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Movies that feel likeGreenland (2020)

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.

If you loved Greenland, the closest films we have are War Machine (2026), Predators (2010) and Cloverfield (2008). All three share Greenland's tense and kinetic 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★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ric Roman Waughtensekineticcerebral
10 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Amazon Prime Video · Paramount Plus Premium

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

Tense and kinetic in the same breath

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

Thriller built on ideas, twice over

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

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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%★ 7action · thriller · science fictionParamount+Peacock

The same preoccupation in both: disaster

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.

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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

Kinetic science fiction in both cases

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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Project Power
2020 · dir. Henry Joost
🍅 61%★ 6action · crime · science fictionNetflix

Cerebral thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Greenland does

An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.

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

One thread runs through both: disaster

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

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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Angel Has Fallen
2019 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 38%★ 6.4action · thrillerNetflix

The same hand behind both of them: Ric Roman Waugh

The difference: Easier on the ideas than Greenland

After a treacherous attack, Secret Service agent Mike Banning is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trumbull. Chased by his own colleagues and the FBI, Banning begins a race against the clock to clear his name.

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

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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

Kinetic science fiction, and it commits to that

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

Cerebral thriller in both cases

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

Action in the same key

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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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