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Movies Like This Is The Future

If you liked This Is The Future (2019), a movie directed by Hito Steyerl, 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. 1Automata

    Automata (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10

    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.

  2. 2Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

    Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2026)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A 'Man from the Future' arrives at an LA diner where he must recruit the precise combination of disgruntled patrons to join him on a one-night quest to save the world from the terminal threat of a rogue artificial…

  3. 3The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

    The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026)

    ★ 7/10

    A 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.

  4. 4Dark Star

    Dark Star (1974)

    ★ 6/10

    A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to…

  5. 5Ex Machina

    Ex Machina (2015)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Caleb, a 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…

  6. 6Weird Science

    Weird Science (1985)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a…

  7. 7Hardware

    Hardware (1990)

    ★ 6/10

    Mark 13 is a government-built killing machine programmed with artificial intelligence, able to repair and recharge itself from any energy source. Through a series of coincidences, the cyborg's head ends up in the home…

  8. 8Her

    Her (2013)

    ★ 7.8/10

    In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his…

  9. 9A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

    ★ 7.1/10

    David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—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…

  10. 10Upgrade

    Upgrade (2018)

    ★ 7.5/10

    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…

  11. 11The Machine

    The Machine (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10

    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…

  12. 12Wifelike

    Wifelike (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A 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…

  13. 13Swan Song

    Swan Song (2021)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In 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…

  14. 14Jexi

    Jexi (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Phil's new phone comes with an unexpected feature, Jexi...an A.I. determined to keep him all to herself in a comedy about what can happen when you love your phone more than all else.

  15. 15Silent Running

    Silent Running (1972)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor…

  16. 16The Artifice Girl

    The Artifice Girl (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond…

  17. 17Hardball

    Hardball (2001)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking, agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

  18. 18Primer

    Primer (2004)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

  19. 19Knight Rider

    Knight Rider (2008)

    ★ 6.3/10

    When a group of ruthless mercenaries kill a reclusive scientist, his creation, a new model of artificially intelligent supercar, escapes to find his daughter and recruit a ex-soldier to thwart them. Pilot for the…

  20. 20Cloud Atlas

    Cloud Atlas (2012)

    ★ 6.9/10

    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…

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