Movies like Implosion
If Implosion's mix of obsession, laboratory and female protagonist stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Implosion's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Arrival
2016 · Directed by Denis Villeneuve · 116 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist, scientist
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
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Ex Machina
2015 · Directed by Alex Garland · 108 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: laboratory
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.
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Before I Fall
2017 · Directed by Ry Russo-Young · 98 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist
Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…
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Safe
1995 · Directed by Todd Haynes · 119 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
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The Outrun
2024 · Directed by Nora Fingscheidt · 118 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and…
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Thirteen
2003 · Directed by Catherine Hardwicke · 100 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist
When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money.
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The Crush
1993 · Directed by Alan Shapiro · 89 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: obsession
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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The Quiet Earth
1985 · Directed by Geoff Murphy · 91 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: laboratory
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
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The Novice
2021 · Directed by Lauren Hadaway · 97 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: obsession
A college freshman joins her university's rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.