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10 Best Movies Like Downtime

If you loved Downtime, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Life Like

Life Like

2019★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtime for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An idealistic attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt free help, but as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever....

#2
Ex Machina

Ex Machina

2015★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But ...

#3
A.I. Artificial Intelligence

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

2001★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtime for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series o...

#4
Subservience

Subservience

2024★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtime for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

With his wife out sick, a struggling father brings home a lifelike AI, only to have his self-aware new help want everything her new family has to offer... Like the affection of her...

#5
Simulant

Simulant

2023★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtime for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Faye attempts to replace her newly deceased husband, Evan, with an android simulant (SIM). Although SIM Evan appears like human Evan in every way, Faye does not feel the same love ...

#6
Class of 1999

Class of 1999

1990★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Downtime for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The time is in the future and the youth gang violence is so high that the areas around some schools have become "free-fire zones", into which not even the police will venture. When...

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