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Movies that feel like Project Almanac (2015)

If you loved Project Almanac, the closest films we have are Europa Report (2013), Paradise (2023) and Predestination (2014). All three share Project Almanac's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Peacock Premium and MUBI and others, checked against today's data.

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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Europa Report
2013 Β· dir. SebastiΓ‘n Cordero
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.4science fiction Β· thriller Β· drama

The same two preoccupations: found footage, and pseudo-documentary

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.

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Paradise
2023 Β· dir. Boris Kunz
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· thriller

Cerebral where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Missing the romance of Project Almanac

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.

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: time travel

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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Amores Perros
2000 Β· dir. Alejandro G. IΓ±Γ‘rritu
πŸ… 93%β˜… 8drama Β· thriller

Romantic thriller in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Project Almanac does

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

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Transcendence
2014 Β· dir. Wally Pfister
πŸ… 19%β˜… 6.2thriller Β· science fiction Β· drama

Both are built on the same subject: love

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

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Primer
2004 Β· dir. Shane Carruth
πŸ… 72%β˜… 6.7science fiction Β· drama Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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The Adjustment Bureau
2011 Β· dir. George Nolfi
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7science fiction Β· thriller Β· romance

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.

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Next
2007 Β· dir. Lee Tamahori
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6.2action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

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

Thriller built on ideas, twice over

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

Both lean on tension more than on science fiction

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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I Am Number Four
2011 Β· dir. D.J. Caruso
πŸ… 32%β˜… 6.1action Β· thriller Β· science fiction

Thriller with a pulse of romance, in both cases

A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.

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The Butterfly Effect
2004 Β· dir. J. Mackye Gruber
πŸ… 34%β˜… 7.6science fiction Β· thriller

The science fiction is handled with the same confidence

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected consequences.

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