20 best movies like The Matrix (1999)

List of the best movies like The Matrix (1999): Fight Club, Dune, Transcendence, Interstellar, Free Guy, A Beautiful Mind, Inception, Ready Player One, The Wandering Earth, Archive.

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Markimdb: 8.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:11

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada, Hungary

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
Duration01:59

    Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

    Markimdb: 8.6
    Genrefantastic, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration02:49

      Interstellar chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A bank teller called Guy realizes he is a background character in an open world video game called Free City that will soon go offline.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:15

      At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he turns to teaching, becoming romantically involved with his student Alicia. Meanwhile the government asks his help with breaking Soviet codes, which soon gets him involved in a terrifying conspiracy plot. Nash grows more and more paranoid until a discovery that turns his entire world upside down. Now it is only with Alicia's help that he will be able to recover his mental strength and regain his status as the great mathematician we know him as today..

      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: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, India
        Duration01:58

        When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrefantastic, action, drama
        CountryChina
        Duration01:13

        When the Sun begins to expand in such a way that it will inevitably engulf and destroy the Earth in a hundred years, united mankind finds a way to avoid extinction by propelling the planet out of the Solar System using gigantic engines, moving it to a new home located four light years away, an epic journey that will last thousands of years.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary, USA

        2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI, and his latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs—being reunited with his dead wife.

        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: 7.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryAustralia, USA
        Duration02:28

        A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        After a spectacular crash-landing on an uncharted planet, brash astronaut Leo Davidson finds himself trapped in a savage world where talking apes dominate the human race. Desperate to find a way home, Leo must evade the invincible gorilla army led by Ruthless General Thade.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, Australia
        Duration01:43

          In a universe where human genetic material is the most precious commodity, an impoverished young Earth woman becomes the key to strategic maneuvers and internal strife within a powerful dynasty…

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrefantastic, action, drama, cartoon, anime
          CountryJapan

          In the aftermath of the Fourth Impact, stranded without their Evangelions, Shinji, Asuka, and Rei search for refuge in the desolate red remains of Tokyo-3. But the danger to the world is far from over. A new impact is looming on the horizon—one that will prove to be the true end of Evangelion.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA

          A mind-bending love story following Greg who, after recently being divorced and then fired, meets the mysterious Isabel, a woman living on the streets and convinced that the polluted, broken world around them is just a computer simulation. Doubtful at first, Greg eventually discovers there may be some truth to Isabel’s wild conspiracy.

          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: 7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:40

          Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that's just like the 30's with seemingly real people with real emotions.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrefantasy, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, China
          Duration01:42

          John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrefantastic, drama, detective
          CountryPoland, USA

          After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, comedy, drama
          CountryLithuania, USA

          In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genrefantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama
          CountryBelgium, Germany, Canada, France, United Kingdom, Luxembourg, USA
          Duration02:18

            Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:48

            Caleb, a 26 year old 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.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, South Africa
            Duration02:17

            Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one thing that makes Chappie different from any one else: he is a robot.

            Genrefantastic, drama
            Duration02:26

            A robotic boy, the first programmed to love, David is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
            CountryUSA, South Africa, United Kingdom

            After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger.

            Markimdb: 8.3
            Genrefantastic, action, adventure, family, cartoon
            CountryUSA

            Taking place some time between 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy', 'Tron: Uprising' tells the story of Beck, a young program who becomes the skillful leader of a revolution inside the computer world of The Grid.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:57

            Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryAustralia
            Duration02:14

            A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

            Markimdb: 8.2
            Genrecomedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

            Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for consumption by the rest of the world. And everyone he knows -- including his wife and his best friend -- is really an actor, paid to be part of his life.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genreaction, thriller, comedy
            CountryUSA

            Genius hacker Connor discovers Cicada 3301, an online treasure hunt that could be a recruiting tool for a secret society. Soon Conner, art-expert friend Avi, and secretive librarian Gwen are dashing from graffiti sites to ancient libraries to uncover real-world clues. But they must outrun aggressive NSA agents, also hot on the trail of Cicada, who want the glory for themselves.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
            Duration02:13

            In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
            CountrySpain, Bulgaria
            Duration01:50

              Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
              CountryUSA, China, Brazil
              Duration02:36

              An astronaut travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. He uncovers secrets which challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrefantastic, action, adventure, cartoon, crime, anime
              CountryJapan, USA
              Duration01:33

              Based on the comic book by the creator of Ghost in the Shell, a young female soldier Deunan and her cyborg partner Briareos survive through the post World War 3 apocalyptic New York in search of human's future hope, the legendary city of Olympus.

              Markimdb: 8.1
              Genrefantastic, comedy, drama, cartoon, short
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:05

              A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

              Markimdb: 5.5
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:46

              The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
              CountryUSA, New Zealand, Japan
              Duration02:25

              Many thousands of years in the future, Earth’s cities roam the globe on huge wheels, devouring each other in a struggle for ever diminishing resources. On one of these massive traction cities, the old London, Tom Natsworthy has an unexpected encounter with a mysterious young woman from the wastelands who will change the course of his life forever.

              Markimdb: 2.5
              Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
              CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan
              Duration01:32

              Jobe is resuscitated by Jonathan Walker. He wants Jobe to create a special computer chip that would connect all the computers in the world into one network, which Walker would control and use. But what Walker doesn't realize is a group of teenage hackers are on to him and out to stop his plan.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrefantastic, cartoon, anime
              CountryJapan
              Duration01:49

              2067: Isolation: Japan seals herself off from the eyes of the world in the face of unilateral international policy setting strict limits on the use of robotic technology. The island nation exists only behind a veil of seclusion. No soul shall enter. No soul shall leave. 2077: Revelation: The veil is breached. Japan is infiltrated by agents of the organization S.W.O.R.D., a fighting force operating outside of the protection of the United States and her allies. Their mission: Determine if the Japanese are developing banned robotic bio-technology, forbidden due to its threat to humankind. In the battle between machine and man, humanity stands to suffer most.

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
              CountryLuxembourg
              Duration01:52

              The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.

              Markimdb: 5.5
              Genrehorror, thriller, military
              CountryUnited Kingdom

              A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama
              CountryFrance, United Kingdom, USA
              Duration02:06

              In 2257, a taxi driver is unintentionally given the task of saving a young girl who is part of the key that will ensure the survival of humanity.

              Markimdb: 5.4
              Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
              Duration02:09

              A mute man with a violent past is forced to take on the teeming underworld of a near-future Berlin as he searches for his missing girlfriend.

              Markimdb: 3.3
              Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:45

              In a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin – a reluctant warrior with a dark past – sets off on mission to fulfill his destiny. Having fought to the death to save his wife and son from the planets evil dictator – Griffin – and his elite army of hunters, the lone warrior is left for dead in the vast desert. Armed with his samurai blade, Hirokin is forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family and fighting for the freedom his people. In a twist of fate and with a small rebellion by his side Hirokin s vision finally becomes clear.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genrefantastic, action, cartoon, anime
              CountryJapan
              Duration00:30

              The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind the collapse of the world system, and it's up to intelligence agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul across the wreckage of civilizations and to find the true heart of darkness—a genocidal organ.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrefantastic, fantasy, detective
              CountryIceland

              As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope.

              Markimdb: 6
              Genrefantastic, action, adventure
              CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
              Duration01:36

              Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

              Markimdb: 3.6
              Genrefantastic, action
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:41

              Wes Keller is a young man living in a world where oil has collapsed, the food supply has been wiped out, and cancer rates for women have skyrocketed, depleting the female population. In a barbaric environment where bio fuel, batteries, bullets and people are currency and marauders roam free, Wes tries to escape to a mythical world run on cold fusion "Plutopia", a place that may only exist in the mind. THE BILL IS DUE. 'Downstream' is a view of the not so distant future. We follow a young man (everyone's son) as he pays the price for society's decadence.




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