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Movies that feel like Alienoid: Return to the Future (2024)

If you loved Alienoid: Return to the Future, the closest films we have are Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), Coma (2020) and Green Snake (2021). All three share Alienoid: Return to the Future's kinetic and epic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Ean has a critical mission to return to the future to save everyone. However, she becomes trapped in the distant past while trying to prevent the escape of alien prisoners who are locked up in the bodies of humans. Meanwhile, Muruk, who helps Ean escape various predicaments, is unnerved when he begins sensing the presence of a strange being in his body. Traveling through the centuries, they are trying to prevent the explosion of the haava.

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Independence Day: Resurgence
2016 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 29%5.2action · adventure · science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien

The difference: Lighter on dream logic

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

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Coma
2020 · dir. Nikita Argunov
6.3science fiction · adventure · action

Kinetic and epic in the same breath

A young and talented architect comes to his senses after a horrific accident only to find himself in the odd dystopian world. A world that is filled with the memories of all current coma patients. Just like a human memory this world is fragmental, chaotic and unstable. This is COMA: icecaps, rivers and cities can all exist in a space of a single room and laws of physics are no longer laws as they can be bent.

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Green Snake
2021 · dir. Amp Wong
6.8animation · fantasy · action

Dreamlike action in both cases

The difference: Played as animation first

While trying to free her sister from Fahai's clutches, Xiao Qing winds up in a dystopian city and meets a mysterious man who can't recall his past life.

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Vesper
2022 · dir. Kristina Buožytė
🍅 91%6science fiction · drama · adventure

Both lean on ideas more than on fantasy

After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.

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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
2023 · dir. Steven Caple Jr.
🍅 51%6science fiction · adventure · action

The same preoccupation in both: alien

When a new threat capable of destroying the entire planet emerges, Optimus Prime and the Autobots must team up with a powerful faction known as the Maximals. With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, humans Noah and Elena will do whatever it takes to help the Transformers as they engage in the ultimate battle to save Earth.

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Ne Zha 2
2025 · dir. Jiao Zi
🍅 91%7.9animation · action · fantasy

Adventure built on momentum, twice over

After a catastrophic event leaves their bodies destroyed, Ne Zha and Ao Bing are granted a fragile second chance at life. As tensions rise between the dragon clans and celestial forces, the two must undergo a series of perilous trials that will test their bond, challenge their identities, and decide the fate of both mortals and immortals.

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Dragon Blade
2015 · dir. Daniel Lee
🍅 36%5.9adventure · history · action

Science fiction with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Huo An, the commander of the Protection Squad of the Western Regions, was framed by evil forces and becomes enslaved. On the other hand, a Roman general escapes to China after rescuing the Prince. The heroic duo meet in the Western Desert and a thrilling story unfolds.

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Pacific Rim: Uprising
2018 · dir. Steven S. DeKnight
🍅 41%5.6action · fantasy · science fiction

Epic action, and it commits to that

It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.

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A Writer's Odyssey
2021 · dir. Lu Yang
🍅 93%6.2fantasy · action · adventure

Both lean on momentum more than on fantasy

Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange twist of fate, the fantasy world of the novel begins to impact life in the real world, leading Guan Ning to accept a mission from Tu Ling to kill the author.

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Superman Returns
2006 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 72%6.1science fiction · action · adventure

Adventure with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.

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Ra.One
2011 · dir. Anubhav Sinha
🍅 59%4.8adventure · action · science fiction

Science fiction built on scale, twice over

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

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Everything Everywhere All at Once
2022 · dir. Daniel Scheinert
🍅 93%7.7action · adventure · science fiction

Same instincts, 2 years apart

An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.

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