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Movies that feel likeI Am Number Four (2011)

A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.

If you loved I Am Number Four, the closest films we have are The Unthinkable (2018), The Adjustment Bureau (2011) and Predators (2010). All three share I Am Number Four'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 Greenland (2020).

🍅 32% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. D.J. Carusokinetictensecerebralromantic
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If I Am Number Four hit the spot, these will too

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The Unthinkable
2018 · dir. Victor Danell
🍅 77%★ 6thriller · action · science fictionRent or buy

Kinetic where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Sweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.

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The Adjustment Bureau
2011 · dir. George Nolfi
🍅 71%★ 7science fiction · thriller · romance

Cerebral and romantic in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than I Am Number Four does

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.

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Predators
2010 · dir. Nimród Antal
🍅 66%★ 6.4science fiction · action · thriller

Common ground: alien

A group of cold-blooded killers find themselves trapped on an alien planet to be hunted by extraterrestrial Predators.

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Cloverfield
2008 · dir. Matt Reeves
🍅 78%★ 7action · thriller · science fictionParamount+Peacock

Both are built on the same subject: alien

Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

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Greenland
2020 · dir. Ric Roman Waugh
🍅 78%★ 6.4thriller · action · science fictionMax

Both lean on momentum more than on action

John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid terrifying accounts of cities getting levelled, the Garritys experience the best and worst in humanity. As the countdown to the global apocalypse approaches zero, their incredible trek culminates in a desperate and last-minute flight to a possible safe haven.

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Déjà Vu
2006 · dir. Tony Scott
🍅 55%★ 7.1action · thriller · science fiction

Thriller built on tension, twice over

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.

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Project Almanac
2015 · dir. Dean Israelite
🍅 38%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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Next
2007 · dir. Lee Tamahori
🍅 28%★ 6.2action · science fiction · thriller

Kinetic action in both cases

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.

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The Flu
2013 · dir. Kim Sung-soo
🍅 33%★ 6.6action · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

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The Blackout
2019 · dir. Egor Baranov
🍅 57%★ 6thriller · science fiction · actionPrime Video

A 2010s answer to the same itch

Contact between most towns on Earth has been severed. A small ring-like area in Eastern Europe still has electricity, and maybe even life is being reported from space. What military forces find outside the ring is shocking.

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Hollow Man
2000 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 25%★ 5.9action · science fiction · thrillerPrime Video

Both working the same action territory

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 subject. The test is a success, but when the process can't be reversed and Caine seems doomed to future without flesh, he starts to turn increasingly dangerous.

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War Machine
2026 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 66%★ 6.3action · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Thriller in the same key

On one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.

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