Movies Like The Illusion of Time
If you liked The Illusion of Time (2024), a science fiction and thriller movie directed by Maximus Cardillo, 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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Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and science fictionNeighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
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Double Blind (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and thrillerAfter an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
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The Signal (2007)
★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thrillerA horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
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2073 (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and science fictionInspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, the scorched-earth tech-dominant police state where democracy and…
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Blood and Snow (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionWhen researchers rescue a fellow scientist who survived a meteorite strike in the Arctic, they discover she may not be who they think she is. Is she some-how changed?
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Margaux (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also science fictionAs a group of seniors celebrate their final college days at a smart house, the house's highly advanced AI system, Margaux, begins to take on a deadly presence of her own. A carefree weekend of partying turns into a…
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Die Alone (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller and science fictionLost in a world reclaimed by nature and overrun by mysterious creatures, Ethan, a young man with amnesia navigates the dangerous landscape in search of his lost love Emma. His journey takes an unexpected turn when he…
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Abduction (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thrillerA man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by…
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Year 10 (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionAfter the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
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Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thrillerAnd suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
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Cheat (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also thrillerOn the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek…
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28 Years Later (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller and science fictionTwenty-eight years after the Rage virus outbreak, a heavily-defended island survives connected to the mainland by a single causeway. When one of the group leaves the island into the dark heart of the mainland, he…
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The Resurrected (1991)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and science fictionCharles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.
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Books of Blood (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionA journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
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Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thrillerA special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
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Prodigy (2017)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and science fictionJimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he…
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Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thrillerIn a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
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Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerAfter learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…
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The Mandela Effect (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and thrillerA man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to…
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Not Without Hope (2025)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerA group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.