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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.

  1. 1Containment

    Containment (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Neighbors 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?

  2. 2Double Blind

    Double Blind (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and thriller

    After 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.

  3. 3The Signal

    The Signal (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A 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.

  4. 42073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Inspired 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…

  5. 5Blood and Snow

    Blood and Snow (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    When 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?

  6. 6Margaux

    Margaux (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction

    As 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…

  7. 7Die Alone

    Die Alone (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Lost 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…

  8. 8Abduction

    Abduction (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A 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…

  9. 9Year 10

    Year 10 (2024)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    After 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.

  10. 10Extinction

    Extinction (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thriller

    And 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.

  11. 11Cheat

    Cheat (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also thriller

    On 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…

  12. 1228 Years Later

    28 Years Later (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Twenty-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…

  13. 13The Resurrected

    The Resurrected (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

  14. 14Books of Blood

    Books of Blood (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also science fiction

    A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

  15. 15Spectral

    Spectral (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.

  16. 16Prodigy

    Prodigy (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Jimmy 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…

  17. 17Slash/Back

    Slash/Back (2022)

    ★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and thriller

    In 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.

  18. 18Chief of Station

    Chief of Station (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller

    After 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…

  19. 19The Mandela Effect

    The Mandela Effect (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A 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…

  20. 20Not Without Hope

    Not Without Hope (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.

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