Movies Like Attrition
If you liked Attrition (2023), a movie directed by Silas Tibbs, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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1984 (1956)
★ 6.5/10In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
★ 6.8/10Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of…
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The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026)
★ 6.9/10A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity, and explores the most powerful technology humanity has ever created... and what's at stake if we get it wrong.
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Swan Song (2021)
★ 7.1/10In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking…
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Automata (2014)
★ 5.9/10Jacq 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.
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Orwell: 2+2=5 (2025)
★ 7.2/10George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th century, whose novels 1984 and Animal Farm foretold a chilling, authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck interweaves clips, readings from…
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The Young One (1960)
★ 7/10A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
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Chappie (2015)
★ 6.8/10Every 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…
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Advantageous (2015)
★ 6/10In 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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Hungry Hearts (2015)
★ 6.5/10The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
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The Jacket (2005)
★ 6.9/10A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
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THX 1138 (1971)
★ 6.4/10People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As…
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Nine Days (2021)
★ 6.8/10A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
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Wifelike (2022)
★ 6.5/10A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…
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eXistenZ (1999)
★ 6.8/10A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
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WarGames (1983)
★ 7.1/10High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and…
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The Bed Sitting Room (1969)
★ 5.9/10In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
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The Domestics (2018)
★ 6.2/10A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
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Code 46 (2003)
★ 6.2/10In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria…