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Movies that feel likeCloverfield (2008)

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

If you loved Cloverfield, the closest films we have are Predators (2010), Déjà Vu (2006) and Greenland (2020). All three share Cloverfield's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tenet (2020).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Matt Reeveskinetictensecerebral
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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Predators
2010 · dir. Nimród Antal
🍅 66%★ 6.4science fiction · action · thriller

A small group of ordinary people hunted by something far more powerful

The difference: A hunted-on-an-alien-planet premise, not a found-footage city disaster

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

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Déjà Vu
2006 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 55%★ 7.1action · thriller · science fiction

A shocking catastrophe kicking off a race against time to make sense of it

The difference: A time-travel investigation thriller, no monster or found-footage chaos

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

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Greenland
2020 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 78%★ 6.4thriller · action · science fictionMax

A family desperately trying to survive as the world falls apart around them

The difference: A comet-apocalypse road trip, wider in scope than one night in Manhattan

John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
2014 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 91%★ 7.6science fiction · action · dramaHulu

The same director's eye for chaos breaking out between two desperate sides

The difference: A slower-building post-apocalyptic drama, not one frantic handheld night

A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.

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Tenet
2020 · dir. Christopher Nolan
🍅 70%★ 7.3action · thriller · science fictionRent or buy

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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War Machine
2026 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 66%★ 6.3action · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.

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

Ordinary citizens overwhelmed as catastrophe spreads faster than anyone can contain

The difference: A pandemic-outbreak procedural, not a monster rampaging through a city

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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Hollow Man
2000 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 25%★ 5.9action · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

A survival-horror scramble against a threat nobody can properly see coming

The difference: A scientist-turned-monster plot, not a giant creature and a handheld camera

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.

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Next
2007 · dir. Lee Tamahori
🍅 28%★ 6.2action · science fiction · thriller

A city thrown into chaos by a threat that upends one ordinary life

The difference: A precognition-powered terrorism thriller, not a monster attack at all

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

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Godzilla
1998 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 20%★ 5.5science fiction · action · thriller

A colossal creature tearing through a major city while people scramble to survive

The difference: A military-versus-monster blockbuster, not a ground-level found-footage view

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%★ 6thriller · science fiction · actionPrime Video

Thriller built on momentum, twice over

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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Yakuza Princess
2021 · dir. Vicente Amorim
🍅 34%★ 4.8action · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on science fiction

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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