
Movies that feel like The Blackout (2019)
If you loved The Blackout, the closest films we have are The Flu (2013), The Predator (2018) and Yakuza Princess (2021). All three share The Blackout's tense and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 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.
If The Blackout hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: survival

One thread runs through both: alien invasion

Tense where it counts, cerebral underneath

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller
The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien invasion
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

Tense science fiction in both cases

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases
The difference: None of the momentum The Blackout is built on

Science fiction built on momentum, twice over
The difference: Missing the tension of The Blackout

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Cerebral action in both cases

Common ground: earth in peril
The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Blackout does

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction
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