Movies Like Taiketsu
If you liked Taiketsu (2007), a science fiction and action movie directed by Sven Knüppel, 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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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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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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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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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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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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Timescape (1992)
★ 6.4/10Also science fictionBefore they can complete renovations on their new country inn, a widowed father and his young daughter are visited by a strange group of tourists. He soon makes a chilling discovery: they are disaster junkies from the…
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Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and actionA special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
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Interceptor (2022)
★ 6/10Also actionA U.S. Army Captain uses her years of tactical training to save humanity from sixteen nuclear missiles launched at the U.S. as a violent attack threatens her remote missile interceptor station.
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Daylight's End (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fictionYears after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station…
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Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
★ 5.9/10Also action and science fictionLuc Deveraux, the heroic former Universal Soldier, is about to be thrown into action once again. When SETH, the supercomputer-controlled ultra-warrior, decides to take revenge and destroy its creators, only Luc can…
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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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Real Men (1987)
★ 6/10Also science fiction and actionA womanizing CIA agent and an insecure insurance agent are paired together to make sure a deal goes through with aliens for the future of mankind.
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Osiris (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also 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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Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also 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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Dangerous (2021)
★ 6/10Also actionA reformed sociopath heads to a remote island after the death of his brother. Soon after his arrival, the island falls under siege from a deadly gang of mercenaries, and when he discovers their role in his brother’s…
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Hounds of War (2024)
★ 6.4/10Also actionAfter a mission goes wrong, only one of a group of mercenaries is left alive to avenge his fallen brothers.
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Chief of Station (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also actionAfter 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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Screamers (1995)
★ 6.2/10Also science fictionSIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one…
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Seized (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also actionHiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to…
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Lights Out (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also actionA drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.