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Movies that feel likeTenet (2020)

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

If you loved Tenet, the closest films we have are Déjà Vu (2006), Prey (2022) and Greenland (2020). All three share Tenet's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Predestination (2014).

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Christopher Nolankinetictensecerebral
11 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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

Agents bending time itself to undo a terrorist attack

The difference: Warmer and simpler — one clean rule where Tenet stacks ten

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

A stripped-down cat-and-mouse against a technologically superior foe

The difference: No time tricks — pure physical hunt on open ground

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

A countdown to catastrophe that never lets the pressure drop

The difference: A family drama in disaster clothes — intimate, not intricate

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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War Machine
2026 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 66%★ 6.3action · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Soldiers thrown against an enemy their training never imagined

The difference: Blunt military sci-fi — muscle where Tenet flexes brain

On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.

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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%★ 7action · thriller · science fictionParamount+Peacock

Dropped into chaos with no explanations and no time to catch up

The difference: Handheld panic footage — confusion is the point, not a puzzle

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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The Bourne Supremacy
2004 · dir. Paul Greengrass
🍅 81%★ 7.7action · drama · thrillerNetflixStarz

Cold professional spycraft moving at a dead sprint

The difference: Grounded and linear — memory is the only puzzle here

A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.

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

Seeing ahead in time as the only edge against a bomb plot

The difference: A cheap-feeling B-movie that squanders its clever hook

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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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%★ 6thriller · science fiction · actionPrime Video

A vast, cryptic threat met by soldiers who don't have the picture

The difference: Russian B-movie edges — ambition past what the budget can carry

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

Systems collapsing in real time while officials play god

The difference: An outbreak melodrama — mass panic, zero mind-benders

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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Yakuza Princess
2021 · dir. Vicente Amorim
🍅 34%★ 4.8action · thrillerPrime Video

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Hollow Man
2000 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 25%★ 5.9action · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Cerebral action in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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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Predestination
2014 · dir. Michael Spierig
🍅 84%★ 7.4science fiction · thriller

Time travel as a closed loop you have to think your way around

The difference: Intimate, not global — one identity puzzle, no world war

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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