WhatIsThatMovie

movie with a controlling creator figure

The Truman Show
The Truman Show

1998 8.1

Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.

ComedyDrama
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk
The Truman Show: Tru-Talk

1998 6.7

A promotional featurette for 1998's 'The Truman Show', 'TruTalk' is a "60 Minutes"-style mockumentary taking place inside the film's universe.

TV MovieComedy
The Creator
The Creator

2023 7.1

Amid a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war—and mankind itself.

ActionAdventureScience Fiction
Tyler, The Creator
Tyler, The Creator

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The Matrix
The Matrix

1999 8.2

Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

ActionScience Fiction
The Matrix Resurrections
The Matrix Resurrections

2021 6.4

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

Science FictionActionAdventure
Inception
Inception

2010 8.4

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

ActionScience FictionAdventure
The Crack: Inception
The Crack: Inception

2019 6.7

Madrid, Spain, 1975; shortly after the end of the Franco dictatorship. Six months after the mysterious death of his lover, a prestigious tailor, a married woman visits the office of the young Germán Areta, a former police officer turned private detective, to request his professional services.

DramaThriller