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Movies that feel likeChernobyl: Abyss (2021)

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

If you loved Chernobyl: Abyss, the closest films we have are Creed III (2023), How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (2024) and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010). All three share Chernobyl: Abyss' contemplative and wistful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Biutiful (2010).

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Creed III
2023 · dir. Michael B. Jordan
🍅 89%★ 6.7drama · actionPrime VideoHulu

The same mix in both: stillness, then momentum

The difference: Easier on the scale than Chernobyl: Abyss

After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian — a fighter with nothing to lose.

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How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
2024 · dir. Pat Boonnitipat
🍅 98%★ 7.9dramaNetflix

Both lean on wistfulness more than on drama

M, a university dropout low on money and luck, volunteers to take care of his terminally ill grandmother, in the hope of pocketing an inheritance.

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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010 · dir. José Padilha
🍅 91%★ 8drama · action · crime

Common ground in both: affectation and melancholy

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Chernobyl: Abyss does

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

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Biutiful
2010 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 66%★ 7.4dramaNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: nostalgic

This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who's sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

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Leave No Trace
2018 · dir. Debra Granik
🍅 100%★ 7.1drama

Contemplative history, and it commits to that

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

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The Hand of God
2021 · dir. Paolo Sorrentino
🍅 83%★ 7.3dramaNetflix

Action with a pulse of wistfulness, in both cases

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018 · dir. Andy Serkis
🍅 51%★ 6.5adventure · dramaNetflix

Epic drama in both cases

A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

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F9
2021 · dir. Justin Lin
🍅 59%★ 5.2action · adventure · crimePeacock

The same preoccupation in both: nostalgic

Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: his forsaken brother.

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Robin Hood
2018 · dir. Otto Bathurst
🍅 15%★ 5.4adventure · action · thrillerRent or buy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: affectation

A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

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Jack the Giant Slayer
2013 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 52%★ 6.3fantasy · action · adventure

Action built on scale, twice over

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

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The Shadow's Edge
2025 · dir. Larry Yang
🍅 82%★ 7action · crime · drama

Kinetic history in both cases

Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.

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Hanna
2011 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 71%★ 6.7action · thriller · adventure

Epic action, and it commits to that

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

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