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Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
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TRON: Legacy (2010)
It has a 42% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world.
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The Creator (2023)
It has a 41% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
It has a 41% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
It has a 40% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
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The Matrix (1999)
It has a 40% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
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The Electric State (2025)
It has a 40% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.
An orphaned teen hits the road with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother, teaming up with a smuggler and his wisecracking sidekick.
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Oblivion (2013)
It has a 39% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Jack Harper is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. His existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.
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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
It has a 39% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, its story and themes and shared genres.
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
It has a 38% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and release period.
Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.
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Allegiant (2016)
It has a 38% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.
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Push (2009)
It has a 37% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
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Gemini Man (2019)
It has a 37% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.
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Jason Bourne (2016)
It has a 36% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, its story and themes and shared genres.
The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.
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Paycheck (2003)
It has a 35% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
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The Saint (1997)
It has a 35% affinity with Inception, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
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