Movies like Ex Machina

“Ex Machina (2015) is a 2010s British-American science-fiction drama that stages an ethical Turing-like test as a confined social experiment. The film frames its core conflict as a power-laden interrogation of consciousness, using high-contrast chiaroscuro, clinical mise-en-scène, and minimalist composition to make psychological states legible. In short, it converts speculative technology into a forensic arena, arguing that the question of personhood is inseparable from the structures that adjudicate it.”