Movies Like Frankie
If you liked Frankie (2011), a science fiction movie directed by Mike Pappa, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Paycheck (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionMichael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the…
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57 Seconds (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionWhen a tech blogger lands an interview with a tech guru and stops an attack on him, he finds a mysterious ring that takes him back 57 seconds into the past.
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In Time (2011)
★ 7/10Also science fictionIn the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest…
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ARQ (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also science fictionTwo old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
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Tenet (2020)
★ 7.2/10Also science fictionArmed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real…
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Next (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionLas 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…
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Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionThe ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…
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The Tomorrow War (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also science fictionThe world is stunned when a group of time travelers arrive from the year 2051 to deliver an urgent message: Thirty years in the future, mankind is losing a global war against a deadly alien species. The only hope for…
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Timecop (1994)
★ 6/10Also science fictionIn 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
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Primer (2004)
★ 6.7/10Also science fictionA group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.
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The Arrival (1996)
★ 6/10Also science fictionZane Ziminski is an astrophysicist who receives a message that seems to have extraterrestrial origins. Eerily soon after his discovery, Zane is fired. He then embarks on a search to determine the origins of the…
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Space/Time (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionAfter a fatal test shuts down their project, a disgraced team of scientists enters the criminal underworld to rebuild a forbidden space-bending engine that could rescue humanity or annihilate it entirely.
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Frequency (2000)
★ 7.3/10Also science fictionWhen a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise…
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Stargate: Continuum (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also science fictionBa'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
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Omni Loop (2024)
★ 6/10Also science fictionDiagnosed with a black hole growing inside her chest and stuck in a loop reliving the last five days of her life, a 55-year-old wife and mother from Miami, Florida decides to solve time travel in order to go back and…
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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also science fictionIn 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.
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Back to the Future (1985)
★ 8.3/10Also science fictionEighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by…
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The Time Machine (2002)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionHoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th-century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds mankind divided into two warring races.
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Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionA story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.
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Minutemen (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also science fictionWhen three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.