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Movies that feel like Push (2009)

If you loved Push, the closest films we have are Battleship (2012), Bleeding Steel (2017) and Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). All three share Push's cerebral and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.

🍅 23% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Paul McGuigancerebralkineticepictense

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Battleship
2012 · dir. Peter Berg
🍅 33%5.8thriller · action · adventure

Both rooted in Hong Kong

When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.

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Bleeding Steel
2017 · dir. Leo Zhang
🍅 24%5.2science fiction · action · adventure

Both land ideas and momentum at once

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day
2026 · dir. Destin Daniel Cretton
🍅 89%8.1science fiction · action · adventure

One thread runs through both: mind control

The difference: Reviewed even better

Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one can even see.

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Jason Bourne
2016 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 55%6.6action · adventure · thriller

The same mix in both: scale, then tension

The most dangerous former operative of the CIA is drawn out of hiding to uncover hidden truths about his past.

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Jurassic Park III
2001 · dir. Joe Johnston
🍅 49%6adventure · thriller · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla Sorna. It isn't long before all hell breaks loose and the stranded wayfarers must fight for survival as a host of new -- and even more deadly -- dinosaurs try to make snacks of them.

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · dir. Christopher McQuarrie
🍅 80%7.1action · thriller · adventure

The same preoccupation in both: secret government organization

The difference: Not nearly as cerebral as Push

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

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

Both lean on momentum more than on action

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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The Time Machine
2002 · dir. Simon Wells
🍅 28%6science fiction · adventure · action

Adventure built on scale, twice over

Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.

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

Tense thriller in both cases

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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Ra.One
2011 · dir. Anubhav Sinha
🍅 59%4.8adventure · action · science fiction

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

When the titular antagonist of an action game takes on physical form, it's up to the game's less powerful protagonist to save the world.

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

Common ground: mind control

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

Kinetic action 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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