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- Worlds within worlds
- Persons are not what they seem
- The end changes the movie completely (twist-at-the-end).
Matrix movies
Welcome to the Desert of the Real...
Choices, damn choices. Destiny, damn destiny. Trinity, damn Trinity...
Will Zion fall?
Prequels and side stories of the Matrix universe.
Movies similar to the Matrix movies
In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity. You can treat this as a possible prelude to the Animatrix.
A man goes on the run after he discovers that the closed-off, utopian world he lives in is actually a facade for the true purpose of the facility: to keep its clone inhabitants healthy for organ harvesting. Very similar to the Matrix in many ways, including quotes.
Instead of taking an actual vacation on Mars, a man has false memories of a Mars vacation implanted in his mind. After the procedure, his world turns upside down: are the wild events taking place around him really happening or are they a part of his memory implants? Is his identity real or an implant as well?
A man without memories is confronted with beings with telekinetic powers. Why doesn't the sun ever shine?
Note: The rooftops in Matrix 1 are a reference to this movie. Other "styles" of this movie are also copied by Matrix 1.
A computer scientist responsible for creating a reality-simulation program discovers something about our world that will change everything. His colleague enters the simulation to find out what it is.
This is the American remake of Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes). Tom Cruise finds his world to turn into surreal after a car accident. Penelope Cruz plays the part of Sophia which she also played in the original.
Abre los Ojos (Open Your Eyes) (1997)
A rich attractive arrogant young man finds the girl of his dreams in Sophia (played by Penelope Cruz) but his hopes with her are soon ruined by the antics of one of his ex-lovers. Directed by Alejandro Amenebar (The Others) and far superior to Cameron Crowe's American remake.
Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron, able to simulate a full featured reality.
What is real? What is a game?
A psychologist tries to cure a child who claims, "I can see dead people."
Ex-cop deals with 'human memory' discs.
A programmer is "digitalized" and has to fight within a processor unit.
Billie Pilgrim lives a multi-life. He survives the bombing of Dresden 1945, then lives simultaneously in his past as a young American, in the future on another planet and in the present in the USA.
Are dreams real or just dreams? A captured in a dream meets many characters who talk about the meaning, perception, and reality of existence.
Two teenagers find themselves in a 1950's sitcom.
A mathematical genius starts to work for the government in cryptography, and soon his life turns upside down.
A spaceship rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned.
Note: Laurence Fishburn (Morpheus) acts
A man is gassed and wakes up as "Number 6" in a prison village wondering who is "Number One"?
Note: Neo plays #6 in Matrix 2
The future: Replicants (artificial humans|androids) have to be tracked down and killed.
A psychologist investigates a space station orbiting a strange planet. Oddly, people begin to appear on the space station who should not be there because they are already somewhere else... or dead.
Your entire life... is a show.
The world is so strange. Is it too perfect?
20 years ago, a meteorite fell to Earth into an area, now known as The Zone. Stories purport that there is an inner chamber within 'The Zone' called 'The Room' that grants one's deepest wish.
A stranger introduces a man to a new way of life.
One after one dies. What do they have in common?
A man suffering from a type of brain damage that leaves him with no short-term memory seeks revenge against the murderer of his wife. But is there any point to his actions if he cannot remember them?
Note: Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) and Joe Pantoliano (Cypher) act
A young actress helps a woman with amnesia. Lots of lesbian sex and surrealism ensues.
Lost Highway Basically the same movie as above only with heterosexual sex, by the same director (David Lynch).
Harry Angel, a private investigator, is hired by a mysterious stranger to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite.
An isolated hotel is haunted during the winter time.
Bug exterminator finds his wife being addicted to his bug powder. He becomes an agent on a mission.
Note: One should make a naked-lunch-explained.com website. This movie is one of the craziest you will ever see.
In the year 2021, the entire planet is connected to the internet and half of it is suffering from a disease known as Nerve Attenuation Syndrome or N.A.S. A data courier named Johnny is hired to carry crucial information, that may contain a cure, while being pursued by an evil corporation.
Note: Keanu Reeves plays the title character whose brain is used to store the data.
A salvage crew discovers a long-lost 1962 passenger ship. Strange things happen.
James Woods discovers a show, broadcast on a pirate signal, called "Videodrome". The show features nothing but extreme sex and violence. When trying to get a copy of the show for his controversial television network, he discovers that Videodrome is much more sinister than he could have possibly imagined.
(Cannot confirm similarity)Agents force Martin Bishop to steal a secret box. Blackmails and intrigues.
A scientist develops a machine to record, play and implant memories&emotions of others.
The future: emotions are forbidden. John Preston is after those reading books and hearing music. When he misses a dose of Prozium, a drug that suppresses emotions, he becomes the only person capable of overthrowing the regime.
The future: A scientist is suddenly suspected to be an alien spy. He doesn't know anything about that and flees.
A woman living in an old house with her photosensitive children becomes convinced that the house is haunted.
The future: Humans are connected to networks, power-cyborgs fight computer hacking, humans love machines. Was one of the original inspirations for The Matrix.
Note: Considered to be one of the best Anime movies.
Skynet, an evil artificial intelligence, sends unstoppable cyborgs ('Terminators') back in time to destroy John Conner before he becomes leader of the human rebellion against the machines. John Conner sends special 'agents' of his own to the past to ensure his younger self survives into the future...
A man begins working for a corporation as a double agent. Just as he is beginning to enjoy this new lifestyle, he meets Rita and things take an unexpected turn.
Kamue discovers that he is the only person who can save the world from the dragons of earth, but all he wishes to do is protect those he loves. When Kamue is approached by his opposite who supports the dragons of Earth, he has little choice but to fulfill his destiny whether he wills it or not. Fantastic artwork, an enthralling story and a superb introduction to the exceptional manga which tells the story in more detail.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
The deadly asassin, Black Mamba, is beaten by her fellow teammates and shot by her boss and lover, Bill. After four years in a coma she is determined to have revenge against all of the people who wronged her. As she searches for and engages each of her former teammates, she get closer to her final goal: kill Bill!
Another movie based on a Philip K. Dick story. Man builds the perfect weapon, but the weapon evolves.
In the future, people play an addictive war game by connecting their minds to a computer. The main character is a young woman who is quite addicted to the game and thus very skilled. She eventually achived what only very few others had done before: She won all levels. Rumors say, there is a secret, ultimate level which can be accessed by finding a mysterious ghost in the form of a child. Once this level ist entered the only way out is to win it or to die. But there is something else about this special level which may change the perception of reality and simulation for every player that comes this far.
A reverse-engineer performs contract work that is so top secret that he must have his memory erased after each project. After his longest and most profitable project, in which he was supposed to earn a paycheck well into the eight figures, he discovers that he had waived his own right to his money before his memory was erased. Running from the FBI and others out to apprehend him for a crime he can't recall, the reverse-engineer finds an envelope from himself with 19 mysterious items that help him evade capture and give him clues about what really happened during his last commission. Based on a Philip K. Dick story
A John Carpenter movie that tells the story about a down on his luck construction worker named Nada, who finds a pair of strange sunglasses that allow him to see the world behind the world; subliminal messages hidden in newspapers, magazines, billboards and even money, in order to keep us all "asleep" and unaware of those who secretly rule us.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV)
On the starships that appear on the show, most prominently the U. S. S. Enterprise D, is a facility that simulates reality, called the 'holodeck.' The holodeck creates hard light holograms that can mimic any location from jungles on alien worlds to historical periods of Earth's past. Additionally, the holodeck can create realistic characters that interact with users of the holodeck. Several episodes of ST: TNG focused on crewmembers interacting with characters from the holodeck or being trapped inside the holodeck.
Virtual reality exists. A virtual simulation program (Russell Crowe) of criminal is written and it becomes uncontrollable. One of the testing subjects (Denzel Washington) might be the only one who can stop him.
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