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Movies that feel like The Flu (2013)

If you loved The Flu, the closest films we have are The Blackout (2019), Cloverfield (2008) and Self/less (2015). All three share The Flu's kinetic 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 HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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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If The Flu hit the spot, these will too

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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%6thriller · science fiction · action

Common ground: survival

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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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%7action · thriller · science fiction

Common ground in both: quarantine and disaster

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

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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Self/less
2015 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 18%6.5science fiction · action · thriller

One thread runs through both: doctor

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

Both are built on the same subject: disaster

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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Yakuza Princess
2021 · dir. Vicente Amorim
🍅 34%4.8action · thriller

Both land momentum and ideas at once

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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Contagion
2011 · dir. Steven Soderbergh
🍅 85%6.8drama · thriller · science fiction

Both are working the same pair: lethal virus, epidemic

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as The Flu

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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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Predators
2010 · dir. Nimród Antal
🍅 66%6.4science fiction · action · thriller

Kinetic science fiction, and it commits to that

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

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Hollow Man
2000 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 25%5.9action · science fiction · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

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

Tense action in both cases

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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Bleeding Steel
2017 · dir. Leo Zhang
🍅 24%5.2science fiction · action · adventure

Science fiction built on momentum, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than The Flu does

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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Krrish
2006 · dir. Rakesh Roshan
🍅 88%6.5action · science fiction

Same instincts, 7 years apart

The difference: Missing the tension of The Flu

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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