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Movies that feel likeSource Code (2011)

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

If you loved Source Code, the closest films we have are Limitless (2011), Timecrimes (2007) and The Call (2020). All three share Source Code's tense and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Kahaani (2012).

🍅 92% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Duncan Jonestensecerebraltwistydreamlike
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Limitless
2011 · dir. Neil Burger
🍅 68%★ 7.4thriller · mystery · science fiction

An ordinary guy handed impossible ability, with strings attached

The difference: A power fantasy, not a mission — slicker but far less poignant

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

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Timecrimes
2007 · dir. Nacho Vigalondo
🍅 90%★ 7.1science fiction · thriller

One ordinary man trapped in a loop that keeps punishing him

The difference: Nastier and cheaper — a puzzle box with no heroics to root for

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

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The Call
2020 · dir. Lee Chung-hyun
🍅 46%★ 7.1thriller · mystery · science fictionNetflix

Two timelines on one phone line, and the past fights back

The difference: Turns genuinely vicious — a serial killer where the bomber was

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

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K-PAX
2001 · dir. Iain Softley
🍅 41%★ 7.4science fiction · drama · mystery

Is he really what he claims? The mystery hangs on one man's mind

The difference: Slow hospital drama — the puzzle unfolds in talk, not crisis

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

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The End of Oak Street
2026 · dir. David Robert Mitchell
🍅 86%★ 6.5science fiction · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

One thread runs through both: time travel

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than Source Code

After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings.

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Cube
1998 · dir. Vincenzo Natali
🍅 61%★ 7.1thriller · science fiction · mystery

Strangers waking inside a deadly system nobody explains

The difference: Grim low-budget survival — no mission control, no way to reset

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

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Mulholland Drive
2001 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 83%★ 7.9thriller · drama · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: identity

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dreamlike than Source Code does

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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Vanilla Sky
2001 · dir. Cameron Crowe
🍅 41%★ 6.9mystery · romance · science fictionParamount+Peacock

Waking inside a life that might not be real

The difference: Messier and moodier — romance and ego where the mission was

David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.

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Mirage
2018 · dir. Oriol Paulo
★ 7.4thriller · drama · mysteryNetflix

Changing one past moment and paying for it in the present

The difference: A domestic melodrama at heart, and slower to spring its trap

During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

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Kahaani
2012 · dir. Sujoy Ghosh
🍅 100%★ 8.1mystery · thriller

A lone searcher in a crowded city where nothing is what it seems

The difference: No sci-fi machinery — the rug-pull is pure human deception

Pregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems.

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Burning
2018 · dir. Lee Chang-dong
🍅 95%★ 7.4mystery · drama · thrillerRent or buy

A slow-burn suspicion you can never quite prove

The difference: It withholds the answers Source Code pays off — deliberately

Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

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Exam
2009 · dir. Stuart Hazeldine
🍅 61%★ 6.7thriller · mystery

One sealed room, one ticking clock, one question to crack

The difference: Stagebound and small — all talk, none of the train-set spectacle

Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, where an armed guard keeps watch, they are given 80 minutes to answer one simple question.

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