Movies like Afraid
If Afraid's mix of artificial intelligence (a.i.), dysfunctional family and social media stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Afraid's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Companion
2025 · Directed by Drew Hancock · 97 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: artificial intelligence (a.i.), sci-fi horror · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (2020s)
During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology.
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Upgrade
2018 · Directed by Leigh Whannell · 100 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: artificial intelligence (a.i.) · Also thriller and science fiction
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 implant called STEM that will enhance his body.
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Soulm8te
2026 · Directed by Kate Dolan · 99 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: artificial intelligence (a.i.) · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (2020s)
After a ruthless tech giant acquires a small robotics company, a grieving engineer is tasked with testing their new AI companion. But when he attempts to reprogram her to be a truly sentient soulmate, she develops…
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The Artifice Girl
2023 · Directed by Franklin Ritch · 93 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: artificial intelligence (a.i.) · Also science fiction and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
A team of special agents discovers a revolutionary new computer program to bait and trap online predators. After teaming up with the program's troubled developer, they soon find that the AI is rapidly advancing beyond…
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Subservience
2024 · Directed by S.K. Dale · 105 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: artificial intelligence (a.i.) · Also horror and science fiction · From the same decade (2020s)
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 owner and she'll kill to get it.
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Wifelike
2022 · Directed by James Bird · 105 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: artificial intelligence (a.i.) · Also science fiction and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
A grieving detective in the near-future hunts down criminals who trade artificial humans on the black market. In the fight to end AI exploitation, an underground resistance attempts to infiltrate him by sabotaging the…
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Dark Skies
2013 · Directed by Scott Stewart · 97 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: sci-fi horror · Also science fiction and thriller
From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs.