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Movies that feel like Amores Perros (2000)

If you loved Amores Perros, the closest films we have are 21 Grams (2003), Open Your Eyes (1997) and Primer (2004). All three share Amores Perros' contemplative and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritucontemplativetensecerebralromantic
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If Amores Perros hit the spot, these will too

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21 Grams
2003 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 80%7.6drama · crime · thriller

Both are Alejandro G. Iñárritu's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the ideas of Amores Perros

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

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Open Your Eyes
1997 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 87%7.7drama · thriller · science fiction

Contemplative and tense in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Amores Perros does

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

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Primer
2004 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 72%6.7science fiction · drama · thriller

Cerebral drama, and it commits to that

The difference: None of the romance Amores Perros is built on

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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Project Almanac
2015 · dir. Dean Israelite
🍅 38%6.4science fiction · thriller

Thriller built on romance, twice over

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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Babel
2006 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 68%7.5drama

Alejandro G. Iñárritu working the same nerve twice

Tragedy strikes a married couple vacationing in the Moroccan desert, which jumpstarts an interlocking story involving four different families.

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Yi Yi
2000 · dir. Edward Yang
8.1drama

One thread runs through both: daughter

Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.

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After the Wedding
2006 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 87%7.7drama

The same preoccupation in both: daughter

A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.

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Under the Skin
2014 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 83%6.3thriller · science fiction · drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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Liquid Sky
1982 · dir. Slava Tsukerman
🍅 93%6science fiction · thriller · drama

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

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Contagion
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 85%6.8drama · thriller · science fiction

Both lean on ideas more than on drama

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

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The Andromeda Strain
1971 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 68%7.2science fiction · thriller · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

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Blood Simple
1985 · dir. Joel Coen
🍅 94%7.5crime · drama · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: money

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

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