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Movies that feel likeProject Power (2020)

An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.

If you loved Project Power, the closest films we have are War Machine (2026), Greenland (2020) and The Plagues of Breslau (2018). All three share Project Power's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Roundup: No Way Out (2023).

🍅 61% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Henry Joostkineticgrittycerebraltense
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War Machine
2026 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 66%★ 6.3action · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Kinetic where it counts, cerebral underneath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less gritty than Project Power does

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

Action with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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The Plagues of Breslau
2018 · dir. Patryk Vega
🍅 83%★ 6crime · action · thrillerNetflix

Crime built on grit, twice over

Every day at 6 pm a serial killer kills another person. Police officer Helena Rus thinks the killings are done by one man only and decides to reveal the killer's identity by getting back in 18th century history of the city.

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

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

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

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The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · dir. Lee Sang-yong
🍅 100%★ 6.6action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoHulu

Gritty thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.

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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · dir. Lee Won-tae
🍅 97%★ 7action · crime · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Tense action in both cases

After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.

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

Science fiction built on ideas, twice over

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

Kinetic thriller, and it commits to that

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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Yakuza Princess
2021 · dir. Vicente Amorim
🍅 34%★ 4.8action · thrillerPrime Video

Cerebral crime in both cases

In Brazil, Akemi finds out that she's the heiress to the Yakuza empire. Just after that, her destiny enters a spiral of violence and mystery, where a gaijin (foreigner) who's been protecting her all this time, Shirô, may have been actually sent to kill her.

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

Both lean on tension more than on action

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

Both know what they want from science fiction

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 2000s show

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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Ava
2020 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 18%★ 5.5action · thriller · crimePrime VideoPeacock

Both lean on grit more than on crime

A black ops assassin is forced to fight for her own survival after a job goes dangerously wrong.

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