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Movies that feel like Self/less (2015)

If you loved Self/less, the closest films we have are The Flu (2013), The Blackout (2019) and Next (2007). All three share Self/less' 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 HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

🍅 18% Rotten Tomatoes6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Tarsem Singhcerebralkinetictense

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

Both are built on the same subject: doctor

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

Cerebral where it counts, kinetic underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

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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Predators
2010 · dir. Nimród Antal
🍅 66%6.4science fiction · action · thriller

Cerebral action, and it commits to that

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

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Greenland
2020 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 78%6.4thriller · action · science fiction

Thriller with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.

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Hollow Man
2000 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 25%5.9action · science fiction · thriller

Tense science fiction in both cases

Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.

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The Predator
2018 · dir. Shane Black
🍅 34%5.3science fiction · action · thriller

Both lean on ideas more than on action

When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

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Yakuza Princess
2021 · dir. Vicente Amorim
🍅 34%4.8action · thriller

Kinetic thriller in both cases

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, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

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Déjà Vu
2006 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 55%7.1action · thriller · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%7action · thriller · science fiction

Action of the same temperament

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

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Prey
2022 · dir. Dan Trachtenberg
🍅 94%7.1thriller · action · science fiction

Both play thriller straight

When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

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Godzilla
1998 · dir. Roland Emmerich
🍅 20%5.5science fiction · action · thriller

Both are science fiction through and through

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

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