
Movies that feel likeEx Machina (2015)
If you loved Ex Machina, the closest films we have are The Wall (2012), Chronicle (2012) and Moon (2009). All three share Ex Machina's contemplative and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003).
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If Ex Machina hit the spot, these will too

One person sealed off from the world, thinking their way through it
The difference: Nature replaces technology — a haunting inward drift, no thriller

Power tested by young men who shouldn't be trusted with it
The difference: Found-footage escalation — spectacle where Garland stays coiled

A remote station, an AI companion and a truth someone engineered
The difference: Melancholy over menace — its AI may be the kindest presence

A cloistered world where a master shapes a student's becoming
The difference: Buddhist seasons, not sci-fi — serenity in place of suspense

Solitude rendered with care — routine as its own quiet world
The difference: Zero plot machinery — gentle days, no deception anywhere

One resourceful mind against total isolation, step by careful step
The difference: Sunny problem-solving — optimism instead of dread

Isolation, temptation and an act of control that poisons intimacy
The difference: A glossy romance wants forgiveness — it blinks where Garland doesn't

Contemplative and cerebral in the same breath
The difference: Trades the warmth of Ex Machina for an angle of its own

A captive slowly working out how to escape a controlled world
The difference: Raw human trauma — no sci-fi remove to soften it

Both lean on loneliness more than on drama
The difference: Takes it somewhere less warm than Ex Machina does

Falling for an artificial mind that may understand you too well
The difference: Tender where Garland is icy — heartbreak, not a trap

The same preoccupation in both: friendship
The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics
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