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Movies Like Ares

If you liked Ares (2016), a science fiction and drama movie directed by Jean-Patrick Benes, 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. 1Repo Men

    Repo Men (2010)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and thriller

    In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess…

  2. 2Doomsday

    Doomsday (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and science fiction

    The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a…

  3. 3RoboCop 2

    RoboCop 2 (1990)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by…

  4. 4Carne

    Carne (1991)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and thriller

    After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.

  5. 5The Tenant

    The Tenant (1976)

    ★ 7.6/10Also thriller and drama

    A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

  6. 6Death Race 2

    Death Race 2 (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller and science fiction

    In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head…

  7. 7Irreversible

    Irreversible (2002)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and thriller

    A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a…

  8. 8Hollow Man

    Hollow Man (2000)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Cocky researcher Sebastian Caine is working on a project to make living creatures invisible. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine pushes his team to move to the next phase — using himself as the…

  9. 9Mad Max

    Mad Max (1979)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and science fiction

    In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

  10. 10I Stand Alone

    I Stand Alone (1999)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and thriller

    After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with…

  11. 11Crimes of Passion

    Crimes of Passion (1984)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller

    Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a…

  12. 12Death Race: Inferno

    Death Race: Inferno (2013)

    ★ 5.9/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a…

  13. 13Mesrine: Public Enemy #1

    Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)

    ★ 7.3/10Also thriller and drama

    After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal while simultaneously feeding his desire for media attention and public adoration, Mesrine becomes increasingly paranoid…

  14. 14Mad Max 2

    Mad Max 2 (1981)

    ★ 7.4/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot…

  15. 15Assassination Games

    Assassination Games (2011)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller

    Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same…

  16. 16Fight Club

    Fight Club (1999)

    ★ 8.4/10Also drama and thriller

    A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an…

  17. 17Strange Days

    Strange Days (1995)

    ★ 7/10Also science fiction and thriller

    In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute. With the help of bodyguard Mace, he starts to investigate and is pulled…

  18. 18Predator

    Predator (1987)

    ★ 7.6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

  19. 19The Survivalist

    The Survivalist (2015)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and science fiction

    In a time of starvation, a survivalist lives off a small plot of land hidden deep in forest. When two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm, he finds his existence threatened.

  20. 20Coffy

    Coffy (1973)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and drama

    After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her…

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