Movies Like The Circle (2017)

The Circle is a 2017 drama, science fiction, thriller film from James Ponsoldt with a MovieMagicScore of 5.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Ex Machina and Blackhat.

Drama Science Fiction Thriller

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

Blackhat

2015

Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.

5.5

MagicScore

The House

2021

A married couple retreats to a luxury, high-tech, fully automated house on a remote island. The house AI system goes rogue and turns against them.

5.5

MagicScore

WarGames

1983

High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his friend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.

7.1

MagicScore

Fuze

2026

An unexploded WWII bomb is discovered on a busy construction site in the centre of London. Chaos ensues as the military and police begin a mass evacuation against a ticking clock.

7.2

MagicScore

Almost Blue

2000

A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before murdering them and assuming their identity.

6.0

MagicScore

Edge of the Garden

2011

Newly single Brian Connor moves to Maine and buys a long abandoned house in the country. After moving in, he begins to communicate with a woman who lived in the house 50 years ago and who died under mysterious circumstances.

6.2

MagicScore

Blade Runner 2049

2017

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

7.6

MagicScore

Profile

2018

Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

6.9

MagicScore

#10

Webmaster

1998

J.B. (Lars Bom) - an ultra-talented Webmaster of an illicit cyber-domain known for massive amounts of illegal money transfers is captured and is put under suspicion by the cyber-domain boss named Stoiss (Jørgen Kiil) when an intruder hacks into the system and steals the Stoiss’s money. Stoiss sticks a heart controller device on J.B. and gives him 35 hours to find who took his money or he dies.

5.8

MagicScore

#11

WeWork: or The Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn

2021

Explore the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years – the story of WeWork, and its hippie-messianic leader Adam Neumann.

6.7

MagicScore

#12

Altered Carbon: Resleeved

2020

On the planet Latimer, Takeshi Kovacs must protect a tattooist while investigating the death of a yakuza boss alongside a no-nonsense CTAC.

6.5

MagicScore

#13

American Sweatshop

2025

A content moderator is tasked with purging offensive media from the internet. When she witnesses a crime in a video, she is lured away from the safety of her keyboard as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.

5.4

MagicScore

#14

The Lincoln Lawyer

2011

Mick Haller is a charismatic defense attorney who does business out of his Lincoln Continental sedan. Mick spends most of his time defending petty crooks and other bottom-feeders, so it comes as quite a surprise when he lands the case of a lifetime: defending a Beverly Hills playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However, what Mick initially thinks is an open-and-shut case with a big monetary reward develops into something more sinister.

7.2

MagicScore

#15

Nope

2022

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

6.8

MagicScore

#16

Red Road

2006

Jackie is a CCTV operator. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she hoped never to see again. Now she has no choice and is compelled to confront him.

6.4

MagicScore

#17

The Good Neighbor

2016

Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.

6.2

MagicScore

#18

The Captive

2014

Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.

5.8

MagicScore

#19

Sliver

1993

A woman moves into a Manhattan apartment, where she learns that the previous tenant's life ended under mysterious circumstances.

5.6

MagicScore

#20

Paparazzi

2004

A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.

5.3

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Circle?

The top films similar to The Circle by MovieMagicScore are Ex Machina (7.6), Blackhat (5.5), The House (5.5). Each shares drama/science fiction/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Circle worth watching?

The Circle holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.5/10 from 4,502 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Circle?

The Circle (2017) is a drama, science fiction, thriller film directed by James Ponsoldt, starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Circle?

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 The Circle

This ranked list pairs The Circle (2017), a drama and science fiction and thriller film from James Ponsoldt, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Emma Watson 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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