Movies Like Listening (2015)

Listening is a 2015 drama, science fiction, thriller film from Khalil Sullins with a MovieMagicScore of 5.7/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Scanners and Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace.

Drama Science Fiction Thriller

Scanners

1981

After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers. Some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

6.7

MagicScore

Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace

1996

After being rescued from the ruins of Virtual Space Industries, Jobe is rebuilt and reconnected to virtual reality by corporate mogul Jonathan Walker. Years later, teenage hacker Peter Parkette helps Jobe locate Benjamin Trace, the original creator of virtual reality, only to uncover Jobe’s plan to launch a new world order using Walker’s tech. Now, Peter, Trace, Cori, and a band of runaways must stop Jobe and Walker before they enslave humanity through cyberspace.

3.3

MagicScore

Cyborg 2087

1966

In the future world of the year 2087, freedom of thought is illegal and the thoughts of the world's populations are controlled by the government. A small band of "free thinkers" send a cyborg back in time to the year 1966 to prevent a scientist from making the breakthrough that will eventually lead to the mass thought control of the future. Our time traveler soon discovers he is not alone when government agents from the future try to prevent him from carrying out his mission.

5.8

MagicScore

Antitrust

2001

A computer programmer's dream job at a hot Portland-based firm turns nightmarish when he discovers his boss has a secret and ruthless means of dispatching anti-trust problems.

6.0

MagicScore

Underdog

2007

A lab accident gives a beagle named Shoeshine some serious superpowers -- a secret that the dog eventually shares with the young boy who becomes his owner and friend.

5.6

MagicScore

Paycheck

2003

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.

6.2

MagicScore

Pacific Rim: Uprising

2018

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

6.1

MagicScore

Idiocracy

2006

To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.

6.4

MagicScore

Transcendence

2014

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

6.1

MagicScore

#10

The Man from Planet X

1951

While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

5.8

MagicScore

#11

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

2009

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos.

5.8

MagicScore

#12

The Lawnmower Man

1992

A simple man is turned into a genius through the application of computer science.

5.6

MagicScore

#13

Ex Machina

2015

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. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.

7.6

MagicScore

#14

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

2018

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

6.8

MagicScore

#15

The Net 2.0

2006

The life of a young computer systems analyst is thrown into turmoil after arriving in Istanbul to start a new job. She soon finds her passport missing, her credit cards useless, her bank account empty and her identity stolen. As the story progresses we find people and events may not be what they seem.

5.1

MagicScore

#16

The X-Files

1998

Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.

6.9

MagicScore

#17

So Close

2002

A conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

The Girl in the Spider's Web

2018

After being enlisted to recover a dangerous computer program, hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist find themselves caught in a web of spies, cybercriminals and corrupt government officials.

6.2

MagicScore

#19

Species II

1998

Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.

5.2

MagicScore

#20

C.H.U.D. II: Bud the Chud

1989

A military experiment to create a race of super-warriors goes awry, as legions of murderous zombies are unleashed upon a suburban neighborhood.

4.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Listening?

The top films similar to Listening by MovieMagicScore are Scanners (6.7), Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (3.3), Cyborg 2087 (5.8). Each shares drama/science fiction/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Listening worth watching?

Listening holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.7/10 from 85 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Listening?

Listening (2015) is a drama, science fiction, thriller film directed by Khalil Sullins, starring Thomas Stroppel, Artie Ahr, Amber Marie Bollinger.

Where can I find more recommendations like Listening?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Listening

This ranked list pairs Listening (2015), a drama and science fiction and thriller film from Khalil Sullins, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Thomas Stroppel take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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