Movies Like VR: Real life

If you liked VR: Real life (2025), a science fiction and romance movie directed by Alice Abibula, 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.

1
Ready Player One (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also science fiction
When the creator of a popular video game system dies, a virtual contest is created to compete for his fortune.
2
eXistenZ (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
A 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.
3
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction
Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.
4
The Signal (2014)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
On a road trip, Nic and two friends are drawn to an isolated area by a computer genius. When everything suddenly goes dark, Nic regains consciousness – only to find himself in a waking nightmare.
5
Surrogates (2009)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
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.
6
2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also science fiction
Niander Wallace introduces a new line of "perfected" replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed.
7
Tron (1982)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn…
8
Frequencies (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and science fiction
The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.
9
Brainstorm (1983)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
10
Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also science fiction
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
11
Coherence (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also science fiction
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
12
Fortress (1992)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction
In the future, the inmates of a private underground prison are computer-controlled with cameras, dream readers, and devices that can cause pain or death. John and his illegally pregnant wife Karen are locked inside…
13
Titan A.E. (2000)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction
A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human race, while an alien species called the Drej are bent on mankind's destruction.
14
The 6th Day (2000)
★ 6/10Also science fiction
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has…
15
9 (2009)
★ 7/10Also science fiction
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that…
16
Daybreakers (2010)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into a vampire. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of…
17
Divergent (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also science fiction
In a world divided into factions based on personality types, Tris learns that she's been classified as Divergent and won't fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find…
18
The 5th Wave (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction
16-year-old Cassie Sullivan tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that has already decimated the population and knocked mankind back to the Stone Age.
19
Space/Time (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction
After a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.
20
The Animatrix (2003)
★ 7.2/10Also science fiction
Straight from the creators of the groundbreaking Matrix trilogy, this collection of short animated films from the world's leading anime directors fuses computer graphics and Japanese anime to provide the background of…