Poll: Mind Control

Results of 456 votes:

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   The Matrix (1999)

    

   The Matrix inherently is about machines taking over the world and using humans as a source of energy. The human mind is also controlled by the machines and are made to believe that they exist in a wor…
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   Inception (2010)

    

   A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and h…
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   Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

    

   The film story is about two people who after their relationship turns sour undergo procedure to have each other erased from their memories.
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   The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

    

   The Manchurian Candidate concerns the brainwashing of the son of a prominent right-wing political family, who becomes an unwitting assassin in an international communist conspiracy.
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   A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    

   In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
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   The Truman Show (1998)

    

   The Truman Show is about a man who doesn’t know that his life is actually the focus of a reality TV show aired since his birth, that he’s the star, his hometown is a giant set piece, and everyone arou…
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   They Live (1988)

    

   They influence our decisions without us knowing it. They numb our senses without us feeling it. They control our lives without us realizing it. They live.
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   Total Recall (1990)

    

   When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real or is he?
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   Control Factor (2003)

    

   An average everyman discovers he's the unwitting target of an ultra secret domestic black-op centering on mind control.
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    Severance (2022)

     

    Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to disco…
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    Dark City (1998)

     

    A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
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    Being John Malkovich (1999)

     

    A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
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    1984 (1984)

     

    In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love. By Breumaster
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    Equilibrium (2002)

     

    In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state. By Breumaster
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    Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

     

    When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from ena…
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    The Island (2005)

     

    A man living in a futuristic sterile colony begins to question his circumscribed existence when his friend is chosen to go to the Island, the last uncontaminated place on earth.
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    Open Your Eyes (1997)

     

    A rich playboy who meets with an accident and is arrested for a murder and then commits suicide, then he wakes up in the future with artificial memories.
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    Source Code (2011)

     

    A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train within 8 minutes.
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    Brazil (1985)

     

    A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
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    X: First Class (2011)

     

    In the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to div…
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    Dreamscape (1984)

     

    A man who can enter and manipulate people's dreams is recruited by a government agency to help cure the President of the United States of his nightmares about nuclear war but stumbles upon an assassin…
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    THX 1138 (1971)

     

    In the 25th century, a time when people have designations instead of names, a man, THX 1138, and a woman, LUH 3417, rebel against their rigidly-controlled society.
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    Dogtooth (2009)

     

    A controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offspring in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
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    Brainstorm (1983)

     

    Researchers develop a system where they can jump into people's minds. But when people involved bring their personal problems into the equation, it becomes dangerous perhaps deadly. By Breumaster
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    Scanners (1981)

     

    A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called "scanning", to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non scanners.
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    Village of the Damned (1960)

     

    In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.
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    Anon (2018)

     

    In a world without anonymity or crime, a detective meets a woman who threatens their security.
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    Homecoming (2018)

     

    An anthology series centered around the mysterious Geist Group, an unconventional wellness company and their equally unorthodox program, the Homecoming Initiative.
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    Altered States (1980)

     

    A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.
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    Upstream Color (2013)

     

    Upstream Color follows Kris, who is attacked one night, and hypnotized, using a grub with hypnotic properties, administered by a thief. She follows the thief’s instructions to give him everything. Whe…
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    Gamer (2009)

     

    In a future mind-controlling game, death row convicts are forced to battle in a 'Doom'-type environment. Convict Kable, controlled by Simon, a skilled teenage gamer, must survive thirty sessions in or…