If You Liked THX 1138, Watch These Next
Finished THX 1138 (1971) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like THX 1138, most of them are science fiction, drama.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.A Scanner Darkly(2006)
6.8AnimationScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
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2.The Running Man(1987)
6.5ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso science fiction
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by…
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3.Fortress(1992)
6.1ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso 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 "The Fortress" but are determined to escape before the birth of their baby.
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4.Equilibrium(2002)
7.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.
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5.The Machine(2013)
5.9Science FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
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 programming bug causes the prototype to decimate his lab, McCarthy takes his obsessive efforts underground,…
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6.Upgrade(2018)
7.5ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso science fiction
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 able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek…
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7.Nineteen Eighty-Four(1984)
6.8DramaScience FictionThrillerAlso drama and science fiction
Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no…
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8.Demolition Man(1993)
6.8CrimeActionScience FictionAlso science fiction
In 1996, brash L.A. detective John Spartan and maniac killer Simon Phoenix are both sentenced to decades in a cryogenic prison as punishment for a rescue mission gone wrong. When Phoenix escapes 36 years later to wreak havoc on the future, Spartan is awakened to capture his nemesis the old-fashioned way.
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9.Land of the Blind(2006)
5.8DramaThrillerAlso drama
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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10.Looper(2012)
6.9ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso science fiction
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the…
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11.Chappie(2015)
6.8CrimeActionScience FictionAlso science fiction
Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings—some good, some bad—and he will rely on his heart and soul to find his way in the world and become his own man. But there's one…
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12.The Island(2005)
6.7ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso science fiction
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontaminated location on the planet. But Lincoln soon discovers that everything about…
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13.The Zero Theorem(2013)
6.1DramaFantasyScience FictionAlso drama and science fiction
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
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14.What Happened to Monday(2017)
7.1Science FictionThrillerMysteryAlso science fiction
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.
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16.The Terminator(1984)
7.7ActionThrillerScience FictionAlso science fiction
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to…
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18.Anon(2018)
6.0Science FictionCrimeMysteryAlso science fiction
Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles onto a young woman who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no…
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19.Terminator Salvation(2009)
6.1ActionScience FictionThrillerAlso science fiction
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether Wright has come from the future or the past -- and whether he's friend…
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20.Twelve Monkeys(1995)
7.6Science FictionThrillerMysteryAlso science fiction
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up…
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