20 best movies like The Matrix (1999)

List of the best movies like The Matrix (1999): I Am Mother, Johnny Mnemonic, Alita: Battle Angel, Cargo, Automata, Ghost in the Shell, The Truman Show, Ready Player One, Inception, A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

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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: 5.6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:38

A data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza. In a dystopian 2021, Johnny (Keanu Reeves) is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks. On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits - and will kill him if the data is not removed in time - but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantastic, action, adventure
CountryUSA, Japan, Canada
Duration02:28

When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

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: 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: 6.3
    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: 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: 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: 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.

      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: 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: 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: 7.5
      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: 5.3
      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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.5
            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: 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.

            Markimdb: 4.2
            Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom
            Duration02:40

            Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrefantastic, action
            CountryUSA

            The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

            Markimdb: 4.7
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller
            CountryUnited Kingdom, South Africa
            Duration01:30

            A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon

            In a world where walking, talking, digitally connected bots have become children's best friends, an 11-year-old finds that his robot buddy doesn't quite work the same as the others do.

            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: 6.2
            Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:45

            Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

            Markimdb: 4.7
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:37

            A former soldier is taken captive and awakens in the back of a van where he learns that he only has less than 10 minutes to figure out how he got there.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryCanada, USA
            Duration01:36

            Spanning over one thousand years, and three parallel stories, The Fountain is a story of love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of our existence in this world.

            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: 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
            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: 5.5
            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?

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