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Movies that feel likeCube (1998)

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

If you loved Cube, the closest films we have are The Call (2020), Limitless (2011) and The End of Oak Street (2026). All three share Cube's tense and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Sound of My Voice (2011).

🍅 61% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Vincenzo Natalitensecerebraltwisty
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · AMC+

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The Call
2020 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 46%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · science fictionNetflix

The same mix in both: tension, then ideas

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a caller puts a woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.

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Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

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The End of Oak Street
2026 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 86%★ 6.5science fiction · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Tense science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed even better

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Mulholland Drive
2001 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 83%★ 7.9thriller · drama · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Cube does

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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Contact
1997 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
🍅 69%★ 7.5drama · science fiction · mystery

Common ground: prime number

The difference: Easier on the tension than Cube

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

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The Bourne Identity
2002 · dir. Doug Liman
🍅 84%★ 7.8action · mystery · thrillerNetflix

Both keep coming back to the same thing: escape

The difference: Sits closer to action than Cube does

Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconstruct his life, but finds that many people he encounters want him dead. However, Bourne realizes that he has the combat and mental skills of a world-class spy—but who does he work for?

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Exam
2009 · dir. Stuart Hazeldine
🍅 61%★ 6.7thriller · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: riddle

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

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Identity
2003 · dir. James Mangold
🍅 64%★ 7.3mystery · thriller

Twisty thriller in both cases

Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.

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Source Code
2011 · dir. Duncan Jones
🍅 92%★ 7.5thriller · science fiction · mystery

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

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The Ghost Writer
2010 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 84%★ 7.2thriller · mysteryPrime VideoStarz

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.

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Sound of My Voice
2011 · dir. Zal Batmanglij
🍅 76%★ 6.6science fiction · drama · mystery

Both lean on ideas more than on thriller

A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

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The Hidden Face
2011 · dir. Andrés Baiz
★ 7.3thriller · mystery

Both play mystery straight

A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

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