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Movies that feel likeBrick (2025)

When a mysterious brick wall encloses their apartment building overnight, Tim and Olivia must unite with their wary neighbors to get out alive.

If you loved Brick, the closest films we have are Disclosure Day (2026), Coherence (2014) and Paradise (2023). All three share Brick's tense and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Room 237 (2012).

🍅 44% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Philip Kochtensecerebralparanoid
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Disclosure Day
2026 · dir. Steven Spielberg
🍅 79%★ 6.4science fiction · thrillerPeacock

The same mix in both: tension, then ideas

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phenomena joins forces with him to prove there's life beyond our understanding.

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Coherence
2014 · dir. James Ward Byrkit
🍅 89%★ 7.1thriller · science fictionPrime VideoPeacock

Both lean on paranoia more than on thriller

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

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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%★ 6.3science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

The difference: Trades the paranoia of Brick for an angle of its own

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Room 237
2012 · dir. Rodney Ascher
🍅 94%★ 6.2documentary

Common ground: conspiracy theory

The difference: Easier on the tension than Brick

A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated through voice over, film clips, animation and dramatic reenactments.

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Conclave
2024 · dir. Edward Berger
🍅 93%★ 7.4drama · thrillerStarz

Paranoid thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Brick does

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in the Vatican with the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders until the process is complete, Lawrence finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could lead to its downfall.

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The Gorge
2025 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 62%★ 6.7romance · science fiction · thrillerApple TV+

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.

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The Circle
2017 · dir. James Ponsoldt
🍅 16%★ 5.4drama · thriller · science fiction

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A young tech worker takes a job at a powerful Internet corporation, quickly rises up the company's ranks, and soon finds herself in a perilous situation concerning privacy, surveillance and freedom. She comes to learn that her decisions and actions will determine the future of humanity.

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Exterritorial
2025 · dir. Christian Zübert
★ 5.8thriller · actionNetflix

Science fiction built on paranoia, twice over

When her son vanishes inside a US consulate, ex-special forces soldier Sara does everything in her power to find him — and uncovers a dark conspiracy.

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Glass
2019 · dir. M. Night Shyamalan
🍅 37%★ 6.6thriller · drama · science fictionRent or buy

A streak of ideas through both

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation
2013 · dir. Jon M. Chu
🍅 29%★ 5.7action · science fiction · adventureParamount+

Thriller of the same temperament

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.

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Geostorm
2017 · dir. Dean Devlin
🍅 18%★ 5.4action · science fiction · thrillerRent or buy

Science fiction approached the same way

After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.

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Mutiny
2026 · dir. Jean-François Richet
🍅 50%★ 5.7action · thrillerRent or buy

Both working the same thriller territory

After witnessing his billionaire boss' murder and being framed for the crime, Cole Reed boards a cargo ship on a one-man crusade to avenge his boss' death only to discover an international conspiracy.

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