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Movies that feel like Brick (2025)

If you loved Brick, the closest films we have are Room 237 (2012), Exterritorial (2025) and The Circle (2017). All three share Brick's paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

🍅 44% Rotten Tomatoes5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Philip Kochtensecerebralparanoid
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Room 237
2012 · dir. Rodney Ascher
🍅 94%6.2documentary

Common ground: conspiracy theory

The difference: Reviewed even better

A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.

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Exterritorial
2025 · dir. Christian Zübert
5.8thriller · action

Tense where it counts, paranoid underneath

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral as Brick

When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

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The Circle
2017 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 16%5.4drama · thriller · science fiction

Thriller with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Brick does

A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.

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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%6.3science fiction · thriller

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

The difference: Missing the paranoia of Brick

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Disclosure Day
2026 · dir. Steven Spielberg
6.4science fiction · thriller

Both lean on ideas more than on thriller

A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.

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Glass
2019 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 37%6.6thriller · drama · science fiction

Paranoid science fiction, and it commits to that

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

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Coherence
2014 · dir. James Ward Byrkit
🍅 89%7.2thriller · science fiction

Tense thriller in both cases

Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2013 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 29%5.7action · science fiction · adventure

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

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Mutiny
2026 · dir. Jean-François Richet
6.4action · thriller

Both sit in the same paranoid register

After witnessing his billionaire boss' murder and being framed for the crime, Cole Reed boards a cargo ship on a one-man crusade to avenge his boss' death only to discover an international conspiracy.

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Conclave
2024 · dir. Edward Berger
🍅 93%7.4drama · thriller

Both are thriller through and through

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.

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Geostorm
2017 · dir. Dean Devlin
🍅 18%5.4action · science fiction · thriller

Science fiction approached the same way

After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

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

The same thriller instincts

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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