5.4
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:21

                    A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

                    Markimdb: 7.5
                    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, Germany
                    Duration02:24

                    A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

                    Markimdb: 5.9
                    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration00:38

                    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.

                    Markimdb: 6.1
                    Genrefantastic, drama, family
                    CountryUSA

                    In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.

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