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Movies that feel likeProject Almanac (2015)

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

If you loved Project Almanac, the closest films we have are The Adjustment Bureau (2011), The Unthinkable (2018) and Open Your Eyes (1997). All three share Project Almanac's cerebral and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Paradise (2023).

🍅 38% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dean Israelitecerebraltenseromantic
9 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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

Cerebral where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: love

The difference: Sits closer to action than Project Almanac does

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

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Open Your Eyes
1997 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 87%★ 7.7drama · thriller · science fictionPrime VideoMax

Romantic science fiction in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Project Almanac does

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

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

Thriller with a pulse of ideas, in both cases

The difference: Easier on the romance than Project Almanac

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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Amores Perros
2000 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 93%★ 8drama · thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

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Europa Report
2013 · dir. Sebastián Cordero
🍅 81%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller · dramaNetflixPeacock

The same two preoccupations: found footage, and pseudo-documentary

A crew travels to Europa, Jupiter’s icy moon, to investigate signs of life in its subsurface ocean, but disaster cuts them off from Earth, leading to a tense and dangerous exploration.

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I Am Number Four
2011 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 32%★ 6.1action · thriller · science fiction

Both lean on romance more than on science fiction

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.

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Predestination
2014 · dir. Michael Spierig
🍅 84%★ 7.4science fiction · thriller

Common ground: time travel

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

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Transcendence
2014 · dir. Wally Pfister
🍅 19%★ 6.2thriller · science fiction · drama

Both are built on the same subject: love

Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

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Primer
2004 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 72%★ 6.7science fiction · drama · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: time travel

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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Under the Skin
2014 · dir. Jonathan Glazer
🍅 83%★ 6.3thriller · science fiction · dramaNetflix

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

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Brainstorm
1983 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 57%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Different title, same corner of the shelf

The difference: 32 years apart, and the 1980s show

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

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