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Movies that feel like Invasion (2020)

If you loved Invasion, the closest films we have are The Blackout (2019), Upstream Color (2013) and The Tomorrow War (2021). All three share Invasion's cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

Two years after the fall of the alien ship, the life of a young woman from Moscow has been changed forever. Her growing powers are now at the focus of both human and celestial investigation: an alien force takes an interest in her, and will stop short of nothing, including an invasion. Can love and compassion save humanity, when faced with a much greater and more demanding test this time?

5.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Fyodor Bondarchukcerebralcontemplativekineticromantichopeful
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Attraction (2017)

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

Common ground in both: survival and alien invasion

The difference: Missing the stillness of Invasion

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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Upstream Color
2013 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 87%6.5drama · science fiction

The same mix in both: ideas, then stillness

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Invasion

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

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The Tomorrow War
2021 · dir. Chris McKay
🍅 51%6.6action · science fiction · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: alien invasion

The difference: None of the stillness Invasion is built on

The world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for survival is for soldiers and civilians from the present to be transported to the future and join the fight. Among those recruited is high school teacher and family man Dan Forester. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, Dan teams up with a brilliant scientist and his estranged father in a desperate quest to rewrite the fate of the planet.

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Warriors of Future
2022 · dir. Ng Yuen-Fai
🍅 88%5.6drama · action · science fiction

Kinetic science fiction in both cases

When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.

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Iron Mask
2019 · dir. Oleg Stepchenko
🍅 21%4.7action · adventure · family

Both are working the same pair: playful, inspirational

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Invasion does

Commissioned to map the Far East territories of the Russian Empire, cartographer Jonathan Green sets off on a long journey of unbelievable adventures—making breath-taking discoveries and meeting mysterious creatures, Chinese princesses, deadly masters of oriental martial arts, and even the King of Dragons.

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Blood and Bone
2009 · dir. Ben Ramsey
6.7action · crime · thriller

Common ground: inspirational

In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.

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In America
2003 · dir. Jim Sheridan
🍅 90%7.7drama

Drama with a pulse of hope, in both cases

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

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Stalingrad
2013 · dir. Fyodor Bondarchuk
🍅 51%5.7war · action · drama

Fyodor Bondarchuk directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

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Astral City: A Spiritual Journey
2010 · dir. Wagner de Assis
6.5drama

Both lean on stillness more than on action

The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

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Hope
2013 · dir. Lee Joon-ik
8.2drama

Hopeful drama, and it commits to that

After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.

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Departures
2008 · dir. Yojiro Takita
🍅 80%8drama

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over

Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown where the living is cheaper. Thinking he’s applying for a job at a travel agency he finds he’s being interviewed for work with departures of a more permanent nature – as an undertaker’s assistant.

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Mohabbatein
2000 · dir. Aditya Chopra
7.1drama · romance

Action with a pulse of romance, in both cases

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

At a prestigious all-male university, three friends seek love outside of the school grounds; at the same time, a newly-hired music teacher seeks to befriend and loosen up the militantly strict headmaster.

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