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Movies that feel like Godzilla Minus One (2023)

If you loved Godzilla Minus One, the closest films we have are Shin Godzilla (2016), Blade: Trinity (2004) and Underwater (2020). All three share Godzilla Minus One's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

πŸ… 99% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.7 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Takashi Yamazakicerebraldreadunsettlingkineticmelancholy
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If Godzilla Minus One hit the spot, these will too

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Shin Godzilla
2016 Β· dir. Shinji Higuchi
πŸ… 87%β˜… 6.9action Β· science fiction Β· horror

Two things both keep coming back to: monster and giant monster

The difference: None of the melancholy Godzilla Minus One is built on

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

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Blade: Trinity
2004 Β· dir. David S. Goyer
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.8action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Both keep coming back to the same thing: grief

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

For years, Blade has fought against the vampires in the cover of the night. But now, after falling into the crosshairs of the FBI, he is forced out into the daylight, where he is driven to join forces with a clan of human vampire hunters he never knew existedβ€”The Nightstalkers. Together with Abigail and Hannibal, two deftly trained Nightstalkers, Blade follows a trail of blood to the ancient creature that is also hunting himβ€”the original vampire, Dracula.

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Underwater
2020 Β· dir. William Eubank
πŸ… 48%β˜… 5.9horror Β· science fiction Β· action

One thread runs through both: monster

The difference: Missing the melancholy of Godzilla Minus One

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 Β· dir. Ben Wheatley
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5action Β· science fiction Β· horror

Common ground: kaiju

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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Colony
2026 Β· dir. Yeon Sang-ho
β˜… 6.5action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Cerebral where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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Evil Dead Burn
2026 · dir. Sébastien Vaniček
β˜… 7.7horror

Unsettling and melancholy in the same breath

After her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family β€” descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into creatures that feed on fear, she comes to discover that the vows she took in life survive even in death.

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#Alive
2020 Β· dir. Cho Il
β˜… 6.3action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Kinetic science fiction, and it commits to that

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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Planet Terror
2007 Β· dir. Robert Rodriguez
πŸ… 76%β˜… 7horror Β· action Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: grief

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Godzilla Minus One does

Two doctors find their graveyard shift inundated with townspeople ravaged by sores. Among the wounded is Cherry Darling, a dancer whose leg was ripped from her body. As the invalids quickly become enraged aggressors, Cherry and her ex-boyfriend El Wray lead a team of accidental warriors into the night.

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Nope
2022 Β· dir. Jordan Peele
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.8horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Horror built on ideas, twice over

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

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Talk to Me
2023 Β· dir. Michael Philippou
β˜… 7.1horror

Action with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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The Meg
2018 Β· dir. Jon Turteltaub
πŸ… 47%β˜… 5.7action Β· science fiction Β· horror

The same preoccupation in both: kaiju

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

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28 Weeks Later
2007 Β· dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.8horror Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Unsettling science fiction in both cases

Twenty-eight weeks after the spread of a deadly rage virus, the inhabitants of the British Isles have lost their battle against the onslaught, as the virus has killed everyone there. Six months later, a group of Americans dare to set foot on the Isles, convinced the danger has passed. But it soon becomes all too clear that the scourge continues to live, waiting to pounce on its next victims.

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