By default, movies are sorted by year in descending order.

A robot/AI rears a girl in an underground facility after extinction of humans but their relationship is endangered with the arrival of a stranger and her news.

Two estranged college friends reunite in later life, triggering a series of events that could alter their lives forever.

Man uses meditation to escape his mental illness.

The film explores various themes in cognitive science such as perception and evolution.

Battle of Memories
Battle of Memories (2017)
A: 3.5 Q: 3.8 R: 3.9

After undergoing a procedure to erase his memories, a botched restoration results in unexplained recollections relating to a series of unsolved murders.

Marjorie Prime
Marjorie Prime (2017)
A: 1.0 Q: 1.3 R: 1.4

Can a simulation of a lost companion, based on memories, provide companionship?

A humanoid hunter starts to wonder what it means to be alive, whether life is born or manufactured.

In near future Brooklyn, an ad executive uses a new augmented reality technology to conduct an affair with his best friend's girlfriend...sort of.

Arrival
Arrival (2016)
A: 3.7 Q: 4.5 R: 4.3

Dramatic first contact story that explores how language shapes thought, and how our perception of time affects the development of memories.

Infinity Chamber
Infinity Chamber (2016)
A: 2.6 Q: 2.9 R: 2.3

Trapped in an automated prison, a man re-examines his memories for clues about his captivity, racing for solutions as the prison begins malfunctioning.

Split
Split (2016)
A: 2.1 Q: 2.3 R: 2.6

A man with dissociative identity disorder who suffered from childhood abuse kidnaps 3 teenagers.

A Dark Song
A Dark Song (2016)
A: 0.0 Q: 0.0 R: 0.0

A Dark Song is ultimately an investigation of the transformative nature of forgiveness. But it takes you to that inexplicable contemplation quite unexpectedly.

This movie deals with the question of what constitutes conscious being. In the film, Chappie says "I am consciousness, I am alive, I am Chappie."

A young coder gets invited to visit the world's leading search engine company, but is surprised to be asked to evaluate the human qualities of a new AI.

An eleven-year-old's five basic emotions are characters living in her head, and they color her experiences and her memories as she navigates a family move.

Dramatic retelling of the classic Stanford Prison Experiment, where participants were randomly assigned as prisoners and guards in a mock prison...

Experimenter
Experimenter (2015)
A: 4.5 Q: 3.9 R: 4.7

Dramatic retelling of Milgram's classic obedience study, where participants were asked to give extreme shocks to [what they believed was] another participant.

Self/less
Self/less (2015)
A: 3.2 Q: 3.3 R: 3.7

A wealthy man transplants his mind into a young donor's body, but the procedure is imperfect, and the man begins seeing signs of body's mysterious origin.

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