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Movies that feel like The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

If you loved The Cloverfield Paradox, the closest films we have are Alien: Covenant (2017), Life (2017) and Prometheus (2012). All three share The Cloverfield Paradox's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Hulu, Paramount Plus Premium and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.

🍅 22% Rotten Tomatoes5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Julius Onahdreadunsettlingtwistycerebralawe
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Alien: Covenant
2017 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 65%6.4horror · science fiction

The same two preoccupations: experiment, and alien

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

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Life
2017 · dir. Daniel Espinosa
🍅 67%6.6horror · science fiction · mystery

Two things both keep coming back to: space and space station

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.

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Prometheus
2012 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 73%7science fiction · mystery · horror

The same preoccupation in both: alien

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

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Alien: Romulus
2024 · dir. Fede Álvarez
🍅 80%7.1horror · science fiction

One thread runs through both: spaceship

The difference: None of the twists The Cloverfield Paradox is built on

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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Sputnik
2020 · dir. Egor Abramenko
🍅 88%6.4science fiction · drama · horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Missing the twists of The Cloverfield Paradox

At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…

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A Cure for Wellness
2017 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 42%6.4horror · mystery · science fiction

Both land twists and ideas at once

An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem.

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The Empty Man
2020 · dir. David Prior
🍅 73%6.2horror · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: experiment

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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Event Horizon
1997 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 36%6.6horror · science fiction · mystery

Horror with a pulse of awe, in both cases

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1990s show

In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.

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Color Out of Space
2020 · dir. Richard Stanley
🍅 86%6.1horror · science fiction · mystery

Dread-soaked mystery, and it commits to that

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Cloverfield Paradox does

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Don't Worry Darling
2022 · dir. Olivia Wilde
🍅 38%6.3thriller · science fiction · mystery

Twisty mystery in both cases

Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, exposing flashes of something much more sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade, Alice can’t help questioning exactly what they’re doing in Victory, and why.

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Jigsaw
2017 · dir. Michael Spierig
🍅 32%5.7horror · mystery

Horror built on dread, twice over

Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.

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