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Movies that feel likeShin Godzilla (2016)

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

If you loved Shin Godzilla, the closest films we have are Colony (2026), Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) and Godzilla Minus One (2023). All three share Shin Godzilla's kinetic and cerebral feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Spring (2014).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Shinji Higuchikineticcerebraldreadunsettling
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Colony
2026 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 82%★ 6.5horror · action · science fiction

Kinetic and cerebral in the same breath

Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991 · dir. Lam Ngai Kai
🍅 89%★ 7action · science fiction · horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.

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Godzilla Minus One
2023 · dir. Takashi Yamazaki
🍅 99%★ 7.6science fiction · horror · actionNetflix

Two things both keep coming back to: monster and giant monster

In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.

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Deep Blue Sea
1999 · dir. Renny Harlin
🍅 60%★ 6action · horror · science fictionStarz

Action built on momentum, twice over

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives.

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Spring
2014 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 85%★ 6.7horror · romance · science fiction

Cerebral science fiction, and it commits to that

The difference: Easier on the momentum than Shin Godzilla

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

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Godzilla
1954 · dir. Ishirō Honda
🍅 94%★ 7.6thriller · horror · science fictionMax

Both are working the same pair: japan, nuclear radiation

The difference: Takes it somewhere less kinetic than Shin Godzilla does

Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Gojira. Now the monster begins a rampage that threatens to destroy not only Japan, but the rest of the world as well.

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#Alive
2020 · dir. Cho Il
★ 6.3action · horror · science fictionNetflix

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

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Doom
2005 · dir. Andrzej Bartkowiak
🍅 18%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionStarz

One thread runs through both: monster

A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.

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Meg 2: The Trench
2023 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 27%★ 5action · science fiction · horrorMax

Common ground: kaiju

An exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean of a daring research team spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival.

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Underwater
2020 · dir. William Eubank
🍅 48%★ 5.9horror · science fiction · actionPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: giant monster

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than Shin Godzilla does

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2016 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 39%★ 5.5action · horror · science fictionNetflix

Both lean on unease more than on action

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Alice is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity's final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began - The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse.

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Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
2021 · dir. Johannes Roberts
🍅 30%★ 5.2action · horror · science fictionHuluStarz

Kinetic science fiction in both cases

Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

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