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Movies Like Synchronous

If you liked Synchronous (2016), a science fiction and thriller movie directed by Ricardo Fernández Jiménez, 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. 1Awareness

    Awareness (2023)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and mystery

    Ian is a teenager who lives with his father on the outskirts by running small scams using Ian's ability to generate visual illusions upon unsuspecting victims. When one of his cons goes awry, his abilities publicly…

  2. 2The 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…

  3. 3Containment

    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?

  4. 4The 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.

  5. 52073

    2073 (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10Also 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…

  6. 6Parallel

    Parallel (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Grief-stricken after the loss of her child, Vanessa takes refuge at a lake house only to be met with an aberration of herself from a parallel universe and realizes the multiverse gates hold the key to releasing her…

  7. 7Stay

    Stay (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery and thriller

    Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…

  8. 8Multiverse

    Multiverse (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    Four brilliant university students are forced to confront themselves in terrifying ways when their Quantum Physics experiment leads to an entangled parallel existence that leaves them questioning who they are and what…

  9. 9Redux Redux

    Redux Redux (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    In an attempt to avenge her daughter’s death, Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, killing her daughter’s murderer again and again. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity begins to slip…

  10. 10The Infernal Machine

    The Infernal Machine (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and mystery

    Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…

  11. 11Stowaway

    Stowaway (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and thriller

    A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.

  12. 12Artificial Justice

    Artificial Justice (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and science fiction

    In the near future, the Government aims to replace judges with Artificial Intelligence software, pledging to effectively automate and depoliticize the justice system. Carmen Costa, a distinguished judge, has been…

  13. 13The Kovak Box

    The Kovak Box (2006)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thriller

    David 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?

  14. 14Space/Time

    Space/Time (2025)

    ★ 5.8/10Also science fiction and thriller

    After 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.

  15. 15Coherence

    Coherence (2014)

    ★ 7.2/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

  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. 17KM 31: Kilometer 31

    KM 31: Kilometer 31 (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery

    While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina…

  18. 18Anon

    Anon (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also science fiction and mystery

    Set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles…

  19. 19The Incident

    The Incident (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller and science fiction

    Two parallel stories about people trapped in illogical endless spaces: two brothers and a detective locked on an infinite staircase, and a family locked on an infinite road... for over 35 years.

  20. 20Shuffle

    Shuffle (2012)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mystery

    Lovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s…

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