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Movies that feel likeThe Blackout (2019)

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.

If you loved The Blackout, the closest films we have are War Machine (2026), Paradise (2023) and The Unthinkable (2018). All three share The Blackout'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 Krrish (2006).

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Egor Baranovtensecerebralkinetic
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War Machine
2026 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 66%★ 6.3action · science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Tense where it counts, cerebral underneath

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

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed even better

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

Both lean on momentum more than on science fiction

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Blackout does

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

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

Action built on ideas, twice over

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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Krrish
2006 · dir. Rakesh Roshan
🍅 88%★ 6.5action · science fiction

Kinetic science fiction in both cases

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Blackout does

In Singapore, Krishna is forced by circumstances to use his superpowers and become a masked superhero named Krrish, before getting drawn towards his lost legacy.

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

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

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

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

The same preoccupation in both: survival

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

Both lean on ideas more than on action

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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Bleeding Steel
2017 · dir. Leo Zhang
🍅 24%★ 5.2science fiction · action · adventure

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

The difference: Leans harder into adventure than The Blackout does

A hardened special forces agent fights to protect a young woman from a sinister criminal gang. At the same time, he feels a special connection to the young woman, like they have met in a different life.

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

Both know what they want from science fiction

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 are action through and through

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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Warriors of Future
2022 · dir. Ng Yuen-Fai
🍅 88%★ 5.6drama · action · science fictionNetflix

Science fiction in the same key

When a meteor carrying a destructive plant strikes the world, a suicide squad is given hours to save their post-apocalyptic city from total collapse.

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