50 Movies Like Automata (2014) You Need to Watch Next
Jacq Vaucan, an insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation, routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
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If you loved Automata (2014) by Gabe Ibáñez, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Surrogates, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator Genisys. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to Automata
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1991 · James Cameron
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2015 · Alan Taylor
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2007 · Francis Lawrence
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2014 · Francis Lawrence
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The Running Man
1987 · Paul Michael Glaser
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Gattaca
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