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Movies that feel like Bleeding Steel (2017)

If you loved Bleeding Steel, the closest films we have are The Blackout (2019), Ra.One (2011) and Yakuza Princess (2021). All three share Bleeding Steel's cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

🍅 24% Rotten Tomatoes5.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Leo Zhangcerebralkineticepictense

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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%6thriller · science fiction · action

Cerebral where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

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

Science fiction with a pulse of scale, in both cases

The difference: Missing the tension of Bleeding Steel

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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Yakuza Princess
2021 · dir. Vicente Amorim
🍅 34%4.8action · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on action

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

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

Adventure built on ideas, twice over

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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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%5.8action · adventure · thriller

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%6.2action · adventure · thriller

Epic action in both cases

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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Jurassic World Rebirth
2025 · dir. Gareth Edwards
🍅 50%5.8science fiction · adventure · action

The same preoccupation in both: genetic experiment

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.

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The Flu
2013 · dir. Kim Sung-soo
🍅 33%6.6action · science fiction · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on science fiction

A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

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Battleship
2012 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 33%5.8thriller · action · adventure

Cerebral adventure, and it commits to that

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

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Jurassic World Dominion
2022 · dir. Colin Trevorrow
🍅 28%5.6adventure · science fiction · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures.

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Jason Bourne
2016 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 55%6.6action · adventure · thriller

Action built on scale, twice over

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

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Gemini Man
2019 · dir. Ang Lee
🍅 26%5.7science fiction · action · adventure

A 2010s answer to the same itch

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Bleeding Steel does

Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, Brogan soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself.

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