Similar films

You might enjoy Delicatessen(1991), excellent movie.

You might want to check out Cypher. I loved that movie, much to my own surprise. The movie does not look as dark as One Point O (the shots, I mean), but the story is. And it is a mindfrell (to use a Farscape term) movie, just like One Point O. Maybe even more so. IMDB: "An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale."

Don't know if you have seen Pi, a cult movie that has become somewhat of a classic among its peers. Dark and gloomy, and also a nice workout for the brain. I'm not very mathematical, I'm hardly beta at all, but also for people like me this is a very enjoyable one. IMDB: "A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature."

If you want to get a bit more scifi, check out Dark City (the one from 1998 with Kiefer Sutherland). Talk about ultra modern/old. The feel I got from this movie was like taking Twelve Monkeys and placing it in a Victorian version of the 1930s. Something like that. Cool atmosphere. IMDB: "A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans."

A movie that you will probably either love or hate is Renaissance (the one from 2006). It's a beautifully animated b/w movie, also dealing with corporate evil. IMDB: "In 2054, Paris is a labyrinth where all movement is monitored and recorded. Casting a shadow over everything is the city's largest company, Avalon, which insinuates itself into every aspect of contemporary life to sell its primary export - youth and beauty. In this world of stark contrasts and rigid laws the populace is kept in line and accounted for."

These are just a few from the top of my head, hope there's one you'll like.

I think 1.O is somehow a concept movie. It creates a world of it's own, a bit based on the real one, but the majority of the concept rotates on it's own axis. And I'm not talking about the script, I'm talking about the cinematics, the things that transpose words into motion pictures.

From what I remember, I recommend you Brazil, Dark City, Delicatessen, The Machinist, Pi of course, Blade Runner for it's fantastic bleak and dystopic world, The City of Lost Children, The Hudsucker Proxy, 1984. I'm sure there are more, but these I remember now.

"Bon appétit" ;)

Thematically Cronenberg´s excellent Videodrome. And Matrix of course.

I really enjoyed this thread, everybody. Lots of good recommendations for my favorite kinds of movies.

Mabye The Thirteenth Floor (as far as i remember). And Cube Zero, even though the movie's really crap, it has at least the mentioned setting.

As for paranoia and dark atmosphere, The machinist beats them all...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361862/

Brazil - Terry Gilliam

Extendz - David Cronenberg