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Movies that feel like Paradise (2023)

If you loved Paradise, the closest films we have are The Platform (2019), The Blackout (2019) and Brainstorm (1983). All three share Paradise's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

πŸ… 100% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Boris Kunzcerebraltense
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If Paradise hit the spot, these will too

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The Platform
2019 Β· dir. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7drama Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: disheartening

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Paradise does

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

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The Blackout
2019 Β· dir. Egor Baranov
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6thriller Β· science fiction Β· action

Cerebral where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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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Brainstorm
1983 Β· dir. Douglas Trumbull
πŸ… 57%β˜… 6.4science fiction Β· thriller

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 Β· dir. Joseph Sargent
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7.1science fiction Β· thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realizedβ€”with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

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Yakuza Princess
2021 Β· dir. Vicente Amorim
πŸ… 34%β˜… 4.8action Β· thriller

Cerebral thriller in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into action than Paradise does

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, ShirΓ΄, may have been actually sent to kill her.

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The Flu
2013 Β· dir. Kim Sung-soo
πŸ… 33%β˜… 6.6action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Tense science fiction, and it commits to that

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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Knowing
2009 Β· dir. Alex Proyas
πŸ… 35%β˜… 6.2science fiction Β· thriller

Both play science fiction straight

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

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The Happening
2008 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 17%β˜… 5thriller Β· science fiction

Thriller approached the same way

When a deadly airborne virus threatens to wipe out the northeastern United States, teacher Elliot Moore and his wife Alma flee from contaminated cities into the countryside in a fight to discover the truth. Is it terrorism, the accidental release of some toxic military bio weapon -- or something even more sinister?

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Predestination
2014 Β· dir. Michael Spierig
πŸ… 84%β˜… 7.4science fiction Β· thriller

Cut from the same science fiction cloth

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

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Under the Skin
2014 Β· dir. Jonathan Glazer
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.3thriller Β· science fiction Β· drama

Thriller of the same temperament

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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The Call
2020 Β· dir. Lee Chung-hyun
πŸ… 46%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery Β· science fiction

Science fiction in the same key

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

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Liquid Sky
1982 Β· dir. Slava Tsukerman
πŸ… 93%β˜… 6science fiction Β· thriller Β· drama

Both working the same thriller territory

An alien creature invades New York's punk subculture in its search for an opiate released by the brain during an orgasm.

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