Movies Like J.A.W.
If you liked J.A.W. (2011), a science fiction and action movie directed by Nate Parker, 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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Ghost Recon: Alpha (2012)
★ 7.2/10Also action and science fictionGhost Recon: Alpha sees a team led by Ghost Leader infiltrate a trade at a Russian depot between a general and a mysterious other figure.
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Space/Time (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and actionAfter 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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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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Code 8 Part II (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and actionIn a world where superpowered people are heavily policed by robots, an ex-con teams up with a drug lord he despises to protect a teen from a corrupt cop.
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Osiris (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also science fiction and actionSpecial Forces commandos on a mission are abducted mid-operation by a mysterious spacecraft. Upon waking aboard, they find themselves prey to a relentless alien race in a fight for survival.
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Monster Hunters (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also science fiction and actionWhen an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, they make quick work of the army that tries to stop them. Now, the only hope of stopping the aliens rests with a…
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Afterburn (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fictionSet against the backdrop of a postapocalyptic Earth whose Eastern Hemisphere was destroyed by a massive solar flare, leaving what life remains mutated from radiation and fallout. The story revolves around a group of…
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Gemini Man (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also action and thrillerHenry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict…
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Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and actionIn 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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The 355 (2022)
★ 6/10Also action and thrillerA group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Colombian, and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
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Monsters of Man (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and actionA robotics company vying to win a lucrative military contract team up with a corrupt CIA agent to conduct an illegal live field test. They deploy four weaponized prototype robots into a suspected drug manufacturing…
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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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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers - To Live and Die in Starlight (2002)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and actionAfter being punished for retreat from combat, Ranger David Martel is given command of the Liandra, a haunted 20-year old Minbari fighting ship. He's escorting ambassadors to a secret archaeological site, the oldest…
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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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Peter's To-Do List (2019)
★ 7/10Also science fiction and actionOn the eve of his departure to Europe, Peter Parker tells Ned Leeds that he has several things to do before they leave.
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also action and science fictionThe surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
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Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also action and 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 Kovak Box (2006)
★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thrillerDavid Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
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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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Rage of Stars (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also action and science fictionA story about a woman from the International Special Forces Unit, who has a premonition about the impending end of humanity.