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Movies that feel like War Machine (2026)

If you loved War Machine, the closest films we have are The Blackout (2019), The Flu (2013) and Yakuza Princess (2021). All three share War Machine's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 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.

On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.

🍅 66% Rotten Tomatoes6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Patrick Hugheskineticcerebraltense
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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%6thriller · science fiction · action

Kinetic where it counts, cerebral underneath

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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The Flu
2013 · dir. Kim Sung-soo
🍅 33%6.6action · science fiction · thriller

Action built on tension, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

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

Kinetic thriller in both cases

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

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

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

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

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 Predator
2018 · dir. Shane Black
🍅 34%5.3science fiction · action · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

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

Tense action in both cases

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

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Prey
2022 · dir. Dan Trachtenberg
🍅 94%7.1thriller · action · science fiction

Science fiction approached the same way

When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien predator with a technically advanced arsenal.

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

Cut from the same thriller cloth

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

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

Both play science fiction straight

The difference: Missing the momentum of War Machine

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

The action is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than War Machine 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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