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Movies that feel like Shin Godzilla (2016)

If you loved Shin Godzilla, the closest films we have are Godzilla Minus One (2023), Godzilla (1954) and Colony (2026). All three share Shin Godzilla's cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

πŸ… 87% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.9 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Shinji Higuchikineticcerebraldreadunsettling
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If Shin Godzilla hit the spot, these will too

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Godzilla Minus One
2023 Β· dir. Takashi Yamazaki
πŸ… 99%β˜… 7.7science fiction Β· horror Β· action

Two things both keep coming back to: monster and giant monster

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

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Godzilla
1954 · dir. Ishirō Honda
πŸ… 94%β˜… 7.6thriller Β· horror Β· science fiction

The same city underneath both: Tokyo

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Shin Godzilla

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

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Colony
2026 Β· dir. Yeon Sang-ho
β˜… 6.5action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Kinetic and cerebral in the same breath

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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#Alive
2020 Β· dir. Cho Il
β˜… 6.3action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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Underwater
2020 Β· dir. William Eubank
πŸ… 48%β˜… 5.9horror Β· science fiction Β· action

The same preoccupation in both: monster

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 Β· dir. Ben Wheatley
πŸ… 27%β˜… 5action Β· science fiction Β· horror

Common ground: kaiju

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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The Meg
2018 Β· dir. Jon Turteltaub
πŸ… 47%β˜… 5.7action Β· science fiction Β· horror

One thread runs through both: kaiju

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

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Spring
2014 Β· dir. Aaron Moorhead
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.7horror Β· romance Β· science fiction

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Missing the momentum of Shin Godzilla

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991 Β· dir. Lam Ngai Kai
πŸ… 89%β˜… 7action Β· science fiction Β· horror

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 Β· dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
πŸ… 39%β˜… 5.5action Β· horror Β· science fiction

Both lean on dread more than on horror

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

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The Host
2006 Β· dir. Bong Joon Ho
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1horror Β· drama Β· science fiction

Unsettling science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Shin Godzilla does

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

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The Mist
2007 Β· dir. Frank Darabont
πŸ… 74%β˜… 7.1horror Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: giant monster

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

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