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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.

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.

πŸ… 57% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Egor Baranovtensecerebralkinetic
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If The Blackout hit the spot, these will too

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The Flu
2013 Β· dir. Kim Sung-soo
πŸ… 33%β˜… 6.6action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: survival

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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The Predator
2018 Β· dir. Shane Black
πŸ… 34%β˜… 5.3science fiction Β· action Β· thriller

One thread runs through both: alien invasion

When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe's most lethal hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.

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Yakuza Princess
2021 Β· dir. Vicente Amorim
πŸ… 34%β˜… 4.8action Β· thriller

Tense where it counts, cerebral underneath

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, ShirΓ΄, may have been actually sent to kill her.

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Bleeding Steel
2017 Β· dir. Leo Zhang
πŸ… 24%β˜… 5.2science fiction Β· action Β· adventure

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

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Predator 2
1990 Β· dir. Stephen Hopkins
πŸ… 36%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· action Β· thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: alien invasion

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

A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

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Self/less
2015 Β· dir. Tarsem Singh
πŸ… 18%β˜… 6.5science fiction Β· action Β· thriller

Tense science fiction in both cases

An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be as good as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origins and the secret organization that will kill to keep its secrets.

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Paradise
2023 Β· dir. Boris Kunz
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.3science fiction Β· thriller

Action with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: None of the momentum The Blackout is built on

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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Independence Day: Resurgence
2016 Β· dir. Roland Emmerich
πŸ… 29%β˜… 5.2action Β· adventure Β· science fiction

Science fiction built on momentum, twice over

The difference: Missing the tension of The Blackout

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.

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Greenland
2020 Β· dir. Ric Roman Waugh
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.4thriller Β· action Β· science fiction

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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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2007 Β· dir. Lee Tamahori
πŸ… 28%β˜… 6.2action Β· science fiction Β· thriller

Cerebral action in both cases

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 Wandering Earth II
2023 Β· dir. Frant Gwo
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.7science fiction Β· action Β· adventure

Common ground: earth in peril

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Blackout does

Humans built huge engines on the surface of the earth to find a new home. But the road to the universe is perilous. In order to save earth, young people once again have to step forward to start a race against time for life and death.

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Krrish
2006 Β· dir. Rakesh Roshan
πŸ… 88%β˜… 6.5action Β· science fiction

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

In Singapore, Krishna is forced by circumstances to use his superpowers and become a masked superhero named Krrish, before getting drawn towards his lost legacy.

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