Films like A Scanner Darkly

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   Blade Runner

   Film · 1982 · also science fiction and thriller

   In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth see...

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   Twelve Monkeys

   Film · 1995 · also science fiction and thriller

   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 popu...

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   Limitless

   Film · 2011 · also science fiction and thriller

   The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhan...

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   Looper

   Film · 2012 · also science fiction and thriller

   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...

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   2073

   Film · 2024 · also science fiction and thriller

   Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth te...

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   Dark Angel

   Film · 1990 · also science fiction and thriller

   Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While in...

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   The Island

   Film · 2005 · also science fiction and thriller

   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 hop...

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   Upgrade

   Film · 2018 · also science fiction and thriller

   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 impla...

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   Nineteen Eighty-Four

   Film · 1984 · also science fiction and thriller

   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 tryst...

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    Equilibrium

    Film · 2002 · also science fiction and thriller

    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 enf...

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