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Movies that feel like Æon Flux (2005)

If you loved Æon Flux, the closest films we have are District B13 (2004), Gamer (2009) and Death Race (2008). All three share Æon Flux's cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus Premium and Starz and others, checked against today's data.

400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.

🍅 9% Rotten Tomatoes5.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Karyn Kusamacerebralkinetictensebleakdreamlike
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District B13
2004 · dir. Pierre Morel
🍅 81%7.1action · thriller · science fiction

Both are working the same pair: martial arts, dystopia

The difference: Reviewed even better

Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.

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Gamer
2009 · dir. Brian Taylor
🍅 29%5.7action · thriller · science fiction

One thread runs through both: dystopia

The difference: Missing the dream logic of Æon Flux

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind.

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Death Race
2008 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 41%6.4action · thriller · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: martial arts

Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.

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Zardoz
1974 · dir. John Boorman
🍅 49%5.8fantasy · action · thriller

Cerebral where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Æon Flux does

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

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Surrogates
2009 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 37%6.3science fiction · action · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then bleakness

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.

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eXistenZ
1999 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 77%6.8action · thriller · science fiction

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

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Equilibrium
2002 · dir. Kurt Wimmer
🍅 40%7.3action · science fiction · thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

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RoboCop
2014 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 50%6.1action · science fiction · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants to bring their controversial technology to the home front, and they see a golden opportunity to do it. When Alex Murphy – a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit – is critically injured, OmniCorp sees their chance to build a part-man, part-robot police officer. OmniCorp envisions a RoboCop in every city and even more billions for their shareholders, but they never counted on one thing: there is still a man inside the machine.

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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
2003 · dir. Jonathan Mostow
🍅 70%6.3action · thriller · science fiction

Bleak science fiction in both cases

It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

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The Running Man
1987 · dir. Paul Michael Glaser
🍅 59%6.6action · thriller · science fiction

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

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Total Recall
2012 · dir. Len Wiseman
🍅 30%6.2action · science fiction · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the evil Chancellor Cohaagen.

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The Matrix Resurrections
2021 · dir. Lana Wachowski
🍅 63%5.6science fiction · action · adventure

Both are built on the same subject: cyberpunk

Plagued by strange memories, Neo's life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

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