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Movies that feel likeThe Adjustment Bureau (2011)

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.

If you loved The Adjustment Bureau, the closest films we have are Open Your Eyes (1997), Amores Perros (2000) and Predestination (2014). All three share The Adjustment Bureau's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Paradise (2023).

🍅 71% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. George Nolficerebraltenseromantic
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If The Adjustment Bureau hit the spot, these will too

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Open Your Eyes
1997 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 87%★ 7.7drama · thriller · science fictionPrime VideoMax

Both land ideas and tension at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Adjustment Bureau does

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

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Amores Perros
2000 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 93%★ 8drama · thriller

Romantic thriller in both cases

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

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

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than The Adjustment Bureau does

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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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%★ 6.3science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Romance with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Under the Skin
2014 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 83%★ 6.3thriller · science fiction · dramaNetflix

Both lean on ideas more than on science fiction

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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Primer
2004 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 72%★ 6.7science fiction · drama · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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Project Almanac
2015 · dir. Dean Israelite
🍅 38%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Romantic romance in both cases

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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Safe Haven
2013 · dir. Lasse Hallström
🍅 13%★ 6.7romance · thrillerNetflix

Romantic thriller, and it commits to that

A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

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I Am Number Four
2011 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 32%★ 6.1action · thriller · science fiction

The same science fiction instincts

A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.

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Transcendence
2014 · dir. Wally Pfister
🍅 19%★ 6.2thriller · science fiction · drama

Science fiction approached the same way

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

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In Time
2011 · dir. Andrew Niccol
🍅 35%★ 6.7action · thriller · science fictionPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: the future

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".

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Brainstorm
1983 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 57%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Thriller in the same key

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

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