Any other films like 'the matrix' ?

[intuition]

Can you recommend any other films like 'the matrix' ? Ive seen 'dark city '
its aweseome, and just seen that 13th floor is good. any others? Thanks.

[barbitone]

Dune.

[pumma]

- eXistenZ
- Logan’s Run
- Stay
- Vanilla Sky
- The Forgotten

[klinker]

Oooops

[orgo knight]

This is a really good movie.If you can find it, Cheers.
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cut and paste.

Kurt Vonnegut's novel became a movie in 1972, and has aired on a variety of PBS stations in the 1980's and 1990's. With the catchphrase "Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time", the movie follows Billie Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), who jumps back and forth in time living his life out of sequence and has no control over where he will go next. Throughout the movie we see Billie as a young soldier in World War II where he is captured by German Soldiers, a young man getting married, a father, and as an old man witnessing his own assassination. This begins to make sense for him when he finds himself on the distant planet Tralfamadore and the aliens lay it all out for him. Billie finally realizes that in order for him to survive even to his death, he must concentrate on the good things and ignore the bad in life. The name "Slaughterhouse Five" comes from the German prisoner camp he is held in briefly.

[bapp_69]

A bit fucked up and depressing but nothing on what is actually happening in the world.

But over all a fucking amazing film!

Brazil----> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

http://dungpeople.kerbau.com/kwkl/blogpixs/brazil_poster.jpg


Brazil is definitively one of the top ten movies of all times. Its a sort of anti-Utopian spectacle, in the same fashion of George Orwell's 1984. The movie has a very complex sequence of events, which require more than one viewing for full understanding. In fact, the first time i saw Brazil, i didn't enjoy it much. But then i gave it a second chance, and the pleasure of watching it increased exponentially. The more I watch it, the more I discover hidden aspects and new ways to interpret this masterful creation. The scenario is extraordinary, mixing long pipe lines and a almost omnipresent Gothic atmosphere. If you didn't like the movie the first time you saw it, don't be by any means discouraged. This movie requires patience and an active role from the viewer. Finally, Brazil deserves special praise for all the dream-like sequences of the main character and the music fits in perfectly well.

Oh and Donnie Darko is a must see if you havent already!

[auron]

- eXistenZ
- Logan’s Run
- Stay
- Vanilla Sky
- The Forgotten

That film is amazing! Well worth watching. :D

[f3zza]

Not really like the Matrix, but a movie with great acting, excellent story and above all a deep message was one i watched last night called "Network".

It was made in 1976, but the message holds so much relevance today, that it is kind of scary.

Heres an excellent scene from the movie on youtube.

Network - YouTube

[auron]

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[auron]

http://www.dreammovies.net/synopsis2/Total%20recall.jpg

[john white]

Kung Fu Hustle.

Classic film about consciousness expansion!

[rossus]

http://www.thecinemasource.com/moviesdb/images/The_Fountain%20-%20Poster.jpg
The Fountain

http://www.its.caltech.edu/~ifilm/IMG-WakLife.jpg
Waking Life

[graflok]

http://aycu22.webshots.com/image/21701/2003673972661216152_rs.jpg

Seriously!

Well, it's about manipulation of the population, propaganda, etc.

[auron]

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/mouth-of-madness-movie-poster.jpg

[erikneo]

They Live

http://www.timboucher.com/images/they_live_obey.jpg



They Live We Sleep - YouTube

You can watch the complete film here:

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

[texdallas]

Monsters Inc.

[johnnylucid]

The Thirteenth Floor. (1999)

A must see if you liked the Matrix!
Has a great twist in the end!

[tracker]

frequency with jodi foster .
spawn
hell boy 1 and 2
constantine
green mile
blade 1/2/3
donny darko

just a few .

all different in appearance all about alternate reality states that inter mix with this reality .:cool:

[infin8_possibility]

equilibrium
requiem for a dream
sphere

[krakhead]

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/image-files/mouth-of-madness-movie-poster.jpg

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I saw this in the cinema when it was released, NO-ONE else I know has seen it and I could never remember what it was called - great film IMO! :)

[jp13]

I can't remember the name of the series, that was on probably about 5-7 years ago, but I think it was a modern version of an old series.
It's at the back of my throat, but I might remember.
Here's the plot as far as I can recall.
Aliens have landed in the desert, Arizone? they came to earth to live off our polution, some locals know of them (one the guy who played John boy in the Waltons), and the aliens kidnap people and take over their bodies, using the mouths of the humans to suck on an exhaust pipe.
There are government agents after them, but always arrive a bit too late.
The Invadaers? or something like that.
Someone on this forum must know what it is.

[pleasuredome]

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/Weekend%20at%20Bernies.jpg

[krakhead]

Brazil is definitively one of the top ten movies of all times.

Oh and Donnie Darko is a must see if you havent already!

Brazil was an absolute masterpiece as far as I'm concerned! Everything about it, including the story behind the film's eventual release. Terry Gilliam had to fight to get it released. There's actually an article about it in this month's Total Film magazine -was just reading it on the train home!

The 3 dvd version would be the one to get I think as it has all versions of the film and loads of extras.

The 'Love Conquers All' version being of particular significance as it shows SO amazingly well, the power of editing. Take the same footage and turn a bleak, dystopian glimpse of a more than possible near-future into a love story!! Lol! I really think everyone should compare the versions available, then watch the news! ;)

As for Donnie Darko - if you haven't seen this and are keen to - I would massively recommend you DO NOT watch the Director's Cut version. Donnie Darko for Dummies! It takes away all the mystery and pigeon-holes all the unexplained ideas from the original cut, leaving no room for imagination as to what it all means. Stay well away folks!! :D

[rossus]

http://kinoscope.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/stay-777621.jpg

[1971]

The island

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399201/

A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvested being", and is being kept along with others in a utopian facility

[guuna]

DREAMSCAPE-1984

a lesser known release about mastering the power of lucid dreaming and manipulating the reality of the dreamworld by paranormal psychologists, the new found abilities are open to abuse from a sinister government organisation that plans to recruit assasins to kill political enemies in dreams. All this 15 years before the matrix and way better than the dreadful Nightmare On Elm street series. Also features some shape-shifting reptile humanoids!

TURKEY SHOOT(1982)

Also a lesser known gem. An absolutely cracking ozzie film. In an unknown time in the future political prisoners are rounded up and sent to 're-education' camps, where they are in actual fact to be used as prey in the most dangerous game of human hunting by degenerate and jaded aristocrats and the political elite. A thrilling chase ensues as the hapless prisoners are mercilessly pursued through the jungle and one by one gruesomely killed (warning very graphic content), but perhaps a way can be found to turn the tables on the aristocrat douchbags?

Some themes common in Ickes' books are to be found here, as he feels that hunting human prey is a favourite pastime of certain of the political and aristocratic elite.

Also known as BLOOD CAMP THATCHER and ESCAPE 2000,beware, some versions are very much cut!

[now here]

eXistenZ
The 13:th floor
Vanilla sky
The Nines
The Cell
The Truman show
The Village
Waking life
Stay

[itsallundercontrol]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I saw this in the cinema when it was released, NO-ONE else I know has seen it and I could never remember what it was called - great film IMO! :)

Yeah! this film is cool

found it here
http://v.ku6.com/show/37B44foT3L7R1Luf.html

[runlikehell]

A couple of horrors, but worth a look.

Society 1992

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/SocietyPoster.jpg


Scanners 1981

http://www.blacklagoon.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/movie-poster-scanners.jpg

[anahata]

Huckabees trailer - YouTube

http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2251fa4e1604a00e398d682de0001-500pi


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0356721/


First part...
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTA4NjM4NzY=.html

Second half...
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTA4NjM4ODg=.html

[motleyhoo]

What the Bleep Do We Know?

Amazon.com: What the Bleep Do We Know!?: Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Robert Bailey Jr., Barry Newman, Larry Brandenburg, Daniela Serra, James Langston Drake, Michele Mariana, Armin Shimerman, Robert Blanche, Pavel Mikoloski, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, William Arntz, Matthew Hoffman: Movies & TV@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V08QRXS6L.@@AMEPARAM@@51V08QRXS6L

"It is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda, played by Marlee Matlin, finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. She is literally plunged into a swirl of chaotic occurrences, while the characters she encounters on this odyssey reveal the deeper, hidden knowledge she doesn?t even realize she has asked for. Like every hero, Amanda is thrown into crisis, questioning the fundamental premises of her life ? that the reality she has believed in about how men are, how relationships with others should be, and how her emotions are affecting her work isn?t reality at all!"

Metropolis

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"In the future, Metropolis, is a bustling city-state where two groups make up the population. The thinkers live above ground and enjoy the fruits of life, while the workers live underground creating the fruits that the thinkers enjoy. When Freder Fredersen, the son of the city leader, journeys underground with Maria, advocate for the workers, he witnesses first hand the horrors that the workers live in. Can he and Maria bring the parties together or will the thinkers further dominate the underground workforce?"

[crf250 rebel]

the international is a good film to watch.its kind of how things go on i would say.

[decode reality]

They Live

http://www.timboucher.com/images/they_live_obey.jpg



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHTfEqaA2z4

You can watch the complete film here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpnshyq0lE

ONE OF MY FAVOURITES.
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[infinite tea]

the 40 year old virgin is quite subversive :-)

[gripit]

the Original Vanilla Sky is much better (Abre los ojos - 'Open Your Eyes') ...if you can handle subtitles...or speak Espanol...and you still get the lovely Penelope Cruz!

the Cell, terrific film.

but easily; the film most like the Matrix is...Monster's Inc. They access children's bedrooms through a special 'door' to scare them and harvest their screams for energy. Disney, lol.

[gripit]

Hmm...look at the Monsters Inc. logo.

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=297&pictureid=2633

[piratecooper]

Plot

In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is the owner of a multi-billion dollar computer enterprise and the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality simulation (VR) of 1937 Los Angeles. When Fuller is murdered just as he begins premature testing of the system, his friend and protégé Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko) finds himself the primary suspect, and begins to doubt his own innocence.

Between questioning by LAPD Detective Larry McBain (Dennis Haysbert), Hall meets Jane Fuller (Gretchen Mol), who he is surprised to learn is Fuller's estranged daughter. Hall develops a romance with Jane, who we soon find out is attempting to shut down the new VR system. When a local bartender who witnessed a meeting between Hall and Fuller on the night of the murder is himself found murdered, Hall is imprisoned. He is soon released though, after Jane provides him with an alibi.

Seeking answers, Hall attempts to track down a message left by Fuller inside the simulation. Within the system, Hall learns that Jerry Ashton, a bartender (Vincent D'Onofrio) has stumbled upon the truth about his artificial nature by reading the message intended for Hall. Frightened and angry, Ashton attempts to kill Hall, who barely escapes the system in time.

Now unable to find Jane, Hall discovers her double, Natasha Molinaro (also Gretchen Mol), working as a grocery store clerk — but Molinaro seems not to recognize Hall. This leads Hall to perform an experiment outside the VR system, something that Fuller had instructed him to try in his letter: He tried to drive to a place where he never would have considered going otherwise. When he arrived, he saw that the area and everything within it didn't exist, and was instead replaced by wire frame models.

Finally understanding the meaning of Fuller's message, Hall realizes the truth — that his own world of 1990s Los Angeles is itself a fabricated simulation.

Several revelations follow: Hall's virtual world is one of thousands, but is also the only one that developed a virtual world of their own. Jane actually lives in the "real world", and only participated in the 1990s simulation in order to assume the identity of Fuller's daughter, gain control of the company, and shutdown the simulated 1937 reality. Hall himself is modeled after Jane's real-world husband David, who has begun to seek pleasure by murdering people in the 1990s simulation. It was David who had performed the murders, while controlling Hall's body, because he had become jealous when his wife Jane fell in love with Hall within the simulation.

Whitney (also Vincent D'Onofrio), Hall's associate, enters the simulated 1937 and assumes the role of Ashton, who has kidnapped Ferguson (Hall's 1937 identity) and bound him in the trunk of his vehicle. When Whitney is killed in an automobile accident, Ashton's consciousness is released into Whitney's body (in the 1990s). Ashton kills a security guard, David (Bierko yet again) assumes control of Hall, kills Ashton, and attempts to rape and murder Jane. She is saved by Detective McBain, who shoots and kills David.

The death causes Hall's consciousness to be released into David's body, and he wakes to find himself in 2024, connected to a VR system. He disconnects the system and finds Jane and her father, who looks very much like the man he was accused of killing in his original reality, Hannon Fuller.

The Thirteenth Floor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[unbornawakened]

I agree with most (if not all) of the recommendations. All (or almost) of these movies are jewels ...

[unimatrix0]

Guy Ritchie's Revolver

[themime]

Pi

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1904214297/

[onourwayto2012]

A couple of horrors, but worth a look.

Society 1992

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/SocietyPoster.jpg


Scanners 1981

http://www.blacklagoon.info/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/movie-poster-scanners.jpg

Wow!!! Society is a totally freaky unknown classic..... And Scanners....classic period!

[minista zin uru]

Th Russian Films:

Night Watch and Day Watch

best watched back to back, great story, great effects and the overdubs in english are nice because they still have Russian accents

Great movies

[splinterg]

Dark City..Kiefer O'Sutherland

[deca]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Equilibriumposter.jpg/200px-Equilibriumposter.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_(film)
In a futuristic world, a strict regime has eliminated war by suppressing emotions. Books, art and music are strictly forbidden, and feeling is a crime punishable by death. Grammaton Cleric John Preston, who has been trained to enforce the strict laws of the new regime, is a top ranking government agent responsible for destroying those who resist the rules. When he misses a dose of Prozium, a mind-altering drug that hinders emotion, Preston suddenly becomes the only person capable of overthrowing it.

Origin and Influence

Although the script is original, major influence from speculative books such as Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World", George Orwell's "1984", Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We", and Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" is evident throughout the movie. The conditioning and drugging of the population to suppress feelings is similar to "Brave New World". The authoritarian and consistent monitoring of the population hearkens back to "1984" and the mandated destruction of books and art is reminiscent of "Fahrenheit 451".

Other references to notable science fiction include "Logan's Run", "The Matrix", "Blake's 7", "Metropolis", "Gattaca" and the final close up of Christian Bale's eye is an obvious homage to the opening shot of "Blade Runner".

When interviewed about the movie, Christian Bale said one of the reasons he signed up for this part was because it was strongly based on one of his favorite books, "Brave New World".

this movie is a must watch

[now here]

I need more... :(

[astrochicken]

All films have a "what is reality" feel to them.

Krakhead, you'll love a few of this list!!

Timecrimes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/)
Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/)
Blade Runner (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/)
Districht 9 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/)
Hardwired (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405412/)
The Number 23 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481369/)
Outlander (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462465/)
Dark Country (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469318/)
Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910554/)
The Arrival (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/)

[andyh]

I didn't notice V for Vendetta on the list so here it is just in case-
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/

Interestingly enough, the main hero in this film is played by none other than the same guy who was the agent in the matrix.

[lightgiver]

"V: The Series" Original Opening Titles - YouTube

V - The Second Generation (Unofficial TEASER - 2006) - YouTube

[jeg293]

Hi! I haven't had a chance to look through everyone's reply to this, but I don't remember seeing anyone recommend the CELESTINE PROPHECY (from book of same name by James Redfield). What an excellent movie, and a great one to lend a friend who has not yet started awakening! It stirs something in peoples' souls when they watch it. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. I got mine quite cheaply on Ebay.