Black Mirror : movie recommendation for fans of this show.

If you haven't seen Ex Machina yet, do yourself a solid, and go find it. It will be right up your alley. Trust me on this one. Like most people visiting this board, I am anxiously awaiting more episodes. This movie had a huge Brooker presence felt.

I could also recommend the movie Coherence.

Totally agree about Ex Machina I heard it described as a longer episode of Black Mirror with a bigger budget. Even has the actor from Be Right Back in it, but in this one, he's the human facing the AI.

Not really a movie rec, but on nearly every "if you like Black Mirror you might like" thing I've seen, Twin Peaks comes up. Not sure how similar the two are.

The movie Primer comes close. It's a really intense, *beep* look at time travel and the implications it could have. It'll wreck your head. Just be aware it's low budget and the actors aren't perfect.

people always recomment primer when it comes to the indie/non-mainstream sci-fi genre, but personally i absolutely prefer black mirror. primer is a convoluted time travel paradox *beep* fest, while black mirror actually come up with (comparatively) new ideas and the episodes have the perfect lenth to take you to wonderland and tell you an incredible and always brain teasing story without boring you or losing itself in it's own net of paradox impossibilities, as most time travel stories like to do.

not bashing primer here, but i think black mirror is just so much better.

i second coherence

Network (1976) - Fifteen Million Merits had some similarities to it. Howard Beale got 'mad as hell' and he was going to blow his brains out on national television. While it was no way intended to be science fiction, it pretty much signaled where TV was headed.

Jacob's Ladder (1990) Mind bender: Struggle with identity/reality.

Cloud Atlas (2012) - I forgot what the main theme of it was (it had several).

NightCrawler (2014) - Essentially its about the media and how invasive and extreme it has become.

Amazing Stories (TV, 19851987) Created by Steven Spielberg, I'm not sure where it can be found - Netflix?

Mr. Robot (TV, 2015) - Hackers, psychopaths and high drama.

I second Mr Robot

I third it

"The 10th Victim" (1965) starring Marcello Mastroianni & Ursula Andress. This foreshadows the rise of reality television (and it's ultimate nadir) 4-5 decades before it happened.

It's on DVD (must manually select English language audio; otherwise defaults to subtitles) and Amazon Instant Video. I don't have Netflix, so I can't say.

What I love about these type of threads that every once in a while I find something that intrigues me to check out. I think that's how I heard of Black Mirror.

Never heard of The 10th Victim and now will have to check that out. Thanx.

I don't know about a movie, but if one hasn't ever seen all of the early Twilight Zone Episodes, that's what I would suggest. As well as the later Twilight Zone episodes, Art Gallery and tales from the crypt.

It mostly reminds me of the early Twilight Zone. Rod Serling would love this show. The second episode, I wished there was a narrated intro for that one, but alas it isn't needed.

The movie "Gamer" is not exactly Academy Award tier, but 15 Million Merits actually reminded me quite of a bit of its depiction of a hyper-sexualized, soulless society.

Even though ex machina is well made, the idea is an old thought experiment about AI and there's really not much else and they don't explore it deeply. I thought "the machine" had better ideas, but it's a harder swallow.

But I would recommend anything by Vincenzo Natali. Cube, Splice.

Other shows to recommend:

Utopia (the UK show - not the reality TV program. Just about to be remade in the US by David Fincher for Netflix)
Orphan Black
The Prisoner - 60s version


Movies

A Scanner Darkly
Moon



I owe my solitude to other people. ~ Alan Watts

Just adding to what's already been mentioned

eXistenZ - I think fans of Black Mirror would appreciate most of Cronenberg's work.

Darknet - A Canadian horror anthology series that certainly doesn't match the quality of Black Mirror but still manages to be solid genre entertainment. There are only 6 episodes, so you don't have to worry about a time commitment.

I believe both are currently available on Netflix.

Here are some movies that I think share some aspect of the techno-social themes, darkness, and haunting Twilight Zone tone of Black Mirror. I imagine people who are into this kind of thing have already seen these, but I'll recommend just in case


Safe : 1995 Todd Haynes movie about a well-to-do woman who develops a sensitivity to various toxins and literally becomes allergic to the modern world.

Timecrimes: a great, underrated, somewhat dark Spanish film from 2007 I don't want to give away anything, because there are so many twists and turns, but more people should see this!

The Experiment: 2001 German film inspired by the real-life Stanford Prison Experiment, which studied power and vulnerability. Brutal.

La Cabina (The Telephone Box): an eerie 1970s Spanish short film available to view on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKkfGG9q32c

Videodrome (Cronenberg): This is classic of weirdness. But hard to explain! It's about media, violence, loss of identity. You just have to see it.

They Live: Media messages are revealed to be coded commands, brainwashing the human race. A little morefun than Black Mirror but bears some resonance!

Upstream Color : I had mixed feelings about this, but Black Mirror fans might like it. It's a fragmented narrative about a couple of people who have both undergone a strange ordeals that messed with their memories & identities, then they meet each other and try to put the pieces back together.

Duel: Very strange, low-budget early Spielberg film about a big-rig truck that starts terrorizing a random driver.

of course most people will have already seen this, but 2001: A Space Odyssey also comes to mind.

I would add-

Enter the Void
www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111

Lost River
www.imdb.com/title/tt2366608

Her
www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709

Ummmm, I'm sure there are more but all of the other replies have some good ones to checkout.

Anyone with any other suggestions?

I would add-

Enter the Void
www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111

Lost River
www.imdb.com/title/tt2366608

Her
www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709

Ummmm, I'm sure there are more but all of the other replies have some good ones to checkout.

Anyone with any other suggestions?

Definitely "Lain - Serial Experiments". It's an anime, but not like any other anime I've ever seen. In my opinion, anyone who likes Black Mirror would love Lain and should at least give it a watch - if they can find it. I think it's 13 25-minute episodes.

Other than that, Jacob's Ladder, Utopia (the British show) oh, and World On a Wire if you can handle sitting through a 3-hour German movie with English subtitles. It's very, very good - well worth your time. Don't be fooled by its "TV-movie" status or that it's from the 70's either - it's all kinds of Twilight Zone-ahead of its time-techno-social-bizarro-sickness. It's on YouTube as well, at least last I checked.

World on a Wire: http://www.imdb.com/board/10070904/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Enjoy!

For future reference, you can create links to movies by using the [link=tt#######] markup putting link=tt0070904 inside [square brackets] produces Welt am Draht (1973).

Don't listen to the negative ones; their arguments are irrational.

Paranoia Agent. I know its an anime but it reminded me a lot of Black Mirror and Mr Robot.

Not as much sci-fi as Black Mirror but very similar outlook in looking towards the dark side of humanity -

Spain's Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) at http://www.imdb.com/board/13011894/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

It's an anthology of shorts in which people set out to take revenge, protect their own selfish interests and of course it all ends up going wrong. Or not, depending how vengeful you are.

Snowpiercer

Besides it being a very nice made science fiction movie (that deserves more attention). It has this same sad, smart future tech mixed up with political theme in it.

Dark city

If you thought the Matrix was great, go watch this gem and remind you it came out one year earlier

The signal

I was hoping for the end to be this way, but they never have the guts to pull it of. I was wrong. Instant classic for me.

Cruel & Unusual

It's on Netflix now.

The Outer Limits (the one done in the 1990's) would be a great show for you fans to watch. It dealt a lot more with technology and its dark implications, more than The Twilight Zone ever did.


My list of 1,400+ wild 'n weird movies: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls053942167/

Strange. I thought Ex Machina was unbelievably tedious.

Demon Seed (1977) with the divine Julie Christie

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Children of Men

Donnie Darko

Not sure why, but I watched Nerve the other day and I could see fans of Black Mirror enjoying that movie. It's not sci-fi, but it has the dark, risk-taking element.

Mulholland Drive- very very wierd and awesome movie

Saw Ex Machina, didn't like it. Poorly acted retread of a very, very tired theme, utterly dull. Gorgeous to look at, but other than that, would not recommend.

Did like Coherence.

"Here, with a special report, is a midget in a bikini."

I'd recommend the 1980 film Death Watch, with Harvey Keitel, which is about the privacy of death and the death of privacy. It was ahead of its time.

I am not young enough to know everything.
-Oscar Wilde