20 best movies like Limitless (2011)


List of the best movies like Limitless (2011): The Wolf of Wall Street, The Social Network, Prodigy, Time Lapse, The Discovery, Arrival, Her, Self/less, The Divide, The Trust.

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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: 7.7
    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: 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: 6.5
      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: 6.2
      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: 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: 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: 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.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:11

        When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:31

        Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner, they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complicates both his scientific and and spiritual beliefs. Traveling half way around the world, he risks everything he has ever known to validate his theory.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:29

          On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

          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: 6.9
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:17

          Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA

          A masked vigilante who discovers the dark side to heroism. Going after the nation's most notorious super criminal leaves Sparks' life and reputation in ruins.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:31

          Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genredrama, crime, biography
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

          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: 5.6
            Genrethriller, drama, biography
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:16

            Led by their fellow preppie friend Joe Hunt, a group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrefantastic, thriller, crime
            CountryHungary
            Duration01:58

            Drugdealer wants get out of the circle with his pregnant girlfriend and a time loop effect makes it more complicated.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, China
            Duration02:09

            In a series of escalating encounters, security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:03

            In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

            Markimdb: 8.5
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:05

              A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA, Greece
              Duration01:50

              A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.

              Markimdb: 3.1
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:30

              Abby and Rebecca Powell haven't seen each other since a traumatic event in their youth ripped them apart. Reunited for the first time in over a decade, the sisters take a trip to spread their mother's ashes at a secluded lake. As the sisters reconnect and try to heal old wounds, something waits in the nearby woods. A strange object, made not by the hands of man, beckons them to it. As they begin to try and unlock its secrets, Abby is plagued by nightmares of an alien presence that seem all too real. Little do the sisters realize that this object is actually a device, one with a purpose too horrible to comprehend. As the events of the past and the present begin to merge, new discoveries will threaten to tear apart their newly reformed family, and the inhuman creators of the device will attempt to finish a terrible experiment begun years before.

              Markimdb: 4.4
              Genrefantastic, thriller
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:30

              When a group of teenagers stumble upon a secret lab, they become part of a deadly experiment - The Recreator - evil human clones. Craig, Tracy and Derek come face to face with exact copies of themselves that have only one purpose; to find and kill their originals. With time running out it's up to the original group to destroy the lab and save themselves before they are replaced. Gregory Orr's exciting thriller brings science fiction to life with a sexy edge.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration02:34

                A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.

                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: 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: 6.1
                  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.




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