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Movies that feel likeI Am Mother (2019)

A teenage girl is raised underground by a robot "Mother", designed to repopulate the earth following an extinction event. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.

If you loved I Am Mother, the closest films we have are The Quiet Earth (1985), The Book of Eli (2010) and District B13 (2004). All three share I Am Mother's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is eXistenZ (1999).

πŸ… 89% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Grant Sputorecerebraltensebleak
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The Quiet Earth
1985 Β· dir. Geoff Murphy
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.7drama Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Common ground: life after the end

The difference: Leans harder into drama than I Am Mother does

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

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The Book of Eli
2010 Β· dir. Albert Hughes
πŸ… 46%β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Both are built on the same subject: life after the end

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.

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District B13
2004 Β· dir. Pierre Morel
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.1action Β· thriller Β· science fictionPrime Video

Cerebral where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Sits closer to action than I Am Mother does

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

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eXistenZ
1999 Β· dir. David Cronenberg
πŸ… 77%β˜… 6.8action Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Bleak science fiction in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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.

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Terminator: Dark Fate
2019 Β· dir. Tim Miller
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.2science fiction Β· action Β· adventureParamount+

The same preoccupation in both: artificial intelligence

Decades after Sarah Connor prevented Judgment Day, a lethal new Terminator is sent to eliminate the future leader of the resistance. In a fight to save mankind, battle-hardened Sarah Connor teams up with an unexpected ally and an enhanced super soldier to stop the deadliest Terminator yet.

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 70%β˜… 6.6science fiction Β· adventure Β· thrillerHulu

Thriller built on ideas, twice over

After surviving the Quarter Quell, Katniss finds herself in the hidden stronghold of District 13, where the rebellion against the Capitol is gaining momentum. Struggling with the weight of becoming the symbol of resistance, she must navigate fragile alliances while trying to protect those she loves. As propaganda battles rage and Panem moves closer to full-scale war, Katniss is forced to confront the true cost of revolution.

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Surrogates
2009 Β· dir. Jonathan Mostow
πŸ… 37%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· action Β· thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: robot

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.

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Code 46
2003 Β· dir. Michael Winterbottom
πŸ… 52%β˜… 6.1drama Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Tense science fiction, and it commits to that

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria Gonzalez, the woman in charge of the forgeries. After a passionate affair, Gold returns home, having named a coworker as the culprit. But when one of Gonzalez's customers is found dead, Gold is sent back to Shanghai to complete the investigation.

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Gamer
2009 Β· dir. Brian Taylor
πŸ… 29%β˜… 5.7action Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Thriller with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

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Death Race
2008 Β· dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
πŸ… 41%β˜… 6.4action Β· thriller Β· science fictionStarz

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

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RoboCop
2014 Β· dir. JosΓ© Padilha
πŸ… 50%β˜… 6.1action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

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The 6th Day
2000 Β· dir. Roger Spottiswoode
πŸ… 40%β˜… 6action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Both work the same bleakness

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 replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.

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