15 Movies Like In the Heart of the Machine
Loved In the Heart of the Machine? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
#1
Room
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#2
The 355
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#3
Chief of Station
After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he thought he knew.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#4
Overdrive
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#5
The Company You Keep
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#6
6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he fights for survival....
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#7
The Parts You Lose
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#8
Brute Force
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#9
Starving in Suburbia
When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#10
Remember
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#11
Mad City
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked In the Heart of the Machine.
#12
Cat in the Wall
Cat in the Wall tells the true story of how a cat, stuck in a wall, changes the lives of aspirational migrants, benefit fraudsters and gentrified Brexiteers.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to In the Heart of the Machine.
#13
The Tied Up Balloon
A barrage balloon appears unexpectedly over a Bulgarian village during World War II. The startled villagers decide to knock it down with a fusillade yet the balloon flies off to the mountains. The villagers, armed to their teeth, set off after it. But they are not alone in this undertaking...
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to In the Heart of the Machine.
#14
Tobacco
Boris Morev dreams of money and power, he’ll do everything to reach the top, including leaving his beloved Irina, to marry the daughter of the local tobacco factory owner. With the death of his father-in-law and the illness of his wife, Morev becomes the new owner of "Nicotiana" and rules with an iron fist, resulting in massive labour strikes and murder. He ropes Irina back into his life, first as a mistress and later as his second wife, but his ambitions still come first as he plans on emerging as the biggest tobacco seller once the war is over. Irina’s love for Boris is fading and she finds a lover in one of the Germans Boris is trying to strike a deal with. Set against the backdrop of World War II and communist partisans fighting against the Nazi-allied Bulgarian monarchy, the film is a screen adaptation of the Bulgarian classic novel "Tobacco" released in 1954.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to In the Heart of the Machine.
#15
Stolen Eyes
This is a story of strange, impossible, inexplicable love between a Muslim Turk woman and a non-Muslim Bulgarian man. Ivan (the Bulgarian) is a pure and romantic young fellow, who gets caught up in the so-called "regeneration process" (when ethnic Turks' names were forcibly changed to Bulgarian ones). He is responsible for the official seals, which is required to issue the new identity documents after the forced name changes. The schoolteacher Ayten tries to steal the seals, thinking that this way she can slow down the ethnic genocide. Their unexpected and unusual meeting brings these two characters together and makes them fell close, forcing Ivan to take a fateful decision -he must either "rename" Ayten, or face the consequences if he does not.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to In the Heart of the Machine.