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Movies that feel likeAlien Resurrection (1997)

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.

If you loved Alien Resurrection, the closest films we have are Deep Blue Sea (1999), World War Z (2013) and Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991). All three share Alien Resurrection's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Shin Godzilla (2016).

🍅 55% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunetcerebraldreadunsettlingkineticbleak
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Alien (1979) · Aliens (1986) · Alien³ (1992)

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Deep Blue Sea
1999 · dir. Renny Harlin
🍅 60%★ 6action · horror · science fictionStarz

The same two preoccupations: creature, and scientist

The difference: Easier on the bleakness than Alien Resurrection

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.

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World War Z
2013 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 67%★ 7action · horror · science fictionParamount+Peacock

One thread runs through both: dystopia

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991 · dir. Lam Ngai Kai
🍅 89%★ 7action · science fiction · horror

Cerebral where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.

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Overlord
2018 · dir. Julius Avery
🍅 82%★ 6.6horror · war · science fictionParamount+

Both land unease and bleakness at once

The difference: Sits closer to war than Alien Resurrection does

On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.

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Shin Godzilla
2016 · dir. Shinji Higuchi
🍅 87%★ 6.9action · science fiction · horrorMax

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

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The Fly
1986 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 82%★ 7.6horror · science fictionHuluPeacock

Both keep coming back to the same thing: creature

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 39%★ 5.5action · horror · science fictionNetflixHulu

The same preoccupation in both: dystopia

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 30%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionHuluStarz

Cerebral horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

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Doom
2005 · dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak
🍅 18%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionStarz

Action with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem
2007 · dir. Colin Strause
🍅 12%★ 4.6action · science fiction · thriller

Common ground: alien

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Alien Resurrection does

After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation.

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#Alive
2020 · dir. Cho Il
★ 6.3action · horror · science fictionNetflix

Unsettling science fiction in both cases

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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The Purge: Election Year
2016 · dir. James DeMonaco
🍅 55%★ 6action · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Horror built on momentum, twice over

Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On the night of what should be the final Purge, a betrayal from within the government forces Barnes and Roan out onto the street where they must fight to survive the night.

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