20 best movies like Upgrade (2018)

List of the best movies like Upgrade (2018): Transcendence, Chappie, Ghost in the Shell, The Invisible Man, Hitman: Agent 47, Superintelligence, Morgan, Mute, The Machine, Archive.

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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: 6.8
    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.

    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: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

    When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada
    Duration02:26

      An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, save or destroy humanity, it’s up to Carol to prove that people are worth saving.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:23

      A corporate risk-management consultant must determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.

      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: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      Already deep into a second Cold War, Britain’s Ministry of Defense seeks a game-changing weapon. Programmer Vincent McCarthy unwittingly provides an answer in The Machine, a super-strong human cyborg. When a programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground, far away from inquisitive eyes.

      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: 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: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
      Duration02:27

      Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

      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: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.

        Markimdb: 8.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:25

        During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA

        Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrefantastic, action
        CountryUSA, Hungary

        In the near future, a drone pilot is sent into a deadly militarized zone and must work with an android officer to locate a doomsday device.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
        CountryUSA, Netherlands, United Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:35

        Los Angeles, June 21st, 2028. While the streets are being torn apart by riots, the Nurse, who runs a clandestine hospital for criminals in the penthouse of the Artemis, a closed old hotel, has a rough night dealing with troublemaker clients: thieves, assassins, someone from the past and the one who owns the place and the whole city.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:59

          Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

          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: 7.4
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA, Japan

          Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genreaction, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          Spenser, a former Boston patrolman who just got out from prison, teams up with Hawk, an aspiring fighter, to unravel the truth behind the death of two police officers.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrefantastic, action
          CountryUSA, China

          After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine—'Bloodshot'. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers the man that killed both him and his wife, he breaks out of the facility to get revenge, only to discover that there's more to the conspiracy than he thought.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA

          Colonel Robert Sikes is on a mission to rid his city of crime. As a stealthy, one-man assault team, he will take on street gangs, mobsters, and politicians with extreme prejudice until his mission is complete. His former protégé, William Porter, teams up with the local police department to bring his former commander to justice and prevent him from further vigilantism.

          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: 5.8
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
          Duration02:24

          Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryGermany

          Alma is a scientist at Berlin's famous Pergamon Museum. In order to obtain research funds for her studies, she accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence designed to allow it to morph into that of her ideal life partner. Enter Tom, a machine in human form, created to make her happy.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          Wifes and children of the Mormon Orville Beecham become victims of a massacre in his own house. The police believes the crime had a religious motive. Orville doesn't give any comment on the case, is taken into protective custody. Journalist Smith persuades him to help him in the investigation - and finds out about economic motives for the murder.

          Markimdb: 2.9
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA, Spain, Sweden

          In a not too distant future, a totalitarian state run by ‘The Director” (Seagal) controls all aspects of life. All enemies of the state are dealt in the harshest way. Most of them are executed by the secret government’s assassins. The best operative is code-named “Condor” (Messner) – an elite agent and hit man for the government. However, in his latest assignment, “Condor” fails to kill an opposition leader, and finds himself on the run from the very same government agency that he works for. This sets in motion a chain of events with unforseen consequences for all involved.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genreaction, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, Czech Republic, France, China
          Duration02:17

          The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:32

          A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

          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: 5.7
          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: 5.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, China
          Duration02:33

          Jack Reacher must uncover the truth behind a major government conspiracy in order to clear his name. On the run as a fugitive from the law, Reacher uncovers a potential secret from his past that could change his life forever.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

          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: 3.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA

          A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.

          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: 6.1
          Genrefantastic, action, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:57

          In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

          Markimdb: 3.7
          Genrehorror, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Mexico
          Duration01:30

          The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

          Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been cryogenically frozen after being wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:38

          A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
          CountryUSA

          As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada, France, Turkey
          Duration01:41

            The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.




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