Movies Like Memory Project

If you liked Memory Project (2026), a thriller and history movie directed by Moth Parsons, 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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Experimenter (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and history
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in…
2
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and drama
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true…
3
The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and drama
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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The Wave (1981)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thriller
A teacher conducts an experiment in an American high school where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany.
5
2073 (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and drama
Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…
6
Rogue Agent (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and drama
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
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UNABOMBER (2026)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama
Follow Ted Kaczynski's transformation from Harvard prodigy into the infamous Unabomber. Subjected to controversial psychological experiments by Professor Henry Murray, Kaczynski's troubled past resurfaces decades later…
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The Mandela Effect (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and drama
A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to…
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Just Mercy (2019)
★ 7.8/10Also drama and history
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence…
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Right at Your Door (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller
A dirty bomb goes off in Los Angeles, jamming freeways and spreading a toxic cloud.
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Victor Frankenstein (2015)
★ 6/10Also drama and thriller
While searching for animal body parts at a London circus, radical scientist Victor Frankenstein meets gifted surgeon Igor Strausman. Not only does the brilliant doctor offer Strausman his friendship, but also a chance…
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The Jacket (2005)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thriller
A 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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Driven (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and history
FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
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Plan A (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and drama
Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families…
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Stormageddon (2015)
★ 6/10Also drama and thriller
What happens when you ask the most powerful computer program, run by the most powerful computers, to follow, listen and predict human behavior? The program learns, becomes sentient and begins to behave like a human…
17
The Secrets We Keep (2020)
★ 6/10Also thriller and history
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and drama
A highly intelligent chimpanzee named Caesar has been living a peaceful suburban life ever since he was born. But when he gets taken to a cruel primate facility, Caesar decides to revolt against those who have harmed…
19
Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thriller
A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
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Light It Up (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thriller
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.